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Re: MediaWiki:Gadget-Site.css—No.
Good effort and attempt appreciated but not useful. alone lives betwixt these so the ">" just cripples what little good there already is. Besides, the PageNumbers.js cookie issue smashes this for a knock-out high-score anyway. AuFCL (talk) 02:24, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 5 changes, 2 changes, 1 change, 1 change, 3 changes: Not at all complaining about the results. May I giggle uncontrollably now? Sincere thanks! AuFCL (talk) 08:29, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * That's why DL has be tossed. I'm only concerned about the changes I made to PageNumbers.js re: jQuery $.cookie to mw.cookie. Doubt that any of it was "right" -- George Orwell III (talk) 08:48, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw that. The dynamics of mw.cookie appear to be different in the sense that the cookie "name" handled changes, e.g. "layout" becomes "enwikisourcelayout". This means there is no hope of settings made under the old system transferring to the new but no great loss. I am slightly more concerned about the fact the old system attempting (and of course failing) to maintain independent settings for each individual article. This approach is "more honest" in the sense changing layout for one page changes for all. I would not recommend pushing it any further; and you frankly caught me off-guard with the class name change for Page: space. Very cunning and I applaud the choice. Up to that point I had been leaning more toward either inhibiting PageNumbers.js executing against name space 114; or perhaps faking in a standard cookie "value" whenever dealing with Page:. All ultimately equivalent in effect. One final note: I think we were experimenting on this in parallel but I have realised despite the choice of variable names and optimistic documentation   does not at all act upon a standard CSS selector; it simply searches the DOM tree for nodes with the nominated   or   attribute values to act upon and absolutely nothing more complicated. Hierarchies and associated nodes are not acted upon, ever. AuFCL (talk) 10:10, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * You still miss the original point of lumping everything under the sun into PageNumbers.js, Common.js (and at first Base.js as well); Dynamic Layouts were never intended to be dynamic at all; that's the whole point of setting css via common.js -- everything is processed as if those setting were manually added inline rather than defined then called from any .css file. Those class names are "meaningless" in the traditional sense as proven by this latest fiasco under dynamic layouts (that's why the first span sits alone with only the class= set in the templates themselves; the other span was an attempt to override the faux inline values provided within common.js [fail]). I remember now how this whole "cookie" thing never really worked because every third "visit" or so, the entire Display Options side menu would go "missing" in addition to only the Layout selections working -- you couldn't hide or toggle the embedded links at all. The only "fix" for insuring the consistent creation of the portlet option menu was to hard code it in along with the basic mw defaults and then hide it from all the other namespaces afterwards. You can probably see an extra "separator" line in the side menu when viewing your User: preferences (that's the hard code hack at work). Again too much crap lumped into one .js to ever be fixable; imho we need to start from scratch (mobile mode will eventually force that regardless. -- George Orwell III (talk) 11:19, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I presume you are referring to this little piece of craziness:
 * —presumably that is what is left after something was created and partially  again? AuFCL (talk) 12:21, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Pretty much. The issue was/is there is no reliable "trigger" to initiate the bits to create all that -- the best that I could come up with is to see if the presence of the "Source" tab is 'true' or see if the presence of the pr-quality status bar is 'true' and then build a Display Options menu portal to accommodate the settings 'built' by PageNumbers.js. But that too would somehow allow the Display Options menu container to go MIA more often than 'allowable' to the community-at-large. The only way to consistently generate the container to accommodate display options was to 'seed' MediaWiki:Sidebar with a skin triggered entry (dee-oh [do] for display options). The problem then became a "simple" matter of preventing the display of DO in other namespaces AND those instances of non-transcluded main-space content (admittedly an ugly hack but it works nevertheless). -- George Orwell III (talk) 13:23, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah. So you're the one who sprayed all those mysterious tests for presence of  around every time   is about to get the chop? I have come across articles constructed such that the top level did not have "Display Options" yet the sub-pages did and tracked it only as far as uncovering the lack of that element but not as far as its author. See what I mean about becoming the single point of contact? Nuisance isn't it? AuFCL (talk) 21:57, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah I'm the one that stopped the flakey generation of the Display Options side-bar menu and the subsequent options appearing under it WHEN the pages index tag is exclusively used - what of it?. And I'm betting what you describe is a top level page "built" by the user mixing LST, the pages tag, the Page template and the page-break template to "create" that page. Using certain combinations as listed for transclusion does not reliably load the progress-bar nor the source bar at the same point &/or order as does using nothing but the pages index tag for transclusion. Can you find me an example of this regardless of my assumption(s)? As far as being a 'single point of contact'; I'm not sure if I like what you're saying. Do think I intentionally strived to become that or that I would up seeming that way thanks to circumstances beyond my control? I pretty much welcomed you in particular twice to join the system admin level just for your need skillset and help on this frontier btw (stone meet glass house in short).
 * I checked back. Even simpler case: the top-level page consists purely of header+wikitext containing links to sub-pages containing the "real" &lt;pages/&gt; logic. Thus there is no trigger for Display Options to ever be presented or applied to the top-level. Otherwise close enough to your formula. Regarding SPOC: Hey, do you think I liked telling you (as if I ever thought you did not know already)? It was intended as a kindly reminder to try not to get roped into that situation. If I truly believed you were guilty of such overweening ambition we would not be having this conversation at all. I started to respond to the sysop matter but realised the best answer is do not go there. You and I both know why it isn't going to happen. AuFCL (talk) 06:36, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I sympathise with your overall point about killing this to make way for progress. Please (at least try) not to fall into the old trap of only one person (presumably this time yourself) holding all the threads with whatever the new conception turns out to be. This 'community' is somewhat prone to split into big- and little- endians who will fight to the death to support their ideas about the "correct" way of going about things long after the sole key individual who actually knows how things hang together has moved on. Neither grouping will have the remotest idea of how to patch up the inevitable bit-rot faults which crop up yet will be over-eager to stamp on any newcomers who pass by with their newfangled ideas. (This is one of the reasons I am cautious of your occasional Alex and Thomas side-swipes: all good fun maybe but there is a darker side too.) AuFCL (talk) 12:21, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy if I can just break PageNumbers.js up into gadgets per feature and not have self.layouts & junk residing in Commons.js anymore. ResourceLoader (e.g. Gadgets) can then be manipulated to load what is needed in a far better manner and order than what is taking place now. Replacing Dynamic Layouts with some sort of comparable responsive web design is unavoidable regardless; its just a matter of time. -- George Orwell III (talk) 13:23, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I realise our perspectives on this (will) differ but I see "self.layouts & junk residing in Commons.js" as a somewhat desperate attempt to permit the end-user access to and influence upon "secret system stuff" configuration data (I'd have said gadget but in reality know PageNumbers predates current gadget usage.) As such I cannot entirely condemn the concept. You cannot blame the developer for not anticipating every perverse whim of the consumer base and there is not always a "tame sysop" available to implement every aesthetic change. This is getting close to the feed-with- vs teach-how-to- fish parable. AuFCL (talk) 21:57, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree to disagree. -- George Orwell III (talk) 23:25, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I did not really expect you would. In some respects you are more of an idealist than am I in this instance. Anyway I did not intend to provoke a fight; and even if I did I'd not be bothered using this kind of an issue in order to provoke the old bear. AuFCL (talk) 06:36, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

