I am a Killer Instinct fan & it is hard to find a forum or anything about KI on the internet. There are very few good KI websites & everyone knows about Wiki. I figured that other fans & people who are just interested would love to find links to good websites, forums & pictures useful on here. The site is better & more informative than the other sites in the external links list and isn't this web site about correct knowledge? Who cares about KLOV, Dmozs listings, or Moby games when you are looking for information on the game its characters & what people are saying about the game over the KIO.net forums.
Some bad guys have made Verdana the default font in Wikipedia (probably in an attempt to emulate Encarta). Now that we know about the Verdana bug, it is clear that Verdana should never be used in our style sheets (at least until someone fixes that font). Do not turn Wikipedia into a Verdana Promotion Society! — Monedula 18:57, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
I agree with this last contribution - make no mention of typefaces whatsoever, so that a User's broswer can default to their chosen font. Another idea: What about incorporating via CSS the facility to adjust font sizes on the actual page.... this would be a big help for accessibility!! Failing all these suggestions, I would suggest using a Unicode-compliant / friendly font like Gentium (though this is still incomplete....!) in order to display all characters properly..... pjamescowie
Now that the bugs are worked out, I think I like monobook. It's still got a few flaws, thoguh, but I seem to be able to mostly ignore them now. -- ssd 03:27, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Jun 1 2004 I discovered that the default look of wikipedia had been changed fundamentally. It looks as if people have been working on it who think a glossy style is more important than practical considerations like readablilty, printablilty, easy access, easy links, etc.
I don't know whether there are a lot of those people, but I suggest that at least they also take into consideration other people, who want to be able to read a page with as little clutter as possible, a default (browser determined) font-size and font-family, a clear background, and, in short, are concerned with content before anything else.
Perhaps the new look of wikipedia is crucially important in establishing a higher status, more casual visitors and more donations. For the sake of argument, I assume that there is some usefullness in it somewhere. However, for the "other" reader, please do make easy links to change the cluttered page into something at least as clear as the old look. I know that for now it is still possible to choose the old look via login - preferences - skin - standard - reload, but this is a lot of work, especially because wikipedia still is quite slow (my connection is not).
If the wikipages were like normal webpages I suppose one way to do that is to allow an alternate stylesheet with only basic interference, via an easy to find link at the top of the page. Further, I personally I would also like an option for a permanent cookie set via my preferences, that would enable the plain style permanenly without the need to log in (some people don't like this, but as an option, what harm could it do, take it or leave it).
BTW, note that mozilla (at least) enables the user to choose a different (and plain) stylesheet as soon as an alternate one is defined in the header.
With all the changes going on, I am somewhat concerned that de standard look will disappear as well. For the record I would like to sum up (again) some of the aspects that I would not want to see lost on the standard (or any plain or basic) style.
1. Font-size and font-family (at least for the main text) are determined by the browser of the reader.
2. No distracting background.
3. A solid "printable page" option that removes navigation and possibly colliding foating things etc. (actually, I use this option for reading quite frequently as well).
4. No features that slow down loading the page unless really necessary.
I am pretty sure much more can be said about the new style and what a basic style should look like, but I am not a webpage designer, just a reader. I would however suggest as reading material http://members.optusnet.com.au/~night.owl/morons.html, which claims to be a rant, but makes many suggestions I agree with. -- Kornelis 13:38, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
5. The Wikilinks should have a permanent bar under them, so we can tell what they are. They're simply harder to see than before. 6. The tabs should all be put back where they go. Whose idea was it to put they all at the top of the page, in type too small to see? 7. The Wikipedia won two (prominent!) internet awards looking just the way it did. What people look for in an encyclopedia are ease of reference and content. The content is, as always, good, but the ease of reference, it seems to me, has lessened somewhat with all this flashy nonsense they've added.
In this spirit I've created this, and I encourage you all to sign up. It's the only way we'll get back a useful encyclopedia:
Wikipedia:Petition for the return of the Old Wikipedia
All those who want to join should sign up, and put the following message on their User Pages:
This user supports the
Old Wikipedia.
