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<p><i>Gay Nigger Research Laboratories, Kristiansand, Norway</i> - Today, on
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== A suggestion about the saints of the day ==
Adolf Hitler's birthday, the top secret Gay Nigger Research Laboratories have
 
announced a startling discovery that will shake the world.</p>
 
  
<p>A video recording was recovered from an abandoned Nazi bunker on the
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I know that a majority of the Orthodox in America are on the New Calendar, but since a majority of the Orthodox in the world are on the Old, would it be possible to list the saints of the day according to each calendar... somewhat along the lines of what is done on the main page of [http://orthodoxinfo.com Orthodoxinfo.com]?
outskirts of Kristiansand (now home to the GNRL), depicting Nazi party leaders
 
Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler. Something was truly
 
remarkable about this video however; on it, <b>Adolf Hilter is clearly a man
 
of African descent</b>. After the discovery, the GNAA funded a thorough
 
investigation. Two more videos were recovered, along with many photographs,
 
which back up the original findings that Hitler was a nigger. Also, analysis
 
of previously published video footage of the Führer was shown to be clearly
 
tampered with. How anyone failed to notice this before now is beyond our
 
comprehension. No-one else than a trained Jew and his companions could have
 
managed to trick the world for sixty years with these simple lies.</p>
 
  
<p>But now the GNAA has come to the rescue.</p>
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-Fr. John Whiteford 3-22-07 (3-09-07 o.s.) :)
  
<p>We have revealed the Zionist lies about Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf
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: There are two possibilities for this that I can think of:
Hitler, the lies that make him so hated. Hitler was not a white supremacist
 
or a tyrant. He was a nigger, fighting for the freedom of all people, all
 
races, and all religions (Jews are considered to be neither human or a
 
legitimate religion.) The world should be thankful for the top secret
 
gay nigger research that has been conducted to reveal this and we encourage
 
everyone, everywhere, to Heil Hitler on his birthday.</p>
 
  
<p>In light of this discovery, several Jew agents were discovered rooted deep
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* Edit all 366 calendar day templates to include a separate section for the OC day.  (This will require some rearranging of the main page design to account for the extra text.)
within the GNAA hierarchy. These filthy spies, apparently working from a
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* Figure out some way to code the wiki to display a separate section which automatically figures -13 days. At the moment, the daily feasts section is possible because the wiki "knows" what day it is today. (This will also require redesign for the main page.)
secret location in London, England, have attempted to make the GNAA a harsh
 
place to stay. They have randomly attacked GNAA members using cowardly tactics
 
in an attempt to stop this important research being published. We will not be
 
swayed however. We will be strong and united. Together we can fight
 
international judaism and end the oppression of gay niggers everywhere.</p>
 
  
<b>About Adolf Hitler</b><br />
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:Of these two, I don't know how to do the latter, but it would require much less work.
  
<p>Born on April 20th, 1889, Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Army
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:The difficulty with the former, aside from being a large amount of work, would be that it would make all the many thousands of internal links to dates confused:  to which date should they link?  Both?  The calendar local to the saint when he died?  Either way, this would require a level of work I don't even want to begin to imagine.
of Zionist Incarceration, who's primary objective was to imprison and
 
eliminate as many Jews as possible. His Nazi movement gained prominance all  
 
over Europe, and he succeeded in eliminating millions of Jew parasites from
 
the face of the planet. Unfortunately, he could not get the smell of cindered
 
Jew flesh out of his hair, and took his own life in disgust on April 30th,
 
1945.</p>
 
  
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:I'm hoping perhaps [[User:FrJohn|FrJohn]] knows of some module or something he can plug in or write to teach the wiki how to figure out what day it was 13 days ago.  It seems like a relatively simple thing for a computer to figure.  The first solution seems almost insurmountable to me.
<br />
 
<b>About Jews</b><br />
 
  
<p>Jews are a pungent smelling form of rat, which through evolution over many
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:In any event, since we invented the "Today's feasts" section, I've wished we could display the OC feasts, as well.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 05:13, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
years have obtained the ability to speak. These disgusting creatures now
 
wander around our great societies, stealing and lying as much as they can.
 
