Agreed. That page is hard to use. :( I'd {{sofixit}} but I've grown old and lazy. :) On Jun 11, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Jon Harald Søby wrote:

It seems to me there was this problem last year at Wikimania involving you being drunk on closing night, and something about your mobile phone? /me runs On Jun 11, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Jon Harald Søby wrote:

I dunno, there's something to be said for developing a feeling of community around the event. But you're probably right that it isn't the BEST example :) pb On Jun 11, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Lodewijk wrote:

I have no recollection of that. (And that may be part of the problem.) 2010/6/11 Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by

Hi, 'maniacs, On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:25 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com> wrote: I agree with you guys 100%. Supposing you're definitely going to attend, all you have to edit is http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Attendees/100 Am I alright? --OTA Takashi

On 12 June 2010 11:41, church.of.emacs.ml <church.of.emacs.ml(a)googlemail.com> wrote: The form is extremely unclear. Some kind of documentation about what format the entries should be in would help (eg. project should apparently be the transwiki prefix for your home project - it needs to say that, I only worked it out by looking at other people's entries). I would fix it myself, but I haven't been able to work it all out...

Hi, On 06/11/2010 10:23 PM, Jon Harald Søby wrote: I concur that editing an existing entry is a bit difficult. I didn't think it would happen a lot, as most of the entered information *should* be static (like username, home wiki) and not subject to changes. There are two different philosophies: * Try to make adding yourself simpler by making the system complex (e.g. a complex template system). * Try to make adding yourself simpler by keeping the system simple (e.g. a simple list). Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. The former (which is the one I chose) makes it easy to translate the page and provide *all* the information in a sorted, quite presentable and machine-readable way. Adding yourself to the list is also very easy (as opposed to learning WikiSyntax or adding yourself to a table as in [[External Review]]). It has of course the disadvantage that it gets quite difficult if you want to understand the underlying template system instead of just using the provided interfaces. Template coding sucks in Mediawiki, we know that :) I've added a comment in the sections which give hints where to look (<!-- Edit your entry here: [[Template:Attendees/100]] -->). Perhaps that helps a little. Regards, User:Church of emacs

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Shiju Alex &lt;shijualexonline(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: If you hover over the flag image, it gives you the country code. (The table is supposed to be language independent, so putting the country name would defeat the purpose. :-)) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

On 06/12/2010 03:55 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: Language != Country Thanks for the note. I fixed that problem, the table is now sortable with the country. I created a "CountryCode->CountryName" template so now the alt text is the full (English) country name. Just hover your mouse over an Icon to see which country it is. You can also click on the icon to go to the English Wikipedia article of the country. Regards, Church of emacs