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== Swedish ==
{{Archives|[[/Archive 2011-2015|2011-2015]]}}
Hi Johan,
{{Welcome to the wiki|name=Johan|added-by=Johan G}}{{-}}


thanks for starting translating articles to Swedish! Unfortunately, the wiki admin has to "add" this language to the system (therefore adding [[sv:Article]] does not work as of now). I've immediately asked him to do so, but it might take a while. In the meantime you can continue translating articles, it's just the linking that doesn't work.
== Newsletter drafts ==
Hi Johan. Would it be possible for you to create the "draft" newsletters up to December? Not sure of the exact format, don't want to mess things up ;)
[[User:Legoboyvdlp|Legoboyvdlp]] ([[User talk:Legoboyvdlp|talk]]) 08:22, 25 October 2017 (EDT)


Cheers,
: With a bit of luck I could give it a try tomorrow.
[[User:Gijs|Gijs]] 08:36, 3 July 2011 (EDT)
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 12:36, 28 October 2017 (EDT)


:Ah, that explains why the language link doesn't seem to work. Thank you! I sent him a mail as well. Well, at least I can continue (in a slow pace). [[User:Johan G|Johan G]] 08:43, 3 July 2011 (EDT)
:: Sorry for my delays.  At some point (probably some weekend) I aim to implement what have been [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_wiki:Village_pump&oldid=111694 discussed at the Village Pump recently] regarding using preloaded pages.  In essence making a single click link to create a draft of the next newsletter. (Unless someone is quicker on that than me...)


== Don't be a stranger. ==
:: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 16:40, 5 November 2017 (EST)
Jag hoppas att du kommer tillbaka snart. {{Unsigned2|11:45, 11 October 2011|PH-JBO}}


:Thank you for hoping for my return. Den som väntar på något gott... ''In other words, I'm back.'' [[User:Johan G|Johan G]] 09:59, 5 December 2011 (EST)
:: An early newsletter template draft is now available in my sandbox.
::Du är inte ensam. Välkommen tillbaka! [[User:PH-JBO|PH-JBO]] 07:28, 6 December 2011 (EST)
:: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 07:08, 11 November 2017 (EST)


== Test ==
== Progress bar and icons ==
A short thest to see if a new section added with the "+" tab is appended to the bottom of the page. [[User:Johan G|Johan G]] 07:32, 9 February 2012 (EST)


== Discussing new main page/portals ==
Hi Johan.  I was wondering if you could upload a new set of [[:Category:Progress icons|progress bar icons]]?  Half of the current set have been lost from the wiki backend, so scaled icons are broken.  See {{tl|progressbar}} where a number of these graphics are shown as the text: '''Error creating thumbnail: File missing'''.  For two of these, I have manually recreated bitmap versions.  Maybe it would be good to upload the SVG originals?  I have been using scaled versions of these via the {{tl|progressbar}} template for the [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Translation_requests&oldid=113443 current version of the translation requests page].  For better table packing, I am wondering if we should introduce a {{param|vertical}} parameter for this template and have a full set of vertical icons, as a copy of your progress icons rotated 90 degrees.
Hi,


would be nice if you could come on [[IRC]] this week. I'd like to discuss the new main page/portals that I've been working on ;)
[[User:Bugman|Bugman]] ([[User talk:Bugman|talk]]) 12:02, 29 December 2017 (EST)
You'll find me in [irc://#wiki@irc.flightgear.org #wiki@irc.flightgear.org]


Cheers,
[[User:Gijs|Gijs]] 12:27, 19 March 2012 (EDT)


: Hi, I should be in #wiki now as Johan_GThis will bee interestingI have not used IRC before, and last time I watched it over someones shoulder was in <s>1999</s> 1998!
: I feel I need to apologize for not doing this literally years agoI have finally gotten around to reupload these particular missing filesIt seems likely that they have been missing ever since the wiki crashed when the ISP migrated the wiki's virtual server to new hardware back in late January 2015 (see the forum topic [https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=25209 wiki.flightgear.org scheduled downtime] for the details.)
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 14:52, 19 March 2012 (EDT)


