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Wet forward

Done. I switched the name of the article to wet bow, but the content is the same. Does this help? TomStar81 04:06, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!!! TestPilot 04:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Found a picture to help illistrate the article. TomStar81 00:42, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa class battleship

Hi! Please keep the three-revert rule in mind when editing this article. —Kirill Lok s hin 18:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thanks. I did 3 rv in last 24h. Three is not more than 3. So evrything fine. Happy New Year!TestPilot 18:55, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the major complaint he had was citing a source for the information; I have since found a quote for that. Additionally, I believe it was him that inserted the retooled Iowa-Yamato-Vanguard line; I do not see that the issue will flare up again tomarrow, but as I said I will keep an eye out on it just to be safe. I am sure that the other users (yourself included) will also be keeping an eye on it. PS: Happy New Year! TomStar81 01:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think its fine the way it is. He is probably trying to keep the article under 30kb, since anything over that tends to conflict with article length policies. Tightening the article like that also helps elimante what could be called excessive wording, which can get articles in trouble as well. In all likelyhood its probably just as well that it was tightned, with all the complaints on that page already and an edit war just recently (sort of) resolved we don't need people to complain about the length too. TomStar81 02:20, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - I didn;t reply to your comment a couple of weeks ago. Having checked the edit history, the text regarding Yamato and Vanguard was in the article before I started editing it. I think it is right, by the way. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:27, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will look into it when I get some free time, probably over this weekend. At the moment I have to study for an upcoming astronomy test (bummer). TomStar81 00:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article move

If you could give me the name of the article and where you want to move it, I can probably figure things out for you; without that, I'm sort of left guessing as to which one you mean ;-) —Kirill Lok s hin 01:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All done! —Kirill Lok s hin 02:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Link spam

Unfortunately, those look like dynamic IPs from Bell Canada, so we can't block them for long periods of time. It's probably best to just keep removing the spam, unless he gets really disruptive. —Kirill Lok s hin 19:01, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

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Thanks for the ArbCom Vote!

I wanted to thank my few "yes voters" in person...well, not in person, but at least contact you directly. Thank you for your vote. It is appreciated. I love you.

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Henri Poincaré

I've blocked him for 24 hours. He seems to have done this sort of thing before, though, given some of the comments on his talk page. —Kirill Lok s hin 04:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Response is on my talk

UtherSRG (talk) 16:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg

Hi, I hate to be a spoil sport, but this image has a non-free license, and is used under fairuse. Sadly, that means it can't used outside of an article, so you can't use it as a signature, but I'm sure there are similiar free images available. --Rob 06:12, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. I look into that. Thanx. TestPilot 06:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Main Page Election talks - your input is needed

A discussion has begun on how to handle an official election for replacing the Main Page. To ensure it is set up sensibly and according to consensus, your input is needed there. --Go for it! 23:03, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neanderthal theory of the autism spectrum

I saw that you asked for the AfD records of the Neanderthal theory of the autism spectrum article. There are four:

Q0 08:19, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

yay Israel!

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Lee Kaplan on Wikipedia

Could I ask your assistance? The anti-israel people are trying to delete the article about me on Wikipedia. They ahve lied and say i do not appear on google but in fact am the Lee kaplan who appears most. They also may try and post another smear article on Indymedia called Lee Kaplan, DAFKA exposed which has been running on Indymedia. That article was put under Front Page Magazine to smear me there but I wrote Jimbo Wales and threatened to sue for libel and it was removed underadvice of his attorney, ergo it should not be permitted in the bio/profile on me in the future or at any time. Your bio here says you support ISrael so you understand the lies and smears against me and I'd appreciate your support and help.

Thanks.

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Re: Vandal block

The address appears to be a dynamic IP assigned to some commercial ISP in the United Arab Emirates (and looking through the contributions seems to confirm this, as the editing patterns are very different on different days); blocking it after the fact would be pretty useless, as the person who has it tomorrow is quite unlikely to be the one who had it today. Kirill Lokshin 03:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, of course the talk page is all about vandalism; does anyone leave messages for anons that aren't warnings? ;-)

More practically, though, I'm fairly certain the IP is dynamic—there are a number of obviously different editing (and vandalism) styles used—and the overall level of vandalism is so small (limited to about a dozen edits per day, at most, which really isn't much by overall Wikipedia standards) that I can't really justify a long-term block at this point. There are some useful edits coming through there, after all, and it would be a shame to lose those. If the more egregious vandalism (e.g. the number swaps) continues, we can come back to this issue and consider a long-term block; but, for the moment, I think it's not a particularly pressing issue, since the "clever" vandalism appears to have been an isolated incident. Kirill Lokshin 04:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Procambarus alleni

OK, let's discuss this.

