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I am an editor in the biology workgroup | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Current talk page (14,363)

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Useful links on Citizendium

Notes to self

Need to depopulate {{Image}}

what links here

  • Supernova [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Nova (astronomy)#Supernova (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.

See - /Notes to self

Need to figure out the disconnects between the rare earths elemental classes and the template:periodic. Did uranium, but others need fixing too. See Uranium/Elemental Class

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Your testimony

Please let us have it! --Larry Sanger 21:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I contribute to citizendium as I got banned from wikipedia for disruptive editing. I still edit at wikipedia, and have tried with various aliases and proxies, but they always hunt me down. I don't understand their problem. Fortunately, citizendium is far more accommodating and allows me to write whatever i wish with no checks and balances. At least, no one has deleted any of my stuff yet. Chris Day 21:44, 3 November 2008 (UTC) OK, I admit it, thats all lies. :) I'll have to think a bit. Chris Day 21:46, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the tip!

That looks very useful.

Cheers! George Swan 01:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for the advice. Sorry we had that discussion on Greg's page, though. --Russell D. Jones 16:12, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

picture experiment

(CC) Photo: Bob Shand
Version 1
(CC) Photo: Bob Shand
Version 2
(CC) Photo: Bob Shand
Version 3

The credited picture above, from left to right are coded as follows:

{{Image|Loch Lomond.jpg|right|150px|Version 1}}

[[Image:Loch Lomond.jpg|right|thumb|150px|{{#ifexist:Template:Loch Lomond.jpg/credit|{{Loch Lomond.jpg/credit}}<br/>|}}Version 2]]

[[Image:Loch Lomond.jpg|right|thumb|150px|{{Credit|Loch Lomond.jpg}}Version 3]]

Version 4
Version 5
Version 6

The uncredited diagram above, from left to right are coded as follows:

{{Image|Logez02.jpg|right|150px|Version 4}}

[[Image:Logez02.jpg|right|thumb|150px|{{#ifexist:Template:Logez02.jpg/credit|{{Logez02.jpg/credit}}<br/>|}}Version 5]]

[[Image:Logez02.jpg|right|thumb|150px|{{Credit|Logez02.jpg}}Version 6]]

ifexist

Hi Chris. See Template_talk:Credit. Stephen Ewen 16:51, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Years

Hi Chris, I need your help with {{Years}}, such that it works properly via {{years}} for pagenames like 2006 and via {{years|1984}} for pagenames like 1984 (year). I think I am close but I do not see how to address the page name itself, and I have to go offline now. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 19:32, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

See the edit I just made. Does that fix it? Chris Day 19:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Yes, that was it - thanks. --Daniel Mietchen 20:10, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Morton National Park, and stuff

Chris, thanks for helping with the metadata pages. As you probably guessed, I was having a bug* of a day and kept getting interrupted.

Re Fitzroy Falls, that sure looks like it. Great photo, thanks!

Aleta Curry 22:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Renaming images

Hi Chris, I noticed the typo in the name of Image:ComparitiveBrainSize.jpg but didn't see how to rename the file. Is there a way to do this without re-uploading it? Thanks, --Daniel Mietchen 20:50, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure you will have to upload the image again. Is that a problem? Chris Day 23:13, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Philosophy strategies

Thanks for your feedback, Chris.

BTW -in passing your fine images above! - can you tell me how I can upload the image (of Plato and Socrates) indicated as needing uploading on the Plato page? I'm not the creator or copyright owner, I undestand it is 'outside copyright' (it is also on WP Commons)? Any advice would be appreciated.

Martin Cohen 17:58, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Martin, when you go through the upload process there is a pretty good step by step guide. however, i just discovered that it has not been completed with respect to the public domain content (drop down menu does not have correct options. i will look into improving that option. Meanwhile just look at the notes I added for the plato socrates picture. I am unsure if I did it 100% correctly and there are a lot of gaps with respect to the background info on the picture. It's a start though. Chris Day 03:38, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
If I may add a commment, Wikimedia Commons images can indeed be uploaded into CZ ... but only if you can find or obtain the real name of the original uploader. The CZ file upload Wizard states that quite clearly. Hope this helps, Milton Beychok 03:57, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
But does that matter if the original is on the web and public domain? Chris Day 04:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
If it is clearly stated as being in the Public Domain (or is on the website of any U.S. government entity), then it doesn't matter whether you have the real name of the original uploader ... in fact, you don't need any name at all. As for being on some website, then I always search for a statement about copyrights in that website to see what it says is needed. Milton Beychok 05:09, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I did not see anything on the web site about copyright, that was my assumption from the statement on the wikipedia site. i guess this is all a shell game. primary sources are the real issue here. So this one should probably go back where it came from. Chris Day 05:31, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Chris, rather than "go back to where it came from", I would suggest using the "Fair use" option of the Upload Wizard at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Upload-Wizard. That is what I have done for one or two of the images I've uploaded. Milton Beychok 06:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
That sounds reasonable. Do you remember which template you used? I note that this is one area that Stephen did not finish on the upload wizard. [1], [2] Chris Day 07:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Chris, since I was using the drawings in articles I authored, I used the one for fairuse-author. And yes, that is one where the License actually reads as "Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah ......" because it hasn't been finished as yet. Milton Beychok 08:56, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Let there be light, sorta kinda

