User:Roger

Roger Chrisman

rogerchrisman (at) gmail (dot) com

Palo Alto—Hi, I help with the development of Teflpedia technical matters from time to time.

I founded Wikigogy, which has merged into Teflpedia, and the TEFLChina email lists and wiki.

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Category-bot is looked after by Roger

Teflpedia:Dev -- development notes

★ Don't try this at home

Don't try this at home

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Leave feedback

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• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Preload
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php

index.php
?action=edit
&preload=Template%3AHangon+preload+G3
&editintro=
&preloadtitle=Contested+deletion
&section=new
&title=Template+talk%3ADb-g3
&create=Contest+this+speedy+deletion

If in a template parameter, such as in button above, use {{=}} to avoid breaking the parameter.

• Teflpedia:Feedback
• Teflpedia:Feedback/preload

★ To Do

• Network thread at Dathorn forum
• User:Roger/Brain engage brain
• Category:Pages with broken file links --special page? Category:Teflpedia maintenance pages candidate?
• Help:Search
  • MediaWiki:Titlematches -- text on Search page
• Help:Categories
  • MediaWiki:Categoriespagetext -- intro text on Special:Categories page
  • MediaWiki:Noarticletext-nopermission -- in MW 1.18 if you click on "create this page" on search results pages when not logged in, you get to a page that displays this message. In MW 1.19 the "create this page" link does not show when you search however. Perhaps edit that -- mediawiki:search-nonefound -- in MW 1.19 so it does? Or maybe give up micromanaging the dumb system messages. Maybe delete my custom messages so the MW upgrades can just insert whatever the MW developers come up with. Too complicated maintaining our own versions.
• Help talk:Categories
• Teflpedia:MultiCategorySearch
• Teflpedia:MultiCategorySearch/Dev
• MediaWiki:Multicatsearch_comment (I wanted to have a list of popular categories at right but my DIV tag wouldn't render, just came out as HTML, when used in the actual MultiCategorySearch page. Can I get an image tag with caption to do it? YES!) -- note above form fields
  • MediaWiki:Multicatsearch include -- note above include fields
  • MediaWiki:Multicatsearch exclude -- note above exclude fields
  • MediaWiki:Multicatsearch no result -- NO PAGES FOUND msg
• Lists of games and activities:

  And those ...EFL/ESL... --> ...ETL... redirects are actually a mess people don't really want to see when they Search for "games"

  • Competitive ELT games
  • Lesson:Sentence creation ELT games -- let's get rid of that "Lesson:" complication no one needs!
  • Vocabulary ELT games
  • Story telling ELT games
• Check Special:NewPages
• Check for red links in http://teflpedia.com/index.php?title=Special:Categories&limit=500
• Check for uncategorized pages in Special:UncategorizedPages (some pages are not categorized for good reason, others could be given category tags)
• have a go at intersection of Category:Sites for teachers and Category:Sites for students using a MediaWiki extension
• Chrome specific printing css so that pages such as Lesson:Bill's crazy spree/Gina and the girls print nicely one one page in Chrome. Chrome is printing with large text at moment which takes such pages needlessly to two pages. Firefox and IE print these pages fine on one page.
• Alertra once in a while Spot Check server response time with tool at top of http://alertra.com page and maybe crosscheck at http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.website-test.html and further at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
• Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.19, insert a '-y' flag into OggHandler_body line 357, and then check User:Roger/OggHandler. NOT. Replace OggHandler with TimedMediaHandler Extension instead.
• Play in User:Roger/Sandbox
• MediaWiki talk:Login-throttled
• Clean up all pages in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Wikigogy
• Look and laugh at Special:RecentChanges. Where have the spambots gone? ;-)
• Put {{feed me}} on some pages, or retire it (I have since invented {{heart}} and {{sticky}}
• When and if appropriate, do MediaWiki:Sitenotice (for logged in users) and MediaWiki:Anonnotice (for anonymous users). Maybe an April 1 site notice for fun!
• Check category:Hard Hat Area and templates {{hardhat}} and {{under construction}}.

• Add license choices to Upload form.
• Check and update all Templates.
• Check all the pages imported from Wikigogy. Some are missing their images. Some may be missing their templates.
• Figure out why spam regex trips on MediaWiki:Common.css (currently commented out in LS because of this problem)
• Figure out what is wrong with Template:Feedback (even though it is only in one of Bob M's talk archives).

Trivia

• The_subpage_test/Child_page
• Peload eg http://teflpedia.com/index.php?title=Sandboxxxx&action=edit&preload=Spelling or Oh (Only preloads if the page doen not exist yet, otherwise preload is ignored and you just get what is in the page, even if it is an empty page but exists--has an edit history). See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text
• I love this page!
• The history of Lesson:Postcard home (click it's "View history" tab) predate the existence of Teflpedia! And who is Teacherchrisman, anyway?
• Image trivia:
  • http://teflpedia.com/images/6/66/Teflpedia.png
  • http://teflpedia.com/images/2/2d/Logo3.png
  • http://www.teflpedia.com/images/6/6b/TeflpediaNx2.png
  • What is Teflpedia:Logo test for?
• RationalWiki trivia:
  • Teflpedia:Student bar