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User talk:Dragfyre/Archive 1

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This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Contents

  • 1 Categorization
  • 2 Hi (ABS)
  • 3 References
  • 4 CC license
    • 4.1 creative commons / copyright templates
    • 4.2 Image copyright tags
    • 4.3 License selection
  • 5 Parser functions
  • 6 Images
  • 7 Admin
  • 8 Two changes
    • 8.1 Discussion
  • 9 Commons
  • 10 City template
  • 11 Your images
  • 12 Dates
  • 13 Copyright
  • 14 new languages/etc.
    • 14.1 German!
  • 15 Divine plan box
  • 16 Alt Codes!
  • 17 Hi Dragfyre
  • 18 Infoboxes
  • 19 2000
  • 20 IndivPlanBox
  • 21 Qajars
  • 22 Hi m8

Categorization

Hi dragfyre, it's great that you've found so much to contribute. I wanted to leave you a note about the changes I'd made. I categorized all the cities under Ontario except those cities that had a university in them, those got subcategories. That saves someone from a few extra clicks and highlights the cities that have more content then others. Take care :) David 17:40, 28 July 2007 (MDT)

Cool, thanks! I noticed you had fixed up London, Ontario the other day. I appreciate the extra hand :) --Dragfyre 18:01, 28 July 2007 (MDT)

Hi (ABS)

I don't know if this is a better way of presenting the info or not but I thought I'd give it a try Sandbox4. Let me know what you think.

nice! I made a few tweaks to fix the columns and added it to the ABS page. thanks, it is more readable this way (although the wikitable template is still a little drab) If you have any other ideas to fix it up, be bold and go for it.--Dragfyre 18:53, 28 July 2007 (MDT)

References

I have been unable to duplicate wikipedia's system of referencing sources for some reason, perhaps you would have a better idea, or knew what I was doing wrong. You can see here: Baha'i Faith. I added a references section but had to blank one of the templates that was just causing problems. David 03:16, 29 July 2007 (MDT)

CC license

Hi Dragfyre,

I'm going to convert the images I upload to the CC license also. But I think you need to specify how you want the image to be attributed if you haven't already. I'll play with the template to try and get that |Attribution}} part working also. --David 10:25, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

Ok it works now, just include |How you want it attributed}} ;) David 10:29, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

creative commons / copyright templates

Yes, they have many more then bahaikipedia would ever need, haha. So far bahaikipedia has 2, the public domain and the creative commons. I'm in agreement about sensitivity to copyright, what others do you think we should use? Also, we might as well create one for media.bahai.org as it is a great source for images. David 11:05, 31 July 2007 (MDT)
That is quite the list none the less, very impressive. I will work to bring some of them to Bahaikipedia tomorrow. Right now I'd really like to tackle some of these articles in the Requested section, since they just sit there :p --David 11:33, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

Image copyright tags

I tried some time ago with out much success to copy over a series of help files from wikipedia, one of them related to image copyrights: Bahaikipedia:Image_copyright_tags so I am going to work on that page so it includes all of the ones on Bahaikipedia. For starters I'll just copy everything from wikipedia, and then remove what we don't need. --David 22:10, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

Ok, I have copied over all relivant pages from wikipedia in relation to listing of image copyright tags. They can be found here. As we go we can add the tags, delete the ones we won't need, etc. David 23:08, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

License selection

On Special:Upload users can now select the appropriate license from a drop-down menu, just like on wikipedia. I am very excited about that, it will make it much easier to upload images for all others. The menu is controlled here: MediaWiki:Licenses. David 23:14, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

Parser functions

Ah, thank you so much! I had to skip using them on so many occasions because I couldn't figure em out, haha. Now that extension is installed and they should work properly. Thanks again! David 21:50, 31 July 2007 (MDT)

Images

Can you double check these images for me, they do not show up correctly on the computers I have been using.

http://bahaikipedia.org/Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg
http://bahaikipedia.org/Image:Heckert_GNU_white.svg
http://bahaikipedia.org/Image:Nuvola_apps_important.svg
compared to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nuvola_apps_important.svg

Thanks :) David 05:18, 3 August 2007 (MDT)

Hmm, interesting - the only problem is with the .png files used as image previews, not the .svg files themselves. I see what you mean though. Anyway, I tried reuploading the US flag and it gave me the same result - maybe this is a case of needing to upgrade some part of the wiki software (i.e. the image compression/scaling algorithms)? --Dragfyre 07:31, 3 August 2007 (MDT)