This user supports the return of the Old Wikipedia, before it obtained this new " blog" look, and would like it changed back. |
Code: {{msg:Goodolddays}}
body, #globalWrapper { font-family: inherit !important; }
Just clarifying my comment on the option printable page: in the standard style it enables users to remove everything but the body of the article. Also, it changes links to readable urls. I did not see this option on the new page, nor did adding &printable=yes to the url work. -- Kornelis 09:39, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Yes it does. They fixed it. But trying to search for a keyword in a title gets you keywords in article bodies instead. And you can't search for a category either. I haven't tested if the caps problem is better with the search re-enabled. -- ssd 05:58, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The site moves like a turtle at times. I'm using broadband and yet it still takes an almost unrealistic amount of time to save changes I've made to pages. Why is this, and can it be fixed?
The capital letters issue. If it isn't already a pain to try and correctly type out exact punctuation and spelling in the Search (O Brother, Where Art Thou? haunts me), we must also get the captialization exactly right. I'm in college and this gives me trouble, I feel real pity for grade-schoolers who have to try and find things. -
Litefantastic
00:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've been having similar problems - I just created three new pages this morning, and when I do a search for the articles by name neither come up, whether in Wikipedia or Google; and I get some bizarre result in Yahoo. Secondly, when I try to move pages (after changing my skin and setting the quickbar, etc), Wiki keeps telling me I am logged out, though I am logged in and can make edits - what is wrong? Simonides 17 June 2004
The search software doesn't work, never has, never will, now and forever, world without end, amen. - Litefantastic 20:05, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
How in the world are we supposed to find an article/essay on a topic when the search engine doesn't work? I've entered "Wallace and Ladmo" several times, I know there is an essay in there and the message just pops up with Search has beeb disabled due to performace problems. When are you going to fix it? This is very annoying.
The capital letters issue. If it isn't already a pain to try and correctly type out exact punctuation and spelling in the Search (O Brother, Where Art Thou? haunts me), we must also get the captialization exactly right. I'm in college and this gives me trouble, I feel real pity for grade-schoolers who have to try and find things. - Litefantastic 00:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
It's hard to see line breaks in indented text with the monobook skin. See All Along The Watchtower; the lyrics are three stanzas with line breaks between them. In the normal skin, they are clearly seperated, but in the monobook they are not. Bamos 20:50, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
dd { padding-bottom: 1em; }
Wikipedia has lots of articles that are really discussions and should be in Meta: or on talk page or something. Silly people keep adding to these discussions haphazardly instead of putting them on VfD or moving them. Would anyone care to stop this?
And while we're at it, it would be nice if these discussion articles had a +tab or a ADD COMMENTS link or whatever like the talk pages do. -- ssd 04:01, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Even since the new software started, I have been unable to do anything while logged in. I am able to log in, but after that the watchlist and even regular article pages refuse to load. I posted a query on "village pump" but got no useful advice. Can anyone help? -- Dovi
Does anyone else see that the link to Halifax, Nova Scotia does not work on many pages? See list of CBC television stations for an example. By the way, Halifax is not the only case of this, I think a lot of the links from Quebec City, Quebec don't work either, plus I have encountered this problem while making a page from a red link. Can anyone help? Earl Andrew 23:55, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What's with the constant crashing? I know that any website is subject to that problem every now and then, and I do appreciate that Wikipedia's very nature makes it even more vulnerable to it, but it's just too much. Most of the times it happens (and recently it's almost every time I edit something) I immediately test my internet connection and its working fine. I've just lost almost half an hour of work because when I tried to save the page it stalled for a century and then a "database error" message, or something like that, came up instead of the page and it simply reverted to the previous version, forcing me to start from scratch (there was no record of anything I had done, not even in the page's history). Another flagrant example of this problem is how frequently the main page "travels back in time" (which is evident in the part dedicated to the news). I've been contributing less and less recently simply because I never know if the site is going to crash in the middle of my edit and force me to choose between loosing the work and having to wait around until the edit can finally be saved. We've got to solve this problem as soon as possible. Redux 08:10, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Workaround: Before you click save page, select all your changes and copy them. Not a good solution, but better than nothing. - Litefantastic 15:14, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
All the Wikipedians converge on Fort Knox and order them to give us money for a Good Cause. Who's with me? - Litefantastic 20:15, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedia community forums
Templates are a nuisance to edit throughout Wikipedia. You must first click "edit" in order to delve through the article and find the name of the specific Template you want to edit. You must then manually edit the URL line to include Template:(NAME OF TEMPLATE) and only then you can begin the normal process of editing the template. The other option is manually adding yourself an edit button within the content of the template -- but that's problematic for other reasons. For starters it goes against the natural division between the content and the mechanism for changing that content. Also it's often ugly to intrude an edit button within a template.
