Contents 1 Stellar work 2 YouTube Flash issue 3 YouTube or Adobe changed Flash version requirement? 4 Lady Drummond Hay 5 By way of the Village Pump 6 Thanks 7 Thanks 8 "Country" at the 2008 Summer Olympics 9 wikibits.js 10 LHC bomb 11 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 12 Your Tycho Brahe copy editing invitation 13 Credit Default Swap 14 FA graph

Stellar work

Welcome and thank you for your stellar work on the talk page of the Fritzl case where you summarized and "indexed" Austrian news broadcasts over several weeks. I hope you are going to contribute to editing the Wiki article about the case.--Kathlutz (talk) 05:22, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

YouTube Flash issue

This has been moved from Talk:YouTube, since it was not strictly article related. Hopefully this answers the question. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 20:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

YouTube or Adobe changed Flash version requirement?

Has YouTube or Adobe changed which Flash version is required in the last day? Yesterday youtube was working for me on Firefox and Opera (on Vista), but today youtube is reporting I should download a new Flash version, and the adobe download page lists "Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124.0". Javascript code navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description returns "Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45", so I assume I have an older version.

Also youtube is now redirecting to uk.youtube.com for some reason (I am not in or near the UK, www.youtube.com used to be fine). uk.youtube.com looks broken to me (no page style and warnings about out of date Flash) I do not remember changing Flash for months. Does anyone know what this could be about? -84user (talk) 06:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, youtube is now working and I have not done anything except wait. I did look at www.adobe.com but their download page was broken for me. I guess this is one of those glitches. My Flash version remains at "Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45", so I guess youtube is happy with that! -84user (talk) 06:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Shockwave Player is not the same as Adobe Flash Player, and is often used for online games, eg Penguin Rush at [1]. To check which version of Flash Player is installed on a computer, right click on a Flash animation or video, and select "About Adobe Flash Player". The latest version is 9.0.124.0. YouTube pages have a national flag in the top right hand corner showing which version you are connected to, and it can be changed by clicking on it. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, that's interesting to know. I see "Shockwave Flash" and not "Player". When I right click a flash video and select "About...", http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ opens in a new tab and reports "Adobe Flash Player ... Version 9,0,45,0 Installed". I could not do this earlier because all YouTube displayed was "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player." (exactly as when one disables Javascript, which I hadn't). When I clicked on the "Get" link I got a broken adobe page (now it works, but I'm declining the install for now). It looks like there are many confusingly similar names.

Firefox "about:plugins" lists "NPSWF32.dll ... Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45" with "application/x-shockwave-flash" and description "Adobe Flash movie", which all matches what I see with my javascript code. I looked at miniclip.com but Firefox claims missing plugins and wanted to install "Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.0", which I rejected. Finally as you say, there is a national flag and I must have changed it to UK myself and forgot about it! That explains that mystery. -84user (talk) 08:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

The message "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player" is a known issue and has a page on YouTube's help site: [2]. However, some YouTube users have received this message when other video sharing sites are working, and only YouTube seemed to have the problem: [3]. When there is a problem with getting YouTube videos to play, try another video sharing website, eg Metacafe or Vimeo. If these are working ok, then the problem could be due to technical issues at the YouTube website itself, eg [4]. Have a break for an hour or so, and then try again. Sometimes YouTube videos are slow to load or do not load at all, and this may be because the server computers at YouTube are down or having difficulty keeping up with the demand at certain times of day (see Latency (engineering) and Lag). --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Please end this thread. This discussion page is meant to talk about improving the article, not a general troubleshooting guide for using YouTube. Thank you. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 17:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

OK. Wikipedia is not a help forum or howto manual, but I have tried to answer the question so that future users do not post the same question. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Lady Drummond Hay

Thanks for the Time magazine link. Grace H-D-H was my great aunt and on page two it talks about her parents meeting her in the US, they were my great grand-parents. MrMarmite (talk) 09:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

There is a dutch documentary about her being made (should be made by now). I let them have copied of a lot of her letters that I have. Also, have you read Botting's book on the matter? MrMarmite (talk) 11:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

By way of the Village Pump

I noticed you made a cross-post on Wikipedia talk:Categorization#LargeCategoryTOC as in German wikipedia there. Note I gave you an answer at length much earlier today. Hope that helps. // FrankB 04:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Yer welcome. Meant to drop a ping here earlier. Only happenstance I got reminded at the pump. I would have patrolled back in a few daze though. Maybe. I don't do watch lists. Cover too much ground. Cheers. // FrankB 05:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

FYI, Just saw this, which looks interesting, but haven't the time to follow the links to make sure I got the point. Of course, the many are on vacations this time of year, but if I'd invested the time you did, I'd make sure to post a link to Proposals on the Policies Vpump. // FrankB 19:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I was looking for someone that could speak German to retranslate LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin, I don't think web translators are good at it. It's good that you retranslated the text.

