User:Matthall

Matt Hall

I am a geoscientist in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Send me an email or visit my SEG profile.

Tips and tricks and random things in my Sandbox.

Subpages

• Matthall/2013/April/11
• Matthall/2013/April/12
• Matthall/Article conversion
• Matthall/Bot jobs
• Matthall/Common.css
• Matthall/Focusing analysis
• Matthall/Principles of dip moveout correction
• Matthall/vector.css

List of things to do

• Keep up with SEGWiki:Proposed projects
• Do I already have a list of things to implement at the next upgrade?
• There are companies in Category:Biographies, but probably shouldn't be
• There is no link to the User page (eg User:Matthall) in the top bar, and the My Wiki link does not work
• Category:Pages with unformatted equations
• Bot ideas — see Bot jobs
• Scrape biographies from SEG Virtual Museum and convert them to wikitext — web pages are open, so don't have to log in. — John S has basically done this.
• Parse references page, create a database, then crawl the wiki and replace references with <ref> tags

Notes about the wiki

• We need some basic CSS in MediaWiki:Common.css
• The HTML character substitution is a bit confusing. Causes problems linking to, for example, Dictionary:Archie’s_formulas, because Dictionary:Archie's formulas doesn't work. We could redirect them.
• Allowing SVG would be useful
• We should redirect things like Dictionary:AVO instead of forcing a second click.
• The skyscraper ads are in the way of right-justified (the default) thumbnails, so everything seems to have to be centered (left-justified thumbs cause problems with lists and headings)
• Changing DISPLAYTITLE all the time is probably not a great idea
• We need a bit of protocol around how much the Encyclopedia can change, vs how much of the change should just go into the Main namespace. Dictionary:AVO is a case in point.