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July 12

graph making

how do I get a graph? Is there a way to get a graph from numbers in a wiki table, or do we have to make it seperately and import it, like as a screen cap? Kripto 06:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

don't know. yup, i am just a helpful kinda guy. 121.127.193.176 09:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

There is a WikiPlot extension. To see whether it is installed on a given MediaWiki wiki, check the list of installed extensions at Special:Version on that wiki. MediaWiki has no graphing functions by default as far as I know, so if no graphing function is available you would have to create your graph with an external application and upload it as an image file. --Teratornis 14:31, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Editing Problem

I edited an article. The Real Testament, an album by rap artist: Plies. I edited it, saved it, it looked like how I edited it, I reload the page and then a second later it had reverted to its previous form before I edited it.Frozilla33 23:59, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

It looks like another user thought you were vandalizing the page. However, I notice that you have included a link to a reference, whereas the previous version did not have this. I suggest you message the user, and talk about what going on. You can see the history of the page by clicking the "history" tab. --Haemo 00:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

query re. adding info.

Without any explanation, my additional info. was deleted from Diane Bish's page here - I merely added data which I felt should be included in her list of accomplishments, etc.; data which is distributed whenever she presents a program. But I find that my additions have been removed and the article again is the skimpy excerpt it was prior to my additions; all within mere hours. I do not understand the reasoning for this and feel I should have been informed as to what I did wrong in order to correct it rather than merely having my contribution erased. Looking forward to hearing from you as soon as possible, with all sincerity, and wishing you continued success in this worthwhile contribution you're making with your various sites, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anne-ology (talk • contribs)

It looks like they were reverted by Rambutan (talk · contribs), with the comments that they were unsourced and did not reflect a neutral point of view. You can talk to this user on their talk page about this. --Haemo 00:26, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Creating Multiple Accounts

Is it okay to create more than one account on Wikipedia?

Skunkmaster 02:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

It is discouraged in most cases. See Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. And please use a signature that links to your user page at Skunkmaster. In case you typed the signature manually: Typing ~~~~ will automatically make a linked signature if you haven't changed signature settings. PrimeHunter 02:35, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

On the Wikipedia:Sock puppetry page, it says that you can't create and more accounts with more powers, (one account has admin powers and you try to get admin powers on another). Is it okay to create an account with admin powers and on another with Bureacrat status? Or something like that?

Skunkmaster 03:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyright licensing for uploaded .jpg files

I'm very confused on the proper proceedure to correctly identify whether a copyright exists for a .jpg I want to upload. I have a baseball card I've scanned and would like to add to a players page. But I'm not sure if the card is copyrighted and if so, can it be used or what would I need to do in order to?

Please help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Twh66 (talk • contribs).

What else is there?

I know that Admins, Bureacrats, and Stewards have special powers, is there anything else?

Also what do Stewards do?

Skunkmaster 03:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Stewards can make another user an administrator, bureacrat, etc on any Wikimedia wiki (wikinews, commons, the different language wikipedias, etc). See more information on Stewards at the meta page here. I hope this information doesn't make you power-hungry... ;) Sebi _[talk] 04:23, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Full list of other user classes, also on the meta here. Sebi _[talk] 04:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

how to semi protect a section of an article from future vandalism

in the article on "Concordia University", the 'Fraternities and Sororities' section of the articles is subject to vandalism on roughly a monthly basis. As a member of one of the organizations mentionned therein, i would like to have that section of the article semi-protected. and/or be informed of how to request protection myself. i attempted to follow guidelines from FAQs or copy-and-pasting source from already semi-protected pages unsuccessfully.

My username is: Pile It —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.239.81.115 (talk • contribs).

Sections of articles cannot be protected, it's the full article protected or no protection. You can request protection of the article at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, but the protection policy states that pages are not protected to prevent future vandalism, only to stop vandalism that is happening presently. Sebi _[talk] 04:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the page and its history, the page has never been protected. Please do not place protection tags on a page that is not protected, as this is misleading to other readers and editors. Sebi _[talk] 04:21, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Pile it. Articles can only be protected by administrators. The templates and codes you are seeing in pages that are protected are there to inform that protection has been done, but do not effect protection themselves. You can request page protection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection but it is very unlikely such request will work, as the article is not vandalized often enough to warrant it. The reason protection is used sparingly is because of the chilling effect it can have on good edits. By the way, there's no need to manually type your signature; just type ~~~~ at the end of a post and it will automatically format to your signature, linked to your userpage (and I now see you were editing while not logged in)--Fuhghettaboutit 04:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I had a question for you guys

Can you guys create a page for me here is what I want it to look like

<massive post removed>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.113.111.117 (talk • contribs).

