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Echo

Hi DJ, I wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I designed Echo. Brandon had created a direction doc a long time ago and we've pivoted quite a bit from there so would love to hear any specific design feedback with the content organization, email ux or interface. Thanks. Vibhabamba (talk) 18:52, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Turning Sharebox into a gadget

Hi TheDJ! In your edit dated 22:21, 21 October 2011 you wrote: "See User:TheDJ/Sharebox. If anyone wants to propose it as a gadget, then do so". We still get requests like this once in a while, so I think turning Sharebox into a gadget may be a good idea. Personally I strongly dislike Facebook, but that is just my POV. How can we start the process of turning this into a opt-in gadget? Sorry, I have never tried that before. Arcandam (talk) 21:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Officially, there is a process, but it's probably easier/quicker to go to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical), since it seems not too many folks follow gadget proposal pages. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:10, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! See Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Arcandam (talk) 01:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello again TheDJ! Would you be so kind to write a good description of Sharebox (as a gadget) which mentions the possible privacy concerns? I expect that those with privacy concerns are not very interested in using this gadget anyway BTW. Arcandam (talk) 20:56, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

This previous proposal might be a a good start. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 22:52, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Tech Report

Hey Derk-Jan. I'm in a little bit of a pickle, and I was wondering if you could help me out. Basically, I have exams coming up, so I'm not going to be able to write the Tech report to its usual length, though the amount of extra time needed differs by the week:

• Next week (28 May) - I'll write a leader about the developer/non-developer divide, handle the poll, and probably help with IBs. I could use somebody picking up and writing a second story, however.
• The week after that (4 June) - I'll write a leader about the Berlin hackathon, handle the poll, and copyedit. I could use someone helping with either a second story, or at least a good handful of IBs.
• The week after that (11 June) - I'll chip in with a few IBS, polling and a copyedit, but I could use someone writing one or two main stories.
• The week after that (18 June) - I'll only be able to handle polling and a copyedit; it might be that we have to sit this one out unless somebody wants to take charge.

Since you've helped out before, is there any possibility you might be able to contribute to one or more of these issues? I'll also be sending this message to Aude, as well, but I know she's busy with DC stuff. Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 16:10, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

I unfortunately have to decline since the signpost is largely intended to inform a community that I have decided to no longer support with my technical commentary and assistence. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:56, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. It is certainly correct to say that only about 11-12% of direct Signpost recipients receive it on a project other than the English Wikipedia. Personally I like to think that the Tech Report is a useful way of bridging the formative developer-Wikimedian divide, but obviously you're entitled to your own view on that one. Are you at Berlin, btw? - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 22:08, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

It is a useful way to bridge that divide, but since that is the only thing I was still doing at the English Wikipedia to begin with and it is obviously demotivating me more than is healthy for both 'parties' I decide I better focus on 100% development instead of 90% keeping up with en.wp and 10% development. I am in Berlin this weekend indeed. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

OpenOil in Berlin

Hi

Are you based in Berlin? I came across you as a guest at the Berlin hackathon this weekend? And thought I might send you a message to see if you would have the chance to meet up with some of my colleagues at OpenOil over the next few weeks.

We have a MediaWiki platform at wiki.openoil.net, currently fairly basic, which we use for capacity building exercises around the extractive industries as part of our social mandate. We have been looking at various extensions (eg. mapping, comments, social media, mobile skin etc) which it would be interesting to discuss with you.

Please get in touch on [email protected] if you fancy meeting for lunch one day, and I can pass you on to deal with my colleagues Zara and Amrit.