The material you keep adding to Procambarus alleni is almost entirely dedicated to pet care, which explicitly falls outside the remit of the encyclopædia.
It is unencyclopædically written. Anything that states what should be done is not encyclopædic, for instance. Similarly, phrases like "excellent scavengers", "not really very good predators", "It can be quite amazing to see" and "They often get a bad rap" do not belong in an encyclopædia.
It is completely unreferenced.
The core of the article must be about the species in the wild. The only exceptions to this are animals which are chiefly or exclusively kept as pets. This applies to the domestic dog, but not to Procambarus alleni. That the species is also cometimes kept as a pet is worth mentioning (and is mentioned in my version), but it is of peripheral importance. Compare White's Tree Frog, where its status as a pet is given a short paragraph near the end, despite its popularity as a pet.
Also some smaller points: arthropod names are not capitalised on Wikipedia, and there is no need to include trade mark symbols. A trade mark is a trade mark whether or not it is explicitly marked as such. I also have some concern that the article might be being used as an advertisement for a commercial product; it's only a vague concern at the moment, but any time when proprietary names (such as "Electric Blue Dragon™ Crayfish") are given undue prominence, it sets alarm bells ringing.

Sorry to be so scathing, but I wanted to get my point across. I think there probably is some useful information in the added text, but it is overwhelmed by material that is simply inappropriate. I welcome any attempt to improve the crustacean articles, but repeated reversions without any discussion is generally not a productive gambit. --Stemonitis 15:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is unencyclopædically written - I will look into that and will try to fix that. Yes, I agree there a lot should be fixed/cleaned up including phrases like "excellent scavengers", "not really very good predators", "It can be quite amazing to see" and "They often get a bad rap"

The core of the article must be about the species in the wild - yes, I tottaly agree, core should be written and expanded.

when proprietary names (such as "Electric Blue Dragon™ Crayfish") are given be bold and fix it:) Or, i'll will remove it. TestPilot 15:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB Edits

Hello, We appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are making a lot of edits with AWB that are considered 'insignificat', ie whitespace moves and similar

Consider using RegExTypo with edits, and limiting AWB to preforming edits that change spelling mistakes and such

Thanks

Reedy Boy 14:25, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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You helped choose Pluto as this week's WP:AID winner

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Anfinsen's dogma

I wrote a brief primer... Hope you like it.... Kjaergaard 21:59, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some references are missing there, here there are some

Reduction, Denaturation and Refolding of Rnase A In Vitro: Sela, M., F. H. White Jr, and C. B. Anfinsen. “Reductive Cleavage of Disulfide Bridges in Ribonuclease.” Science 125 (1957): 691-692.

White, Frederick H. “Regeneration of Native Secondary and Tertiary Structures by Air Oxidation of Reduced Ribonuclease.” J. Biol. Chem 236 (1961): 1353-1360. Anfinsen, C. B., and Edgar Haber. “Studies on the Reduction and Re-formation of Protein Disulfide Bonds.” J. Biol. Chem 236 (1960): 1361-1363.

Anfinsen, C. B., E. Haber, M. Sela, and F. H. White Jr. “The Kinetics of Formation of Native Ribonuculease During Oxidation of the Reduced Polypeptide Chain.” PNAS 47 (1961): 1309-1314.

Anfinsen, C. B. “Principles that Govern the Folding of Protein Chains.” Science 181 (1973): 223-230.

Moore, Stanford, and William H. Stein. “Chemical Structures of Pancreatic Ribonuclease and Deoxyribonuclease.” Science 180 (1973): 458-464. nesanfor 00:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

re: removing the name info for Dysnomia

Could you please cite a reference for the claim that my addition was wrong? I provided a source for my statements, which verified everything I said. If you know of a source which contradicts it, please tell me. Serendipodous 02:15, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frühinflammatorisch

Hello TestPilot. "Frühinflammatorisch" is composed of "früh", that is "early", and "inflammatorisch", another word for "entzündlich" (in the medical sense, not the fire), that means inflamed, becoming ill by bacterias or germs. So "In der frühinflammatorischen Phase" means "in the early phase of inflammation". I hope I could help you. Sorry for the late reply, but I am not in en-wiki so often.

P.S. the main author of TLR-2 in de-wiki is Ossip groth. Maybe you want to contact him as TLR-2 is the translation of his article. His user page is: Benutzer:Ossip groth. --Adbo2009 00:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Siberian voting

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Hello, you can vote in the discusssion page (as several ukrainians do). Later I will transfer the vote to the real voting. --62.68.146.96 03:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Has no-one awarded you a barnstar yet?