Admin

Hi Dragfyre,

What do you think about being an administrator on bahaikipedia? You've made very good contributions and the project could use many more people like yourself :) David 09:11, 5 August 2007 (MDT)

Hi Dragfyre,
I would love to have you be an admin. Right now I am focused on launching Bahaikipedia in chinese (http://zh.bahaikipedia.org) so I am quite busy with that. English and Chinese I think are the most important to have. Would you be able to keep an eye on the home page to make sure it doesn't go blank? haha. I am traveling to build up content for the site so sometimes I do not have the internet.
David 20:17, 5 September 2007 (MDT)
I gave you admin rights on the french version as well :) Cheers David 22:51, 8 September 2007 (MDT)

Two changes

Hi Dragfyre,

I have added Special:Userscore to replace the admin-only Userscore and also setup an admin forum to make discussion across different languages projects easy. Please create an account when you can. http://admins.bahaikipedia.org. David 22:07, 9 September 2007 (MDT)

You have access there now, Cheers David 20:23, 10 September 2007 (MDT)

Discussion

Hi Dragfyre,
When you have time could you contribute your thoughts to the discussion thread in the admin forums? David 19:00, 11 September 2007 (MDT)

Commons

Hi Dragfyre,

I have launched a few more projects for us to take care of (ha ha). First is a commons for shared media and images. This will be so images of things like Baha'i centers and people can be easily found and used across all language projects, http://commons.bahaikipedia.org. And next are statistics of traffic across all projects for those interested at http://admins.bahaikipedia.org. Lastly the site has launched in Malay http://ms.bahaikipedia.org. I am confident that I will be able to find administrators for that project and also the Chinese one.

Regards David 01:31, 13 September 2007 (MDT)

Re: Commons
On Wikipedia can you use images from commons? I was under the impression that images were re-uploaded to each new language, and linked to the commons version. Do you know exactly how that works? We can try and duplicate how ever they do it. David 01:01, 14 September 2007 (MDT)
Ahh I see that this is how it is supposed to be done here but so far not working. I will continue trying when I have more time. David 01:48, 14 September 2007 (MDT)
I bet you like the millions of messages I leave you huh? hah. Through a stroke of dumb luck I was able to get it working Sandbox5. The message that shows up is controlled by this: MediaWiki:Sharedupload David 02:23, 14 September 2007 (MDT)
Woot. How come the message is in Malay (?)
Also, I don't seem able to resize the images I've uploaded to Commons... check Sandbox5 (which, by the way, should probably be in your own userspace to avoid it showing up on regular article lists --Dragfyre 11:00, 14 September 2007 (MDT)
I'll try and figure that out when I come back from this trip to who-knows-where I'm doing today. You have admin on the commons now too and there is a new discussion about commons in the forums. I didn't mean to put the message in malay lol. Link to the new sandbox Thanks David 19:38, 14 September 2007 (MDT)
Took a while but you should be able to see that it works now :) David 22:50, 14 September 2007 (MDT)
AWESOME --Dragfyre 20:20, 16 September 2007 (MDT)

City template

Haha, nice cookie. The city template looks great, I should have thought of setting something like that up for the books and NSA's. We could have use for many of them I think. David 19:56, 16 September 2007 (MDT)

Wow we're exactly opposite each other. It's noon for me and midnight for you, haha. Good night for you ;) David 22:06, 16 September 2007 (MDT)
PS. I'm moving everything to commons that I've uploaded if there are no objections, as it will help to promote that project =D

Your images

You uploaded one of your images to commons so I updated the description and deleted it from Bahaikipedia. If you don't agree just add it back. Otherwise I would like to move everything from here to commons and give them useful descriptions c:Image:Shrine-baha1.jpg. David 23:28, 17 September 2007 (MDT)

Dates

Wow great job with the dates and things like that, I had been wondering lately what to do with that stuff, haha. They're clogging up the "uncategorized pages" link :p David 04:52, 21 September 2007 (MDT)

Heheh, thanks. It'd be best to create a category for Chronology/Years/Decades/Centuries, imho. I'll get on it when I have a chance. --Dragfyre 07:46, 21 September 2007 (MDT)

Copyright

Yah I agree, where should that message go though? Also, I don't think we should encourage putting too much of the writings on the site since we'd have to lock down those pages most likely. What do you think? David 11:40, 21 September 2007 (MDT)

new languages/etc.

