User talk:CHGiffen: Difference between revisions
(I'll be away Saturday and most of Sunday) |
(remove away notice - back now) |
||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<!-- | <!-- | ||
{{DisplayBox|text= | {{DisplayBox|text= | ||
<center><big><font color="880044"> | <center><big><font color="880044"> | ||
Line 16: | Line 7: | ||
</font></big></center> | </font></big></center> | ||
}} | }} | ||
--> | |||
<div class="plainlinks" style="{{{extra-style|}}}; background-color: {{{bgcolor|#DDFFFF}}}; border: 2px solid {{{border-color|#0000BB}}}; width: {{{width|}}}; color: {{{color|black}}}; margin: 2em 1em 1em; padding: .5em 1em; clear: both;"> | <div class="plainlinks" style="{{{extra-style|}}}; background-color: {{{bgcolor|#DDFFFF}}}; border: 2px solid {{{border-color|#0000BB}}}; width: {{{width|}}}; color: {{{color|black}}}; margin: 2em 1em 1em; padding: .5em 1em; clear: both;"> | ||
<center><big>'''Welcome to the User talk page of CHGiffen,<br> | <center><big>'''Welcome to the User talk page of CHGiffen,<br> |
Revision as of 13:13, 20 October 2008
alias Charles H. Giffen or simply Chucktalk Giffen♫.
Feel free to leave questions and comments on this page about any contributions I've made to CPDL as a ChoralWiki editor/administrator.
- Comments and questions about scores I have edited for CPDL (other than my own compositions) should be posted here.
- Comments and questions about my own compositions should be posted on my composer talk page.
You may also contact me (1) on the CPDL Bulletin Board, username: CHGiffen or (2) via e-mail: chg4k AT yahoo DOT com (with " AT " and " DOT " replaced by "@" and "." respectively).
Please use my talk page in the following manner:
- start new discussions by clicking on the "+" tab to the right of the "edit" at the top of this page or click here,
- continue discussions by clicking on the "edit" link directly right of the appropriate title below,
- and always sign your posts by typing four tildes afterwards (~~~~).
I will try to respond to your messages in a timely manner.
If you have left a message on this page, I will reply here unless you request that I reply on your talk page. Because of this, you may find it useful to temporarily watch this page.
If I have left a message for you on your talk page, please reply there. I will have your talk page on my watch list, and I watch the recent changes as well, so I'll see your message anyway. The reason for this is to keep the discussion together. Thank you for your co-operation!Archives
- Archive 1, Jul 2007 - Sep 2007
- Archive 2, Oct 2007 - Dec 2007
- Archive 3, Jan 2008 - Mar 2008
- Archive 4, Apr 2008 - Jun 2008
Template:NewWork
Hi Chuck. Your recent edits to the above template seem to have messed it up so I've reverted them for the moment. I figured on a template so widely used, it was best to revert even for the short term. Cheers --Bobnotts talk 00:21, 1 July 2008 (PDT)
- Hi Rob. Thanks for reverting the template. I had noticed something was wrong this morning when one goes to, say Category:2008-06-30, and I had finally tracked it down to Template:NewWork, but didn't have time to finish straightening things out. It all seems to have stemmed from an attempt to add a sortkey 9, which was botched (and probably not necessary, although the intent was to have say "The Haven" sort under "Haven, The"). I'll think about it later. -- Chucktalk Giffen♫ 04:16, 1 July 2008 (PDT)
- Hi Chuck, please have a look at a test I am doing with this template to make it date-conditional. I made use of another template named IsNew that tests the passed parameter date against a range of dates and returns "yes" or "no" as the answer. It's in fact a very simple and, unfortunately, non-automated template, but which has the advantage of being backward-compatible, since it accepts as parameter a date in the format yyyy-mm-dd. The negative part is that it would require a monthly maintenance in order to add/remove one month from each extremity of the test values. It is set now to answer "yes" to dates ranging from 2008-07-31 to one year back. I suppose you'd like to extend it to two years, if it gets approved by you and Rob. --Carlos huh? 04:34, 12 July 2008 (PDT)
- Hi Carlos. I thought about using almost exactly such coding as in Template:IsNew, but felt that the necessity of maintaining the template every month, more-or-less, would put yet another burden on the admins, amd I suppose I was hoping that we could implement something that was backward-compatible, even though it might require another parameter, which would at least take effect down the road. The advantage of the IsNew mechanism is that it immediately takes care of the stale NewWork icons and listing. I guess it's a question of trade-offs, and I'm inclined to leave your coding intact, at least for the present, and wait for others to weigh in on the mattter. -- Chucktalk Giffen♫ 22:12, 12 July 2008 (PDT)
- Hi Chuck, I know this is not what we both had in mind, but given the lack of functionality of this wiki instalation, that's perhaps the only option we have, though we can keep trying to find a better solution anyway. At least the maintenance will be restricted to just one page instead of all the old score pages. :) --Carlos huh? 03:04, 13 July 2008 (PDT)
Alto clef for awkward work...
