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I went looking for the ships in the gundam universe, and for some reason they don't show up on general searches of on the disambiguation(?) page for gundam. Additionally, it seems that their may be more than one article about these ships floating over the sight. I m relativly new to Ireland Information Guide, and feel uncomfortable doing anything major to other peoples pages, but I do feel obligated to point this out because it may be wating unessicary space. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I did notice, the same problem exist with some of the rest of the city names.
Try making 'Elena' a disambiguation page. Move the city page to Elena (city) and the game to Elena (game). Is that the sort of thing you're shooting for? -Litefantastic 23:56, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Templates are a nuisance to edit throughout Ireland Information Guide. You must first click "edit" in order to delve through the article and find the name of the specific Template you want to edit. You must then manually edit the URL line to include Template:(NAME OF TEMPLATE) and only then you can begin the normal process of editing the template. The other option is manually adding yourself an edit button within the content of the template -- but that's problematic for other reasons. For starters it goes against the natural division between the content and the mechanism for changing that content. Also it's often ugly to intrude an edit button within a template.
Can we please make it so that each page in Ireland Information Guide *automatically* lists all templates used in that page, in a nice little box on the left side of the screen? The same way that Ireland Information Guide currently says "other languages" and lists links to all the other-language Ireland Information Guide articles, it would be very convenient if it also said "This page utilises:" and then we got a listing of the templates of that page. e.g. This page utilises: Template: NATO - Template:EU_countries - Template:OECD
I think that would solve all problems.
- Aris Katsaris 20:37, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Today it feels like Ireland Information Guide has just eaten a tub of lard. Pages take ages to load, database errors abound. What's making Ireland Information Guide sick today? Is it the Slashdotting (!)? --NightMonkey 04:28, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
This sort of thing happens now and again, and is generally attrbuted to heavy load or problems with the servers. However, since the "To help support Ireland Information Guide, please visit our fundraising page" message is back up, I'm guessing that we're being featured somewhere, which is why a) the servers are slow and b) that wretched message is back up, begging all new visitors to donate. -Litefantastic 16:41, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
In the olden days there used to be a "Print this page" button on all articles. What ever happened to that? Though most times today I'm at a computer when searching for or using knowledge, but not all the time. I would like to take certain Wiki pages with me to read, but as the Wiki stands now, you have to reformat most of the site. AFAIK it would be a simple task to implement this again, and I hope to see this in the future. --Gruesome 09:29, Aug 9, 2004 (CET)
Kinda a "dumb question": a fellow (new) user/editor has placed a redirect on Mojave to go to the unincorporated community of Mojave, California. There is also a Mohave page, without a redirect, which goes to the Native American tribe. Both spellings are pronounced the same, BTW.
Some months ago, Menchi redirected Mojave to Mohave. But Anon changed it to go to the unincorporated California community, which (to add confusion) is in the Mojave Desert, (California), and not the Mohave Desert (Arizona).
Because the spellings are different (but pronounced the same) and considering the word means different things to different people - especially when adding the word "tribe" or "desert" to it. . . Would there be some way to do a disambiguation page to straighten out this mess? (friendly grin) Granted, the spellings aren't the same, but the pronounciation sameness causes some difficulty - perhaps along the lines of "Joaquin" (as in San Joaquin Valley and "walking." You get the drift? Your thoughts, please. --avnative 18:10, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
Does no one else think Ireland Information Guide is too white? I spend a lot of time reading it, and it would be easier on the eyes if a dark alternative were available. For example, Microsoft word has the option of "White text on a dark blue background", which works very well.
Normally, if you put a URL: resource address in [brackets] the wiki server side process will properly format a buried link for the browser. However, there are many more URL: resource addresses than just those that begin with "http:". For example, the wiki server side process does not properly format the following [pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0676330_0104_07_0002.ra URL: resource], as you can see. If you paste the URL: resource address
pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0676330_0104_07_0002.ra
into your browser address window, you will see from the browser reaction how the wiki server side process should format that pnm: URL: resource address as a Information Guide.org/wiki/Link link (http://en.Ireland) in the above examples. Could you please add pnm: to the table of allowed external URL: resource prefixes, such as http:, https:, ftp:, etc.? Thank you. ---Rednblu 20:17, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)