User talk:Gero

I am interested to promote DPL to become part of mediawiki / wikipedia. How do you feel about this idea?

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I agree, it seems very useful.--Patrick 15:14, 17 February 2007 (CET)

Your message at my Wikisource talk page

Hi, and thanks for your message (you said to reply here).

I tool a look at your DPL extension. It looks nice, and I think I understand some of what you are trying to accomplish with it, but my technical expertise is limited and I don't fully understand it. I am also not entirely clear as to what elements of Labeled Section Transclusion are included in DPL.

As to how to promote these things: First, people with technical expertise have to build a working, tested extension. That has apparently been accomplished both with DPL and LST.

The next step is to get the senior developers to actually apply the extension live at Wikimedia wikis (for instance, LST was designed for Wikisource). I thought that this second step would be easy, but apparently it is not, because the developers are extremely busy and have a huge list of things to be implemented. So you have to keep reminding, lobbying, etc., for instance on IRC or Wikitech mail (I don't have access to IRC).

It would be great if you could further clarify, in layman's terms, about DPL and how it incorporates LST. And lobbying is useful too...

Best to reach me at my Wikisource page as you did. Dovi

please see my answer at the end of Talk:Manual --Gero 20:53, 19 February 2007 (CET)

Developer note

Hi! Thanks for the hard work on the DPL, it's so much more useful than when I used to work on it. Please see my message at Discussion. -- IlyaHaykinson 12:00, 25 February 2007 (CET)

Thanks for the compliment. I think something like DPL is really needed for MediaWiki and it´s worth investing time and energy ... -- Gero 15:31, 26 February 2007 (CET)

Quick turnaround

Gero, just wanted to thank you for your fix to "replaceintitle". We decided this morning to deploy DPL at http://busytonight.com/wiki, specifically because we need "replaceintitle" in one particular context. I tested, it didn't work as advertised -- then I noticed on the issues list here that you made a comment today that it had been fixed, based on a comment yesterday that it wasn't working as advertised in 1.0.7. So I opened an internal ticket for us to upgrade from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8. (The person I assigned it to said, "But I just installed it last week! How can I have to upgrade it already?" :-) Richmintz 18:36, 9 April 2007 (CEST)

glitch in Special:Allmessages

Your code is printing a warning upon loading Special:Allmessages. Just FYI.

cat1 AND cat2

Hi Gero I found no way for "cat1 AND cat2". Is there an example somewhere? 84.190.56.160 11:20, 21 June 2007 (CEST)

Ok, it's category=cat1 category =cat2 ... ;-) regards Tobias 84.190.56.160 11:28, 21 June 2007 (CEST)

css files

Greetings,

This is kind of an obscure request and not directly related to the dpl extension, but I was wondering if you could email me the css files used in your example pages. I'm trying to get wiki tables and html working together, and those pages have some good examples. Or maybe just the classes used? Either would be great! Feel free to email me directly if you'd like. Thanks! --Natebsi 02:29, 20 July 2007 (CEST)

There is no css code except the MediaWiki:Common.css file.

#n-Manual { background-color: #ffddaa; }
#n-Source { background-color: #ccccff; }
#n-Test { background-color: #ccffcc; }
#n-Type { background-color: #dedede; }
/* wikitable, sortable, and prettytable class definitions
** based on meta.wikimedia.org MediaWiki:Common.css 
*/
table.wikitable, table.sortable, table.prettytable {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
  background: #f9f9f9;
  border: 1px #aaaaaa solid;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.wikitable td, table.sortable td, table.prettytable td {
  border: 1px #aaaaaa solid;
  padding: 0.2em;
}
table.wikitable th, table.sortable th, table.prettytable th {
  background: #E6E6FA; /* lavender; wikimedia: #f2f2f2 */
  border: 1px #aaaaaa solid;
  text-align: center;
}
table.wikitable caption, table.sortable caption, table.prettytable caption {
  margin-left: inherit;
  margin-right: inherit;
}

Is it that what you were looking for?

Gero 08:00, 20 July 2007 (CEST)

Thats exactly what I'm looking for, thank you so much! --Natebsi 18:35, 20 July 2007 (CEST)