I'm new here and would like to know if my project could be possible on wikipedia. My goal is to import values from an external web page listing live water flow measurement of various rivers. I've searched à couple of hours now and don't really find what I'm looking for.

here an example of the flow measurement, the value of the first line on the last collumn is the number needed (under flow in m3/s) http://www.cehq.gouv.qc.ca/suivihydro/tableau.asp?NoStation=061024&Zone=Saguenay&Secteur=Kenogami

I think I've found something useful on mediawiki (Extension:External Data) but it seems to works on personnal server, something I'm not planning to use.

Thanks for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.228.220.55 (talk) 02:06, 23 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

WP: Help desk or WP: Village pump are better places for this sort of thing. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:9D03:2DE0:AA61:B599 (talk) 04:36, 23 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Look at this page scan from Wikisource, specifically the "B 2" in the footer. Another Wikisource user called this sort of thing a printing artifact which should not be transcribed. But what is it called and what purpose does it serve? BethNaught (talk) 12:06, 24 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

It's a Signature mark. Nanonic (talk) 12:20, 24 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

The image on that page as it stands is really crap. Can we use the wikisource one instead? _Muffled ^Pocketed 06:35, 28 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

What font is MediaWiki markup in? ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 23:25, 24 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

The literal answer to this question is "whatever font your text editor uses". The markup is what you see in the editing box when you click on "edit", not what it generates. The font you see will depend on your stylesheet - for Monobook and Vector, it's Courier 13 point. See Wiki markup, WP:CSS, WP:MARKUP and WP:TYPE. However, I don't think that this answer is what you're looking for. Tevildo (talk) 01:02, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Tevildo: I actually was looking for the font of the source code itself. Thanks! ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 01:38, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

As Tevildo says, it's not in any font. I suggest you read the introduction to our article on plain text.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 06:08, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Right, but, if you're talking about using a MediaWiki site in a browser, the browser will use a font to display the page source, following the stylesheets if possible. What Tevildo probably meant to ask was, "What is the default font for the MediaWiki edit window?" --71.110.8.102 (talk) 13:48, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I know this borders on a legal topic, but I am just wondering on if I can find a database on global civil cooperation agreements, and am not seeking advice of any sort. Is such a repository available? 27.115.113.102 (talk) 01:35, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

An article about access to information is at Free Access to Law Movement. One of the websites with US focus Worldlii is at http://www.worldlii.org/ , see if that has what you want. Lists of databases with Australian focus at http://canberra.libguides.com/law and http://libguides.anu.edu.au/c.php?g=464979&p=3180103. EU stuff at http://ec.europa.eu/world/agreements/default.home.do , and for UN https://treaties.un.org/ . I am probably totally missing what you want though! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:39, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hello:

I'm trying to date this birthday card, likely printed sometime between the mid 1980s and the early 1990s in the UK. Apart from the maker's mark and the art (neither of which I am expert in and which I have no clue how to even begin to research) there are no contextual clues that are immediately tipping me off. Long shot, maybe, but I would be very grateful if someone could narrow it down to a year or two. Thanks! Evan ^{(talk|contribs)} 10:56, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

One of "Sharpe's Classic Greeting Cards", with the artwork signed by "Robin", printed in England. I have no idea where to go from there. Is that company still in existence? Someguy1221 (talk) 11:06, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

WHAG here but it looks to date from the very early days of supermarkets in the UK, so maybe sometime before 1980? --TammyMoet (talk) 12:28, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

The cartooning style to me looks more like 1950s. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:12, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

One can search Victoria and Albert Museum -- Sharpe's Classic Greeting Card collection online, but your card isn't there:[1] --2606:A000:4C0C:E200:58E2:3708:C2A3:B874 (talk) 16:42, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

I agree that the style is late 50s ~ early 60s -- not mid 80s ~ early 90s. --2606:A000:4C0C:E200:58E2:3708:C2A3:B874 (talk) 17:26, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the help, guys! I received the image from a friend who was born in the late 1970s, so he can't have received the card earlier than the early 1980s, but I agree the art style suggests it's a bit older. It is possible, I guess, that it was given to him by someone who had blank cards stockpiled from decades past. I have relatives who do the same. Evan ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:45, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

In my experience, it's not uncommon for modern greetings cards to use older images and artwork; sometimes with added captions, sometimes not. On the other hand, that particular artist, whose style though not name I recognise, might well have still been active in the 1980s – his 'dated' style was part of the charm, and the typography of the greeting strikes me as more modern that the apparent era of the cartoon. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.123.26.60 (talk) 18:13, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yes, presumably the "Classic" could mean "retro" style. --2606:A000:4C0C:E200:58E2:3708:C2A3:B874 (talk) 18:23, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Sharpe's were bought by Hallmark in 1984 for £21m.[2][3][4] I notice this card has no barcode but does have the price code at the bottom left of the back page. Perhaps if anyone could research which ones were in use in a particular era, we could narrow it down. Nanonic (talk) 18:38, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