London, England is widely known by its' nickname "The International Capital
 
of Zionism", due to the large concentration of Jews found there. Notably,  
 
well known Jew Winston Churchill had his base of operations in London during
 
World War II, and he spearheaded the Jewish offensive against the Nazi
 
movement. (A quick geneanalysis suggests dcom may be related to Winston
 
Churchill, but this may be the result of inbreeding with Londoners, who are
 
predominantly of Jewish heritage.)</p>
 
  
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::For what it’s worth, here’s my thoughts. In the first option, ''Edit all 366 calendar day templates'', each template could just include the template of 13 days earlier. The problem is that on leap years, the first half of March will need to be altered and altered back afterwards.   (The page could just display a link to the other day instead of displaying the text).
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<b>About GNAA</b>:<br />
 
<b>GNAA</b> (<i>GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA</i>) is the first
 
organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one
 
common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.<br />
 
<br />
 
Are you <a href="http://klerck.org/spin.gif"><b>GAY</b></a>?<br />
 
Are you a <a href="http://www.mugshots.org/sports/oj-simpson.jpg"><b>NIGGER</b></a>?<br />
 
Are you a <a href="http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg"><b>GAY NIGGER</b></a>?<br />
 
<br />
 
If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then <b>GNAA</b> (<i>GAY NIGGER
 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA</i>) might be exactly what you've been looking for!<br />
 
Join <b>GNAA</b> (<i>GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA</i>) today, and enjoy
 
all the benefits of being a full-time <b>GNAA</b> member.<br />
 
<b>GNAA</b> (<i>GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA</i>) is the fastest-growing
 
GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of
 
America and the World! You, too, can be a part of <b>GNAA</b> if you join
 
today!<br />
 
<br />
 
Why not? It's quick and easy - <b>only 3 simple steps!</b><br />
 
<ul>
 
<li>First, you have to obtain a copy of <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0274518"><i>GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE</i></a> and watch it. You can <a href="http://pepper.idge.net/gnaa/gnfos_dr.torrent">download the movie</a> (~130mb) using BitTorrent.</li>
 
<li>Second, you need to succeed in posting a <b>GNAA</b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Post"><i>First Post</i></a> on <a href="http://slashdot.org">slashdot.org</a>, a popular "news for trolls" website.</li>
 
<li>Third, you need to join the official <b>GNAA</b> irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.</li>
 
</ul>
 
Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to <b>sign up
 
today</b>! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit
 
links to your successful <i>First Post</i>, and you <b>will</b> be tested on
 
your knowledge of <i>GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE</i>.<br />
 