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		TestPilot, for numerous contributions to articles. Axl 10:56, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Boeing 747-8I Large.jpg

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undid bird deletion

An alternate theory

I undid your deletion of Bird article about "an alternate theory". It referenced, but sounds somewhat suspicious. Could you please explain why you deleted it? Curious:) TestPilot 01:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(How do I respond to comments on my discussion page?)

There is no more validity to the alternate theory of bird evolution than there is to the idea that the earth is flat not a sphere. It is impossible to hold a scientific theory of other origins for birds.

For reasons that no serious bird palentologist understands they still have to deal with this all the time. I wish I could fix this bird myth easily without having to write notes and provide references. I thought I would give it a shot and see how long it took for that to be restored.

I will take a moment here to say that at the meeting of the national association of bird palentologists in 1990 there was a complete session (with a dozen papers) discussing why they still had to refute the alternate hypothesis when it was so absolutely certain that birds are decended from dinosaurs.

Since then dinosaur fossils have been found with feathers.

Nwbeeson 01:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the theory of dinosaur orgin of birds is correct but please discuss this at the bird talk page. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:27, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Periodic Table

Stop vandalising the Periodic Table article, thanks.--feline1 11:00, 4 July 2007 (UTC) If you actually *read* the "History of the Periodic Table" section/sub-article, you'll see it contradicts your edit to the summaries. This is as plain as day. Newland's octaves are of course acknowledged in there as precursors.--feline1 11:32, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And who is mentioning vandalism? The guy who got multiple blocks(and a lot of them!) for violation of different Wikipedia policies, including personal attacks and VANDALISM? I never even had warning, not mentioning multiple BLOCKS! And now you are trying to start what looks like an edit war, with first thing you did is claiming opponents edits vandalism. Cmon, Wikipedia is about facts and verifiability. Source your claims, try to stick with fact, go into discussion. But you not interested in that, cuz you a not about facts, you come here to promote your POV. And yes, first thing calling someone who you disagree with vandal is not a best or most effective way to reach consensus. TestPilot 13:46, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. In case you need to discuss article itself - please use talk page.

I marked it *vandlism* cos I have already reverted this edit several times during the past year, and every time made it clear in the edit comment that the claim you are make is contradicted by the very article itself, and yet you keep reverting without comment or discussion. It does not need to be discussed on the article's talk page, because all the verifable evidence refuting your edit is already present in the article! --feline1 15:14, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Downtrip Puppetry

unfortunately it apears that Downtrip has resumed his previous trends and resorted to sockpuppetry as a means to go against consensus. A earlier Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Wikzilla had shown him to use socks and it seems he is doing so again. As such I have filed a new complaint at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Downtrip once the request is listed I would sugest you share your input till then take care.Freepsbane (talk) 22:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to my talk page if you have any coments.Freepsbane (talk) 22:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

J-XX

Thanks; glad you liked it. It's a real chore separating the fact from the internet-forum-speculation on Chinese and Iranian projects. For some reason these articles become real fanboi magnets. And thanks to you for jumping in with the actual JDW reference that made the rewrite possible! --Rlandmann (talk) 07:29, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Caution...

Do you check what you're editing before pressing 'save'?[1]. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 06:56, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you check your edits before pressing 'save'? Apparently no. Careful - such blanketing could be considered WP:Vandalism. And that was your last edit before writing on my talk page. TestPilot 08:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Meme - AWB

You recently edited meme using AWB. This edit "corrected" an author's last name to a similarly spelled word. Please check your edits carefully before saving, and keep in mind that "edits made using this software [AWB] are the responsibility of the editor using it." - Eldereft ~(s)talk~ 18:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Additions to AWB typo list

Hmm, while your contributions are appreciated, you really should have put them in the "New additions" section, where we could find them easier.--BillFlis (talk) 10:13, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Synthase" is a word

Hi, please check your AWB typo list. You just introduced a mistake into Cellulose by turning the perfectly fine word "synthases" into "syntheses", which is wrong in the context. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 18:50, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Synthasis

Re this edit. What's "synthasis" mean? Google couldn't define it for me. Thanks, -- JHunterJ (talk) 19:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, "synthase" is a noun, with "synthases" as a plural, but "synthasis" does not appear to be a word. I'll work on the Typo entry. -- JHunterJ (talk) 19:18, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Call for a close to the Survey at Fourth generation jet fighter

