User talk:RossKoepke/Archive

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Print Edition

Hello, I would be glad to have any help you are interested in giving. Let me know what you would like to help with. Thanks--Cspurrier 02:38, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WikiNews Network

I will be on IRC until 0400 UTC. NGerda 02:39, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Regarding your interest in WikiNews Network, we are currently testing out an easy-to-use system to submit a show and get broadcasting. We expect this system to be ready within the next couple of weeks. I greatly appreciate your interest in WikiNews Network, and hopefully you will still be interested in doing broadcasts when are system is ready. NGerda 01:12, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Country of the week

Glad to see you have added your name to COTW. Feel free to vote once a week, or to nominate new countries from the list. → CGorman (Talk) 19:01, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Original reporting

Hi, thanks for the note. I will have to have a look through the final stories and see what of my reporting is still there, I think most of it was overwritten by more sourced material. ClareWhite 8 July 2005 12:38 (UTC)

User renaming

Hi. I can't rename your account, because the new username already exists. The new username must not exist on the site, yet, for the rename proces to work. -- IlyaHaykinson 21:00, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

Tasks

Hi,

thanks for your ideas. Please do edit m:Development tasks freely. It would also be nice if you could make it to the research meeting today at 16:00 UTC [1] on irc.freenode.net.

Some comments:

Basic scripting in templates (if/else logic is all that is needed)

See MediaZilla:1689 and MediaZilla:364 for some existing code and discussions, as well as m:Extended template syntax. This includes if/else logic. Brion believes that templates should be kept as simple as possible, and has not been very enthusiastic about enhancements. Any new proposal will really have to be newbie-friendly and minimal.

Infobox auto-creator (working on this in PHP so even idiots can quickly create customized infoboxes)

Sounds interesting. See w:Wikipedia:Proposal for Table: namespace and intuitive table editor for some ideas on this.

'Source' button on edit page to insert generic source

Yes, I think having custom extensions to the edit toolbar for purposes like this makes sense. This shouldn't be too hard, someone just needs to come up with a nice button. I've added customizability to the simple tasklist.

Search results need to have a "sort by date" option because date is more relevant in news than MediaWiki's "relevancy" calculations - which are rather irrelevant to our news.

Sorting by last-edited might be possible, but probably tricky (we're using Lucene instead of MediaWiki's internal search engine). Probably best to talk to Brion about it.

--Eloquence 05:37, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Ahnald in Kullyfournyeea

Can't stop laughing at that headline! --:)) Edbrown05 20:26, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I came up with it ;) -- NGerda 20:27, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hemp

Thanks, didn't know that. I did notice this name <Weyerhaeuser, Frederick Edward>[[2]] [[3]] on the S&B membership list( bottom of the page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones. Paulrevere2005 21:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for dealing with the Vandalism

The Medal of Persistence is awarded to users who have dealt with a large amount of vandalism

For your work last night --Cspurrier 14:03, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Signature

Good day Ross. You asked about my sig. In the Preferences - User data section, one can set up a "nickname" to sign pages with instead of your user name. The software does this by automatically enclosing whatever you type in the nickname field with "[[User:RossKoepke|" before the nickname and "]]" after the nickname. I took advantage of that to type into the nickname field:

<font color="darkblue">'''Double'''</font><font color="blue">Blue</font>]] ([[User talk:DoubleBlue|Talk)

Cheers, DoubleBlue (Talk) 16:47, 18 July 2005 (UTC)