Wikipedia:User experience feedback/Archive 3

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Archive 3

Improvement: logical path for each page

It would be helpful if with each page a logical path could be provided, which allows to navigate from the detailed information to a general subject-page (and vice-versa) and to closely related information. This would add to the now completely flat structure of Wiki pages a tree-structure. Links can partly fulfill this need, but are less convenient (and often not provided).

I do not think that this can be constructed automatically, but it needs work from the page provider. Given the large amount of Wiki information, it would not be an easy task. But I am sure that people would take advantage of it as soon as the tools are available.

An example: the "TWiki" pages

  1. ^ https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/WebHome
  2. ^ https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/CodeDistribution

Kind regards Baueblume (talk) 09:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Printing

A nice feature would be the ability to print only the "main portion" of a wikipedia article (perhaps nicely formatted).

Currently, printing long articles waste a lot of paper.

Thanks

Charlie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.3.206.10 (talk) 18:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Waves of the Ocean

I am believing that the author of what I've read about ocean waves is a professional. I will like this great oceanography to visit my blogs and comment on effort to improved my writing skill in the field of oceanography. Waves of the ocean at www.coastalpoc.blospot.com. sea level at www.marinesealevel.blogspot.com and Guinea current large marine ecosystem at www.gclme.blogspot.com. Thanks in anticipation —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.205.163.235 (talk) 19:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Medical terms and ICD9 codes

We frequestly use Wikipedia to look up diagnosis codes- either they no longer list a ICD9 code or the function is not working —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.116.150.220 (talk) 19:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

555 numbers

all 631 555 numbers are celebrity threats

http://home.earthlink.net/~mthyen/555frame.html

find the the last four prefixes, use every number in the prefix, use the shows Name, and categorize it by what it mean ( it's usally a three or four word answer) then work your way down to figure out what kind of threat it was. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.244.247.253 (talk) 14:37, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Printing

Use this a lot for reference on things I discuss at our local zoo - would be wonderful to be able to print articles or portions of them without all the extra color that uses ink. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.191.68.198 (talk) 17:15, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Parent lists

it appears that the listing of a persons parents in the right hand box has been removed. it was an invaluable tool, the loss of which has completely devalued wikipedia. why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gobo1123 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Double clicking search

Every time I go to the search bar I have to click it twice before I can type something in. I was wondering if you could look into that problem and fix it? The only exception is when I'm already writing something I can click on the search bar once and type right away. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clark.d.kennedy (talk • contribs) 18:54, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

This has been reported at T26096. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:14, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

If you click on parts of the word "search" then you must double-click however it appearse that if you click to the right of the word "search" then it works with 1 click —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brennanmoriarty (talk • contribs) 17:14, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

why destroy something that works?

Searchbox on the right... It is supposed to be better, but please do listen to the users, and do not do as some others do, have it on the right side! There are far more pages where it is located on the normal side, to the LEFT! Some large searchengines do have it on the left, but those pages are not comperable, and are not usedin the same manner. A searchbox is not a searchbox is not a searcbox; as Miss Stein would have written. Why remove the language options? I speak 4 and use 8 languages. All scandinavians are able to read 4 languages.(Norwegian, danish, swedish and "nynorsk" Most of us comand at least 2 other languages. (English and german.) Residents of Finland should be able to read 5. ( To quite a large number islandic is not easy understandable. It is not a step forward. As wikipedia is based on contributions from individuals, to read in different languages of is a method of critical use of information. Do you wish to have this option as a "extra feature"? That diminnishes the source value of wikipedia. But, when changing something that works - and works well, maybe that was the changemakers plan? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.203.78.9 (talk) 09:23, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Sandy Kao

Hi, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.100.105.157 (talk) 15:11, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

tms trim

hej här är en bra sida för att hitta trim http://www.ak47.se/

http://www.ak47.se/ http://www.ak47.se/ http://www.ak47.se/ http://www.ak47.se/ http://www.ak47.se/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hej55555 (talk • contribs) 18:05, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

size of online page

First of all, although some people don't regard Wikipedia as a proper source because of potential errors, I always refer to it first because often there is more information there than on other sites. Additionally, I know enough about "information" to know that a lot of it is inaccurate.

Is there any way that Wikipedia can narrow the Website page? Since I am an avid book reader, I have some difficulty reading across a "non-book" sized page.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.123.82 (talk) 00:16, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Message

User Friendly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.34.231.232 (talk) 16:19, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Interactive toolbox

I can't see Languages in the toolbox due to random JavaScript problems. Print a link to the "old" version with all opened options please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.70.236.82 (talk) 08:24, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Hidden comment

Hi,

Just to say that i won't move to the new interface if there is no "Hidden comment" function and custom toolbar = Dog meal.

I contributed to Wikimedia Strategic Planning, we discussed how to improve the editing experience and i think this "Improved interface" a good step in that direction. I also participated to discussions related to community health and unfortunately i find the absence of the "Hidden comment" function detrimental to it. "Hidden comment" is good tool for interpersonal communication between editors. Often tags don't leave room for additional comment so you are at adding them through hidden comments. "Hidden comment" is also very useful to remember editors of consensus reached in article talk page or within related project because people won't bother reading talk pages and the like. Absence of "Hidden comment" functionality make communication between editors more complex thus rendering collaborative work more difficult so not something good for community health. --KrebMarkt (talk) 14:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Posting Articles to Social Media Sites

You know, for nerds such as myself, it would be handy to have a "Share" button that allows the posting of headlines and articles to Facebook and other social sites, especially for current events and such. Is there such a thing already and I just can't see it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.172.14.132 (talk) 20:34, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Searchbox

I prefer the searchbox on the left, for its placement on the top right corner is quite disturbing inasmuch as my eyes must describe a bigger angle from the middle of the screen to find it, which is even worse in large screens, and I don't see any reason for it to be consuming height space and pushing all the text a bit downwards, when it could be perfectly fitted in the left menu. Moreover the list of possible matches that scrolls down after the first letters are typed in really helps when one doesn't know the spelling of an article's title. This could be even improved by allowing an asterisk take the place of a string of characters; a slash followed by asterisks, the exact amount of letters as there are of asterisks; /*/ a word; or other meaningful combinations so that on can search for an entry by its last letters, or first and last skipping the middle. Wisapi (talk) 20:47, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Language

Hello, When I am reading English text and point at a word I always get a Russian translation. Is there a choice of language somewhere, and can it be canceled altogether?

Kind regards

Gunnar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.230.6.14 (talk) 06:25, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Gunnar, I think this has more to do with your browser. Does it only happen in wikipedia? In my sister's computer, the Internet Explore will usually give a Spanish translation although we use the Portuguese Windows. Wisapi (talk) 13:33, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

CPS v Boyle 2008 EWHC 201 Adim

I would like my husbands case to to cited as an abuse of process, causing (him) injustice and offending one's sense of justice, as per pushishised in Professor Choo's book and upon his website monograms 'Abuse of Process and Judicial Stays in Criminal Proceedings 2008' Within his case Judge Openshaw, who does not know what a website is, I believe does not also know what abuse of process means, in that within a sentencing hearing he acted as a prosecutor, and instigated 17 new charges, with no new facts or evidence, when my husband had pleaded guilty to the same dates and times in the previous conviction, in order to ensure that my husband recieved a more severe punishment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.252.66 (talk) 19:09, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

When hovering over external links in Wikipedia

Dear Wikipedia,

Thank you so much for this site. It is a pain having to open every page I like when reading an article in a new tab. I have a suggestion: When hovering over external links in Wikipedia, have a short summary appear in a pop-up box just above the link. This should not be a few words taken from the overview, since that will result in a "The battle of Lake Peipus was a decisive victory in the history of..." That doesn't enlighten anyone. Write a very short summary about every page... you should of course ask the community to help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silenzer12 (talk • contribs) 22:53, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

new search bar

I find I have to click the search bar many times before a text cursor appears. Often I click and begin typing only to notice nothing has been entered into the search field. Something as simple as this should be very easy to fix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.193.204.164 (talk) 01:55, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Search box bug (new look)

if you type WINDOWS? in the search box it search Wintdows —Preceding unsigned comment added by WindowsSeven (talk • contribs) 02:11, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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How about allowing non-logged-in users to select a skin?

It makes sense to require the user to be logged in to select more complicated preferences, but selecting the overall layout from a predefined set seems like something anybody should be able to do. Not R (talk) 13:35, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

There are technical reasons why this is not possible. Basically, using another skin will require 2 copies of a page to be cached. Thus giving people an option to change the skin, would result in almost every page to be cached twice instead of once. That would mean we would have to double the capacity of the caching servers, which would be a very costly operation. And once you give people one finger, they want a hand, so before you know it, there would likely be 3 and then 10 preference options for anonymous users (so 10 times the caching capability would be required). There is a reason why registering an account is a good thing, and having access to preferences is one of those reasons. Having said that, some more "you need to register an account in order to use this option" might be a good idea. If you know locations where such a message should be listed, please pass along your suggestion. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:53, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Wiki's Own Discussion Forum (Under each Subject)!

Dear Popular Wikipedia:

I think it would be a great idea to have a "Discuss" button under each individual subject matter. I really like to see a place where the readers can exchange information and may be new ideas.

The "discuss" (this matter) button should be an URL/Link to another page where people can log in and then discuss about that particular matter. For instance if we are reading about Beethoven or Edison or Paris we then should be allowed to share our information or experiences in regard to that particular subject matter without adding info to the original Wiki page. (To avoid creating unnecessary volume). This will open up a new frontier with limitless possibilities. I think it will be really good. The forum of this kind will have to manage/moderate itself. People should not discuss off-subject matters or use strong language and/or insult other users. As it is now the Wiki pages contain valuable information which many users have taken the time to provide/share. I do not see any problem in having such forums except the details of its technical side. (how it is setup, what kind of coding will be used etc.). Or redirect to a Blog. Please ignore this message if such forum already exists. I have seen the "MyTalk" page but I don't think it is the same thing?

Thank You Very Much! Best Regards; Mehdi B. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matey1 (talk • contribs) 17:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

We have a "discussion" link for each page. It is at the top left, next to the tab of the current page and labelled as "Discussion" or "Talk page". —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Email

While I find Wikipedia invaluable for my research efforts, I often discover articles,

topics, and other items of interest that I would like to share with family, friends, and associates. Prior to submitted this comment, I searched the Wikipedia User Interface for any type of 'sharing' or email option. I believe some form of 'sharing' would be a very useful addition to the functionality of Wikipedia.

 Thank you,

michael j. carey [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mick0311 (talk • contribs) 18:06, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

srivastava

important srivastava ; prof.[dr.] ravindra nath srivastava parichay das' is an eminent bhojpuri-hindi writer in india. he has written above 20 books in bhojpuri-hindi.he is writer,editer,thinker,singer,actor,administrator,social activist. now he is hony.professor and head [hindi and indian culture dept.] - swami vivekanand subharti university,meerut,u.p.[india] and secretary,hindi academy,delhi govt. and secretary,maithili-bhojpuri academy,delhi govt. address-secretary,hindi and mathili-bhojpuri academy delhi govt. samudaay bhavan,kishan ganj,padam nagar,delhi-110007 e.mail- [email protected] website-www.kavita chaturthi/parichay das mobile-09968269237 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.177.201.75 (talk) 14:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

srivastava

important srivastava ; prof.[dr.] ravindra nath srivastava parichay das' is an eminent bhojpuri-hindi writer in india. he has written above 20 books in bhojpuri-hindi.he is writer,editer,thinker,singer,actor,administrator,social activist. now he is hony.professor and head [hindi and indian culture dept.] - swami vivekanand subharti university,meerut,u.p.[india] and secretary,hindi academy,delhi govt. and secretary,maithili-bhojpuri academy,delhi govt. address-secretary,hindi and mathili-bhojpuri academy delhi govt. samudaay bhavan,kishan ganj,padam nagar,delhi-110007 e.mail- [email protected] website-www.kavita chaturthi/parichay das mobile-09968269237 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.177.201.75 (talk) 14:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia as source of link

Dear Sir,

My name is Edy Sasongko, lives in Yogyakarta Indonesia not far from the Prambanan biggest Hindu's temple in Indonesia. I am Wikipedia mania user. Any idea or everything that I want to know always use this website as main resources. My sons and daughters who are still studying in high school and university also never forget to find information related their studies through this site. In short this site really useful and helpful for everybody.

Recently, I developed website which called Flight Calculator and other tools. The url is http://www.xtools4u.com. This site is primarily helping people to find solution relating to the flight, travel, trips, etc. The database contains more than 9000 airports worldwide. I use Wikipedia as the main resources for the city name or place.

To be more complete for my website, could Wikipedia provide download for the database that I need? or How could I request database related to my project? Is it possible for me?

I think that's all for now. I am looking forward to your response.

Thank you and best regards, Edy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esasongko (talk • contribs) 03:52, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Horrible new look

I positively hate the new look, with its tiny unreadable type, spread wide across the page. There was previously a way to get back to the old look but that seems to have gone. What a disaster. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duncantho (talk • contribs) 16:05, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Cleo Odac Was born on Davao City on December 3,1997 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.6.181.123 (talk) 19:58, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

concept of media reality show

Dear sir-

              I am Kaushal Tiwari(member of Writer Association) have a reality show concept that is basically based on Journalist, i am providing the brief detail of concept. If you don't mind i need your 10 minute of time thats why i can explain the whole detail of the show Thanks.

'CONCEPT' We propose a Reality show, which will get the next breed of journalists together on a common platform, and provide an opportunity to give their best. The journalists will have to select a story, which will centre on some of the current happenings, or hot topics, and end up finding solutions to the issues underlying this topic. The Reality Show will entitle the Journalist to question the main protagonists of this topic, either at their own place , or in the studio in order to find his / her solutions. The availability of these protagonists should be ensured by the Channel Partners. There will be a panel of Judges, who will judge the journalists. Also, the mass public will be participants in this by sending back their votes, favoring those candidates, whom they perceive to be the best If singers or dancers can be made into public Idols, why not journalists. After all, the media is a strong force in India, which is keeping democracy alive in India. Our budding journalists should find a place in the sun.

Dated:-20/07/2010 Kaushlendra Tiwari (member of Writers Association)

                                                                                                   Mob. no.- 9702210287/,09305092535  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.236.17.36 (talk) 16:16, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Alternating Current.

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Languages

Note; this if from the archive. It was archived due to no response - but I just want to try it one more time to see if I get any response... cheers

Comment: I like that the languages section on the left hand side is hidden now by default - it is not something that is used often, so showing those (sometimes 20+) links clutters the page unnecessarily.

Idea: Ok, first I am going to make a few assertions based on no evidence... In general;

Not many people use the language links (see comment above)
Of the people that do, they do not use it very often.
Of the people that do, they only use a few (say 2 or 3) languages.

If what I guess to be true is, then showing all the languages to a logged in user is showing too much information. I think it should only show the ones you are interested in.

For example, lets say I am interested in two languages; English (main) and Japanese (secondary). Every now and then I will want to look at the Japanese version. So I expand the languages section (as I already mentioned, I like this part). But then I need to find the Japanese link. If it is a good article, then it will have many links. So it will be somewhere about two thirds at the bottom of a two page list. Not easy to find.

So my suggestion is something like this: Have a means to specify the languages you are interested in. Perhaps a preference section. Then the languages bar will show those languages that you are interested in and hide the rest. If the language is not available, it will tell you that it is not available. By saying that it is not available (explicit), it avoids the current situation where you are not sure if it is not available, or you just cant find the link in the 50+ item language list. It would also make it easier for people to link two existing articles. So maybe the language section could look like this:

(+) Languages

English
Japanese

(note, that plus sign (a triangle in the current vector skin) at the front of 'languages' would let you expand the full list of languages). If a Japanese version (in the above example) is not available/linked, it would provide visual feedback somehow (maybe it wont be a link, or it will have some extra text).

--Boy.pockets (talk) 05:18, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Watch

I don't see the advantage, especially for the new user, of changing the simple words "Watch" or "Add to watch list" to a cryptic symbol. It makes it hard even for me, and I've been using and editing WP for several years. Zaslav (talk) 01:47, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Agreed, this is a step backwards. A while ago they changed "+" to "New section" in talk pages for exactly the same (good) reason. Also, star now means both "featured article" and "favourite". Another reason why we should change back to "Watch"/"Unwatch". 221.47.185.5 (talk) 00:36, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree; icons can be good as visual shortcuts if you are familiar with an interface, but if you are not, spelling it out is better. I also discovered that it apparently does not have an alt text (or more correctly, its alt attribute is explicitly set to the empty string) so if you don't load images, it's not visible at all in Opera, not even as a blank square. This led me to believe, briefly, that the option to "watch" an article had been removed. -- magetoo 04:22, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Editing toolbar's "Help" tool

The Editing toolbar's "Help" tool could use two additions to its "References" sheet.

The "Additional use of same reference" entry is incomplete; its second column (the "What you type" column) lacks the "Page text." that appears in the third column (the "What you get" column).

The "Display references" entry is incomplete; its third column should show the superscripted "a" and "b" that would appear after the caret, representing the two sample citations shown to be using ref name="test".

Thank you, --Rich Janis (talk) 07:07, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Advanced editing toolbar

I have two problems with the current layout of the Advanced editing toolbar.

One problem is the right-alignment of the "find and replace" icon. With all the other icons left-aligned, it took me a long time to find that isolated icon on a 16:9 screen.

My other problem is that the words "Format" and "Insert" seem bizarre. First, they appear to be tools; then, they appear to be disabled tools; then, when I'm browsing in Opera, a double-click on them gives me a shortcut menu, from which, finally, I realize that they're simply labels. What a waste of time. Worse yet, the layout of this toolbar seems to conflict with the labels. It's clear that the only "insert" tools are to the right of the "Insert" label, and there are barely-visible vertical lines separating that section from the ones to its left & right. However, if we apply that observation to the remaining icons and the "Format" label, then we'd have to conclude that the Heading, Big, Small, Superscript, and Subscript tools are not formatting tools. This makes no sense to me. If you've found those labels to be helpful to many people, then please make it clearer that they are not tools and to which tools they apply; otherwise, please remove them.

Thanks, --Rich Janis (talk) 07:57, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Save the Book...

