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Hi Rfrisbie! Due to your extensive knowledge in Wikipedia, I have asked if you can help me set up a whole new userpage for me. I plan to revamp my whole page to a system you had in
[1]. If you could help me out with setting up my page in a system like that, I would be very grateful. My mediocre wikipediage would have problems performing this task by myself. I know my request is rather extensive and will understand if you are unable to help. Thanks. William Pembroke(talk)09:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Hi, William. I'll be glad to help. I'll also help you learn a few tricking in the process. I created a show/hide boxes skeleton to get you started. Copy this to
User:William Pembroke/Sandbox to create draft #1. Then change dummy titles, filler and colors as you see fit, and get rid of extra sections you don't want. It also is a good idea to make small changes and save them in case you want to go back a step or two. Get that going and feel free to ask questions as you build it up. When you're ready, just copy the new layout over to your main user page! Have fun!
Hey man we both seemed to be working on the same problem at the same time with the sister wikis at the same time my version seems to take care of the problem at 800x600 and also doesnt clump everything up at higher res. See if it causes a prob on your end. —The preceding
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03:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC).reply
Look, I'm sorry if it looked like I was trying to game the system. All my actions were conducted in good faith. The instructions didn't specify who could promote, so I was bold. Agian I apologize. --
Selmo(
talk)04:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)reply
It's going well beyond "bold" for a creator of a portal to close in its favor on an obviously controversial process that still has an outstanding objection. The right thing to do would be to revert your action and let the established closer decide when and how to close it.
Rfrisbietalk12:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Hey man I wanted to thank you for your help on getting the portal good enough to be featured if you hadn't been there I would still be here getting the tabs to work. oh and make sure and add it to your minor help on your user main page. if you want to.
I'm traveling now, so I'll take a closer look later. What I noticed right off is at least one pic is too wide for 800X600 displays. A good start would be to check everything out at that low res display.
Rfrisbietalk04:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Hello. As a professional bartender (at least according to the userbox you added) you might be interested in the
WikiProject Cocktails. It is a group of people at Wikipedia working together to improve the quality of information related to mixed drinks. Having more people participate who really know the topic from a professional point of view would be terrific. Please consider becoming an
active Participant. Also, if you are interested, a name change is being considered for the WikiProject from Cocktails to Mixed Drinks, and you can add your opinions to
the discussion and vote. I hope to see you around. --
Willscrlt (
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04:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Hi, Willscrlt. What you saw was on one of my directory pages to help track userboxes in userspace. I'm not a professional bartender, but thanks for asking.
Rfrisbietalk04:44, 9 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Userbox Question
Hi, i need help with my userboxes. I tried to make my own displaying my nationalities, but i can only make one succesful userboxfor one nationality, but then when i try to make another my whole userpage gets messed up. Please help
Yelir5522:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
With all the edits, it's hard for me to tell exactly what you have in mind. One thing you could try is a "boilerplate," {{
User:UBX/Boilerplate}}. Go to that page then copy and paste the code to your page, make the changes you want and see how that goes.
Rfrisbietalk22:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
I suppose i should have been more specific. I made a userbox using your template in the locations section from your userbox section. But after i make the first userbox and go onto the second, the line between the two doesnt seem right. I think that is what is messing me up. any suggestions?
Yelir5522:17, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Please could you give me an example of two created userboxes, one on top of the other and put it in my talk, then i could change it to what i want.
Yelir5522:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
I feel as if I'm getting annoying. Again it didnt work. ok, Can you make me a test userbox where it shows an italian flag as the logo and says the user is Italian and then the same layout but just making it Czechoslovakian. This is my last pushYelir5522:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Lets try this, tell me what you want on the items below and I'll try to make it work on your page.
Rfrisbietalk23:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
border-color =reply
flag-background color =
sentence-background color =
flag image name =
sentence =
I changed over colors on the portal, just not sure how to get the tabs to change color when clicked(change from one tab to another).