That's a good clue, but we can't assume they stopped selling under the name Sharpe's as soon as they were bought by Hallmark. They might have continued operating under the old name for some time after, and/or they might have stocks with the old name on them. StuRat (talk) 03:03, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

What does WHAG mean? Robinh (talk) 21:58, 25 July 2016 (UTC) Reply

Wild half-assed guess. Nanonic (talk) 22:17, 25 July 2016 (UTC) Reply

You could try asking The Cartoon Museum, The Cartoonists Club of GB or the Professional Cartoonists Organisation. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 01:23, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

How is it that a vehicle can consume motor oil (oil is not leaking out) and then sometime later the vehicle maintains its oil level and stops consuming?? 199.19.248.107 (talk) 22:52, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wild-assed guess 1) is an intermittent fault in the Crankcase ventilation system and 2) is you changed the oil to a more viscous sort which is less inclined to leak past the piston rings. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:09, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

WAed guess 3) carbon build-up and/or sludge around the piston rings, that burned off (or became dislodged and ejected). 4) Piston oil-control ring(s) not seated properly, which subsequently become seated ("engine break-in"). 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:807B:66FA:B5EC:A602 (talk) 23:32, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Possibility 5) improved driving skills. Better driving puts less strain on the engine. Wymspen (talk) 07:30, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

5.1) Decreased torque load: not driving uphill as much, or no longer towing trailer, or removing gold bars from trunk. --2606:A000:4C0C:E200:807B:66FA:B5EC:A602 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:14, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

A little oil consumtion is nothing to be worried about. Thats pretty normal, especially for engines that are in use for a few years. But if suddenly an engine that consumed oil "stops" doing it, this could also mean that there is water or gasoline leaking into the oil-system, which is something to be very much worried about. Check the smell and look of the oil. If the oil smells like gasoline, it drips not like honey but water or worst case: it looks like milk-coffee, you should take it to a mechanic asap. Realwackel (talk) 12:41, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Vehicle combustion engines always consume some oil, see Internal combustion engine#Lubrication. The dipstick takes no account of oil that may be resting in the Oil filter and oilways that takes time to drain back to the sump (oil pan). If you had no oil consumption problems when your engine was new and now you have since it’s old then have your engine checked for worn seals and gaskets. Two-stroke engines (rare in vehicles) consume immediately all the oil for lubrication that is mixed with their fuel and causes smokey blue exhaust. Such exhaust coming from a 4-stroke engine indicates an engine fault such as broken piston ring or oil seal. Another rare serious fault is when a faulty head gasket lets coolant leak into the crankcase, so the engine appears to "make" extra oil. AllBestFaith (talk) 12:58, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Oil leaks lead to blue smoke, coolant leaks lead to white smoke[5]. If the exhaust is clear, it may be neither of those. --Jayron32 17:56, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

I have an Admiral fridgerator looking for a gasket for freezer Part # 63001612 Model #ltf2112arw Bold text--Noreejones (talk) 15:36, 26 July 2016 (UTC)--Noreejones (talk) 15:36, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

@Noreejones: This page is only for enquiries related to Wikipedia. Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:38, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Huh? No, it's not! You're confusing the help desk with this one.--TMCk (talk) 16:46, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

• To the OP: Google for it and if you can't find the correct part you could get an universal gasket like this one from ebay.--TMCk (talk) 16:49, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

I don't know if it was spin or what, but I heard people on talk radio saying that because Bernie Sanders only caucused with the Democratic party, rather than being a Democrat, the DNC wasn't obligated to be fair towards him. That could be valid although unappealing. So my question is, are there leaked emails indicating lack of fairness towards Lessig or not? As far as I know, Lessig is a member of the democratic party.144.35.45.91 (talk) 16:09, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

As far as I'm aware the only leaks have been on wikileaks where the emails at least are ordinary text and searchable. So you can easily find yourself that lessig doesn't seem to be mentioned at all [6]. This doesn't rule out misspellings or mentioning Lessig without mentioning his surname or attachments which I'm not sure if wikileaks supports searching at all. But it's also easy to take a random sampling of emails mentioning lawrence where you'll probably find that none of them seem to be referring to Lawrence Lessig [7].

This shouldn't particularly surprising since Lessig withdrew on November 2 which well before the primaries and caucases and less than 2 months after entering the race on September 6. He did not appear in any debates after controversy over the appearance requirement (although was invited to one but dropped out before it happened). (And in case you're wondering about the debates, there seems to be little discussion of them in the email [8] [9]. Remembering of course that people still use face to face communication, letters, phones and maybe even faxes for a fair few official things.) He had even less of an impact than Martin O'Malley [10] [11] [12] who frankly I think even most ardent Democrats will struggle to name. (I.E there was little reason to care that much about whether to be fair to Lessig's campaign.)

