S11

• Htasoff 14:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
  • The text in MME on the Cross-cap page is getting truncated when viewed through edit with form, but still appears on the page.

Kate 00:49, 14 June 2011 (UTC): When I've encountered this problem previously, it's been because a set of double curly brackets wasn't closed.

Harrison, 5/26/11:

• We need a list of empty pages: Penrose Tiles is only linked to one, now two, pages. Empty pages like this could well fade into obscurity.

Kate 17:09, 7 June 2011 (UTC): Such a list has been created. See here.

Let's talk about what to do this afternoon. Gene 15:19, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

This problem has continued over the weekend. Someone spammed the talk page for Fun Topology with comments about buying Cialis and stuff. They also posted a lot more movie download pages under the Cadedesi username. I'm going to go through and delete again.

The spam comments on Fun Topology were coming from this computer's IP address.

Kate 14:34, 6 June 2011 (UTC): Haven't seen any more spam activity for a few days. I assume some computer people have handled the issue? I'm going to hide this conversation so that it's not taking up space on S11.

I spent a really long time wandering around MediaWiki and Wikipedia this morning trying to figure out how to do footnotes/citations the way I wanted to - now that I know how, should I add instructions to one of the many help mages on Math Images? If so, which page? (Kate, 5/17)

Answer: put it here at Wiki Tricks (XD, 5/17)

Smaurer1 19:43, 17 May 2011 (UTC) Well, it's not clear that webarticles should have footnotes, although Wikipedia does. In text references may be better. This is surely something we should discuss as a group, and find out what last year's group decided, if they did. If there are footnotes, there has got to be a way to get back seamlessly to where you were before you jumped to the footnote.

Also, as for citations, we should be uniform in their format.

Finally, you can use 4 tildes to put your username and time stamp on your comments, and 3 tildes for just your username.

Well, I wasn't doing comment-y type footnotes, I just wanted specific sentences to link to items in my References section. I think that format is better than full intext-citations, because it brings you to the source if that's what you're interested in, but it takes up less space if you're not. The references template we have comes equipped with little links to jump you back up, too- if you look at the Quipu page, you can see that it lists each of the sections that reference is linked from, and those links bring you to the reference in that section. All in all, I think it's a clear and intuitive way to do references for both the writer and the reader (although, like most things, it doesn't play well with our hidden sections), and I'm going to go ahead and put the instructions up in WikiTricks. -Kate

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One of you asked "How do you put invisible comments in the source code?"

Answer: Same way you do in html, like this :<!-- hidden stuff --> :

However, if you want to make comments about an article for its author, the comments are more likely to be seen if you either

• put it in the discussion page, or
• if it is important to put it right by the material commented on, put it in the article in color with your username and time stamp included.

Hidden comments in the source code are likely to be overlooked, except perhaps if they are written by the author him/herself, as a note for further development.