Cheers. Lucy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.189.117.93 (talk) 14:12, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Classy

Yeah, that might've been a little much. I just get frustrated at how easily the site goes splat. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:14, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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Wikimapia

Perhaps you could give some input on the noticeboard threads concerning this site? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:43, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Which noticeboard threads ? I don't see any links to such things on the Talk page. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:47, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Wikimapia Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

scribunto.wmflabs.org

Thanks for the info on the VPT. I followed your links and created:

• http://scribunto.wmflabs.org/index.php/User:Br%27er_Rabbit

I see you've had a flurry of accounts created over there; above is me, so don't whack it. Br'er Rabbit (talk) 00:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

edittop.js

Hi, this edit has broken the gadget - the edit link now appears to the left of the article title. This is in Firefox 14.0.1 - not sure about other browsers. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh, it's working properly again. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:42, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah sorry, i tested it only on right to left languages and thus accidentally flipped the logic. My (big) mistake. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:44, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Use of colour in Template:Infobox television

The issue of the use of colour in {{Infobox television}} has arisen again. I discovered two related edits by you on this subject,[1][2] so I thought I should inform you that there is currently a discussion at Template talk:Infobox television#Infobox colors into which you may wish to have input. --AussieLegend (talk) 20:53, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice. I will not participate in a new discussion, my position has not really changed. We should not be skittlepedia, but nor should we be boringpedia. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:12, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Thoughts?

See [3]; the current citation templates are dumping raw wikitext into COinS metadata. It doesn't look like a trivial problem to solve, even with Scribunto/Lua. Thoughts? Choess (talk) 16:07, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

bug links

Oops! Your three edits just now at VPT linking to [[bug:nnnnn]] are creating interwiki links to Buginese Wikipedia (bug:). As I'm sure you'll realise, you need to use [[bugzilla:nnnnn]] (except on Bugzilla itself, of course, when the syntax becomes bug nnnnn). — Richardguk (talk) 08:27, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

And in svn, and in gerrit.. yeah, it all becomes a bit confusing at times. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:34, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Please check

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Re: Accessibility experiment

Hi DJ, sure, I'd be happy to help out with any experiments to improve accessibility. As for the ARIA script, the landmarks read fine with JAWS. It is pretty nifty to be able to press a key and move to the different parts of the page instantly! Some of the landmarks seem a little redundant to me, but that is probably because I still use the Monobook skin which has more headings than Vector. I confess I don't know much about ARIA or landmarks, but I'm willing to learn ... I just havenn't encountered them very often. Graham87 14:40, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

$.cookie() vs. document.cookie...

I updated bugzilla:38009 with more details; in short however, I can't figure out why this works:

$('a[href$="toggle_view_mobile"]').click(function(){
       document.cookie = 'stopMobileRedirect=false; domain=.wikipedia.org;'
                       + 'path=/; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT;';
});

but this doesn't:

$('a[href$="toggle_view_mobile"]').click(function(){
       $.cookie('stopMobileRedirect','false',
                { domain: '.wikipedia.org',
                  path: '/',
                  expires: 'Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT'});
});

Any suggestions? Thanks! sn‾uǝɹɹɐʍɯ (talk) 07:15, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Just use $.cookie( 'stopMobileRedirect', null ); I use it here and it seems to work for me. I had to clear the browser cache on the first test though. It seems iOS does not respect all the cache invalidation on our JS files. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 07:48, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I saw your addition to MediaWiki:Common.is yesterday; thank you, but unfortunately, it didn't resolve the problem (at least for my iOS 5.1.1 device) even after clearing the cache and cookies. The steps I wrote up in the bug reproduce the problem every time on my mobile browser even after the update in Common.is. Changing the code to use document.cookie instead of $.cookie() (in my User:common.js) does successfully resolve the problem. Are we testing using different browsers/platforms? Thanks, sn‾uǝɹɹɐʍɯ (talk) 17:45, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Design feedback

Hey - if you have a moment, I'd love to hear your feedback on my draft main page redesign proposal. Thanks, — Pretzels ^Hii! 18:05, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Test2 Wikipedia

Since I've Scribbled Template:collapsible list (Template:collapsible list), it would be useful to have the parts of MediaWiki:Common.js that deal with "dynamic navigation bars" added to MediaWiki:Common.js. I'd add them myself, but cannot for the obvious reason. Uncle G (talk) 13:42, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

 Done —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 16:08, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Accessibility issues