Joe I04:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Hey I have been screwing around with that thing for 4 days now I have even enlisted the help of two other people to look at it and none of them can figure out how to fix it. I think im going to start looking for a different version soon.--
WilsBadKarma(
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I have a solution if you could just figure out how to put the lines between this table. I'm not using a template so it should be easier.
User:Wilsbadkarma/workpage4 although having the Grey headingfor each rating may eliminate a need to have a spacer in the first place. either way let me know what you think.
I put in some spacers for you to take a look. I like this much better than that esoteric thing!
Thank you for all of your hard work to The Hinduism portal, it really means a lot to me and to wikipedia. Thank you so much.
Arjun02:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
As far as the Featured portal nomination goes, I suggest you wait until Selected pictures and Selected Hindus have at least 10 items each, as well as having a Topics section. Those additions will make the nomination much stronger from the start, rather than having to respond to likely "objections." I'll add the beginnings of a Topics section tonight.
Rfrisbietalk02:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
You are welcome!!! I am going to wait anyway as I think that ten would be perfect. I have just added 2 images, I just need one more. Once that is done I will focus on some new biographies. Thank you for your hard work. Cheers!
Arjun02:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
A "bold link" applies to any "Read more..." style link in the accompanying text, as well as the main link in DYK, News, Anniversary items as well.
Rfrisbietalk04:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Okay I am going to try to get over 10 bios done tonight, Arjun has another question. Do you think that we should include more recent Hindus or do you think we should stick with the philosophers?
Arjun04:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Since there's no real limit on how many you can show with the randomized format, I would go for all the top & high importance articles that are of at least good quality according to the three projects' assessments. I linked those assessment pages at the bottom of
Portal:Hinduism/Selected Hindu. That way, the "time frame" question takes care of itself – important is important, good is good – don't worry about the time. :-)
Rfrisbietalk04:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the ideas! I can't believe I forgot all those fine examples. And you would at least think I would remember Arjuna :). Cheers!
Arjun05:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Rfrisbie....thanks for the Portal tip...I promise I'll get the hang of this someday...thanks for correcting my errors, and thanks again to You and Arjun for all the hard work you both have put into this Portal.
LeMaster05:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)reply
You're welcome. It won't be long until it has one of those little bronze stars!
Hi, Sadi Carnot. I have a slightly more refined version of tabs at the
Religion Portal. Take a look at that, and if you're still having problems, let me know and I'll try something in a day or so.
Hi, Arjun. I think it's coming along. To me, the biggest job is to work out some type of automated content rotation system for the "Selected" sections. My personal preference is the "randomized" system. If you don't mind, I also might do some "tweaking" on the format here and there. Sometimes it's just easier for me to do it than to describe it. You alway can revert something you really don't like. Off the top of my head, I don't see anything that needs deleting, but I just added a suggestion to add a "Topics" section. I've been working on the
Religion Portal lately, so I look forward to seeing this portal's progress!
Of course, I would be enlightened, the portal is in need of some loving care. I am also going to start maintaining the overlooked portals such as
Jainism and some others. Thanks again.
Arjun22:43, 12 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Cool! Just let me know what I can do to help with this and the other portals too.
The randomized selected article would be nice :). Also since I am somewhat of a beginner with portals, what is the standard for selected articles? Like would you copy and past the intro to the article or would you paraphrase? Cheers!
Arjun22:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)reply
What I do is pick "quality" and/or "important" articles related to the portal's topic, preferably with a good image to go with it. I start with the introduction and then add or subtract text from there to get a relatively consistent length for portal layout considerations. That typically turns out to be about two paragraphs. I go for a straight copy-and-paste as much as possible, minus references and extra bolding. It doesn't always work out, but it helps to have a target length in mind when you're deciding to keep or cut a sentence. You can see some examples at
Portal:Science/Featured article and
Portal:Science/Featured biography.
Rfrisbietalk00:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Okay, I started by updating the layout a bit. At some point, I'm not sure when, I'll set up the randomized structures for a few sections.
