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A note on bi-directionality:

I was thinking. The tall / Jim Carrey thing. Tallness is much more a feature of Jim Carrey than 'Jim Carreyness' is of tallness. It's not an equal and opposite relationship. There are many more other people who are tall than there are other features that Jim Carrey has besides tallness. Once you've done wacky, Ace Ventura, The Truman Show, Rene Zellweger, and would dominate a dinner party (one of my favourite tags) you arrive at tall. You might even have got there soon. The dependency of tallness upon Jim Carrey is vastly less. Admin 21:56, 13 June 2007 (BST)

I think it's simply a matter of asking yourself the question "when I think of Tall, who do I think of?". So, Jim Carrey, probably not. John Cleese, certainly. --Bonjo Nelson 12:30, 14 June 2007 (BST)

Happy to help - this week not good (off to Munich early thursday, got a lot to sort out before then), but can help you sort this next week? Back in office on Monday --Bonjo Nelson 10:57, 30 October 2006 (GMT)

Upgrade

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading_to_1.8

help.

References. There must be an elegant way to do this. Actual footnotes. And I can't quite work it out from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Ref_label etc.

I tried Cite.php but nearly brought the whole ediface crashing down.

Any thoughts/hints/tips?


I just tried something that didn't work either. I think it might be time to upgrade to the latest version of MediaWiki.

Either that or give up and do something less boring instead. --Bonjo Nelson 10:39, 30 October 2006 (GMT)


SORRY ABOUT THAT.

I mucked things up trying to redirect www.tagberry.com to the front page of the wiki. It didn't go so well. Anyway, we're back now.... - Admin 10:16, 16 August 2006 (BST)

Speaking as someone currently domiciled in Wales, I prefer the category 'Welsh' as it expands the category to inanimate objects for a start('dresser'). without missing out on national characteristics (such as 'drink a lot'). 'The Welsh' is a bit AA GIll and pompous.

Welsh vs. The Welsh. Discuss...

Was going to argue against this, but my argument was so weak i couldn't even convince myself. So I suggest merging.

--Bonjo Nelson 17:26, 5 June 2006 (BST)

Interesting - here's Wikipedia doing a sort of Tagberry style list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_with_particularly_long_titles

Perhaps we should have our own (stripped down) version of that category... I nominate, as a starting point, Meatloaf's 1994 hit:

Objects In The Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are

That seems quite long enough.

And who the fuck is Sufan Stevens?


Oh - I'm off on Thursday to the Azores, so my tagging will be even more sporadic than usual..

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Sufan Stevens is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Detroit, Michigan. His lyrically-focused songs deal with subjects such as faith and family. He also chooses stupid long song titles.

Have fun in the Azores! Isn't that half way to the Falklands or something. Oh no. That's Ascension Island. I'll shut up. Enjoy! --Bonjo Nelson 22:48, 25 April 2006 (BST)

Strange but true.

That *VERY* annoying picture below comes from NASA. Yes, really.

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Lazy question: anyone know how I change the time settings? We're an hour out. Admin

You can set individual time zone changes in the preferences on special pages, but that's not really what you want. Looks like it's a default setting, it's set to GMT by default. Also on those preferences pages are the places you can set admin rights to users. --Bonjo Nelson 18:41, 1 April 2006 (BST)

Gah! How do you show an image in Mediawiki? is it possible? -- Jaas

yes.gif

(look at the source of this page, you'll see it's just a matter of copying the URL and pasting it onto a new line) --Bonjo Nelson 18:49, 10 March 2006 (GMT)

perhaps we should adopt the Guardian/BBC house style of no dots for abbreviations ever, so it would (or could) be President George W Bush - we could justfiy using President here because the title is kept after he leaves office, whereas Prime Minister Tony Blair would not be accurate in a few years time. --Bonjo Nelson 23:52, 7 January 2006 (GMT)


  • Ok, here's a question - we seem to have a contradiction:

From the posting protocol page: 

2. Tags aren't automatically bi-directional, and don't have to be. Just because
you might put tall under Jim Carrey doesn't mean you have to put Jim Carrey
under tall. Although you might want to.

But from frequently made mistakes page: 

Adding eg Kylie Minogue to short people, then making a Kylie Minogue page without 
adding the tag short people

Is it just that Kylie Minogue is more obviously short than Jim Carrey is tall, or am I right in spotting a problem? --Bonjo Nelson 22:43, 7 January 2006 (GMT)

>Yup. That's completely inconsistent. Hmmm. I guess it's nice when tags all link up, but there's a lot of fun to be had just heading off along a path of tags and not worrying too much about tidying up after yourself. I guess it's not really a 'mistake' not to neatly link through with every tag, but maybe it's 'the done thing'. Tagiquette? No, that's horrible.

Talking of tidying up, I should really put together a better posting guide. I'm only just learning things myself. (Note: I've just instigated a 'draw a line between discussion points' protocol, which I think works quite nicely...)


  • How do you sign a post with your user name

- you know the squiggle thing (~), just end your post with 3 of them in a row (or 4 if you want the date as well). So you get:

3 - Admin

4 - Admin 21:49, 13 June 2007 (BST)

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