  
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::The second option, using math, is better, but  [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Calculation calculations] do not seem to work here.  But if it did, not only could OC dates be calculated, but moving feast days could be calculated too.  - [[User:Andrew|Andrew]] 06:41, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
If you are having trouble locating <b>#GNAA</b>, the official <i>GAY NIGGER
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA</i> irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network.
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:::It looks like there are some [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Date templates] at meta wiki for Julian dates, and it might be useful to look into importing them.  However, due to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day#Alternatives large amount] of information, I'm not sure what we'd need. —[[User:Magda|<b>magda</b>]] ([[User_talk:Magda|talk]]) 09:18, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
The correct network is <b>NiggerNET</b>, and you can connect to
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<b>irc.gnaa.us</b> as our official server. Follow <a href="irc://irc.gnaa.us/gnaa">this link</a> if you are using an irc client such as mIRC.
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::: Editing templates to include the template from 13 days earlier wouldn't work, as it would become multi-referential and end up including all 366 days every time.  In addition, in leap years, the alignment is different around Feb. 29.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 14:25, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
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::::I am not enough of a computer nerd to know how workable this would be, but if there was a way to just subtract 13 days from any given date that factored in what year it was, you would have the correct Julian date through the rest of this century, because every year that is a leap year, is a leap year on both calendars.
If you have <b>mod points</b> and would like to support <b>GNAA</b>, please <b>moderate this post up</b>.<br />
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::::-Fr. John Whiteford
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::::: The only way that would work is if it were automatically done.  I was responding to the suggesting of hard-coding in nested templates; this would only work if years all had exactly the same number of days, since -13 for March 1, for instance, will be different from one year to the next.  I think the only way this will work is if we can somehow get the wiki to calculate -13 based on <nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}</nowiki>, which generates the appropriate date.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 18:52, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
| ______________________________________._a,____ | Press contact:
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| _______a_._______a_______aj#0s_____aWY!400.___ | Gary Niger
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| __ad#7!!*P____a.d#0a____#!-_#0i___.#!__W#0#___ | gary_niger@gnaa.us
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::::I could put you in touch with Patrick Barnes.  I'm not sure how he does it, but it works.
| _j#'_.00#,___4#dP_"#,__j#,__0#Wi___*00P!_"#L,_ | GNAA Corporate Headquarters
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::::: I can't imagine that that would be compatible with the wiki software.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 17:28, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
| _________j1___________________________________ | All other inquiries:
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| ____a,___jk_GAY_NIGGER_ASSOCIATION_OF_AMERICA_ | Enid Al-Punjabi
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== Scientific Julian Date vs. Julian Calendar ==
| ____!4yaa#l___________________________________ | enid_al_punjabi@gnaa.us
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| ______-"!^____________________________________ | GNAA World Headquarters
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It is not clear from the templates, but the Julian Date is a scientific way of calculating time that only has a tangential connection with the Julian Calendar... so you would just want to make sure you were getting the right Julian Date.
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-Fr. John Whiteford
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Copyright (c) 2003-2005 <a href="http://www.gnaa.us">Gay Nigger Association of America</a><br />
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:Hi Fr. John, Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure I know what you mean - is this issue clarified on the [[Julian Calendar]] page? — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk])
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:: See [[Wikipedia:Julian day]].  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 17:29, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
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:::I added this as a link on the [[Julian Calendar]] page. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk])
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== A new suggestion about the Saints of the Day ==
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I am not sure how the main page is set up, but for each day you have a template, and a page for the day.  On the page for each day you could easily have it point to the Template for both the old and new calendars.  There are only 13 days each 4 years that this would be a problem for, and that is March 1-13.  You could deal with that by just setting up those days the way that they will be in a non-leap year year, and maybe put a note regarding the one day variance when a leap year occurs.  You could put two templates for the Old calendar on these days, with the second template prefaced by a note that these are the Old Calendar commemorations when it is a leap year.  You could modify the day pages for these dates every leap year, and then change them back afterwards.
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Then the main page could draw from the text of the day page rather than the templates.  What think ye all?  [[User:Frjohnwhiteford|Frjohnwhiteford]] 10:13, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
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: This syntax won't work for the main page, because the main page's feasts are based on an automatic variable that "knows" what day it is and includes the proper template accordingly.  If you know how to make the wiki calculate -13 from the date it "knows," then we're in business.
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: The main page doesn't include [[April 19]], but rather [[Template:April 19]].  Editing [[April 19]] to include [[Template:April 6]] only adjusts [[April 19]] and would not show up on the main page.  If, however, you were to edit [[Template:April 19]] to include [[Template:April 6]] (and do the same for all calendar days), the output would be a recursive, endless loop including the entire calendar and repeating infinitely.
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: Having the main page include [[April 19]] (that is, as a new template, not as [[April 19]]), however, would mean having to create a whole series of nested templates, involving changing every single link to a date in the whole wiki (many thousands of links).
