Computer History Wiki:News - Revision history

Jnc: Archive old item

2025-09-17T12:47:18Z

Archive old item

Jnc: Put 'orphans' item back; some are still being created

2024-04-22T15:09:10Z

Put 'orphans' item back; some are still being created

Jnc: Make apparent that args can include spaces)

2024-04-08T11:29:00Z

Make apparent that args can include spaces)

Jnc: Add news about vertical text templates

2024-04-06T15:11:58Z

Add news about vertical text templates

Jnc: Archive some older entries to reduce size

2024-03-15T13:06:15Z

Archive some older entries to reduce size

Jnc: Reduce size by archiving one

2024-02-09T14:59:13Z

Reduce size by archiving one

Jnc: Infobox image sizes

2024-02-08T17:46:44Z

Infobox image sizes

Jnc: Point out the orphan problem

2024-01-14T21:56:17Z

Point out the orphan problem

Jnc: New place for cat discussions

2024-01-14T01:52:42Z

New place for cat discussions

Jnc: New categories

2024-01-13T20:21:48Z

New categories

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−	* '''Vertical text''' - There are now two templates to produce vertical text (for example, in table entries): <nowiki>{{VerticalTextUp\|</nowiki>''Text to go up''}} and <nowiki>{{VerticalTextDown\|</nowiki>''Text to go down''}}. In tables, you may have to use 'rowspan="N" \|' attributes on those entries to create long vertical boxes for them to go in. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 16:11, 6 April 2024‎ (CET)
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	* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)		* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)

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-* '''Vertical text''' - There are now two templates to produce vertical text (for example, in table entries): <nowiki>{{VerticalTextUp|</nowiki>''Text to go up''}} and <nowiki>{{VerticalTextDown|</nowiki>''Text to go down''}}. In tables, you may have to use 'rowspan="N" |' attributes on those entries to create long vertical boxes for them to go in.
+* '''Vertical text''' - There are now two templates to produce vertical text (for example, in table entries): <nowiki>{{VerticalTextUp|</nowiki>''Text to go up''}} and <nowiki>{{VerticalTextDown|</nowiki>''Text to go down''}}. In tables, you may have to use 'rowspan="N" |' attributes on those entries to create long vertical boxes for them to go in. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 16:11, 6 April 2024‎ (CET)
 ''Older news is [[Computer History Wiki:Older News|here]].''
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-* '''Vertical text''' - There are now two templates to produce vertical text (for example, in table entries): <nowiki>{{VerticalTextUp|</nowiki>''TextToGoUp''}} and <nowiki>{{VerticalTextDown|</nowiki>''TextToGoDown''}}. In tables, you may have to use 'rowspan="N" |' attributes on those entries to create long vertical boxes for them to go in.
+* '''Vertical text''' - There are now two templates to produce vertical text (for example, in table entries): <nowiki>{{VerticalTextUp|</nowiki>''Text to go up''}} and <nowiki>{{VerticalTextDown|</nowiki>''Text to go down''}}. In tables, you may have to use 'rowspan="N" |' attributes on those entries to create long vertical boxes for them to go in.
 ''Older news is [[Computer History Wiki:Older News|here]].''
 <!-- Always move old news to Computer_History_Wiki:Older_News !!!! -->

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-* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)
+* '''Vertical text''' - There are now two templates to produce vertical text (for example, in table entries): <nowiki>{{VerticalTextUp|</nowiki>''TextToGoUp''}} and <nowiki>{{VerticalTextDown|</nowiki>''TextToGoDown''}}. In tables, you may have to use 'rowspan="N" |' attributes on those entries to create long vertical boxes for them to go in.
 ''Older news is [[Computer History Wiki:Older News|here]].''
 <!-- Always move old news to Computer_History_Wiki:Older_News !!!! -->

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−	* '''Infobox image sizes''' - I have added an optional ''imgwidth'' parameter to all the [[Help:Introduction to Templates#Infoboxes\|infoboxes]], so images which don't work at the default 250 pixel width can be handled nicely. (Some pages were including images manually, so they could control the size.) I have looked at most of the pages which use them, and adjusted a few. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 18:46, 8 February 2024 (CET)
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	* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)		* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)
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−	* '''Red links in navigation boxes''' - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, ''I'' think they do), they also fill up [[Special:WantedPages]] with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two of delay in writing them is OK; but please don't just leave them forever.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list [https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Template%3ANav%20&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 here]), where they will wait for the articles to be written. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)

	* '''Expandable navigation boxes''' - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see [[Help:Introduction to Templates]], which now contains instructions for both kinds. An example of an expandable one may be seen [[Template:Nav_PDP-11\|here]]. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)		* '''Expandable navigation boxes''' - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see [[Help:Introduction to Templates]], which now contains instructions for both kinds. An example of an expandable one may be seen [[Template:Nav_PDP-11\|here]]. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)

