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Invitation to events: bot, template, and Gadget makers wanted

I thought you might want to know about some upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the Chennai event in March, the Berlin hackathon in June, the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC, or any other of our events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumanah (talk) 15:19, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but unfortunately I do not have time to attend any conference in the foreseeable future. — SkyLined (talk) 09:57, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect blanking

Hi, if you have an issue with a redirect, please take it to Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion rather than blank the page as you did with Jupiter family comet. Thanks! -- KTC (talk) 00:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the correction; I've done just that! — SkyLined (talk) 08:19, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

val with units and links

Template talk:Val/unitswithlink#linking got a plateful of my grateful playfulness, because to me you are the only template programmer in the world. I've done tons of programming myself, mostly less than 1000 lines of code, and little scripts to facilitate textual transformations and data mining reports. I've studied lots of concepts and scrutinized entire books on C and C++. And the "utilities" aspect of templates is not too awful scary because I used to operate and upgrade large-system networks, like Wikipedia perhaps. Would you like share somethings that would help me help with val, and with template programming on MediaWiki in general? Template programming looks to me unattractive, like a lot of memorizing of other templates' names just so you can embed them within each other.

What do you say about m:How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker? I might slog through m:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#Substitution if you can convince me, after seeing m:on-templates-and-programming-languages/, that it's worth it.

I've gone through one side-by-side test case with adding units to val, but that is trivial, and unusual. Can you focus me a bit for our needs on val? — Cpiral Cpiral 09:24, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - I've been programming computers for over 20 years, so I never has to read much to get started programming WikiMedia templates. I don't know where you could find the information you need, but I bet Googling might help. — SkyLined (talk) 09:55, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All right. Talk to you later. — Cpiral Cpiral 21:10, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Year numbers

I thought I made year numbers work with {{formatnum|#|R}} in this delimitnum version. (Refer Template talk:Val.) But when I ran "delimitnum/sandbox" in place of "delimitnum", in the val/sandbox, those val testcases showed that now decimals don't work. I hate to say it, but it's time for Lua. Val has such a nesting problem, it's a prime candidate for a Lua fix for both nesting and year numbers, probably all in one sandbox too.— Cpiral Cpiral 07:48, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lua? — SkyLined (talk) 13:28, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Look 'Ma, no braces! I now understand that the only way to get our year numbers working without Lua is to simply spell the algorithms in pseudo-code. Those braces are too difficult to see around. — Cpiral Cpiral 00:32, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AL-6XN Status

Hey there, I know you reviewed AL-6XN back in 2011, but I was hoping to get some of your input. I wrote on the article talk page to help facilitate this in case you were not active, but judging from the time stamp on this page - you might still be :) Thank you! Lechlak (talk) 20:23, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd hardly call it a review; I just noticed that the overall tone wasn't what i expect from a Wikipedia page. I'm far from an expert in the area, so i doubt i can provide you with anything useful on the content, but I'll have a look when i get some time. 83.86.171.158 (talk) 20:50, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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	Hey there, I know you reviewed [[AL-6XN]] back in 2011, but I was hoping to get some of your input. I wrote on the article talk page to help facilitate this in case you were not active, but judging from the time stamp on this page - you might still be :) Thank you! [[User:Lechlak\|Lechlak]] ([[User talk:Lechlak\|talk]]) 20:23, 12 April 2013 (UTC)		Hey there, I know you reviewed [[AL-6XN]] back in 2011, but I was hoping to get some of your input. I wrote on the article talk page to help facilitate this in case you were not active, but judging from the time stamp on this page - you might still be :) Thank you! [[User:Lechlak\|Lechlak]] ([[User talk:Lechlak\|talk]]) 20:23, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
			:I'd hardly call it a review; I just noticed that the overall tone wasn't what i expect from a Wikipedia page. I'm far from an expert in the area, so i doubt i can provide you with anything useful on the content, but I'll have a look when i get some time. [[Special:Contributions/83.86.171.158\|83.86.171.158]] ([[User talk:83.86.171.158\|talk]]) 20:50, 12 April 2013 (UTC)