Please do not submit the entire text of a proposed article here. If you'd like to request a page, please go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Thank you.--Fuhghettaboutit 04:43, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Don't do it there either; format it properly. The mess of HTML tags and stuff make it impossible to turn into an article. It was removed from Wikipedia:Articles for creation earlier because it had untagged/broken code in it which were corrupting the rest of the page. --Haemo 04:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey peeps!

Dude, can you give me directions to a book store for the Harry Potter book?Thanks a freakin' lot. Henry Plenterson

www.switchboard.com or www.yellowpages.com then put in your zip code and the name of a book store. Useight 09:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I need...

The link to Jimbo Wales's userpage, thanks. --71.96.240.2 05:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

User:Jwales. --Haemo 05:30, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Graphics Packages

Please Tell Me Which Graphics Packages/Applications Are Available In The Market For Image Manupulations? (Some Most Popular Applications Are MS-Paint; Corel Draw etc.)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. Haemo 05:43, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm... =

On my account's userpage, an admin keeps replacing it with "bsbsbsnrjrjegwsnwertyu", but I can't say his username, or who knows what he will then do to me/ advice? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.96.240.2 (talk • contribs) 05:41, 12 July 2007.

Admins do not have God-like powers, so you can tell us here, or on WP:ANI. --Haemo 05:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Given this user's contributions today, I'm getting the sense they may be trolling. I may be wrong, but in either case I would reiterate Haemo's comment that if you're going to make accusations about an admin, being vauge helps no-one and being specific helps us work out who's at fault, with no repurcussions to any innocent party. Confusing Manifestation 06:14, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

NO I mean on my userpage of my account, not IP address. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.96.240.2 (talk • contribs) 06:16, 12 July 2007.

We know what you're talking about; see above. --Haemo 06:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

= == Jimbo wales

what is Jimbo Wale's car model, thanks, just curious!--Jimbo 05:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

You'd have to ask Jimbo. – Luna Santin (talk) 06:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I work in the same building as him. If you really do care, next time I see him I'll take a look at his car. It might be easier just to ask him, though. Rockstar (^T/_C) 06:05, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Col-span tables

I'm editing "Flower Mound High School" under the Extracurricular Activities heading to reinstate a previously deleted list in a new table format. Due to the length of one of the items, I've expanded it to fill two columns (! colspan = 2), but my method recolors the box and bolds the text within. How can I reformat/edit the table to keep it from doing that?

You were very close! :) The ! needs to be a |, in this case -- they both denote the start of table cells, but where | is a "normal" cell, ! indicates a column heading (which, interestingly enough, I've never seen in the middle of a table, before, so I've learned a little something, tonight, too). Went ahead and fixed this, for you. Keep up the good work. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 08:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

pics

how can i put a photo or image on a page —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Raja101 (talk • contribs).

• If you want to add an existing image to an article, type [[Image:File name.jpg|150px|center|Optional caption.]] to the article – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, 150px with the size in pixels you want the image to appear, center with the alignment of the image on the page and Optional caption with the caption, which of course, is optional. See our picture tutorial for more information.
• If you want to upload an image from your computer, to put in an article, you must find out what license the image is licensed under. If you know your image is licensed under a free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons, where all projects have access to the image. If you are unsure what license your image is licensed under, see the file upload wizard for more information. Also, please read Wikipedia's image use policy, because if you upload the image under a false license, you may be blocked.

