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♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 21:37, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! De nada! tempodivalse 18:19, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

No, I don't speak Portuguese (I only know that one phrase). I can speak some Spanish, though. tempodivalse 18:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Reply

Is MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer what you were looking for? tempodivalse 21:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

To get it to appear at your wiki, simply create the page MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer at the Portuguese Wikinews. You don't need to edit any existing MediaWiki page to get it to show up, I don't think. Let me know if this works. Cheers, tempodivalse 03:35, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Tempo seemed to stop answering, so I hope he doesn't mind if i respond to your last question. If you look at Special:AllMessages#sp-allmessages-r1-3162 you will see the page was originally a dash here too. My guess is that the message is ignored if it is a dash. (also don't forget pt:mediawiki:sp-contributions-footer-anon as well) Bawolff ☺☻ 11:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for not answering promptly, I was called away for a while and couldn't get back to you. I think that yes, the message is ignored if it has a dash; what you need to do to get it to show up is to replace it with the content of MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer (don't forget to translate it into Portuguese). Also, all MediaWiki pages are protected by default, and can only be edited by administrators, so if you're not an administrator there, you'll have to get someone else to edit it for you. tempodivalse 13:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Commentary pages

I saw your query on Tempodivalse's talk, and I'll make a start on explaining this.

en.wikinews has an extra namespace, "Comments:" this appears as a extra tab at the top of an article. This is a change to the MediaWiki configuration to add the namespace and fit it into the page tabs. User:Bawolff can possible tell you about any code to get it in the tabs, but I believe to get it as part of your wiki you need a bugzilla request to create and add the namespace.

Within an article, the {{haveyoursay}} template is automatically added as part of the page creation template. Cleverer templates to embed a HYS talking point into an article are {{HYS question left}} and {{HYS question right}}.

Hope this helps. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:12, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah, the auto inclusion...

From main page source...

'''Write an article for Wikinews'''<br/>
''Please read the [[Wikinews:Writing an article|article guide]] before starting. Also check the list of [[Special:Newpages|recently created articles]] to see if your story hasn't already been reported upon.<br/>
<center>
<inputbox>
type=create
preload=Template:New_page
editintro=Template:New_article_intro
width=40
</inputbox>

As you can see, the {{New page}} template is included when you create the page. On that page you'll find the {{haveyoursay}} template. You can put anything in there, so you could have new page templates for countries or topics and use them for page creation from a country or topic portal with appropriate categories or infoboxes already present. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 19:00, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

I think Vitor is talking about the little box that appears at the very bottom of every article - the page rating. I've never really paid much attention to that. I think it allows people to rate the article according to its quality: reliability, presentation, etc., but I really don't know the specifics of it. I suggest you ask about this at the water cooler, maybe the folks there can tell you more about it. Tempodivalse [talk] 19:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

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Hi. I'm not completely sure what you wanted me to do when you asked me to "analyse" the template. I'm assuming you wanted me to look over this and see if it is all right? If so, the template looks fine to me. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 17:24, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I've sighted the {{Softredirect/User}} template, it should now be marked as flagged, as requested. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 22:06, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Template:Footballbox

I've added the interwiki link, just as requested. Cheers. Tempodivalse [talk] 03:19, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Tit for tat

You pointed me at an article, which I've reviewed. (Note on the talk page when you've addressed those points.) I point you at Appeals court gives go-ahead to Falklands War criminal charges, which you might want to translate (or interwiki link if you already have it). Uncle G (talk) 02:36, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Reply to your question about Editor status

Hi, Vitor. Just wanted to let you know I've answered your question on my talk page here. Sorry for the late response, I was away for a while and didn't have an opportunity to check my talk page. Cheers Tempodivalse [talk] 21:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

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23:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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