Ach, a talk page! Horror of horrors.
Coolness! Thanks for taking my suggestion on background color to heart. When I first saw the new meta I was horrified on how similar it looked to the English Wikipedia. Now all we need is a Metapedia-specific image and maybe changin the current events link into "Anouncements". --Maveric149
Thank you Mr. Vibber! The meta's never looked (or worked) better! --Stephen Gilbert 02:32 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)
- No doubt about that, I don't think it ever got a bug fix since November. ;) --Brion VIBBER
Brion, when I edit a page, all the special characters are transformed in blank in the edit page and in squares in the page itself ?
Opera 5.00 PPC - mac os 9.04
And...yes, it's beautiful :-)
--anthere
- Opera 5 on mac[1] doesn't support Unicode... (Meta is set up as Unicode so we can use all languages here.) I see there's a 6.0 beta for Mac, you might try it. (I know there are problems editing long pages also; if you do try 6.0, let me know how it works! I like to have things to recommend on the help pages...) --Brion VIBBER 05:32 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
I was wondering... Would it be possible to load different language.php files based on user preferences? The default should still be English along with the urls but non-English speakers should be able to see all the links here in their own language. There could also be a link on each non-English Metapedia Main Page where non-English speakers could go in order to learn how to change their prefs. Eventually it would be really neat if the software could sense that somebody clicked over from say the French Wikipedia and then automatically load language-FR.php (or whatever it is called) for that user while at the same time logging them into Meta. An easier way to do this might be by hard-coding something like ?lang=fr to the end of the link to Metapedia's Recent Changes from the French Recent Changes like so; http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges?lang=fr This could also set a cookie for that IP so that everything doesn't turn back into English at least for that session. A user would have to log-in and set their prefs to make this stick across sessions. --Maveric149