Wikipedia:Village pump archive 2004-09-26
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Your questions answered here
Mailto broken:How come my [mailto:tompar@world.std.com Tom Parmenter] that worked with the old software no longer does? It used to be "hot", now it just sits there. See bottom of my user page.Ortolan88
- Because you had an extra space -- [mailto: tompar@world.std.com Tom Parmenter] instead of [mailto:tompar@world.std.com Tom Parmenter]. --Ed Poor
Wrap text around pictures: How do I get text to wrap around a picture? (Copied from Talk:Dwight Eisenhower to promote the idea of this village pump page.)
- Easy way: <div style="float: left">[[image:Eisenhower.jpg]]</div>
- Hard way: use a table (shudder). --Brion VIBBER
Of course, the table works in older non-CSS browsers, too.
- So does ASCII art.
Gutenberg link looks awful: How do I link to the uncopyrighted ASCII text maintained by the Project Gutenberg? I copied a link and it just looks awful?
- Text copied from Talk:Robert Louis Stevenson to make it more accessible and to promote this village pump page).
- You can't just look up something in Project Gutenberg and cut and paste the link. If you do, you end up with a dog's dinner like something this (broken into two lines for "readability"):
&ftpsite=ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/
- The wiki software can use it to link, but apparently wiki can't get rid of all the excess characters no matter how much you try to mark it up. However, if you edit the link down to this
- wiki takes you to the same place but is clean.
- There are several forms available, use "edit this page" to look at the coding:
- Enclose the bare URL in single brackets:
- Treasure Island Project Gutenberg text: [1]
- Enclose the bare URL in single brackets:
- Enclose URL in single brackets, but after the URL leave a space and add explanatory text before the closing bracket:
- Simply run the URL in text without any brackets:
- Treasure Island from Project Gutenberg -- http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120
- Simply run the URL in text without any brackets:
- The last form is less desirable, but since you see that kind of URL in the wikipedia all the time, I thought I should show it too.
Please note this on bug report 583234. A workaround until it gets fixed someday is to manually change the colon that appears in the compound link to %3A, like this:
- [http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120&full=yes&ftpsite=ftp%3A//ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/ Gutenberg text]
- becomes Gutenberg text
Uhhh, okay that doesn't work either. Time for more bug reports. :) --Brion VIBBER