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== Link to specific message on message board? == |
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Thank you for any help you can give me. I'm a librarian trying to help a student, but I'm a bit stumped on this one. The student is wondering about creating a link to a specific part of a message board so people don't have to dig through potentially thousands of other messages to get there. Since I'm not an expert on this, I was looking for some here. For more context, here is what he was asking: |
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"I am having trouble making clickable url links that, when my readers click on them, do not take them to a whole message board, causing my readers to hunt through a bewildering array of messages before they can get to one I am referencing. Rather, I would like to make clickable url links that take my readers to a specific post on, say, a message board, or, perhaps, a post on a chain of social media posts. This would make things a whole lot easier on my readers. I have tried to figure out ways to do this myself, but have been unsuccessful so far. What do you think? Is it possible to set up a url link in a reference list that takes one's readers to a specific post on a message board, or a social media chain, or another online dialogic format?" |
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I hope my question makes sense, and thank you for any help you can give me, it is most appreciated! [[Special:Contributions/2601:19B:681:9910:A8B6:5E5:B728:F523|2601:19B:681:9910:A8B6:5E5:B728:F523]] ([[User talk:2601:19B:681:9910:A8B6:5E5:B728:F523|talk]]) 17:31, 5 September 2024 (UTC) |
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:Whether you can create a direct link to a post in a message board is entirely dependent on the specific message board software or social media site the post is located on. Often a direct link is as simple as grabbing the address from the address bar of your browser while viewing the post, but that's isn't always possible. Occasional there will be an option on the post itself that will give you the correct address to link to it, but again this is dependent on the specific board being used. [[Special:Contributions/161.11.160.60|161.11.160.60]] ([[User talk:161.11.160.60|talk]]) 17:56, 5 September 2024 (UTC) |
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:If the web page itself does not have link locations build into the web page, you can link to specific text on a web page in most web browsers using a content highlight function like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing#:~:text=question%20is%20unclear (I am assuming Wikipedia won't mangle that). [[Special:Contributions/75.136.148.8|75.136.148.8]] ([[User talk:75.136.148.8|talk]]) 21:56, 5 September 2024 (UTC) |
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::Thank you very, very much! I really appreciate this feedback -- I'll share it with my student! Again, my appreciation. [[Special:Contributions/204.13.46.20|204.13.46.20]] ([[User talk:204.13.46.20|talk]]) 01:05, 6 September 2024 (UTC) |
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::See [[URI fragment]] <span class="nowrap">[[User:Verbarson|-- Verbarson ]] <sup>[[User talk:Verbarson|talk]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Verbarson|edits]]</sub></span> 18:20, 8 September 2024 (UTC) |
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:: "My Files" doesn't defaultedly list the desired destination, even though it lists internal storage.. -- [[User:SGBailey|SGBailey]] ([[User talk:SGBailey|talk]]) 21:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC) (I post logged on on PC and logged off on phone.) |
:: "My Files" doesn't defaultedly list the desired destination, even though it lists internal storage.. -- [[User:SGBailey|SGBailey]] ([[User talk:SGBailey|talk]]) 21:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC) (I post logged on on PC and logged off on phone.) |
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September 9
Can't keep track.
I've been using Google bookmarks on windows 10. I can't find a star or watchlist feature anywhere on the Wiki pages I visit. I signed up to edit once but I didn't proceed. Is there an easy way to keep track on Wikipedia itself? I'm a recurring donor. Deanprine (talk) 21:32, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- I have no idea about Google bookmarks. There is a watchlist feature. In the Wikipedia skin I use it is on the top right corner. The button has three horizontal lines and a star. You can add a page to the list with a star icon on the header of the page. This is probably better explained at Help:Watchlist. --Error (talk) 23:05, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- As an aside, I imagine your browser has a History feature: Firefox has History > Show all history, with a search function which shows every Wikpedia page I have visited since 2021. By the way, when you donate through Wikipedia, you are actually giving your money to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), which provides the internet access and servers on which all Wikipedia projects run. The WMF is in no way short of cash. This might sound ungrateful, but we are mostly all entirely unpaid volunteers, and some of us object to WP being used as a front for donations to the WMF, over whose coffers we have no control whatsoever. MinorProphet (talk) 18:53, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
September 12
Windows 11 24H2
In this page I noticed that 24H2 is released for final users, but I still on 23H2 22631.4169. When 24H2 will be released? Gatto bianco (talk) 14:32, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- See Windows 11, version 24H2 and don't trust software from random web pages. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 12:33, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- NO software in that page and this is NOT random web page, there are all Windows builds catalog! You have visited the page before comment? Gatto bianco (talk) 17:26, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- You are misreading the comment. Do you have any clue how many people search "Windows 11 24H2 download" and download fake updates from random websites because they can't wait for the official release? Imagine how many saw your question, thought "Wow! New version of Windows! Let me download it from any link I find online because everyone offering free software on the internet is completely honest and has my best interests in mind!" 75.136.148.8 (talk) 22:19, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- NO software in that page and this is NOT random web page, there are all Windows builds catalog! You have visited the page before comment? Gatto bianco (talk) 17:26, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
September 16
LaTeX backslash encoding
"The not so short introduction to LaTeX 2e" tells the reader:
LaTeX supports the use of accents and special characters from many languages. Table 2.2 shows all sorts of accents being applied to the letter o. Naturally other letters work too.
The table shows them constructed via backslashes; so for example \"o produces ö. The same Table 2.2 also obligingly describes how to construct several o-irrelevant characters, such as å. But not all. (As an example, I happen to know something not in the table: \th produces þ.) Yes, the introduction goes on to say that now that "modern TEX engines [speak] UTF-8 natively" this cumbersome way of specifying characters can be avoided. Understood. But all the same I'd like to see a more comprehensive list or table of these recipes for single (Roman or Roman-derived) characters. Though we have an article "Percent-encoding", I can't find "backslash-encoding" here; and googling for this brings numerous pages on irrelevancies (notably how to produce backslashes that are just backslashes). Tips? -- Hoary (talk) 09:38, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Does The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List help? --Wrongfilter (talk) 09:53, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Blimey, Wrongfilter, I knew that a comprehensive list would be big, but I hadn't imagined that it would be that big. Excellent. This should answer all my questions, plus a few thousand more. -- Hoary (talk) 10:14, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
September 18
Android move file
I have a file in Downloads that I need to move to a folder used by the relevant app. However samsung's(?) "my files" app doesn't appear able to navigate to that folder.
How do I move the file using the phone itself and WITHOUT using a connected PC? -- 2A00:23CC:D222:4701:9DAE:549F:77B9:C1A3 (talk) 18:39, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- Do you see something called "internal storage"? The folder you want may be in there. If not, a different file manager may help. Card Zero (talk) 19:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- "My Files" doesn't defaultedly list the desired destination, even though it lists internal storage.. -- SGBailey (talk) 21:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC) (I post logged on on PC and logged off on phone.)