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Now that verdicts are in for all defendants on the 2012 Delhi gang rape case, I think we should take another run at GA. This seems likely to appear on ITN first, but once the traffic from that slows, would you like to do the honors of renominating? Thanks again for your work on this one. I'm happy we had a high-quality article ready for all the traffic this one's now getting. -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Khazar2, sure. After the traffic slows down a bit, I see no reason why we cannot have it go for GA. I'll nominate it in a few days, but if I dont, I dont mind helping it on someone else's nomination. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 08:58, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
Hey TOS, what it does is it finds the Would you like to be a helper? Please visit the Guide to helping... and turns it into a row of links almost like:
Once you click on one of the links (which I'm thinking might look better as buttons in the future once functional), it gathers the information needed to respond to the question (whatever that may be), and replaces the {{Help me}} with the appropriate replacement and response. There is also some onwiki testing I am doing at User:Technical 13/SandBox/help-helper-tools.js and testcases on User talk:Technical 13/SandBox/help-helper-tools. Once I get the section figured out how to properly read the page contents (or eventually the section contents) so that I can manipulate it and repost it, then the rest should be a relative cakewalk. :) I'll let you know when it is ready for alpha testing, so you can be one of the first to try it and help me debug things and improve the interfaces. :) Technical 13 (talk) 11:50, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I just made this page about a Brazilian singer. I ask some minutes of your time, please, to read the page and to correct my mistakes, because I think there are lot!
As the proponent of the Range Block RFC, I thought you might be the person to ask to see if anything had come of it? There is a current AN discussion related to the idea, and I was considering trying to set up a page to deal with it, but if something has already been started, or completed, I wouldn't want to duplicate the effort. Thanks for any info you can provide. Link to related AN DiscussionMonty84514:44, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
While I did plan for further implementation and setting up of measures to carry out, unfortunately I could not; having been inactive as of late. Nothing on this has been done as of yet, but please feel free to. It would really be a shame to let the proposal go to waste. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 23:37, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Congratulations/Referral Request.
On your recent High School graduation. I see that you are only semi-active. If it's not too much hassle, could you refer me to a good template/design/code man as I would like to create my first page: US Army's 109th Artillery Regiment. Thanks.User:JCHeverly07:49, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
If you want someone good with codes, T13 is the best guy if he's still active and helping around. Otherwise, I believe Huon is also good with templates and stuff. What exactly do you need for your page? That way, I could suggest better TheOriginalSoni (talk) 17:14, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Namàste, dearest TheOriginalSoni, how are you? I made this page about an Italian actor, and I ask you 5 minutes of your time to correct my mistakes, please.
Imagine my confusion and slight anger after being notified of this! Fortunately, I checked the latest revision of the idea lab and found that you had reverted your own revert. Addressing the root issue here, your wild and uncontrolled clicking is starting to put a serious strain in our relationship; I advise that you purchase a new pointing device that doesn't act of its own volition. I had a similar problem about a week ago where my trackpad would randomly jerk and click things without me even touching it (but then mysteriously stopped after a few days). Maybe one of those new ergonomic mice would do you good, or at least help your computer control its strange impulses. - HectorAE (talk) 22:26, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
HectorAE, I apologize for that edit. Maybe I should stop using the trackpad while browsing my Watchlist. Sorry and regards,
I just made this new page of a wonderful Italian actress. Please, I ask you 5-6 minutes of your time to read it and to correct all my mistakes. I know there are a lot!!!
You are hereby awarded the Barnstar of Awesome for your amazing work alpha-testing The Wikipedia Adventure. Over 180 bugs were identified and 143 of them have been fixed already! (The rest are catalogued as known bugs).
You. Are. Awesome. Check out your name in the game credits here: WP:TWA/About.
Thanks for your help on Plexus Corp. You wouldn't have any idea on how to change the wikipedia page shown on a Google search, would you? When you type Plexus into a google search and the wikipedia page on the right hand shows up, it still shows the Plexus Corporation instead of the redirected page Plexus Corp. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjf20 (talk • contribs) 15:42, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
On a google search, it depends on how frequently Google updates these Wikipedia entries, and we have no control over it. I'd say to give it a day or two, and see if it still persists.
The problem with this image is that the copyright belongs to the photographer, and there is no way for Wikipedia to know how it has been transferred so it is now free for Wikipedia use. Hence we cannot accept the image in it's current form.
