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Statistics Table

Can someone update this? I can't figure out an easy way to access the top countries and how much of a loss/gain they have (unsigned/undated comment relocated here from main article page)

  • I updated the stats on 14 Dec 08... the top 30 countries remained the same, but their numerical standing changed significantly; for example, Turkey was #10 and is now #30 in terms of numbers of postcards sent. Manual cut and paste is the only way I know of to update something like this... not sure it's even necessary, given that the statistics change moment by moment. Listing the top 10 is probably sufficient, with a link to the Postcrossing Stats page - which I added. Akindofmagick (talk) 16:59, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The project's just got a new logo - see [1]. A high-resolution version of the new logo is here; it should be OK to use since it's part of the project's press/media kit (which explicitely says "[w]e encourage you to use the resources in this press kit", too), but somebody should probably still get back to them and have it clarified what this means and/or have the proper permissions for using the logo obtained and filed in OTRS. -- Schneelocke (talk) 00:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:User Postcrosser

I have created a Postcrosser Userbox for Wikipedians. Have a look at it please.--Joseph 11:32, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Code Result
{{User:UBX/Postcrosser}}
This user is a Postcrosser.

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Postcard Milestones Table

I updated the Postcard Milestones table by giving it a header and a 'Postcard' column. I also modified the citation/reference structure so that all references about the milestone are added after the date in the first column and the reference to the individual postcard is added after the postcard number in the last column.

We still need reference sources for about half of the rows. Please help add any you can find for the missing rows. Those rows were added before I modified the table, so I didn't want to remove them. However, I have no idea where the original author found the dates/times and other information.

Potential sources for references are Twitter and the old Postcrossing Forum through the Wayback Machine. Dynamiccookies (talk) 15:59, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would still welcome any additional citations from Twitter or even the old Postcrossing Forum through the Wayback Machine, but Paulo Magalhães came through for us and posted every single million milestone from 1-60 on the Postcrossing Community site at my request, so I was able to update the table and reference his post. - Dynamiccookies (talk) 20:05, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to also share the script I wrote to parse the table from the Postcrossing Community site and automatically reformat it into Wikipedia's markdown. Here's a link to the script on GitHub. - Dynamiccookies (talk | contribs) 16:36, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Comment: Adding Flags to Country Names in Tables

Should the Users Distribution and History tables include flags using the Project Flag Template? The argument is whether or not flags in these tables are merely decorative or actually serve a purpose.

Example: {{flag|USA}} ->  USA

Flags were initially included when the tables were first added to this page (Added Diffs: Users Distribution & History) back in April of 2013 by Starpromi. Then, recently, in January of 2021, MB removed all of the flags (Removed Diffs: Users Distribution & History) from the tables citing: rmv flag icons per [Manual of Style], purely decorational

I liked the flags in the tables but am torn between whether or not they were functional. I welcome you to review the Manual of Style/Icons page for yourself. More specifically, please review the Flags and Inappropriate use/Encyclopedic purpose sections before responding. - Dynamiccookies (talk | contribs) 20:20, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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