Incidentally, although the emails nominally cover the period "January last year until 25 May this year", probably less than 800 of them are from before 2016 [13] [14] [15] [16]. And this is including a bunch where either the email system or wikileaks hasn't properly caught the date as well as those marked as spam. Whether this is because different people were involved who's emails weren't leaked, the emails were missed for some reason, or simply there were few emails at that early stage I don't know.

Nil Einne (talk) 17:29, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

There is no party to be part of. Our system doesn't work like that on a national level. Rmhermen (talk) 17:53, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

I am trying to find the political structure of all elected officials in NYC. For example--- Mayor, Vice Mayor, and so on all the way to the lowest elected office. Can you help, please.

Irving B Levine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.85.204.189 (talk) 16:36, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Start at Government_of_New_York_City and then come back with any other questions not answered. RudolfRed (talk) 16:59, 26 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

I'll be moving house soon. I play electric guitar and sing, and I'd like to be able to practice without disturbing the neighbours, so I'm looking for ideas on soundproofing. Google's not much help - I've found plenty of advice on soundproofing a home studio so no external noise gets in when you're recording, and some on making a room that a whole band, including drummer, can rehearse in, which is more than I need. Anyone have any thoughts, links etc on how to achieve my objective? --Nicknack009 (talk) 10:37, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Start here so you have a basic understanding of Soundproofing. A lot of the materials can be improvised. 196.213.35.146 (talk) 12:14, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

An electric guitar played through Headphones is hardly audible and won't disturb anyone. AllBestFaith (talk) 12:28, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

lol. Still a room in a big room 41.13.200.77 (talk) 21:39, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

That's true. I have an audio interface so I can play my guitar through headphones, or through my PC speakers, which are much better at low volumes than my guitar amp. Reducing the audibility of my singing is more of a problem. Singing quietly doesn't help me practice the kind of techniques I need to use when performing.

One thing occurs to me - I have a lot of books. Would a bookcase along the party wall, full of books, provide any useful soundproofing? --Nicknack009 (talk) 12:35, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

See Soundproofing#Absorption. Solid dense materials - like books - will actually transmit sound quite well - especially if the bookcase is against the wall. It may work if you used it as one of the walls in a (edit) room within a room - acoustic decoupling. 196.213.35.146 (talk) 12:49, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

You could try something like this http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=338869 It is kinda a "rwar". Like I said above - you could improvise something like that with material from Lowe's or the like. I don't know who lives above/below you but I understand you share a wall with someone. So "the vibration passes directly through the brick, woodwork and other solid structural elements." It's not so much what to do but more what not to do. Mitigate the transmission depending on your setup. The poster aka 196.213.35.146 41.13.216.144 (talk) 18:05, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yep, to decrease structural transmission, OP can get the amp off the floor. I've seen some people hang their amps from the ceiling, but that can be tricky, depending on the size. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:22, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Check with an upholsterer or even furniture makers in your area, you might be able to get free foam scraps. Soundproofing foam can get expensive quickly [17]. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:22, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

If they don't have to give gold when they are given bucks, then why do they have to maintain so much gold? HOTmag (talk) 21:15, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

The US hasn't been on the Gold standard for quite some time and hasn't had to issue gold to other central banks in exchange for dollars since 1971 (see Nixon shock). US currency is a fiat currency, backed solely by the full faith and credit of the United States government. As for your second question, the simple answer is: to help maintain world confidence in said "full faith and credit of the US government" (see Fractional-reserve banking).--William Thweatt ^TalkContribs 21:37, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

I agree with WT's answers, but it should be emphasized that the gold standard and fractional reserve banking are entirely different beasts. μηδείς (talk) 22:15, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Indeed. The fractional reserve banking link was given as more of a "see also", informational link for a simple-answer analogy (store of value and gold reserve are also instructive). A more complete answer would be complicated and would have started by pointing out that the Fed doesn't "maintain so much gold" at all -- in fact, they don't own any gold.[18] The US gold reserve is owned by the US Treasury and the Fed acts as custodian for a very small portion of it.--William Thweatt ^TalkContribs 22:37, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

a fiat currency, backed solely by the full faith and credit of the United States government. What, if anything, does that mean? What claim does the currency represent? What does USG promise to do? —Tamfang (talk) 06:19, 28 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

1. Keep the value steady (with some inflation because it raises employment I think) 2. Let you pay taxes with it. That's about it I think. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 07:55, 28 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Are there any human physical features that could be described as 'Primative', regardless of whether that individual is white, black, indigenous etc racially? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.248.73 (talk) 08:39, 28 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Reduction of the muzzle in the adult (flat-facedness) is a feature all humans share but do not have in common with other (adult) primates. It's better to speak of an autapomorphy then a primitive trait, though, since you are always defining these things relative to a group of interest and its sister groups. In this case, flatfacedness is a neoteny, and again there is a possible confusion engendered by the term "primitive". If all of this is too much jargon: we humans have nu muzzles (and big noses) and that is one thing that sets us apart from the Great Apes.137.205.183.31 (talk) 10:08, 28 July 2016 (UTC)Reply