User talk:Magentix

Could someone please tell me why the Dutch Language Template isn't here? The code is NL, and the real Wikipedia has it here: Dutch Template

Because nobody has requested it yet, so you're our first. Whenever we get new users that need a new template, we copy it on over. We don't have thousands of editors like Wikipedia, so there's only so many of us to work on creating articles, editing, copying useful things over. Be patient or I can give you directions on how to move things over if you'd like to try your hand at it. There's dozens of languages that we haven't added yet I'm sure. --Guppymomma 17:12, 2 September 2005 (PDT)

How to add the nl templates

I'm glad you'd like to give it a go! It's a little tedious with a bunch of steps, but it's not too hard. I've already added nl to the YPPedia's help page on languages to get you started on the way.

Go to Help:Language and scroll down to nl. Each of the red links inside of {{}} is for a template. What you need to do is click on each one to directly open a window to edit it. Go over to Wikipedia's matching template page such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_nl-1 and click on Edit page to see the code. Copy that (without editing Wikipedia's page) and paste it to the location for the template here.

After you finish copying over the 5 templates, then you'll want to fill in the info for the categories. I'll just save this comment so you can start on that while I do some instructions on how to do the categories. --Guppymomma 17:22, 2 September 2005 (PDT)

On the same spot in the language help page here, under nl there will be red links for user nl, basic, intermediate, advanced, near native, and native. Again clicking on them should take you directly to an edit page. This time it's for the category information.

For the the different levels you'll want to copy over the same template info as you did above, but after you paste to the category page there will be a little editing to do.

Basic corresponds to User_nl-1, intermediate to User_nl-2 and so on.

The editing you'll need to do for each of the category pages is to remove the section that looks like [[Category:User nl-N|{{PAGENAME}}]].

For the "user nl" category description, I'll just go paste that code in as Wikpedia uses a template that I don't think we've implemented.

I think that should cover everything, but I'll doublecheck and see after you're done. Feel free to ask any questions you have here. --Guppymomma 17:31, 2 September 2005 (PDT)

Woo, I see that the userspeak template is here! Looks nice. --Guppymomma 17:33, 2 September 2005 (PDT)

Don't forget to have [[Category:User nl]] on the Category:User nl-1 through Category:User nl-N pages. That way there are links to them from Category:User nl. --Guppymomma 17:57, 2 September 2005 (PDT)

Looks perfect, fabulous job! You're a quick study. :) --Guppymomma 18:29, 2 September 2005 (PDT)

It just needed a little "bump" edit to refresh the template used on your page. It just has to do with the way the wiki refreshes things like templates (or doesn't refresh them as the case may be), not your template/category work which was just right. You're listed now. --Guppymomma 18:36, 2 September 2005 (PDT)

User contributions link & edit summaries

There's a link to Special:Contributions/Magentix that shows up in the Toolbox navigation bar on the left whenever someone looks at your User page or User talk page. It's the same thing that's linked to from "my contributions" at the top of your screen. The wiki tracks all changes that people made in its giant database and automatically shows those links for all user's pages. For future edits for articles consider using the summary field at the end of the editing box, that way people patrolling the recent changes know if there's something new to read or if it's just a spelling correction. The edit summary is also seen on the page's history and user contribution page of the editor. --Guppymomma 18:56, 2 September 2005 (PDT)