Thanks so much for your feedback on the edit tweaks; in particular I loved the accessibility use case - we can't cut people with accessibility issues out of the loop. I've scheduled a meeting with the team to discuss all the concerns tomorrow: can you elaborate on what you see potentially being the problem? Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

• I see the following issues:
  1. The mockup seems to use lightgray on white. This might be a contrast issue. For the minimum and advised contrast levels, check WCAG 2.0.
  2. The wmflabs demo uses tiny (10px for me) black text on dark gray. The text is smaller than we usually have in the wikis. Again that can be an accessiblity issue. Combined with a possible contrast issue between front and background color, it requires attention
  3. The collapsible link gives no feedback to screenreader users that the element can be used as a button. Needs to be either <a> or <button> or use a wai-aria hint.
  4. The warnings are a summation. For the sake of screenreader users, it should be considered to make this an actual unordered list, with li items, using en.wp's hlist. See also Wikipedia:HLIST#Horizontal_lists and MediaWiki:Common.css. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

     Good points all :). I'll bring them up word-for-word tomorrow, and we should be able to fix them up before we deploy. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:28, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Template talk:Tall image

I thought I would contact you since you have edited Template:Tall image and the creator of the template has left Wikipedia. I describe a problem with the template at Template talk:Tall image, and I thought you may be able to fix it. Hyacinth (talk) 22:16, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

How to upload a logo of a newspaper?

Hi DJ! Regards from Miami. I'm writing an article about a newspaper from Argentina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misiones_Online

I saw you upload and your example in another article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_D%C3%ADa_(La_Plata).png

Im going to need your help to upload the logo of this newspaper, "Misiones On Line" from Argentina. Can you help me, please? Thank you.--Misty2011 (talk) 17:56, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Template:Lang title

The Template:Lang title documentation does not state clearly where in the article the template is supposed to go. I wonder: is it supposed to be the first item in an article? Is there some way of finding out if it is used at all in English Wikipedia (i.e. does it set a category, as—I believe—Template:Lang does?) Background: Some diacritics-crazy people have been adding diacritics (including Vietnamese diacritics) to article titles. I'm also curious if the same template is used in all the foreign-language Wikipedias (the documentation suggests so). I gave one of the foreign Wikipedias a quick glance but couldn't see it. LittleBen (talk) 22:00, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It's easy to find out if it's in use. Go to the template page, click "What links here" (in the left margin menus) and then "Hide links", which will reduce the list to just the transclusions. At the moment, there are none. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:44, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

• The Template:Lang title documentation says that it's used on a large number of pages, and foreign-language article titles should have W3C language markup tags. So I'm wondering how the markup is currently done (assuming that English Wikipedia is W3C semantic markup and accessibility compliant)—possibly Template:Lang title has been replaced by another template? Or perhaps it has fallen by the wayside in the switch to HTML5?  User:TheDJ is shown as the author of Template:Lang title.
• I have just plugged this into the W3C HTML/XHTML validator, and got a lot of errors. Possibly the W3C validator doesn't check for proper language tagging, either. The source doesn't show any language tags, and a quick look at the Wiki code doesn't show any language templates such as Template:Lang either.
• I also tried this (the Japanese-language page for "Tokyo") in the W3C HTML/XHTML validator, and also got a lot of errors. I don't know if I'm game to try the W3C CSS validator as well :-( LittleBen (talk) 08:14, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

This template was created in response to this discussion as well as {{Titlelang}}. Both templates were not used by those discussing the issue it seems

• The template carried the "large number of pages" warning due to a copy paste error.
• Currently no language tag markup is applied to page titles, at least not by template.
• "assuming that English Wikipedia is W3C semantic markup and accessibility compliant", you assume wrong. It's not accessibility compliant, nor is it valid HTML5. That is always what we should strive towards, but in terms of 'compliancy' we only go with what makes stuff work in browsers.