Can we please make it so that each page in Wikipedia *automatically* lists all templates used in that page, in a nice little box on the left side of the screen? The same way that Wikipedia currently says "other languages" and lists links to all the other-language wikipedia articles, it would be very convenient if it also said "This page utilises:" and then we got a listing of the templates of that page. e.g. This page utilises: Template: NATO - Template:EU_countries - Template:OECD
I think that would solve all problems.
- Aris Katsaris 20:37, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The featured article on the front page is extremely offensive, but I can't figure out how to change it... Is it even possible? (9/19/04)
I did notice, the same problem exist with some of the rest of the city names.
Try making 'Elena' a disambiguation page. Move the city page to Elena (city) and the game to Elena (game). Is that the sort of thing you're shooting for? - Litefantastic 23:56, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does no one else think wikipedia is too white? I spend a lot of time reading it, and it would be easier on the eyes if a dark alternative were available. For example, Microsoft word has the option of "White text on a dark blue background", which works very well.
Intended to post this on Bugzilla under Wikipedia, but I'm receiving no registration email. On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zegunder there is an error where [[Gil Cohen]] produces no wikilink.
Is it possible to stop the search function or links being case sensitive? CheeseDreams 17:26, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
It may not be a perfect fix, and I appreciate it would be better to keep it in-house, but I often use Google, restricted to search only the wikipedia site.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:en.wikipedia.org+&q=zigbee
I've used this trick a few times to find articles I failed to locate via the main wikipedia search
The Article "Ireland" contains an unremovable "Charlie k is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at the end of it's first paragraph! How can it be, that this awful thing is not showing up in the edit function?
Kinda a "dumb question": a fellow (new) user/editor has placed a redirect on Mojave to go to the unincorporated community of Mojave, California. There is also a Mohave page, without a redirect, which goes to the Native American tribe. Both spellings are pronounced the same, BTW.
Some months ago, Menchi redirected Mojave to Mohave. But Anon changed it to go to the unincorporated California community, which (to add confusion) is in the Mojave Desert, (California), and not the Mohave Desert (Arizona).
Because the spellings are different (but pronounced the same) and considering the word means different things to different people - especially when adding the word "tribe" or "desert" to it. . . Would there be some way to do a disambiguation page to straighten out this mess? (friendly grin) Granted, the spellings aren't the same, but the pronounciation sameness causes some difficulty - perhaps along the lines of "Joaquin" (as in San Joaquin Valley and "walking." You get the drift? Your thoughts, please. -- avnative 18:10, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
The About Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About has been corrupted with some garbage text, but when going to edit the text is not there to edit.
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Variables and on any page which uses those mathematical characters, most mathematical characters show up as single character boxes containing a 2x2 array of digits, e.g. &or on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic Can I fix this? If so, then how? I am running: Mozilla Firefox 1.0 for Linux with Character Encoding Western(ISO-8859-1) and loading of images enabled.
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔ → ↔ MarSch 16:00, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I had the same problem you describe. I fixed it installing a UNICODE-compliant font; I did it through MS Office --- "Microsoft Shared Functions", "International Support" and "Universal Font". Nivaca 19:22, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I've just found a strange page called Catherby. Upon consulting the Internet, it would seem to be an imaginary place, located in a game-realm called RuneScape. The article is a very short stub, but I don't see that it could grow into anything. It could be transferred to the aforesaid existing article, I suppose, but I know nothing about RuneScape and wouldn't know how to fit it in. Kelisi 03:37, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There seems to be a picture of the leader of the Evil Empire from Star Wars on the new Pope's article, or at least there was at the time of writing.-- 217.42.208.169 18:18, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Oh wait, it's fixed now-- 217.42.208.169 18:25, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
It lists their platform, and Wikipedia isn't a soapbox. Another user refuses to remove it, and reverts my edits. -- Spinboy 19:53, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia appears to be requiring me to hit "save page" about three times before actually saving the article -- the first two times it acts as if I hit "show preview" instead. If I wasn't paying attention, I would have lost my changes by closing the window. What's up? Lunkwill 29 June 2005 07:44 (UTC)
Tabletop 29 June 2005 06:06 (UTC)
I find quite a few of the people on Wikipedia really cold and unhuman. This was written on my talk page.