I have been mildly interested in all the machinations of the survey campaigning but now that a number of admins have been active and also been scrupulous in their scrutiny of the voting, I will ask the dissenting editors for their opinion on establishing a consensus and ending this survey for opinion. Remember that a consensus is not a strict adherence to a majority vote but an acceptance by all parties in a decision. With this proviso in mind, I will now cast a vote for Support with the disclaimer that Akinkhoo has recommended. FWIW, the normal period for establishing a consensus on a disputed issue is a week but due to the extraordinary circumstances engendered in this survey, the deadline was extended to allow other participants to register their vote. Since you cast a vote for both Support and Oppose, I assume you would accept a consensus decision for Support but please register your vote clearly at the associated talk page. Bzuk (talk) 13:01, 18 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Algae

Twice now you've edited this page with an edit summary of "test, typos fixed: antarctica → Antarctica using AWB". On neither occasion was the capitalization of Antarctica changed, and both times resulted in a loss of formatting inside the tables. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake. On re-examination the table formatting was not disrupted this time. (and have reverted myself accordingly) However, why the "Antarctica" in the edit history? --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:05, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Downtrip/Wikizila

Thank you for the aid. As you likely know Downtrip was blocked for Sockpuppetry and subsequently went on a tantrum driven spree of vandalism (Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Wikzilla) (Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Downtrip) some of his socks like Sfgerdy are still out. A vigilant watch is likely the best countermeasure to Downtrip/Wikizila socks as they surface. Freepsbane (talk) 15:11, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ACAC ARJ21

Hi again TestPilot. I've just taken a look at the sequence of edits, and to me it looks like a simple case of the two of you inadvertently getting in one another's way. The message that BillCJ left on your talk page is simply a templated warning to alert a user that if they continue in the direction they're headed that they might end up violating the 3RR rule. It doesn't mean that he thought you already had made 3 reversions.

You can see the template ("uw-3rr1") here - it escalates to this and this before this final template warns the user that they have now exceeded the 3RR.

I see that Bill has already removed the warning from this talk page. But - you were well within your rights to remove it yourself if you had wanted to - you don't need "permission" from anybody to do so.

Hope the two of you can put this behind you. Cheers --Rlandmann (talk) 09:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MIG 35

Nice work on Mig 35 article .Keep it up. Daredevil555 (talk) 12:24, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...

[2] Enigma ^message 19:20, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 19:24, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLook

Hello, thanks! I would like to make the same thing for Russian Wiktionary. Are you going to put somewhere the source code of WikiLook? --AKA MBG (talk) 14:53, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And another thing, how do one turn off that add-on? --Eivind (t) 14:57, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's trivial: click on the WikiLook icon in the right-bottom corner of your browser. --AKA MBG (talk) 10:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do usually reply on poster talk page:) TestPilot^{talk to me!} 15:25, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLook project

I am very interested in your WikiLook project. I have written various tools and libraries for parsing Wiktionary articles over the past few years.

Right now I'm working on a tool which looks up a Wiktionary XML dump with the goal of making an online/offline web app which will look up Wiktionary via XHR when online and a local dump file when offline.

I've just got the offline part working as a CGI script but I'm very interested in turning it into a Firefox extension so that a localhost web server is not needed. I'm looking for Firefox extension tutorials online if you have any pointers.

I'm interested in both Firefox 3 and Google Gears for the online/offline support.

There are a few others who are actively working on parsing Wiktionary data in various languages and formats and they can often be found on irc://freenode/wiktionary -- keep an eye out for cirwin, atglenn amongst others.

I'm very interested in exchanging ideas and working towards a Wiktionary data extraction tool/library/API that everybody can use some day.

Hope to see you on IRC. -- hippietrail

Ancient Greece

I've removed the "Ancient Greece" capitalisation rule from WP:AWB/T. Even if it is a phrase that should always be capitalised (which I doubt - "Ancient Greece" wasn't ever a proper name") it's throwing up way too many false positives ("The cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Persia" etc). – iridescent 19:49, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Absence

Hello, I'm sorry I was unable to provide any input earlier: I am frequently occupied with my studies and as such may log in irregularly. That said I'm glad to see that the dispute was resolved amicably. Freepsbane (talk) 06:32, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for WikiLook

FANTASTIC!!! yes I AM yelling. Lindy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.234.207.187 (talk) 15:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

etymology?

