User talk:WOSlinker

Help please

Hi, could you help me work out why Category:WikiProject assessment categories needing attention is so big? Thanks in advance, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:55, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Some of them are real mistakes, some of them are just case issues (e.g. list instead of List) and for some reason anything with punctuation marks is being added but one thing that should be easy to fix is the Unassessed ones (change -Class to {{#ifeq:{{{class|}}}|Unassessed||-Class}} -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:41, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Should I put {{{class}}} through a mask before testing it? Any idea why punctuation should cause such problems? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:09, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

I think PAGENAME convers & to & so the compare doesn't work. However, you can use PAGENAME:xxxxx to comare both (I think).

Try changing

{{#if:{{{topic|}}}|{{#if:{{{class|}}}
  |{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|{{{class}}}-Class {{{topic}}} articles|
   |[[Category:WikiProject assessment categories needing attention]]
  }}
 }}}}

to

{{#if:{{{topic|}}}|{{#if:{{{class|}}}
  |{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME:{{{class}}}{{#ifeq:{{{class|}}}|Unassessed||-Class}} {{{topic}}} articles}}|
   |[[Category:WikiProject assessment categories needing attention]]
  }}
 }}}}

-- WOSlinker (talk) 10:03, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

That's working really well, thanks! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:11, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

You could also add some simlar code to {{Cat importance}} -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Just out of curiosity, what is the purpose of this category and how are pages added to it? PC78 (talk) 20:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

It's showing a list of the category pages using the {{cat class}} template but are not of the expected format for the name (XX-Class Topic articles). So of those that were in this category were where the class parameter had been specified incorrectly. e.g. [1] -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:02, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Ah, OK. The two Hawaii categories listed there seem awfully redundant. PC78 (talk) 21:09, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, probably the individual cat & dab parameters should be removed from he {{WPHawaii}} banner as they are duplicating the class param. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

They redundant, but only since my edit earlier today. Before that all those categories were NA-Class. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:29, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

That makes more sense if things are in transition. The WP:SHIPS category looks suspect too; despite there being two categories for NA-Class (pages & articles) the banner doesn't appear to support NA-Class. PC78 (talk) 23:12, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

The Ships banner was going to be converted over to WPBannerMeta but then it was opposed for some reason. This was a while ago though. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:30, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Well done

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		I've no idea how you've done it but this award is for creating the stubtree template. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

+1... And me neither...What is it, in that soup of code, that actually chops up the phrase? –xeno^talk 18:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. It looks slightly more complicated than it really is as I had remove some the carriage returns from stubtree/2 to make it work properly. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:37, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

It's the {{Str index}} template that extracts a single character from the text. I then just call it quite a few times to get each individual letter and pass them all over to stubtree/3 as individual parameters. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:40, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I got there, and tried to follow the breadcrumbs to grandma's house but I guess I got lost along the way... –xeno^talk 18:42, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

How about moving Template:Asbox/templatepage/XXX -> Template:Asbox/XXX ? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:46, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

To make it shorter? -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Sure. But it's up to you. Just a suggestion. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:27, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, moved. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:35, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm presuming that this was too complicated or impossible, otherwise you would have done it, but with a template such as {{Food-magazine-stub}}, it would also make sense to include {{Food-stub}} in the hierarchy. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:11, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Silly question about odd edit...

Hi WOSlinker -probably a silly question, but is there any reason you decided that Kyrgysztan was in South America? :) Grutness...wha? 10:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

That would be a mistake on my part when changing over a set of poet stubs to use asbox. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Would appreciate feedback

I'm discovering how the Chicago Project creates, uses, and maintaines category codes. I will be keeping my notes within an article I hope other experienced editors could expand and improve. The article is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Categories. Please review it, especiall the section on PCSs. The similarity between the Illinois Project and the Chicago Project is evident there.

We, at one time used Category:Category-Class Chicago articles and the Illinois project may still be using Category:Category-Class WikiProject Illinois articles. As the last editor of Category:Category-Class WikiProject Illinois articles I'm hoping you can give me an idea of how your Project uses the category and if it is similar to what I have at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Categories#Project Scope Categories. Does a bot use Category:Category-Class WikiProject Illinois articles? If so, what does it do and where is its output? If you don't have time for this, would you please either forward this messge to someone who may be able to help me or simply give me the name of the person and I will contact them. Thank you in advance. Pknkly (talk) 15:51, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not actually a member of WikiProject Illinois, it's just that I edited the category due to my work on templates such as {{cat class}} and {{WPBannerMeta}}. Speaking more generally about Category-Class categories, I think it just depends of wether the project want to tag all the categories that they use or contain articles that they have an interest in. You could maybe try asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illinois but the discussions don't look that active there. If you wanted to find more categories to add to your lists, you could use the toolserver search to find them. Sorry I can't really be that much of a help. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:50, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Can I copy the question and answer into the Talk for our our article at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Categories?

