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Jnc: Archive an older item to make room for an update

2026-10-10T07:36:20Z

Archive an older item to make room for an update

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			* '''Downtime''' - Unfortunately, I was hospitalized with severe health issues just as this site was having some major difficulties. I am very sorry that it's taken this long and that I've been so bad at communicating - but now a lot of technical debt has been paid down, and I am beginning a dialog to work out how to ensure the site is not so dependent on me so this doesn't happen again. -- [[User:Toresbe\|Tore]] ([[User talk:Toresbe\|talk]]) 00:21, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

Jnc: Archive an old item

2026-10-02T21:18:57Z

Archive an old item

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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)		* '''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)

			* '''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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

Jnc: Archive vert text msg

2025-09-17T12:49:01Z

Archive vert text msg

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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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

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

2024-04-22T15:04:36Z

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

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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)		* '''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)

	* '''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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

Jnc: Archive two more

2024-04-06T14:59:54Z

Archive two more

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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)		* '''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)

			* '''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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

			* '''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)

	* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)		* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)

Jnc: Put in date order

2024-03-20T12:56:28Z

Put in date order

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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)		* '''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)

			* '''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)

	* '''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)

	* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)		* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)

Jnc: Archive a few more items

2024-03-15T13:07:49Z

Archive a few more items

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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)

			* '''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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

Jnc: Archive one

2024-02-09T14:59:54Z

Archive one

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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)

	* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)		* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)

Jnc: Archive another old item to make room for some new stuff

2024-01-13T19:34:52Z

Archive another old item to make room for some new stuff

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	* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)		* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)

			*'''Documentation category''' - [[:Category:Documentation]] has been added, and a link to it added to the Main Page. Anytime you run across a copy of a document hosted here, if it's not tagged with this category tag, please add one to it; thanks! (I know there are quite a few, I'm just too lazy to go search for them!) [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 19:11, 28 December 2018 (CET)

	*'''Categories upgrade''' - In an attempt to make the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedPages Uncategorized Pages] list more useful, a lot of work on categories was just done. See [[Help talk:Introduction to Categories#Background category?\|here]] for details. It's probably worth glancing at the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Category%3A&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 list of categories] to see which ones exist now. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:48, 17 December 2018 (CET)		*'''Categories upgrade''' - In an attempt to make the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedPages Uncategorized Pages] list more useful, a lot of work on categories was just done. See [[Help talk:Introduction to Categories#Background category?\|here]] for details. It's probably worth glancing at the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Category%3A&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 list of categories] to see which ones exist now. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:48, 17 December 2018 (CET)

Jnc: Archive another old entry

2023-12-30T12:35:29Z

Archive another old entry

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			* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)

	*'''Categories upgrade''' - In an attempt to make the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedPages Uncategorized Pages] list more useful, a lot of work on categories was just done. See [[Help talk:Introduction to Categories#Background category?\|here]] for details. It's probably worth glancing at the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Category%3A&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 list of categories] to see which ones exist now. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:48, 17 December 2018 (CET)		*'''Categories upgrade''' - In an attempt to make the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedPages Uncategorized Pages] list more useful, a lot of work on categories was just done. See [[Help talk:Introduction to Categories#Background category?\|here]] for details. It's probably worth glancing at the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Category%3A&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 list of categories] to see which ones exist now. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 14:48, 17 December 2018 (CET)

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			* '''Downtime''' - Unfortunately, I was hospitalized with severe health issues just as this site was having some major difficulties. I am very sorry that it's taken this long and that I've been so bad at communicating - but now a lot of technical debt has been paid down, and I am beginning a dialog to work out how to ensure the site is not so dependent on me so this doesn't happen again. -- [[User:Toresbe\|Tore]] ([[User talk:Toresbe\|talk]]) 00:21, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

	* '''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)		* '''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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	* '''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)		* '''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)

			* '''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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

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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)

	* '''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)		* '''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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	* '''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)		* '''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)

	* '''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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

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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)		* '''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)

			* '''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)

	* '''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)		* '''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)

			* '''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)

	* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)		* '''Content from Wikipedia''' - Wikipedia requires that if content from there is re-used, credit must be given. See [[Help:Contents#Content_from_Wikipedia\|here]] for a new template to make doing this easy; [[:Category:Wikipedia Content\|here]] is a list of such pages. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 20:21, 4 September 2019 (CEST)