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	* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)		* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)
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−	* '''New categories''' - I just suffered an even bigger attack of 'category madness' than the one a few days ago; you can see the new ones [http://gunkies.org/wiki/Special:NewPages?namespace=14&size-mode=min here]. [[:Category:Standards]] (a new top-level category) and others all appeared because we had articles that didn't fit well anywhere in the existing [[Help:Categories\|category graph]]. If you think I was 'confused' in any of that (quite possible :-), please take it [[Help_talk:Categories\|here]]. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 21:21, 13 January 2024 (CET)

	* '''Red links in navigation boxes''' - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, ''I'' think they do), they also fill up [[Special:WantedPages]] with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two of delay in writing them is OK; but please don't just leave them forever.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list [https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Template%3ANav%20&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 here]), where they will wait for the articles to be written. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)		* '''Red links in navigation boxes''' - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, ''I'' think they do), they also fill up [[Special:WantedPages]] with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two of delay in writing them is OK; but please don't just leave them forever.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list [https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Template%3ANav%20&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 here]), where they will wait for the articles to be written. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)

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		+	* '''Infobox image sizes''' - I have added an optional ''imgwidth'' parameter to all the [[Help:Introduction to Templates#Infoboxes\|infoboxes]], so images which don't work at the default 250 pixel width can be handled nicely. (Some pages were including images manually, so they could control the size.) I have looked at most of the pages which use them, and adjusted a few. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 18:46, 8 February 2024 (CET)
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	* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)		* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages\|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)

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-* '''New categories''' - I just suffered an even bigger attack of 'category madness' than the one a few days ago (although thankfully they are less destructive than Dave Moon's '[[TECO]] madness' :-); you can see the new ones [http://gunkies.org/wiki/Special:NewPages?namespace=14&size-mode=min here]. [[:Category:Standards]] (a new top-level category), [[:Category:DEC Displays]] etc all appeared because we had articles that didn't fit well anywhere in the existing category graph. If you think I was 'confused' in any of that (quite possible :-), please take it [[Help_talk:Categories|here]]. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:21, 13 January 2024 (CET)
+* '''Orphans''' - If you look at the list of [[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]], we have quite a few - and I have just done a ''lot'' of work reducing the number. If you create a page, ''you'' will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)
-* '''Red links in navigation boxes''' - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, ''I'' think they do), they also fill up [[Special:WantedPages]] with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two of delay in writing them is OK; but please don't just leave them forever, and never get a 'round tuit'.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list of them [https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Template%3ANav%20&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 here]), where they will wait for the articles to be written. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)
+* '''New categories''' - I just suffered an even bigger attack of 'category madness' than the one a few days ago; you can see the new ones [http://gunkies.org/wiki/Special:NewPages?namespace=14&size-mode=min here]. [[:Category:Standards]] (a new top-level category) and others all appeared because we had articles that didn't fit well anywhere in the existing [[Help:Categories|category graph]]. If you think I was 'confused' in any of that (quite possible :-), please take it [[Help_talk:Categories|here]]. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:21, 13 January 2024 (CET)
 * '''Expandable navigation boxes''' - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see [[Help:Introduction to Templates]], which now contains instructions for both kinds. An example of an expandable one may be seen [[Template:Nav_PDP-11|here]]. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)

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−	* '''New categories''' - I just suffered an even bigger attack of 'category madness' than the one a few days ago (although thankfully they are less destructive than Dave Moon's '[[TECO]] madness' :-); you can see the new ones [http://gunkies.org/wiki/Special:NewPages?namespace=14&size-mode=min here]. [[:Category:Standards]] (a new top-level category), [[:Category:DEC Displays]] etc all appeared because we had articles that didn't fit well anywhere in the existing category graph. If you think I was 'confused' (quite possible :-), take it [[Help_talk:~~Introduction to~~ Categories\|here]].[[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 21:21, 13 January 2024 (CET)	+	* '''New categories''' - I just suffered an even bigger attack of 'category madness' than the one a few days ago (although thankfully they are less destructive than Dave Moon's '[[TECO]] madness' :-); you can see the new ones [http://gunkies.org/wiki/Special:NewPages?namespace=14&size-mode=min here]. [[:Category:Standards]] (a new top-level category), [[:Category:DEC Displays]] etc all appeared because we had articles that didn't fit well anywhere in the existing category graph. If you think I was 'confused' in any of that (quite possible :-), please take it [[Help_talk:Categories\|here]]. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 21:21, 13 January 2024 (CET)

	* '''Red links in navigation boxes''' - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, ''I'' think they do), they also fill up [[Special:WantedPages]] with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two of delay in writing them is OK; but please don't just leave them forever, and never get a 'round tuit'.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list of them [https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Template%3ANav%20&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 here]), where they will wait for the articles to be written. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)		* '''Red links in navigation boxes''' - Unwritten articles in navigation boxes not only look ugly (well, ''I'' think they do), they also fill up [[Special:WantedPages]] with lots of spurious 'high-priority' (from lots of links to them) entries. Can I plead with people not to fill out navigation boxes with links to un-written articles? (A month or two of delay in writing them is OK; but please don't just leave them forever, and never get a 'round tuit'.) I have commented out all the links to un-written articles in our current navigation boxes (list of them [https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Template%3ANav%20&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 here]), where they will wait for the articles to be written. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 13:37, 30 December 2023 (CET)