I absolutely love the book creator. However, when I close the browser and go back to Wikipedia, the book I had been creating is gone. Please include a save feature for the book creator - maybe save up to ten or something... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jammatmil (talk • contribs) 20:46, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

It is possible to save a book if you are a registered user for several days and if you have made several edits to pages. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:18, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Search on My Palm Treo

The new search doesn't work on my smart phone. I wish the separate search button would return. In the meantime I have to use Google to search from my phone, which is not good. Saltysailor (talk) 05:40, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Try using Wikpedia Mobile. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Bogus Editorial Remarks

Dear Wikipedia:

With some frequency, I am seeing messages, like this one from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_to_create_Live_USB_systems:

"This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive and inappropriate external links or by converting links into footnote references."

The article in question is entitled, "List of tools to create Live USB systems." It is a list. Various items in the list are hyperlinked directly to other articles.

I love footnotes. But in this case, footnotes would add an unnecessary intervening step. They would also confuse the presentation and diminish the user's experience. If the creator had followed the wishes of the benighted editor who added this remark, then for every link that I wanted to follow, I would have had to jump to the bottom of the page to find the link that I would intend to open in a separate tab. Then back up to the list; then back down to the footnotes; etc.

I send you this remark because these pseudo-editorial remarks have infected a remarkable number of Wikipedia pages. As I have become more consciously aware of them, I have also found them more distracting. Sometimes such remarks linger for years, without anyone other than the original "editor" finding it especially important to administer the prescribed medication to a healthy page.

In lieu of a system in which self-appointed overseers apparently have free rein to mark up wiki pages with their notions of purity, I suggest that such editorial remarks themselves be submitted as tentative or proposed, visible not in full text but in the form of an icon or other indicator (e.g., "Editor Requests Improvements"), to which likeminded individuals can turn if they wish to get lost in the arcana together -- without, that is, screwing up the ordinary user's experience.

Yours,

Ray Woodcock —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywood (talk • contribs) 13:05, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

The notes are present exactly to make you aware of any deficiencies in the article and to encourage you to improve upon them. It might not be 'pretty', but at least you know. You call it "notion of purity", but much of the press and users would call lack of them "being unreliable". It is a choice. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:16, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

This reply substantially fails to address the concerns I presented. It is also unpersuasive. Neither the placement of the admonitions nor their content actually does anything to improve the entry. If you want to footnote things, why not start here? Put a simple note up top (e.g., "Improvement Request") and link it to a more complete explanation down below. If you want to notify *me* in particular, then email me.

Oh, by the way. The "Raywood" page does not exist because some hyperactive Wikipedia editor deleted it after I created it.

Scroll bar in Mac Dictionary/Thesaurus/Wikipedia app doesn't work with new features

The scroll bar isn’t displayed on the right side of the Dictionary window when viewing Wikipedia articles. Mac OS X v10.6.4, MacBook Pro, Safari 5.0.

The only way to get it to work is to turn off the new features. I also have to turn off the new features every time I open Safari or it is updated.

I would love to give you some positive feedback on the new features, but this one negative aspect is so awful that I don't care about the other stuff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amaling (talk • contribs) 00:18, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Now, when I turn off the New Features to use the Dictionary/Thesaurus/Wiki, they don't stay off. Within a few minutes, they're back on again. Automatically.

This is a bug in Apple's program. You will have to direct your complaint to Apple. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:07, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Right Click Menu Open in new Tab

Right click on Discussion tab (say) does not permit opening in a new tab on IE 8. Not sure why, maybe the alt key? But it is a pain not being able to easily open the Article, Discussion and History in different tabs. (Works in Firefox.) Tuntable (talk) 01:23, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

This was recently fixed and the fix will soon be deployed. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:58, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Space between paragraphs

Can we *please* have some more space between paragraphs. Particularly as most pages used super scripts for references. The paragraphs disapear, making it hard to read. Or maybe just indent the first line 6 spaces. Tuntable (talk) 01:23, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

It is expected behavior that superscripts change the space between lines in a paragraph. On all browsers but IE, this is corrected to not occur however. Unfortunately, there was no good way to correct this issue on Internet Explorer. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Take me back and New features links on top start to get annoying

With all respect to the developers of the new features and all the time they've spent on it, the Take me back and New features links may not be that relevant to be on the very top of every Wikipedia page. I think they may very well be put in My preferences now. Mikael Häggström (talk) 11:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Search box and vertical space

There are two big issues with me aboutthe search box placement in the new design. One is that there is now less vertical space for each and every wikipage you go to, and all the 'management' links are no longer grouped together on the left. Before unless you wanted to deal sepcifically with a page (edit, discuss, view history) you always went to the left. Now that's no longer true. In addition with the big push these days for widescreen monitors removing vertical space doesn't make much sense. It just seems another case of a popular website going the way of all flash no function and earning nothing but website rage from it's (former) satisfied users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jedimmel (talk • contribs) 18:55, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

i need help!!!

i want to add pictures for celebrities but i dont know how to..... help —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockstar7733 (talk • contribs) 00:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

drill rig

Rig Model ZJ50D ZJ70D

Nominal drilling depth, 127mm(5″)DP, m 5000 7000 Max. hook load, kN(t) 3150（315） 4500（450） dill line system of travelling system 6×7 6×7 Dia. Of drill line，mm 35 38 Max. pull of fastline, kN 350﹙35﹚ 485﹙48.5﹚ Drawworks Model JC-50D JC-70D Rated power, kW(hP) 1100(1500) 1470(2000) Gears 2（4） 4 Main brake hydraulic disk brake hydraulic disk brake Assistant brake Eddy current brake(EATON) Eddy current brake(EATON) Crown block TC-315 TC-450 Travelling block YC-315 YC-450 OD of sheaves of hoisting system, mm 1270 1540 Hook DG-315 DG-450 Swivel Model SL-450 SL-450 Dia. of stem bore 75 75 Rotary table Opening dia. mm(in) 952.5(37 1/2) 952.5(37 1/2) Gears I OR II, stepless speed regulating Drive mode independent or compound drive Derrick (mast) Type JJ315/45-K JJ450/45-K Height, m 45m 45m Max. load, kN(lbs) 3150(700000) 4500(1000000) Racking board height, m 24.5, 25.5, 26.5 24.5, 25.5, 26.5 Substructure Type DZ315/9-S DZ450/9(10.5)-S Drillfloor height 9 9 (10.5) Clearance height under rotary beam, m 7.6 7.4 ( 9 ) Capacity of mud circulating system 　　 Mud pump Model×number F-1300×2 F-1600×2 Drive mode DC motor HP mud manifold Ф103mm (bore dia.) × 35MPa Electric drive mode AC-SCR-DC，one to one, or one to two Number of main generator × capacity 3×1500KVA 4×1900KVA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.57.158.67 (talk) 00:16, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm so happy and emotionally extatic about your hard and dilligent work in keeping up information up to-date, thank you so very much for proving in the good nature of human beings!!!

James-Thomas Skibinsky [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.68.103.20 (talk) 02:38, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Links like Editing Summary link

They always go away from my page and delete what I added. Also if you have the warning feature on so it doesn't navigate away when you press the special characters below the edit box it gives a warning.

I hate EVERYTHING about the new look.

There is WAY too much info on the page, the fonts are microscopic.

You should have left it alone! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashebroe (talk • contribs) 20:09, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Birth Certificate/ Non Availability Certificate

I want to apply for the aubject sited above but the form on the site is not responding. Please advise.

[email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.38.92 (talk) 13:59, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

I take it from your comment that you read one of our 3+million articles and believe we are associated with the subject. This is Wikipedia the free encyclopedia anyone can edit. You will need to find a link to the agency you are trying to contact. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 14:03, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

User data

Like the look and especially like the user graphs and charts. Recently however the 'User contributions/Images Uploaded' 'Gallery' feature is reporting a database error and will not display images uploaded. It has been this way for two days now. GWillHickers (talk) 20:43, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Missing editing features

One thing I haven't been able to find is a way to insert an embedded comment: . It was in the old editor; it should be in this one. The tags aren't easy to remember. Dmforcier (talk) 03:33, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

elaborate

can you please be more elaborate with the articles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.43.37 (talk) 07:01, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Response from an average contributor

I am happy to learn that wikipedia has tried to make things simpler for people like us who get bogged by the various difficulties that we face while using any of its features like editing or writing an article.

Of Course I feel priviledged when any bit of my knowledge becomes a part of the Wiki.

--arunbandana 15:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

just wanted to say, this written look font is driving me nuts.  can it be changed back to a regular type like the one I am using to type this message.  I just look at the written font and it puts me off reading much further. thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.65.229 (talk) 15:58, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I would be fascinatingly glad if some kind of "theme" options might be added.

That is, for example, I have a serious problem reading on white background since it is harmful to my eyes. When I log in, the wiki system can automatically recall my preferences and open wiki in white font over black background. And I will be logged in for weeks without being asked password like gmail style. Would be really nice for me and for all.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.97.108.252 (talk) 22:03, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

is there a way to see where a wikipedia article is linked from in other wikipedia articles?

i would like to be able to see all the other articles where an article is linked from, sort of like backwards surfing. is there a way to do this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.247.253.246 (talk) 22:06, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

In the toolbox to the left of the page is the "What links here" option that does exactly that. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:18, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Featured article star logo does not show on Turkish Wiki

The Star logo for featured articles on the Turkish Wikipedia does not appear with the new page layout. See for example this week's featured article tr:Ankara ili. The local equivalent for {{featured article}} is tr:Şablon:seçkin madde, and its code does not appear significanly different from the English version. I know this is the English Wikipedia but I am hoping that knowledgeable people might be available. Any help would be much appreciated. --İnfoCan (talk) 07:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

They need to add code to MediaWiki:Vector.css to show topicons. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:13, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much.--İnfoCan (talk) 08:58, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Daily Article

Hi guys,

I love love LOVE Wikipedia of course... but...

There have been SO MANY daily articles on:

1) Video games 2) Cricket players

Really, I mean really! Out of almost 3.5 million articles, these two subjects are of the most importance to you? There's no way the daily articles have been chosen randomly; if I had the patience I would go back through my email for the past year and count the video game and cricket articles but I think my memory is serving well enough.

Any explanation? Aren't there more important events/people/wars/dinosaurs/inventions/cultures/diseases/marine animals you could be introducing to people? It's a great opportunity, as I bet lots of people read the daily article, and I feel that the opportunity is being squandered.

Thanks for your consideration,

Molly Payne

PS - Did I mention I love Wikipedia? :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Molpayne (talk • contribs) 05:22, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi My name is Farhang. Congratulations on your new interface. It has become more attractive and more user-friendly. The new feature that suggests names when typing in your searchbox has been very efficient. Thank you and wish you daily success Farhang, a student from Iran —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.191.123.139 (talk) 06:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

BolRichard A. Williams text Mouthbrush born 1988 @ machines boucherie, Intelectual property rights for sale see face books $10.000.000.00 Mouthbrush firt create Richard A. Williams —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.4.209.194 (talk) 18:36, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Mouthbrush

Richard A. Williams MOUTHBRUSH developed @ machines boucherie 1988 MOUTHBRUSH Forsale $10.000.000.00 see mouthbrush @ face book —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.4.209.194 (talk) 18:39, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Phenix Fiber Optic Company

Phenix Fiber Optic Co.，Ltd was established in March 2001 and now is becoming to be a full series supplier providing Hi-Tech performance components and Optoelectronic products. Our company is a professional Hi-Tech manufacturer Located in Shenzhen, which is a beautiful city on the cutting-edge of reformation and opening-up. We are focus on producing passive optical communication devices mainly like Fiber Patchcord ,Fiber Adapters ,Fiber attenuators ,etc ,all these items have passed Strict Quality Inspections and have got certificates , and we have a 5000 squares meters workshop. We also have set up a good cooperation with many carriers, all of our products have got a good sales inside and outside of China. Phenix Fiber Optic Co.，Ltd provided the high quality products and first level service all around the world, now we are cooperating with China Tele, China Union, and CEP which is the biggest company in the power area of China. At the same time, our items have been exported to British ,USA ,France ,Spanish ,Holland ,Australian etc. We also have settled up many branches located in HK ,Taipei(China ),north of China etc. We are ambitious in the future to share much more market . Thanks all Optical Communication Industry colleagues and partners who are concerned on Phenix Fiber Optic Co.，Ltd. Hope we can conduct more in-depth communication. We are sincerely welcome customers from home and abroad to visit our company, to negotiate the business, to carry out technical cooperation, and to joint efforts to build our common future. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fiber optic patch cord (talk • contribs) 02:29, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

The old purple visitedlink colour was much more distinctive and easier to distinguish

the subject of this message pretty much conveys my entire point: from my pov the new visited link colour is too close to the active link colour, can there be a possibility of a change back? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.162.70 (talk) 16:28, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Metapages and visual distinction

Under the old Monobook theme, pages for encyclopedia articles had text on a white background, while metapages (Wikipedia project namespace, help, etc.) had a pale blue background. This gave a subtle but extremely useful hint as to whether one was browsing in the encyclopedia proper or "other stuff". This appears to have gone away. At this time, the only difference between a metapage and an article is a few bits of text -- the label in the tab and the namespace prefix. The lack of broader visual feedback is a step backward. While I realize that colored backgrounds can pose an accessibility issue, I'm sure there's *something* that could be done to still make metapages more visually distinct from articles. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 00:29, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Regarding Monobook custom styles (user-modified CSS)

Regarding these statements on the "New Features" page:

"Remember that with the skin change, your monobook JavaScript will need to be copied to User:Schweiwikist/vector.js to continue working.

Your custom monobook styles will no longer be applied. You can add custom CSS for vector in User:Schweiwikist/vector.css. "

Huh?? Why should something that I worked hard on myself, to improve my user experience, be disabled? (In Firefox, anyway. See below.)

With Firefox 3 and the 4 beta, my Monobook CSS has lost the Georgia font I find so readable, even with "new features" off (i.e., the Monobook skin active). Safari 5 doesn’t show this anomaly, my Monobook CSS still works fine.

My Wikipedia user-experience is just fine, thanks. I don’t need anything "fixed". I’d be happy to tweak a vector CSS too, if it’ll help, but I’d rather avoid having to.

Schweiwikist (talk) 09:24, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

UPDATE: Looks like this bug has been worked on, so thanks. My Monobook skin is behaving again.
---Schweiwikist (talk) 18:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

UPDATE: It’s malfunctioning again, but only with Firefox, not Safari, as before.
---Schweiwikist (talk) 10:27, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

UPDATE: Clearing the browser cache and closing a lot of browser windows re-resolved the issue, so it’s a RAM issue with Mozilla, apparently, that’s all.
---Schweiwikist (talk) 10:43, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Cursor in search bar

It's bad enough you changed the search bar from left to right, but you didn't even add a cursor in the new search bar. And quit moving the search bar around the page please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxman1 (talk • contribs) 01:41, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

why you are not showing gujarat (india) in torisam of india —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.101.119.3 (talk) 09:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Dictionary

As well as using Mac OS X 10.6 and Safari 5, I also use the Apple Dictionary application, mainly for Wikipedia, and delighted to have this as a sub-browser to view anything published by Wikipedia.

Recently, probably to do with your new features, on Dictionary itself, since Mac OS X Snow Leopard, all Wikipedia content is truncated at the first page. There is no scrollbar. The type or visuals are cut off at the bottom of the screen, in mid-line, or across an image! This makes it completely unusable.

Maybe Dictionary needs updating, or you could be aware of Dictionary, and ensure it works the way it used to? I can't seem to find a way to change the new features to let it work

Mike —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikebird666 (talk • contribs) 12:41, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

This is a problem with the Apple Dictionary program. You will have to contact Apple to get it fixed. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

its good but i wish i could change the anguage in wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.250.250 (talk) 12:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

hi howdy

i am very common person so please remember me. as i hv nothing new in my life so i cannot describe anything about me but then also remember me. thanks and b regards amit kumar khiyani 00971509560876 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.96.227.86 (talk) 13:27, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

there's no tranvias...?!!!

we need that for our project and you dont have that word..>!! ugrh....o'm so frustrated..!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.204.8.151 (talk) 12:20, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

The Dinner Party (2010)

Luke has a good job, great friends and a fantastic social life. He lives in his dream flat in London, where he was born and raised.

Jessica lives in the Lancashire countryside, she is well-liked, pretty and has many friends to spend her time with. Both are unhappy, despite their fortunate lives. Until Now! Luke has allowed us access into his life, as he says goodbye to the hustle and bustle of London and travels up north to be with his one true love, Jesse.

We follow Jesse and Luke as they begin living together as a real couple, without dreading Sunday nights and Lukes journey back to London. We follow this dreamy couple as they begin to live their own personal dream, of sharing each moment together.

Jesse has arranged a surprise dinner party in Luke’s honour and has invited several friends to welcome him into village life, which is an innocent and loving thing to do, until it descends into a nightmare that simply doesn’t want to end.

As the alcohol flows freely, tempers begin to flare and the conversation gets heated, and then just one more unwelcomed guest; a guest that insists on joining the party and delivering a brand of brutal truth that captures the attention of the rowdy bunch and one that is about to unlock the very darkest of secrets.

Fly on the wall feature length mocumentary.

www.thedinnerpartymovie.co.uk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.99.174.109 (talk) 15:41, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Button to get the old layout

Is it so hard to put next to the "New features" link, another link so one could get the old layout back? The usability of the old one was better! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.203.150.202 (talk) 20:28, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

input elements

Since you are defining the colors of the background for stuff like input boxes, it is also necessary to define the colors of the foreground. My system uses a dark theme with white fonts and while I can read what I am typing here right now, it is impossible to read whay I type in the search box. So the search box, and maybe some other fields that you had customized, need to set the forground color, while leaving the rest untouched. (like this text box) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.152.39.161 (talk) 11:56, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for reporting this problem. I have opened a bug ticket to get this issue resolved bugzilla:24605. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:43, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Copperopolis

Copperopolis, California, is a —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfchessen (talk • contribs) 02:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Damon

Damon is a another word for ugly and sexy and he likes to play with girls and sex with them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherk55 (talk • contribs) 06:15, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Your article Schools of Mines

Please note the existence of the book: F. Habashi, Schools of Mines. The Beginnings of Mining and Metallurgical Education, Métallurgie Extractive Québec, Sainte-Foy, Québec 2003, 602 pages, ISBN: 2-980-3247-9-5. Distributed by Laval University Bookstore "Zone" [contact person: [email protected]] http://works.bepress.com/fathi_habashi/ http://pages.infinit.net/habashi/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.58.74.118 (talk) 08:03, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Regarding your article Schools of Mines

Please note that Laval University in Quebec City offers degree in Mining Engineering. Reference: F. Habashi, Schools of Mines. The Beginnings of Mining and Metallurgical Education, Métallurgie Extractive Québec, Quebec City, Canada 2003, 602 pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.58.74.118 (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Generating Automatic Emails , maybe?/ Discouraging Criticisms?