Hi dragfyre,

For your information I will be pioneering somewhere that the internet is either very poor or unavailable starting Oct. 13th. I go to visit the community today though. I would like to know if I could leave you with the hosting/and other admin things while I'm gone (about 1 month)?

On a different note a friend of mine is in Cambodia trying to find someone willing to do Bahaikipedia in khmer :)

David 19:07, 28 September 2007 (MDT)

Yah but I didn't post the passwords :p And no, the only thing that would come up are the Today's featured things, but I think I could just spend a day or two filling them in for the next month too lol.. If someone requested a new language that would require installing a new wiki but it's unlikely that would happen i think :p David 19:17, 28 September 2007 (MDT)
haha, sure I think that would be fine. I will find out when I go there exactly what the situation is and I will let you know :) Thanks for your willingness to help :D Cheers, and I am leaving now David 19:23, 28 September 2007 (MDT)

German!

Hi Dragfyre,

Some exciting news, it looks like we will be able to expand in to German soon! de.bahaikipedia.org is being set up now :D verstehen Sie Deutsches auch? haha David 20:46, 4 October 2007 (MDT)

Divine plan box

Hi Dragfyre,

Wow the divine plan box looks absolutely great! Good job :D

PS. I took a out of Template:Tnavbar because it was showing up in the divineplanbox. I've had to do that a couple times so I wonder if we're missing another important extension that wikipedia uses.

tag works there also but not here. I will look in to it.

David 21:37, 11 October 2007 (MDT)

Alt Codes!

Thank you!, I probably could have looked it up, but for some reason I haven't. I can't think of where I would need ú, but know I will know how to do it at least. Now that I think about it, the MediaWiki editor has them all down below the editor, but it is far more coveniant to know them.RuhiWarrior19 17:41, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

Hi Dragfyre

Thank you for continuing the project, haha. I haven't abandoned it, I landed in the hospital after a mild car accident. I'll be able to get on again soon, David 05:01, 23 October 2007 (MDT)

Haha well that foray into the wilderness won't be happening anymore. The accident happened the night before I was supposed to leave, lol. All is ok now though, I can sit in front of a computer just fine ;) David 17:34, 23 October 2007 (MDT)

Infoboxes

Hi dragfyre,

I would like to know if you have the time to create a few info boxes similar to the divine plan box. These would be one for the writings of Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'u'llah and Shoghi Effendi, and also one that could be used for countries listing possibly: Baha'i population, date opened, first believer, a place to insert a picture of where the country is in the world etc. David 19:52, 29 October 2007 (MDT)

sure, I'll add that to my to-do list. --Dragfyre 08:50, 30 October 2007 (MDT)
I duplicated the country box from wikipedia in case you want to use that, and started with the country Albania because recently that NSA sent me a lot of information relating to the country and the NSA itself. Also I forgot to mention, in the country box I think should be a place for the current NSA members. I'm going to play around with the one from wikipedia and see what happens, lol. David 21:02, 30 October 2007 (MDT)

Hi dragfyre,

When you have time can you give me your feedback on this: User:David/sandbox4 I'm not sure I really like it but who knows, maybe with some work! haha.

Hope all is well, David 19:59, 15 November 2007 (MST)

2000

Haha yah I almost can't believe it... before this project got started I remember thinking "are there even enough topics to start this project" haha. Cheers! :D David 16:23, 5 November 2007 (MST)

IndivPlanBox

That is quite impressive, I have no idea how you did it, haha. But I couldn't get the "Epoch" part to show up right. In the plans in the second epoch still said "first epoch" so I made it so you could state manually (a poor way to do it) the epoch. I don't know if you want to leave it or what.

Regards, David 23:02, 6 November 2007 (MST)

I'll take it up a little later - I am busy with things at work and our community is in the midst of the expansion phase of our IPG so it may not be till later (i.e. in a few weeks). --Dragfyre 07:46, 7 November 2007 (MST)
No problem! David 08:11, 7 November 2007 (MST)

Qajars

hello i am secthayrabe i have started an artical about qajars because i am good at persian history and bahai history however i i need help about spelling could you help me it would be a honour please reply on my talk page many thanks


Secthayrabe

Hi m8

It's nice to see you here again, how's everything? David 20:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Argh, will you ever come back? I was reading through your to-do list and realized we really need your help to get those articles done before the next millennium! David 05:31, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
lol sorry I haven't been around much dude... busy getting married :D --Dragfyre 18:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Sounds like fun! maybe I should try that :D Hey, make a few more edits and we can war for the 50,000th ;) David 07:33, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
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