User talk:TheFearow/Archive 1

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Ticker

Nice job on the ticker! I would suggest that it'd be a good idea to make the prefixed text ("Latest stories (update)" etc) and font sizes etc configurable. Thanks for creating this! -- IlyaHaykinson 00:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Interesting, I didn't notice the ids on the divs which make it all CSS-addressable. I like the version on your copy of the main page; let's see what others say about it. One little annoyance is that when you mouse-over the story it may want to postpone changing by another little bit: otherwise just as you mouse-over the ticker article the ticker changes and starts pointing to another article. I'd say that if there is a mousemove over the content div you should add a special 500-1000 millisecond wait after the whole line is rendered. -- IlyaHaykinson 00:54, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Nice, looking pretty good in my opinion. Though it's currently broken for me in IE7. -- IlyaHaykinson 01:06, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Two errors. 1) Line 571, char 1, "Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment". 2) L 43 char 2, "Object doesn't support this property or method". -- IlyaHaykinson 01:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

And it doesn't display anything. -- IlyaHaykinson 01:20, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind implementing if it came to this; the problem that I see is the IE error: until that error is gone I think we can't really push this side-wide. -- IlyaHaykinson 02:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I think that's fine; we can fix the IE portion later on. What _is_ the bug by the way? -- IlyaHaykinson 02:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I am personally ok with including the script in your page space. I can see other people objecting though. Let's try it and see what happens :-) -- IlyaHaykinson 03:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, the ticker is in place. -- IlyaHaykinson 03:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I think the randomization of the ticker has a problem: it always randomizes, rather than just starting in a random place and then continuing in order. This means that sometimes you can watch the same headline appear many times in a row. -- IlyaHaykinson 06:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that people want their own tickers, i.e. not just latest news ones. What about changing it so that the default <div> is something like <div ... > <div style="display:none">{{localurl:Page to get with ticker contents}}</div></div>, so that you can find the div and then look inside of it for the URL to fetch. This will make the ticker even more flexible. -- IlyaHaykinson 07:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

RE: Syntax

Thanks for inform. Eric Wester 03:42, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi

I'am Grimlock (bureaucrate and sysop on WN fr). I'd like to know if I can use for testing purpose (in a first time) your nice script (i.e. User:TheFearow/public/ticker.js). Of course, I would have to change small things (only translation). Thank you ! Grimlock 14:34, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello, I've proceeded to tries but I think I've made some mistakes (as you can see in my fr contributions list) ... I will strongly appreciate your help to insert this script in WN fr. Moreover, the other main users of the project agree with its use on fr. I hope to see you soon on fr ! Thank you in advance, Grimlock 06:30, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

P.S. : DPL are activate on WN fr, as you can see on our main page.

Portal:Football

Ok. Banner updated. Layout updated. Colour scheme nearly done. Articles to-do. Anything else? Reply to me or here, it's being watched. lol! Celticfan383 04:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Nope. I'll just keep doing minor changes :) TheFearow 05:31, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Do you like the snazzy banner? Heh! Celticfan383 06:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yep! TheFearow 04:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

fast for peace

Are you sure that thestory is ready? I just had a conversation with Jcart and he suggested that it was not ready...that I needed to be interviewed with an accredited journalist or someone from Wikinews that I wasnt allowed to post anything?.?Niacey 12:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)Niacey

If I may jump in here, TheFearow. Here is an excerpt that was left on Niacey's Talk page on August 24: "Yes, Niacey, it was deleted. It went through a deletion request vote and consensus was that it did not conform to article standards. I think with your story, perhaps you might be best to request an inverview with an accredited wikinews reporter. Jcart1534 17:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)" In addition, there was a more complete conversation here on my Talk page. After the article was deleted as a result of the Deletion Request process, Niacey has resurrected the article and is attempting to work with it. I have not spoken to him/her since, and most certainly never said he/she was not allowed to post anything. On the contrary, I have tried to provide some guidance, but will not be involved beyond what I have already done. Jcart1534 13:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

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Ticker again

Hello, all my tries did not work to insert the ticker in fr ... But I'm not a programming specialist. I hope to see you soon on fr WN ! Grimlock 06:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi again ! Thank you for coming on WN fr ! I think I will be more convenient - for the moment - that you give me the instructions you can not execute to make the ticker work on fr (such as the things you want to add in the Mediawiki:monobook.js, as an example). I did not manage to talk about a possible temporary sysoping with the other main contributors. By the way, thank you again Grimlock 10:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Your script is absolutly fantastic and work quite well on WN fr. I will ask for other contributors to include it in our Accueil. Thank you again. Grimlock 11:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)