I suggest you mail permissions@wikimedia.org with the details about the photograph and the copyright waiver email sent by the copyright holder of the photograph to resolve the issue.
Suggest you remove the part about moving all userspace drafts to the new namespace, because that is sinking the proposal. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:56, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
I cannibalized your proposal a bit. Having a proposal advertised via a watchlist notice can mean having to add a bit of "marketing" to make the uninitiated general public aware of the situation, and using concise bitesize easily-digestible sections. Even though I think it needed that touch, overall I think it's a good proposal. Hopefully this will help get it through. Let me know if there's anything about my edits you didn't like, or just go ahead and tweak away. equazcion→14:16, 8 Nov 2013 (UTC)
Like Thank you for that. Even though I didn't intend for the proposal to be completely AFC oriented, I didn't realise that AFC would form one major part of it that would allow other editors to understand why this namespace wasrequired in the first place. I too feel that your changes would make it get through. Thanks again.
From the point of view of AfC I sincerely hope that the 'draft' namespace gets adopted. i'm sorry if I had to be the first to point out the other aspects of the RfC, but I knew that userspace drafts would become a major issue for opposing. I actually had a draft RfC for this waiting on my computer but you pipped me to it by a couple of days. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:37, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
Kudpung Let's just focus on the proposal now and let things try and sort themselves out. I had, unfortunately, completely missed that particular userspace perspective, and believed that the more simplified things were, the better it would be. The proposal would probably have gone along better if I'd not waaited for more people to comment before I removed that userspace part.
In any case, it's time to look forward and see where things lead us. The worst case scenario I see is that the proposal has to go through the same RFC again from scratch. Let's just wait and see which way it would turn.
Before you feel pressured into restarting the RfC, you might wish to run the whole thing through a text editor. You may be surprised. Double spacing? There was in fact a discussion about it on my tp. It generally only happens in talk spaces where it doesn't matter, but it's not likely to be rectified in a hurry; fortunately html ignores them. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:05, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
Kudpung No worries. I've learnt my lesson from this one. I didn't know you were already drafting a proposal, or I'd have been working with you on this. Regarding the spacing, yes. Every two words or so, I see double spacing from you. Maybe you check in a text editor and see whether it is a keyboard problem? If it also happens in articles, then I'd have to go through your edit history trying to rectify it all. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 13:37, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
The double spacing has already been discussed. I've been aware of the problem for nearly 55 years. There is absolutely no need to rectify it - html takes care of it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:48, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
55 years? I doubt there were similar keyboards that long ago.
Also, I understand it's no problem, but being a perfectionist, I cannot help but wondering whether a simple script could correct your WikiText before you save it. That could solve the bad-looking kerning in the source editor. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 13:57, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Soni. Please check your email; you've got mail! It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
I just wanted to send you a personal "thank you" for essentially creating the proposal for a "Draft" namespace that I was not able to write myself. I saw the notification of the RFC show up, and I seriously thought I was imagining things. Well, that, and I thought that I had been "sleep-Wikipediaing" and wrote and posted the proposal. My desire to have this namespace created goes back to when I thought of the idea back in April of this year. I know that the proposal has been in place for a few weeks now, but ... I'll try to help others understand the necessity of this namespace the best I can for the duration of this RFC, as best as my time will allow.
But seriously, I thought I was dreaming when I saw the notification for the proposal, or that my eyes were playing tricks on me. Steel1943 (talk) 01:37, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Steel1943 It turns out there Kudpung too was ready with a proposal of his own. So we're all on the same side working here :)
I appreciate your help, and hope that we'd be able to work together on more issues in the days to come. As far as I am concerned, this is just one minor but substantial step towards a number of changes that should make Wikipedia better for our newcomers as well as everyone else.
Let's hope and work towards getting this first step done.
Yes. Had you seen my contribs, you might've realised that. I'll still be away some of the times, but yes; I'm back enough to not be marked semi active. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 14:59, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Miss Bono, you always crack me up. :-) Welcome back Soni, you can call me 74, pleasure to meet you, sorry we never had the chance earlier. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 22:40, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately, Miss Bono lost her internet access, so we wont be seeing her soon.