We have, I believe, infrared light, visible light, and ultraviolet. Ultraviolet is my fault for being inconsistent, but I'm not sure "infrared light" is really the best title. I could live with "radiation" or "energy", and "light" specifically for the visible part of the spectrum.

Obviously, we don't say "radio light" or "RF light", although "RF" is used, with the various subdivisions of ULF to SHF into the millimeter and subnillimeter. Think of analytical techniques -- is the usage "ultraviolet spectroscopy" or "ultraviolet light spectroscopy".

How do I increase the cellpadding in a Wikitable?

Chris, what coding do I use to increase the cellpadding in a wikitable? By wikitable, I mean a table that starts with: {| class="wikitable"   Milton Beychok 09:21, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

It used to be possible to override the wikitable settings by following the class-"wikitable" with the desired values, such as "cellpadding="2"". Apparently this is no longer the case. You could just use raw code rather than the wikitable class. But that seems a little extreme. There should be an easier way, i just don't know what it is, yet. Chris Day 12:09, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I had read (in one of the WP Help articles) that the wikitable settings could be over-ridden ... but found out that was not so (as you also found out). If you ever find a way, please let me know. Thanks, Milton Beychok 17:20, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I can't find a way to overide the class so I just went in and changed the class itself. I increased the padding from 0.2 to 0.4. Does that look better? Chris Day 15:34, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
The tables look fine now. Thanks. Milton Beychok 16:51, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Credit

Hi Chris, I'm aware that I can have my name on all my drawings. But I don't like it, I removed my name on purpose. --Paul Wormer 15:50, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Could we also pilot an Environmental Engineering subworkgroup?

Chris, I know that we have not yet gotten official approval for creating subworkgroups, but could we also create a pilot Environmental Engineering subworkgroup just as has been done for Chemical Engineering? There are now at least 20 articles that could be designated as Environmental Engineering articles. Please let me know. Thanks, Milton Beychok 23:04, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for helping tidy those pages, Chris.

Martin Cohen 20:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Subgroups

Hi Chris, I think it's high time somebody--and probably you, since you technically implemented it--explained clearly and in adequate detail exactly how the "subgroup" scheme is supposed to work. I'm not comfortable with important new editorial policy being added without being acknowledged and passed by the Editorial Council. If you will write up the policy page(s), and if no one else will sponsor it, I will sponsor it if I agree with it. --Larry Sanger 05:18, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

It was always my plan to present this as a proposal to the EC. I needed to see it work in practice before I had an idea of what needed to be tweaked. I'll write something soon. Chris Day 06:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Email system cluster

I've been trying to get this to the way that David and I worked out in email, but I'm not sure I've got all the pages and subpages working. Some seem to work when I go back a second time--cache issue?

There need to be some deletions.

Here's the bottom line:

Email - System Overview should be replaced, in all contexts, with Email system, and then the former needs to be exorcised. I'm not sure if I have managed to get the demon, or some directs keep spinning their heads 180 degrees. Hey, I lived in Georgetown when The Exorcist was being filmed.

Howard C. Berkowitz 19:34, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

When creating a new article ....

Chris:

When creating a new article, three instructional/alert boxes appear:

(1) You may see this box ....
(2) For a new cluster use ....
(3) For a cluster move ....

On my Internet Explorer browser, those three boxes are vertically separated from each other by about 4-5 inches which means that quite a bit of scrolling is needed to read all 3 boxes. Would it be relatively easy to eliminate all that extra spacing between the boxes?

I know you have a plate full of things to do and there is no urgency to this item. However, I think it would be worthwhile to do this whenever you have time. Thanks, Milton Beychok 22:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

{{Props}}

It was working for months...what happened?--David Yamakuchi 22:41, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

No idea but it seems fixable. Chris Day 22:42, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
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