User talk:Hannibal

Welcome!

Hello, Hannibal, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! (hee, hee hee) Tim Vickers (talk) 17:27, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for this introduction. I will read all links carefully. This Wikipedia thing sounds really interesting... ;-) //SvHannibal (talk) 12:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Warm welcome in few words

Den skratt är det kortaste avståndet mellan två människor.

Hello Bill,

Thanks for this image; really not that different from us.

Best wishes, SvHannibal (talk) 09:09, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Medical Collaboration of the Month

Craig Hicks (talk) 21:03, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Horrible damage

Please read my posts regarding the horrible damage you have inflicted upon the Welcomecreation page.

Read them right now. Then revert the changes you made.

You have no idea how much garbage gets generated. If you provide everyone with a quick-and-easy 'generate your own page' button, then that removes yet another barrier to the spewing of raw sewage directly onto the database.

With your addition, it will become several hundred times more difficult to find and remove inappropriate material. I expect you to help locate any further needles in the vastly augmented haystack you have made possible. DS (talk) 23:30, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your post. I am sorry for any inconvenience that I have created. Do you know of any way to solve this besides reverting the page (which, as you can see below, has already happened)? Would making changes to the version of the Welcomecreation page help? Would alerting people beforehand help? (In that case, where?)

I will join in the discussion on the admins noticeboard to try and sort this out. Best wishes//SvHannibal (talk) 19:32, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Welcomecreation

Hi, Hannibal. I realise you're working on a WMF project and everything, but I've reverted your edits to MediaWiki:Welcomecreation because the constant creation of new userpages makes much more difficult to patrol the creation of userpages for problematic content. I understand the intentions and purpose of your changes but I think that the complications that your idea presents doesn't outweigh the problems it would cause -- DragonflySixtyseven is probably the most productive new page patroller out there, and knowing what sort of stuff he weeds out, if he says that it will cause havoc, I'm inclined to revert for now. I'm not blanket-opposing such a feature, merely it should be discussed beforehand with users who patrol new userpages to reach a position that is mutually acceptable. Thanks. Maxim_(talk) 00:16, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

No hard feelings, whatsoever. I have responded on the admins' noticeboard and hope that we can find a solution together.//SvHannibal (talk) 19:52, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki talk:Signupend#A very much shorter version

Please see comments made at the linked thread above. Thanks, –xeno^talk 14:15, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Success

OK, so (after remembering something on Wikinews), I have a way to make the "MediaWiki:Customusertemplate ..." heading disappear.

First, add this to MediaWiki:Common.js:

 // use [[User:TheFearow]]'s perpage css/js code. Includes [[MediaWiki:common.css/PAGENAME]] and [[MediaWiki:common.js/PAGENAME]]
 importStylesheet("MediaWiki:Common.css/" + wgPageName);
 importScript("MediaWiki:Common.js/" + wgPageName);

Then, make a subpage of MediaWiki:Common.css (.css, not .js this time) for each page you want the title to disappear on, with the content:

#firstHeading {display:none;}

Example: create MediaWiki:Common.css/MediaWiki:Customusertemplate-ACP1:Fancycaptcha-createaccount with #firstHeading {display:none;} to hide the "MediaWiki:Customusertemplate-ACP1:Fancycaptcha-createaccount" title on MediaWiki:Customusertemplate-ACP1:Fancycaptcha-createaccount.

The only downside is that this method involves creating a ton of subpages, but it does work. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 01:56, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Great. As always. Thank you. I'll better get on it.//Hannibal (talk) 20:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

When I entered the code for the .js page, the apostrophe in the explanation, the text turned red. I guess that means that it reads it lika hyperlink or something like that. Is that the way it was intended?//Hannibal (talk) 20:27, 3 June 2011 (UTC) Sorry, that was my mistake. I pasted it in the wrong place.//Hannibal (talk) 20:32, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Please discuss changes you make to Common.js on it's talkpage before implementing them. This one was a terrible idea. There are only about 4 warning banners that tell you to discuss before making changes. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:02, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I certainly meant no harm. As you can see above, it was Fetchcomms' code, but it was I who pasted it in there, assuming that this was one of the few subpages to common.js and common.css. And in the future I will put things on the talk page first. Well, now that we have your attention... do you have another solution to get the same result? My guess would be that we make common.js make inivisible the titles of all pages that begin with an even longer name, but is that feasible? Best wishes//Hannibal (talk) 22:13, 3 June 2011 (UTC)