Hello, Soni. Please check your email; you've got mail! It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
Re: Help me
Thank you, but I think I know how the template is used after being here for a few days years. Did you fail to see that there were at least two unanswered questions in that section on my talk page? I have no idea what "the template is used when you require other editors in general to assist you with editing help, not specific editors" or how it could possibly apply. The two unanswered questions remain:
How difficult would it be to merge two video clips (clearly linked) into one for use on Wikipedia? A user has expressed interest in merging the linked files together, or at least understanding the feasibility of such a merge (taking into account the file size, quality).
Is there a way to display a single media file (like a video) in an article, but allow the user to choose from several media files (like a playlist)? Due to concerns about multiple media files cluttering up an article section, it would make sense to allow a reader to choose from a set of files but only to display one file at a time, thereby reducing the clutter.
I did notice that you were an experienced editor. While I did notice those two questions, I was under the assumption that the help-me was for the initial post by Petrarchan47, which I now realise was incorrect. That was why I was trying to say that if they wanted to ask you specifically, maybe the help-me was placed in mistake.
If you use a help me request, you ping across a general group of editors, who generally may not be technically oriented enough to answer your specific query. Maybe is it possible to ask at the Technical Village Pump? Or shall I re-add that helpme I removed, and wait to see if someone else answers it?
Nope. I was hoping by chance that you might know the answers. However, I agree with you, it does seem like something that might end up on the village pump. I just thought I could get some advice for Petrarchan47 before it went that far. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 12:27, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
As far as I know, both of these are way beyond what we already have at the moment, and would likely have to be made by someone who knows how to. VPT seems like the best location to find the maximum number of such editors around. T13, if you're still around, could you look into this? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 12:37, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
I'm still lurking around, and yes two clips can be merged if they are the same file type/format (and if they aren't the same they can be converted). The can also be cropped and adjusted or converted to address any size concerns. I do not believe that so-called "playlists" are an option at the moment, you might want to see if there is an extension for that on MediaWiki wiki and if so you can request it added to the configuration (which would require a consensus in some forum) and if not you could request it on bugzilla: as an enhancement. Happy editing! Technical 13 (talk) 01:39, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Yes, I know the clips can be merged. My question concerns the feasibility of doing so. The user in question would like to merge the following three files into one large file and upload it to commons:
Which software would you recommend that the user employ and would the resulting file size be a problem for Commons or for the reader trying to view it? In other words, would you recommend against merging these files? Viriditas (talk) 03:11, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
If this question is still open, you could always try the computer-section over at WP:RD, or alternatively, here's what I found out from doing some poking around. I've not tried these techniques, so please take this with a grain of salt. The main nerd-friendly options are GUI+CLI mkvmerge[1][2][3] and the more traditional CLI_only ffmpeg[4][5][6]. If those don't look like the answers you were hoping for....
Upload your video in the maximum quality possible[10] but by default the video-format limitations are max size 100mb (20mb on wikiversity), max bitrate 220kBit/sec.
Generic advice about tools you may already have, like PiTiVi/MovieMaker/iMovie;[11] see also the $$$$ tools like Premiere and Final Cut.[12][13][14] There is also a built-in-video-editor of some sort in 3D Blender_(software).
Recommended[18] editing-n-converting-GUI-tool, MiroVideoConverter.[19] From the folks behind Miro_(software) media-player. Both GPL, both based on ffmpeg, see below.
Recommended[20] editing-n-converting-CLI-tool, ffmpeg2theora[21] or raw ffmpeg[22][23][24] (cmdln... some GUI options also... best answers by slhck... ubuntu and debian sometime replace ffmpeg with the libav fork). [25][26]
Another recommended[27] command-line tool: mkvmerge[28] (GUI or cmdln).[29][30]
The three links you mentioned are in WEBM containers, and if merged/spliced together without cutting any footage, or lowering resolution/fps/whatever, total size would be 33 MiB -- should be no problem. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 02:55, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
I saw your note that the article was declined for creation because it already exists. However the article you pointed to is for a different church in a different city. This is Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manhattan. The church you linked to is in Poughkeepsie, which is about 100 miles north of New York City.
108.182.88.129 (talk) 22:31, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
I see. I saw that the other article was also in NYC, and named tha same. In addition to that, it was in "Mount Carmel's palace" which gave me the impression that the two are the same.
Hey there, hope you're well. I just wanted to follow up now that the Draft namespace RFC is closed. T59315 is a bit messy now, so I just wanted to clarify that I'll work on next steps from the WMF end, and we'll make the new namespace happen per Tom Morris's close. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk00:20, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Steven, thank you for the message. I'd been keeping track of the bug until now.