I'd advise a new template, with the sole purpose of putting a span + language code around it and does not output categories. This template can then be used INSIDE {{DISPLAYTITLE}}. Like {{DISPLAYTITLE:{{lang titlepart|vi|Buôn Ma Thuột}} city}}. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:36, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

I've now retooled {{lang title}} into {{lang titlepart}} and applied it to your vietnamese example. —TheDJ (talk • contribs)

• Many thanks. LittleBen (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions for improving Wikipedia's Search

Comment: As you seem to be a user-interface expert as well as a template expert, you may be interested in my suggestions here. LittleBen (talk) 14:30, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.81.101.124 (talk) 20:24, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

K, I'll look at it closer when I get back home this weekend. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Related suggestion on "Apparently-broken Special:Search page" is here. LittleBen (talk) 04:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Thanks for creating the Qui system! Anonymouse321 (talk) 05:19, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Good to see you old friend. Stillwaterising (talk) 05:52, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Work your usability voodoo!

Hey, TheDJ! Thanks so much for all your feedback on the edit window changes; it was really helpful, and helped us spot a lot of bugs before rather than after deployment :). We've got another set of ideas if you want to chip in - no prototype for you to prod yet, but it's coming, and any feedback on just the design would be great :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:04, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Finding images

Hello TheDJ! I noticed you were a contributor to this discussion... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Suggestion_for_programmers_-_finding_images

As OP of the discussion, I just posted some new information that I think is important and goes to the heart of the problem. Hope you don't mind my letting you know. Take care. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 3dimen (talk • contribs) 09:14, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply

FYI, I replied with this. Best. Biosthmors (talk) 15:37, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

And now I've found my browser version so I put that down. Thanks again. Biosthmors (talk) 21:33, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Apparent language template bug

To the language template genius: It's not urgent or essential that it be fixed, because I found a partial work-around, but I've just noticed that Template:Nihongo seems to have a bug: When I display it in my user sandbox there's no problem, example: Hepburn romanization system (Japanese: ヘボン式ローマ字, Hepburn: Hebon-shiki Rōmaji)—but when the same template (with the same contents) is pasted into the lede of the Hepburn romanization article, the "Hepburn" appears in bold, and is not a link. (I modified the contents of the template in the lede to work around the problem). LittleBen (talk) 12:08, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) This is not a problem with that template, but is a general feature of Wiki markup: if the wikicode of a page contains a direct link back to itself, it's not formatted as a link but as boldface plain text. For example, if I put [[User talk:TheDJ]] just here, it shows as User talk:TheDJ and not as a link. Thus, if you use {{Nihongo}} on any page other than Japanese language, Hepburn romanization, or Help:Installing Japanese character sets (these being the three pages directly linked from Template:Nihongo), the links will display normally. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:32, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Redrose64, for picking up that question. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:32, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks. LittleBen (talk) 13:17, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	For creating Qui. I already gave you a pie, but I think you deserve a barnstar for this. Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 08:32, 24 October 2012 ( UTC)

Qui Use

Hey there, I am not sure how to start out using Qui. I dont have a /vector.js page, so I'm pretty lost as to what to do.LibertarianSupport 20:52, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

See also: User:TheDJ/Qui § Installation

(talk page stalker) Hi, it's me . All you have to do is create a /vector.js file in your user space (User:Libertarianrule/vector.js) and paste the following code in:

importScript('User:TheDJ/qui.js');

Next, you have to completely bypass your cache. Finally, look at the top right of the page above the search box and a small gray dot should appear. Qui will be setup and ready to use!

The only reason why I know how is because I have Qui installed, and I use it pretty frequently. Maybe we could even be Qui friends! –– Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

How do I know it's working? RobloxPlayer1 (talk) 00:33, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Check for the little gray dot at the top right corner of any page (File:Qui.JPG – see this image). The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 17:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Now being excluded from PDF print

CAn you teach me please?

Procedure for renaming a template

May I ask the procedure for renaming a template, please. Template:Web browser engines should really be Template:Layout engines, because it contains lists of layout engines. LittleBen (talk) 03:57, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Templates can be renamed just like any other page by scrolling over the "down arrow" next to the search box and clicking Move (vector skin).

Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 04:19, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks. Now I have to work out how to switch to the vector skin. ;-) LittleBen (talk) 08:39, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

What skin do you use? If you use Monobook or Modern (for example), there should be a move tab. Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 08:55, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Also, to change your appearance skin, go to your preferences, select the Appearance tab, and choose a skin at the top. Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 08:56, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

• I've been using MonoBook—presumably this used to be the default skin for a logged-in user—rather than the vector skin (the docs appear to say that non-logged-in users now get the vector skin). I was able to temporarily switch—as per the docs—and fix the template, and will try out the different skins. Thanks. LittleBen (talk) 09:13, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Monobook was the default skin until May 2010, it was then changed to Vector. The technique for moving a template is exactly the same as for moving an article page (*), and is covered at WP:MOVE. The skin that you use does not affect whether you can move pages/templates/etc. or not, only the place where the link is situated. Monobook has a "move" tab; Vector normally has a "Move" item in the drop-down menu, although user scripts exist to convert this into a tab. If neither of these features is present, the page is probably move-protected. (*) Template pages often have sub-pages (article pages rarely do), usually for the documentation, sandbox and testcases; any sub-pages which do exist will also need to be moved. This need not be a wholly separate operation, because after moving the page you get a box like this but also containing an entry like "Please review the lists of subpages and talk subpages and consider moving them as well." Follow those two links, and carry out moves on non-italicised entries only (the italicised entries are redirects). --Redrose64 (talk) 11:17, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks! LittleBen (talk) 14:44, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

User:TheDJ/sharetemplate

Google Buzz is no longer active , you might want to update the template :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 18:20, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Lobbying

Hi.

i think you are one of the technically savvy people in enwiki, and tend to participate in WP:VPT, so i approach you. you may not be the right person, or you may not be interested - that's understandable.

so here goes:
there are 3 different innovations that we started in hewiki and wanted to offer to enwiki. i posted about 2 of them in WP:VPT, but this did not go anywhere, even though the feedback was positive, so it seems i am doing something wrong in the way i lobby for these. one of these innovations is for editors, and can be incorporated as a gadget (it is in hewiki, excpt it's one of the "default" gadgets, so it's available to anons also). the other 2 are for readers, and hence they only make sense if included in common.js. the 3 are:

• a tool to help with templates. in a nutshell, it does something similar to what the "templates" under the "Cite" toolbar does, except it does it for any template in the wiki, it is somewhat more capable (except of the 2-columns design, but this can be added). you can read about it here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_103#Template_Parameter_Wizard.
• a way to display chess games. you might want to test it here: he:משתמש:קיפודנחש/ארגח 1. the topic is currently in WP:VPT (search for "pgn"), and i expect it to be archived soon. there is also a bit about it in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess#PGN Viewer).
• a tool that makes an "imagemap" a little bit more interactive, by allowing for highlight of the selected areas, and by extracting the list of areas and displaying them below the image. this one has a limitation - it does not work for IE version 8 and below (i know that enwki does allow features that do not work for IE, such as displaying footnotes in columns). please see it in he:תבנית:מפת תמונה/דוגמאות. there is a collapsed "if you do not speak hebrew" on the page - you probably want to read it.

i would appreciate your advice of what is the correct way of lobbying for usage of these and similar things in enwiki.

Many thanks - קיפודנחש (talk) 17:19, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

You need to find someone who cares enough :( Unfortunately I myself tend to try and stay away from these kinds of tools. The core software and current state keeps me busy enough. We have a rather small set of admins that are capable and interested in this kind of stuff I have to say. It's part of en.wp's admin troubles. Hopefully if we have shared gadgets in the future, this kind of stuff will become a bit easier to do. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:25, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

thanks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.... peace - קיפודנחש (talk) 18:38, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

JS review

Hi!

If you have the time, could you take a look at User talk:Jsimlo/shortcuts.js#Some updates?

Thanks! Helder 18:51, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Google research template idea

Hi, I'm posting a couple of Google research template ideas here, because it seems that several helpful people who are templating pros watch this page—so even if you are swamped with more important stuff, someone else may help.