Please don't put your opinion or original research into articles. This is regarding the comment about Mario's original colors and current colors. Saying that most people don't notice the difference is an opinion unless you provide some hard reference of a professional study on it. That aside, the point itself is relatively minor and is more trivia than encyclopedic content. CryptoDerk 23:44, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
%this is me% -raises an eyebrow- Is this what you do all day? Remonstrating people on what you yourself brand 'trivia'?
I advise you to look at WP:NPA. Continued violation of official Wikipedia policy will result in blocking. CryptoDerk 00:24, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
This stuff really hurts my feelings. I am 13, have Asperger Syndrome and ADHD. As far as I can tell I had done nothing wrong [1] Funny how all these little deals add up, isn't it?
I also noticed how a 'trivial' edit, by definition harmless, was picked up upon quicker than major vandalism. By me. Nice prioritising, guys [2]. That beauty lasted TWO FREAKING HOURS AND TWENTY-SIX MINUTES. Jesus. Ajsh 01:48, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Also, why is my page link broken? Ajsh 01:51, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
When you register for an account on Wikipedia, the first letter of your screen name should not be automatically capitalized. There is no reason for this website to feel the need to capitalize a screen name. I know it is probably proper grammar in the world, but it's just not right on the internet. Can you please change it so this does not happen? Thanks.
- dposse.
In the course of posting an article to my weblog about the new Harry Potter book, I Googled the phrase "half-blood prince" in order to find a link to another site that discussed the book. At the time I did this, I had not finished reading the book.
Halfway down the first page of results was the Wikipedia link. It looked like this:
I have replaced an important word with hyphens in the example above, but the link as it actually appeared on the Google page did not. Instead, it GIVES AWAY WHAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PLOT TWIST OF THE ENTIRE BOOK.
ARRRRRRRRGH.
Now, if one follows that link, it takes one to a Wikipedia page with a lot of general information about the book, and down near the bottom of the page there is a section titled "Plot overview" with a prominently placed "Spoiler Warning". All well and good -- if I'd seen the actual page before I finished the book, I wouldn't have read any further. I like being surprised, see.
But for someone innocently searching for a link in Google, the spoiler warning is invisible. All they see is the spoiler.
My point: I would like to urge all responsible parties, in the strongest possible terms (oh how my finger itches to hit caps lock) to reconsider the necessity and propriety of writing a plot overview that gives away a surprise ending. Why not change the offending sentence to "Harry discovers the true identity of the Half-Blood Prince" and leave it at that?
This is, I am sure you realize, about more than one particular book. It's bound to come up again.
... without any spoilers resulting from that search. -- Metropolitan90 03:11, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
10 October 2005 created the screen name JohnMac777 and the cookies are not coming through. My Netscape browser had plenty of cookies on it, so the problem looks like something between Wikipedia and AOL. I have seen this before where some people will play with domain names, but when it is from AOL it is anonymous where each logon you get a new IP address from a block of domain names.
I found a cookie bug in Netscape that kept me from logging on. What to do:
The main page doesn't work in Mozilla. It worked yesterday, but today when I went to it, words didn't wrap (so the page was extremely wide), and the whole main content area functioned as a link to the Chinese edition. Internet Exploder had no problems with it, though. -- Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 16:20, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Today it feels like Wikipedia has just eaten a tub of lard. Pages take ages to load, database errors abound. What's making Wikipedia sick today? Is it the Slashdotting (!)? -- NightMonkey 04:28, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
This sort of thing happens now and again, and is generally attrbuted to heavy load or problems with the servers. However, since the "To help support Wikipedia, please visit our fundraising page" message is back up, I'm guessing that we're being featured somewhere, which is why a) the servers are slow and b) that wretched message is back up, begging all new visitors to donate. - Litefantastic 16:41, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I know this is annoying, but there's been no long-term improvement in speed. This is apparent on several networks, done at several times of day (though it is better in the North American nighttime). Note that I'm NOT saying that it makes Wikipedia totally unusable, but it really makes editing a pain and is somewhat embarrasing to introduce Wikipedia to lots of folks with every one of them saying something like, "Wow, that sounds really cool! <45+ seconds pass to load the page text> Pretty slow, but I'll check it out more later." I love Wikipedia. I'll give it cash. But, I hate to view it through lard-colored glasses ;).