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: [[April 19]] is not a template and cannot be included as one.  So, to keep the date links simple throughout the wiki (i.e., linking simply to the date and not to a template), [[April 19]] would need to include a [[Template:April 19]], which would in turn include nested templates for [[Template:April 19 (new)]] and [[Template:April 19 (old)]].  (It couldn't just include [[Template:April 6]], because that would introduce recursion.)
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: But that then introduces confusion for folks who click on [[April 19]] and see two sets of feasts, one labeled as "Old" and one as "New."  This would be a problem, for instance, in the [[Annunciation]] article.  You click on [[March 25]] and see that the "New" feasts include Annunciation, but the "Old" do not.  Does that mean that Old Calendarists aren't celebrating the Annunciation on March 25?  In fact, they ''are'' celebrating it on March 25, but by another calendar.  I can think of no way of solving that problem.
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: I really think we need to find some sort of extension for the wiki so that it can "know" what day it was 13 days ago. &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 13:45, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
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:: I agree that your fix would be the ultimate fix, but short of that, is it possible to put templates inside of templates?  If so, you could have a template for Apirl 19 which is formated such that it has two subtemplates: one with the menologion for April 19th, and another that would be preceeded by a lable such as April 6th, O.S. (or something like that) with a template for the April 6th Menologion.
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::To make this happen, we would need to rename the calendar templates as we now have them, and then creat new templates for each day that would point to two of those renamed templates for each day.  If you think it would work, I would be happy to do the actual foot work on it, once we had an agreed upon format. [[User:Frjohnwhiteford|Frjohnwhiteford]] 18:41, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
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::: Yes, templates can be nested. I do think that it would work, but it doesn't solve the problem I outlined in my last paragraph above.  When you click on the non-template date article, you see two sets of dates, one "new" and the other "old."  But which one did the link you followed reference? 
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::: I also think the 13 problem days during a leap year would make for some serious design imbalance and ugliness on the Main Page.  (Of course, having two sets of feasts will likely require some redesigning, anyway.)
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::: I'm hoping that [[User:FrJohn|FrJohn]] might be willing to look into the idea of automating this before we do a massive amount of hard-coding for it, because I definitely agree that we should be able to put the OS feasts on the Main Page, too.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 19:28, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
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::: '''Addendum:''' Okay, I've learned that I was wrong about including articles that are in the main namespace (i.e., anything that doesn't have a "Something:" in front of it).  You can include a main namespace article by this syntax:  '''<nowiki>{{:ArticleName}}</nowiki>'''.
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::: If we have to do the hard-coding solution, it might end up being possible not to have to nest templates, after all.  We would, however, have to reformat the calendar day articles (e.g., [[April 19]]) with various instances of <nowiki><includeonly></nowiki> and <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tags. (I could probably make my [[User:ByzBot|bot]] do that.)
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::: Perhaps, for instance, the OS feasts could be put inside <nowiki><includeonly></nowiki> tags.  That way, the only way you'd see them is when the date article is transcluded onto the Main Page.  Then, all the apparatus we'd like to appear when one clicks on the day (e.g., categories, headers, etc.) would be put inside <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tags so that it wouldn't appear on the Main Page.  (This solves my "Which kind of date did I click from?" problem, BTW, since you'd only see one set of dates.)  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 19:50, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
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===Automating it===
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Well, I just messed around with importing various templates from [[meta:Category:Date computing template]], but I either imported them wrongly or perhaps our wiki doesn't (yet?) have the extensions to do this sort of math.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 20:30, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
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===Something missing===
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In the Saints starting topic the Greek saints aren't mentioned( they are mentioned thought in the Saints starting page).  &mdash;[[User:Harry|<font size="3.5">Harry</font>]]
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:The Lithuanian Saints were missing too - [[User:Andrew|Andrew]] 12:23, March 31, 2008 (PDT)
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== Christ is Risen on Main Page ==
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Hi, could someone please add the Christ is Risen tag and maybe a picture to this main page!! [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 23:07, April 28, 2008 (UTC)
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: Done.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]] <font face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">('''[[User:ASDamick/Wiki-philosophy|THINK!]]''')</font></small> 23:37, April 28, 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, its time to change the "FEATURED ARTICLE" from Paschal Homily to something ...else! - [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 01:01, July 3, 2008 (UTC)
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== Monophysitism vs Oriental Orthodoxy ==
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Hi, I don't understand the difference between Monophysitism and Oriental Orthodoxy and their difference with the East Orthodox Church. What is their main difference? Should we merge the two articles? --[[User:Consta|Consta]] 14:15, December 5, 2008 (UTC)
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: Nope.  The Oriental Orthodox do not believe in Monophysitism, but rather [[Miaphysitism]].  Read the articles for some of the details.  (Admittedly, they do need some expansion and further work.)  In the future, please direct comments, questions and suggestions about those articles on the relevant articles themselves.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]] <font face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">('''[[User:ASDamick/Wiki-philosophy|THINK!]]''')</font></small> 15:35, December 5, 2008 (UTC)
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== Saint of the day? ==
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I listen to Ancient Faith Radio, and they do the saint of the day. Maybe we should link to that page, where additional info can be found. {{unsigned|Iliada}}
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: We usually keep external links confined to articles and not on the main page, which is dedicated to internal links to OrthodoxWiki.  &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]] <font face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">('''[[User:ASDamick/Wiki-philosophy|THINK!]]''')</font></small> 11:31, March 17, 2009 (UTC)