I am not very experienced as an editor.

Sometimes I make changes or start new pages and it seems almost automatically a more experienced editor, some how puts a great big box around querying what I have written. There was something about a smackbot which was almost nonsensical. I was aware that I had not done the info in the regular style but from my knowledge I was putting additional accurate info on Wikipedia with some links which may help others and is also a start for others who are more technical than me to choose to edit.

Now two points.

1. Can the query/threaten to remove comments be written a little more positively, so as not discourage people like me from posting again?

2. When something is queried in such away can an option for notification by automatic email be preselected?

In this case I have offered answers which may or may not be acceptable, however had I not checked back, I would not have known about the query/criticisms my posts had generated.

Stranger on the shore (talk) 10:01, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Name searching

I've just spent a lot of time searching for the answer to a crossword question. Q) Laura --- Giacomo. A) San. Key-in Laura returns 10 suggestions and none are any good. Select Laura and still get nowhere. Once I found the 1st letter 'S' and keyed Laura S, the correct answer appeared. The old system would've given a page where I could've selected Laura as a christian name and looked at all of them. Obviously somewhere between the two would be good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Molbrum (talk • contribs) 12:40, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Richard M. Fleming, M.D.

A Nuclear Cardiologist originally trained at the University of Iowa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fleming1956 (talk • contribs) 19:19, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

left hand side column

left hand side column is not necessary. put a bottom to make the text full screen, getting rid of all the bottoms and columns and just showing the article and a search box. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.146.141.124 (talk) 20:25, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Languages

Note; this if from the archive. It was archived due to no response - but I just want to try it one more time to see if I get any response... cheers

Comment: I like that the languages section on the left hand side is hidden now by default - it is not something that is used often, so showing those (sometimes 20+) links clutters the page unnecessarily.

Comment: New language menu is especially problematic on Opera Mini mobile browser where the language menu can not be opened at all. I don't know how many people really misses that but I have personally used to seek translations quite often at Wikipedia. Moreover, it is easier to find article first in your own language and then see if there's more written in English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Serola (talk • contribs) 09:29, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Idea: Ok, first I am going to make a few assertions based on no evidence... In general;

Not many people use the language links (see comment above)
Of the people that do, they do not use it very often.
Of the people that do, they only use a few (say 2 or 3) languages.

If what I guess to be true is, then showing all the languages to a logged in user is showing too much information. I think it should only show the ones you are interested in.

For example, lets say I am interested in two languages; English (main) and Japanese (secondary). Every now and then I will want to look at the Japanese version. So I expand the languages section (as I already mentioned, I like this part). But then I need to find the Japanese link. If it is a good article, then it will have many links. So it will be somewhere about two thirds at the bottom of a two page list. Not easy to find.

So my suggestion is something like this: Have a means to specify the languages you are interested in. Perhaps a preference section. Then the languages bar will show those languages that you are interested in and hide the rest. If the language is not available, it will tell you that it is not available. By saying that it is not available (explicit), it avoids the current situation where you are not sure if it is not available, or you just cant find the link in the 50+ item language list. It would also make it easier for people to link two existing articles. So maybe the language section could look like this:

(+) Languages

English
Japanese

(note, that plus sign (a triangle in the current vector skin) at the front of 'languages' would let you expand the full list of languages). If a Japanese version (in the above example) is not available/linked, it would provide visual feedback somehow (maybe it wont be a link, or it will have some extra text). --Boy.pockets (talk) 13:47, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

There are a lot of people who are not a native english speaker and just cross checking information or editors looking for pics. Hiding their way back wouldn't be so helpful. --Biezl (talk) 16:36, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Awani Acharya

s —Preceding unsigned comment added by Awaniacharya (talk • contribs) 15:44, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

When turning of the stupid and anoying new features.

Why is there no option: remember me forewer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.186.73.7 (talk) 21:41, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

What is RICEF?

^[1]

What is RICEF? Many a times asked in interviews! Unfortunately a lot of people fail to answer a simple question, even though working on it for years.

You usually come accross the word RICEF when searching for SAP ABAP Developer jobs. RICEF isn't a standard SAP acronym. It's not defined by SAP like we have ABAP, ALV, etc. It's a comon term used to describe five areas of technical developments in SAP.

RICEF stands for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.189.10.1 (talk) 23:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Layout/Outlines

Yeah, I would just like to say that I love the new layout of Wikipedia. I also wanted to say keep the "Outlines" section of the site. I like how these things are layed out and want them to be continued.Shemp99 (talk) 11:49, 4 August 2010 (UTC) Shemp99

Every word is bold?? Disgusting!!!!!!!--Beyond silence 14:54, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Right Click Quick Editing

Is this seriously a feature? It is inconvenient and as a long time user of Wikipedia it is rather annoying. I shouldn't be forced to revert to ctrl+c after I've highlighted a section of text to make sure the page doesn't navigate away from the one I want. I'm using FF 3.6.8 Win XP SP2. Alex (talk) 22:18, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

This is actually controlled by your preferences on this site. Click on My preferences and then click on editing. The fourth checkbox down is the right click option you should be able to turn it off there. ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 10:58, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Not able to add a jpg photograph I have already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons into an article

I am clearly embarrassed to confess that after doing quite a bit of work on a page for the artist Jerome Myers (my grandfather)with a somewhat time consuming learning process, today I prepared a couple of graphics of my grandfathers work that I wanted to interest into the article.

After a morning of effort I finally learned enough about Wikimedia Commons and what I needed to do to properly upload them, that that task was completed. I thought it would be a fairly simple matter, knowing the exact file name to place the images into the article. Your new Wikipedia user interface seemed clear and had been quite helpful earlier, but it is now almost 4 hours later and in spite of reading help files and such, I still haven't figured out the secret of doing it. I first tried clicking on your icon for the picture gallery which inserted the following:

Caption1
Caption2

But I couldn't find the right way to enter the file name which I knew to replace "Example.jpg" It seemed to want me to upload the graphic again which didn't seem to make sense. It also would take me out of Edit mode.

In further reading I think I may want to use "frame" to insert the picture with the original dimensions? Anyway I am lost and wondering if my degree from Columbia University even guarantees I can tie my own shoe laces these days. Maybe age has done me in. But this process doesn't seem clear enough as presented. Any help would be appreciated. I do greatly admire the work Wikipedia is doing.

Barry Downes

--BEDownes (talk) 21:02, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Improvements on managing images are currently in development and might be added later. --Biezl (talk) 08:15, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

I live in Morgantown,WV as I moved here 15 years ago, living at Marjorie Gardens, Dorsey Lane, and two years ago I moved too my present address of, 3180 Collins Ferry Road, Morgantown, WV 26505. Since, about 1997 I've been trying to obtain more skillful employment with the cashier training of 1984 and Columbia School of Broadcasting of, 1987. I've gone to WV Rehabilitation Service, Job Squad, and PACE-tec of WV, as I've had no luck with job counselors or employment sites applied for. For the last two years I've been with Job Squad & the Social Security Administration's PASS plan. Last night around 11:30pm I saw a commercial with the WV governor, Joe Manchin, advertising for people to come ride motor bikes in WV, as he's a biker himself, and today at work I was told to leave early.

                                                                                    John Windsor III
                                                                                 [email protected]
                                                                                 blessed be
                                                                                [email protected]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.43.4.207 (talk) 21:26, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Mitch Miller's death

All I would like to say is that you missed a very important person in Wikipedia Deaths. Mitch Miller died this past week at the age of I think 99. He was a very important band leader. Can someone check as to why he was not mentioned. thanks, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.253.223.252 (talk • contribs) 02:23, 7 August 2010

He has an article Mitch Miller, where his death is mentioned. What page are you looking at that you think his death should have been mentioned and it is not? ~~ GB fan ~~ ^talk 10:48, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Attaboys

You folks have one fantastic site!!! The number of references and the info is incredible. The unbiased writing is really welcome. I'm convinced it is one of the very few BEST sites in the world... And, it's still ad free!

Thank you so much for all of your efforts, and best of luck to everyone on the staff! No reply nec.

<<redacted email>> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Itldosince72 (talk • contribs) 09:23, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Comment on Wiki article on "stellar aberration"

This write-up makes frequent reference to the "true position" of the stars. In my opinion, the true position of distant stars is not knowable. This is because the "true velocity" of the Earth (or the telescope carried by the Earth) is not knowable. The latter would include effects of motion of our galaxy toward a "great attractor," possible motion of the great attractor toward something else, etc. I do not know how you want to fix this, but it needs fixing. Reference to the "true position" of the stars is as obsolete a concept as the nineteenth century reference to the "fixed stars."

Thomas E. Phipps, Jr. [email protected] 7 August, 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.199.8.38 (talk) 16:16, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

A-Z List

What has happened to the A-Z functionality previously located on the Main Page? Please tell me that you are not REMOVING features. I am hoping that I am just looking in the wrong place (i.e., in the location that it was for years). If you have removed this, is there a way for me to revert to the old Wikipedia interface. I can't say I'm crazy about this new one, anyway. The search bar is located too far out of the way. Thanks. 24.57.67.227 (talk) 12:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Jerry Rice and the media.

I don't recall which magazine I read about Jerry Rice early in his career but I never forgot the commendation they gave him which was: Jerry Rice has three speeds: Fast, Very Fast and Gone. Having seen him play and beat my Chicago Bears Team in the playoffs one year when the 49ers won the championship, it was all too true. Besides that, he was always a sportsman and a gentleman beside being one of the alltime greatest football players America ever saw.

Don Casey, Sr., JD, DFC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.211.31.215 (talk) 21:22, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Show changes

Thanks for fixing the frustrating "only one set of diffs per save" situation. A much smaller annoyance is that there's no hiding diffs that you're done with, until the edit is complete. (Maybe i let edits go on too long w/o saving?) If it were easy for you, i'd like to get what i need out of the classic "yellow-/green-background" diffs, or out of the interleaved many-colors additions/moves/deletions view, then either turn off that feature or stop looking at its results, since the window full of preview, two-column diffs, interleaved diffs, and edit pane (followed sometimes by a long list of templates (which i probably never consult) followed by the indication of existing or non-existing Cats sometimes turns into a burdensome intra-window navigation problem.
But you are doing great; many thanks.
--Jerzy•t 10:19, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Take me back to my boots and saddle

Ho long are the "take me back" and "new features" buttons going to hang out? It's been two months, I think anyone who is a regular has seen it by now, and anyone who is new doesn't know the difference. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Pop-up box when selecting a direct link

The Problem: I like to consider myself an information fiend. I always use Wikipedia to gather as much information as possible on whatever subject I am currently researching. I usually click on numerous pages at a time so that I can gather a substantial amount of information that is related to the subject at hand. For example, I will often click on a link (The Battle of Gettysburg) that is included in the introduction of the topic I am researching (The Civil War). I often find that the information I needed (on The Battle of Gettysburg) is usually included in the first couple sentences of that (The Battle of Gettysburg) pages introduction. As a result, I usually wind up with five to six additional pages (tabs/windows) of content all related to my primary search. Although this is most definitely the premise behind the direct links to other pages, I find it to be rather time consuming (which you may be hoping for) and easily avoidable.

The Solution: Recently, I was reading an article on ESPN.com about how the New York Yankees had just acquired Lance Berkman before the trade deadline. So while reading the original article (or The Civil War in the aforementioned example) I clicked on a direct link (Lance Berkman) (or The Battle of Gettysburg in the aforementioned example), which opened a pop-up box with Lance Berkman’s 2010 statistics. Rather than opening up a new page I was able to gather all the information I was looking for with as little effort as possible. Wikipedia may want to consider offering a similar feature to allow its readers to sift through the information it provides quickly and easily. I believe that it would be beneficial for Wikipedia and its users if you were to include a pop-up box with a brief synopsis of the direct link (The Battle of Gettysburg) with the option to “Read more”. If what I’m saying doesn’t make any sense at all then try it out for yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.192.99.130 (talk) 18:20, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

There's something called WP:Navigation popups. I think that's what you're looking for. --Biezl (talk) 11:30, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

"go to top" link

I would like a link that takes you to the top of the page after scrolling down to the bottom of that page. Also, is there any way a shortcut key can bring you to the Search box without having to use the mouse? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.98.225.106 (talk) 21:28, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

For shortcuts please look at Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts. --Biezl (talk) 11:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

JK Simmons

Re: actor JK Simmons. Recent voice over in the (Jun-Jul-Aug/2010) Animal Planet series "Last American Cowboy" not mentioned in his bio. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.232.90.2 (talk) 13:07, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I think you are in the wrong place, you might want to bring this up on the talk page of the article instead. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:21, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Ugh- everything looks very big!

I use Internet Explorer and, as I have bad eyesight, set View => Textsize to "larger". Wikipedia used to look fine, but now everything looks massive. Changeing View => Textsize to "medium" makes everything far too small. What on earth have you done - and how can I use the old system? 85.12.64.140 (talk) 14:26, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I've already made a bug report on this (link). Can you please specify which version you are using (IE6, IE7, IE8 or IE9?). You can switch back by creating an account and change "My preferences" (for more see WP:Skin). If you wanna help to change things, then add your experience to the bug report and put weight on this issue. --Biezl (talk) 14:49, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

It's not obvious that the star icon is to set a page watch

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out what happened to the 'watch' feature. Then I noticed the star and figured you build a kind of favorites... But a mouse over told me it was the missing 'watch'. In my opinion, the traditional 'watch' link worked better.

Steve Quatrano —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefano (talk • contribs) 02:38, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

I agree on that; the blue star is not obvious. Most programs have a Yellow star for favourites (Firefox bookmarks, Google favourites) what makes you think the page is not actually being watched. Any change we change that for a yellow star instead of blue? --Mariano(t/c) 10:22, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

search for english pages

hello

I occasionally look for German or Dutch wiki pages, but typically I want the ENGLISH page.

Every time I consulted a German or Dutch page, it looks like those languages are my favourite, and every time I need to set ENGLISH again as main language. Can't something be done about it ? Selecting ENGLISH in preferences should mean English REMAINS the main language, even if I consult 10 different languages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.192.112.158 (talk) 13:46, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

The language setting in preferences of logged in users influences the language of some of the user interface but is not about the language of articles. Enter en: in the search box to get back to the English Wikipedia from another Wikipedia language. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:42, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

pls provide some animations for articles

pls provide with the video and animations for many articles so that it is convenient for the learning of kids.

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.245.173 (talk) 03:57, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

linking between various languages

One important feature of Wikipedia used to be linking between various languages [generally this is not a mere translation] and I can't find it anymore! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.250.172.186 (talk) 10:26, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Word -high-lighter-

While looking for an explanation of 'Ojha' due to the amount of information in a short space, I was looking to -high-light- or -under-line- words and/or sentences to help my learning and thought this could be a useful addition to the tool box in the side bar of Wikipedia.

(Like a coloured hight-lighter pen for hard copy papers or books.)

I'm sure this would have many technical implications and hope it might be useful when developing future developments to the wonder of Wikipedia.

Many thanks for providing me with an opportunity to express a thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.4.219.91 (talk) 21:34, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Suggestions

I sugest Wikipedia use video with audio(picture they say tells a thousand words) and more pictures,and adding an electronic word reader to the text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.173.114.205 (talk) 04:36, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Notable video is typically copyrighted and so cannot be used. Your operating system might actually already be able read the texts for you, but some articles have been converted to audio. --Thorseth (talk) 18:06, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Reference wizard

The "insert reference" button should work like a wizard. Asking the relevant questions: Is it a book, paper, website or some such. What's the title, publisher and url and so on. This would make it easier for people, not familiar with the wikipedia syntax.--Thorseth (talk) 08:22, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Search box

There's lots here about the position and size of the search box. It's still impossible to find via the main page on my pda/phone. There's a very simple solution though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search How about making it more generally known - like putting a link to it on the main page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.87.215 (talk) 09:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

"new features" unwanted and disfunctional - wikipedia react!!!

looking at the feed-back-reactions to the new features it is clearly discernable that the reactions are overwhelmingly negative!!! with the argument, that they slow down things to an unbearable degree, being in itself enough to vote them out!!! now, why does nobody react in this organization that prides itself to be 'grass-roots-democratic'?!?! o.k., we can turn off the new features (in every other language anew...); but why don't you turn things around: let the 'new features' be a choice! and you will see how few people will use this option! and lastly: whoes ('mafia'-)interests are actually behind this move that is clearly unwanted and forced upon wiki-users??? --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 17:02, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

good day pastor.i am a guy who is still in the secondary school.o need you to help me.i want to stay away from my predators and be hard leaning.

good day pastor.i am a guy who is still in the secondary school.o need you to help me.i want to stay away from my predators and be hard leaning. i want to learn and bring happyness to my parents. i really dont want to disappoint them.i have view your programme so many times and i know you can do it for me.i really know you can do it,please help me.i cant afford the money to come there.my dad has not enough money to sponser me.please help me pastor,may the lord help your business to progress .amen.--41.218.228.117 (talk) 09:01, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Expecting an enhancement of "Book Creator" Application in Print/Export tab

Hi, I am Manoj Hirwani. Your newly introduced Print/Export application in wikipedia is pretty awesome and is very much useful to make all the web pages into a book. It's really an innovative and appreciable idea. Thanks a lot!!

While using the "Book Creator" application, I encountered a problem: Coming to "Book Creator" application, links that are stored as book, are avaiable only in the system that too only in the browser it is created. If I tried to clear all the private data of my browser, then books created in my system are also get deleted. I feel this will happen only if data related to "Book Creator" application is stored in form of cookies (Which is temporary). This creates dependency of data storage with user's browser cookies data, which is restricted access to end user to access his/her created books from another system in world.