Just installed it. I like it a lot, but maybe in an update it could also show a word's etymology if available? Also, single Chinese characters don't respond to the look up (although multiple characters do). Thanks for the app! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.253.60.131 (talk) 18:02, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on implementing customization at the moment. Yeah, giving user an option to look up single characters is another good idea. And adding an option for etymology was on to do list since add-on creation. But I don't want to enable it by default, reason is to keep frame as tiny as possible still giving user most essential information. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 02:22, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

J-XX

Thanks for the heads up! Chinadotcom aka CDC Corporation seems to me to be on the same level of reliability as we'd place on other non-specialist online news media. If this were in their news section, I'd rate it as akin to the story appearing in Yahoo's news section. On the other hand, it looks to me like this is a forum post. I'll see if I can find a native speaker to work that out for us. If it's "news" then we can cautiously use it. I say "cautiously" because there doesn't seem to be any source for this information provided, and the wish list that it appears to be could very well be pieced together from forums and other unreliable sources. --Rlandmann (talk) 01:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

multiple languages and sites for wikilook

Hi, I've tried Wikilook and I think it's great. Could you please include in this addon the possibility of using the wiktionaries (and wikipedias) for other languages (ex.: it.wiktionary.org or de.wiktionary.org or similar) ? I'm from Italy, I usually go out and look for a word definition on it.wiktionary.org; when I don't find something on the italian wiktionary, I will look for it on my country's wikipedia, it.wikipedia.org (which is quite richer than the italian wiktionary), then on wiki.riteme.site which is very very more rich and complete than everything else. I think it would be wonderful if you could include these multiple-step search process in the addon (not limited to 2 sites, nor limited to only english wiki sites)... I think that people from other countries could come out with other site orders; for generality, I would like to suggest you to add some sort of freely customizable list of wiki sites, to look things on; someone (say for example a deutsch user) should be able to customize the order of search this way:

deutsch wiktionary
deutsch wikipedia
english wiktionary
english wikipedia

or a french user could want things this way:

english wikipedia
french wikipedia
french wiktionary
english wikitionary

I know it could seem abitrary and illogical, but with such a configurability you could make everybody happy... anyway, I think it's already a great job and idea. Thanks, --Crillion x (talk) 14:18, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Than you for feedback. I have replied on your talk page. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 12:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

Hi Test, please see here Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#License. =( --mboverload @ 17:16, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilook feedback

Hi,

I sent an email to 3 weeks ago, but no reply. Here it is again (minus attachments - let me know if you want them ) in case it was not received:

A couple of issues:

1. different websites sometimes produce different sized fonts - see two screenshots for example. Maybe adding '!important' to 'font-size' somewhere will fix? I tried adding to 'div.style.fontSize = "12px";' but this did not seem to work.

2. the tooltip will display off-screen if the word is located near bottom of viewable area. The code at http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm (LGPL licence) will reposition the tooltip. Maybe this could be incorportaed in to Wikilook?

Also, I'm not a fan of the colour scheme, so changed it a little - see attached /chrome/wikilook.jar file. I also increased padding a little. This works a little better for my eyes. Feel free to use it if you like. I also corrected a couple of typos in the JS + CSS. There are some invalid (non CSS2.1) values in some of the CSS files (e.g. 'margin-right-value', 'font-size-adjust', 'font-stretch', 'padding-start-value') - I left these in.

Also, can I make a couple of feature requests:

1. ability to hide status bar icon (I never want to switch off Wikilook) 2. option to open link from Wikilook in new tab (to stop my current tab being over written)

Thanks for a great extension. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.32.116.45 (talk) 12:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for feedback. I'll start working on new version of WikiLook soon. Adding '!important' do give an error for some reason. There is a way to partially fix rendering problems. I try to implement it next version. And I have removed non standard CSS, thank you. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 12:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilook with french wiktionary

Hi,

I did try to install the "french" version of wikilook as you explain in your reply to Crillion x, Frenchlook 1.3.1 appear now in my firefox add-on panel but it's still the english version which is used, how to proceed to switch from english to french version ???

while testing the extension i noticed something, while browsing the anjing page on indonesian wikipedia, when pointing on the word Anjing ( capital letter ) the pop up appear but not when I'm pointing anjing ( lower case ) it does not works, same kind of thing with the word biru on the same indonesian wiki page, however biru does exist on english wiktionary, could check if the same thing happen on your computer ???

Thanks for your reply and for this incredible extension ( i've dreamed about it since.........and i'm diying not to be able to use it with french wiktionary ) Serpicozaure (talk) 15:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hold Ctrl, not Shift key... TestPilot^{talk to me!} 16:40, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And make sure you see French flag in statusbar, not American one. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 16:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... Have no problem defining "anjing" or "biru" capital or not, French Wiktionary or English one. Dunno. Could be that Wiktionary is lagging or something. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 16:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

After upgrading to firefox 3.0.1 ( previously 2.0.16 but i'm not sure ) I finally can see this flag that you are talking about and it works, great !!!!! last question in the future would it possible to see the full page, including section Apparentés and Dérivés for example ( point on lurus and/or kemungkinan, from anjing and compare with french wiktionary pages of those words, to see what i mean if it's not clear, big thanks again Serpicozaure (talk) 21:57, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, eventually. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 13:32, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply, i sent you an e-mail to , tell me if you didn't get it Serpicozaure (talk) 09:32, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thunderbird

Hi,

We've talked on irc,nick nONoNonO before, but I'm not on irc at the moment and neither were you last week.

