User talk:Johan G

Swedish

Hi Johan,

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.

Cheers, Gijs 08:36, 3 July 2011 (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). Johan G 08:43, 3 July 2011 (EDT)

Don't be a stranger.

Jag hoppas att du kommer tillbaka snart. —This unsigned comment was added by PH-JBO (Talk | contribs) 11:45, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for hoping for my return. Den som väntar på något gott... In other words, I'm back. Johan G 09:59, 5 December 2011 (EST)

Du är inte ensam. Välkommen tillbaka! PH-JBO 07:28, 6 December 2011 (EST)

Test

A short thest to see if a new section added with the "+" tab is appended to the bottom of the page. Johan G 07:32, 9 February 2012 (EST)

Discussing new main page/portals

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 ;) You'll find me in #wiki@irc.flightgear.org

Cheers, Gijs 12:27, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Hi, I should be in #wiki now as Johan_G. This will bee interesting. I have not used IRC before, and last time I watched it over someones shoulder was in 1999 1998!

—Johan G (Talk | contribs) 14:52, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Infobox aircraft changes

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 [1]), 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 --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.

—Johan G (Talk | contribs) 18:08, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes/no template

Hi Johan,

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 ;-)

Cheers, 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.

—Johan G (Talk | contribs) 11:51, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Made the colours quite a bit stronger, but black text should still be readable in the cells.

—Johan G (Talk | 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 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.--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.

—Johan G (Talk | 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. --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.)

—Johan G (Talk | 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. --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 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.

—Johan G (Talk | contribs) 19:30, 10 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. 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).

—Johan G (Talk | contribs) 19:40, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks! Daemonburrito (talk) 23:04, 10 May 2014 (UTC)