User talk:Patrick

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[edit] Thank You!

A HappyDog!

Thank you for your fix at Template:Languages/Lang. This has been broken for too long, and I had all but given up. Brilliant! --HappyDog 01:00, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] $wgAllowUserJs ?

Hi,

Thank you for answering me there. I would need another precision, where can this setting be toggled ? I thought it would be in LocalSettings.php, but I haven't found it there... 217.167.123.107 15:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC) (malta on wp fr)

The default value is in includes/DefaultSettings.php, which should not be edited; copy the appropriate line to LocalSettings.php and modify it as desired. --Patrick 00:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DynamicPageList

Thank you for your corrections in the manual and short description of DPL. Let me know if you try DPL and need help. Algorithmix 21:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, it works fine until now.--Patrick 10:37, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Parameters to Special:Export

Hi,

I saw that you made a modification at this page and I thought you can help me, in fact I tried the exemple : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Export&pages=Main_Page&offset=1&limit=5&action=submit given at this page and it seems that it doesn't work. When I tried it, I only got the current revision instead of the earliest 5 revisions... thanks

If $wgExportAllowHistory is set to false, only the current version can be exported. This currently applies e.g. on the English Wikipedia, but not on Meta. I added that.--Patrick 00:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Special:ExpandTemplates doesn't expand a cite_journal in ref

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Animal&oldid=146110739 has a <ref>{{cite journal ... which is not expanded by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates .

Fyi. Thank you for your work. I'm using S:ET in the creation of a tiny wp subset to go on OLPC laptops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MitchellNCharity 14:03, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Apparently nothing within ref-tags is expanded.--Patrick 17:15, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Going into wikimania, we created http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Wikimania#Mediawiki_feature_requests . I thought you might be interested. Thanks again for your work. MitchellNCharity 03:08, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Tc

Your revert at Template:Tc doesn't make any sense to me. Can you please add some comments to the talk page? If the template is unused it should be deleted. --HappyDog 13:36, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Done. It was already mentioned in the edit summary. And it is in use [1].--Patrick 15:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I still don't quite understand. Am I right in thinking this is just used as an example of a template with no parameters? In which case, a better name would be {{template with no parameters}}. If not then can you explain further. --HappyDog 02:08, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes. I have used the same name as on Meta, so that wikitexts that contain calls of the template can be copied unmodified. Most demo templates start with a T on Meta, the C stands for constant.--Patrick 18:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
The general feeling is that we don't want to import the mess of templates from meta onto this wiki. It is better to rename and refactor as we go. I would suggest that this is renamed for clarity, and any pages that use it adjusted. By all means leave a redirect at the old template name. --HappyDog 00:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Manual:Date formatting

I notice that you are the creator of Manual:Date formatting. I would like to know about the history of this feature. Some questions:

  1. Was the actual ISO 8601 standard read and considered, or was the feature just based on the general notion that ISO 8601 and the YYYY-MM-DD format are associated somehow.
  2. Was the feature originally intended to be applied to encyclopedia articles, or just to system generated dates such as what might find on the history page?
  3. If the feature was intended to apply to encyclopedia articles, were the following issues explicitly discounted, or not thought of?
    • Dates might be outside the acceptable range of years to comply with ISO 8601 (which, in the absense of mutual agreement, is 1583 through 9999)
    • Dates might not be in the Gregorian calendar, which is required by ISO 8601.

When I first posted this, I didn't notice that I was not logged in --Gerry Ashton 20:40, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

I was not involved in the creation of this feature. I clarified the page Manual:Date formatting. This date formatting is unrelated to the choice of a calendar system.--Patrick 23:44, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply (and your further clarification of the manual page). Is there a place where the thinking process behind the feature (rather than the manual page) would have been captured? --Gerry Ashton 02:01, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
m:Dynamic dates shows an old proposal, perhaps numerical yyyy-mm-dd was added later.--Patrick 12:09, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, that link has allowed me to find the answers I was looking for. I have summarized my findings, but wish to let one of the participants review what I found before saying more. --Gerry Ashton 21:17, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
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