The Alto Clef award | ||
for techie work essential to the functioning of CPDL is hereby awarded to Chuck Giffen for regular improvements and additions to the templates used on CPDL which allow it to function so well. — Bobnotts talk 23:54, 1 July 2008 (PDT) |
- Oh, wow, thank you, Rob! And I had hoped (or envisioned) the A in alto might stand for "altruism" ... but I quite relish your take on it! Again, many thanks. -- Chucktalk Giffen♫ 23:58, 1 July 2008 (PDT)
- Ha ha - I like "awkward work" because I remember learning to read the alto clef for my grade 5 theory exam and thinking "why on earth would anyone want to use this clef?". So, an award for complicated work executed precisely (not a comment on the awardee's character!) Do you think it's worth making these awards into templates? I don't expect they'll get used that often but it might be worth it. I could do it if you're busy... --Bobnotts talk 00:44, 2 July 2008 (PDT)
- I did have in mind setting up some award templates when I uploaded the various clef images, and maybe a page that describes them, with recommendations as to using them, with links to the templates. Now that someone else thinks it might be a good idea, I think we can get to work on it (although it's not a high priority item), cribbing from the Wikipedia barnstars treatment. -- Chucktalk Giffen♫ 01:30, 2 July 2008 (PDT)
Iñigo Igualador compositions
Hi Chuck, have you seen the scores uploaded by User:Desconocido? (whose name, by the way, is Spanish for "Unknown"). They have a copyright notice that reads: © Ed. "El Sanedrín - PANDERGÓ" S.L - Queda prohibida toda copia y/o reproducción de esta partitura sin permiso expreso del editor (Prohibited any copy and/or reproduction of this score without express authorization of the editor). Would it be the case to delete them? Unless of course "Desconocido" is the composer himself, but how can we know it for sure? Just asking him? --Carlos huh? 08:17, 21 July 2008 (PDT)
- Yes, I think we have to ask him, making note of your observation about copyright, and with a condition that, if there is now reply within one week (or other period, at your discretion), then all will be removed. Does this sound fair? -- Chucktalk Giffen♫ 08:30, 21 July 2008 (PDT)
- Chuck, your proposal sounds quite fair, I'll write him about this. I'd just wait a bit longer, who knows how long will it take for him to log in again and read my message. What about one month? Since there's no score page yet, people won't find the PDFs so easily. Regards. --Carlos huh? 01:21, 22 July 2008 (PDT)
nowiki
Hi Chuck. When you've got a minute, would you mind looking at Help:CPDL Templates? I've been using the "nowiki" tag and can't work out why it isn't affecting some template names the way it has done for others... --Bobnotts talk 07:34, 28 July 2008 (PDT)
- Hi Rob. That page is big enough and my cursory look apparently so short that I'm not sure where you are having the nowiki problems. Could you be more specific? I'll take another longer look when I get a chance. -- Chucktalk Giffen♫ 09:47, 28 July 2008 (PDT)
|
- Sorry for not being more specific, Chuck. I've managed to solve the problem myself now. And Vaarky, what you changed didn't actually solve the problem because I was trying to italicise the variables, rather than make the '' appear... but it's ok, I've fixed it now. --Bobnotts talk 19:24, 28 July 2008 (PDT)
Test templates
Hi Chuck. I've just been doing some work updating the manual list of CPDL templates and stumbled across the following templates which seem to have been created by you as tests and then fallen by the wayside: Template:NW, Template:CPDL and Template:Network. Can we delete these now or do you have some plans for them? --Bobnotts talk 07:29, 29 July 2008 (PDT)
|
Score requests
Hi Chuck. I've just made a correction to ChoralWiki:ScoreRequest: here. I guess you must have changed the first name variables and not updated the template page. User:Vaarky had a problem with a request she made which prompted me to correct the page but then I noticed that clicking on the discussion tab of the request page sends one to the (uncreated) score page, rather than a discussion page. Is this intentional? I moved her message to her talk page. --Bobnotts talk 07:15, 31 July 2008 (PDT)
Translations