Rfrisbietalk03:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)reply
I just wanted to say thanks for the work you've done with the Hinduism Portal page. It's Users like You and Arjun that make Wikipedia work!
LeMaster14:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks, maybe you can muster up some project members to add more "Selected" articles, pictures, Hindu biographies, and (maybe) scriptures, anniversaries, and festivals.
Rfrisbietalk16:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks...I just updated the Festivals section with one festival for now...I'll add more shortly...you mentioned on the
Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Hinduism/archive1 that you might be willing to create a montly rotation for the Anniversaries/Festivals section if the content could be provided...I'll see that you have the content you need if you do in fact create the rotation. Thanks again,
LeMaster03:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Yes, I got an "edit conflict" when I tried to add two dates!
I started a calendar at
Portal talk:Hinduism/Upcoming festivals. If you can have at least one entry for each month, then I can set up an automatic monthly page rotation on festivals. If the scope of that section is widened to "Anniversaries," then more important Hindu dates could be added.
Rfrisbietalk03:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Nice!...the calendar of Hindu festivals is great...As far as the monthly rotation is concerned I can at this point provide every month but I'm not sure if there are wiki articles as yet for some of them, however, if the section is expanded I believe that I can find something to fill the gaps or I'm sure someone else can. I think it's a good idea to add "Anniversaries" to the Festivals section...New Guy Questions: Is that just a matter of adding "Anniversaries" to the "Festivals" box header on the Main page? Is there some kind of wiki-committee that needs to meet in a smoke filled back room in order to approve of such things...or can I "act alone" and go right now and change it? btw...sorry about the edit conflict thing.
LeMaster04:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)reply
We're in "Just do it!" mode so go ahead and make the change. I checked the width for 800X600 displays (needed for featured portals) and about the longest the section header could be is "Anniversaries & festivals". For simplicity, it also could just be "Anniversaries".
Rfrisbietalk05:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Two of the festivals don't have wikipedia articles as yet...Geeta Jayanti and Ganga Dashami...I'll work on creating these articles or at least stubs for these two. Thanks again for your efforts.
LeMaster15:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)reply
It looks great...Thanks for noticing the spelling differences for Geeta/Gita Jayanti...I should have checked that spelling myself. The Portal improvements are absoultely incredible. I have a question, when you changed or "moved" the Portal talk:Hinduism/upcoming festivals to Portal talk:Hinduism/Anniversaries was that a matter of creating a new page or simply changing the name of the old one? Can you refer me to the Wiki section that would explain how to do that? Thanks for everything, it all really looks great!
LeMaster16:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks. I'd say it's about ready to nominate and see what other editors want "fixed." A "move" creates a new page and a "redirect" from the old one. See
Help:Moving a page for an overview. It's really quite simple. Just click the "move" tab at the top of the page, change the name, and give a simple reason.
Thanks, I'm also working with LeMaster on
Portal:Hinduism/Anniversaries for the current list of monthly festivals & anniversaries. That's about it from me for FP prep. I'm sure others will want more changes after you nominate it, but that's just part of the process.
Hey if your going to set up his auto rotation use my version of the ramdon portal component that way he doesnt loose his nomination pages and end up having to put a link to it on every article subpage. The only thing since he already has created them you'll have to redirect them to the correct page.
Okay, I'll wait to see what he wants. The rotation format I use doesn't use the box-footer at all. I put all the formatting in a "boilerplate," e.g.,
Portal:Science/Featured article/Layout. That way, I can control all of the content layout on one page.
Oh I know I looked at how you did it (since you have your hand in so many portals) before I decided a way to go for mine and I suppose, that my friend is where you and I differ. The reason I edited that template in that way is to keep from having to do what you do. To be honest though it really doesn't matter I just like to feed my ego and go to the template page and click on what links there. Not to mention the more I look that it would probably be more trouble to do it my way. Since he seems to only want to do the images it would throw the rest of the main page out of whack because the other nomination and more... footers wouldn't be in the same format.
