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Your help would be much appropriated in helping to create the Discord server of the Hebrew Wikivoyage community

Discord seems like the "chat" feature solution our small community has been looking to implement for years.

If possible, we would very much appreciate your help in creating the server (as none of us have any experience in doing so). ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 00:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

@ויקיג'אנקי: I don't know how much use I can be to a Hebrew project specifically, but I'm definitely down to help. Shoot me an invite (Wauteurz#7082) and we'll see how I can be of service!
-- Wauteurz (talk) 11:09, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

RINT - British National Rail

Good afternoon, Wauteurz. Hope you're keeping well and that it's not too hot for you.

I wonder if I could ask if, when you have the time, you could create the RINT template for mainline rail services in Great Britain? The old British Rail 'double arrow' logo - - should suffice for all services in England, Scotland and Wales regardless of service operator or train company. I had a look at the documentation and couldn't really work out how to start, so if this is something you could relatively easily, I'd be grateful.

There's no rush.

Have a lovely weekend, ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 16:04, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

@ThunderingTyphoons!: Afternoon! Thank you for your well wishes. I'm doing a-okay and I hope the same can be said for you.

There was already an option available for this, but it was disabled since the appropriate image was not on Commons when I ported the template over. Either way, here you go: {{rint|gb|rail}}

I've modified a few things here: When clicking on the icon, it will link to Rail travel in Great Britain and show the page preview for said page, which can be removed in favour of a simple mouse-over text along the lines of "Mainline rail service" if so desired. Let me know if the link is wished for, and whether the size of the icon is big enough :)

Also, as a sidenote, I'm assuming that you looked at Template:Rail-interchange for how to do this yourself? If so, and that wasn't completely clear, could you tell me what parts of it you couldn't follow so that I could perhaps rework the text a bit to make it easier to comprehend?
-- Wauteurz (talk) 16:20, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Well that was nice and quick :) In answer to your questions, for my purposes, the link is better disabled in favour of a mouseover that says "National Rail" and the logo could maybe do with being a bit bigger (say 25px equivalent) since as it's a relatively complex polygon, it looks a little blurry here.

I'll admit I didn't try to hard to understand the instructions, as I figured (correctly it seems) that this would be an easy task for someone who knew what they were doing. Pretty lazy, I know...

Thank you for speedy response and help.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 16:35, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

@ThunderingTyphoons!: No worries! I could have mentioned this in the previous message, but you can upscale the image if you so desire. I don't think that's listed in documentation anywhere, since the point of RINT is to avoid using images/Commons where possible. You can do this by adding the |size= parameter at the end of the RINT template:

{{rint|gb|rail|size=25}} gives:

In any case, I'll remove the link, and leave you some time to play around with the size of the icon before I edit that. As for the bus routes, if there are any that are noteworthy enough to be used for navigation in articles, let me know. I'd be happy to add them as well, since I have already done so for quite a few French cities.
-- Wauteurz (talk) 16:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks very much! The size field is perfect.

If we had an army of contributors, I would consider asking them to adding bus routes a good use of their time, but for London alone there are something like 600 routes, which will be the same in most public transport-oriented societies. In some articles I work on, I've added buses in the directions tab of listings, and have found that plain text numbers, while not flashy, are sufficient to do the job.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 17:04, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

@ThunderingTyphoons!: Don't get me wrong, adding every bus line isn't the point at all. Most lines are of little interest to the traveller, and at the end of the day, they come first. I'm looking at the handful or dozen of lines that go where, in London's case, the Tube, overground or trams don't reach, yet also go to places that a traveller might want to visit. You do have a solid point though. There are already lines in RINT that are mostly superfluous to list, such as night lines or rural bus routes, and I possibly should see about reserving a few days to clean them all up. (Possibly the template should just be cleared of buslines that aren't part of a rapid transit system or of any kind of major importance, but that's something to worry about at another time.) We'll just leave the coverage of London as-is. It already has its major lines covered either way, and that's what matters most of all :)
-- Wauteurz (talk) 17:27, 21 August 2020 (UTC)