Appropedia:Village pump/2024

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Hello, does anyone know why I'm getting this message? Thanks, Moribund (talk) 11:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Me, too. Several days with Search Function not working, and this is interfering with my ability to work on several additions to pages I am working on. I have sent emails multiple times, but still zero response. What is happening? Is there any way that users can help to resolve this issue/problem? TomStanton (talk) 17:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can try searching with a search engine of your choice like so: appropedia + (page name).

Just a temporary workaround of course. Hope someone can fix this, thank you Moribund (talk) 17:39, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that idea about how to use other search engines. In the meantime, no sooner did I indicate the problem was continuing, and it seems to have fixed itself. Thank you to whomever made this work again. TomStanton (talk) 18:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thank you Tom and Moribund for your alert and attention to this. We think it has been resolved and our backend crew is keeping their eyes on it. With appreciation to you for this and your years of engagement and impact! --Lonny (talk) 23:27, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also thank you @Sophivorus! Lonny (talk) 23:29, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Moribund (talk) 12:29, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, just wanted to ask if these kind of contributions: Special:Contributions/27.99.93.37 are welcome or not? Thank you

I already removed one such link from forest gardening, because I watched the video and it was not really connected with the topic. Overall, the link seemed to be advertising in nature and did not add anything to the article, so I decided to remove it. Thoughts? Moribund (talk) 08:33, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Moribund Looking lightly at the user contributions, I think they are sparse and varied enough to be acceptable. However, regarding the particular link and page you mention, since you're the main author and you actually watched the video and considered it not relevant, I support your removal 100%. Sophivorus (talk) 19:07, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all, think I've been seeing this for a little while now. Some videos look fine, others not showing (?) examples at Scotland community action, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK, India community action. Thanks for any help with this, Philralph (talk) 17:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Philralph Hi! The issue was due to a change I had to do to Template:Video. Apologies, I just fixed it, though it may take a few hours to propagate through the entire site. Thanks for the report! Sophivorus (talk) 19:03, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think there is still a problem. When I checked a Video I uploaded a year ago, it seems not accessible anymore. e.g. File:Adobe Brickmaking.mp4#filehistory as a workaround, I decided to use wikipedia as a file host and link the files from there. when I check my media library, all videos seem to be broken. Niels (talk) 19:25, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Niels,

I'm able to see the video. Can you check if you're able to see the video below correctly?

Emilio (talk) 19:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

maybe it was only inaccessible when in the gallery. in another page (https://www.appropedia.org/Sgraffito:_how_to_make_them), the videos also dont work when they are in a gallery. for me its not a big problem and I can change it somewhen, but maybe in other pages that are not maintained actively the videos are now inaccessible? PS: i had to edit in source code, because there was a error preventing me from replying in visual editor. Niels (talk) 22:25, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You can use this workaround, although not ideal, it does the trick! I edited a couple of videos on your page to test them and it works. Emilio (talk) 21:19, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thanks, the videos look 50% cut off (macOS), but when a user clicks on the maximize symbol, they can watch it full screen. see https://ibb.co/p13BQqt I will try out some other solutions today or try to adjust the existing one. if you or someone else has a better solution, let me know :-) Niels (talk) 08:44, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok so after some tests, I uploaded them to youtube, used the code and placed a backup link to my file directory in appropedia. its not ideal to use youtube but it works for now :) thanks for your help Niels (talk) 09:48, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll ping @Sophivorus and we'll sort it out so that it works for both Wikimedia Commons and Appropedia. But for the time being, I'm glad YouTube is working! Thanks to you for your contributions! Emilio (talk) 15:48, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a way to include all of the Excerpt section from another page without having it summarized and shrunk? -- Joshua Pearce (talk) 20:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@J.M.Pearce Hi! Do you mean without the surrounding card? If so, then I just added a parameter card to Template:Excerpt that, when set to card=no, will hide the card. Will this do? Sophivorus (talk) 20:28, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that works - thanks! Joshua Pearce (talk) 14:31, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pls solve my cel network sim manigmint bicuse i m open any id for gmail but not conect id plz Mohsin Elahi (talk) 12:31, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone understands this? It seems like a bug report? Sophivorus (talk) 12:48, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mohsin Elahi Can you use https://translate.google.com to translate your message? Sophivorus (talk) 13:18, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you explain what the specific problem is? Thanks! Emilio (talk) 17:37, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible to do videos in a gallery? Joshua Pearce (talk) 18:05, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@J.M.Pearce Hmm, do you mean having Template:Video inside a <gallery> tag? Sophivorus (talk) 18:27, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - or some other way to use the template video to get lots of videos clumped together instead of one at a time vertically - Joshua Pearce (talk) 20:08, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@J.M.Pearce No current way to do that, I'm afraid. However, I have an idea. I'll implement it next week and let you know! Sophivorus (talk) 20:16, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@J.M.Pearce Hi! How about using Template:Video inside a <div class="grid">, like so:

Because all YouTube and Vimeo videos have the same aspect ratio, it looks pretty good. However if you start adding meta data or combining it with images, it may start looking a bit funny:

