I see that in the last few weeks, [[:en:Template:lowercase]] has been updated to actually display the title in lowercase with a JavaScript hack. Any word on whether this is the long term solution to the problem, or whether the proposed magic word[1] will be implemented? Sorry, I don't know the relevant bug number.
Steve [1] I think we discussed this maybe a year ago, the idea of letting articles specify a "display" title. A first-letter-lowercase flag was the least controversial idea...
On 05/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I see that in the last few weeks, [[:en:Template:lowercase]] has been updated to actually display the title in lowercase with a JavaScript hack. Any word on whether this is the long term solution to the problem, or whether the proposed magic word[1] will be implemented? Sorry, I don't know the relevant bug number.
We *have* the magic word, but it's broken at the moment and needs fixing. :)
Rob Church
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On 05/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I see that in the last few weeks, [[:en:Template:lowercase]] has been updated to actually display the title in lowercase with a JavaScript hack. Any word on whether this is the long term solution to the problem, or whether the proposed magic word[1] will be implemented? Sorry, I don't know the relevant bug number.
We *have* the magic word, but it's broken at the moment and needs fixing. :)
Tim's been poking at it, it should be live soon enough.
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On 12/6/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Tim's been poking at it, it should be live soon enough.
Awesome. Then I guess we can replace the contents of {{Lowercase}} with the magic word.
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
I see that in the last few weeks, [[:en:Template:lowercase]] has been updated to actually display the title in lowercase with a JavaScript hack.
Stolen from Uncyclopedia, of course. (Or did they use a CSS hack?)
At 17:04 GMT 05/12/2006, Michael M wrote:
I don't know how to open .asc files. Could you help me?
Steve Bennett wrote:
I see that in the last few weeks, [[:en:Template:lowercase]] has been updated to actually display the title in lowercase with a JavaScript hack.
Stolen from Uncyclopedia, of course. (Or did they use a CSS hack?)
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That file is a detatched, attached, electronic signature file. If you don't know what that is, then you can safely just ignore it.
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At 17:04 GMT 05/12/2006, Michael M wrote:
I don't know how to open .asc files. Could you help me?
Steve Bennett wrote:
I see that in the last few weeks, [[:en:Template:lowercase]] has been updated to actually display the title in lowercase with a JavaScript hack.
Stolen from Uncyclopedia, of course. (Or did they use a CSS hack?)
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On 12/5/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
I see that in the last few weeks, [[:en:Template:lowercase]] has been updated to actually display the title in lowercase with a JavaScript hack.
Stolen from Uncyclopedia, of course. (Or did they use a CSS hack?)
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I believe Interiot said he stole it from frwiki.
On 05/12/06, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
I believe Interiot said he stole it from frwiki.
Now, Rory, wiki users don't steal. We don't do "theft" on this mailing list. We're nice people. We coerce, and bash people over the head with bricks when they don't do what we want...and if they just so happen to have something we like, we might lift it from them. But we never steal. Don't you know that stealing is wrong?
I reckon we should encourage a *lot* more cross-project collaboration. I'm rather pleased to see that we're having a more diverse bunch of new committers, who have different regional perspectives on things, and the i18n team is growing like there's no tomorrow. I guess it's a side-effect of all this wiki stuff, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
Someone (Brion, I think) once suggested a repository of nifty scripts and stuff. If we made it easy to manage the things, then perhaps we could encourage people from all over to dump their custom JavaScript thingies into it. Another angle could be to look for cute skin customisations, turn these into independent skins, and place them in MediaWiki (or at least install them as skins for Wikimedia users)...
Rob Church
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Someone (Brion, I think) once suggested a repository of nifty scripts and stuff. If we made it easy to manage the things, then perhaps we could encourage people from all over to dump their custom JavaScript thingies into it. Another angle could be to look for cute skin customisations, turn these into independent skins, and place them in MediaWiki (or at least install them as skins for Wikimedia users)...
That would be a good idea: there's a lot of custom JavaScript floating around that's just almagated into a huge blob in Monobook.js that really could use a bit of modularization.
We could theoretically centralize the scripts right now by using a bunch of document.writelns, although it's not necessarily the most efficient way. We could "compile" stylesheets by implementing remote transclusion, but that's risky.
Hm...
Rob Church wrote:
On 05/12/06, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
I believe Interiot said he stole it from frwiki.
Now, Rory, wiki users don't steal. We don't do "theft" on this mailing list. We're nice people. We coerce, and bash people over the head with bricks when they don't do what we want...and if they just so happen to have something we like, we might lift it from them. But we never steal. Don't you know that stealing is wrong?
I reckon we should encourage a *lot* more cross-project collaboration. I'm rather pleased to see that we're having a more diverse bunch of new committers, who have different regional perspectives on things, and the i18n team is growing like there's no tomorrow. I guess it's a side-effect of all this wiki stuff, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
Someone (Brion, I think) once suggested a repository of nifty scripts and stuff. If we made it easy to manage the things, then perhaps we could encourage people from all over to dump their custom JavaScript thingies into it. Another angle could be to look for cute skin customisations, turn these into independent skins, and place them in MediaWiki (or at least install them as skins for Wikimedia users)...
The approach on Commons is to stick anything useful in the MediaWiki namespace, and have people include it rather than copying it.
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