What I am going to suggest is : Please store the "Book Creator" application data based on the logged account information remotely in your servers, so that an end user can access his/her created books any where from the world which is not restricted.

This will be achieved only if the dependency between data and browser settings is eliminated and make a dependency between data and login account information.

Hope this will be done as soon as possible.

Thanks,

V N Manoj Hirwani Majeti

[email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hirwaniedu (talk • contribs) 09:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

lopta

najbolji fudbaler svijeta je kaka —Preceding unsigned comment added by Myregister (talk • contribs) 14:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Width of page template

For such a content-heavy website, the page template is extremely wide. I usually view in 1366px which I guess is pretty wide but 1280px is fairly standard these days. 1024px is more manageable but less popular than widescreens now. In the wider resolution I am having to read lines of text that stretches in many cases almost the entire width of the screen, which I don't have to in other content/text based sites. I'm aware I can use accessibility tools like Readability to customise the pages to my own preferences, but I shouldn't have to. Has Wikipedia learnt nothing from how newspaper websites have developed over the years? --Thoughtcat (talk) 10:38, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

You failed to mention the name of GENESIS SCHOOL OF HAPPY KIDS ADVANCED STUDIES. In fact, I just came from the Induction of Officers of the Private Schools Principals' League (PSPL) of Dagupan City and the School Administrator of GSHKAS is the immediate past president of PSPL and she was replaced by the Administrator of Living Lights Academy Foundation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.202.132.62 (talk) 14:35, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Search box (Have read explanation)

Hi,

I think the search box should be placed right on top of the page - as it now is - but at the centre or slightly to the left as opposed to the right side, as the current placement forces the user to move the cursor a long way after typing the web address or clicking a bookmark link.

You cannot go by general search box placement research, as the search box is of secondary importance on most sites whereas wikipedia's is the key navigation element. There is a reason why google's isn't on the far right side.

Best regards,

Sebastian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.14.81.65 (talk) 08:48, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Random Article button

The Random Article feature should provide the user some new info and some unexpected experience. To improve that "surprize" I suggest to retrieve only complete/mature pages. Do not display drafts, stubs, pages requiring extension etc.

thanks ys —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.186.176.231 (talk) 14:21, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

problems with narrow windows

With a narrow browser window the "History" option completely disappeared. When I maximized it you could see it suddenly slide in from the right. Note to "designers": because it can be done with javascript does not mean it should be. And you really should avoid making assumptions about window widths if at all possible.

That was it for me. I've had trouble finding things ever since the new design rolled out... I much prefer the old boxes-drawn-around-things look.

(But note: I typically run firefox with custom colors, so if you've got some UI design hints in the background colors, I often don't see them).

 -- Doom (talk) 16:54, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

"Request-for-article-improvement" button needed

It would be great to add a link/button somewhere on the article page to notify that readers want this particular article to be improved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.175.230.26 (talk) 17:14, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit Toolbar cite feature

Would be helpful if you could add "Cite Video" template to the drop down menu. Maile66 (talk) 01:20, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia is one of the best informative websites here. I think it will be better if you add a little gray background for the articles as this will significantly lessen the eye strain in reading you articles. I am having an problem with prolong stay reading articles. PLEASE ALLOW FOR OR CHANGE THE DEFAULT BACKGROUND FROM WHITE TO GRAY OR ALLOW A SELECTIVE OPTION FOR SCREEN BACKGROUND SELECTION. Thank You Very Much.

P.S.

I will be pleased to receive a reply to [email protected]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clark kent24616 (talk • contribs) 04:17, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Cannot log in?

Dear Sir, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.7.53.106 (talk) 09:54, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Put search on left-hand side of screen - better and more convient use on computer and phone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.191.14.22 (talk) 17:56, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Watchlist

I've got the idea that I used to be able to view the history of my Watchlist so I could see any articles that I had previously included and had removed. That seems to have gone. Am I imagining that it used to exist? Opbeith (talk) 18:25, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

I see we've lost the Insert a Line feature (separator) from the Edit menu. Opbeith (talk) 07:45, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Idol series

I have tried to add content to the entry, idol series, but it keeps being deleted. What am I doing wrong. Here is my edit, The original "IDOL STYLE" show, Karaoke Trial (カラオケトライアル) was first broadcast in Tokyo (Chiba), Japan around 1985. It was called Karaoke Trial (カラオケトライアル). It consisted of two co-hosts, judges, and contestants. A sample of this show can be seen on You Tube.

Then I click save, a few hrs late its gone, deleted, not there any more.

Thanks, 5012jrsis —Preceding unsigned comment added by 5012jrsis (talk • contribs) 00:18, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

You didn't give WP:Source, said the one who deleted your edits. --Biezl (talk) 08:32, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Can we have a history record to check what are the entries that we have looked up in Wikipedia. I think it would be convenient if I can review some of them once I forget the key points and remember that I have looked it up in Wiki. Also, it would be great if we can edit the list to organize the imformation into different folders or delete the entries that are not needed anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.97.13.176 (talk) 15:06, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Archiving article sources

Hi, Just a suggestion: An increasing number of wikipedia articles link to sources and references that are external to wikipedia. I think these should be archived in a wikipedia cache so that articles that become fixed (historical articles) retain their sources for the future (i.e. 100 years from now). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.174.46 (talk) 16:52, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

NICE TOUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.4.104.10 (talk) 07:56, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Relevant not just for 100 years in the future - this might help deal with the regular problem of dead links. Opbeith (talk) 10:24, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Most references will be subject to copyright, so legally it's complicated. A big problem is people linking to temporary web content. Perhaps a collaboration with something like the wayback machine --Thorseth (talk) 10:51, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Print/export --> Printable version tweek

Greetings,

While totally cognizant of the likely work that's gone into updating the functionality of Wikipedia 'publishing' feature(s), there is one last one that has bugged me for some time. It has continued to be annoying enough that I thought I would finally raise your awareness regarding it, and see if I couldn't get it tweeked. i.e. upon selection of the 'Printable version' feature when interested in generating hardcopy for a particular article, I am requesting that it be possible to publish without inclusion of the 'Content' (listing of the section headers) section. Inclusion of the 'Content' section results in giant gaps in the documents that are generated. It results in giant spaces on the first page of every document that is then printed. It is such an annoyance that I find it necessary to manually copy/paste article conent into other documents used to express articles in print.

Thanks Much, Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by Odoncaoa (talk • contribs) 21:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Mobile Site

The main page on the mobile site does not include 'On this day' or 'Featured picture'. These could easily be included. Marquess (talk) 07:04, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Building Great Minds vs KILLINGS of the MINDLESS

I for one have NO INTEREST in things I can not change...like bombings & killing in our world.

It is true the world is in ruins, BUT there is no need to promote the dark side of our life here.

There are way too many GREAT THINGS to bring attention to without going to the dark side on our Wiki MAIN PAGE. I am far more interested in what goes on in the private workshops, garages,& basements of the BIG MINDS of THINKERS & DOERS! Leave the SMALL MINDS to build bombs and kill each other. The rest of us are looking for the PROMOTION of our GREAT MINDS of this planet.

REMOVE the KILLINGS from the Wiki MAIN PAGE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallace Potter (talk • contribs) 15:53, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Create a book

"Create a book" is an excellent way of bringing multiple Talk Page archives together again for easy reference. But the "book completion" options could be made a bit less confusing.Opbeith (talk) 17:13, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

What I Think

I like it, and think it looks more "modern" like this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Copperwinker (talk • contribs) 20:56, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

What happened to the edit buttons?

It is a fairly infrequent occurrence that I feel the need to edit something, so I honestly have no idea how long they've been gone for, but I just now noticed a comma which was wrong wrong wrong, and I thought to myself, Thank goodness this is Wikipedia, the one place I don't have to sit back and take this sort of irritation! Unfortunately when I looked for the edit button, it was nowhere to be found. Do I have to be logged in, or is it just thoroughly hidden these days from casual site users? At any rate, spending more than a minute or two trying to fix a tiny comma is outside of my realm of reason, though I fully realize I am deflating my own case by going to the trouble to relate my tale of woe here instead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.191.151.236 (talk) 05:40, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Are you blocking scripts like NoScript does or did you disable them? You might test here --Biezl (talk) 15:59, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Internet Explorer 7

I've read the various comments of others regarding IE rendering the page size in such a manner not suitable for them but didn't find any reference to the issue I'm experiencing with IE . My question is in regards to the way my version of IE (v7) fails to highlight both the Note or Reference number ( such as [1] ) and the actual Note or Reference text associated with it. My every-day browser, Firefox, renders both of these in a nice, highlighted-blue color once the number is clicked. It's really sharp and I commend the developers for the great design of Wikipedia. My question ( finally ): Is there a setting on Internet Explorer I need to set in order to have it render the Notes/References in the same fashion as does Firefox? Thank you for a marvelous site. Butera (talk) 14:38, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Rocks!

As a modest webmaster struggling with style sheets, page layouts and SQL query strings I just have to say that this site is a wonderful peace of work! Clean pages, easy navigation, exceptional content! I could go on! When do they find time to change to font sizes? :_) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.60.69.69 (talk) 01:58, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Search Box

I think for the search box to be more effective it needs to keep its place. It's a pain to scroll from the bottom of and article to the top just to make a new search. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.175.28.130 (talk) 18:36, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

I agree with the above. During the test phase, I tried Beta for a while, and turned it off because of the increased scrolling to get to the search box. Very annoying. With the old location there was a higher chance that the search box would still be on the screen if you wanted to jump somewhere else. Remember that Wikipedia is a search-based site, not a typical website! Maybe a possibility is to have the left hand column non-scrolling, including the search box, and a a smaller scrolling box in the left hand column for anything that doesn't fit on a single screen (lists of languages, etc).Fh1 (talk) 14:38, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

:D

I like it! ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 04:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Religion catagory in biographies

There used to be a very useful catagory to annotate the religion of a person biographed. It is gone. It should be there as this subject is important in understanding history and other issues. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.179.164.52 (talk) 19:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

The info

Hello,

My name is Piotr Finder and I was in Polish National Swimming Team for Paralympics in 1988. I have won three gold medals and it is listed on your site, although there is no article with my name. Would you be interested to have it and if yes, please let me know so I can prepare it for you, and also I can attach the photos. Thank you for your time. Your website is my favorite one. Great information.

Piotr Finder, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.132.9.130 (talk) 19:21, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I only have one thing to say.and you may think that this is an opinion about the white temple. If it is not built for the true and living God then it has no meaning.The true and living God is God the Father in heaven whose Son is Jesus Christ who shed his blood for us all.Look into it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.194.82 (talk) 03:37, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Bungoma District

My name is Professor Chris L Wanjala, from the University of Nairobi,,Kenya.I conduct research on the Bukusu of Kenya.The article did not mention the political fights that have erupted between the Bukusu and other Luyias over the transfer of Friends' School Kamusinga from Kaimosi,in Kakamega District to Kimilili in Bungoma District.It does not mention Hon Henry Pius Masinde Muliro,the freedom fighter who attended the Lancaster House Conference.Mr.Muliro was the founder member of the Kenya African Democratic Union(KADU)and FORD(Forum for Restoration of Democracy).The Bukusu are strong believers in their cultural values, practices and traditions.They practise male circumcison.Their age set system,built around the circumcision ritual serves them as an institution that retains the collective memory of the culture and traditions of the ethnic group.There is a tradition of recitals at funerals which has created artists called BASWALA KUMUSE.These artists compare very well with the griots of West Africa.Bukusu creative writers include,Chris L Wanjala,Ben Wegesa,B M Lusweti,Joseph Situma, and Simiyu Barasa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.201.218.219 (talk) 05:05, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Effective

The term effective means that you want to learn as much as you can in as little time as posible. you want to increase the results of your efforts spent on learning the material or the quality of the work you produce for papers or projects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Luludeng (talk • contribs) 21:53, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

about the language

coming to the languages in india most people speak hindi and next telugu.pls publish wikipedia pages also in telugu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.206.228.16 (talk) 04:09, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for Wikipedia

I just want to say thank you to everyone that has been involved with Wikipedia. I appreciate all that you do to keep this great resource of our time continually up and running.

Regards,

User. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.231.68 (talk) 18:40, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Commons should really include pictures from articles in all languages

When reading an article in any language, when you click on the Commons link, you would expect to see the combined pictures that appear in all language versions of that article. In most cases this isn't true and you have to manually visit that article's page in each of the available languages, as some pictures are only to be found in certain languages.

Perhaps I'm not getting this right, but shouldn't media in the Commons contain media that is found relating to that article, irrespective of language, so if you just want to see all the available pictures, you can do so without having to search through the different versions (languages) of the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.76.7.248 (talk) 23:07, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Two Login Pages

I have my watchlist bookmarked, but I don't always prefer to be logged in with cookies. I tend to click the bookmark, and I'm swept to a page that tells me I'm not logged in, and that I should log in by clicking on another link. I do so, and then I can log in. That's fantastic and all, but this middle-man page seems to be an inefficient resource. I would almost suggest that the "you're not logged in" warning page have the login/pswd fields on the same page. I know very well that I'm not logged in. And simply to dissuade any suggestions of the sort, I do not wish to bookmark the log in page. Just a small suggestion to increase Internet efficiencies. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 04:09, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

icon tech machinery

icon tech machinery is paper products machineries distributor of leading manufactures (india, china, korea).

icon tech is growing source of forming machine for paper products which started its operation way back in 2004, a highly committed and innovative entrepreneur and promoter who has led the company to glory and success.

marketing and servicing dependable, high quality paper products forming machines for food service and beverage company suppliers and food manufacturers, icon tech has over 75 installations and 400 satisfied customers throughout the country.

It is our great pleasure to inform you that icon tech is distributor (ice cream cup machine, paper cup machine, high-speed paper cup machine, paper napkin machine, paper bag machine) of leading machinery manufactures . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.177.66.40 (talk) 04:13, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

как перевести эту статью на другой язык?

Как создать перевод?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmet_mounted_display —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewart (talk • contribs) 09:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Images in articles from different languages

It's really strange why images are limited by the language they're in. This shouldn't be a barrier. I'm speaking about images that are not in the commons. e.g. the image that is in the OpenCL article, it's not a very liberal license and it's likely to not to be included in wikimedia commons. Now it's available on the english wikipedia but not on other languages e.g. french, German,... This is very wasteful because for each language there should be uploaded an IDENTICAL image!! Such a waste. Because I didn't want to have to do uploading of restricted images, I didn't ad the image in the translation I wrote. I would have If I could just link to the image from the english article with it's english name (no problem with that). Please stop this waste and let pictures in wikipedia articles be used cross language by their original name. (If you want an original name, you could always introduce extra links.) Thelennonorth (talk) 20:39, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

MacGyver TV Series

There was a newspaper report I read in B.C. Canada that a woman was kidnapped & she escaped using what she saw on the MacGyver tv series. I am still trying to find the newspaper, was also hopping wiki would've had it.

If you find info on this please let me know.

Thank you for your time.

-David [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.67.163 (talk) 21:22, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Book Creator Suggestion

This is quite a specific suggestion. I think the new design looks and works great, and I would like to congratulate everyone who been working on it. It would be quite useful however, if links I have already added to a book are highlighted in some way so that I don't have to hover over them to check. This is not urgent, but it would be appreciated.

Thanks.

--Nextil - (talk) 22:30, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Search bar location

This is probably a fairly popular complaint, but I don't like the new placement of the search bar.

With the main menu on the left, and with English text being naturally left-aligned, having the search bar on the left is a good decision. With it on the right, and especially with the now-ubiquitous widescreen monitors, having the search bar on the right involves a lot of unnecessary mousing.

Patrick Lucas (talk) 19:21, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

space age

Human civilization on earth. Global concerns. Human civilization outside earth. United states of earth. One planet. Human cradle is planet earth. Milkyway federation. Space is the final frontier. Milkyway final frontier. Colonizing the milkyway by human. Human colonization of the milkyway. Finding new planets in the milkyway. New solar systems in the milkyway. New planets in the milkyway suitable for human colonization. Changing other planets in the milkyway to become suitable for human colonization. Intelligent life in the milkyway. E.T in the milkyway. Other civilizations in the milkyway. Space travel. Space city. Living in space. Self sufficiency in space. Gravity in space. Ageing in space. Human civilization in space. Human evolution in space. Space generations. World space station. Space telescope. Deep impact-extinction. Scanning the sky. Going back to moon. Permanent base on moon. Mission to mars. Sun activities. Big bang theory. Evolution. Parallel universe. Time travel. Dark matter. Dark energy. Theory of every thing. Grand unified theories. Unified field theory. Superconducting supercollider (SSC). Accelerator. New elements. Fusion reactor. Cold fusion. Green energy. Alternative energy. Green technology. Global warming. Robotics. Artificial intelligence. Information technology. Communication technology. Nano technology. Genetic engineering. New species. Bio technology. Bonic. Genetic intelligence. Astrophysics. Geo physics. Quantum physics. Relativity.S=K.LogW. Astronomy. Aerospace. Super conductor. Geology. Archaeology. Ecology. Effect of technology on civilization. History. World history. Lessons of history. History of science and technology. History of humanity. History of technology and invention. Exploration. Nuclear physics. History of time. History of the universe. Meteorology. oceanography. History of architecture. The story of civilization. Space exploration. Space Science. The Fate Of The Universe. Atoms Of silence An Exploration Of Cosmic Evolution. The Astronomy Of Lost Civilizations.The new Quantum Universe. Essentail Relativity Special General And Cosmological. The Laws Of energy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.99.204.146 (talk) 06:36, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I think Wikipedia is excellent and having been a teachr for nearly 40 years, I use it daily, so much so that I attempted to create an article for inclusion on three new scientific terms. However, for the first time I have encountered concerns with it as I've found the feedback poor, both difficult to use and find, and have received little help. I do hope it becomes more 'user friendly' in this context soon. Thanks [[[User:1952socrates|1952socrates]] (talk) 10:26, 12 September 2010 (UTC)]

Simplify link titles

Hi. Since this is not the Simple Wikipedia, I would like to propose the following changes. Rename links:

My talk to Discussions, Talkpage, or Talk page
My preferences to Preferences
My watchlist to Watchlist
My contributions to Contributions

Just to simplify the links. Comments? Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 16:18, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Dialog box.