Yes, that's fine. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:33, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up my Userbox. If I decide to make another one, I'll put it where it's supposed to go. Thanks also for correcting my userpage. Cheers! Ollie Garkey (talk) 00:16, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

changes to the various food and drink project templates

What does the |QUALITY_SCALE=subpage change do? --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 18:30, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

At the moment, it just does the same as |QUALITY_SCALE=yes but we are planning to change WPBannerMeta so that only when banners have |QUALITY_SCALE=subpage will they use the custom class subpage which WikiProject Food and drink already does. So over all this doesn't mean any difference to the WikiProject Food and drink banner, but does tidy up the Quality scale usage in WPBannerMeta. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:15, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

I didn't even know that page existed until know. What does that do? --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:44, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

It might be more understandable now. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:47, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Normally if you select QUALITY_SCALE=yes, you can use FA,FL,GA,A,B,C,Start,Stub,List,NA & Unassessed classes. If you also add FULL_QUALITY_SCALE=yes, you also additionally get Image,Project,Portal,Category,Template & Disambig. If that is not enough then you need to add a /class subpage to support a custom scale. In Food and drinks case, it is so that you can also use Redirect. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:51, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I see now! That is where the custom mask resides, I always wondered how that worked. Thanks for the info. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:58, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello there!

hi, may you help me with a template please, i wanna change the color of the background of it, its the tunisian template. thanks 41.249.9.161 (talk) 19:34, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Which tunisian template do you mean? -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:46, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Quality scale

So, do you think we're all set to go with the new code? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:20, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

The main code seems ok but the template page category warnings do not work properly with the new QUALITY_SCALE options. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:45, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I'll see to that. And I think the taskforce hook might need an adjustment. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:28, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

The hook could be done as a separate change afterwards though. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:48, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Shall I just pass QUALITY_SCALE=yes from the hooks and restore the previous code for "yes" for the moment. Otherwise subpages would not be used. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:28, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Getting a bit tired with all this stuff. Any help would be appreciated. I don't suppose you use IRC or similar? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't use IRC. What is left to do? -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:56, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

1. Finishing off /templatepage category prompts.
2. Working out how to handle to handle the /taskforces and /qualitycats hooks.
3. Making sure that we don't switch on any quality scales unintentionally. (I've added a tracking category.)
4. And probably some other stuff which I've forgotten about :)

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:05, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Right, I'll start with looking at number 2. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

There are 3 different hooks that will need changing.

1. hooks/taskforces
2. hooks/qualimpintersect
3. hooks/qualitycats

Rather than try to syncronise all the hook changes & changing values in current banners, I'm thinking that just adding back in the QUALITY_SCALE=yes (might mean subpage) into the /class template is going to be simpler to start with. So that's what I've done. I'll still be looking at changing the code in the hook templates but there will be no need to wait for this now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:24, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Outdent

All that needs doing for the moment to add |QUALITY_SCALE={{{QUALITY_SCALE|yes}}} to all 3 hooks.

1. taskforces - [2]
2. qualimpintersect - [3]
3. qualitycats - [4]

This should be done before the other changes are made. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I've done a little bit of work on the template warnings now, and they seem better now. Just wondering though in /class/sandbox if |#default = Class mask should be changed to |standard = Class mask, |#default = padleft:¬ so that things like |QUALITY_SCALE=rubbish do not then allow the class to be shown. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I see you've been busy! I agree with your |QUALITY_SCALE={{{QUALITY_SCALE|yes}}} suggestion and putting back the "yes" code. I think it is logical if |QUALITY_SCALE=rubbish is treated the same as blank QUALITY_SCALE. (And I think we decided that it would be triggered by {{{class}}} in that case?) Back tomorrow — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:26, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I'm going for it now. I've no idea how to make the transition clean, so I'm just going to load them all up in different tabs and try to save at the same time! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:13, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Seems to be working fine. I've put a tracking cat on the taskforce hook to find places where QUALITY_SCALE needs to be changed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:14, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Do you think we should employ a bot to get the syntax updated on these banner templates? If so, do you think you could write the program? Or shall we ask someone like Xeno to help us? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:04, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Add the following to your global.js or monobook.js and you'll then have a qscale tab which would speed up the editing of those banners with FULL_QUALITY_SCALE = yes

function queryString(p) {
    var re = RegExp('[&?]' + p + '=([^&]*)');
    var matches;
    if (matches = re.exec(document.location)) {
        try { 
            return decodeURI(matches[1]);
        } catch (e) { }
    }
    return null;
}

