User talk:Greg Sabino Mullane

About the "Toapprove" template

Greg, take a look at Ammonia production which has been nominated for Approval. The notification that announces the nomination (created by the "Toapprove" template) has the date written as 20080928.

That is quite cryptic at first glance. Would it not be better if it were written as 2008-09-28? Would you be so kind as to make that change in the template? - Milton Beychok 12:59, 25 September 2008 (CDT)

Weird link bug

Greg, I didn't know who else to alert, so I'm starting with you. Please take a look at this section: CIO/Draft#Further_Reading. There seems to be some some sort of glitch. The code is "[http://books.google.com/books?id=BMZiFI9UNXQC John L. Lewis]. (1986)." So you and I would expect the text to look like this: "John L. Lewis. (1986)." But it doesn't. It looks like this: "John L. Lewis   . (1986)." There is a space between the link and the period. I can't see that I'm coding anything incorrectly. If this isn't your bailiwick, please direct me to who I need to talk to. Thanks. --Russell D. Jones 15:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Russell, that bug has existed for years ... even in Wikipedia. It would be nice if it could be fixed. Milton Beychok 15:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I have noticed this too. i think the problem is with plainlinks. External links usually have an arrow icon at the end. With plainlinks activate the arrow should disappear so it looks like an internal link. In CZ it partly work, in that the arrow disappears, but the space for the arrow is still present. i agree with Milt that this has existed for a while, however, it used to work as you would expect, i.e. no arrow and the space disappear. Chris Day 16:01, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah-ha. I see. The space is where the outsourcing arrow would be. Take a look at this page (Pardon the egregious self-plug). Same mediawiki software (although probably an earlier version), but the link to the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress has the arrow. Thanks for your help in isolating this.--Russell D. Jones 16:09, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Strange, i don't see the arrow and the space is not there either. This might well be a browser issue rather than a mediawiki issue. Chris Day 16:45, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

The picture for the arrow is at http://en.citizendium.org/skins/Pinkwich5/external.png . If I go to that page with my browser, it complains that the image contains errors. Indeed, the PNG file is 164 bytes long while the corresponding file for the old skin (http://en.citizendium.org/skins/monobook/external.png, which displays fine with my browser) is one byte longer. So it looks like something went wrong there. I asked Greg by email to copy the files; I seem to remember that he doesn't check this page that often. -- Jitse Niesen 14:25, 13 November 2008 (UTC)