User talk:Vadim

From CruisersWiki

Revision as of 18:08, 18 March 2016

Welcome to CruisersWiki!

We all look forward to your valued contributions to the Cruising Wiki to help it grow as a useful, free resource for all cruisers around the world. Now you are registered, you can set your personal preferences in "My Preferences" (link at top R/H of page when logged in).

Spend a little time reading the Wiki Help and the Style Guide to gain a better understanding of the Wiki formatting and how to edit articles. Also, please read the Cruiserswiki Copyrights notice, as well as the General Disclaimers (links at bottom of pages) before starting to edit. Then, do add what you can - even correcting grammar and spelling errors in articles is a great help - but do not use the Rich Editor to do so, since there is a problem with it at present. It is easy to see if you are going wrong, since you cannot save your changes to a page without previewing them first.

Use any page's "Discussion" tab (top of page's menu) to ask any questions or make any suggestions about that particular page.

Finally, please note that massive changes by a new editor are liable to be considered spam and the editor will be blocked. Please concentrate on editing pages of the places that you have actually visited. Also please avoid using the "Rich Editor", it does not work well and creates problems.

Again, welcome and have fun! Bring out that hidden "Cruising Guide writer" in you. Istioploos 11:40, 28 March 2015 (GMT)

Castelsardo

Vadim, I'd prefer it if you didn't remove the heading (unless you're volunteering to make the same change on all the other port and marina pages, which will probably keep you busy for quite a few months!). Vasilis and I have spent a lot of time over the past two years trying to establish some consistency of style across the Wiki, since otherwise it begins to lack credibility. There's still a lot to be done on that score, as you will have noticed, but at least most of the Med pages are reasonably consistent. While there's certainly a lot that can be done to improve the layout and usability, it would be dangerous IMHO to do it piecemeal as we'd wind up with something akin to the proverbial dog's dinner.

GORDON
Athene of Lymington

Hi Gordon! I appreciate your efforts very much. I've just noticed that these two successive headings look somewhat repetitive (Olbia). It seems Vasilis wouldn't mind removing the 2nd repeating header would be done gradually.

As a matter of interest this CSS rule hides the the 2nd heading if it's a very 1st thing in an article:

#jump-to-nav + h2,
script + h2
{
    display: none;
}

Cheers --Vadim 16:00, 1 April 2015 (BST)

Infobox marina & country

Vadim,

For some reason the "notes" in these templates do not work. However the "note" in Template:Infobox passage does work. I was unable to trace the cause of this. --Istioploos 16:22, 21 January 2016 (GMT)

Hi Vasilis! I seems to be fixed by now. As you spotted there was some inconsistency between "notes" and "note". It was "note" in Template:Infobox bottom hence Template:Infobox passage was OK. Now the both are using now "notes", like the others --Vadim 17:12, 21 January 2016 (GMT)

Yes I see that they are now working. Thanks. --Istioploos 20:14, 21 January 2016 (GMT)

Infobox Country

Vadim

I wanted to add 3 optional items in Infobox Country (with their icons):

• {{Coord|17|32|S|149|34|W|}} with [[image:World_icon.png]]
• {[Gallery link}} with [[image:Photo_icon.png]], and
• {{Chartlet link}} with [[image:Chart_icon.png]]

I am afraid that I might mess up the template so, since you have been rather active in templates recently could you do so?

Also when you are done with your templates upgrades could you please let me know so that we can revise Help:Embeddable_templates to reflect the upgrades?

--Istioploos 14:26, 29 January 2016 (GMT)

Infobox and Image right templates

Something happened between Template:Infobox and Template:Image right. The first one should display, by default, an image in 350px and the second in 345. This numbers make the images appear the same size. Now they are drastically different. As a matter of fact Infobox now displays the image smaller then 350px. For example see Europa Island. --Istioploos 21:57, 29 January 2016 (GMT)

My fault, sorry. It must be OK by now --Vadim 03:57, 30 January 2016 (GMT)

Thank you Vadim. It is now fine.

POI

Hi Vadim,

I see that you are working on POI so most likely this is a temporary problem, but do see Bilbao where it is giving an error. --Istioploos 14:58, 1 February 2016 (GMT)

Apologies, Vasilis. The changes reverted, I must not make scrambled eggs with templates --Vadim 15:26, 1 February 2016 (GMT)

Credits

Vadim, I noticed the new template {{credits}} in the Santa Teresa Gallura. I have to confess that I strongly prefer the {{Contributors|}}. .

This is for several reasons. After a lot of discussions several years ago we, the then active editors, agreed to have a means of recognizing major contributor to a page so that members will be encouraged to contribute new material, especially from places that they had actually visited. By major we meant the creator of a page and others who had made substantial addition of original material. We deliberately excluded cosmetic and corrective editing. You will note that although I have worked on many pages I have included myself only to pages where I provided new material.

The new {{credits}} is non selective and mentions everyone who had edited the page regardless of contribution. In the Santa Teresa Gallura case it mentions a contributor twice (Lighthouse) and also a spammer (Riley Huntley) whose changes had been reverted. To do this takes a certain amount of critical judgement and would be very hard to automate. --Istioploos 19:52, 8 February 2016 (GMT)

No probs, Vasilis. That was only a test and I was not quite happy about how it renders either --Vadim 08:44, 9 February 2016 (GMT)

Vector Skin

I have been using, the "Vector Skin" instead of the default "Mono Book" for several days. I noticed that it does not give an editor the options (Move, Delete, Unprotect, & Watch/Unwatch) that "Mono Book" offers. --Istioploos 13:56, 11 February 2016 (GMT)

At the top of the page there is a small triangle between Read, Edit, Add topic, View history and a search box. When you hover over it you'll get Delete, Move, etc. --Vadim 14:04, 11 February 2016 (GMT)

You are of course right. Did not notice it. V

Wikipedia

Vadim, after the last edition to clarify the doc both {{wikipedia}} and {{wikiyoage}} do not work without a parameter, they just go to the corresponding main page. --Istioploos 20:16, 20 February 2016 (GMT)

Fixed. Thanks for letting know. --Vadim 09:17, 21 February 2016 (GMT)

All these curly brackets in templates do make it ten hard to develop. They remind me when 30 years ago I was doing some programming in Lisp also a very powerful language but very error prone. --Istioploos 12:55, 21 February 2016 (GMT)

Yeah, Lisp was a tricky one --Vadim 12:38, 21 February 2016 (GMT)

Future of the Wiki - a viewpoint

Please have a look at World Cruising and Sailing Wiki#Future of the Wiki - a viewpoint.

Link to Google Maps

Vadim, see if this works for you: [1]--Athene of Lymington 18:08, 18 March 2016 (GMT)