User talk:Magda

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Welcome, Magda. Thanks for your contributions! -FrJohn 20:37, 24 Nov 2004 (CST)

Account for your husband

You said: "Also, do you have any advice on getting him to sign up for an account?"

Uh, well... you know your husband better than I.  :) Maybe offer him piftia or salad de bef? You could mention that one of his fellow seminarians is on OrthodoxWiki, too: Dcn. Matthew Thurman. --Rdr. Andrew 08:45, 23 Feb 2005 (CST)


Triodion Stuff

Hello Magda! The characterization of the week after the Publican and Pharisee as "the first week of the Triodion" is certainly correct and commonly heard. In your comments on my user talk page, I think (a) and (b) are spot on. I've never heard the pre-Lenten weeks of preparation referred to as the "Triodion". I've only ever heard them referred to as the pre-Lenten weeks of preparation or, in short-hand, pre-Lent.DcnDavid 09:29, 23 Feb 2005 (CST)

Events

At the end of the list of feasts, put a period and then Other events: etc. I'll note this in OrthodoxWiki:Help wanted. --Rdr. Andrew 20:59, 25 Feb 2005 (CST)

Titles

I noticed that you were making links for the various saint titles (e.g., Righteous, God-bearing, Venerable, etc.). Do you think we really need separate articles for each of these titles? Saint commemorations already covers some of this sort of thing, no? --Rdr. Andrew 19:40, 26 Feb 2005 (CST)

Follow-up: How about if we create a single article called Saint titles to which these various titles can have redirect links? I do think it would be useful to have an article which explains them.

Regarding the style for the Church Calendar commemorations: I think it would get cumbersome to use the full versions found in Saint commemorations. There seems to be a terser style characteristic of synaxaria and menaia. I don't think we intend for there to be a single menaion that we're using here, but rather a sort of combined menaion with differences noted in parentheses where the custom varies. The one I've been using happens to be the one found in the back of the Antiochian Liturgikon, though I've added in a few extras here and there. --Rdr. Andrew 21:38, 26 Feb 2005 (CST)

Category links

To link to a category without making the current page in that category, use this form:

[[:Category:Categoryname]]

--Rdr. Andrew 21:38, 27 Feb 2005 (CST)

Sysop

Hi Magda, I hope you don't mind but I've made you a sysop. Thanks for your work here, Fr. John

Disambiguation

Hi, Magda. I don't think it's necessary to have a disambiguation page except for saints with extremely common names (e.g., John, Basil, etc.), and then just make a page with a name like this Basil (disambiguation). I don't think there's a need to link all the individual sainted Basils (or whomever) back to the disambiguation page. I do think it would be best to have disambiguation pages include "(disambiguation)" in the article name, though. There are some people where you wouldn't want to have the bare name article be a disambig. page, such as Jesus (though one theoretically could, since we have people like Jesus of Navi, i.e., the Prophet Joshua).

I agree that it is hard to figure out what to call article names sometimes. Ideally, you'd use whatever you might see on an icon, but of course we probably don't have icons sitting in front of us for a lot of these folks. I'd advise you to do the best you can, and then where you discover potential conflicts, find some way of sorting them out for each situation. --Rdr. Andrew 07:59, 1 Mar 2005 (CST)

Iakovos

I added links as you suggested. Thanks! --Rdr. Andrew 17:32, 14 Apr 2005 (CDT)

Link buttons

Hi Magda,

Well, something like that. I think what you've got is a decent first rought attempt. There are standard sizes for link banners, as well as for simple small-size buttons. There's lots of sites that talk abotu this - here's one I came across in a quick search - one standard size, e.g., is 486 x 60. I'm also thinking of smaller buttons, like many blogs have - see e.g. the very bottom of raphael.doxos.com. Thanks1 Fr. John


That's good Magda, I like that one - please do link to it or post a link for it on a link buttons page. About the image - it's pretty generic... I stole it off the web from somewhere, but it's a very common Orthodox symbol, so I don't imagine copyright would apply. Fr. John

Image question

I'm not really clear on what you're asking. Do you want to be able to make an image smaller without having a caption below it but still having an "alternate text" show up when the mouse hovers over it? What do you want to be different in the Isidore of Chios example? --[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!)]] 12:42, 14 May 2005 (CDT)

I just added a size specification to the Isidore of Chios page, and it not only obeyed my size stipulation but also shows the caption. Is that what you want? --[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!)]] 06:53, 15 May 2005 (CDT)
The only part that seems to be affected by order is that the last element becomes the caption or alt-text (i.e., what gets shown when you float your mouse over the pic).
I think the element that's causing your headache may well be the
portion of the template. I don't know how the voodoo for that works, though. Something about it doesn't want a frame/thumb around the pic. Are you trying to get the caption to appear below the images in the date templates? (If so, why?) --[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!)]] 16:48, 17 May 2005 (CDT)