Wikipedia talk:Village pump

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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Village pump

Section size for Wikipedia:Village pump (3 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	595	595
Archiving	345	345
See also	357	357
Total	1,297	1,297

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Interlangs confusion

Interlangs b/w other lang VP seem in confusion. Template:Villagepump is linked to/from them and it's okay. But on this page people cannot go to many of them. It's quite misleading specially for newcomers whom we often suggest to ask this page first for their own language equivalent, I'm afraid.

Can anyone arrange to fix this situation? I guess a matrix for interlang bot should be fixed, but I don't know where it is.

Cheers, --Aphaia (talk) 12:10, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please clarify a bit more? --Monterey Bay (talk) 05:42, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia violates guidelines

On page entitled 'Santa Claus' Well isn't then wikipedia going against it's own code, because while it may be truth that Santa is not real, no one can ever or has ever proved it, therefore it can not be cited, and cannot be classified as fact. So wikipedia, should not be allowed to say for sure whether he is real or not, because it hasn't been proved. (Using words such as mythological) Therefore the article is NOT written in a neutral point of view and violates wikipedia's guidelines!!! Now I believe that wikipedia MUST change the wording in the article because it violates it's guidelines!!! TheFutureGood (talk) 06:07, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References not lighting up?

I am not sure this is the right place to post this, but whenever I used to click a reference, it would redirect and the reference I chose would be highlighted. Now it just redirect to it and I am lost to which reference I am supposed to be looking at. What happened? Is this for all of Wikipedia, or is it just me? _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 17:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Try bypassing your cache. The global CSS has been changed lately, and you may still have an old version. Anomie ⚔ 20:18, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that worked! _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 20:29, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading images to wikipedia

A discussion on whether we should suppress uploading "your own work" to en.wiki is taking place here, and I feel it deserves a wider participation. Materialscientist (talk) 22:56, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Then this place is probably no the best one: it's meant for discussions about the Village pump itself and is not watched widely. You probably want either the miscellaneous village pump or the policy village pump. Svick (talk) 18:16, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mediazilla?

It says under Technical "use Mediazilla", but it's called Bugzilla. Change it. Onyx321 (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Secure server

I've been logging onto Wikipedia through the secure server feature, which I believe has a few problems. Although it says "remember me for 30 days" or something like that, I was logged out a few times after only 3 three minutes. This frustrates me because while saving a page, I would be logged out, so the IP number is displayed instead on "Sp33dyphil" on the article's talk page. What's going on here with the "Remember me for 30 days" thing? Also, after using this feature, I found out that, if I log in without the secure server, the computer seems to reject me and log me out again. This means that I will have to be using the secure server whenever I want to edit the site. Can somebody please explain what's going on? Thanks Sp33dyphil ^{(T • C • I love Wikipedia!)} 11:27, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Signing icon

The Wikipedia "Missing Manual", page 144, says there is an icon with cursive writing at the top of discussion pages which affixes ones signature when clicked. No such icon exists on discussion pages which I access. Has this icon been eliminated, or another mechanism substituted? At any rate, is there a way to sign without typing the tildes? Rgherman (talk) 15:47, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I found it. --Rgherman (talk) 16:58, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Flag icon

Moved to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Flag icon. Svick (talk) 19:40, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with the access to Commons

Dear All,

What have you changed to the access to Commons? I cannot access Commons this morning via Internet Explorer, well the other sites of wikipedia.

As when you had changed the access to the pictures, I can fortunately use the not user-friendly Firefox as a "rescue wheel" to access Commons.

May I ask you to solve this "bug" ASAP? Thanks, --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 11:13, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The probleme is solved. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 14:21, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, it is NOT solved. One page loaded, the very next one made IE kick out again. André Kritzinger 23:42, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Dots per Inch Article

There is something drastically wrong over here....could someone please fix this article seems to be a bug or hack Article: Dots per inch, in English wikipedia Thanks Dannyza1981 (talk) 19:22, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]