Hope this has helped. Sebi _[talk] 07:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Becoming an Admin

Is it possible for a few of you guys/gals to take a quick peek at my contributions/edits/comments and give me an estimate on my changes to passing an RfA? Useight 09:50, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

If you haven't read it already, the Wikipedia:Administrators page is a good place to find lots of information on the subject, as is Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list. To get a good idea of whether or not you'll pass an RFA or not, the best thing you can do is watch (and maybe take part in) a few RFA discussions, and see who passes and who doesn't, and why. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 11:14, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

A few quick notes. While you have a fair number of edits (1750ish) there are many users that have a personal threshold above this (there are many other users who rail at those who oppose on the basis of editcount alone, but it is nevertheless true). From looking at your first few hundred contributions, a very large percentage are minor edits. I don't know if this indicative of all your contributions, but there are also editors who want to see substantial main space contributions, including article writing. Up until recently, your edit summary usage has not been consistent. Many editors look for perfect or near perfect usagee (meaning always leaving an edit summary). You can change your preferences to prompt you whenever you forget to provide an edit summary. None of these issue are "deal breakers", but I do notice one real problem. You have been warning users for creating pages with "warning vandal". Those are good faith article postings, albeit, speedy candidates. Only users who patently vandalize should ever be referred to as vandals, and even when the vandalism is blatant, it's divisive to label them vandals in the edit summary. A descriptive edit summary, such as noting the tag you are using in the edit summary ("{{uw-creation}}") would be much better.--Fuhghettaboutit 12:30, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you should file an Editor review. --Kaypoh 12:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Aluminum composite panels

dear sir i would like to know about alluminium composite pannel where in it is manufactured using pvdf. i would like to know what is this pvdf

thank you prakash

I believe it stands for Polyvinylidene fluoride. For future questions such as this, please ask at a section of theWikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here's the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.--Fuhghettaboutit 12:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

i want flow chart of compound interest

i want flow chart of compound interest—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.95.185.149 (talk • contribs).

Have you tried the miscellaneous section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here's the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.--Fuhghettaboutit 12:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

urlencode for title names

In templates, urlencode replaces spaces with + signs. What function replaces them with _ so they become proper Wikipedia titles? -- Kainaw^(what?) 13:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I can't imagine a use for which you would need to insert underscores (_) - the internal wiki syntax parser recognizes internal links with spaces in the same way it recognizes them with underscores. Unless you need to link to an external wiki (unlikely, ridiculously unlikely in template form), simply use the page title with spaces - it should work. Nihiltres^(t.l) 13:39, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

OK. So, if I have my own wiki and I want to link to Wikipedia. I have to create the URL as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_title. However, the parameter passed is "Page title". If I don't replace that space with a _, the link will not work. If I use urlencode, it becomes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page+title - which does not work. So, you see, this is not unlikely, ridiculously unlikely in a template form. It is a rather common process of trying to link from one wiki site to another. -- Kainaw^(what?) 13:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

See Help:Magic words#Namespaces and URLs which very briefly mentions the {{urlencode:x y @}} parser function. If you want to use this on your own MediaWiki wiki, you may have to install the Parser functions extension. But if your real goal is to link to articles on Wikipedia from your own MediaWiki wiki, you should be able to use an interwiki link like this: [[wikipedia:Page title]]. You can also define your own interwiki link prefixes, for example on wikis I administer I like to define w: to be a shorter prefix to link to Wikipedia articles, along with prefixes for other sites (such as internal company sites for a corporate wiki to link to). If you mess with the default interwiki link map, you should write a help page documenting all your additions, so your wiki users can see what additional prefixes are available. --Teratornis 14:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, "anchorencode" is what I needed. -- Kainaw^(what?) 14:14, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

How do I add a link to a page?

On the 'Cain (disambiguation)' page, my favorite one is missing. He's the fictional Cain from the Genxorcist.com online comic of the same name. The site and the series have been around for since at least 2002 (when I started reading). How can I add this to your list? Can I add this to your list?

I am NOT tech savy, so if you have 'instructions for dummies', I'd appreciate it. Thanks for the help and info!

170.110.235.86 14:08, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Instructions for dummies are on the cheat sheet. You probably need to do the following:

1. Click on this link: Cain (disambiguation).
2. Click "edit this page".
3. Add text similar to the following:

*Cain (webcomic), hosted on Gexorcist.com since 2002

Shalom ^Hello 14:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

What happened to Sivaji: The Boss?

It was so big a few months ago with sooo much information.

Now its really small.

What have you done to it? 87.74.19.112 14:33, 12 July 2007 (UTC)