What do you think? Does this solution serve your needs? Sophivorus (talk) 15:49, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sophivorus & @J.M.Pearce, sorry to interrupt, just wanted to say this looks really useful for many CASwiki pages. Thanks for this! Firstly just for more efficient display of a small set of videos, see Visions#Video. But perhaps much more importantly if one wants to hint at networking or timeline opportunities, see for example Scotland CAN/video, subpage of a potentially collaborative mapping page. Is there any technical reason to suggest max number of videos per gallery or page? From a users point of view I'm guessing over 12 - 15 begins to look overfacing. What do you think? Philralph (talk) 08:42, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Philralph Hi, glad you find it useful! From a technical point of view, the only thing to consider is that each video requires an extra web request to YouTube in order to get the thumbnail image. Also, remember that in mobile devices, videos won't show in a grid but sequentially. Thus, from a user perspective, I think 6-9 should be enough and 12-15 is a bit borderline. But I'll let you decide that. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 13:03, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This looks perhaps like a recent change to how 'thumb' (or image placement?) works for images (?) Some pages largely unaffected eg China community action, but on others an expanded image frame, which looks odd in itself displaces the more interesting and dynamic content that should be at the top of the page eg China news. This also has a knock on effect of making page previews far less effective. Not sure how widespread this problem is, just seen on a few pages. Philralph (talk) 15:53, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Philralph Hi! Thanks for finding and reporting this bug, it's due to some changes I did to image styling. I'll fix it in the next hour, cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 16:30, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Philralph Hi again, fixed! Please do a hard refresh (shift+ctrl+R) to clear your browser CSS and let me know of any more issues, thanks! Sophivorus (talk) 18:36, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sophivorus, an outstanding issue seems to be that in a lot of cases the page preview includes first the image text, which displaces the intended top of the page text such as news items, examples: China news, Community action London, El Salvador community action. Thanks, Philralph (talk) 12:29, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Philralph Hi! I just changed the config of mw:Extension:TextExtracts so that image captions are excluded. The issue should be fixed now, but it may take a few hours or days to get through the various caches. Thanks for the report! Sophivorus (talk) 21:43, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Found the above website today [1]

seems broadly similar to appropedia. Perhaps those editors will want to cooperate ? Moribund (talk) 15:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Moribund Hi! As you're probably aware, Appropedia has a long history of merging with other sites and wikis. I'd be happy to help with the migration of content and fulfilling any special technical requirements they may have, but I'm not confident in reaching out to them with a proposal (or whatever is the best way to proceed). Sophivorus (talk) 13:09, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Please can someone remove me as an admin:

1. I've never really carried out any admin role on this site.
2. I don't support some of the political affiliations of Appropedia and so I don't want to be associated. I believe Appropedia should primarily be non-political in nature.

Thank you, Moribund (talk) 17:02, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Moribund Not sure what political affiliation you mean, but sure, I just removed you from the admin group. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 22:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, i was wondering why my gif is not playing on https://www.appropedia.org/FAST%27s_Hangprinter_v4

THANK YOU, been trying different things for hours.

Janik, , Janik (talk) 06:44, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Janik Hi! I just visited the page and the GIF did not play, but after I opened the file once, I reloaded the page and the GIF started playing. Perhaps this is a performance optimization by the software? I'll look into it! Sophivorus (talk) 13:34, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sophivorus Interesting observation, and a valid explanation. However, in this page, if you scroll down you may notice my same gif isn't playing yet the other gif above it is, so I doubt its a client-based matter, but more so something with the gif in the backend? Janik (talk) 07:30, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Due to technical limitations, thumbnails of high resolution GIF images such as this one will not be animated.

^^^ When you click into the gif file

ended up downgrading the gif to every second frame. Janik (talk) 07:44, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Janik Ah, good catch! Yes, it seems the limit is determined by mw:Manual:$wgMaxAnimatedGifArea. I could increase it, but it seems we already have it raised to 2e7 (20,000,000). Sophivorus (talk) 12:10, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi everyone! Tomorrow, August 6th at 11:00 am UTC, we'll proceed with a necessary upgrade of our operating system (from CentOS7 to AlmaLinux), so Appropedia will be down and unstable for a few hours. Sorry for the inconvenience! Sophivorus (talk) 12:53, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well it did take a few more days than anticipated, but finally the operating system upgrade is done, and Appropedia is responding faster than ever! Let me know of any bugs or issues you encounter, cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 20:25, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! Appropedia feels like a smooth ride! Emilio (talk) 22:01, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Mulume Mutima, Fmmj, fmmjdzalekayahoocom, 102.70.12.234 20:32, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mulume Mutima, Fmmj, thanks for your post here and your earlier post above. I will look at your website when I can and will be happy to include at least a link to it on our Malawi community action page, plus perhaps your recent video. Although we don't help directly with fundraising I'd be happy to help include more about your vision, work, projects and the developing story of what Fmmj foundation does and achieves, best wishes, Philralph (talk) 16:02, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sophivorus and all, I've just seen an example 'dashboard' on Category:Sustainable community action, not seen before, assume is something new? This may be something you already have planned but I was just thinking I'd love to see a listing of location pages by number of (page) views, to see which get most and also which get least, to inform where extra editing might be most beneficial in terms of reaching more people. And wondering if others might also find this useful? So for example it'd also be useful for me to easily see which location news pages, Category:CASwiki place news get most (and least) views. Thanks! Philralph (talk) 15:37, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]