Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat

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Meta has a small active community. When a normal user requires the assistance of a sysop or bureaucrat for some particular task, it is not always easy to find one. This page helps users find one when they need one; asking specific admins directly via their talk pages is one way to elicit a fast response.
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Edit to MediaWiki:Common.js

Hello, I would like to be able to use w:Template:Hidden begin and its end counterpart here on meta. I was informed in irc:#mediawiki that this would involve: finding /** Collapsible tables ******** in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mediawiki:common.js then then /** Main Page layout fixes ******** and copying the text inbetween to MediaWiki:Common.js here. Could an admin please do that? Thanks. Gary KIRK parler! 11:33, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is already implemented on Meta. —{admin} Pathoschild 17:44:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Well it isn't working for me... Gary KIRK parler! 12:47, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Gary KIRK parler! 12:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Collapsible tables is implemented on Meta, not collapsible NavFrame div. Probably need some "hide this" template using collapsible table. Strangely, the CSS code supporting NavFrame was added to MediaWiki:Common.css ∴ Alex Smotrov 18:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hungarian header of pages

Someone mistranslated something a few weeks ago, and since that time there has been "A Metaből" on the top of every page, which stands for "From Meta" and is really stupid and meaningless. Please revert it to "A Metából", as it had been previously. Thanks, Bináris 23:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you're talking about the tagline, it is supposed to say "From Meta". If that's not the case, please explain what "A Metából" means and where exactly it should be changed. Thanks --filip ⁂ 23:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In English it says "From Meta", indicating that the content on the page originated here on the meta wiki, if in Hungarian this literal phrase means something else, it can be changed. I don't see a Hungarian page listed at the links to MediaWiki:Tagline though. xaosflux Talk 00:20, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I speak about tagline hu, and I don' understand either why it does not appear among other languages with prefindex.

  • A Metaből — this does not mean anything, I don't know who and why has put it there.
  • A Metából — this means literally "From Meta". This is the correct version. Bináris 16:55, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have listed Special:Prefindex with namespace MediaWiki and a have found very few /hu messages, there are some only at centralmessages, although I get a lot of Hungarian messages on Meta with my preferences set to Hungarian, and I am sorry to say that not all of them are correct. Where may those messages be if not in Special:Prefindex / MediaWiki namespace? Bináris 17:21, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It becomes more and more mysterious. MediaWiki:Tagline/hu is not only hidden when listing http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&namespace=8 but it does not have a page history either, while other langauge versions do have. The contents of it is: A {{SITENAME}}ből which may hardly be applied, beacuse sitename Meta changes when declining. But I do remember this tagline had previously been correct. Bináris 17:42, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it has been added to betawiki: taken from hu.wiki, I correct it there, please be patient until it updates on all wikis, (p.s. Metá is not possible, since it takes Meta from {{SITENAME)} ) thanks, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 18:05, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Well, previously itt had been correct, and up to this time I thought Wikimedia was well internationalized. It is only correct in the form 'A Metából', with the mark on the á. Either Sitename should be applicates to teh languages Wikimedia uses or it should not be used in this case. I don't understand it's importance, for the name of the Meta does not change very often and thus needs no substitution. On the other hand, this whatnot cannot be taken from huwiki, because the tagline of huwiki looks like this. Bináris 18:23, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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