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[edit]File I uploaded but cannot find
[edit]I uploaded a picture and did not use it right away. I had wikipedia open in two separate browsers, one of which had the picture links and the other of which had the articles I was uploading into.
I closed the picture links browser and later found the article I wanted to upload the picture into but I can no longer find the link. I have previously tried to upload the same picture twice and had it rejected as a duplicate.
I would like to find the link to the other picture. I have tried looking in my uploads and contributions and it does not appear since I did not actually copy the link into an article. What can be done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Feddacheenee (talk • contribs) 01:13, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
- The upload log doesn't depend on the file being used. Many files are uploaded to Commons which has separate logs from the English Wikipedia. Is it shown at commons:Special:Contributions/Feddacheenee? PrimeHunter (talk) 01:36, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
- The warning messages on both Wikipedia and Commons provide a link to the file that is being duplicated or overwritten. You should be able to find the file from that. SpinningSpark 12:21, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
I found them, thank you for your help. Feddacheenee (talk) 15:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Search within articles belonging to a WikiProject
[edit]Is there any way to search within articles belonging to a particular WikiProject? For example, could I find all articles containing the word "stem" whose talk pages belong to Category:WikiProject Fungi articles? (CatScan doesn't seem to search for text strings, and also handles articles separately to their talk pages.) Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 02:06, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
- I could do this for you with AWB, but I hope someone comes up with a better answer. AWB can create or import a list of the 10K articles in the category; and using the AWB database scanner I could create a list of the 25K articles that mentioned the word "stem", as of April 2nd, the date of my downloaded database dump; and AWB has a tool that can intersect two lists. Messy! -- John of Reading (talk) 08:16, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
- The problem here is that the pages you are trying to search are not actually in the Wikiproject category (it is the talk page that is in the category) so no search string is going to work. You can search based on a category that is in the article. The search stem incategory:fungi seems to work, but it does not include the subcategories so each one would have to be searched separately. SpinningSpark 12:08, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks for the replies. John – no need to go to that much effort, as I've come up with an easy way to generate a list that's close enough to what I was looking for: searching stem gills cap, "gills" and "cap" being descriptive terms that would usually be present in fungus articles containing the word "stem". Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 23:21, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- @Adrian J. Hunter:. Two pieces of information: firstly, there is already a bug open on this at Bugzilla but with no sign of anything happening on it. Secondly, Commons has a gadget FastCCI which does something similar. It might be worth asking at WP:VPT how easy it would be to adapt this for Wikipedia. SpinningSpark 18:20, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks for the replies. John – no need to go to that much effort, as I've come up with an easy way to generate a list that's close enough to what I was looking for: searching stem gills cap, "gills" and "cap" being descriptive terms that would usually be present in fungus articles containing the word "stem". Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 23:21, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- The problem here is that the pages you are trying to search are not actually in the Wikiproject category (it is the talk page that is in the category) so no search string is going to work. You can search based on a category that is in the article. The search stem incategory:fungi seems to work, but it does not include the subcategories so each one would have to be searched separately. SpinningSpark 12:08, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
How to expand?
[edit]Hi, can somebody point out to me how to expand, the bottom template, Atmospheric, oceanographic and climate models at General Circulation Model, thanks. prokaryotes (talk) 07:18, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
- I have edited the template so that the "state" parameter now works. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:51, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thank You, John prokaryotes (talk) 09:32, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
iron maiden album cover art work
[edit]I realize that I may be out of my element, but would love to see a page developed for the illustrations of Iron Maiden's albums. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.6.49.131 (talk) 12:01, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
mistake in list of activated military aircrafts of india
[edit]List of active Indian military aircraft (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
hi sir,
IN HELICOPTER SECTION INDIA HAS ALSO GOT 22 AH 64 APACHE HELICOPTERS PLEASE DO WRITE IT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harsaxena (talk •