== Infobox aircraft changes ==
: As for vertical ones, I am not there yet, but I think just turning them vertical would make them nearly unreadable. I have some ideas, but is as often slow to implement them.
I thought, I'd better get in touch with the only wikimedia template guru that I know :-) I just added a handful of meta categories (inspired by [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=21431#p195109]), and now want to extend the infobox accordingly, including images for each supported features, see: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Template_talk:Infobox_aircraft Any ideas/preference how to implement this best? Images will probably be contributed by Michat. Thanks --[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 18:33, 30 November 2013 (UTC)


:It is low on my to-do list, but see my answer at [[Template talk:Infobox aircraft]].
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 09:27, 19 May 2018 (EDT)
:—[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 18:08, 1 December 2013 (UTC)


== Yes/no template ==


Hi Johan,
: Have done a test with vertical ones. Even reading out 20% steps is hard in normal running text. 1/3rds maybe are possible.  Could probably be better to have a compact 20%-step version of the horizontal one instead.


the yes/no template doesn't seem to work well on [[Photoscenery]], everything says "yes" now. Another issue is that the 1m/pixel text is no longer centered, as if it only applies to "texture materials", while it's supposed to cover "3D model" as well. And to be honest, I prefer the more pronounced colours that we had before... I'm all in for a yes/no template though, don't get me wrong ;-)
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 11:24, 19 May 2018 (EDT)
 
Cheers,
[[User:Gijs|Gijs]] ([[User talk:Gijs|talk]]) 11:43, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 
: Oops. I was updating the templates to be able to handle adding xhtml attributes and one the edits accidentally had "Yes instead of "No".  Should already work as expected by now.
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 11:51, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 
: Made the colours quite a bit stronger, but black text should still be readable in the cells.
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 12:20, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 
== Thanks for appreciating ==
Hi, thanks for appreciating [[Howto:Convert objects with ModelConverterX]]. I recently posted a howto on [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22851 georeferencing OSM in WED], let me know if that could be added somewhere in the wiki, I'd be glad to, but I'm not sure if it's useful outside of Italy.--[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 22:38, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 
:You are very welcome. :-)
:About the howto, it could probably fit really well as an article on the wiki.  My only concern there is using Google to check the taxiways.  I am not sure or not that it is relevant, but Google's terms of use do not allow derivative works.  Licenses can be a problem sometimes, and I am completely ignorant when it comes to Italian legislation on intellectual property, but I assume that most sources are copyrighted more or less automatically, but that there might be a few sources with less restrictive licenses.
:—[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 19:30, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
:: I see. Well, in Italy (see elgaton's answer) we're allowed to trace over some nice aerial images in OSM, but that's all, so we have to go through OSM and its limitations (i.e. no Bezier). I can substitute that part with just a warning to check by other means what angles should be rounded, or suggest to make rounded corners stand out in OSM with more points. However blurry is the border with Google, I guess it could be considered as "getting the coordinates"* of rounded corners (*I've read it's considered ok here).
::It jumps to my mind that Bing has allowed use of its aerial images for OSM tracing - worldwide. They have a good detail but are not very precise, yet that's something a mapper can fix. I guess this changes the usefulness of the howto :D Let me know if there's a particular page/category where I can put this. --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 13:43, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
:::The juridical stuff can be a problematic at times. ;-)
:::A fitting category would be [[:Category:Scenery enhancement]] I think.
:::(On a side note that category page have turned into an article over time, which looks messy and wont turn up in a regular wiki search using the search box.)
:::—[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 14:03, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 
== A FlightGear help category ==
 
Today [[Unexpected Crashes with Scenery ver.2]] was added to [[:Category:Help]]. There's lack indeed of a FlightGear help category (into FlightGear of course). That sounds like a good name (place), but I won't add it until I know your opinion.
--[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 13:49, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 
: Ah, thanks for asking.  There is indeed lack of a FlightGear help category, but I'll get to that.  The help category seem to only have contained pages in the help namespace, i.e. articles with help about using the wiki (i think that category page even states that).
 
