User talk:Andreas Ipp

request for adminship
Hey Andreas, I think you've been doing great work. I just want to "get to know you" for a little bit longer before I cast my "support" vote. In the mean time, you can suggest changes for the main on the talk page; or we can try unprotecting it again. MShonle 06:21, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks! This sounds promising. If adminship can not be granted so quickly, I'd be perfectly happy, if the main page was unprotected again (for doing small changes). Anyway, for the "big" change (I want to reserve at least a quarter of the page for the "book of the month") I should design this locally first, and if you guys like it, it could also be moved to the main page by one of you... Doesn't have to be me! In the meantime, increase the quality of the vote by voting by yourself! Thanks, --Andreas Ipp 07:57, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Main Page
Oops, I guess I should have announce the main page isn't protected anymore. I think the vandal we had has gone. Hopefully, I'm right. :) Gentgeen 00:25, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * No problem, I already made the changes (see the "Book of the month"). If you like, please vote for your favorite book too. I guess you have far more experience and overview over the books around here than me... --Andreas Ipp 00:28, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

he to they
Hey mate, great spotting. I should have been more careful with my edits. I guess we could move it to wikisource if you really wanted, but we shouldnt take it off wikibooks, cause the plan is that it will grow and become more the the out-of-copyright book that it is now. Large parts of wikipedia had thier base in a 1908 (?) version of britanica which is now out of copyright. The point was not to put the text of britanica online, but to have it as a starting point to create something bigger and better. The bellman 06:50, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Message
I left a message on the Wikibooks_talk:Top_active/Listing_January_2005 for you.
 * And I just answered there --Andreas 13:33, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Categories
How would I go about creating OR requesting categories? The Golden Bough has some, but those categories do not have any page associated with them. Ojmorales0002 21:36, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Your categories exist, all you had to do, was purge the cache of the Mediawiki software (so that the red links turn blue). I did this by manually entering: http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=The_Golden_Bough&action=purge . By the way, it is not a good idea, to have all sub-pages in the Category as well. It is recommended, only to put the main page of the book into categories.


 * Only the main page will be there. Thanks Ojmorales0002 12:46, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I wrote the above before checking. I only added Categories to the main page The GOlden Bough yet, all sub-pages appear in those categories. Did I miss something? Ojmorales0002 12:48, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * No no, look at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Religion, all pages that are listed here, have the Category link at the bottom of their page. (it is not on all subpages of your book, just on some!) --Andreas 16:03, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Was not your fault, EuropracBHIT had added all those Categories, I wrote a note to his talk page. --Andreas 16:43, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Spaces in wikipage names
I had no idea that wikimedia supported spaces in the names, is there any way that I can add the spaces into the names without losing content or having to copy/paste the whole book? --Mrnoj 17:25, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi Mrnoj. Yes, if you are logged in, you have a "move" command on top of each page. With this you can "move" the page to a new name and insert spaces. All history is automatically moved as well, and the old page will become a redirect to the new page. --Andreas 08:47, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Book (of the month) change

 * That's all right, Andreas. I can imagine you were very busy or didn't have much time, and you didn't do it yourself for that reason.
 * Regarding the April award. So pleased that US History has got it, as of 0:00 UTC yesterday. When are we going to announce it, and who is going to draw/find a picture?
 * It's really been close and competitive this month (with an element of tactical voting, if I do say so myself, but no nasty factions!). Imagine, the next three books got 4 each. The Unicyclopedia, How to Build a Computer and the Physics Study Guide, if I recall.

--EuropracBHIT 05:48, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dichotomous Key Glossary
Hey, I'm unsure about glossary formatting, so I thought I'd ask for a second opinion. Take a look at Dichotomous Key:Mammalia. Do you think the glossary is better like that (i.e. next to the terms it applies to) or altogether in a box somewhere on the page? TUF-KAT 21:50, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I like the glossary right next to the terms, that is very useful! I added two formatting commands, to put all glossary to the right on a stack:

      *Birth **Eggs - Monotremata **Live birth - 2   
 * The last  is needed so that the right floats won`t overlap with the next section. I hope it is not too ugly, some of it might be put into a template...
 * Speaking of template, you might think of one template, e.g., so that the glossary terms are also easily editable on the page (otherwise you have to create really a lot of templates, and the likelihood of overlap with other projects on Wikibooks increases..). --Andreas 03:43, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm terrible with wikisyntax! Can you make the three boxes at the top of the page line-up neatly.  I tried randomly sticking stacks around and got it looking nicer on my monitor, but the righthand box ("adjacent keys") is still lower than the others and way off to the right.  Regarding combining the glossary into one template, there are definite advantages, but using an individual template (e.g. Template:Egg) lets you use the same definition on multiple pages (and change it on all pages with only one edit).  It's probably possible to use templates within templates to get the best of both worlds, but that could get messy... TUF-KAT 06:56, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * For now, I inserted a break before the "1" section. About the layout of the three boxes... It looks a little bit disorganized with so many boxes floating around. What about having 1 large box on top that is subdivided into the necessary parts? Something along the lines as sketched below: --Andreas 07:43, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Looks good with combined boxes! TUF-KAT

World History
I finally got around to changing (what I hope is) every single link and page. I used the Book:Chaptertitle hierchy because of a specialized chapter page top which would look funny with the automatic used by Book/Chaptertitle. Besides, the latter confuses new users anyway. Hope it helps!--Naryathegreat|(talk) 00:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well done! Thanks a lot. --Andreas 12:56, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

SimCity
I've expanded the page on SimCity quite dramatically, and given that you have contributed to it in the past, I'm wondering if you have any comments, suggestions, or anything else to contribute to it? AmishThrasher 15:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

De-Adminship vote
A vote is being held to remove your sysop privileges. The basis for this vote is lack of use of these privileges. You may want to participate at Requests_for_adminship. See also the discussion at Staff_lounge. --JMRyan 22:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Your De-Adminship
Hello. I would like to inform you that you will have your sysop rights removed here on 1 Nov 2006 due to inactivity. If you would like to discuss the matter, please see WB:RFA. You can re-apply for adminship at a later date if you wish. Thanks. -within focus 21:28, 1 October 2006 (UTC)