User talk:CapitalQ/2006
[edit] iSketch
that is fun when you get a bunch of people going!
great idea Q!
[edit] Sysop
Awsome your a sysop! The thing 08:45, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)
Yeah, and a very happy one. :D -CapitalQ / @ / 08:50, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)
- WHOA! YOUR AN ADMIN! The thing 09:21, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)
- Congratulations on your adminization. Fwahobadagadz 11:47, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)
- Thanks! :D
- Congratz! Really! I don't know what else to say. Hehe. --ArAn 14:04, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)
[edit] Last.Fm
How do you get the Last.Fm TMBG theme? It's pretty awesome. (Turnip) 20:26, 6 Mar 2006 (CST)
I made it, and thanks. -CapitalQ / @ / 21:21, 6 Mar 2006 (CST)
- If you want to put it on your Wiki page, go here to set it up: http://www.last.fm/onyoursite/chartgallery/TMBG -CapitalQ / @ / 21:52, 6 Mar 2006 (CST)
Thanks-mine is pretty lame, and it has not updated yet. (Turnip) 18:19, 10 Mar 2006 (CST)
I just used your theme for my user page- thanks for designing it! --Martorano
I used it too. Pretty Cool! - Herwwiyal 05:17, 30 May 2006 (CDT)
[edit] Thanks!
Just wanted to thank you for being extremely helpful on the wiki. Keep on being teh cool. ^_~ Annoying You, Lemita
[edit] Friend of the band
I noticed you linked yourself as the "friend of the band" in the newest newsletter. I was just wondering what the story was behind that. Did you send them an email or something? --badqueso 01:00, 5 Apr 2006 (CDT)
- Yeah, I sent Dot a link to the eBay auction on March 3rd. :D -CapitalQ / @ / 05:27, 5 Apr 2006 (CDT)
[edit] Bot
How do you make a bot like yours? A real one. The thing 13:12, 9 Apr 2006 (CDT)
- I didn't make it, I'm just using a MediaWiki Python bot run from my command prompt. You can get it here. -CapitalQ / @ / 13:34, 9 Apr 2006 (CDT)
[edit] RE: Album stuff
Yeah, I kinda guess you're right... =) I've been hunting down their earlier stuff (Lincoln, The Pink Album) but the Border's nearest my house is, alas, very unreliable. I doubt I can find The Pink Album, but I know they have Lincoln there... [/endrant] But yeah, I'm gonna do that! Thanks for the advice. =) --Lemita 16:50, 24 Apr 2006 (CDT)
- So I have heard. I've hunted down their stuff at places like Wal-Mart (dragged there) and even their newer stuff is cheaper than Border's! [/end2ndrant] I'm gonna try for the internet, thanks. ^__^ --Lemita 19:25, 24 Apr 2006 (CDT)
[edit] It's a little fuzzy, but...
RE: http://www.tmbw.net/wiki/index.php?title=They_Might_Be_Giants&diff=0&oldid=66956
{Warning: the following is a rather long-winded rant}
Wikipedia enforces every last tidbit of the GFDL, so we may not be able to get away with having that here. My concern mainly comes from my noticing back in December that This Might Be A Wiki:Copyrights was a red link. I figured I'd be bold and create it. But were we GFDL or Creative Commons? I didn't know, so I figured Scott and Brad just never considered the license (though having now installed MediaWiki on my PC I see that it won't let you install it without picking one) and picked Creative Commons. I copied the text of Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 to the psgr, wikified and saved it with a note in the edit summary asking if my choice was correct.
I didn't get a response, so I figured I was okay. Recently I noticed our General disclaimer, and it explicitly stated GFDL, but to see the copyrights page for details. The two pages contradicted each other (thanks to me) so I asked on the talk page which one I should change. Getting no response for a week (and still not ahving one), I changed the disclaimer to say Creative Commons.
What this has to do with your edit is that according to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation all Creative Commons licenses are incompatible with the GFDL (which is what Wikipedia is licensed under) meaning that by putting some GFDL stuff on a Creative Commons licensed wiki, you violate the GFDL.
