User:Bshirley

A Texan Computer Scientist living and working in Houston, Texas.

@bshirley on twitter

I would love to see Extension:SandboxLink added to the wiki, so I wouldn't have to use this page for my personal sandbox.

Contributions

• transcribed Science or Fiction on SGU_Episode_581
• updated functionality and documentation of templates
  • Template:Google_speech
  • (experimental, in progress) Template:Editing_needed
  • created Template:MessageBox, based on others

I have been adding templates to the Templates category, they are all sub categorized which makes them harder to discover. I think categorizing them all improves that. Some of them are not editable by me, however. So here's the list I'm keeping for myself of those.

• Template:W - wikipedia link creator
• Template:5X5_infobox
• Template:InfoBox - info box for episode
• Template:Numerical_titles

Template Reference

• wikimedia/Help:Advanced_templates
• mediawiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
• wikipedia/Help:Template

FYI

Friday 5 December 2025

Local time is wrong - 06:25

• we're on WikiMedia Version 1.43.5
• user count: 420
• admin count: 4
• active count: 2
• number of articles: 1,179

Desirable Template

For suggested placement at the end of the Science or Fiction section.

After investigation, I suspect this is desirable to implement as an extension. I plan on installing a local wiki and working on that.

{{SOFResults
|episode=581
|host=Steve <!--- asker of the questions --->
|topic1=whiskers <!--- short word or phrase representing the item --->
|topic2=chimpanzees
|topic3=coma
|fiction=whiskers
|topc4=
|rogue1=Bob <!--- rogues in order of response --->
|answer1=whiskers <!--- guess, using one of the topic's names --->
|rogue2=Jay
|answer2=whiskers
|rogue3=Evan
|answer3=whiskers
|rogue4=Cara
|answer4=whiskers
}}

Would output something like:

Science or Fiction (581)
Steve	crushed
Bob	whiskers
Jay	whiskers
Evan	whiskers
Cara	whiskers
other topics
chimpanzees
coma

Suggested colorings:

Host Colorings
swept	#ccffcc	all the rogues guessed one of the incorrect items
scattered	#ccccff	each item was guessed at least once (Steve's preferred result)
mixed	#ffffcc	some wrong, some right
crushed	#ffcccc	all the rogues guessed the correct answer
Rogue Colorings
correct	#ccffcc	correctly selected the fiction item
incorrect	#ffcccc	selected one of the science items

Template Output

<!--- SOFResults template output --->
{|class="wikitable"
!colspan=2|{{anchorencode:SOFResults}}Science or Fiction ({{episode}})
|-
!style="background-color:{{color0}}"|{{host}}
|style="background-color:{{color0}}"|{{host_result}}
|-
!style="background-color:{{color1}}"|{{rogue1}}
|style="background-color:{{color1}}"|{{answer1}}
|-
!style="background-color:{{color2}}"|{{rogue2}}
|style="background-color:{{color2}}"|{{answer2}}
|-
!style="background-color:{{color3}}"|{{rogue3}}
|style="background-color:{{color3}}"|{{answer3}}
|-
!style="background-color:{{color4}}"|{{rogue4}}
|style="background-color:{{color4}}"|{{answer4}}
|-
!colspan=2|other topics
|-
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center"|{{topic2}}
|-
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center"|{{topic3}}
|}
<!--- end SOFResults --->