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RefTools localization

Howdy Z-man, What do you think about splitting MediaWiki:RefToolbarLocal.js into a configuration file for the local wiki and a messages file for the user's language? That way we could switch the messages file based on the value of wgUserLanguage without having to duplicate the configuration stuff for each language. If we are going to push this out to a wider user-base it would be nice if we could localize it for the top 4 or 5 user languages on en.wiki first. Thoughts? Kaldari (talk) 00:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

That would probably be a good way to do it. It could also allow for fallback by having a "default" language. Mr.Z-man 00:56, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I've set up a totally localizable version at MediaWiki:RefToolbar.js (includes MediaWiki:RefToolbar/base.js and MediaWiki:RefToolbarConfig.js. An example of a message translation file for it can be seen at MediaWiki:RefToolbarMessages-en.js. You'll notice that labels are now specified for all fields and set via a naming convention ('cite-<param>-label') rather than explicitly (since in languages other than English all the fields will need to have labels that are different than the parameter names). Please take a look and let me know if this looks good and if anything needs to be changed. I'm going to go ahead and put all the messages up on translatewiki so we can get translations in the meantime. Once this is ready to be deployed, would you prefer for it to remain in your user space or should I move it all into MediaWiki space? I would prefer moving it all to MediaWiki space, but it's up to you. Kaldari (talk) 20:08, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm waiting on the 1.17 + ResourceLoader deployment before moving forward on this. Kaldari (talk) 19:43, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I haven't had time to really look at it, the only thing that we would need to make sure of is that it's still possible to add custom templates via user JS pages, and ideally, that any existing ones will still continue to work. Mr.Z-man 20:14, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the note. Hobit (talk) 01:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Notable Personalities Missing

Hi. This list is pretty comprehensive and very commendable. However I still feel that this list misses India's most notable female playback singers like K. S. Chitra, S. Janaki, P. Susheela L. R. Eswari and Vani Jayaram. May I know the exact reason behind this? Are these project pages not maintained according to the required standards? Arrwiki (talk) 10:35, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Just a note, in the future, it helps if you specify what you're talking about when you say things like "this list", though in this case I'm guessing it's Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian music/Popular pages. I haven't checked the others, but K. S. Chithra is not included because it is not tagged as being part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian music on the talk page, it's probably the same reason for the others. Mr.Z-man 15:45, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

thanks

Awesome. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 20:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

RefTools

Hello Mr.Z-man. Are you able to tell me where the proposal to put RefTools on everybody's edit box is at? --Anthonyhcole (talk) 14:46, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 68#Proposal - Turn on RefTools gadget by default Kaldari (talk) 20:35, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Discussion moved to MediaWiki talk:Common.js where I just saw this comment

As suggested by Mr.Z-man above, I believe we should wait until MediaWiki 1.17 is deployed (which includes ResourceLoader) before turning this on. It was supposed to be deployed last week, but it's been delayed until this Wednesday. Kaldari (talk) 20:35, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

So it looks imminent. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 03:53, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I seem to have created a monster :) Now that 1.17 is out, everyone is hounding me about pushing this live. If you could take a look at the new code at MediaWiki:RefToolbarLoader.js, MediaWiki:RefToolbar.js, MediaWiki:RefToolbar/base.js, MediaWiki:RefToolbarConfig.js, etc, I would be most grateful. The only things I've changed are making all the messages localizable and adding some more tooltips for various params. If it looks OK, the first thing I'd like to do is replace the gadget code in your Username space with the new localizable code, so that a bigger group of people can test it. If that goes smoothly, we can see about switching it on for everyone. Does that sound good to you? Kaldari (talk) 02:21, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Sounds like a plan. I won't be very available for the next few days though, so you might have to do any fixes/answer any questions. I made a change about an hour ago to the current gadget loader to work around a problem following the 1.17 deployment. You may also want to load the old version if the toolbar is disabled. Mr.Z-man 02:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

How's this look: MediaWiki:RefToolbarLoader.js? Kaldari (talk) 03:30, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks good. Mr.Z-man 03:57, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Help! Please restore the 1.0 reftoolbar or provide a way for me to add it to my custom Javascript. The new one is simply not working for me. I need the old tool editing toolbar which had cite and ref icons which when I clicked instantly displayed a form for the various templates such as {{cite web}}. That just worked. This has all changed in the last two days. The new one just makes my Firefox browser status bar display "transferring data from en.wikipedia.org..." forever. Could the preferences gadget bar include both 1.0 and 2.0 versions? Arrgh. I am now having to copy old versions of the javascript... -84user (talk) 10:24, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Geotagged articles needing images

Hello can you put a link to http://toolserver.org/~myst/coord/ in the page of your tool (http://toolserver.org/~alexz/). This is the french version of your tool (for fr.wikipedia.org). Also thanks you for this tool . Binnette (talk) 20:25, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

AFD script

Your AFD script appears to use a wrong link when closing a 2nd or subsequent discussion without deleting the page — it adds the oldafdfull template to the article talk page with a link to the first AFD discussion rather than the current one. Do you think you could fix it when you get a chance? Stifle (talk) 13:46, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Broken patrol script

The patrol script isn't working right at all: clicking the 'patrol' link from the queue yields "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again."

It still works if I go into the page, though.

<Dragonfly6-7> thedj - would you know whether there have been any changes lately that could have broken the script? There have been, there haven't been, don't know?
<thedj> Dragonfly6-7: i believe the old method is deprecated and the script should use the api
<thedj> actually it should have been using that since over a year
<thedj> bug the tech village pump, or the script maintainer.

... so I'm bugging you. Fix please? Thanks. DS (talk) 15:18, 16 February 2011 (UTC)