//Add a 'qscale edit' tab
if(wgNamespaceNumber != -1 && wgArticleId != 0) { 
    addOnloadHook( function qscaleEditButton() {
        addPortletLink('p-cactions', 
                       wgScript + '?title=' + encodeURIComponent(wgPageName) + '&action=edit&qscale=true',
                       'qscale',
                       'p-qscale',
                       'QUALITY_SCALE edit');
    }
)}
 
if(wgAction == 'edit' && queryString('qscale') == 'true') {
    addOnloadHook(function qscale() {
        var idx1 = 0;
        var idx2 = 0;
        var myContent = document.getElementById('wpTextbox1').value;
 
	var re = new RegExp("\\\n +\\\|FULL_QUALITY_SCALE \+\= \+yes\\\n", "")
        myContent = myContent.replace(re,'\n');
 
        if(document.getElementById('wpTextbox1').value != myContent) {
           idx1 = myContent.indexOf("\|QUALITY_SCALE");
           idx1 = myContent.indexOf("yes",idx1);
           myContent = myContent.substring(0,idx1)+"extended"+myContent.substring(idx1+3,+myContent.length);
 
           document.getElementById('wpTextbox1').value=myContent;
           document.getElementById('wpSummary').value='set QUALITY_SCALE = extended and remove FULL_QUALITY_SCALE parameter, as per new syntax';
        };
    }
)}

-- WOSlinker (talk) 18:56, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Only protected & sandbox versions left in Category:WikiProject banners with formatting errors now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:52, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm getting the qscale tab, but pressing it doesn't seem to do anything :S — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:00, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

When you are viewing one of the banners, press the qscale tab and it will then edit the article and fill in the summary. You can then press Show changes if you want to see what's changed or just press Save page to save the changes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Are you using IE? It works with Firefox but doesn't work with IE. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:48, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I've updated the code above to work with IE now, but it now leaves a blank line rather than removing the line. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:01, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I must be doing something wrong. All the link does is to bring up the edit window. It doesn't make any edits or fill in the summary for me. I'm using FF3.5. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:37, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I've spotted why. I'd missed out the querystring function which was further up in my monobook file. I've added it to the code about & change it back to the FF version. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! It's working now. I'll have to learn how to use these script things, they seem very useful. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:09, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm no expert either, it sometimes takes a few attempt to get things working. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:55, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you want another challenge, a script to synchronise a sandbox template would be very useful :) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that you recently changed another QUALITY_PAGE=subpage (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:WPBeatles&diff=prev&oldid=315143866). Is that because it only just turned up in the tracking category? Or did it escape the category somehow? I ask because I was planning to remove the code for "yes" shortly but don't want to mess anything up! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

I did the following search to see what templates contained the word FULL_QUALITY_SCALE and then did a tidy up of some of them. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:34, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

You need to make sure that the three hooks: hooks/taskforces, hooks/qualimpintersect and hooks/qualitycats have all got tracking on them. Haven't checked myself. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:37, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry I just realised that I've messed up your recent edits to Template:WPBannerMeta/templatepage/checkcat. I'll try to fix them up soon. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:52, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, can you help me to get this working? Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:55, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Rugby league

Hi, you've made some changes to Template:WikiProject Rugby league and I've noticed that all our templates, of which there are hundreds are now in the NA category rather than the template category. I didn't want to go straight in and undo because I can see you're attempting some kind of project but wasn't too sure what you were aiming to achieve. Could you set it so we have the full range of categories options for classification please? Thanks LunarLander // talk // 01:32, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, sorry about that. I've undone my second edit. The warnings shown on the template page made it look like the extended classes weren't being used so I switched it to standard but I now see that those warning werre for the taskforce, not thr main scale. I'll try to make some change to the warnings to state that they are for the taskforce and not the main quality scale. Thanks for pointing out my mistake. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for the quick response. LunarLander // talk // 00:52, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Stub templates

I do not understand your request. I do understand you would rather I used your template than than part of what I am presently using. However, I don't know which part of my present template you want me to replace. If you could copy and paste that which you want replaced over on my talk page below your request, as am illustration, I will swap in your preferred stub statements in its stead.

Georgejdorner (talk) 23:55, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

---

Okay, done. I am a fan of "simpler is better". I will link you with a stub newly done with your template so you can check it for correctness.

