User talk:StaNi 1

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02 Transportation (on rails) in America, 1859

Hi,
For a start, please don't mind the (german) texts. The Zeitschrift für Bauwesen was supported (not edited) by the preusian "Ministry of Trade, Crafts and public Works" and discussed civil engineering (in the broadest sense possible) and architecture.
Measurements - in these articles only! - are in english Feet (Fuss - or perhaps to your eyes "Fufs").
I do believe, this is part of your amarican heritage - "only" wrong language ;-).
Unfortunately, there are no direct links. Firefox-users: Please right click (and open in ...) the [Dokument ...]-button. My pdf-directions mostly lead to sketches / drawings:

pdf-page 56: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1861, Heft 3
(canals + $) pdf-pages 89down 90upper; Pensylvanian Coal RR pdf-p 91; "Mauch Chunk" pdf-p 94: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1861, Heft 2
Just some drawings: pdf-pages 52-58; (35-38;) 14-17: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1861, Atlas.
Horse-drawn street-cars (last 2 pages - sure enough): Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1860, Atlas
Horse-drawn: rail-section pdf 46down-right; some statistics: pdf 47upper-left; tracks length - height: pdf 48; some more rail-sections pdf 49; track pdf 50: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1860, Heft 4.

Enjoy, --StaNi 1 (talk) 17:21, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More pictures: pdf-pages (080:) 20, (440:) 21, (460:) 22-25, (Bridges etc.:) 36-38 \ 40-41, (street/roadbridge:) 39, >whatever< 55-61. Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1862, Atlas. --StaNi 1 (talk) 18:51, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

01 ? Language template

Hello from the Netherlands,
(And allready: thank you for your help.)
I'm having a problem with the different kinds of wiki langage-templates.

Up untill now, I am used to dutch / german / french {{xx}}-template yielding "(xx)" in wiki. On "mouse-over" (xx), the "mouse"/"cursor" will get an extra "?" and after little time, "Language: xx" will appear to be hanging under the cursor. E.g. In Externe links: look for (fr)(de)
The Polish wiki uses {{s|lang|xx}} yielding "(blabla)", no "?" and a more elaborate - I suppose - "written in language blabla: xx" hanging under the cursor. E.g. look for (niderl.) and/or (niem.).

Is there any template in the english spoken wiki showing the same or similar behavior?

Many thanks, --StaNi 1 (talk) 16:34, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! The only templates I know of are {{fr}} / {{en}} -type templates, which render something like (in French). Stwalkerster [ talk ] 13:50, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Stwalkster,
So, it's a "no go". Especially concerning german. Well, as a warning, I will type (german). --StaNi 1 (talk) 16:44, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]