Isn't everyone experiencing this sluggish response? -- NightMonkey 20:54, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
It's not as bad as before, but every twenty minutes or so the site just sort of seems to stall. I don't think we're on SlashDot again (how many times can we be featured, anyway?) but it just seems like the site is narcoleptic. - Litefantastic 14:47, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I do not think that the site is getting faster at all. The idiot who said it was obviously had no idea what they are talking about. I'm using a LAN connection at 100 mps and it still takes sometimes minutes to load. This is obviously the sign of some moron in the management of this site. Idiots should not be allowed to govern over this information. Truly, the people of this site are fools and need to be shot as soon as possible. Thank you.
In the olden days there used to be a "Print this page" button on all articles. What ever happened to that? Though most times today I'm at a computer when searching for or using knowledge, but not all the time. I would like to take certain Wiki pages with me to read, but as the Wiki stands now, you have to reformat most of the site. AFAIK it would be a simple task to implement this again, and I hope to see this in the future. -- Gruesome 09:29, Aug 9, 2004 (CET)
On my browser, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040917 Firefox/0.9.3, the printing stylesheet screws up badly around any font style change, causing massive text elements' overlap. Am I the only one, and is it a Firefox bug, or a CSS problem with the Monobook printing style? BACbKA 10:38, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I believe the correct phrase is spelling check rather than the word-processor-shortened spell check. The use of check in this manner is usually (always?) [noun] check such as reality check, sanity check, price check, or correctness check. Given this, a spell check would be something Harry Potter does, so I suggest the use of the more correct phrase spelling check. The How-To index is one of many places where the wizarding version is used.
Peter (Cactus Pete) 18:04, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Yeah, and they also have street signs that say "drive slow." We'd need Harry Potter to change popular breAches of the rules of grammar.
As explained in the How-to page it is possible to hide all edit links with the code __NOEDITSECTION__ in a document. According to the same How-to page, it is also possible to hide a section from the Table of contents by using HTML-tags like <h2>sectionhead</h2> instead of ==sectionhead==.
Bug:
The edit link is hidden using HTML tags, but the next edit link links to the edit page of the first section marked by the HTML-tags, which was not editable. The second edit link to the second section marked by HTML, and so forth.
Ilse@ 12:51, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
On pages like List of colonial governors in 1880, the grey line extends through the middle of the "See also:" box at the right. The same thing happens if you hide the table of contents on pages like List of state leaders in 2004. I don't know how to fix it.
The same thing seems to be true with any box on any page, though some boxes are not transparent. But even for opaque boxes like on Angola (and a million other pages), the grey line extends all the way to the edge of the box instead of stopping at the margin.
If the margin between the box and the right edge of the page is greater than zero, you can see the grey line sticking out the other end. For example, if you edit University of Notre Dame du Lac, changing "margin: 0 0" to "margin: 1em 1em", and view the preview (obviously, don't save the page).
For some reason, pages like Alabama seem to look ok. 68.225.20.115 20:26, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul#Philosophical_views
The dotted border fits the screen, but the content of the tag goes far beyond the screen border.
Why is an account for only one language? Okay it might prevent some name clashes, but is this really such a great benefit? For multilingual people to have to have several accounts is pretty annoying. MarSch 17:17, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I have no idea if I'm posting this problem in the right place since i'm quite new to Wikipedia. The thing is, though I have no problem logging into my account in the English area (where i originally created the acount), the Portuguese version of Wikipedia completly ignores my existance.