== A minor cosmetic issue ==

Hi. I refrained from bothering you for quite awhile (who keeps count?). Then, I came across a minor cosmetic issue and perhaps you can correct it. It's about the pagination controls which appear in either edit or read mode in the Page namespace. The 'page advance' control's left edge overlaps the right edge of the 'page backwards' control and this hides colored border display when using the Nopinserter.js. Could you please separate the controls by 4-5 pixels if possible? Thanks. — Ineuw talk 04:23, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

interesting snippet re abuse filters
FYI. For Special:AbuseFilter/16 it can show a hit on a main ns file for a new added link when there is no change to the main ns added_link directly. I note that I changed one of the transcluded Page: ns pages and fixed a broken link, and about half a day later, someone has updated the main ns page. That update has identified that the transcluded page has a new url at that time and it shows in 'examine' though does not show in the 'diff'. Thought that it was worth sharing. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:53, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Gadget-Site.css
I have left a message on MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-Site.css. Perhaps you can provide some insight into why the rules were added so we can fix them. Thanks, ESanders (WMF) (talk) 14:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Judging by the amount of phabricator & gerrit work I've seen you involved with, you may already know one of the main the reasons (or will dawn upon you sooner rather than later I suspect) for overriding settings --> trying make an .svg (ooui-icon/ooui-indicator) "behave" like a font-glyph while also serving as containing element's "background image" is riddled with pitfalls as it is - never mind trying to deploy it under a pre-existing skin such as Vector after the fact. If you wanted completely scalable/zoomible font-glyphs without the svg-to-faux-icon headaches, should have looked at developing/deploying something like FontAwesome to begin with [imho that is] -- George Orwell III (talk) 05:08, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I understand the specific bug you were trying to fix, but font icons were proposed and considered, but rejected in favour in SVG; mostly because of bandwidth concerns. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 08:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Template:USStatChapHead
I am afraid that USStatChapHead has evolved far beyond my capability to comprehend, so I am hoping that you may be able to step in and fix whatever problem is currently causing the datenote parameter not to display anything when the page is rendered. Many thanks! Tarmstro99 15:30, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

wrong editing of rig Veda hymns
I just went on Wikipedia and read about 10 hymns in a row and every single one of them had many false edits on them making them impossible to read properly. I don't know how this happened but anyone who knows anything about rig-veda, which you you seem to from your bio, can immediately see this can you tell me I started at him 126 of the 10th mandala. would you please look at these hymnsand get back to me and tell me if you know anything about this or can figure out why these precious hymns have been perverted and how to rectify it. Thank you so much Luckyfourdogs@yahoo.com

executive orders
Talk:Executive_Order_8625 you linked to https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015087537836&view=image&seq=325

This is an attractive presentation but do you know if there are holes in what it covers?

I tried adjusting the page numbers by seq=325 to find other acts. I figure since 325 gave 8625 that I could adjust 325 by the difference between 8625 and the name of the order I was looking for, but no such luck.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1941/410725a.html mentions orders on 14 June 1941 and 26 July 1941 regarding European/Japanese asset freezing by Roosevelt, for example.

looking at https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1941.html around that time it sounds like this might fit:
 * Executive Order 8785
 * Regulating Transactions in Foreign Exchange and Foreign-Owned Property, Providing for the Reporting of All Foreign-Owned Property, and Related Matters

8785 minus 8625 is 160, and 160+325=485 so I tried this:
 * https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015087537836&view=image&seq=485

This produced order 9002 though... so do you think it is missing some of the orders? Or maybe some were redacted and not available so it's not a continuous one per page?

I'm hoping to figure out an easy way (rather than scrolling one by one, as it is slow-loading) of locating acts in this source, as I really like how the entire thing is printed out this way. Unihoof (talk) 03:41, 16 June 2019 (UTC)