User talk:Caroig/Archive 1

General

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 22:07, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Actually, referred is the correct spelling in both American and British English. For example Merriam-Webster's dictionary or dictionary.com. Maximus Rex 12:34, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Jicín city template

I replaced the city template with simpler (and non-tenmplated table) as some of items here were of low relevancy (time zone) or completely misleading (population density) or hard to maintain on English Wikipedia (mayors).

User:Mikeshk had created much simpler version, used in Chlumec nad Cidlinou. This may be considered as base for standardized template used in the future. Perhaps you may express your opinion on Mikeshk talk page or template talk page. Pavel Vozenilek 22:17, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Jicin gallery

I've changed back to previous version. I agree with you that the photos are too small, but there are also some problems with current solution: the photos take often too much place (on 1024x768 its 3 rows of quite big photos, around 1/3 of the whole article height) and the placing depends much on the resolution of the screen. Wouldn't it be better to attach only 1 - 3 photos here and make a link to the gallery in wiki commons? Or to place some of the photos in the text, not below? --Akumiszcza 13:32, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

city template

I quite like the template. But I think mayors should not be added: this information is too volatile to be maintainable over long time (and of rather low relevancy on English Wiki).

Template Template talk:Coor could be perhaps used. The box may contain link to Statistics about the Czech Republic if someone wants to verify the data. The municipal website links should be also in External links section as most people will look it up here. The word "region" may be linked to Kraj, it may be also handy to have "district" (Okres) item available.

I though about putting the location maps into Commons so Czech wikipedia and other could use them as well. I have no clue whether someone would use it, though. Pavel Vozenilek 20:15, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The word region may be linked as Region, okres does exist, it just doesn't have that much administration associated with it now. The okres may come handy for villages.

Coor template within city template can be seen e.g. on page for Chicago.

Commons is quite new feature, I didn't dare to use yet (but I know it works well). In this case picture names should have with semistandardized name like "location_of_Czech_city_XYZ". The PNG picture I create has always size 17 kB (quite large for such tiny simple pics). I use MS Paint but perhaps better tools exist.

I do not know whether anyone tried a city template on Czech wiki (once I searched the discussions there with no result). I know Slovak city template exists and is very large and complex (and not used often). Pavel Vozenilek 21:01, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I tried pngcrush on one map and squeezed it down to 15 kB (from 18 kB). Probably only JPG would help more. I think I'll stick with PNGs and MS Paint.

The template may also be used for city parts, e.g. Chanov. Here an item "city" would be helpful. Pavel Vozenilek 21:37, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I meant the word Region would be here but click will transfer to Kraj article (which, hopefully will be updated sometimes). I do not use ICQ as it would eat too much of time. Pavel Vozenilek 22:18, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Would it be possible to have link to district like Pardubice District somewhere in the template? I plan to create all such districts in the Czech republic. Pavel Vozenilek 19:18, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Strangely, the "low quality" template looks more pleasant to my eyes. (Perhaps this is the decline due to age they talk about.) The 50km help is /very/ useful there. When one of the templates gets picked as preffered I'll start to use it for my maps. Pavel Vozenilek 21:43, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Thanks for your work. I'll start to use them and convert existing tables/pictures (but do not expect anything rapid, I am way too lazy). You may suggest to use these tamples/pictures on Czech Wiki to get uniform style and improve quality a bit. Pavel Vozenilek 15:45, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please don't cut and paste move.

Pages must be moved through the 'Move' function, not by cutting and pasting the content. The page history must be retained.

What name should Jicin have been moved to? —Morven June 28, 2005 06:36 (UTC)

No problem. I've done the move for you - please take a look and make sure I did it right. —Morven June 28, 2005 06:41 (UTC)

Question: coordinates, elevation

Where do you find these data? Is there some reliable website with easy lokup for them? Pavel Vozenilek 02:50, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

You can have a quick look at [1] (any astronomical tables would do), or you can use the GPS locator at [2] for coordinates and ČSÚ database for elevation [3].--Caroig 19:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

term Czechia vs Czech Republic

Perhaps name "Czech Republic" should be used consistently in infoboxes: it is standard and widely used name.