Just my $.02...

The new dialog box for entering links is *extremely* intrusive.

It's basically in the way, most of the time, and there should be an option to switch it off permanently.

Thanks,

Buzz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.65.83.22 (talk) 15:24, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Links

I have read a lot of really great articles from this site that contain wonderful information that I would love to share with the world on my favorite socialnetworking site, Facebook. So many other sites contain a "share" button for fast, easy sharing. It would be nice to see the same here. x♥x♥x —Preceding unsigned comment added by Audrey.B.XXX7 (talk • contribs) 19:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Crap

I'm sick of the fact that I have to log in in order to hide this awful, awful change. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to hide so much crap behind menus in the edit toolbar? I want to select a word and click a button and have it insert the wikilink brackets. But no, I have to do a little dance and pet my cat thrice in order to have the site function. Whatever usability study was done was shit. - 142.167.163.61 (talk) 21:26, 14 September 2010 (UTC) User:BalthCat

Please make it easier still to edit

Hi team. Wikipedia is great. Thanks. However, there's lots of small text-bugs. The biggest threshold I have to editing is looking up the [edit] button and going through the text in edit-mode, which does not correspond well with where the error (that I try to correct) is. I predict that wiki-editing would boom if:

- editing was possible at the right-click of a mouse
- The edit text was Exactly like the read text, at the expense of the wiki markup.

Thus: I spot an error, I right-click (or something similarly super-simple), an exact version of the page shows up, only editable, I correct the error. Maybe this edit-mode could exist in parallel with the more extensive Edit-mode you have at the moment, as the latter allows inter-article relation and referencing (et c). Then I'd help more. Thanks for a great site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.76.27 (talk) 15:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Second the above request

This poster has it exactly. Cruising thru pages, i often spy a minor typo and edit the page just for that. Lately I have found it much too much trouble to find the word. I have had thoughts similar to this poster's Right-click edit would be good--and might obviate the need for your [Edit] sections. Another way: to be able to highlight a word in the main article and have that highlight preserved in the Editing session--or have the Editing session appear already scrolled to that line. There are many ways, but the poster has identified a real need: make it a small chore to correct small errors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cab.jones (talk • contribs) 21:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Philip Kotler

kindly check the philip kotler page.

Earlier his year of birth was written as 1988, i have changed it to 1931.but in his occupation it is written consultant to dogs.

kindly change it soon as possible.

its not like that i like kotler or i am a fan of his.

its just that i like wikipedia, infact i love wikipedia and i am a fan of wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shreemat (talk • contribs) 14:43, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Dear Editor,

In all articles, you provide the correct pronunciation using IPA standards. However, most people will click on it expecting the website to pronounce the word for them.They are let down and directed to the IPA article which seldom interests them. I am of the opinion that you make an arrangement whereby users can listen to the word if the click on its pronunciation.

eg: pronounced /ˈvɪzjər/[2] If they click on vɪzjər, the computer should pronounce it. yours sincerely Sagar (India) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.195.39.165 (talk) 18:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

could u please add a button saying "printable version". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.29.190 (talk) 18:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

RHJYJHJ

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Autosuggest problem on Ipad

On iPad, when using the latest version of Safari, the autosuggest box appears out of alignment with the search input box at the top right of the screen on wikipedia's new home page, english version. More specifically, when the iPad is displayed with it's height as the shorter length, the autosuggest box is barely even visible, due to it being pushed so far to the right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.78.121 (talk) 02:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey

I am a up coming writer i am waiting to be discovered by a famous author with a little exciment in his or her life.Just hope that come's ture sooner than later —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tme18 (talk • contribs) 13:55, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

thankin wikipedia

i am lucky to learn thro ur wikipedia notes and i thank for ur free education —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.201.1.190 (talk) 16:47, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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HI

wikipedia needs to be WAAAAAAAY more secure. so amny people just edit whatever.ĦÍ Ŗ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virusesrule78 (talk • contribs) 00:17, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

picture problems

I can no longer view any pictures JPG and similar. I can see pictures normally I am running windows 7 on an HP laptop. Any suggestions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.161.146.18 (talk) 14:12, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Kappa PSi

      This is julian d hicks  of Birmingham,Alabama 35214 who changed the colors . They where purlpe and green . Green hats with purple letters or purple hats with green letters.  Somebody has and old sweeter around hear etc. I'll find.   [email protected]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.49.31.3 (talk) 19:52, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Uploading or Making Final your Work in Progress

the most important thing to make it easy for an article writer would be ,,,,when they are done with the work in Progress, where does one go to make the Article Final and Appear on WikiPedia???

Uploading or Making Final your Work in Progress is not to friendly a path in wikipedia,,, please help me and all other new folks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skyphoenix6 (talk • contribs) 23:12, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Donors comments

Hi, it seams that "donors comments" had recently disappeared or have been displaced from "Donate to Wikipedia" entry. Why is that? I makes contributing to Wikipedia a much less humanized experience and, as an editor, I usually went there and took great inspiration to proceed by the diverse languages and expressions of appreciation to our voluntary free work as editors. Are donors comments still in use? were? Could you please let them accessible? I say clearly that you should. --Uxbona (talk) 23:08, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Donors comments were on this morning, which was good, but now they're gone again, what a pity! Please bring them back.--Uxbona (talk) 17:32, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Can we have this nes style switched off for our language version???

At Kiswahili wikipedia we are only a small group of editors. This change was not requested by any of us. But it givs us a headache as all our instruction material is invalid. We do not have enough people now to rework it. This is a really headache! I appreciate that you guys are so proud on what you have done but I donot think it is the right way to force it on people. Why not have the option to go to the new style instead the other way round? Besides: Why can i retain my old view on German but not on Swahili? Kindly react to my swahili page http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majadiliano_ya_mtumiaji:Kipala 91.98.113.164 (talk) 19:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation

I love Wikipedia and was vindicated for quoting it when Britannica was proven to be less accurate than Wikipedia. However it would be great if Wikipedia would start with a subject then it's pronunciation prior to going into the subject. If possible designing the submission page, to enforce that practice, would be great. Ever look up the pronunciation of "Stethem" as in Robert Stethem or USS Stethem DDG 63? Googling it was like trying to get a straight answer from a politician. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.151.12.15 (talk) 16:36, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I see dragons! Which pronunciation are you proposing? Received Pronunciation (Southern English) or local pronunciation? Take Maidstone- there are four accepted ways of saying it used within 4 miles (though everyone asked would say that three of them don't exist)- the town lies on a dialect boundary. It is 30 miles from London where there are two further pronunciations used! (For the curious: Emphasis may be on the first or second syllable, the first vowel can be a 'a' as in 'fate' or closer to an open 'I' sound like 'like'. The second syllable can be 'Stn' or 'Stone'. Needless to say the pronunciation has changed in the 30 years I have been in the area. Yes, it would be useful but you do need to attribute the source.

--ClemRutter (talk) 19:36, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

PRINTER FRIENDLY ARTICLES

Why doesn't Wikipedia make its articles printer-friendly? It's usually my first source of background info that I like to print, but the print format is unwieldy and wastes paper. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.161.208.95 (talk) 20:28, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I like it.

I love doing wikipages, and it's it is a lot easier to use now. Most of the popular website updates just mess stuff up, like YouTube, and Facebook. Nice to see someone actually cares about the users. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lexgroh (talk • contribs) 22:31, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Color Difference between code and text on Editing Page

Hi friends, I was browsing through wikipedia edit page when I realised that the readability of the text can be made better by coloring different text with different colors eg. links can be given blue, html tags can be given green...and so on so that the legibility of the text inside the page increases. Just a suggestion....b'coz I love wikipedia. Carry on the good work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.149.142 (talk) 03:44, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

an old-timer comments on ease of use, challenges and priorities

I among some of the earlier Wikipedians. My interests are primarily working on content. Part of the WP success formula has been ease of access and encouragement and support for contributors, especially those "dipping their toes" into our pool. Some of us are older folks who basically have had to learn from scratch how to use computers, which were non-existent during our schooling. Some of us have older equipment and not the faster connections as well. I think we need to work on being as easy as possible for some of us who don't want to spend a whole lot of time learning how to use the system. These considerations must be balanced to the needs of younger and/or more computer-savvy potential Wikipedians, and also be flexible for their hardware and connections as well as folks like me.

You have significant challenges, but such have often stimulated great creativity and results from the WP community. I feel a sense of comfort inasmuch as I believe these challenges will continue to translate to inspiration, innovation, and energetic creativity as they have in the past. I am out of my field of best strengths, but I am grateful and thank you for the good work on these priorities. Vaoverland (talk) 04:48, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Sounding out a word

I just signed in to. I am studying and I very much need your help with alot of medical words they can be tricky. I would love to be able to learn to pronounce them. I have not found a site that can do that for all my termnology. Your site tells me so much information and helps me out but does not have that feature!! Is there a way to change that?

Thanks, Gilberetta —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gilberetta (talk • contribs) 19:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

sir ted, meron po 1 pilipina d2 sa riyadh takas po sya gustong umuwi kaya lng po wla siyang pera pamasahe,pangalawa meron po syang sakit malala na po ata kc pinapayuhan na sya ng doktor d2 na pauwiin wla din pong panggamot kc bawal pmunta sa hospital ung wlang (iqama) d2 un po ang tawag sa residential permit d2 eh hndi po sya pwede pumunta sa deportation kc alam nyo nman po kon gaano kahirap db po ipinakita nyo ung sa jeddah ganon din po ang riyadh wla lng may lakas na loob magvideo dahil bawal po un d2.kon maari lng po pakitulungan nyo nman gustuhin man nmin pero hndi tlaga pwede npakamahal po ng penalty d2 lalo na pag walang iqama.umaasa po kme na mpapauwi nyo sya agad dhil npakabagal ng proseso d2 sa embassy ntin lalo na pagwala magfollow-up...e2 po ung name nya ana maria lozada cell.#0563356048..... maraming salamat po...... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.215.161.240 (talk) 23:13, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

swahili

Swahili is the #8 most commonly spoken language in the world. Perhaps you may consider adding it to your language options. Thanks for taking the time to read. CLB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.57.248.75 (talk) 17:34, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Firefox wikitables

Probably already a known bug, but thought I'd try to get an answer on it. I'm using Firefox 3.6.10. When I use a wikitable such as those found in the "2010 NFL Draft" section of 2010 New England Patriots season, and use the align=center parameter, the wikitables do not center. In IE8 and IE9, they do. Pats1 ^T/C 00:18, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

language transferability

Hello,

I often work in multiple languages (English, French, etc) and find it impossible to switch between languages while searching for content. It is time consuming to go back to google or the home page to search in a different language. I notice that many of the articles are available in multiple languages.

It would be beneficial to users to have a link on article pages to switch between the major languages, and even to have a search option to search for an article in other languages. An example of this is the Canadian government website in which all available pages have a button to switch directly between the equivalent French and English pages. It is incredibly convenient - if I don't know the French title for an article I can bring it up in English, hit the French button, and voila.

I believe that many people would benefit from this increased accessibility in Wikipedia also.

Thank you for this consideration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.92.51.88 (talk) 15:35, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I love wikipedia.You are the best site ever recoreded!
                              -KaylaPrescilla V. Garcia  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.119.54 (talk) 04:18, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Ageing eyesight makes differentiating text difficult

Poor Eyesight

It used to be that I could see most things quite easily but, at age 60, I now wear reading glasses but I’m hoping for some sympathy from good-sighted users who presently have no difficulty reading and therefore little understanding about my eyesight issue.

Hidden Hyper-links

My main point is the use of colour and borders. I might be accused of criticising style but the plain shape of menu listing together with black-on-white printed pages gives a crisp clarity but I have difficulty spotting hyper-links which are coloured navy blue when fresh and change to blue-black once used. I don’t know if this is browser related (IE8) or is caused by some other setting. Hyper-links are the most important tool; finding them should be the simplest task. I wish to council for a change to their colouring, giving them more contrast with the background or perhaps returning them to the earlier experience of changing from bright blue to red once the path is taken?

Why sans serif?

I believe the sans serif font used for Wiki articles tires my eyes when I read the longer items. I think serif typeface helps speed letter recognition although I’ve never made a proper study.

Justified Text

However, I am grateful the narrative is arranged only left-justified (and not right-justified, like many websites). This aids my scanning back to find the beginning of the next line in a paragraph. Search box I might also add that the search box falls under this category of ‘difficult to find’. Could I be more forthright than others have been about the positioning of this particular tool? As all enquiries begin with a search, I’m fairly certain I’m not alone in reading from top to bottom and left to right. Please put the search box back in its primary position at the top left, at least for European-origin language users. Otherwise, please declare its position with a brightly coloured and contrasting box / border. Style over substance we do not want.

Conclusion

1) Change hyper-link font colours to help us recognise them easily. 2) Please keep left-justified only, paragraph layout as standard. 3) Please consider giving readers a choice of typeface. 4) Please give the search box a coloured border.

Thank you for your time —Preceding unsigned comment added by BulleidBoy (talk • contribs) 00:15, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

I was doing some research attempting to get statistical averages of young girls vacationing in Canada and around the US border for being abducted into human trafficking, as far as incidents. I was thinking of taking my daughter and my husband on vacation up there to meet her online "friend" he is male but we don't know him from Adam....if you catch my drift.

Any sites to check him out that you are aware of?

Melanie Dickson [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.0.172.131 (talk) 01:59, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Data

Look I just wanted to say its unbeleavable the information you all come up with!. I am totally trashed right now but just always wanted to say you all do a great job and notice your always the top of the google list.

Thanks Again, t —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.19.71.156 (talk) 06:17, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Sydenham Australia

i would like to find out more about our history. some were around the 1896 our great grandfather left to australia through newzeland. can you tell me more —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.123.180 (talk) 19:42, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

I've used Wikipedia for years and always had a question answered. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Government88 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 28 September 2010 (UTC) thank you. do you need a e-mail adders to send info to, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.185.127.134 (talk) 02:48, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Foreground Color for Search Box

The search box currently specifies a background color, but no foreground color. As a result anyone using a dark system theme gets light text on a white background. In my case the text is white and is invisible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.108.176.54 (talk) 05:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

addition of new topics

HI I AM v.supradeep studying in inter 2nd year. here, in wikipedia some topics in the chapters were included for example in current electricity the theory of meter bridge and kirchoffs laws were not included. so i kindly request you to take care of those.thankyou

yours faithfully v.supradeep. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.175.66.207 (talk) 11:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Remove the suffix ", the free encyclopaedia" from all Wikipedia's page titles

Every page on Wikipedia has a title such as "Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia". Does _anyone_ now not know wikipedia is "the free encyclopaedia"? It seems amazingly redundant for this information to be sprayed to the world.

Practically, the title will often be used by web clients as a book mark's title, or as a file's title when taking a page clip or when dragging an article, etc. Adding in spurious information in this context is detrimental to users' experiences because it masks out the important facts; will split the title prematurely on limited space devices; and means they're probably going to want to edit that and delete that text from the created artefact.

My own redundant information – Wikipedia is amazingly wonderful. Thanks very much everyone! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.107.3.210 (talk) 14:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

THANKS !

I am not sure that I am putting this in the correct place, but THANKS. Whenever I want to find out about anything, YOU are there with the answer.

 I will be 93 in December and have had a very interesting life (can tell many stories) but you have provided me with a much wider scope of information / knowledge, so again -- "THANKS".
                                                                                                                [email protected]                             Bob  J.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.166.173.92 (talk) 02:34, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

will you please consider to add lawrence r. fleisher on Wikipedia? He was very important in Deaf community. You can find more info about him on the internet. I will appreciate to see him on your Wikipedia. Thank you very much, Adonia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.55.2.78 (talk) 04:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

the dog [canis lupus familiaris]is a domesticated of the gray wolf,a member —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.142.218.81 (talk) 16:20, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

dogs

the dog [canis lupus familiaris]is a domesticated —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.142.218.81 (talk) 16:34, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Dark Wikipedia

Could you make a dark version of Wikipedia. The white background after of hours of reading can be ver painful especially for us who use it to do work in the midst of the night.

This could deploy much like http://godark.us/ where to change it from black to say red http://red.godark.us/

hopefully, this doesn't already exist because i would hate to waste your time —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.112.144.129 (talk) 21:32, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

New Feature Request

I love your site, but one item that is sorely missing is a way to hear the pronouciation of a word. I use reference.dictionary.com for this, but it would be a lot easier to have a small icon next to a word where I could hear the word pronounced via wav file.

Thanks, and keep up the good work! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.143.92.215 (talk) 03:47, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Watch my story thanks!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtCDlRuZUw THANK YOU 4 THE SUPPORT TELL A FRIEND!!OR REPOST!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trellyg (talk • contribs) 14:19, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Ali is the coolest person in the world and is super boerd in history —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.41.26.51 (talk) 13:50, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

What's gone wrong with the Mac Dictionary Wikipedia feature? The scroll bar is blank and I can not use it to scroll down in a Wikipedia article any more. It has been not working for many months now. I had hoped it would eventually get fixed, but no it hasn't.

