User talk:Splarka

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[edit] Isotope Project

Welcome aboard Splarka, thank you for joining the project. Right now our goal is to get this thing officially started by May 9th. I think if we set everything in stone by May 1st, and then have a vote on it, I think we can meet that goal. I predict this project will be challenging, but quite rewarding in the end and a great resource for wikipedia. oo64eva (AJ) 02:08, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I am not sure what to choose for the Tasks/Responsibilities. I could work on data entry/formatting and proof reading, and research is somewhat more in your domain I think. I am not too bad at generating large amounts of data from other data. I'll hold off setting anything in stone at Wikipedia:WikiProject Isotopes#Splarka for a few days.

[edit] Voting for standardization

Hey. The project officially starts today. We're holding a vote here, it ends May 12th at 3:40 UTC. — oo64eva (Alex) ^{(U | T | C)} @ 04:05, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Ok, will check it out. I've been busy for the last week or two, hopefully I can catch up and get back into things. Splarka 20:39, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - Revert

The edits by 65.185.114.20 do seem to be vandalism, but I think you mistakenly reverted one by 67.165.6.50 from over a day earlier. Not all IP edits are vandalism. However, I don't know which book the quote is from either. Splarka 18:18, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I wasn't very sure of that one myself, but I figured someone would revert it if I was wrong. I'll make a note of it in the talk-page. —kooo 04:01, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, I looked it up and it is Book 2 "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" which opens with that text. However, there has been another vandalism and revision already, so I am not sure if the page should be revised or the information just readded. I'll note this on the talk page too. Splarka

It should be fine now. —kooo 17:55, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Black Oak images

Hi Splarka - you've put these (Image:Quercus kelloggii (tree).jpg, Image:Quercus kelloggii (bark leaf).jpg) on the wrong page - they should be at California black oak not Black oak (an eastern US species). I'll move them across - MPF 17:05, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oops, my bad. But now Black oak has no pics. Nuts. But thanks. Splarka 05:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just done a search, found a (small) PD pic from the TVA which I'm uploading. Maybe it'll prompt someone to get a better pic! - MPF 16:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bolt cutters

Thank you for answering my image request for bolt cutters. The animated picture was lots of fun!  ;-)

No prob. Was fun to do. The animation doesn't seem to thumbnail without screwing up, but it might just be a prob with my gif software. Splarka 07:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pyramid of 35 spheres animation.gif

Hi, glad you like my image. I realised it was big and I'd be delighted if you can improve the size, quality or anything else. (Someone proposed it for a featured picture at Wikimedia Commons, whereupon it was duly savaged by the regulars for being too small: guess they just have different standards.) You may be able to get decent results just starting from the double-size GIF version also at Commons (Image:Pyramid of 35 spheres animation large.gif) but you're certainly welcome to the original 16-bit PNG frames or indeed the POV-Ray source (which I was vaguely planning to upload anyway) if you think they'd be better.

At the risk of gratuitous self-promotion, may I add that I reused this code to render a four-dimensional sphere stacking which I added to Pentatope number? Any technical improvements you can make would also apply to this—and it's in even more desperate need of being made smaller (over 40 frames vs 24). —Blotwell 02:31, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Higgs boson consensus vote

There is currently a vote on the Higgs boson talk page over whether or not to merge the pop culture references article with the main article. I noticed you've previously contributed to the debate, so your vote would be helpful in establishing a consensus (or, perhaps, a vote of "no consensus", in which case the problem will be referred to AfD). Thanks! -DMurphy 21:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh, is that debate still going on? I thought my arguments fell on deaf ears. Will go vote, ta. Splarka (rant) 06:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Searching text area in Firefox

Thanks for your response at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Firefox_Find_in_edit_window. I have downloaded the code at [1], but don't know what to do with it. I'm afraid I have zero experience with this stuff. Help? TIA-- Mwanner | Talk 23:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Eep, afraid I don't know either. You might try asking Lupin (whom I quoted). --Splarka (rant) 00:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll do that. -- Mwanner | Talk 12:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Search box and form reset

I've now written a version which doesn't insert any forms, but rather just the controls. It's at User:Zocky/SearchBoxDev.js. Can you please test if that removes your problem and let me know? Thanks. Zocky | picture popups 21:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