It would be useful to have templates for researching reliable sources on Google. Two types of searches that a template would help users with:

• (1) For Lech Wałęsa, research the preferred spelling of his name on only English-language sites that we specify.

• (a) http://www.google.com/search?q="Lech Wałęsa" site:britannica.com OR site:bbc.co.uk OR site:nytimes.com OR site:guardian.co.uk OR site:smh.com.au OR site:amazon.com  or
• (b) [4]

• A template for the above would take one or two search terms, optionally a few negative match terms (see below), and a list of reputable English language sites to be searched (to research the preferred English-language spelling), and would generate either of the two search link formats (a) or (b) above (i.e. format (a) or (b) is specifiable).

• (2) To research a soccer player Facundo Argüello (requires a complex search string with negative match terms in order to eliminate a flood of spurious results from his much more famous tennis namesake):

• (a) http://www.google.com/search?q="Facundo Argüello" soccer -futbolista -tennis -tenis -ATP -Wimbledon -court -site:es.* -site:*.ar -site:wikipedia.org -wikipedia  or
• (b) [5]

• A template for the above would take one or two search terms, (optional) negative match terms, one or two language codes to exclude—here we exclude Spanish language sites (es.* as in Spanish Wikipedia), one or two wildcard-exclude sites—here the two players' home country Argentina (*.ar), and also exclude wikipedia.org and sites that cite wikipedia by name. Again we are researching majority usage in English.

LittleBen (talk) 05:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

---

For no. 1, check this out:

{{User:The Anonymouse/Template test|Lech Wałęsa}}

produces:

User:The Anonymouse/Template test

The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 05:40, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

• Fabulous. If you don't mind (please let me know if it's OK) I'll post this template here and attribute it to you, to show how simple it could make life. LittleBen (talk) 05:55, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't mind, but since it was only a test, we can move it to a more appropriate name. I only did the simple version without all the options, but those probably wouldn't be that hard to add. The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 06:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

• That's ample for the present, to demonstrate how simple it is to use. If you prefer to rename it first before I refer to it in the article then that's fine with me. I have to go out for an hour or two. Many thanks. LittleBen (talk) 06:06, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

I can't think of a good name at the moment, but you or I could always rename it in the future. You're welcome! The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 06:11, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

• Hi—a couple of related questions, if you have the time:
• Would it be easy to display the "external link" symbol after the above link?
• For Björn Borg , the combination of a Wikilink and an external link, is there some easy way of making the "external link" symbol display after the link rather than before it? Very best regards and many thanks. LittleBen (talk) 22:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

• Your sample of a basic "cookie cutter" template for (1) was incredibly useful and valuable for demonstrating that using complex search strings on Google for research need not be difficult and tiresome. Would it be difficult to do a basic demo for (2) as well, such as:
• "François Mitterrand" -site:*.fr -site:fr.* -site:wikipedia.org -wikipedia
• A basic template would quote the search string (name), and also take the two-character language code to exclude—here we exclude French language sites (fr.* as in French Wikipedia), the two-character country top-level domain code to exclude—here France (*.fr), and also exclude wikipedia.org and sites that cite wikipedia by name.
• A template for this example would look something like {{User:The Anonymouse/Template test2|François Mitterrand|fr|fr}}  LittleBen (talk) 01:57, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
• Just noticed that you're away on a well-deserved holiday, hope the weather is kind to you. Created the template myself at {{User:LittleBenW/Template test2|François Mitterrand|fr|fr}} LittleBen (talk) 02:50, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

I've been invited to comment here. Regarding the two questions directed to me (I think that they are the same two given above at 22:27, 20 November 2012): first, the external link icon is an automatic feature of the MediaWiki software. It's switched on by default for all external links, but may be modified or suppressed. It's modified when certain URLs are used, for example anything ending in .pdf (upper or lower case) has the icon altered to the PDF icon:

• http://www.example.com/example.htm (not a PDF link)
• http://www.example.com/example.pdf (a PDF link)

It may be suppressed by applying the "plainlinks" class:

• http://www.example.com/example.htm (without plainlinks)
• http://www.example.com/example.htm (with plainlinks)

but there is no means for adding it where it's not normally present. I see that {{User:The Anonymouse/Template test}} uses the {{plain link}} template, which is almost exactly the same as wrapping the link in <span class="plainlinks">...</span>, so all that should beed to be done is to remove that template, and replace one pipe with a space.

