User talk:Tjtrumpet2323

Talk to me! Just be sure to sign with "~~~~" when you do... --Tim P 02:21, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

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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)

Coordinates Template Automation

I see that there are newer implementations of the coordinates on the main page. I'd just like to use a similar table on the expedition pages. (Something simple like this: {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top; border: 3px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 1em" border="1" cellpadding="2" width="300" !width=50%| Date !width=50%| Coordinates |- ! {{date link|2008-06-29|D j M Y}} | {{coordinates|2008-07-02|30w=1}} |} Is there a way to put the integer parts of my graticule in front of the fractional parts? Thanks: --Tom 08:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

There will be eventually! In fact, that's probably next on my list of things to do with this exciting new functionality! --Tim P 15:33, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

DONE! Template:Coordinates graticule now offers this functionality! --Tim P 02:26, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey tjtrumpet, awesome work on all the template magic. Might be worth writing up a little primer somewhere for what template magic exists and roughly how they're intended to be used. Hate to see them all get barely any use... --Nemo 09:33, 3 July 2008 (UTC)