User talk:CapitalQ

iSketch

that is fun when you get a bunch of people going!

great idea Q!

-Cody-schmidt

Sysop

Awsome your a sysop! The thing 08:45, 4 Mar 2006 (CST)

Yeah, and a very happy one. :D -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 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)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 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 ♫ talk ♪ 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)

Thanks!

Just wanted to thank you for being extremely helpful on the wiki. Keep on being teh cool. ^_~ Annoying You, Lemita

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 ♫ talk ♪ 05:27, 5 Apr 2006 (CDT)

You don't know the Johns personaly (sp?) do you? Anyways... Dial-A-Song rocks, so thanks a million for informing them. =) {is full of thankfulness to many wiki peoples} --Lemita 19:28, 6 Apr 2006 (CDT)

No, I don't know them; anyone can email Operator Dot. :D -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 19:29, 6 Apr 2006 (CDT)

Sweet. Nice story for the grandkids. --badqueso 00:56, 7 Apr 2006 (CDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 13:34, 9 Apr 2006 (CDT)

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)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 06:21, 30 Apr 2006 (CDT)

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)

No problemo. :D -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 17:24, 2 May 2006 (CDT)

AIM

Don't give my AIM away! Please! I beg of you! And who the beep whas that first person? --The thing

I kind of figured it was you... :\ -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 14:41, 8 May 2006 (CDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 12:37, 13 May 2006 (CDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 21:07, 14 May 2006 (CDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 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 ♫ talk ♪ 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)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 16:41, 3 Jun 2006 (CDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 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

You didn't make anything more difficult, heh. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 15:07, 13 Jun 2006 (MDT)

So how does one get a thing like that? - Whirrrlwind (Woosh!) 05:37, 13 Jun 2006 (MDT)

Through great friends. :) -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 15:07, 13 Jun 2006 (MDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 08:05, 27 Jun 2006 (MDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 09:19, 2 Jul 2006 (MDT)

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 ♫ talk ♪ 18:32, 2 Jul 2006 (MDT)

Nah, I'm using Chatzilla, I'll go try that out.--liam (wtf?) 18:34, 2 Jul 2006 (MDT)

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)