I realize there is a workaround buy clicking on a word in the bottom row and dragging down, but this is awkward, highlights everything, and it pretty darn annoying. Are there any plans to fix this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benbrilling (talk • contribs) 17:03, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW I CAN MEET RICHARD GERE HE IS MY LONG TIME IDOL —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.200.187 (talk) 04:44, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Dolce panini linea

Vecchia casa di panetteria italiana con una linea di produzione separata di pasta sfoglia. E

'stata fondata da Giovanni Palmas nel 1925 a Messina. Generations è una ricetta tramandata di

generazione in generazione in modo che sia ancora conservato nella sua forma originale. Ora è

una grande catena di negozi di prova con un impianto di produzione di grandi dimensioni

costruita sulle fondamenta della vecchia panetteria Giovanni —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomarobijas (talk • contribs) 08:48, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Mario party

Hello My name is D5587 that I have 9 years of experiance of Mario party. I want to teach people how play Mario party. —Preceding unsigned comment added by D5587 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

interface language mixing

hi, I am from argentina and I just registered in wikipedia. set my "internacionalización" item in the profile preferences to spanish and suddenly got changes like this : "

   * Página Principal
   * Contents
   * Featured content
   * Actualidad
   * Página aleatoria
   * Donar

Interaction

   * Acerca de Wikipedia
   * Portal de la comunidad
   * Cambios recientes
   * Para contactar
   * Ayuda                               "

and many other notes or sections in the pages that mixes spanish with (i assume) the language of the wikipedia article you've chosen (in this case english). I don't know how this has been managed but I think at least there should be one single language in those cases. either your "internationalization" language or the article's language. I know i would be lost in an article wich language i don't know, but there it is, i don't know it!. If I read it intuitively well, I should be able to choose the page "options" intuitively I guess...

sorry for all the equots and terms poorly selected, that's as far as my english goes.. in this time at night.. thanks i hope it helped —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmmio (talk • contribs) 04:20, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.242.76.94 (talk) 14:47, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

prekolluk

small village in the municipality of Decan 100% Albanian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.114.78.205 (talk) 20:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Orion Motorcycles

Orion is a motorcycle company since 1970. The Orion bikes are Made In China, but with a better quality. Millions of peoples around the world has an Orion bike. Orion makes PitBikes, Dirtbikes, Mini Moto's and much more and is one of the most successful company's in the Motorcycle industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.254.1.54 (talk) 12:10, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

No explanations of new features

In New features there is a list of new features, but no information on how to learn more, e.g., details on table wizards, Wikilinks to help pages. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 12:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

still getting index page download from some links

. . .

Every now and then, clicking on a link in Wikipedia results in an "index.php" page downloading to my browser. This has happened on a wide range of computers and browsers, over the last five years, so cannot be linked to any single set up. The last link to so act was the edit link on my personal page, here:

avaiki (talk) 06:21, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

ps: BTW, loving the new simpler interface - it may even get simple enough for me one day!

. . .

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I RECENTLY PURCHASED A PEPSI. IT CAME IN A CLASS BOTTLE. WELL WHEN I POPPPED THE CAP OFF THERE WAS RUST ALL AROUND THE RIM OF THE BOTTLE THE OTHER ONE PEPSI BOTTLE I PURCHASED ALSO HAD RUST ON THE RIM BUT THAT ONE I DID NOT OPEN. THE STORE WAS IN SAN BERNARDINO, CA. ON THE CORNER OF STERLING AND HIGHLAND. I THINK SOMEBODY SHOULD CHECK ALL THE BOTTLES BEFORE BEING SOLD. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET A HOLD OF ME MY NAME IS: Mary L. Armijo cell# (909)252-2940 or email is [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.93.143.207 (talk) 05:01, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Blackbird. The Black Stone Violin.

Dear Wikis.. My girlfriend tryed to add an article about my Famous Black stone violin.. But article was rejected from U becouse it came from a copyright sourse.. The text was from my webside, created by me.. as the stone violin! Now I wanted to add some photos of the stone violin but I dont know how to do it or I cant find something about how to add a photo or some photos.. Why U make it so complicated.. U are boasting about your wikipedia that its the FREE encyclopedia but its realy NOT.. One doesnt understand half of your language and its just impossible to find out how to cope with it.. Is it just your cleawerly way to filter of us ordenary people, and keep it for your own amusement? You Neards.. Help me instead! How I can please add some photos to illustrate my world unic Violin, made of stone.. Kings and Queens came home to me to see it and lissen to it.. Even the Pope John Paul invited me and the Violin and blessed it in Rome.. U can visit my website(www.widenfalk.com) to read about it and to see some photos about it but this is NEW photos especially made for U guys, Wikipedians..

Yours Sincerely Lars Widenfalk  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poderedellaluna (talk • contribs) 21:33, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Dr Bashir Qureshi among "Famous Quraishis/ Qureshis".

For the writer of the article "Quraishis" Subtitle "Famous Qureshis"

Dear Writer/editor

I should be grateful if you would please be kind enough to add my name among "Famous Qureshis" or "Famous Quraishis", as follows:

DR BASHIR QURESHI. GENERAL PRACTITIONER IN LONDON, AUTHOR OF "TRANSCULTURAL MEDICINE",LECTURER, JOURNALIST AND BROADCASTER, INCLUDING ON "SKY NEWS".

Thank you With best wishes BASHIR DR Bashir Qureshi FRCGP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.29.5 (talk) 07:08, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

acomodation

hi this is umesh kalathiya and i need help in making my database a good on so please help me [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.211.121.196 (talk) 08:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia dictionary

Hello

Me and many before me have possibly noticed that Wikipedia can be used as a dictionary, often better than commercial ones. I search an article in english and then see if it has an article in the language i want, and the heading often is a perfect translation of the word i want.

You could exploit this connection to make a wikiDictionary with all the articles that is in different languages about the same topic.

Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Henrik Olerud —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.91.33.243 (talk) 09:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

The word 'Search' is the default search term

I must delete it to type in what I want to search for. When I click on the Search box to give it focus, the greyed-out word 'Search' un-greys and becomes regular text. I have to delete it to put in my search terms. If I don't then my text gets inserted into the middle of the word 'Search' where my mouse pointer happened to click on it. Usually it goes to the end, so if I don't correct it, my search would have the word 'Search' prepended to it.

Using Google Chrome 7.0.544.0 dev on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikecrews (talk • contribs) 22:49, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't know whether i should express my frustration here once again or not but i must make it clear i felt very bad at the way my one article was summarily deleted. i still feel i should have been given a chance to justify my stand or i should have been guided better. i am a simple user of wikipedia, not acquainted with many of its rules. This is one reason why i don't feel very encouraged to try anything here after that. i do a doctoral thesis of research to my credit on american literature. i also know that my existing articles entitled kapil muni tiwary and Delhi Public School Bathinda need to be improved. i do get bogged by many of your jargons and processes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbandana (talk • contribs) 07:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

False Editing...

There are Internet Contests going on and people are Editing information on Wikipedia on Purpose to Mislead others. The information they are putting into Wikipedia is False and not only is this affecting contestants, this can also affect people doing legitimate research. If something can be done about this, please see to it., —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.244.135.218 (talk) 08:25, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Görsel Dizayn Ekibi (Gd-ekibi)

Görsel Dizayn Ekibi 2008 Yılında Hakannet55 Ve Sinankurulum Tarafından Kurulmuştur.Sinankurulum 11 Yıllık İnternet Kullanıcısı Ve 3 Yıllık Modellemeci Asıl İsmi Sinan ONAT. Hakannet55 10-15 Yıllık İnternet Kullanıcısı 4 Yıldır Oyun Yapımı İle Uğraşıyor.Asıl İsmi Hakan KURU.

Gd-ekibi Üyeleri

Sinan Onat (Kurucu)
Hakan Kuru (Kurucu)
Tuncay Ünsal (Tasarm ve Modelleme Sorumlusu)
Koray Kocatürk (3D Karakterci)

2008-Kuruluş [Enterprise]
2008-İlk Domain GDE [First Domain]
2009-GDM Motoruna Başladı [GM Engine Started Spelling]
2010-Gdm Motoru Bitti. [GM Engine Writing Done]
2010-Bora Ve Şehir Beta 5.5 Sürümü Hazırlandı. [Beta Version 5.5 created Bora and the City.]
2011-Bora Ve Şehir Final [Bora And The City Final]

Web Siteleri [Web Sites]

Görsel Dizayn Ekibi Hatıralar Gd-Ekibi Resmi Sayfa —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gd-ekibi (talk • contribs) 11:11, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

AUTOMATIC MLA/APA Formatted Source Citing

Why hasn't this been used yet? I'd love to be able to have quick, painless, preformatted citations from this website!

To better explain what i'm talking about, please see this website:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/law/exigent-circumstances

Once you obtain your information, if you'd like to use it in a research paper, you can simply choose "Cite" and it will automatically format the source by MLA or APA standards! This is a brilliant feature and I personally have referred to Wikipedia throughout my entire educational career.

exigent circumstances. (n.d.). In Legal Definitions. Retrieved October 12th, 2010, from http://www.yourdictionary.com/law/exigent-circumstances —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.91.164.254 (talk) 17:37, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

haelth care system

please i have not been so upset with our health care system as i was sat oct 16. i was at the general. ambulance took me there. there was one nurse lost my medical file. and later on that night while i was still on a stretcher another nurse came to do some follow up blood work. and hold and behold she missed placed my blood vial. so i had to wait longer to go home because she had to do more blood work. this is sickening to me. i might have a heart problem and to me they kind of whatever it off. and i am still waiting to hear fro the monitor and specialiist app. just thoght i would say our health care sucks big time. i am waiting here by the phone scared out of my wits not knowing what is going on with me, and still no phone call from them. how are we suppose to live not knowing. and not hearing anything back —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.121.202.20 (talk) 17:14, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Schiller

is somewhat garbled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.197.179.93 (talk) 20:32, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

greating

Hi I got two mini Storm Launchers For My son a Year ago.And they are no good they will not fly.One is all mest up and one is like new.The battery will not hold charge.You mite get a min if that.What,s up with that.Your planes use to be good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.138.15.135 (talk) 11:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Random Article Suggestion

With the ability to create a user account could a program be used to help make the random article more user specific with things they might be interested in. Something similar to the Stumbleupon programming would be cool. I like to read about random things but I find it frustrating when it keeps bringing up things little tiny countries that I don't really care to know anything about or chemical compounds for example. Maybe just a like/dislike to help refine a users taste. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Softball80 (talk • contribs) 14:19, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Quick Idea

have you explored the idea of having an app that would speak the pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.101.196.225 (talk) 21:58, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

A Suggestion

It would be good if the articles about cities other than capitals had a reference on the distance from the capital to the city.It can be measured by km, miles or even by flight or train time.I will try to help out with some —Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.64.79.82 (talk) 12:39, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

NICE job

hi

        i just wanted to say that Wiki is the best site and wok you guys are doing is awesome .  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.198.162.135 (talk) 07:57, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

port said 16/10/1979

i love this city i dont know why —Preceding unsigned comment added by Colonelsaid (talk • contribs) 13:21, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

It's really time to get the left blue sidebar to not take up so much space.

I love Wikipedia, but I am using ever smaller screens, not larger, and the blue sidebar on the left takes up half of the screen on a small tablet. Please consider making it possible to resize or remove it. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.132.142.152 (talk) 05:02, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Book Feature

I have creating of library of relevant information on a topic (Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arizona Immigration Law). Naturally, lots of background information is needed on this such as citizenship laws, enforcement agencies, etc.

The Create Book feature is perfect for gathering information and especially references on any particular topic. It enable me to have one place for referring to this data.

Thank you for having this available on Wikipedia, I'm sure I will use it often.

Susan Rastella Phoenix, Arizona —Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan Rastella (talk • contribs) 23:20, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

There used to be a separating line feature in the toolbox which seems to have been eliminated. It's useful for separating items within a section - particularly when they're unrelated, like the following edit. Opbeith (talk) 07:48, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

When you spell a word phonetically, why don't you use the English alphabet? You use characters I don't recognize, and I suspect most of your other readers don't recognize them either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.42.70.192 (talk) 00:48, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

The International Phonetic Alphabet is a widely used convention for transcribing sounds, employed by the most reputable dictionaries. Even within the English-speaking community the written English alphabet is voiced in different ways. A convention helps avoid conflict and confusion between different individual interpretations. I presume that's why Wikipedia uses IPA. Opbeith (talk) 07:48, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Contacting You Is Obscenely Hard and Other Issues

First of all, all I wanted to do was fix a simple spelling error. After following all the links on the 'contact us' path to find out how, it tells me just to edit the page myself. Only one problem, there is no link to do so on the page I want to edit. It took me fifteen more minutes to find this, and I'm still not sure this is the best way to contact you. The problem I was originally trying to report was with the page concerning Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnam. The problem is that the page spells 'capitol' incorrectly. 'Capital,' like what is on the page, refers to a resource, usually monetary. 'Capitol' refers to a city. Not a bit problem, except that if you search for 'Vietnam capitol,' you will not find this page because of the spelling error. I hope you can fix it. And please God, don't make people spend fifteen minutes trying to report stuff like this, most won't find it worth it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.1.50.37 (talk) 17:38, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

The same editing principles apply on this page as any other. Check the indications at the top of the page or above each section. Certainly it's not as clear as it might be, but it's not impossibly hard. And it would probably make sense to check the spelling of "capital city" in a third-party dictionary before changing other people's correct spelling. Opbeith (talk) 07:55, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Printing links in color

When printing an article, links which show in blue on the screen print in black. It would be nice to have links pring in color as they do in a regular web page. I don't know if this is possible given the underlying technology used in these pages but it is a suggestion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexepascual (talk • contribs) 15:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

The Long Journey

The end of the world was coming near. Did our savior die, did our savior not die? Our world was coming to an end. Our ancestors couldn’t predict what was coming, that the future had left then alone into the darkness. Evil ...had come who is Ox’s son, Hater. The name Hater means that he will kill everyone with hate, even the wolves. The humans will die by Hater. Every living child will perish by him. The only hope is Nore and his warriors, but do you think they’re alive or dead? Please. Is the one child who is born even with greater power, the one who is Nore’s son? The time has come for Nore’s son to be born by his mother, Kea, and the name of the child is Elezaar. Elezaar has a great power that not even Nore has, but the only way h will be troubled is by Hater. Hater has over ten thousand vampires who are stronger than the vampires of his father, Ox. But that’s not the end because Hater is only eight years old, and Elezaar is only six years old, and this is where all begins. We never knew who won the war. Was it the wolves or vampires? Because Kea and Blue escaped when the wolves came in the middle of the battle of the vampires. Ox is furious about the two people who escaped and the rest were still fighting vampires. Kea escaped with Blue because she knew she had a baby inside of her tummy because she started to vomit in the middle of the vampires’ war. Something came to the rescue, to defend: the wolves. Elan and Feral came with their whole army of wolves to fight the vampires. Ray, Ron, Lem died in the war, except for End who was still fighting the vampires and refused to escape. Kea and Blue left for where the wolves came from the woods, attacking the entire vampire army. They both ran with injuries on their whole body, but nothing could stop them, The Long Journey 87 not even Ox. Running, tired, panting, even hungry. The morning came, and the sky was covered in red color. Both warriors escaped, but where? Because we don’t know if their leader is alive. Was it the end? Will the human race be destroyed. Kea though about her boyfriend, Nore. How she will tell the child, if Nore dies. The reaction of who will save the humans. The ancestors predicted that Nore will save the humans, only to wait to see if Nore is truly the savior of the humans, or was it just a falsehood the ancestors foretold? Here is where it all begins. Kea and Blue stopped at a round, clean grassy area at the forest, where children were playing, like maybe ten kids chasing each other. But before I say more details, I knew something was wrong; there was something that they couldn’t see. A few trees covered the thing that was moving the leaves, and suddenly, a head of a kid went off, splashing blood over the next kids who were playing. The bloodiest thing the two warriors had ever seen. Whoosh of blood everywhere, splashing on the ground. The kids hovered, scared, frightened at the sight of the dead kid. And then it came: the beast that killed the kid. Eight blood suckers of vampires. “Vampires!” both warriors screamed in terror. “Take the kids, and go!” Blue screamed, jumping at the eight vampires with no fear. These vampires were different ones because they were not covered in blood or scratches. They looked completely clean but dressed all in black. Kea ran toward the kids and pushed them to run where they came from. “Run, kids!” she shouted at them. And ran they did, leaving one warrior to fight against eight beast vampires. But something went wrong because tree vampires ran in a different direction, and all of the sudden, they appeared in front of Kea and the kids, snarling in a furious way, like a wolf snarling in anger, with their long sharp swords. “What do you want?” Kea hollered, raising her sword. The three bald vampires dressed in black were laughing, enjoying the anger of Kea. “Oh, to kill you!” One vampire spoke, laughing. The kids stayed behind Kea, staring in terror, too afraid to run, too afraid to shout for help. Kea felt a kick in her stomach. Then she touched her small belly, feeling the baby inside of her. “Oh, baby!” the same vampire spoke in a gentle voice. “Well then, we are about to enjoy a fabulous juicy, so sweet meal.” Kea was about to fight when five humans came racing to grab the kids and two humans who looked the same size: strong, with short hair, they raced toward the vampires, fighting them so the rest could escape. “Come,” one human said, touching the shoulder of Kea’s back. Kea left, following the humans and the kids to a clean field, running downhill to a field of burned houses and dead people all in one pile. Some parts of the cleaned field were covered in blood, and some were burned. They ran, crossing the scary field to a large tunnel. Dark inside, walking very gently, and then they came to a stop, turning around a thing where a door opened. Lights came; a large square thing covered in human stuff like posters, furniture, pictures on the wall, TV, where to cook, even rooms to stay to sleep. “Close the door, Justin,” the guy who told Kea to come ordered a tall guy with long hair dressed in the uniform of a human soldier. Justin closed the door behind him. Kea stared at all the figures, too afraid to speak from seeing such a human house in a tunnel. Kea jumped, twisting herself around to face the door behind her, when she heard the door knocked twice. “Who is it?” Justin said, his voice loud at who was knocking. “Us, Justin. Now open the door,” a strong voice responded. Justin opened the door, and five humans came in, and behind them came Blue. The humans looked tall, with big shoulders, big arms, and two things: they looked the same, with their hair and clothes of uniforms of soldiers. Blue ran to stand beside Kea. He looked exhausted, all covered in scratches but no broken bones. Some humans went to the so-called refrigerator. Grabbing sodas and popping them, tossing the lid up high, they sat down, turning the TV on. “Can’t you see we have visitors?” the same guy said in a deep voice, facing his friends. When he said that, all of them stood up, facing the warriors. “Welcome to our last hope,” they all said in high voices. When they said that, the two warriors gasped at the humans when they said last hope. Something they didn’t expect or something they never heard such thing, something weird that they got frightened. “Last hope. What does it means?” Kea asked, frightened. All seven humans looked at each other to agree on something, and then they nodded. “Last hope means the loss of the humans who will be forgotten forever,” said the person who we think is the commander of the humans because he’s the one so far that talked. Giving orders to Kea to come with them and closing the door and giving orders to show respect that they have visitors. “What!” Blue screamed, terrified. “First of all, my name is Jeremiah, leader of the humans. And these are the last soldiers I have. The rest are dead. Many people died because of the big war of the vampires,” Jeremiah said in a sad tone. “My people have fought for the search of their savior so-called Nore.” The both warriors gasped, remembering their leader, Nore. The last day, they saw him leaving into the city of vampires and not returning back. Only one person came back, which was End. The person who came back and stayed to fight the vampires with the wolves. “Nore is my boyfriend,” Kea said, touching her belly. The humans got terrified, then they walked slowly to stand beside their leader, Jeremiah facing in a surprised way. “WHAT!” Justin said in a high voice. “It’s true. I even have his baby,” Kea said with sorrow. The humans whispered to each other, and finally, Jeremiah stood up and spoke in a rough voice. “You’re the woman the ancestors have told me in my dream two days ago.” “What did they say?” Both warriors spoke. “We bow down to you,” the leader of the humans said, bowing down with his humans too. They didn’t stand up until Kea spoke. “Don’t bow down to us because we are not the savior of the humans. Please stand up. You’re making us nervous.” They all stood up, facing them with their heads high. “I had the dream two days ago.” Jeremiah faced her, talking in a super perfect voice. “A man named Frank said that Nore has been found and our search is over. But there’s something else that he said.” “What?” the both warriors said. “They told us about the child, the one you’re touching,” Jeremiah said. “The child will be born with great power that not even the humans could defeat Nore, as I think the vampires can, because Ox will have a child too. But that baby will be more dangerous than his own father, even more dangerous for us.” The two warriors gasped in a terrified high-pitched tone, then Kea hugged her small belly and her baby, trying to comfort the baby. “You even know what it’s going to be, the baby?” Kea asked. “Of course, even the name it will have,” Jeremiah said, smiling “The child is a boy named Elezaar, who will have great power beyond his own father. The child will fight to the death with Ox’s son, and one will win. We don’t know what will happen to us.” “Will the humans have to be saved, or what will happen next? And why did all of you say, ‘Welcome to our last hope’?” Blue said. “We don’t really know. What we meant was that this, where you’re standing, is our only escape or the house that the vampires don’t know,” Jeremiah said. “We have come in search for our savior and his son.” “What do you mean?” Kea asked. “The ancestors have spoken, and the future has been changed. Nore will have his son right by his side, but one will die, and one will continue the task.” The warriors stared half-smiling, because Nore was still alive, or so they think. “We’re leaving now,” a tall soldier said, grabbing the hands of two young children. “No! You’re not leaving on my orders,” Jeremiah shouted. “We have to because our human race is vanishing, and we need more soldiers to crush the vampires.” “So be it!” The tall soldier left with the two young children without even saying good-bye or packing his stuff. The two warriors looked at each other and agreed. “We’re leaving too,” they both said. “It is so, because we no longer have to search for the savior. We found it and even his son, the powerful person on this leaving earth. You may go as you please, and thank you for the children,” Jeremiah said. “Which I mean for one person, and that person is Blue. Blue, you’re the one that needs to stay.” The warriors gasped; did this mean the end is near for the warriors to be separated? “No! I’m leaving with Kea. And how do you know my name?” “Oh, the ancestors foretold that one has to stay, or both will die.” “What does that mean?” they both asked. “The time has come for us to end the vampires and the one who is the beast, the so-called Hater. Each one will have their own warriors, except for the leader and his wife.” The Long Journey 91 “So you’re saying all ten of us will have to be separated,” Blue asked. “Of course so that we can defeat Hater and his followers. If not, then the humans will perish into the forgotten place, and the ruler will be Hater,” Jeremiah said. “I have come, searched. Many of my men died, and now it’s my time to follow the one so-called Elezaar to teach what holds his power.” “What! So you will go with Kea?” Blue asked. “Of course. It is my duty that the ancestors told me. Now,” Jeremiah said turning around to face a soldier that looked kind of young, “my friends, I want to thank you for everything you have done. And may the ancestors give you riches on this earth. I give you your new leader, Jackson. From now on, you will continue to fight the vampires and protect the humans. You’re in charge now. Good-bye, my good friends. Now Kea and I will continue this journey and find the two missing warriors.” This is where it all ends. This where it means the meaning of End, which is that if Nore dies, then End dies. The time has come for all the world to fear the pain in which the vampires will do to them. Do we think our savior is dead? Or do we think our savior is alive? What can we do, is the question we ask. Our children will grow, or will they die like us? Elezaar will be born sooner or later, but there’s the son of Ox, Hater, And both will fight each other, even to the death. Jeremiah is the chosen one too, the one who the ancestors truly gave powerful magic to teach Elezaar how to use his powers. He too is given power, which all of us don’t know. But sooner or later, we will know: is Nore died or alive? To Be Continued . . . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garcia Francisco (talk • contribs) 23:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Francisco Garcia (Writer)