But then again, I still have yet to receive an answer as to which license this wiki is officially under. I don't have a problem with it being either one (I don't care for the GFDL, but I can live with it), as you can see from my regular contributions to both a Creative Commons wiki and a GFDL one, I just want to know which one.
{End of rant} — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 00:51, 30 Apr 2006 (CDT)
- Wow, so I have absolutely no idea about any of this stuff. I figured since most of the users here were the ones who wrote the Wikipedia article that it'd just be free to paste, you know, from wiki to wiki. I guess I'll just write my own slightly similar blurb for the They Might Be Giants page. -CapitalQ / @ / 06:21, 30 Apr 2006 (CDT)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for the colour change. I really kinda suck at that. I couldn't come up with a colour and I didn't have the time to do so. Thanks again! --ArAn 17:20, 2 May 2006 (CDT)
[edit] AIM
Don't give my AIM away! Please! I beg of you! And who the beep whas that first person? --The thing
[edit] Momo Puff
Please don't delete Momo Puff. It's true and useful. The thing 11:21, 13 May 2006 (CDT)
- It only applies to one song, Backstabbing Liar, where the information is already listed under the albums field. -CapitalQ / @ / 12:37, 13 May 2006 (CDT)
[edit] help you provided
Thank you very much! I was wondering how you can do link colors on the wiki, normal HTML doesn't always work, as I found. Also, is it possible to use PHP? Thanks again!--tehbagel ( o ) 20:55, 14 May 2006 (CDT)
- I'm fairly certain that editing pages limits you to using just some basic text-formatting HTML and CSS. -CapitalQ / @ / 21:07, 14 May 2006 (CDT)
[edit] Question about TMBG Unlimited Track Descriptions
Hey, since you're the one that posted all of the track descriptions on the TMBG Unlimited page, I'm just curious about where you got them (especially since your user page says you didn't get into the band until 2002). Do you know if they were posted in mailing list e-mails or on emusic.com somewhere? I know that at least some Unlimited info was included in some mailing list e-mails, since I got some of them (even though I was in Russia at the time with very little Internet access, which is why I couldn't subscribe to Unlimited in the first place). And if the info you posted was from e-mails, do you still have the original e-mails to add to the Mailing List Archive? It only goes back to 2002, and unfortunately, I didn't keep any of my e-mails past that time because Hotmail and other e-mail Web sites had much smaller size limits back then. So, I just thought this would be worth asking. ~Drew
- I actually used the Wayback Machine to access a webpage that had all of the descriptions (albeit with crappy MS Word html), and then formatted the html to be fully wiki-compatibile. -CapitalQ / @ / 21:12, 23 May 2006 (CDT)
- Okay. HAVE any efforts been made to find and add pre-2002 mailing list e-mails to the Mailing List Archive? Also, just curious, but what's the Wayback Machine? ~Drew
- Perhaps someone with the emails archived will come along and add them one day, but until then I guess they won't be posted. The Wayback Machine is a tool located at http://www.archive.org/ that lets you see any previous version of an alive (or dead) webpage. -CapitalQ / @ / 21:21, 23 May 2006 (CDT)
Thanks for fixing my user page...I'm an utter moron when it comes to stuff like that. --Martorano 12:55, 26 May 2006 (CDT)
[edit] Score
Singable: 7/10
Creative Wiki References: 19/25
Overall Creativity: 17/20
Humor: 13/15
Makes sense: 13/15
Overall: 84/100
- 7/10 for singable? Come on, every single line except the last (two) fit perfectly. *whines* :D -CapitalQ / @ / 16:41, 3 Jun 2006 (CDT)
[edit] It's Not My Birthday (Lincoln Version)
Hey, I couldn't help but notice that you added the run time for It's Not My Birthday (Lincoln Version), so I'm wondering how you know that. I assumed that this song was unavailable, but maybe I'm just out of the loop--do you have it somehow?! That would be cool. ~Drew
- Check the What links here for it, it's on the Bill Krauss Demos bootleg that I made a page for yesterday. -CapitalQ / @ / 04:22, 13 Jun 2006 (MDT)