Hi Chuck, i am trying to add translations. I am good at translating but not at adding. E.g. how do i add that nice dutch flag? I am new here transnico Transnico 03:46, 10 August 2008 (PDT)
|
{{SERVER}} vs. {{filepath}}
Hi Chuck, please don't edit the image links yet replacing the site part with {{SERVER}}. As soon as we update the wiki software, we'll be able to use {{filepath}} instead with greater advantages: even shorter links and a complete independence from directory structure. Compare for instance the Italian flag ( ):
- http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/86/Italian.png
- {{SERVER}}/wiki/images/8/86/Italian.png <== still depends on directory structure
- {{filepath:Italian.png}}
Now just imagine that someone deletes the Italian.png image for mistake. Even if he uploads a new one with exactly the same name, the image absolute address will be different (say, "./images/0/01/Italian.png") and links #1 and #2 would render invalid, while link #3 would still work. Regards, —Carlos 14:55, 20 September 2008 (PDT)
|
- Hi Chuck, please don't do that, your changes were for the better and should by no means be reverted, it's just that eventually we'll have to re-edit those templates again to change to {{filepath}}; but your reasoning makes total sense, it will be good if the images are visible on the new test site, as you said, and that makes it worth the extra step. —Carlos 03:10, 21 September 2008 (PDT)
problems with uploading scores
Thought you should know that scores do not upload properly. I just uploaded a revised version. The system prompted me to overwrite the old version, but the old version is still displayed. Jonathang 18:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
|
Tried this. Old version still displays. Tried uploading again. System recongised 3rd version as a duplicate but still displayed orginal version. Jonathang 19:18, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
|
Chuck. Sorry this has not cured the problem. The old version is still displaying. You will know that you have the right version when there are no prefatory staves and when the source "Arte de Canto Llano" by Martin y Coll appears in the top left hand corner of the first page. Jonathang 19:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
- Post script. I have solved the problem for this specific axoew* by uploading the new version with a new file name. The ability to overwrite old versions probably needs to be checked carefully. If you need any further help from me let me know. Jonathang 20:15, 5 October 2008 (UTC) (N.B. "axoew" = "score" shifted one key to the left on the keyboard :)
- Hi Jonathan, there's nothing wrong with the upload system for new versions, it's just that now the site has a file caching feature activated and it may imply in that some links are not updated instantly. Anyway, uploading the new files with a different name is not the best solution either, next time just ask an admin to delete the old versions (as was done for you) and the new ones will instantly become available. Alternatively, just wait for a couple of hours (or days?) and the cache system will correct the links. —Carlos 06:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Use of "Scorch" designation for Sibelius source file.
Hi Chuck. Noticed your changes to my recent post of Palestrina's "Alma Redemptoris". I fixed the PDF file link, which was a cut-n-paste error. I also reverted the change to the "Scorch" designation. When I do a CPDL post I give full access to the Sibelius source file, (you can download it with a right-click on "Sibelius 4"). If you double-left click on it, and you have Sibelius's "Scorch" utility installed, it will come up in Scorch, but you can't print it or save it from there. Some editors may want this restriction, and labeling their scores with (Scorch) would indicate this limitation. Hence I prefer the "Sibelius 4" designation I've been using, indicating free access to the source file, with no limitations. Johnhenryfowler 19:22, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
|
Spelling mistake
Apologies. I have just noticed that I made a spelling mistake in the title of Callcott's Miserere. Not sure how to correct this. I don't want to make things worse by trying so have dated the entry tomorrow so it does not appear in "latest editions" Jonathang 08:10, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
|