October 5th, 1992. A boy was born with great ideas, the boy was name Francisco Garcia. The times past, years past, Francisco lives with all his family which are mom, dad, sister and brothers but Francisco wont tell the names of his families. Francisco is turn seventeen years old last year in tenth grade where Francisco read many books and never in my life have seen him signing or entering into a sport, he always was quit reading books, enjoying his life. At home he always goes to his laptop or his home computer, types horror, creatures, demons but only half an hour. He get’s up, walks and snuggles making his nephew laugh when his mom calls to stop. The life of Francisco was always shy, so he or all of the sudden in the half of year in tenth he comes up to me. “Hey want to see what I have done?” “Sure.” Francisco sneaks his hands on the backpack pulling a stack of papers, or so I thought. He shows it, and by seeing it or he handing me I saw a long bold title. The Long Journey by Francisco Garcia. I knew that’s this was a book, a manuscript book, flipping one two pages which I knew what was it but I just asked him to be sure. “What’s this?” “I did it, I did a book.” “What!” “Yes, I’m just showing it to you for you’re---” “No! no thought, why don’t you publish it. Become a writer, do it, make you’re family happy.” I said smiling to him handing the manuscript back.

After working hard, sweating like dripping blood, Francisco saved money, by summer came. He published his first book. The Long Journey, book 1.

So until today Francisco is turning eighteen years in eleven days. His now an author of two new books call, The Long Journey, book and a new serious call Brobdignagin book 1. And now to say who am I, I’m the writer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garcia Francisco (talk • contribs) 23:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Not seeing references while previewing a section change

This been bugging me for years. I edit a *section* (not the entire article) and add a new reference. When I hit Show Preview, I see my changes and a little [1] where my reference is linked, but I do not see the reference list. I want to see how it looks (ie. <ref>[http:\\SomeURL.com This is the reference text]</ref>) and if it works, but I can't because there's no reflist. Perhaps a {{reflist}} should temporarily be added to a preview automatically? -- Lyverbe (talk) 15:25, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

This is a known issue. There should be some user scripts which fix this on WP:Skin. Maybe ask there on the talk page for your problem. --93.213.171.199 (talk) 17:26, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

First Time User of Wikipedia

I am a technical user in computer networks, I noticed a lot of the IPv6 stuff is out of date and wrong, when I went to clean it up someone kept undoing all my changes, and when I copied and pasted the IETF (2 sentences on the rule for solicited-node address) user kbrose undid it and said I could not copy even though the IETF wants you to copy! http://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.23Jan01.html I am finding myself not wanting to update Wikipedia for ipv6 because it is wasting my time because someone unqualified who is not referencing anything can over-ride anything I do... Look at the talk page for user http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kbrose ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanx820 (talk • contribs) 22:02, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

is is possible to add my data on this informational site? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.15.1.229 (talk) 22:42, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I guess you're talking about your edits on IPv6 address. Copyright is not totally free if you read the hole page from rfc-editor.org (“provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included”). Small portions with reference are no problem, but it's not totally obvious. Be bold. --93.213.171.199 (talk) 17:22, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Printing version

I think it would be awesome if wikipedia has a printing version where the users are able to click on the website and print the content. Also, before printing, wiki may offer an option what content the user are willing to print; for example, the users may be able to omit the reference, external link, or picture of the content.

Best regards =] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.52.187.12 (talk) 08:04, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Did you already check “Toolbox” on the sidebar? --93.213.171.199 (talk) 17:27, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Tabs in "new interface"

The links provided in "tabs" in the new interface stuff don't seem to behave consistently among themselves, or consistently with what happened before. I should start by saying that I have to use IE7 as my browser. I used to find it useful to be able to right-click on an "Article" tab, or "History" tab and be able to select an "open in new tab" or "open in new window" option. While this sometimes still works now, these options sometimes don't appear, possibly depending on what type of page is open, or on which tab one wants. Obviously, this is particularly useful when on an edit page, when one doesn't want to lose the edits already done. Melcombe (talk) 10:15, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Poor taste

i think it is in poor taste to list deceased animals that have attained a degree of celebrity in the same alphabetical listing as human beings. granted, some people who are on that list are there due to notoriety and not celebrity. imagine a close relative or friend passing the same day as "paul the octopus". how would you feel? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.9.127.166 (talk) 13:15, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

I was listening to the song Rappers Delight and wondered if wikipedia had information on the women who says: "say what" then I thought. If everyone who is listed as an editor of a page can her the questions people have regarding the improvement of a page, perhaps the quality can improve even more. every page represents it's own social sphere, yet this aspect is lacking - not that you guys haven't already thought that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vahekatros (talk • contribs) 22:36, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

ron johnson for senate

I went on wikipedia's ron johnson for senate site. I wanted to tell you how dissapointed I was with your left-leaning attitude towards johnson. I view wikipedia as just another lefty bias bullshit site. Thats why the usa is moving to the right. You people can't be objective. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.92.79.165 (talk) 15:42, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

La Dee Da. I love wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.220.227.42 (talk) 18:21, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

profile

Name - Raj Kumar gupta (Softwear programer)
Con.add.- mob.no. 8860217070 
          Mail id. [email protected]
                   [email protected]

Add.- E3/37D Near Pooja Dairy,Chanakya Place part-1
      New Delhi (110059)

Permanent Add.- Baburahwa (shiv mandir)
                post-Chhawni Bazar
                Tehshil- Harriaya
                Dist- Basti
                State- Uttar Pradesh (272127)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Baburahwa (chhawni basti) (talk • contribs) 06:24, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Request for a member of the team to add an obituary and some information

Hello there,

What ever I do you seem to delete my entries. I have a mention of a Roger Tyrrell on your website in relation to a left wing newspaper "Black Dwarf" . He seems to have been given less credit or information than the others such as Allen Hallerday. Roger Tyrrell is one of the smartest least ignorant or prejudicial people I have met in my life. He died in his early sixties on Wednesday 20th October 2010, he lived alone and was not found until 3 days after his death. That gentlemen was an x member of the labour party ^[3], a historian, linguist and writer, and leading anti Nazi/National Front activist. I would like some one there to add his obituary and mention these things. As it is Roger was far more key to "Black Dwarf" than people realise. He funded that paper by working as a tour guide and providing walking tours in London to American tourists. ^[4] .

Please do something for him. Everytime I try to edit a page it gets deleted I get complaints from your team.

84.92.101.18 (talk) 15:58, 30 October 2010 (UTC)Nigel Ian Bulley84.92.101.18 (talk) 15:58, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Nigel

Language Menu

The language menu on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Food contains several 中文 instances. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.57.222.13 (talk) 01:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Move all pronunciations into a separate line above the first paragraph...

May I suggest to move all pronunciations into a separate line above the first paragraph of articles [similar to Google dictionary]? Currently, pronunciations are inserted into the first paragraph of articles and this adds a lot of unnecessary clutter in the paragraph. This is especially bad for some articles that have a lot of prununciation info [example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland ]. The inserted pronunciations also are an accessibility problem for people with visual impairments or other handicap and require the assistance of text-to-speech programs to read paragraphs for them. The text-to-speech programs can't read the special font characters used in the pronunciations and causes issues or delays in the processing. One of my family members have experienced this problem and it likely happens to other such users. Can this improvement be made? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.171.177.46 (talk) 23:58, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

fonts

How many people have to complain about the microscopic typefont for wikipedia before you change it? I will not be able to set my Modzilla to the largest font everytime I want to read something on your site. Fix it or I'll just forget it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.15.47.150 (talk) 01:42, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I didn't like the Toolbar.

I recently found out I could use Vector skin, but keep the old toolbar, I had been using Monobook after leaving the new look. I hate the new toolbar, if it can do everything the normal one can, I don't know how to make it to.----occono (talk) 03:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

TPITR ANNOUNCER

OK EVEN FORD ADMITTED THAT THEY MADE A MISTAKE WHEN THEY MADE THE EDSEL...WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE GET IT THROUGH YOU HEAD THAT YOU HAVE SCREWED UP ROYALLY. NOT ONLY SHOULD YOU GET RID OF THAT "ANNOUNCER"? THAT IS THERE TODAY, (11/1/10), BUT GET RID OF THE IDIOT THAT HIRED HIM AND THE IDIOT THAT AGREED TO HIS JOB. GET RICK FIELD BACK ANY WAY AND AS SOON AS YOU CAN. GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND KISS HIS...AH...ZIPPER, DOUBLE HIS SALARY, BUY HIM A NEW CAR,...WHATEVER IT TAKES, BUT DO IT. WHY ACT LIKE A BUNCH OF OVER EDUCATED IDIOTS WHO SLINK AROUND BROWN NOSEING EACH OTHER. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE SHOW SINCE IT STARTED AND THAT IS RAPIDLY COMING TO AN END. OTHER NETWORKS ARE LOOKING GOOD. DR. GLENN J KIRKPATRICK, DD, PHD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.227.32 (talk) 17:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

dear people to whom it may concern you forgot to make honerable mention of joe bessers work as one of the cartoon voices in the short lived cartoon show called ( THE ODD BALL COUPLE)..SPIFFY AND FLEABAG THE DOG/CAT CARTOON IE THE ODD COUPLE....1975-1977...thanks..tonylfriend...iluvcats3661@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.129.57.45 (talk) 00:12, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

sharing of articles

it would be great if there was a button to share these articles on facebook. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.38.126 (talk) 14:54, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Name - Raj Kumar gupta (Softwear programer)

Con.add.- mob.no. 8860217070 
          Mail id. [email protected]
                   [email protected]

Add.- E3/37D Near Pooja Dairy,Chanakya Place part-1
      New Delhi (110059)

Permanent Add.- Baburahwa (shiv mandir)
                post-Chhawni Bazar
                Tehshil- Harriaya
                Dist- Basti
                State- Uttar Pradesh (272127)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.19.51.106 (talk) 08:35, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Raj Kumar Gupta

 pankaj bhatt.
 pankaj singh.
 kailash gupta.
 sunil sharma.
 amar jeet pal.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.19.51.106 (talk) 08:30, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

"Kairos" @ Ateneo de Manila, Q.C., Philippines

I would like to add that there is a Jesuit school in the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University in Katipunan, Quezon City. My nephew is right now   attending a retreat there as a high school student. As an Ignatian university, should I say their retreat program could also be  called "Kairos" ? If so, it would be an honor if you  include this school as one that offers this kind of  course to their student. Thank you and God bless.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.91.141 (talk) 17:11, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

"read" tab + "article" tab

Still don't know why we have two tabs that do the same thing. • Ling.Nut (talk) 14:08, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

mnl mc viografiko1

o mnl mc γενήθηκε στην πάργα όπου συνεχιζι την καριέρα του εκεί μεχρη τα 18 μέχρι να ακουστήκαι στον υπολυπο κόσμο.

το πράγματικο του όνομα είναι ΜΑΝΏΛΗΣ

λει πως όταν πάει 18xρονον θα φυγή από την πάργα για να πάει στην αθήνα να κάνει τα πρώτα του live

πως αρχισε να τραγουδαει-χονει: έκανε μια μέρα ένα freestyle με την παρέα του και του άρεσε μετά με μια βοηθια από τον δημι του κατέβασε ένα πρόγραμα να φτιαχνη μουσική και να οιχογραφή βεβεα η οιχογράφησης δεν βγαίναν καλές γιατί έκανε ήχογράφησης από το laptop

μετα εκανε ενα mixtape: me onoma PETHAMENES RHMES ME FREE DOWNLOAD KAI SINEXIZI

GO TO MNL SITE ORIGINAL —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mnl mc (talk • contribs) 02:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

armenians

I realize, after trying to read all of your disclaimers (let's face it, that's what they are} I would like to know why (yes, I know there are NO questions allowed, however this is what I would like to know on a supposed "question" site) the armenians have been allowed to totally rework their history, without any input that use to be on this site. You have been asking for contributions for this website, since, supposedly you are non profit, yet knowing this particular group of people firsthand I now suspect that you do give preference to those who contribute more money. I am VERY disappointed and now no longer trust your website for information as it is not unbiased or particurly accurate. Dangerous, actually. You have digressed. It's too bad. I can no longer find two sides of any story, only the one that pays more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.110.212.167 (talk) 05:53, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Talk vs. Discussion

Some newbies seem to be getting confused with the two terms for the same page. The tab says 'Discussion' but the url says 'Talk'. Editors commonly say 'see Talk page' in the edit summaries, and it seems some newbies don't make the connection (which leads to edit wars, hurt feelings, etc.) Perhaps using 'Discuss/Talk' in the tab is a possibly alternative if there are reasons not to simply use 'Talk'. Flatterworld (talk) 17:17, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

I find the really long lines of these articles difficult to read. Please add the ability to read the stories in 2 or 3 columns, like a newspaper. Very long lines of text are hard on aging eyes. Narrowing the browser window is an option but a poor one, because the pictures and everything else gets crowded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.92.15.245 (talk) 19:34, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

holy cross ashram school

hi i am aman agrawal from holy cross ashram school in 9 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aman07522 (talk • contribs) 07:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I tried to secure or open windows xp with a password but now the password i used cannot open windows

Hi,
 In order to secure privacy on my laptop HP Pavillion dv4000, i put a username and password also put email address where i was asked to open windows XP but unfortunately i cannot open windows using those same infomation right now. I do not know what is blocking the operation. What do i do urgently to open windows on my laptop and use it now??? I am so desperate, i have not used my laptop for days now & it really handicaps me.
If the reply to this can be sent to my email address: [email protected] i shall be very greatful.
 Thanks in advance for any suggestions  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mancharose (talk • contribs) 12:24, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

WYSIWYG editor and font styles

I strongly recommend Wikipedia to implement a WYSIWYG editor for articles so that this would encourage more users to contribute to Wikipedia, as one doesn't need to read through pages of help files first to understand how it works. While I'm quite comfortable with the current editor, plain coding could look daunting for some. A WYSIWYG editor with basic features such as inserting tables, thumbnails and captions, RHS info columns, font size, B/I/U, adding references (especially this feature as many articles have "citation needed" tags) etc. would suffice basic editing or corrections to articles, and a more advanced editor e.g. such as the one currently available can be made available for those who require or prefer it.