It seems to work perfectly now. Woo! I tried back/forward/preview/changes and none seem to reset the box. Seems a-okay. --Splarka (rant)

[edit] Mapproject

Thanks Sparkla!--Daanschr 19:58, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Portugal

Thank you very much for the correction in the portal. Nice work. I didn't know we could specify the height of the boxes. Cheers! Afonso Silva 08:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Thanks! ("If" in template) --Edcolins 07:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archiving bug

It wasn't actually the archive, I did that by hand. I did run the javascript css plugin format tool thing over the pages as well though, to take out the whitespaces that were left behind, and that is probably what caused it. I apologise for the inconvenience caused. Sadly, I haven't the technical ability to be able to work out how to correct the tool, so maybe I'll avoid it's use on talk pages. Steve block Talk 22:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

The bot to archive the pumps is broken, see User talk:Cryptic#Crypticbot stopped working. Before Cryptic built the bot the archives were done by hand, and mostly by me. Steve block Talk 23:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FA stars no longer in classic skin?

I'm trying to figure out what change made the FA star (from template:Featured article) recently stop appearing in classic skin. Based on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#.7B.7BFeatured_article.7D.7D_at_ka: it sounds like this was a deliberate change - I just can't figure out what change it was. Can you let me know (at this point, I'm mostly just curious). -- Rick Block (talk) 14:18, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

It was deliberately limited to specific skins (as its positioning was probably looking very silly in some skins), by this edit, which made it invisible by default (display:none). It was then forced to display in monobook via this change and Standard/classic via this one. However, it was recently removed from Standard for some reason. I have no idea of the politics involved, just the technicalities ^_^. --Splarka (rant) 23:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I looked for classic.css, but didn't think of standard.css. Mostly it bothers me if things change and I can't figure out why. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scrabble

Thanks for your help with List of two-letter English words! Where did you learn all of that code? I can't find "empty-cell" at meta.JianLi 19:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I had to look it up on www.w3schools.com since I don't use it very often. Usualy one can just classify all the cells, but wikitable makes that hard to do and keep the vertical height of the wikitable short (each cell has to be on a new line if it has specific styles). --Splarka (rant) 02:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: automatic site-notice offset

I, thunderboltz, hereby present this barnstar to Splarka, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the project — especially in science and tech related articles. Great job!--thunderboltz 14:48, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed reply. I've implemented it on my user page, and it works splendidly!

Btw, I've been taking a stroll through your contributions list, and....
Congrats, you deserve this! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}15:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)~

[edit] Printing with underlines

Thanks for the info at the Village Pump, but it's above my head. I'm a computer person, but I don't know about skins for Wikipedia. Can you steer me to some basic info about 'em? Lou Sander 14:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Search box help

Thanks for your help. --ndyguy 20:38, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers!

Thanks for helping me at the Village Pump! amnesiac 03:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Div header issue

I just wanted to thank you for investigating my issue and solving the problem for me, it was driving me crazy. Your solution worked perfectly. :-) Cheers! --MZMcBride 23:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for sorting out my issue with my .js page. Your greater experience in this area is much appreciated and has worked a charm for what I wanted to append to my page. Bobo. 18:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spammy links on Borescope page

On November 23, 2006 you removed most of the external links, claiming they were spammy. The one link you left is to a history of a particular borescope manufacturer. While I am not a final judge of what constitutes a spammy link, I think that the links to a discussion of how to choose a borescope and borescope technology are at least as good for the Wikipedia users to see as those to the history of a particular borescope company. If the definition of spammy is "no link to anywhere on a company web site that has an interest in the topic", then all the external links should go. Otherwise, I believe that links to a page on a company site that is providing general information on the topic should be OK. Obvious links to blatant advertising are clearly spammy and I agree with your other link deletions. .. 01 February 2007

My criteria for what was a spammy link on Borescope, Videoscope and Fiberscope was very simple: if the link was spammed, it was spammy. They were all added to 2 or all 3 of the pages at the same general time by anonymous IPs. [2] [3] [4]. I probably should have removed the last link as well, I don't remember why I didn't. I do remember I spent an hour or two checking every diff on all the articles to compile the lists of what to remove, (please don't ask me to re-enact that with a step-by-step justification, but feel free to try it yourself... it is messy.) --Splarka (rant) 23:03, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki and a.new #quickbar