• I tried to guess what you meant, and wrote a template here, but it seems that I would need to refer to a template in the Template: namespace for it to work??? TIA  LittleBen (talk) 15:17, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Any page may be used as if it were a template, you just need to specify the full page name; for example, {{User:LittleBenW/Template test|Björn Borg}} → Sources for Björn Borg on Google. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:09, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

• Nice to find that it works, but the Anonymouse version User:The Anonymouse/Template test doesn't display the curly brackets :-). Aha! Removing the curly brackets from my template page fixed it. Many thanks!  LittleBen (talk) 17:34, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Secondly, it's not clear to me what you're trying to do with this construct:

• Björn Borg

Why would you want a combination of a Wikilink and an external link? If somebody clicks on this, do you want them to go to Björn Borg, or to here? Links have exactly one target, since a browser cannot retrieve two different pages and display them simultaneously; therefore, links can never be nested. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:48, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

• Having them both together saves space and allows you to refer to the Wikipedia article by clicking on the link, or refer to the external link by clicking on the external link icon. It's just that the icon would look nicer on the right, where it normally is. TIA  LittleBen (talk) 15:17, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Links must be distinct from one another (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking#General points on linking style, fifth bullet), and must be identifiable as links (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Links). I could put Bluetooth for example, which looks like one link but is in fact two, but that would contravene the Manual of Style. The external link icon identifies an external link; it cannot appear after an internal link like Björn Borg. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:09, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

• One of the Admins claims that User namespace templates are not supposed to be used in Wikipedia talk page namespace, is that true? If it is true, then are special privileges/permissions required to put my two templates in Template namespace? My two templates are {{User:LittleBenW/Template_test}} and {{User:LittleBenW/Template_test2}}; the first searches reliable sources for a name, and the second searches outside of a specified language/country for a name. LittleBen (talk) 13:36, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

In general, userspace pages should not be transcluded to anywhere that is not also in user space. If all you are doing is demonstrating your ideas, it should be OK though, but for general use they should be in template space.

There is nothing to prevent you moving the page to template space either before or after your demonstration. Use the normal method for moving a page, but make sure that you select "Template" from the drop-down list following the "To new title" prompt. It would also be useful to add some documentation soon after moving the pages.

If you do move them to template space, and they then get little or no use, be prepared for a WP:TFD. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:54, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

• Many thanks for your ever-helpful comments, very much appreciated. LittleBen (talk) 13:58, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
• Thanks again. I found Template:Google and created Template:Google RS based on the idea. LittleBen (talk) 01:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

• I found that the {{Google RS}} idea also works with {{Yahoo RS}}; these search up to about 32 sites simultaneously. However, Bing won't accept more than one site using the site: protocol. The Bing API docs says that JSON and the like can be used; would one of these methods be feasible using templates (not sure if Javascript embedded in templates is feasible or permitted) or Lua? LittleBen (talk) 07:18, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Making Wikipedia:Teahouse searchable

Hello again, I'm posting this here, because several helpful people who are scripting pros watch this page—so tho' you are probably swamped with more important stuff, someone else may help.

Wikipedia's advanced Special search allows one to search just part of Wikipedia, like Categories or Talk pages. I think it should be trivial for somebody with knowledge of MediaWiki programming to extend this so that a simple search box on the Teahouse top page searches just the Wikipedia:Teahouse Q&A archives, which are under Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions. The user interface of the top page has been changed such that at present this past questions archive page is just about impossible to find from the top page of Wikipedia:Teahouse, and there is no easy way for a new user to find his or her past question, or to browse past questions.

