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Thank you for quality articles around the Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Lake Sammamish State Park, for improving and fixing templates, for welcoming and advising users, for your contributions from 2003 saying "the best part of editing WP is when several editors cooperate to make a high-quality article", such as The Three Sisters, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
Hi Hike395, do you have any interest in the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in BC? The reason I ask is because I know you've edited Mount Edziza in the past. I've been in the process of rewriting and expanding the Mount Edziza volcanic complex article in my sandbox for quite some time, having picked up in April after being relatively inactive since last October. Volcanoguy00:14, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, it's turning out to be the largest article I've ever wrote/expanded. Once I'm finished with it I plan on requesting a peer review and then eventually nominate it for FA. I can let you know when that time comes if you would like. Volcanoguy05:23, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
More than four weeks in and just a single general support. Unless the nomination makes significant further progress towards a consensus to promote over the next two or three days I'm afraid that it is liable to be archived. Volcanoguy23:35, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On 30 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Red Sea mangroves, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite a global decline in mangrove forests, Red Sea mangroves have expanded in area since 1972? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Red Sea mangroves. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Red Sea mangroves), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
I've noticed your substitution of the .png versions of the wildfire maps I've been adding—I wanted to say (1) thank you, and (2) I'm in the process of updating the map format for many of them. I've gone through many versions of data representation/symbology over the past 1.5 years and am finally beginning to standardize the earlier maps to match the later ones. I don't want you to have to duplicate your work, so it may be worth pausing for 1 to 3 weeks while I get caught up, after which the versions will be more static.
Thanks for making such well-made maps! I'm not systematically converting them, just as I happen to come across them. I'll wait a couple of weeks before I convert any other ones. — hike395 (talk) 03:05, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
reverts in Commons
I notice you are engaged in mass reverts of my edits in Commons. Why are you doing this? I think, based on available facts, that my edits are correct. Thanks. Hmains (talk) 00:40, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Hmains: I'm not mass reverting your categorizations, which are largely good. Because I live in the area, I have a fair amount of local knowledge of the area. I can find miscategorizations that you may not realize that you are introducing. There may also be definitional issues. More specifically, none of the following images:
show the summit of Mount Morrison, Mono Jim Peak, nor Mini Morrison, but only the slopes of the Morrison massif rising from Convict Lake. The last two images are not even taken in the direction of Morrison, but instead show the opposite side of Convict Lake.
Re: Module:Infobox mapframe now supports all zoom dimensions
Hey there, thanks for the note!
Does that mean that we stop passing the |zoom= value calling {{map zoom}} with complex parameters, and instead simply pass all of these individual ones instead?
Ah, sorry, I saw [1] after writing this message :)
On related note, I think the biggest actual issue I noticed with zooming so far was with the river infobox, where there was nothing to map because the input was free-form and we don't have a parser to guess from that. --Joy (talk) 06:30, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Joy: I modified {{Infobox river}} to default to the geohack "river" type, which should show a mapframe map that spans 20km in the infobox. I haven't seen any examples where this default is used, however. — hike395 (talk) 16:29, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You can see e.g. Uba (river) where I had to force mapframe-zoom to a more useful value. If you edit the call to leave out the zoom setting, it's pretty crappy. --Joy (talk) 16:42, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I modified Uba (river) to set |mapframe-length_km= to be the same value as |length=. You can see it looks pretty good.
The easiest thing may be to use AWB to go through and try to set |mapframe-length_km= or |mapframe-length_mi= to be an extracted value from |length=, when mapframe is present. A more complex solution is to create |length_km=, |length_mi=, and |length_ref= and then use AWB to feed both the length field and the mapframe. That will make neater infoboxes but will be a more fragile AWB run. I may attempt the first soon. What do you think? — hike395 (talk) 18:15, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems to me that if we're going to undertake such a huge effort to parse existing length fields as input, we should use normal length_* as output, not the specific mapframe-*. --Joy (talk) 19:14, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Joy: After more work, I've figured things out. I added parameters like |length_km= and |basin_size_mi2=, hooked those up to mapframe zoom, and am starting to (slowly) convert over with AWB. Do you have access to AWB? — hike395 (talk) 17:37, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aha, I see the edits from your contributions. I happen to have never used AWB myself, but the idea is pretty straightforward. I assume you wrote a bunch of regexes to convert the parameter values? Can I use them in JWB so I don't have to use the .NET program? --Joy (talk) 19:36, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, it seems to work quite well. I do wonder if we're both running the same script, aren't we going to cause each other to have to skip a lot? :) Maybe I could just move to some other part of the sorted list, like from letter N onwards or something. --Joy (talk) 23:08, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, should we tune the regex handling of whitespace so we preserve the original indentation? I don't know if anyone will complain at the wholesale squashing of that. --Joy (talk) 23:11, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think we can easily preserve whitespace, since we're changing things around pretty drastically. I haven't seen people object to changing it, since it doesn't appear to readers. — hike395 (talk) 04:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Joy: I'm going on wikibreak for a few days, so feel free to run JWB. I (somewhat) fixed the spacing issue by adding a few spaces in the replacement (like you did, I think). — hike395 (talk) 14:51, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I generally added the spaces because most river infoboxes seem to have them, so it fits somewhat better. I still have an occasional situation where I have to manually intervene to add a final enter, but it's generally infinitely quicker than doing it all manually. Thanks again. --Joy (talk) 15:20, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
JFTR, I was able to fine-tune the JS regex so it mostly doesn't require intervention for the common cases, it's in the uploaded settings JSON file. --Joy (talk) 11:30, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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The articles in Category:CS1 errors: invalid parameter value have malformed {{cite simbad}} – positional parameters are not supported. Because Module:Citation mode uses Module:Arguments, when |mode= is not present in the template, args[1] gets the value of the first positional parameter in the template and assigns that value to |mode= in the wrapped {{cite web}}. |mode= only accepts cs1 or cs2; anything else causes an error message:
Perhaps line 19 should be rewritten to ignore parent frame parameters:
localargs=getArgs(frame,{frameOnly=true})
I have to wonder if Module:Arguments is really needed in this application...
Of course, as is, the current code does serve as a way to detect malformed templates but the error messages emitted are sufficiently obscure that non-technical editors will be at a loss to know how to repair a malformed template.
@Jay8g: Thanks for alerting me. By default, Module:Template wrapper passes along all arguments given to the template that calls it. In this case, I hadn't filtered out |inline=, which was being passed to {{cite web}}. It's super easy to filter it (added it to the _exclude line). Now fixed. — hike395 (talk) 07:31, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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