I'd be hoping to hear more from you or the WMF soon on progress on the namespace.
Do you know if there is going to be any on-wiki discussion or work, or is it at this time going to be mostly behind-the-scenes by the WMF? BOZ (talk) 12:56, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, the proposal and consensus part is done, and it is up to the technical and the implementation bits. Which is why it's a lot more feasible to have the discussions hosted on Bugzilla, being a platform specifically designed for those tasks. So while these discussions aren't really behind the scenes (The bugzilla links are available right there, and it's relatively simple to follow a discussion there),it doesn't make sense to be having them onWiki.
@BOZ: All the work (bug comments, wiki documentation, and even code commits) will be publicly visible. Some of it might be unfamiliar if you're not a developer, but everyone will be able to follow progress and I'll make sure we keep the community abreast of when a release will happen, and so on. I'm hoping that before we release here on English Wikipedia, we can also put it up on a test wiki, so that everyone interested can verify that it meets our needs. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk18:16, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Steven, please poke me (via email is the best since I check it most) and let's work on putting something together here. I'm interested in your take on creating a new extension, utilizing Guided Tours, updating existing AFCH script and whatnot. Thanks! Technical 13 (talk) 18:25, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Steven, thanks for you initiative and work so far on putting this thing together. I'd love to see it when it is up for testing! BOZ (talk) 18:49, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, Soni. I see you're listed as a participant at WikiProject Cooperation and wanted to ask you if you'd be willing to consider a few small suggestions for the C-SPAN. (I am a paid consultant to C-SPAN and have been working on their behalf to improve the article and submit it to WP:FAC.) I've posted about this on the Paid Editor Help page, even though I don't believe it's very active these days.
I'm looking to tie up two loose ends so that I can submit the article to WP:FAC. If you can help, the request at Paid Editor Help explains everything in more detail. If you are busy elsewhere—and I do see that your status is Semi-active right now—but know someone who you think could help with this, please let me know. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 21:22, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry for the delay. I've granted you the online volunteer user right, and you should feel free to jump in and help with any classes you're interested in... some classes are still active, while others are just wrapping up their main assignments. If you have any questions, let me know.--ragesoss (talk) 16:46, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
What is the normal workflow for helping the classes? Is there any particular location where doubts are voiced, or do we just co-ordinate with the respective instructors to see what we can help with?
The new incidents noticeboard is where specific problems get posted, so if you want to help fight fires that's the best place to look. If you want to get involved with a specific course, talking with the instructor is the way to begin, and/or just start checking out what the students are doing and offer whatever feedback you think will be helpful to them. The normal workflow is that you would identify courses you want to work with before assignments begin, and get in contact with the instructor to let them know you want to help and talk with them about what they've got planned, and then you just keep an eye on the course until its over and help in whatever ways you wish. The specifics will vary a lot depending on how hands-on with the students' articles you want to be, what their assignments are like, and whatever communication patterns you and the instructor have. Some ambassadors check out pretty much everything the students are doing, to offer gentle corrections throughout the term and prevent small problems from growing. Others are more reactive than proactive, giving help to students who request it but otherwise mostly just watching out for major problems.--ragesoss (talk) 17:51, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
ragesoss I see. It appears that I am late for the current semester, and should be beginning to converse with the various instructors for their classes which will begin for Spring 2014. Is that correct? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 08:42, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You are one of the editors involved in the Premier league table template at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 121#Displaying a part of the table. The work is very close to the end and the template now loks like the one currently used at 2013–14 Premier League. I just wanted to see if you could take a look at what I did last night at Template:2013–14 Premier League table/sandbox so that the code looks okay. What I did was that previously there was "Qualified for champions league" on three rows (1,2 and 3) and the same for relegation, so now i wanted it to span over all these rows (as in 2013–14 Premier League) using the rows-parameter in the template used inside our template.
My idea was that when teams 1,2,3 are shown (for the first 3 teams in table) there should be a span over three rows and when the table should show teams 2-6 (for team on pos4) i wanted it to be a span over 2 rows. Hard to explain in writing. I used switches and ifeq for that. The result can be seen at User:Spudgfsh/sandbox. Please take a look at it and comment on the result. Then it is only to decide if we should highlight the team or not and then we should use it. Discussion about that on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Highlighting or bolding.