I asked Okeyes who suggested asking Maryana, who suggested that this is "not something you have to wait for an engineer to work on"—"a volunteer could do if he or she wanted", "you could try copying and pasting the template markup at the bottom of the MilHist navbox, for instance, and changing the relevant bits to point to Teahouse".

PS: I've just noticed that it's even simple than that: There is already a search box at Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse that could be transplanted (less the "archives" links) to the top page. I'll post this suggestion back to Maryana and also to the talk page. LittleBen (talk) 20:29, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Shortcuts script change

Hi, just realised that you have made this change to User:Jsimlo/shortcuts.js and was wondering if this may be the cause of the problem that I reported on the village pump Special:WhatLinksHere. Keith D (talk) 22:04, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Secure.js

There is a thread on MediaWiki talk:Common.js#MediaWiki:Common.js/secure.js where your input is desired. — Edokter (talk) — 14:23, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

File:US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg

Hi, I see you speedied File:US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg. That image was used in a couple dozen templates (see [6]) and its deletion impacted a couple thousand articles where those templates were used (see [7]). TJRC (talk) 22:30, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I did a cache purge, and the redlinks I was seeing in the articles are now gone, replaced with the image from Commons. I assume this probably just affected a few users like me who had cached the English Wikipedia copy rather than the commons one. So... Never mind!

By the way, I see you're one of the developers on VLC media player. That's an awesome piece of software, and one I immediately install on every new system I get, right behind Firefox. Very nice work; thanks. TJRC (talk) 23:18, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Userspace template help needed

Hello, I noticed you on a template talk page and was hoping you could help me with some issues I'm having with userspace templates. I want to add the Autopatrolled and Reviewer Icons to the top right hand side of my user page header and everytime I try, I either get only one or both of them overlapping each other. Your assistance on this matter would be much appreciated. Wiki ian 07:49, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I seem to have fixed the issue. Wiki ian 16:34, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

174.74.76.81 (talk) 05:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

174.74.76.81 (talk) 05:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Broke test pages in move

Hi TheDJ, just wanted to advise you that when you moved e.g. Module:IPAddress/tests to Module:IPAddress/testcases you broke the script at Module talk:IPAddress/testcases which invokes the tests. If you move any more please just fix this also. Thanks! Dcoetzee 17:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I guess I missed one. Thx for the heads up. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:58, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

pdun

Can you contact me dj ? peterk 217.114.102.131 (talk) 11:33, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Quick question for ya

I was wondering if qui was going to be compatible with Chrome/Chromium browsers in the future. Thanks, — -dainomite   22:09, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

It was developed on Safari, so probably works on Chrome. I haven't used it for a while myself. If it isn't working, then please let me know Dainomite —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:17, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Shucks, yeah, I use SRWare Iron which is chromium based and this is what the top right of my WP looks like right now, link. Hrmm. — -dainomite   22:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

.plainlinks2 CSS Class

A couple of years back, you moved some code from the monobook.css to the common.css, but it looks like .plainlinks2 got lost in the transition. monobook diff to common diff

Was this intentional? If not, could you reintroduce it, as it would be useful for {{noping}}

Thanks, 930913(Congratulate) 02:49, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, A930913, this might have been accidental. However, since no one even noticed in years, I would not support bringing it back, instead I suggest you open a discussion about turning ALL plainlinks links into faking their internal link color, instead of reintroducing this class. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:38, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Sir.

For the adding of the translations.  Ę-oиė  >>>  ™ 11:07, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Awesome working with you on UW :) Nischay Nahata (talk) 20:41, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

@Nischay22: thank you too, working on something with 1 person is almost impossible these days, so thanks for sparring. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 07:50, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Hoi

Bent u geïnteresseerd? - MediaWiki_talk:Common.js#MediaWiki:Common.js.2Fsecure_new.js πr² (t • c) 03:47, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

DJ!!

Awesome to see so many wonderful names, and find you still here! Thank you for the note, I hope life is treating you well! Ariel♥Gold 20:30, 17 June 2013 (UTC)