- Wow, I learn something new about tmbw.net every day! I've never noticed or used those "What links here" links before. Thanks for the info. Also, sorry if I made your job more difficult by recommending that people check chronology pages when adding run times--but I'm glad TMBaB can do it instead. ~Drew
[edit] Albany
Why did you revert my edits on Albany? The thing 08:04, 27 Jun 2006 (MDT)
- You put the lyrics to Albany (Studio) on the live Albany's lyric page. -CapitalQ / @ / 08:05, 27 Jun 2006 (MDT)
[edit] Discography
Why not replace the Albums on the site map template with Discography, now that you seem to have approved it? - Whirrrlwind (Woosh!) 09:09, 2 Jul 2006 (MDT)
- Approved? I was in #tmbg with the other founders of the page discussing how to go about making it before it was created. :D But anyway, the albums category is a bit more expansive than the Discography page, so I'd rather keep the Site Map the way it is. However, I just added a nice link to Category:Albums that has almost the same effect as putting discography on the site map. :) -CapitalQ / @ / 09:19, 2 Jul 2006 (MDT)
[edit] New IRC Channel
Yeah, got your email, but whenver I try to connect it times out. it's irc.dal.net, right?--liam (wtf?) 18:31, 2 Jul 2006 (MDT)
- Are you using mIRC? Try picking DALnet in the server dropdown. -CapitalQ / @ / 18:32, 2 Jul 2006 (MDT)
[edit] Subst'd sigs
Hey there CapitalQ. It really would have been nice if MediaWiki had made a bigger deal of this change (I don't remember reading anything about it) and given wikis the option of using it or not. Rather than completely removing the lines below, I added a variable that allows them to be toggled on or off on a per-wiki basis (which is what MediaWiki should have done in the first place, in my opinion).
I made the following additions (highlighted in red) to includes/Parser.php @ line 3455:
function cleanSig( $text ) { global $wgAllowSigTemplates; $substWord = MagicWord::get( MAG_SUBST ); $substRegex = '/\{\{(?!(?:' . $substWord->getBaseRegex() . '))/x' . $substWord->getRegexCase(); $substText = '{{' . $substWord->getSynonym( 0 ); if (!$wgAllowSigTemplates) $text = preg_replace( $substRegex, $substText, $text ); $text = preg_replace( '/~{3,5}/', , $text ); if (!$wgAllowSigTemplates) $text = $this->replaceVariables( $text ); return $text; }
And then I set $wgAllowSigTemplates = true; in LocalSettings.php. Hope that helps! (Man, you guys have the text size set small!) — It's dot com 21:35, 7 July 2006 (MDT)
[edit] Hey Q
Hey, There's a new funny wiki. here. You can put stuff on there. 69.205.178.150 14:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] James/83.130.222.30/ShadowBeast
Hey, I'm sure you'll catch this on your own, but just in case, I wanted to point out that User:James seems to have set up a Web site pretending to be User:TDK and claiming to sell TMBG rarities like the Thunderbird demo, etc. It appears that, after he spammed TDK's page the first time, he tried to cover his tracks by using two other identities to spam the page. All three identities, all of which should be blocked, are User:James, ip address 83.130.222.30, and User:ShadowBeast. Also, should we warn people not to use James's Web site, since it's obviously a scam? And is there any other action we can take against him? ~Drew
[edit] Congratulations!
WOO! You won the trivia contest for theynow! - (Firefly)
- I got the last episode completely got wrong...I don't even know what I was thinking when I typed that! :P I knew this one too, I just didn't post it in time. Oh well, looks like I'll be waiting for the next episode... - (Firefly)
[edit] Flans Babel Pic
I know, I have horrible social skills. Ignoring the fact that I left this conversation hanging for a month, how about this pic of Flans? I like that one a lot. Thanks again. —Gena 18:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
- After resizing it to 45x45, I can assure you that the current image looks a lot better. I don't see what's wrong with it anyway...I've always liked how Flansburgh looks in it. -CapitalQ / @ / 18:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks, I like that one a lot better. (^_^) —Gena 22:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you!