Georgejdorner (talk) 18:08, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

---

William Drummond Matheson

Georgejdorner (talk) 18:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, yes, that's fine. Thanks. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:29, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

WP:CHINA Banner Conversion

Hey, I noticed your efforts to convert WP:CHINA's talk page banner to the standardized format, and I wanted to thank you. I tried to do the conversion myself a while back, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Whatever you do, though, the new banner really needs to replicate all of the functions of the old. If functionality is lost, I suspect that it would be difficult for our project to accept.

Incidentally, I've seen some projects that have banners that can detect when they are in a non-article namespace and automatically assess accordingly. (For example, a banner placed on a category talk page is automatically assessed as Category) Do you know how to implement this? Thanks again for your help, and if you do need me to step in and work on the banner, just let me know.--Danaman5 (talk) 10:23, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

There still a little bit to do on the conversion as I haven't managed to add all the parameters yet. This new format already has the automatic assessment of non-article namespace banners built in to it. I can finish it off today and then it would be great if you could do a bit of testing with it to see if it all works properly. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Right, I think it's all done now & ready to test. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:46, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I've had a quick look and noticed a few things:

• Current banner does not appear to support Project-Class, but does support Needed-Class.
• Even though it is suppoorted in the current banner, per Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Assessment the project does not use A-Class. Last I checked they also didn't use C-Class, though that at least may have changed. Maybe seek clarification from the project here? PC78 (talk) 09:26, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

• Project-class is indeed unused. I have switched it off for now.
• Needed-class doesn't seem to be used. The empty category was deleted back in March.
• It seems that A- and C-class are used ... anyway if the project decides they don't want them, it's easy enough to disable them later.

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:58, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

I've made a few tweaks. Just a couple of very minor points:

• Why do we have two /hooks/notes of three. We can up to 10 with these.
• As the main template included support for the Tibet subproject, perhaps the transclusion of {{WikiProject Tibet}} is redundant here? (No doubt there is some politics involved with this ...)

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

We do use C-Class, and although we don't really use A class, you might as well just leave it switched on, in case we decide to do something with it later. We don't really use project class or needed class. Project pages currently get classified as "NA".--Danaman5 (talk) 13:58, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/notes only supports 5 more notes which is why I added two hooks of 3 each. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:00, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Also, with Tibet, I'm just trying to match what is currently in the banner. Tibet is added as a separate banner above China there, so I've done the same in the sandbox. The only other tibet code is just to set the categories, so I've moved that up into the Tibet banner. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:06, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Danaman5, would you mind creating the necessary categories? They are shown on this and this version. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:33, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Done.--Danaman5 (talk) 09:28, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Brilliant. So in that case, the sandbox version is ready to be moved over. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:42, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I was waiting for you to move it over ... but as you didn't I've gone ahead. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:56, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I was procrastinating because I was wondering if I should notify the project first. I think it'll be fine though. Thanks for all the help!--Danaman5 (talk) 14:31, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

CSD tagging

Template:Adminstats/Rjanag, which you tagged for speedy deletion, is in use (I use it for User:Rjanag/adminbars/Rjanag) and is not out of date (it's updated by SoxBot every few days, as are all of the Template:Adminstats subpages, of which there are hundreds...the last time this template of mine was updated was just 3 days ago). rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 21:08, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Now that I look more closely, I see you've mass-tagged a whole bunch of adminstats templates. Some of these really are out of date (one hasn't been updated since October 2008, I assume becuase the user has been inactive), but a lot probably are not. Since these templates are practically userpages (they're in the template namespace, but are made by and for individual users) I would suggest you roll back all of those CSD taggings and let the templates be deleted individually (for example, only when a user requests it for his own template, or only when a user is known to be officially retired). rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 21:10, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I only tagged those listed on User:RussBot/Orphaned_templates/001 after checking the first 10. Didn't check the rest in as much detail. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Want to delete?

Hello. You know, it would save a lot of time if you deleted these out-of-use pages yourself. Ah but you're not an admin you say? Have you ever thought about changing that state of things? wink wink nudge nudge... Pascal.Tesson (talk) 19:34, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I've thought about it a little but haven't taken it any further yet. Editing protected templates would be something I'd use it more for though rather than doing lots of deletes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:21, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Help?