Do you have any plans on making Wikilook also available for Thunderbird? I get a lot of English e-mail, sometimes with words I don't know, and now looking it up is cumbersome: copy the word, starting op Firefox, paste in search engine, change to wiki, etc...

If you don't use Thunderbird yourself, I can see if I can help developing to adapt it for you (if only I had enough time...)

Hope hearing from you,

Onno —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oeekker (talk • contribs) 09:22, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLook Suggestion

Hello, I'm enjoying your WikiLook Firefox extension very much. However, I noticed that it quite often fails to find any results when it comes to people's names, for example, politicians. I am thinking that if you could somehow plug it into Sunlight Labs' API, you could overcome that small weakness. Here is the link: http://www.sunlightlabs.com/

--KeyMaker2012 (talk) 00:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

wikilook also for pdfs ?

Hi, during these weeks I've been realized progressively that wikilook is not only useful, but really FUNDAMENTAL ! (I'm not english and I often need to look for a definition). Highlighting a word on a text and wait for the definition is so easy and comfortable that I would need to use it almost everywhere (it should be an OS functionality!). Anyway, to start off, could you make possible to get the definition also from words highlighted within the PDF documents opened in the browser ? thanks --Crillion x (talk) 10:02, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dictionary Language Selection

Hi,

Your Add-on is very neat and useful and indeed I can look up the meaning easily. I like to know is there an option to add languages in this add on instead of english. In wiktionary there is an option provided for "TAMIL" language and I want to add dictionary for this language. If this option had been there, I would have given five star rating for this work. Thanks—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.118.38 (talk) 03:26, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for interest in Wikilook. Yeah, there is a French and Russian versions of WikiLook. And it could relatively easily be adapted virtually to any language out there. I wont be able to create Tamil version partly because I don't speak it. But we might be able to figure that out if you can contact me by email, support one is wikilook@mozdev.mozdev.org TestPilot^{talk to me!} 05:15, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Your wiki tool is convenient, helpful, and it works every time. Thank you so much for keeping the price at 0. Your time and effort have not gone unnoticed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.57.44.192 (talk) 12:35, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki German / Deutch (or Dutch) instead English ??

Hello I'm an dutch and use not English but German in my work. Who can I change Wikilook to use the German Wikipedia?

my mail is

thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.208.160.114 (talk) 18:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLook

I installed this last week, and I quite like it. I do wish, however, that it could also search www.acronymfinder.com since so many unusual terms are not found in the Wiktionary.

Robert 205.211.50.10 (talk) 20:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those instructions

The use of options to find the instructions, is a nice feature. The program which I'm referring to is WikiLook, which is both unique enough to have its own usefulness and 'tis useful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.230.84.183 (talk) 08:31, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback

Thanks for developing such a great extension!

Just some quick feedback...

Firstly, is it possible to make the activation customizable. The default is too slow imho. You have to hover over the word for quite some time, unable to do anything else.

You might want to use other dictionaries that are a lot faster like; definr. I think these are more suitable for pop-up based definitions.

Thanks in advance! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.156.9.251 (talk) 11:07, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, this is a brilliant utility, however I have one query; When looking up a word for example 'commodify' (or any other adjectives which are a derivative of the original word) it will display: "To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value." But if you don't know what commodity means then it is not helpful.

This happens on *a lot* of words because they are plurals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.104.68 (talk) 22:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ProteinStructure.jpg question...

Is there a color code index that explains what each color represents? If so, where please.. I'm not finding it. Sincerely, Brandt

b0iseman@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.19.182.6 (talk) 09:18, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

My name is Tal Weksler and I'm a Senior Accounts Manager at PredictAd. At PredictAd we specialize in search autocomplete services for publishers and users.

We've come up with a unique plugin for firefox that we'd like to enable through your firefox toolbar, as an option to your users.

As a business model we pay monthly per user with the feature "on" or on rev-share.

