User Talk: AKA MBG

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List of cycles

Thanks for putting up your excellent list of cycles! Do you mind if I edit the page to include a link to a category in each unchecked cycle (e.g. :Category:Communication_design ↗)? This will make checking through them much quicker. Dsp13 (talk) 14:29, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

:: Of course, you can. Thank you. AKA MBG (talk) 14:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
:This seemed fiddly to do, and since all I wanted was a quick way to go from this page to a given category page, I used the following bookmarklet ↗, which searches for a particular wikipedia category with whatever text is highlighted:
<nowiki>javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection(); if(!q){void(q=prompt('Wikipedia keywords:',''))}; if(q)location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=Category:'+escape(q)})()</nowiki>
:Dsp13 (talk) 23:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

:: Thanks for useful line of code and new word for me: '''bookmarklet'''. AKA MBG (talk) 20:03, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Any chance of updating the list of cycles? --Rumping (talk) 12:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

:::: It will require to download new dump of English Wikipedia. The chance exists :). I will write it to my todo list. --AKA MBG (talk) 17:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
:is it still on your todo list? ;) Dsp13 (talk) 00:37, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
::: OK. Let's wait when new dump ↗ will be ready. And I will start download this huge archive :) -- AKA MBG (talk) 09:53, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
: fabulous! (Though do you need the whole thing, or only the category membership data?) Dsp13 (talk) 04:40, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

:::: My SQL scripts require two tables: ''page'' and ''categorylinks''. -- AKA MBG (talk) 13:39, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

OK. Now I have no time for creating "List of cycles". I will die or create Wiktionary parser. I prefer second :) -- AKA MBG (talk) 13:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
:good luck with the parser! Dsp13 (talk) 20:03, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

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Music and Spoken Wikipedia

Thanks for the suggestion to add music to my most recent addition ↗ to Spoken Wikipedia. It's much better now! -- Pjf (talk) 18:28, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

: I think that now the recording is really much better. Fine!
: I recommend to add the name of the used music composition (with license) to the description of the audio file, in order to escape the blame of using of copyrighted music. See an example of such description after the word "incorporating" in the :File:Ru-Russia part 7 Military and Religion.ogg ↗. My format is:
Artist - Album / Composition (License tag)
: Good luck! -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 11:12, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Spoken Wikipedia template

Hi. You added <nowiki>{{Spoken Wikipedia|You forgot poland.ogg|2005-06-25}}</nowiki> to the United States presidential election debates, 2004 ↗ article. Unfortunately, it says that '[the] audio file was created from a revision of the "United States presidential election debates, 2004" article dated 2005-06-25', when in fact it was created from the You forgot Poland ↗ article, which is now a redirect. Is there any way of adding the correct article name to the template? Scolaire (talk) 11:00, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

: As I understand, this is very rare case, and it is first in my practice when the text of the spoken article was integrated into other article. I am not a skilled craftsman to change this complex template :( You can post your question to the talk page of {{tl|Spoken Wikipedia}} template.
: It was fun and interesting to know about this failed joke of the president, when I listening this audio file in first time :) -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 11:15, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

::I have posted to the template talk page. I'm not very optimistic, however, because there doesn't seem to be very much activity there (none at all in the last year). Scolaire (talk) 21:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

::: Thank you. The most intriguing and fun thing in the Wikipedia, that it is impossible to predict - when and who will improve it :) -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 13:14, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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