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unlock the front page :-( ... everyone put it on your watchlist, turn email changes on in your prefs ... use the wiki way instead of the old way. Countrymike 06:56, 3 September 2007 (NZST)

the email link on this page is bouncing back messages Counting The Beat

Thanks Counting - I'll get onto finding out why ASAP Bruced 15:22, 11 September 2007 (NZST)

Waiheke political history

Anyone want to write/contribute to a political history of Waiheke, the workings of the former County Council, amalgamation and further issues?

I can suggest a few for sure, Dr Vexation , Tihare , Scuttlefish , and of course a man who is an absolute passionate flamin' expert on the topic, the venerable Hackademic, and of course for a spot of wiki discours I'd chat with Countrymike. Bruced 21:22, 18 September 2007 (NZST)

See Political History for a start Bruced 21:29, 18 September 2007 (NZST)

Waiheke blogs

Can we have a listing/linking of blogs written by Waihekeans?

Good idea. I've created a blogs page - just add any you know of. hackademic 11:57, 20 September 2007 (NZST)

Except Bruce beat me to it! hackademic

Heehehehehee it's called Blogs Bruced

And beat you to a homepage news item tsk tsk old man !! Bruced

Flashing Weather Graphic

Um...it was kind of ok for a while .. but now it's just annoying. It's kind of one of the early rules of web design - not to have too many flashing things around when people are trying to read ... not to mention that I don't know what a kts is or a NW 115, and every page? theres a link to the weather which should be enough, eh? Countrymike 14:02, 21 September 2007 (NZST)

Geee where did it go? ... that annoying weather thing ? CountryMike I cant agree that there was too many flashing things on the page because the weather thing was the only flashing thing on an otherwise static page so I think the "early rules of web design" argument doesnt stand - have removed it anyhow - it was ugly and it's mother had dressed it funny !! Bruced

Well... anything flashing on a page reminds me of an ad. Don't mind it if it's on the "weather" page, but it had ursurped it's place in society and was becoming an annoying child poking its flashiness in on every page. Countrymike 11:19, 5 October 2007 (NZST)

We've fixed it's little red wagon now !!!! Bruced

Editing/Formatting Question

Hi, I have a question around firefox... which is what I use mostly. It seems that firefox displays pages differently to IE. I get a page looking ok with firefax then when it gets "tidied up" using IE, firfox ends up a mess... Is there something obvious I should know.

Not sure that I know what you mean. Do you have an example page that has been messed up? Countrymike 11:45, 8 October 2007 (NZDT)

I have just been testing it here at work.. its all fine with Firefox here, At home I have photos on top of others and things like , you have to edit and move pictures way down the page to get it looking ok... maybe its a caching thing.. odd.

Image handling in MediaWiki leaves a bit to be desired and it's often the case where things can overlap etc. One trick that I've used quite a lot is to add this syntax <br style="clear:both;" /> underneath the image or the paragraph that is covered over. Oh, and if you can sign your posts in these Talk pages then I won't think that I'm talking to a computer. Sign a post using 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~ or use the signature image on the toolbar (second one from the right). Countrymike 15:17, 8 October 2007 (NZDT)

Googled Maps API changed

Unfortunately exactly one day after I had created the Maps category and worked on all the maps on this site Google has revoked support for the way the gmap tags works on this site: Discussion about the issue This is the message displayed in the Error Console:

Error: G_MAP_TYPE is not defined
Sourcefile: http://www.waihekepedia.com/index.php?title=Map
Line: 42

Fortunately the discussion above also contains what has to be done to get things running again. Could one of the site admins please get active ...

I'll take a look at it but i'm away on holiday at the moment so will have to wait until next week. Countrymike 09:33, 30 October 2008 (NZDT)

I'm offering to help how could I get in touch? Wolfgang 07 November 2008

Wolfgang: actually there's nothing that I can do as I don't have access to the server or the code. Looks like we need to change the code on the extension to get this working again. I'll try to have a chat with User:Tihare to see if we can fix this. There has been talk of upgrading the mediawiki to the latest version but not completely sure when this will happen. Countrymike 10:10, 11 November 2008 (NZDT)