Hey WOSlinker, haven't seen you for a while, hope you're okay. Would you be interested in helping to add some functionality to the India sandbox? See Template talk:WP India for what needs doing. Thanks! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:37, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I've just been busy with other things. Is it just the quality intersects for taskforces that need adding? -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:47, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, and the tfnested hooks I think. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I've added the qualimpintersect to all the taskforces. The current banner deosn't show any taskfoces when nested, so is the tfnested hook needed? -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:32, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I just shuffled some around a bit, because the TF_HOOK thing only works from the taskforce hook currently. And I've asked on the talk page about the nested text. And, if you have any more free time, there's Category:WikiProject British Royalty articles needing banner conversion :) Once this is empty we can convert the biography banner. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:22, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

And thanks again. Umm, SUPPRESS_NA_CLASS doesn't seem to be working on India. Could you investigate? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Seems to be working as expected when I looked at it. Have you got an example? -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:41, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

See Template talk:WP India/sandbox/testcases. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:48, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

All I can see there is a lot of NA-importance. No NA-Class. SUPPRESS_NA_CLASS only suppresses NA-Class. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:10, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Okay, so I'm being a bit stupid. Would there be any point in having a SUPPRESS_NA_IMPORTANCE parameter? Or shall I just create all those categories? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:21, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Done a version in Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/qualimpintersect/core/sandbox with SUPPRESS_NA_IMPORTANCE. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:15, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I was wondering if it was better to put it on /formats rather than passing through the importance mask twice? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

yes, that would be fine. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Still can't get it to work :( — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:56, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. It was a missing bracket ([5]) -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:05, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Arghhh! Thanks. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I notice that has been going round adding what seems to be a simpler version of the substitution test, e.g. here. Would this work for WPBM? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:47, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm, You could use that code as is instead of having a substcheck parameter in WPBannerMeta, or you could change the substcheck parameter to:

|substcheck={{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>NAMESPACE}}|<includeonly>SUBST</includeonly>|}}

which is a bit longer than the current thing we use

|substcheck=<includeonly>{{subst:</includeonly><includeonly>substcheck}}</includeonly>

WOSlinker (talk) 18:07, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Scandalous omission

		The Template Barnstar and The Third Half of the Half Barnstar
		Martin and PC78 are both quite right. By scandalous omission, I failed to give you due credit for being the Third HalfTM of the unstoppable WPBM team. WPIndia is an awesome achievement, as is WPBiography. I wish I could have been a bigger part of them.

Edward German

Hi. I see you have added a TOC to the Edward German talk page, but I can't access the items in the TOC. Was there some kind of review of the Edward German article? If so, I'd like to see the comments. If not, what is this TOC linking to? Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:08, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

You need to expand the banners and then expand the comments section within the banners to see the review. The review was done in February 2009. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:46, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

The review is actually at Talk:Edward German/Comments and is just transcluded by the banners into the main talk page. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:47, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Inkscape & svg files

Regarding the svg issue you helped me with the other week (if you recall), I was wondering how I could avoid such issues in the future. Presumably it's something I'm doing when I save a file in Inkscape? PC78 (talk) 22:44, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't know as I've never used Inkscape but I'm guessing that there might be some option somewhere to show/hide the grid. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:46, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Appreciate it

Thanks a lot for tidying the template and user box I made. I really have no clue about how to code them and kinda copied a base, still learning here. Could you please help me with tips on how to make sure the pages I edit are assessed automatically? Please do respond in my own talk page since it'll be easier for me to keep track of the conversation. In turn I'll post here. I really need someone to help me figure out all the small details of editing! Veritiel (talk) 00:56, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the help again. What would you recommend and what would the difference be? As I'm still not sure I understand how the rating works, I don't know if it's made by a bot or by voting of the project's member since I have seem to have found hints that could be either. I posted a request, but just want to check that I'm actually doing something that will help the articles. Veritiel (talk) 12:10, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

If the bot assigns the same class, B in this case, to all the articles with the paraguay Banner, how can I raise an article's class from B to A or GA? Does a bot do it or does it ahve to be done manually after a voting? Veritiel (talk) 18:58, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! But then the method of deciding which article gets a higher class, as I had said, goes from being a B article to an A article, is not done by a bot ro by wikipedia, but the users in the WikiProject have to vote on it, a bit like when nomitating and deciding if an article becomes featured or not right? Veritiel (talk) 19:11, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for all your help! I won't change the class, I deem it a bit unethical for me to change the class of an article I edited, so I will elave that to other users. Bad thing is, not many people out there interested in Paraguay or Paraguayan history and the Project seems to be a ghost one. Veritiel (talk) 19:21, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Modification of my Talk page.

WOSlinker:

It is a violation of Wikipedia policy (constitutes vandalism) for you to remove material from my Talk page. Please refrain from this act. William R. Buckley (talk) 02:39, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Where do I edit WikiProject banner, revised w/ WPBannerMeta?

Thanks for updating the {{ArabEntrep banner}}, using {{WPBannerMeta}}. Quick question: how or where do I go to make a minor revision to the banner text? (I just want to wiki-link entrepreneurship.) Thanks!