Thanks for reverting the edit on my talk page! ^_^ So kind of you! I didn't even catch that was there... I'm not gonna ask what it was. I had some vandalism on my page before, so I freaked me out. Thanks for being such a great wiki-guy! --Lemita 00:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, thanks for cleanin' my user:talk page up! :D -Cronny
[edit] Thanks
Thanks. —The thing Talk 15:53, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Radio Show
I'm glad that you enjoyed my show! Mr.klaw
[edit] Sorry
I apologize for editing so much. I know you must have to patrol that and it must be annoying. I'll try to be more conscious next time. --Mr.klaw 00:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DAS Template proposal
At User:Joltman/Sandbox I did up a proposal for a little easier way to do Template:DAS. I see it's locked, so I thought I'd see if you wanted to use this. Basically, what I did was reduced the need to have Up, green and current or Down, red and last be needed. Instead, it just goes off of Up or Down. Here's what it looks like with the code to do it:
|
Current Dial-A-Song status: Down |
{{User:Joltman/Sandbox|
Status = Down <!--Up or Down-->
| Note = <!--Leave this blank if DAS is normal or totally broken. Format as (''Note'')<br>-->
|Date_last_tested = 10/15/06
|Time_last_tested = 6:10 p.m. <!--See http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com for current time EST-->
|
Latest_song = We Live In A Dump (Demo)
|Date_latest_song_was_added = 3/29/06
}}
To do the same with the current code, it looks like this:
{{DAS|
Status = Down
| Color = red <!--Make green if DAS is operational, red if down-->
| Note = <!--Leave this blank if DAS is normal or totally broken. Format as (''Note'')<br>-->
|Date_last_tested = 10/15/06
|Time_last_tested = 6:10 p.m. <!--See http://wwp.eastern-standard-time.com for current time EST-->
| Current_or_last = Last <!--If DAS is working, write Current here. If down, write Last.-->
|
Latest_song = We Live In A Dump (Demo)
|Date_latest_song_was_added = 3/29/06
}}
As you can see, all that needed to be set was Down, and it automatically chose red and Last without being specifically set.
Again, just wanted to let you see it and see if you would want to use this code. Joltman 13:06, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] the last car
why remove the info about them doing music for "i pity the fool" ?
- Do you have any proof? The music in the website's Flash intro is clearly not The Last Car, and that's what I figured you were going by. -CapitalQ / @ / 21:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sure
Thanks for the tip. I was unsure how to resize it at first, but now its great. You can delete the other ones. Thanks. Did you have a They Might Be Dead shirt on at the concert on Nov. 18? --Mr.klaw 02:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cool (Gnarly)
I was about four or five rows behind you. The picture is pretty cool, no?--Mr.klaw 18:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nyack show
hey, i changed the "this damn band" to "this dang band" on the nyack show page because they're different things. something about dang them and go ahead and hang them. not the one from the beardo tour.
[edit] About Weird Al commentary...
Which episode commentary does he mention that his daughter loves Ben Folds and TMBG? I gotta know! --Overjoy 19:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks, I actually found that commentary a few minutes after I asked you. The episode was "He's Ain't Heavy, He's My Hamster." I enjoyed the commentaries I've heard so far. --Overjoy 22:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Just wanted to say...
Cool new page! --INeedACrane 00:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why?
why did you change your user page? - an ip
[edit] Why?
why, if you had the chance to actually write what you wanted to say, did you still stick with the :D ? Just struck me as odd. oh, also, how did you get your hands on that Podcast Highlights CD? ~ magbatz
- Because :D is an excellent face. :o And Podcast Highlights I nabbed off eBay in May, hehe. -CapitalQ / @ / 02:07, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- Ah. Good point. ^_^
[edit] Hodgman
"Hodgman news is not TMBG news."
- Hodgman's on the Daily Show all the time, but his full $18 audiobook based on likely the funniest piece of literature of 2005 isn't free all the time, it was a holiday gift from iTunes. Most people appreciated it, why don't you? -CapitalQ / @ / 19:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- Oh I love Hodgman, don't get me wrong. I'm arguing his appropriateness as news. Just because it's "the funniest piece of literature" doesn't make it anymore TMBG news. I find The Office really funny. So are you saying if I find some link from it to TMBG (no matter how small) I can post news about it?
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