Last but non least it infuriates User:NoPuzzleStranger to change this and other names (see current revert wars on Plzen and Ceske Budejovice). Pavel Vozenilek 00:29, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I used the word Czechia to see what happens... I'm well aware that there's strong dislike against this word here on Wikipedia, the problem is that the English world uses the expression Czech Republic as they never hear Czechia from people of this country (I was asked many times not only in English speaking countries but also in Spanish speaking ones why there was no single word for this country). I'm not going to start reverting any names, just when I start an infobox/article, I'll prefer Czechia, which I see as the correct name. It's seems to me that all changes Czechia > Czech Republic come from a single user anyway, the one you mentioned. Caroig 06:04, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Progress report

I have aim to create (at least) stub for every Czech town and village, properly categorised, with location map from Commons, with link to municipal website and interwiki. Such a skeleton should help people to add meat into the articles.

Currently I am somewhere around 1%, there are couple of hundredths of them, and I am very slowly working through. I estimate this will take year or two to finish it.

I use your map and put all new maps into Commons. When I find some, I replace an old map with new version, too.

It would be nice to have more people help with Czech geography. Occasionally I write full article but I am very short on time and stubs are all I can do. It is pity that on Czech Wikipedia people ignore smaller places.

Not all Czech districts are covered, I plan to do so (Czech Wiki has good coverage here, I already translated Pardubice District). An page with overview of available statistics is Statistics about the Czech Republic. Pavel Vozenilek 00:23, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Infobox Town

Original message: User talk:GrafZahl#Infobox Town

Firstly, I've to admit that I don't know much about template juggling (actually, until the day before yesterday I didn't know anything at all about it).

Reading m:Help:Template#Restrictions on parameter values I'd say you can't make whole cells vanish (at least not with the obvious method) since any pipe signs in the parameters would have to be put between nowiki tags, in turn making their use as cell separators impossible. I haven't tried it though.

Furthermore, even if you could make a table cell vanish, it would destroy the alternating colour scheme of the table (not an issue in this special case since you only want to make the very first and very last cell possibly vanish).

Having an additional template syntax à la PHP would be nice (making templates "real" subroutines) but might prove a problem regarding efficiency. --GrafZahl 22:13, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I think you need to list Template:Infobox Town noC and other redundant templates at Templates for deletion. I don't think they fall under WP:CSD. Rd232 ^talk 23:22, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, no, I certainly don't mind as long we can keep up with changing the articles using the infobox accordingly. As for the PHP idea, there seems to be already a proposal in that direction: m:Extended template syntax. Cheers! --GrafZahl 20:07, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Infoboxes and government portal pages

Perhaps infobox for a town/village may have link to government portal page for the municipality [4]. E.g. Kladno has page [5]. The portal contains lot of details and is hopefully kept up-to-date. (at least the government pays 100 million CZK per year for maintenance).

There may be small icon somewhere inside the box linking directly to such page. The icon would have tooltip explaining its purpose. Pavel Vozenilek 22:42, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

VFD on Czech Resources

Vote for delete is running on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Czech Resources. IMO the content should be on your page since no thing like portal for Czech Republic exists. You may say a word there. Pavel Vozenilek 01:40, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Czech Resources

You should move this back to your User: area. It doees not belong with the encylopedia pages. I put an AfD on the page, but now I regret doing so. I should have just done a {{[[Template:|]]}}. -- Fplay 07:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. It's now at Czech Resources — Caroig 08:05, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:Show22

Can this test template be deleted? If so, please mark it for speedy deletion, since you are the only author. -- Netoholic @ 05:50, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikics template

Hi Caroig! I've just created a new template to indicate English Wikipedia users who also contribute to the Czech Wikipedia.

Template:User wikics

Feel free to add it to your userboxes if you like it (and if you actually contribute). Happy Easter. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 13:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Teplice

Hi,

I sow that you wrote about Teplice. I was born in this city and would like to talk to you about the histoty of Teplice. Please write back. Thanks.

Karlovy Vary

You're kidding me, right? "Wholly unnatural" colors? And you live in Prague?! That photo is a great example of just how beautiful a city Karlovy Vary is (and other cities that are similar with such striking colors). The colors cannot be 'unnatural' because that is a photo of exactly what the city looks like! If you don't like the fact that they color the buildings that way, I guess that is your opinion. But you can't remove a photo just because you don't like the colors. You know - a very 'communisitic' approach was to ignore color. Maybe that is why they chose to color the buildings that way, to be different. Rarelibra 20:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Jméno starosty

Zdravím. V článku Ostrava jste odstranil jméno starosty s tím, že není pro enwiki důležité a že to zde bylo mnohokrát diskutováno. Je možné poskytnout odkaz na nějakou takovou diskuzi? Předem děkuji. --Ragimiri 07:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)