User talk:Philosopher
Good to see you, leave me a message! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 07:15, 1 August 2012 (EDT)
Site notice
Hi,
I don't know whether you have seen my idea for an automatic import, but as you're quite active here, I'd thank you if you could take a look. I don't want to start uploading lots of pages without wider consent. Maybe you could even include a link to that section in MediaWiki:Sitenotice? --SlashMe (talk) 10:11, 3 August 2012 (EDT)
- Have you seen {{comicbox}}? I'm not sure, but I wonder if your page and that one are two different ideas of how to present the same information? (Once it's imported, anyway.) At any rate, if you give me the text you want put in the Sitenotice, I'll take a look at it. (May not get to it today; you can always ask a different admin if I don't.) --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:06, 3 August 2012 (EDT)
- Should I put something in the editnotice saying we need to agree on formats first? Or do you think it'd be better to upload them so we at least have something and then use a bot (I can task AWB to do that, once I figure out a few regular expressions) to convert your uploads to whatever format we end up deciding on? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:19, 3 August 2012 (EDT)
- Hmm... I suppose I can pair the editnotice with a message at MediaWiki:Uploadtext. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:41, 3 August 2012 (EDT)
- Should I put something in the editnotice saying we need to agree on formats first? Or do you think it'd be better to upload them so we at least have something and then use a bot (I can task AWB to do that, once I figure out a few regular expressions) to convert your uploads to whatever format we end up deciding on? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 20:19, 3 August 2012 (EDT)
community portal
Shouldn't the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ be included in {{Community portal}}? --Waldir (talk) 05:20, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- No, because we don't want it on Explain XKCD:Community portal or on Explain XKCD:Community portal/All. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 16:10, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- Hmm... Well, we could add {{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|blah|yes|no}} checks (or a #switch if we'd rather make it opt-in rather than opt-out). I think it's generally better to keep all logic in the templates rather than splitting stuff across many pages. --Waldir (talk) 16:55, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- That sounds fine - if you could do it? That's one of the few things I don't think I've made a template do before. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:09, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- I did it with the switch. Seems to be working :) --Waldir (talk) 18:28, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- Cool. :) --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:44, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- I did it with the switch. Seems to be working :) --Waldir (talk) 18:28, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- That sounds fine - if you could do it? That's one of the few things I don't think I've made a template do before. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:09, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- Hmm... Well, we could add {{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|blah|yes|no}} checks (or a #switch if we'd rather make it opt-in rather than opt-out). I think it's generally better to keep all logic in the templates rather than splitting stuff across many pages. --Waldir (talk) 16:55, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
Since we are on the topic of the community portal, I'd like you to take a look at my subdivision proposal at Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals#Separate discussion page(s). Cheers, Waldir (talk) 18:30, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
- Replied there. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:44, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
RE: Talk page link
Oops! Thanks for catching that. The signature was one of the many I on a different wiki, but I missed one of the links. Should be fixed now. Omega Talk • Contribs 06:27, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
- Got it. Importing features across wikis always leaves a few things that are missed. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:34, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