How can we discuss this further? Thanks, Tal

I just discovered WikiLook, after a discussion with someone else regarding something quite similar and opening a discussion about it on en.wt. What do you think about it? - Amgine (talk) 19:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Crossword, homonyms, false-friends et/and letters calculation dictionary

Hello, thank you: I'm fancy of your soft which I use for my computer scientist job, and I just would like to suggest my copylefted data (which are being slowly included into the Wiktionaries) for a new Firefox module. The concept is described in http://faux-amis.fr/eng_index.html. JackPotte (talk) 21:23, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

LInks to audio

Re your IRC comments: You can "cheat" by using http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/<filename> which will HTTP redirect to the correct path (i.e. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-notwithstanding.ogg and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-notwithstanding-2.ogg). Conrad.Irwin (on wikt) 12:12, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alt + right click bug

Hello, thank you for WL, it's working perfectly in my Vista and XP, however in my Ubuntu 9.10 with Firefox 3.5.5, the dictionaries which are working with CTRL or Shift + right click, aren't available with alt + right click: a menu "reduce, restore, move, resize..." is appearing instead. JackPotte (talk) 06:16, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

wikilooks translator

it would be great if you could integrate google translator "search" (translation) engine into your interface addon.if possible.

Recognition of "form of templates" and transposition in french wiktionnary

Hi,

Firstly, I want to congralute you for wikilook, it's a very useful extension.

I notice that wikilook could follow template from category "Form of templates" on en: wiktionary in order to display the main page.

In fr wiktionary there templates don't exist.

I have two questions :

1) Why wikilook needs templates and can't directly recognize expressions like "Diminutive of"?

2) If I create this kind of templates in french wiktionnary ("Feminin de" "Pluriel de" etc) and spread them with a bot, could you modificate Wikilook to make it able to recognize them? (I will transmit you the templates list of course)

Thanks for reading, and sorry for approximate english

PS: My mail send to wikilook AT googlegroups.com failed. Where can I contact you ?

Wart Dark (talk) 11:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

Hello there. This is an automated message to tell you about the gradual phasing out of the preference entitled "Mark all edits minor by default", which you currently have (or very recently had) enabled.

On 13 March 2011, this preference was hidden from the user preferences screen as part of efforts to prevent its accidental misuse (consensus discussion). This had the effect of locking users in to their existing preference, which, in your case, was true. To complete the process, your preference will automatically be changed to false in the next few days. This does not require any intervention on your part and you will still be able to manually mark your edits as being minor in the usual way.

For established users such as yourself there is a workaround available involving custom JavaScript. With the script in place, you can continue with this functionality indefinitely (its use is governed by WP:MINOR). If you have any problems, feel free to drop me a note.

Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 18:32, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

SeaMonkey 2.1

In SeaMonkey 2.0.* Wikipedia lookups used to show short sections of the relevant Wiki article in a box with a "More" link at the end that brought up the next short section (if there was one), so that the whole article did not need to be viewed if the first short section or two provided the required info.

In the new stable release of SeaMonkey (2.1) the "More" link does not work, so the full article has to be viewed if the required information is not contained in the first short section.

WikiLook 2.7.0, SeaMonkey 2.1, Windows XP SP3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.252.70 (talk) 02:22, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Audio problem

Hi: I can't get WikiLook 2.7.0 audio to work for pronunciation. Any ideas?. Running it as add in for the latest FireFox. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.50.255.30 (talk) 18:06, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLook useless since Firefox 20

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=868693 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.109.218.152 (talk) 03:31, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilook ne s'ouvre plus

Bonjour, je me sers depuis longtemps de Wikilook qui est des plus utiles: . Il permetAIT par un survol d'un mot "bleui" d'avoir l'ouverture d'une petite fenêtre avec un fond jaune, qui ouvre l'article de Wikipedia. On avait donc une information rapide.

Seulement voilà! Il ne veut plus s'ouvrir

Merci de vos réponses éclairées et éclairantes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.90.97.183 (talk) 09:54, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLook

Can you PLEASE update your add-on so we can use it after FF 43?? Thank you and a happy NEW YEAR!! Taken from the add-on page:

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Working with FF 42 after modifying/editing Bewertet mit 4 von 5 Sternen

I have collected the solutions to make this great add-on working... the two explanations describe the same solution, so you only need to follow one of them.

With FF 43, you need to change the options in the browser, and after FF 44, it will not work I guess: " Firefox 43: Firefox will have a preference that allows signature enforcement to be disabled (xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config). Firefox 44: Release and Beta versions of Firefox will not allow unsigned extensions to be installed, with no override. "

SOLUTIONS:

a)

With ff21, I get a syntax error in the error console, that stops wikilook 2.7.0 from finishing loading.

