User talk:Harry Wood

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Hi, I have posted a response to your question on Help:talk Portals. I realise it was not obvious why I put that material there as I didn't post a reply directly on the Project:Support Desk. Anyway I am really interested in your comments about ways to expand and organise a wiki as that is an area I am actively working towards too. --Zven 20:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Cellpadding Table bug
Per, the bug is in the local MediaWiki:Common.css... [snip] --Splarka 03:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Aha yeah. I'll move your full comment to Help talk:Tables, and get a sysop to take a look. Thanks! -- Harry Wood 14:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Redirects/shortcuts to a namespace
Hello. I was hoping you might have an answer to a question I have (or maybe some guidance). On a small-community wiki I'm developing, I want to add a 'shortcut' to pages within the wiki's namesake space, in the same sense that pages in Wikipedia's namespace (ex: 'Wikipedia:Spam') can be shortcut with two letters (ex: 'WP:Spam'). How do I establish those initials, short of creating a redirect for each page within that namespace? --LeyteWolfer 03:54, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


 * So you have a wiki called 'BlahBlahWiki', with a namespace called 'BlahBlah', and you want to be able to link with an abbreviated two letter code, so for example  bb:ThisPage  would link to 'BlahBlah:ThisPage', from any page on your wiki. Is that right?
 * I don think it's a normal thing to do. Probably you have seen 'interwiki links' in operation somewhere, and your confusing this. Interwiki links are (normally) for linking to other wikis, elsewhere on the internet, with an abbreviated syntax (sometimes with two-letter codes)
 * ...but come to think of it, you can probably point the interwiki mechanism at your own wiki, to achieve abbreviated links into your own namespace. To do that, you have to follow the instructions to add a row into the interwiki database table: Help:Interwiki linking
 * --Harry Wood 09:38, 27 December 2007 (UTC)