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I saw that you are responsable for automatically updating the front page. I assume this means that you have a bot which calculates the coordinates and inserts them onto the front page. Would it be possible to have your bot also create a template that contains just the coordinates for a given day? For examply, it could create Template:Coords06-13-2008 that would take Lat and Long as input. That way, for setting up pages about a specific graticule on a specific day, we could just put in a string that is something like <nowiki>{{Coords2008-06-13|Lat=42|Long=71}}</nowiki> instead of having to copy and paste from the reference implementation. If you wanted to get fancy, you could even have the bot update a master template that uses if statements to lookup a certain day's coordinates, so that we would just have to call <nowiki>{{Coordinates|Date=2008-06-13|Lat=42|Long=71}}</nowiki>.--[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] 15:38, 13 June 2008 (UTC) | I saw that you are responsable for automatically updating the front page. I assume this means that you have a bot which calculates the coordinates and inserts them onto the front page. Would it be possible to have your bot also create a template that contains just the coordinates for a given day? For examply, it could create Template:Coords06-13-2008 that would take Lat and Long as input. That way, for setting up pages about a specific graticule on a specific day, we could just put in a string that is something like <nowiki>{{Coords2008-06-13|Lat=42|Long=71}}</nowiki> instead of having to copy and paste from the reference implementation. If you wanted to get fancy, you could even have the bot update a master template that uses if statements to lookup a certain day's coordinates, so that we would just have to call <nowiki>{{Coordinates|Date=2008-06-13|Lat=42|Long=71}}</nowiki>.--[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] 15:38, 13 June 2008 (UTC) | ||
| − | : Unfortunately, I actually edit and create the pages manually (for the time being, it forces me to be up at 09:15). I am planning on eventually programming templates to automate almost all of the calculational stuff you mentioned; however it is all reliant on installation of the [[MediaWiki Implementation]] on this wiki. Please, feel free to bounce ideas off of me... but know that until the MWI is installed, not much can happen. --[[User:Tjtrumpet2323|Tim P]] 15:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC) | + | : Unfortunately, I actually edit and create the pages manually (for the time being, it forces me to be up at 09:15). I am planning on eventually programming templates to automate almost all of the calculational stuff you mentioned; however it is all reliant on installation of the [[MediaWiki Implementation]] on this wiki, as stuff like md5() isn't a default wiki function. Please, feel free to bounce ideas off of me... but know that until the MWI is installed, not much can happen. --[[User:Tjtrumpet2323|Tim P]] 15:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC) |
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Talk to me! Just be sure to sign with "~~~~" when you do... --Tim P 02:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Re:St. Louis
No big, thanks for letting me know. MToolen 19:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Bot for writing current coordinates
I saw that you are responsable for automatically updating the front page. I assume this means that you have a bot which calculates the coordinates and inserts them onto the front page. Would it be possible to have your bot also create a template that contains just the coordinates for a given day? For examply, it could create Template:Coords06-13-2008 that would take Lat and Long as input. That way, for setting up pages about a specific graticule on a specific day, we could just put in a string that is something like {{Coords2008-06-13|Lat=42|Long=71}} instead of having to copy and paste from the reference implementation. If you wanted to get fancy, you could even have the bot update a master template that uses if statements to lookup a certain day's coordinates, so that we would just have to call {{Coordinates|Date=2008-06-13|Lat=42|Long=71}}.--Ahecht 15:38, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, I actually edit and create the pages manually (for the time being, it forces me to be up at 09:15). I am planning on eventually programming templates to automate almost all of the calculational stuff you mentioned; however it is all reliant on installation of the MediaWiki Implementation on this wiki, as stuff like md5() isn't a default wiki function. Please, feel free to bounce ideas off of me... but know that until the MWI is installed, not much can happen. --Tim P 15:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