Thanks, Frankyboy5 (talk) 18:06, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

...for taking an interest in the article and/or discusion for Gliese 581 c.
--GabrielVelasquez (talk) 23:50, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

"Country" at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Thought i'd alert you to save you some unnecessary work that the day by day medals tables will be removed in a few days (after the end of the games) following discussion at Wikiproject olympics. Basement12 (T.C) 14:25, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

wikibits.js

I'd appreciate it if you left some comments on the bugzilla pages for the changes to "wikibits.js" you tested. You can find them here: [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Thanks again! SharkD (talk) 03:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

LHC bomb

		The E=mc² Barnstar
		For solving a problem on the article Large Hadron Collider ϢereSpielChequers 07:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

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Your Tycho Brahe copy editing invitation

I shall delete your copy editing invitation in the Tycho Brahe article because apart from being mistaken and injust in my view, the last time somebody copy edited what I wrote they rendered it illogical nonsense. This misplaced general invitation may well promote the same. I do not see any difficulty in parsing the paragraphs of that section such as you claim, nor any other defects such as implied. It was drafted with great care to clarify key logical points. If you do have any specific criticisms and edit suggestions for its improvement I would be grateful if you would first post them on the Talk page or on my User Talk page for discussion first, rather than posting any general invitation on the article itself.--Logicus (talk) 17:43, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. I have added some of my concerns at Talk:Tycho Brahe#Tycho's Geo-heliocentric Astronomy. -84user (talk) 19:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

What did you think of my response so far in Talk:Tycho Brahe to your helpful criticisms, and what I have implemented so far, tho not yet finished ? --Logicus (talk) 18:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Sorry I deleted your parallax footnote, but hope you agree with me after reading my critical discussions of the problem there e.g. Tycho could not attribute parallax to rotating Earth because he denied its rotation. Once you feel you undertstand the issue, I would appreciate help with trying to draft brief simple explanation of it to improve the lousy hasty effort I pasted up. --Logicus (talk) 14:08, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Credit Default Swap

Hi there, many thanks for editing that picture and putting it back up. Could you edit the image again to change the captions from 'insurance' buyer and seller to 'protection' buyer and seller plz? Article specifically notes that a CDS is not insurance. Thanks!! 198.240.128.75 (talk) 14:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Y Done -84user (talk) 15:10, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you 198.240.128.75 (talk) 15:51, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

FA graph

Hi, I saw the images at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_statistics#Graphs (November_2008), and was wondering if you might have time to do the same for the Wikipedia:Featured lists? (I'm not sure how complicated the process is(?). Just a longtime-beginner-ubuntu user myself; Don't know my way around emacs or modern office-software yet...). Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 04:04, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I can do it, but the process needs the data in the form of two columns: subsection name and number in subsection. I made an example for just the Featured Lists Media subsections here Image:FL Media barchart 2008-11-30.svg.

Example numbers of Featured Lists in Media section. Click on image for details of data and instructions on how to recreate in different forms.

Creating the bar chart or pie chart is actually quite simple once the data is available. For example, if you can create a text file in this format:

Episodes Seasons	58
Episodes Series	50
Academy Awards	        12

(or better, to make things easier, using commas instead of sequences of spaces)

then the chart creation is just a matter of copy and paste in Gnumeric and choosing style of chart. For the FA charts I customised the charts to make the font bold and larger, make the axis labels bold and larger, and slanted the text. I did that to make the charts readable when viewed as a thumbnail. All this should also be possible using Microsoft Excel but I do not have that installed.

Example numbers of Featured Lists by major section

Now, (this is going to be a long discussion, so skip it if not relevant) if someone was to do a fresh chart regularly then an automated means of counting the FLs is needed. For the above example I used the "counta" function in Gnumeric to save counting manually. But the Wikipedia:Featured lists page is not laid out to make such automated counting possible, unlike the Wikipedia:Featured articles page (at least not without using Perl or awk-like scripts). If another "view" of the FL page, in the FA-style, could be produced, where there are major sections followed by simple lists of articles, then data-creating can be mostly automated. Even better would be some SQL that would generate the desired data (but I could not see any relationships between the main section headers and the articles listed - no categories for "Art Featured list" for example). I am now doing have now done a chart Image:FL barchart by number 2008-11-30.svg for the top sections Art to "Politics and government", but the manual editing of the sub- and sub-sub-section text data would get tedious to repeat. Anyway have a look at the instructions above, and/or produce your own ordered data lists to feed into Gnumeric for other charts. 84user (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2008 (UTC) (Added major chart)84user (talk) 15:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)