: As for the FlightGear help pages, I have actually never really figured out if there originally was some kind of thought through structure there or if the whole thing was a bit haphazard turned into ad hoc.  I.e. I have never really grasped how to use them in an intuitive way (for both me, other editors and the readers).  There is a lot of categories that slightly overlap or are slightly vague, which does not help when trying to find articles or even categories.  I think a lot of that mess should be discussed on the [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump|village pump]].
 
: In addition there are lots of annoying little technicalities, like that the search box auto-complete function is case sensitive and that some editors are very much into Camel Case Titles, something for example Wikipedia is recommending their editors to avoid.  Speaking of that, the wiki could need a style guide, but that would take some extra maintenance to enforce.
 
: To be honest have been secretly wishing that you might be into trying to figure out a better structure and better category names, specially for the FlightGear related stuff.  I have thought about it and figured that I would wish it would be better... but doesn't feel up to it.  I spent most of my categorisation efforts on templates and images, unless pages was uncategorised.
 
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 19:30, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 
:: Heh, and you picked your "dupe" very wisely. Your last phrase in parentheses, in the above topic, is the main reason for me being here. I'll definitely try that when I get more confidence. However there's a lot of automatable stuff, some of which should be done before to ease that part. Some I pointed out in the [[User talk:Bigstones/Essay:A plan for a reorganization of the wiki#Bot proposal (request?)|other discussion]], one is that of recategorizing other languages, one is fixing camel case (like for spaces with Howto). Much more might come out.
:: --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 00:49, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 
:: edit -- see [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump#Category:Support]] --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 14:48, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 
::: Good move. The more eyes, the better. :-)
:::—[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 21:10, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 
== Updated compile guide ==
 
[[User:Daemonburrito/Building FlightGear - Linux]]
 
Hello, Johan. As promised, a completely reworked compile guide. It makes a nice, clean, and safe environment. And it ''works''!
 
But it is a pretty big change to drop in there, so I'm leaving it on my user page for comments for a bit. Let me know what you think. [[User:Daemonburrito|Daemonburrito]] ([[User talk:Daemonburrito|talk]]) 17:06, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 
: I am not really the right person to review it, except for copy editing (i.e. style/wiki markup) if that would be needed.  In this case I think it might be better to mention it on the forum.  I have very little experience with Linux, and on top of that it was quite some time ago (Red hat Linux, kernel 2.2 etc. on a ''way'' to weak box).
 
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 19:40, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 
:: Will do. Thanks! [[User:Daemonburrito|Daemonburrito]] ([[User talk:Daemonburrito|talk]]) 23:04, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 
== On reorganization of [[:Category:Troubleshooting]] ==
 
Hi Johan, I hope I was not too messy yesterday. I'm sure I never broke a link, and neither lost any information (a huge amount was duplicated), although I also rewrote some parts. Actually, 2-3 redirects are still around only because I couldn't edit some Japanese/Chinese pages. The two deletions you postponed:
* [[Howto:Improve framerates]] - I didn't delete the content just to save one edit, but I did actually already move everything.
* [[Intel GMA cards]] - I've found that page by chance, and it wasn't referenced anywhere. The information it contains is already in the same place where I moved the forum ref.
I hope this can help for a future review. Also, in case you want to review my future plans, I wrote them in my user page.
 
--[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 10:43, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 
:: I think I may have been messier.  In retrospect I might should have left the redirects for those that by habit look for those article titles when troubleshooting.  Also a lot of posts on the forum point to those.  I will probably restore those and try point them towards suitable pages.
 
:: That said, I think you have done a great job separating the information aimed at developers from the one aimed at users.  It kind of makes me wonder why no one thought of that before.
 
:: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 23:59, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 
::: Let me know if I can help with redirects...
::: --[[User:Bigstones|Bigstones]] ([[User talk:Bigstones|talk]]) 19:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
 
== DDS article moved ... ==
 
Not sure if you have been followin the discussion on the devel list or if I misunderstood something, but I don't think it's necessarily specific to just terrain textures ? Anyway, please keep the redirect either way because Thorsten already posted a link using the old name. So while the current name is definitely better, we should probably ensure that all links keep on working, while the website/forum can be updated, the devel archives cannot ... --[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 23:28, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 
: Ah, my misunderstanding.  Terrain textures was specifically mentioned in one of the sections/quotes so I thought it was about that specifically.  I will move it to [[Switching default texture format to DDS]] instead.
 
: As for keeping the redirect, I am more cautious about deleting them due to some to eager deletions I have done in the past...
 
: Thanks for the heads up.
 
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 23:40, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 
== Improvements and cleaning of Wiki pages ==
 
Hi Johan_G! You seem to be very popular and loved. I'm here to thank you for your work on cleaning the article about the Mulhouse airport. I really like how it's cleaner and the templates, you seem to be good at it. I really don't have that much of an idea. Also cool that you're an admin. I may not be very popular and appear irregularly, but I do my best to help the wiki (also notice the problems I have with Flightgear in my User page, you may pass by and leave a message, it's so empty :'( ). Yet there are some issues remaining I'd like to discuss on the new entry at [[Talk:EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg]]. I guess that's all for now
 
[[User:Thefan|Thefan630]] ([[User talk:Thefan|talk]]) 10:00, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

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Newsletter drafts

Hi Johan. Would it be possible for you to create the "draft" newsletters up to December? Not sure of the exact format, don't want to mess things up ;) Legoboyvdlp (talk) 08:22, 25 October 2017 (EDT)

With a bit of luck I could give it a try tomorrow.
Johan G (Talk | contribs) 12:36, 28 October 2017 (EDT)
Sorry for my delays. At some point (probably some weekend) I aim to implement what have been discussed at the Village Pump recently regarding using preloaded pages. In essence making a single click link to create a draft of the next newsletter. (Unless someone is quicker on that than me...)
Johan G (Talk | contribs) 16:40, 5 November 2017 (EST)
An early newsletter template draft is now available in my sandbox.
Johan G (Talk | contribs) 07:08, 11 November 2017 (EST)

Progress bar and icons

Hi Johan. I was wondering if you could upload a new set of progress bar icons? Half of the current set have been lost from the wiki backend, so scaled icons are broken. See {{progressbar}} where a number of these graphics are shown as the text: Error creating thumbnail: File missing. For two of these, I have manually recreated bitmap versions. Maybe it would be good to upload the SVG originals? I have been using scaled versions of these via the {{progressbar}} template for the current version of the translation requests page. For better table packing, I am wondering if we should introduce a vertical parameter for this template and have a full set of vertical icons, as a copy of your progress icons rotated 90 degrees.

Bugman (talk) 12:02, 29 December 2017 (EST)


I feel I need to apologize for not doing this literally years ago. I have finally gotten around to reupload these particular missing files. It seems likely that they have been missing ever since the wiki crashed when the ISP migrated the wiki's virtual server to new hardware back in late January 2015 (see the forum topic wiki.flightgear.org scheduled downtime for the details.)
As for vertical ones, I am not there yet, but I think just turning them vertical would make them nearly unreadable. I have some ideas, but is as often slow to implement them.
Johan G (Talk | contribs) 09:27, 19 May 2018 (EDT)


Have done a test with vertical ones. Even reading out 20% steps is hard in normal running text. 1/3rds maybe are possible. Could probably be better to have a compact 20%-step version of the horizontal one instead.
Johan G (Talk | contribs) 11:24, 19 May 2018 (EDT)