Is that just me or does everyone need to register on every language that they wish to contribute with? Is there any chance this could be merged into a single database of users? I have enough usernames and passwords as it is, and having another one for the same place seems pretty bizarre to me.
The standard text uses ragged right edges (i.e. uneven line length). This affects the aesthetic layout of many pages such as this one ( Taj Mahal). Instead the line length may be made constant to produce a more visually appealing effect.
I went to look up 'Verison' in the search menu, and got a whole bunch of hits -- for 'verison' as a mis-spelling of 'version'. I fixed a few, but there are over five pages of this to be fixed! Is there some way we can quickly correct a lot of these sorts of typos? - Kit Foxtrot 22:37, 8 May 2005 (EST)
The page on the Hellenic Genocide was deleted in violation of Wikipedia rules despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of users voted to KEEP it. After people companied that the deletion was invalid and resistated the page, the page was then locked in its deleted state so that it cannot be replaced.
The deletion of this page was out of order and carried out for political reasons alone in order to suppress the knowledge of a historical event equivalent to the NAZI holocaust. Wikipedia should be ashamed of itself that this was allowed to happen. The deletion of the Hellenic Genocide page is TOTALLY INVALID and is nothing short of HOLOCAUST DENIAL ! Overwhelming evidence and references was presented on the page to show that a premeditated genocide of 4 million Greeks from Asia-Minor was perpetrated by the Turks, including US congressional resolutions which recognised the mass murder of Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians.
I demand that the page be reinstated immediately and that action be take against the apologists who deleted it and who have systematicaly been abusing Wikipedia rules in order to have the pages related to this page deleted as well including biographies of authors such as Thea Halo, George Horton, and Leonidas Koumakis who have written about the Hellenic Genocide.-- Argyrosargyrou 17:38, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
-Edit-= Argy, isn't there a vote for undeletion page? That sounds like a better place to place a complaint like this. Also, writing fuming accusations is not going to help your case. Keep a cool head.
[The Mysterious Interloper]
I do not think that I am alone in this feeling, but the stark contrast of a white background on most pages, along with blue links and black text, is VERY painful to me. All of the skins for Wikipedia simply change layout, not actual color, as most skins for sites and forums do. Is there any chance a "EasyEyes" skin, or somesuch, could be made with a dark background and lighter text choices? Even a dark shade of grey would be better then plain white. - Ariamaki Risenki Ariamaki
- Still Ariamaki Risenki Ariamaki
I think it would be good if articles titled using accented European characters could be searched for and retreived by entering unaccented characters. For example the article 'Spanische Küche' would be suggested by entering 'Spanische Kuche'. Wikipedia: General complaints (resolved) There are projects working on redirects to create this effect, but it is a very long process. - Robmods 19:48, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
I am not getting updates on my watchlist today. I put in edits, and see no activity on the watchlist page. What is up? Dan Watts 1 July 2005 19:13 (UTC)
I love reading the wikipedia. I love that the links are so obvious, usually. When I'm on page 5 or page 45, black on white with blue links every other word get's old quick. I'd just like to be able to use a lower contrast version for more extended reading.
I'm not just whining. I know my way around a style sheet. If I can help make this happen, my time is wikipedia's time. I love this site. will at luktown dot org.
These are shortcuts you can put on your Firefox or IE shortcut bar, known as bookmarklets in Firefox and Favlets in IE. Then what you can do is at any time highlight any word on the page you are currently browsing and click the link, to be taken straight to the corresponding Wikipedia article or Wiktionary definition, its fantastically usefull!
Wiktionary: javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("You didn't select any text. Enter a search phrase:", ""); if (q!=null) window.open().location="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0 Wikipedia: javascript:q = "" + (window.getSelection ? window.getSelection() : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q = prompt("You didn't select any text. Enter a search phrase:", ""); if (q!=null) window.open().location="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + escape(q).replace(/ /g, "+"); void 0
(What would be even better is if anyone could work out how to get the article or definition to open in a new page or tab, rather than the same one as it does now, ive tried but my java skills are far too poor to manage it!) Orgone 06:46, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
(Done. To get window.open() to open into a new tab instead of a new window in Firefox, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction for changing the about:config entry to 0.) 150.101.115.231 20:23, 16 April 2007 (UTC)