I do the other formatting mostly to control image placement & such. As long as I'm there, I just throw in the footer. So, I'll just play it by ear and let him figure out what he wants.
I wanted to thank you personally for all your help suggesting ideas on how to improve the portal. There was very little I knew on how to construct a portal, and now after only a couple of days of work I think the portal looks pretty good. Your help on where to look to figure out random article/picture selections and the work you did in the Topics section were great. I really appreciate the time you took to help out. Thanks. -
Dozenisttalk04:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)reply
You're welcome. It's looking good! I just want to know, where are all the pictures of happy smiles?
I've noticed that you are a podcaster. Well, recently I've proposed a Wikiproject for podcasting. If you're interested go to
the proposal page and list yourself under 'Interested Users'. Thanks, and hope to talk with you again soon. Ganfon19:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Actually, I'm not. You probably just saw a userbox on a directory page of mine. Good luck witht the project anyway.
The project is now under way. If you'd like to join, feel free to add your name to the members list on the
project page. Thanks, and I hope that you'll be joing us soon. Ganfon21:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)reply
I did so : ) - And would be interested in your (and anyone else's) insights. Note that there seems to be some confusion about criteria, and some information regarding that would also be welcome : ) -
jc3712:50, 26 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Yeah, there seemed to be a tussle, so I stayed out of it. The criteria are general and reviewers often make comments on past practices and personal preferences. Some time this weekend, I'll take a look at it from the perspective of what I do for portals I'm getting ready for an FP nomination. It might be more than what's necessary, but I have good success with the results.
Rfrisbietalk13:14, 26 January 2007 (UTC)reply
By the way, the
Religion Portal probably is my best work to date. It has just about every type of feature implemented for a larger-scale portal. The basics for section layouts and a subpaged design are there too. I'm also going to try out a randomized Did you know... feature there. Stay tuned for that. I'm not saying Comics should be that complex, but you probably would have a good model for most things you would be working on. The exceptions would be Categories, Basic topics, and Things you can do. More typical examples of those would be at
Philosophy of science.
Rfrisbietalk13:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)reply
World's Smallest Political Quiz userbox
You may be interested in
User:Audacity/Userboxes/WSPQ, which is a replacement for the old Political Chart userbox. The new userbox takes the two variables (economic and personal freedom), calculates which political alignment they place you into (Statist, Libertarian, Liberal, Centrist, or Conservative), and links your userpage to the appropriate category.
Hey Rfrisbie, I just wanted to thank you for all your effort and hard work in organizing and arranging the Religion portal. Great work! Regards, --
Jeff300020:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Good evening, I have reworked most of the article and was hoping you might take a look at it and give me you opinion. I'm going to put it up for review once I get a couple of people to go through it. thank you —
WilsBadKarma(
Talk)04:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Okay, I'll take a look, but I'll warn you in advance I'm not so good with articles because I have very little interest in the
Manual of Style!
Rfrisbietalk 04:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Technically it's a list, lol, well it started out that way, I'm the same which is why I stick to lists and portals. Crap you don't think I will have to put it up for FA instead of FL do you?—
WilsBadKarma(
Talk)04:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)reply
If it quacks like an article... The list folks don't know the difference between a list and a portal, so don't expect them to know this is a list
Thank you, as always your awesome. I have it up for peer review on the Wikiproject Military History right now so I guess we shall see how it goes. Oh and I made the changes you suggested and I suppose I'll get cracking on the CNP article before someone on the peer review brings it up.Again thanks for the help. —
WilsBadKarma(
Talk)05:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Hey man, I thought I would let you know after talking to a few others including
User:Kirill Lokshin the lead coordinator of the WPMILHIST who all believe the article is a list I have nominated it for FLC. Have a good day. —
WilsBadKarma(
Talk)15:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Oh, I had it up for regular peer review at the same time as WPMILHIST peer review since saturday and asked that question and no one responded. Plus to be honest I hate waiting. —
WilsBadKarma(
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