User talk:Luccagenes

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Hello Luccagenes!

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Again, welcome! Marilynbgardner49 10:36, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

March 9th
Your thought process is good. Also, there is help here on the wiki to work on making each word you would like to define, link to another page that you would it to go to. I just wanted to let you know, you are not alone here on the Research Wiki. Linda R Chappell 02:52, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

You may want to check out some HTML / Wikitext programming lessons here on the Wiki. Start with Lesson One and the other lessons will link from there. One of those lessons includes a sortable (alphabetical) table. As for who might work on a particular page from time to time... you can view that under the history tab - found at the top of every wiki page. Linda R Chappell 22:11, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

March 14th
Hi Jim, I've been watching your page - now pages, with your new sandbox page. Interesting stuff. I thought I'd let you know that I passed your two pages on to Charles, who wrote our HTML/Wikitext lessons. I've also passed "you" onto the LDS church employee over our Wiki. Each is working in their own sphere to upgrade how our current site looks and functions. Swapping between HTML and wikitext can be challenging. We are also using an older version of wikimedia that will be updated within the next few months - and how that affects all these pages and their formats is still the unknown for us out in the field. As to your query about different size tables side by side - it is possible - go thru the HTML lessons and some will talk about positioning. Take care and keep up the good work. Linda R Chappell 16:02, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

March 18th
Just wanted to say "Kudos". Nice work. If you would like to change the UTC to your time zone, go to Preferences in the right sidebar. As for foreign languages, FamilySearch does have other languages. If they interact or stand-alone ... that is a question for someone that knows more than I do. I can say that some of them start here in the English before being moved. Having sign language on the wiki is an interesting concept. Very inspired. Linda R Chappell 19:03, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Let me add - when two individuals edit the page at the same time ... or attempt to, the first one in "wins". And the latter one gets a message something like "this edit will affect a more recent edit if you continue". You may be interested in our contributors meeting - held every Thursday at 1:00 pm Mountain time. They last an hour. The meeting number is 990 733 804 https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Wiki_Contributors_Meeting. This is not the technical meeting, but a place that we discuss how pages might look and change. It's not a large group - but it would be nice to introduce yourself to the rest of us.

March 27th
It was nice to have you at the meeting(s) today. Glad you made the second one even if I did not. You mentioned on your user page about section command. I don't know if what you mean is what -on Wiki pages -I speak of as 'table of contents'. When a page has at least four headings, a table of contents will appear. It will also create "sections" that can be individually edited. You may want to check out the page Help:Wikitext Cheatsheet. The TOC does not have to be at the top of the page if you don't want it there- I just know it would give you the sections that you might be looking for. Linda R Chappell 04:08, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

The "section" I was talking about has something to do with the transclusion function wherein one would set a "section begin (name)" and end with a "section end" command. Thereafter that particular "name" can be called up and specifically transcluded to another page without transcluding the whole page. I am currently having trouble with the onlyinclude command in that the Wikipedia example doesn't want to work for some reason. The section command is supposed to be able to replace the onlyinclude function but I don't think one can use the headings to designate a section that can be used outside the current page. I could be wrong. See you next Thursday (if I can get the demo ready for Giuseppe). Luccagenes 05:18, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

March 29th
Jim, I am noticing that when there are 3-4 of your edits to patrol, my computer is freezing up on Firefox. At first I didn't make the connection and frankly, I'm not technologically advanced enough to know if it a problem on my end or is caused by the edits. Do you know? myra

So this is what shouting from Washington state sounds like. I really do not know what would be going on. Is it still happening in the last half hour. Over an hour ago I was trying to repeat the initial test that blanked out my page and it blanked it out several times. Now I am adding rows to the table more slowly but it is getting bigger now. I cannot imagine why that would affect your patrolling or your Firefox. For the past couple weeks I have noticed that if I have more that 5 tabs open in Firefox that the editor gets really sluggish and I have to restart Firefox but those were with normal pages. I do not know if this large page is causing problems with the server. If you want me to stop or if you know someone I should contact in support let me know ... I will happily comply. Jim. Luccagenes 20:49, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, poor you. You just happened to catch me, the most computer illiterate on the staff, but I can explain what it was doing. Others would probably know more. Incidentally my email address is: myrasavant@hotmail.com  if you need to reach me by that. I just tried again after I patrolled all of the current edits that were present. I left yours until last. When I opened a tab on yours (the first of maybe 5-6 of them) that little circle that lets me know that the computer is working on it, just kept going and going and going, like it had before. Then the tab disappeared as before and it came up with a message that Firefox wasn't responding. I couldn't get anything going after that no matter what I clicked and it took me a couple of clicks to raise that message again. Then I just clicked the part that said: close the program. Jim, I'm just not computer savvy enough to know if it means that the scroll program is at fault or something else, but I'm obsessive compulsive about the patrolling, so I just happen to be there part of every day. I wish there was a way to let you see it and know what I was talking about, but it's in the moderator rights to be able to patrol. Saturdays are a slower day but there are still edits coming in at a slower rate but all that is there now are those last ones you did. Wish I knew more but I think you are much more computer literate than I am and can maybe figure it out? myra

The only thing I can think of is for you to see if the same thing happens with IE (Internet Explorer) if you have it on your computer. This would determine if it is Firefox or not because like I said I have been experiencing similar issues with Firefox although I never received the "not responding" message. My computer is getting kind of old and I have a pretty slow DSL line from the phone company and my guess is that the large file is taking too long to load up so then Firefox gets confused and stops responding. If you were able to get your computer to respond to the mouse at some point then it just looks like a frozen computer (which is what mine does sometime too so it just might be FireFox). If you can try the IE browser to access that page then we will know where to look next. Luccagenes 23:26, 29 March 2014 (UTC)