User talk:MitchO

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Hey, Mitch, great work on the shows pages and with all the lyrics / tabs -- kinda brutal work, I know, but you can definitely take credit for taking us through most of the way to preparedness. Thanks, man! (PS: Have you checked your forum private messages?) --Bry 15:49, 5 April 2008 (EDT)

Let's make you a test case then ;) First of all, I gotta make sure you know the editing guidelines so... go read those! Especially the songs and shows subpages. Seriously. The main jobs of the moderators will be to delete vandalism and uphold standards, so it's important you know exactly how the templates and calendar work. Get back to me once you're sure you've got it, or just hit me up again if you've got any questions :) --Agent Lex (talk - contribs) 15:39, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

Shows calendar link add'd!!! --Agent Lex (talk - contribs) 15:59, 15 April 2008 (EDT)

In case you missed it, I've "nominated" you in the forum to take charge of WikiProject:Shows. That wikiproject doesn't exist yet, but you're already doing most of the duties related to it, so I figured it might be nice to make it official. Interested? --Bry 18:07, 17 April 2008 (EDT)

Re: WikiProject:Lyrics - it works fine in Firefox but doesn't in IE. I'll look into it. Thanks for the heads up! --Agent Lex (talk - contribs) 19:43, 22 April 2008 (EDT)

  • Figured it out. Damn nonstandard characters messing about with it again, I think. Same issue as the bullet points, but with apostrophes. I expect this means a lot of lyrics pages are messed up! --Agent Lex (talk - contribs) 19:47, 22 April 2008 (EDT)

Just thought I'd let you know, I've drafted you into the welcoming committee. Hope you don't mind! --Lex (talk - contribs) 17:46, 23 April 2008 (EDT)

Mitch: Excellent work with WikiProject:Themes! That's exactly what I was hoping would happen, but I hadn't gotten around to working out how to do it yet. Very impressed. (And I've just left this note on Lex's talk page, but what would you think about having a "Talk:Mods" or something? The three of us could all add it to our watchlists, and it might be an easier way a) to communicate among all of us b) to let people ask for help from a mod without directing it at a specific mod.) --Bry 22:23, 27 April 2008 (EDT)

Hey, Mitch, care to add JoCopedia:Moderators to the ol' watch list? --Bry 23:36, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

(Thought I'd mention -- I think you accidentally added the Template:Welcome directly to User:Sompm instead of User talk:Sompm, and also I think we're using {{subst:Template:Welcome}} instead of just {{Template:Welcome}}, so that all the text of the template is pasted in. I'll go clear the page and add the welcome text to Sompm's talk page.) --Bry 22:16, 3 May 2008 (EDT)

I've rolled back your changes to Template:Welcome, since the contributions link works properly when you use {{subst:Template:Welcome}}... --Bry 17:22, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

I am working on the order of the Minneapolis show right now. I think I have all the songs there, but can't remember exact order. JoCo played a Journey cover as the last encore song, but I can't remember what it was right now. Thanks! I'm probably going to get this signature wrong... --Meagneato 20:13, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

Thanks for the banana, MitchO! And yes, the card works just fine :) — Wesley | 20:17, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

I've just said this in the forums, but I really, really dig SotD:Main. Nicely done! (This is the point at which you pretend I've actually taken the time to create a card and give it to you...) --Bry 17:12, 7 May 2008 (EDT)

videoz

I'm just going through each of the songs I have videos for and adding links to them on YouTube to that song's page. I hope that's OK.

Hey, Mitch -- thanks for deleting my paragraph about cats 'n' such. I think I left that on the sandbox the first week or so that Lex put it up, and expected at the time it would all be scrubbed before the Pedia went live. You've Mister Cleaned it!

themes

Unfortunately, you have to have the plain [[Category:whatever]] for it to go in the category, and to list it you have to have the separate [[:Category:whatever|whatever]]. That's just the way MediaWiki works, I'm afraid. --Lex (talk - contribs) 12:06, 27 April 2008 (EDT)

Whatchu talkin' 'bout MitchO?

Does too! See Exhibit A :P ~ Percephene ~ talk contribs 12:15, 06 May 2008

Interwiki

Goddammit, it's more broken than I thought. Thanks a lot, MediaWiki! At least it works for blog posts... right? --Lex (talk - contribs) 17:13, 6 May 2008 (EDT)

SotD, TDiJC

Quick, random notes:

  • Have you seen the #ifexist -> preloaded template fix I put up at WikiProject talk:Song Of The Day#SOTD:Main? It seems to work properly, and since the box itself's copied and pasted from your User:MitchO/Main Page, it should be usable there.
  • Speaking of SotD, what about occasional "theme weeks"? May be difficult if we're using the same songs on the same days every year, since they won't always fall on the same week. Worth consideration?
  • I might also arrange the songs on the SotD talk:Main in something like this:
Song Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
I'm Having a Party
Bozo's Lament May 18
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Ikea
I Hate California
Christmas Is Interesting
Over There
Millionaire Girlfriend
First of May May 1
De-Evolving
I'm a Mason Now May 16
Overhead
  • I think TDiJC may need an overall revamping -- split it into months, which would lessen your concerns about templates taking too long to load (which may not be so much of a problem anyway)? (I mean, split it by months and embed the templates in the months.) Think that's about it for this batch of comments... --Bry 13:18, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
Well, I think I need to get a lot further in the SotD project to worry about establishing a table, though that ultimately seems like the right idea. I just look at the list and start hunting for inspiration right now. The ifexist part looks good, but for some god awful reason my personal main page thinks it's May 8th, when the actual Main Page thinks it's May 7th. I'll fiddle when I get a chance . --MitchO 13:34, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
(checks watch) It is May 8th, isn't it? Which page thinks it's the 7th? --Bry 13:36, 8 May 2008 (EDT)