Another suggestion on the cosmetics of the site, instead of keeping the font face throughout Wikipedia in Arial, I suggest that CSS font styles can be introduced (like many sites out there) before HTML5 is ubiquitous, so that more humanist sans-serif typefaces are used and increases readability especially with long articles. For example, on a Mac, Lucida Grande can be used, while on Windows Calibri (or whichever is more suitable) can be used. Arial can remain as a fall-back if these fonts are not available on the system.

Adenosine Triphosphate (talk) 14:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I strongly recommend that any WYSIWYG editor include a reveal mode that allows you to view and revise markup explicitly. Programs like ms word have a nasty tendency to insert unwanted markup when copying text. Be extremely cautious about what you do automatically. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:58, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

moud sangare

he is the greatest and coolest man alive born on febuary 20 1998 coolest month of the year —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.235.216 (talk) 21:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

moud sangare

moud is the coolest man alive after cheick and thierno sangare moud was born on feburary 20 1998 february is the best month ever and so is october moud plays basketball and attends cumberland skool year 8 r he is truely the best after cheick and thierno sangare and he really has the number on crossover in the world after cheick and thierno sangare cheick and thierno sangare are truly great men. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.235.216 (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

"SIR MIAN FAKHURUDDIN INDHAR HALEJIVI"

Mian Fakhruddin Indhar s/o Prof: Shamsuddin indhar was born in 01-04-1982 at Haleji Shareef Pano Akil Sukkur Sindh.

EDUCATION: Sir fakhar started his primary education (from 1989 -to- 1993) in his native village's Govt Middle School Dargah Haleji Shareef, than after completing his middle school education (from 1994 to 1996) at same school than he did matric science (fromm 1996 -to 1998)in first class first grade from Govt High School Haleji shareef from BISE Sukkur board. after doing Inter science in Pre-Medical (from 1999 -to- 2001) in 1st class 1st Dvision from Government Degree Science College Pano Aqil, he did BSc in Pre- Medical ( from 2001 -to- 2003) in 1st Division from same Degree College Shah Abdul Latif University (S.A.L.U) Khairpur where from he did postgraduation (Master degree) in Economics (2003 -to- 2005)in first division and Master of Arts in Sindhi. After doing Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) in 1st division from S.A.L.U khairpur he went karachi for doing Master of Business Administration(MBA)( in 1st division, in 2009) from PRESTON INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY "PIMSAT" KARACHI SINDH.

'SIR FAKHUR'S CAREER' He started his career after doing graduation as Honorary Teacher at Government High School Haleji Shareef in 2004 and he started to serve poor people of country and did social welfare work under Platform of INDHAR SOCIAL WELFARE & EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PAKISTAN. He joined INDUSTRIES OF "SOORTY GARMENT ENTERPISES PAKISTAN" at KARACHI in 2005 to 2006 as A "ASSISTANT INCHARGE OF ISSUING DEPARTMENT". In 2007 he joined as Planning Officer in Planning & development Department Government of Sindh under the "National Internship Program" conducted by the Fedral Government of Pakistan. he also worked as a Trainer (in 2009) evening program of ECPG (Effective Communication & Personal Gromming) in "EnsignCommunique". Now he is serving as Executive Officer in NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED (NICL) MINISTRY OF COMMERCE GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drikramindhar (talk • contribs) 20:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

SHREE JAIN COMPUTERS

SHREE JAIN COMPUTERS SINCE 2005 IN INDORE CITY ADDD-H.O.353 VRINDAVAN COLONY INDORE

    B.O. 404/1 BADA GANPATI SQUARE INDORE

OFFICE NUM-0731-2424443

      MOB-9827333099  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shreejain07 (talk • contribs) 07:46, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Ways to improve the quality of pages.

Wikipedia should solicit papers written by college students and use them to enhance or add citations to pages that show "This article does not cite any references or sources." at the top of the page. Find a way to incentivize students to submit papers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.65.65.107 (talk) 23:38, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I am an Old Boy of St. Peter's College , Colombo 4 , Sri Lanka

Dear Secretary of St. Peter"s College Old Boy"s Union & Editor of Wikipedia,

I attended St. Peter"s College, Colombo 4 from January 1948 to December 1961.

I have served in the Sri Lanka Navy from 20 Nov 1971 to 30 April 2003 in the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Branch , including as the Director of Electrical & Electronic Engineering from 1 December 1986 to 30 June 1994 ; Director Electronic Warfare of the Security Forces and Electronic Engineering Advisor to the Ministry of Defence from 1 July 1994 to 30 April 2003.

This could be verified with Commnodore Shemal Fernando, the Secretary to the present Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy .

Thank you.

Yours truely,

Commodore Ivan Attanayake SLN (Rtd) E-Mail : [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivancamilus (talk • contribs) 09:45, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Star instead of Watch Page is not intuitive

It only saves a few characters worth of space, is not intuitive to some people (incl. me) and makes people have to dig unnecessarily to figure out how to watch a page. I think it should switch from the star back to what it was before or something so that if you put watch into your browser's text search feature, it can find it.

I also wonder how the star works for visually impaired people using a reader to navigate...

-- Vaarky (talk) 22:39, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Clicking in the Search Box

In the past, before all the changes, when I initially brought up the wikipedia site, the cursor in the search box would be blinking and I could just start typing. Now, I have to actually click in the box to type my search request. As a medical transcriptionist I use wikipedia dozens of times every day and would like to have the automatic typing feature back. It gets tiresome having to click in the search box every time I open wikipedia. Thank you for your consideration of this suggestion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lanotary (talk • contribs) 20:57, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia new features vs Mac Spotlight

Using Mac Spotlight, it is not possible to scroll down in the Wikipedia entry that comes up. This was previously fixed by turning off the new features but this no longer works. Please fix it so that I can search Wikipedia using Spotlight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nealbetts (talk • contribs) 22:52, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Regarding the listing for.... S. Hazard Gillespie

I am Frances P Gillespie. I did not spell the word Intracoastal correctly in my

addition regarding my relationship with S. Hazard Gillespie who is listed in Wikipedia.

Could you please correct the spelling in the sentence I added?

Thank You, Frances P. Gillespie —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frantastic56 (talk • contribs) 04:16, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Multi-Language Search

I do a lot of research for my job and would like to be able to look things up in all the languages I know (more or less so). Wouldn't it be cool to have some advanced search posibility to do this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.26.130.189 (talk) 12:40, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

New Wikipedia user. Cannot post a new article after many tries. Interface is horrid. Maybe I'll sign in again on Halloween to better appreciate scary interface!

I do press relations for a large company. I asked for something to be deleted that was highly confidential earlier this week. The article was deleted but the headline stayed, which is not right at all and may have some serious legal exposures attached to it. (We alert you that something is a confidentiality breech and you keep the words up?) Now it's not confidential anymore and we want an article to be posted but the user interface is so terrible and hard to deal with, I can't get it posted.

Not only that, but the old "this has been deleted" pink highlighted message with the right headline is still there. Someone with an offensive user name "It's me ladies, Calvary" supposedly holds control over this article that's been deleted with remaining headline. No matter how open this system is, it's offensive and wrong for this person to have control over this page and this brand name.

I have tried over and over to post something to replace what was partially deleted, after many many tries, and answering 20 ridiculous questions, actually got to the "put your story here" box, only to be asked to sign in yet again, thus erasing the link to the page to post. I'm out of time on this. All I know is Wikipedia's user interface is not friendly and this article title should not have stayed up after our warning. It needs to be taken down and removed from the offensive user so someone can give people the right information in a timely manner. I don't have to control the words in it but someone with a name like "Hey ladies, come and get me" is not the appropriate owner.

So issues are: -someone needs to delete that old headline -someone needs to delete the "offensive person" from the post and topic altogether -someone needs to fix the user interface so a new user can post something more easily

—Preceding unsigned comment added by SiliconValleyMichelle (talk • contribs) 23:33, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

GREAT IDEA!!!!!

hey you guys should do something when people sign in its brings it to a home page and brings up new articles everytime based on you past searches —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.132.152 (talk) 08:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I love you

You are the greatest. I use Wikipedia all the time, just like everyone else. Man, it sure would be bad if someone corrupt/evil got a hold of this wonderful tool and used it for evil. I hope that never happens.

Stay just the way you are,

<3 A Happy User

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.233.112.146 (talk) 17:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank You

I would like to thank you for creating this wonderful Encyclopedia its the best Encyclopedia ever made in history and it will remain the best i want you to say Thank you for spreading the knowledge all over the globe free of cost and i am proud of being member of it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Koolkeval007 (talk • contribs) 16:34, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

failed to make a donation

I tried to make a donation several times, from different browsers (IE7, Firefox 3.6.12), but the transactions were all failed with the following information:

"Your transaction could not be accepted. There was an error processing your transaction. Please try again later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.148.156 (talk) 21:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Regarding MALAYALAM Version

There are five letters in Malayalam namely "CHILLUKALL". They are "N", "L", "R" respectively pronounced as the second half of their English pronounciation and also "NN" as RN in TURN and "LL" as "L" in CRAWL. This letters are not shown properly in ur Malayalam Version. They are shown just as unknown letter. The font may not be compatible with this letters. Changing the font may make it correct.

Abdul Majeed Neeliyat (phone number removed to protect privacy)

somali, english and arabic>

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.97.66.130 (talk) 18:53, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

"personal appeal" from J. Wales

I live in Amsterdam. I was reading en.wikipedia.org. I clicked on the "personal appeal" from J. Wales. I got a page in dutch. This is obviously not correct. Even supposing I could read dutch, not everyone who lives in this country speaks dutch. This is a major fail. You also make it extremely difficult to find a place to leave feedback. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.161.35.206 (talk) 05:36, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

প্রথমত, উইকিহিডিয়াতে যে ভাবে বাংলা লেখা হয়, বাংলা আসলে সে ভাবে বলা বা লেখা হয় না। এমন কী, বাংলাদেশের বাংলা বলা বা লেখার ধরণ ভারতের থেকে আলাদা। যার কনওটার সাথেই উইকিপিডিয়ার বাংলা মেলে না। এমনকি বেশ কিছু জিনিস পড়ে বোঝাও যায় না। কিছু জায়গায় জোর করে বাংলা লেখা হয়। যেমন Cup কে বাংলায় পেয়ালা বলা হয়, Chair কে বলা হয় কেদারা, কিন্তু কেউই এই শব্দ গুলো বলেন না। ইংরাজি শব্দই ব্যবহার করা হয়। এই সাইটের বাংলা পড়লে মনে হয় কোনও ইংরাজি লেখাকে আক্ষরিক ভাবে বাংলায় আনুবাদ করা হয়েছে। আমি জানি না যে উইকিপিডিয়ার বাংলা লেখাগুলি কে সম্পাদনা করেন। কিন্তু আমার প্রিয়তম ওয়েবসাইটি যদি এই পথে এগোয় তবে বাঙ্গালীর কোনও কাজে লাগবে না। —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inkelabzindabad (talk • contribs) 15:37, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Dude... change your browser/internet settings. Just like you use google and it knows where you are based on your ip. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.70.255.151 (talk) 18:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Message from Mike Posner

I use Wikipedia almost every day.

I read your message for the donations from users. I highly agree that you should be earning a revenue from this website. It's highly useful (even if the info isn't always correct!)

Advertise on it. Accept advertisers and do it in a non intrusive way. It won't bother me or most users if it's done in a way that doesn't interfere with our experience. You guys deserve to make money off of this site and donations aren't gonna cut it. I think we all appreciate the attempt to keep it free from advertising but no successful business can maintain that.

Your ideas and work deserves to be paid and rewarded.

Kevin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.70.255.151 (talk) 18:41, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

"no successful business can maintain that"

Good thing this isn't a business. Wikipedia just needs to pay it's bills, we don't need to make a profit. Donated money is not used to pay people for editing Wikipedia, editors are all volunteers. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales Mug all over Wikipedia - Egomaniac?

Why does Jimmy Wales have to plaster his mug all over Wikipedia? Does he think he is so good-looking, people will fork over $ for his panhandling if he puts his face all over the website? I am sick of looking at him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.177.23.15 (talk) 02:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Really like the look and style

I'm so amazed at the level of information here and I'm glad that it seems knowledgeably written by the contributors. THE LOOK and LAYOUT OF INFO is really so well done. I REFER SPECIFICALLY to the details presented on the page "DANCE ON SUNSET". This layout of info and dates and program details about this particular TV SHOW was so nicely done with great info provided and with layout so clean and easy to read that I'm just delighted to use it. I was looking at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, also nicely laid out and jammed with amazing detailed info, and decided to click the name of the "DANCE ON SUNSET" link as I used to enjoy that show too. So that's the reason for the enjoyment of being able to QUICKLY read through the FACTS AND DATES. LOVE IT. Readers of this can check it out if need. I don't have chance to use Wiki very often at this time, so maybe the pages have looked this great for some time. Either way, keep up the good work. I hope all articles are easy to read like that. The font is great, the title area is perfect, the TABLE ITEMS are superb.

 Also I don't mind the FOUNDER having a banner note to provide user info posted at page top for

all users to see. That provides some unity to the efforts of all the good contributors as they are adding info to the articles. Having some common sense rules put forth is always good to keep it so nice and classy as it is, and I hope it stays that way. ALSO ENJOY THE WIKI HOME PAGE. Nice to have that for some unity as a solid entity as well. Thanks - frank, in lincoln nebraska (hisroyalness) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hisroyalness (talk • contribs) 06:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Tried to make credit card donation, foiled.

Tried to make a donation just now -- after filling out information, was informed you needed my address and postal code -- why? -- though, curiously, not my country (not USA). Filled it out. Then presented with the little box with the mucked-up characters, filled it out, then forcibly returned to screen to fill in credit card information -- again. No. I gave up. Now have spent another five minutes going through a labarynth to try to leave you folks a message. Makes automated phone answering systems seem utterly user-frienly by comparison. Is this as straightforward as you can make it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.73.38 (talk) 23:52, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

how long?

I know this has been asked before, but it never seems to get answered. How long are the "new features" and "take me back" links going to stay at the top of the page? Any experienced user has made their choice by now, and a new user doesn't know the difference anyway. Seems kind of silly to keep them up this long, is there a date set for removal? Beeblebrox (talk) 19:15, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Taking it to the people

Since this question has been ignored at least three times now, I have opened a community discussion on the subject at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#New features/Take me back links. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

having more discussion

I think its better to have a meaning of names because for sure teens will like it, especially my classmates.. I'm just requesting if you cant have it, well its OK with me. thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thena puff (talk • contribs) 12:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales ---- Uggggh

Please, get Jimmy Wales face off of Wikipedia, Ugggh, Uggh, puke, puke —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.249.121.90 (talk) 12:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Why Arn't There 6 Tabs?

There should be 6 tabs: 2 each of the article and discussion page of reading, editing and history.199.126.224.245 (talk) 11:59, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

MAKE HIM STOP STARING AT ME

please please PLEASE take down jimmy's picture everywhere on wiki. it's like being stared at by a child molester (yes, jimmy, you look like one, blame your parents if you must.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.171.112.218 (talk) 07:52, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jimmy wales put some adds instead of your sweet face to earn money.

Hi Jimmy wales , no doubt you’re one of the great achiever, built one on of the most searched website who helped millions and equally damaged millions with unverified , misleading content. Running nonprofit organization with donations is great as long as it is meaningful and people willing to donate without any appeal. I see big banner of “Personal appeal” for 2 to 3 months every year, if you use same banner for advertisement I’m sure Wikipedia can earn enough money to run its shop. Somebody should not beg when they have power to earn. I agree displaying adds is ugly, But for me it does not make any difference from displaying big Personal appeal banner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.184.58.125 (talk) 09:05, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Sable232

Sable232 is out of control read the post about his talks with other users. Sable232 is blocking users because they do not meet his view points. He has also removed information which is true an accurate such as Chevy Cruz is the replacement for the Saturn ION. One can go to GM and find the replacement match for their Saturn counterpart and the car is the Cruz, Sable232 has removed this information. I have received a warning from him and if I edited anymore I will be blocked because of vandalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sable232#Warning.3F —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.117.123.72 (talk) 14:38, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

^ http://ricef.blogspot.com/2008/08/basics-whats-ricef.html
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[3] ttp://www.hackney.gov.uk/c-archives-comprehensive-page12.htm

[4] ttp://www.casebook.org/authors/interviews/int-mf.html

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Medical terms and ICD9 codes

555 numbers

Printing

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why destroy something that works?

Sandy Kao

tms trim

size of online page

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Searchbox

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CPS v Boyle 2008 EWHC 201 Adim

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Wiki's Own Discussion Forum (Under each Subject)!

Email

srivastava

srivastava

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concept of media reality show

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Languages

Watch

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Search on My Palm Treo

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Scroll bar in Mac Dictionary/Thesaurus/Wikipedia app doesn't work with new features

Right Click Menu Open in new Tab

Space between paragraphs

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i need help!!!

drill rig

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User data

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elaborate

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is there a way to see where a wikipedia article is linked from in other wikipedia articles?

Featured article star logo does not show on Turkish Wiki

Daily Article

Mouthbrush

Phenix Fiber Optic Company

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Dictionary

hi howdy

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The Dinner Party (2010)

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input elements

Copperopolis

Damon

Your article Schools of Mines

Regarding your article Schools of Mines

Generating Automatic Emails , maybe?/ Discouraging Criticisms?

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Richard M. Fleming, M.D.

left hand side column

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Awani Acharya

When turning of the stupid and anoying new features.

What is RICEF?