In the file chrome/wikilook/content/wikilook.js line 4746 is not valid syntax in the newer javascript engine:

globalPackageWL.WikiLook_Overlay.PMaker.WLWTajaxCallbackImpl(res.expandtemplates.*);

Changing that line to an alternate equivalent syntax:

globalPackageWL.WikiLook_Overlay.PMaker.WLWTajaxCallbackImpl(res.expandtemplates['*']);

works for me - all of wikilook is functional with ff21.

Contrary to what has been mentioned, I don't see where wikilook is using the deprecated E2X syntax. In any case, that wouldn't require a complete re-write.

Alan

b)

To get the full file name, you have to know the path to Firefox's profile. Do this:

Enter this special URL in the address line: about:support You'll get a page with title "Troubleshooting Information".

In the top third you find a table with "Application Basics"; it contains a row "Profile folder" with a button labeled "Show Folder". Press the button. An Explorer window will open showing the location and the contents of your profile. Now you'll have to navigate through several levels of sub-directories... Open folders extensions, then wikilook@testpilot. You are now on the level Alan was when he said "In the file chrome/wikilook/content/wikilook.js line 4746 is not valid syntax". Dive down through folders chrome -> wikilook -> content. Now you can see file wikilook.js. Select it (don't execute). Terminate Firefox before you edit this file.

Editing wikilook.js may be a problem for the inexperienced user. There are 2 options:

Use a good editor (as I did) which can handle Unix line-breaks (Windows' Notepad cannot, see below). You can drag & drop the file into the editor's window (if that doesn't work, you now know the full path of the file anyway). Then go to line 4746 (or do the search shown below) and apply Alan's change. If you have no other editor than Windows' Notepad, do the following: Right-click at wikilook.js and select edit from the menu (not open, don't double-click). This will load the file into the Notepad editor. Bad surprise: the whole text is shown as one huge continuous line! But you're not lost. Just search (Ctrl+F) for res.expandtemplates.* and apply the change. (res.expandtemplates.* => res.expandtemplates['*'])

WikiLook - making it work with FF44!

Can you PLEASE update your add-on so we can use it after FF 43?? Thank you and a happy NEW YEAR!! Taken from the add-on page:

---

Working with FF 42 after modifying/editing Bewertet mit 4 von 5 Sternen

I have collected the solutions to make this great add-on working... the two explanations describe the same solution, so you only need to follow one of them.

With FF 43, you need to change the options in the browser, and after FF 44, it will not work I guess: " Firefox 43: Firefox will have a preference that allows signature enforcement to be disabled (xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config). Firefox 44: Release and Beta versions of Firefox will not allow unsigned extensions to be installed, with no override. "

SOLUTIONS:

a)

With ff21, I get a syntax error in the error console, that stops wikilook 2.7.0 from finishing loading.

In the file chrome/wikilook/content/wikilook.js line 4746 is not valid syntax in the newer javascript engine:

globalPackageWL.WikiLook_Overlay.PMaker.WLWTajaxCallbackImpl(res.expandtemplates.*);

Changing that line to an alternate equivalent syntax:

globalPackageWL.WikiLook_Overlay.PMaker.WLWTajaxCallbackImpl(res.expandtemplates['*']);

works for me - all of wikilook is functional with ff21.

Contrary to what has been mentioned, I don't see where wikilook is using the deprecated E2X syntax. In any case, that wouldn't require a complete re-write.

Alan

b)

To get the full file name, you have to know the path to Firefox's profile. Do this:

Enter this special URL in the address line: about:support You'll get a page with title "Troubleshooting Information".

In the top third you find a table with "Application Basics"; it contains a row "Profile folder" with a button labeled "Show Folder". Press the button. An Explorer window will open showing the location and the contents of your profile. Now you'll have to navigate through several levels of sub-directories... Open folders extensions, then wikilook@testpilot. You are now on the level Alan was when he said "In the file chrome/wikilook/content/wikilook.js line 4746 is not valid syntax". Dive down through folders chrome -> wikilook -> content. Now you can see file wikilook.js. Select it (don't execute). Terminate Firefox before you edit this file.

Editing wikilook.js may be a problem for the inexperienced user. There are 2 options:

Use a good editor (as I did) which can handle Unix line-breaks (Windows' Notepad cannot, see below). You can drag & drop the file into the editor's window (if that doesn't work, you now know the full path of the file anyway). Then go to line 4746 (or do the search shown below) and apply Alan's change. If you have no other editor than Windows' Notepad, do the following: Right-click at wikilook.js and select edit from the menu (not open, don't double-click). This will load the file into the Notepad editor. Bad surprise: the whole text is shown as one huge continuous line! But you're not lost. Just search (Ctrl+F) for res.expandtemplates.* and apply the change. (res.expandtemplates.* => res.expandtemplates['*'])