General discussion

(Redirected from Talk:In Memoriam)

This page is the ideal place to get help, report bugs or discuss the memorial wiki. Please add new discussion to the bottom, by clicking the edit page link.

Notes on inter-wiki linking are generally as per m:meta.wikipedia.org technical issues (though this wiki is not UTF-8 encoded, so ignore the browser issues section). You can link here from the english 'pedia or meta wikis via [[sep11:Page title]].

At this time you can't yet #redirect across wikis, though that's something that may be added in the near future. Also discussed occasionally is moving entire pages intact from one wiki to another including edit histories, but that's more work. --Brion

Why is it necessary to be so specific and therefore exclusionary? If Wikipedia is going to host a 9/11 wiki then to be fair there should also be a wiki for each and every other unjust event that killed many people. But having so many wikis is madness! How about this:

Have this wiki's main url be http://memorial.wikipedia.org and have http://sep11.wikipedia.org be a url redirect directly to the September 11th In Memoriam page. To avoid the problem with naming conflicts between different memorials we could have a naming convention that each individual tribute page be in a namespace (example; sep11:namespace or bali2002:namespace). --mav

Is there some reason why the main page is laid out as it is? Even on 1152*864 resolution (with large font) it doesn't display without horizinatal scrolling. - Horrible. -- SGBailey

What browser, what version, what operating system? Table layouts are fragile in that some browsers are extremely sensitive. --Brion VIBBER

I get the same problem. I'm using Windows ME, IE version 6.0.2800.1106IS --Martin/MyReddice

I reduced the table width to 70%, which fixed it.

[1] - someone is asking to have some pages moved to here - is that possible? --Martin/MyRedDice

As a feature request, could we get rid of links to "Talk" pages? It would make sense to have discussion on the actual article, since we don't need to work so hard to maintain NPOV or fact MyRedDice

Oh, and you could lose the "minor edit" button as well, since it's not really appropriate.

Moved from en:Wikipedia:Village pump

Cross-wiki redirects

A simple question. There are certain people, such as Stephen Huczko, who used to have an article on wikipedia, and that article has been moved to the sep11.wiki. I believe that such articles should redirect to the en:September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties page. The Cunctator thinks they should redirect to the relevant sep11.wiki page. I dislike cross-wiki redirects, and wondered what the general opinion was on their use. Of course, if there's an appropriate FAQ on the subject, please direct me to it. Thanks! :) Martin

IIRC cross wiki redirects were made for exactly this reason. If the wikipedia tribute pages are made into orphan redirects to the sep11 wiki there should not be a problem. --mav

The problem is that if a page does an inter-wiki redirect then you don't get the "redirected from" link that allows you to remove the redirect, and "What links here" doesn't work across wikis. It can be done, but you need to hack the URL, which is a rather cludgy solution, IMO. Is there a tool/utility page for finding links to pages that redirect off wikipedia? Martin

Memorial Wiki

Problems with the memorial wiki. If someone can give me relevant powers and/or advice on how to solve these myself, that'd be great. Otherwise, I throw myself at the mercy of the technical folks.

One cannot search or use the go button, as MySQL returned error "1191: Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list".
The side links include a "main page" and "current events" and "bug reports" pages. These need to be replaced with "in memoriam", perhaps some other pages.
The Help and About link on each page is bust. We probably just need one of these links for now.
Special:Upload has dead links
Link as GNU Free Documentation License on each page is broken
Discuss this page is unnecessary on a memorial wiki
minor edit is currently unnecessary
Each page says "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" - it should say something more appropriate ("From the memorial wiki", etc)
the logo says Wikipedia... again, it should say something more appropriate

I've fixed the search problem. As far as broken links, fill them in! Where appropriate, copy or link the pages off of this wiki. --Brion 00:04 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)

Ok, I can certainly fill in some info for some of the links I mentioned, but for others the links themselves should be removed. I guess I can add temporary redirects, though, for the time being. Thanks for fixing the search problem :) Martin

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