Thanks for your help, the fix worked great, and I learned something new regarding the structure of MediaWiki ;)

I'll admit I had given up hope... the topic had already moved up so much that I hadn't expected any responses at all. Thanks again Kareeser|^Talk! 17:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New message

As requested :) --sannse (talk) 08:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories not displayed

Hello Sparkla. Thanks for the time you have taken, trying to guess what I meant. I have put some links showing what I mean. Please see: Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Category_not_showing. Thanks for your help Londenp 21:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested user script

Thanks for filling the request. The script works perfectly, just like I want it. Thank you! W3stfa11/^{Talk to me} 16:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] They work...

Thanks for doing that for me, I had a whole page of code for the simple few lines it needed.

Now I'v got a new question:
How to code this...

I need this in a drop down menu like this. I've tried but cannot get it to work for me. --Darkest Hour 20:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Egads, those hurt my brain. Why don't you tell me what you want without any links to existing user js (I feel dirty editing other people's code). --Splarka (rant) 07:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

No need, Predego gave me a bit o' css that did it for me. Thanks for you help though and congrats on becoming admin, --Darkest Hour 18:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you make a tab with prefix index? Thanks, -Darkest Hour 20:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Try this.

function pagetools() {
 if(document.getElementById('t-whatlinkshere')) { 
   addPortletLink('p-cactions', document.getElementById('t-whatlinkshere').firstChild.href,'What links here','ca-whatlinkshere');
   if((wgNamespaceNumber==2)||(wgNamespaceNumber==3)) addPortletLink('p-cactions', document.getElementById('t-whatlinkshere').firstChild.href.replace(/Whatlinkshere/,'Prefixindex') + '/','Subpages','ca-subpages');
   }
}
addOnloadHook(pagetools);

I have merged it with the other tool. Also it will trigger only on User pages since that seems to be your intent. Also, you can remove the "+ '/'" to have it show the current page. --Splarka (rant) 07:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow - neat - thanks! --Darkest Hour 16:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Typo fixr

See User:Darkest Hour/typofix.js. Can there be an automated version? One that checks the page then corrects the typos and goes to show changes mode so I can see what it fixed? Thank you, —Darkest Hour 17:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what sort of thing I am seeing there. That doesn't look like javascript at all... I guess what you could do is something like this:

function typofixbutton() {
  if(document.title.indexOf('Editing ') != -1) addPortletLink('p-cactions', 'javascript:typofix()', 'Typo fix', 'ca-typofix', 'Automatically suggest typoes to fix')
  alert(tll.elements[1]);
}
addOnloadHook(typofixbutton);

function typofix() {
  var eb = document.getElementById('wpTextbox1');
  var rx;
  for(var i=0;i < tl.length;i=i+2) {
    rx = new RegExp(tl[i],'g');
    eb.value = eb.value.replace(rx,tl[i+1]);
  }
  document.getElementById('wpDiff').click();
}

// typo list.
// format: "string to search","replace",
tl = [
  "foo", "bar",
  "\\b\(A\|a\)b\(il\|li\)ties\\b", "$1bilities",
  "\\b\(A\|a\)bandonned\\b","$1bandoned",
  "\\b\(A\|a\)bb\?err\?atio\(n\|ns\)\\b", "$1berratio$2"
]

It accepts regex strings, but note that in the "string to search" you must escape all special characters, including "\". Basically, this means adding backslashes before every non-alphanumeric character. The data set is as an array here, to make it easier to input (omit the last comma). It is in offset pairs (even numbers are the regex, odd numbers are the replace), so be careful or you'll reverse things and it'll blow up. Simple example :"\(A\|a\)lot", "$1 lot" ... will replace: "Alot" with "A lot" and "alot" with "a lot". I guess it can be as long as you want, but could take a while to finish. Also, I am sure some js whiz can make this much prettier looking. I am better at small interface tweaks. --Splarka (rant) 07:28, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

• I can't get it to work, sorry. —Darkest Hour 16:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, it worked for me (note I only had 3 examples Abilities/Abandoned/Aberration, I didn't copy the complete list as it was incomplete-looking). --Splarka (rant) 07:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)