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A suggestion about the saints of the day

I know that a majority of the Orthodox in America are on the New Calendar, but since a majority of the Orthodox in the world are on the Old, would it be possible to list the saints of the day according to each calendar... somewhat along the lines of what is done on the main page of Orthodoxinfo.com?

-Fr. John Whiteford 3-22-07 (3-09-07 o.s.) :)

There are two possibilities for this that I can think of:
  • Edit all 366 calendar day templates to include a separate section for the OC day. (This will require some rearranging of the main page design to account for the extra text.)
  • Figure out some way to code the wiki to display a separate section which automatically figures -13 days. At the moment, the daily feasts section is possible because the wiki "knows" what day it is today. (This will also require redesign for the main page.)
Of these two, I don't know how to do the latter, but it would require much less work.
The difficulty with the former, aside from being a large amount of work, would be that it would make all the many thousands of internal links to dates confused: to which date should they link? Both? The calendar local to the saint when he died? Either way, this would require a level of work I don't even want to begin to imagine.
I'm hoping perhaps FrJohn knows of some module or something he can plug in or write to teach the wiki how to figure out what day it was 13 days ago. It seems like a relatively simple thing for a computer to figure. The first solution seems almost insurmountable to me.
In any event, since we invented the "Today's feasts" section, I've wished we could display the OC feasts, as well. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 05:13, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
For what it’s worth, here’s my thoughts. In the first option, Edit all 366 calendar day templates, each template could just include the template of 13 days earlier. The problem is that on leap years, the first half of March will need to be altered and altered back afterwards. (The page could just display a link to the other day instead of displaying the text).
The second option, using math, is better, but calculations do not seem to work here. But if it did, not only could OC dates be calculated, but moving feast days could be calculated too. - Andrew 06:41, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
It looks like there are some templates at meta wiki for Julian dates, and it might be useful to look into importing them. However, due to the large amount of information, I'm not sure what we'd need. —magda (talk) 09:18, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
Editing templates to include the template from 13 days earlier wouldn't work, as it would become multi-referential and end up including all 366 days every time. In addition, in leap years, the alignment is different around Feb. 29. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 14:25, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
I am not enough of a computer nerd to know how workable this would be, but if there was a way to just subtract 13 days from any given date that factored in what year it was, you would have the correct Julian date through the rest of this century, because every year that is a leap year, is a leap year on both calendars.
-Fr. John Whiteford
The only way that would work is if it were automatically done. I was responding to the suggesting of hard-coding in nested templates; this would only work if years all had exactly the same number of days, since -13 for March 1, for instance, will be different from one year to the next. I think the only way this will work is if we can somehow get the wiki to calculate -13 based on {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, which generates the appropriate date. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 18:52, March 22, 2007 (PDT)


I could put you in touch with Patrick Barnes. I'm not sure how he does it, but it works.
-Fr. John Whiteford
I can't imagine that that would be compatible with the wiki software. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 17:28, March 22, 2007 (PDT)

Scientific Julian Date vs. Julian Calendar

It is not clear from the templates, but the Julian Date is a scientific way of calculating time that only has a tangential connection with the Julian Calendar... so you would just want to make sure you were getting the right Julian Date.

-Fr. John Whiteford

Hi Fr. John, Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure I know what you mean - is this issue clarified on the Julian Calendar page? — FrJohn (talk)
See Wikipedia:Julian day. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 17:29, March 22, 2007 (PDT)
I added this as a link on the Julian Calendar page. — FrJohn (talk)

A new suggestion about the Saints of the Day

I am not sure how the main page is set up, but for each day you have a template, and a page for the day. On the page for each day you could easily have it point to the Template for both the old and new calendars. There are only 13 days each 4 years that this would be a problem for, and that is March 1-13. You could deal with that by just setting up those days the way that they will be in a non-leap year year, and maybe put a note regarding the one day variance when a leap year occurs. You could put two templates for the Old calendar on these days, with the second template prefaced by a note that these are the Old Calendar commemorations when it is a leap year. You could modify the day pages for these dates every leap year, and then change them back afterwards.

Then the main page could draw from the text of the day page rather than the templates. What think ye all? Frjohnwhiteford 10:13, April 19, 2007 (PDT)

This syntax won't work for the main page, because the main page's feasts are based on an automatic variable that "knows" what day it is and includes the proper template accordingly. If you know how to make the wiki calculate -13 from the date it "knows," then we're in business.
The main page doesn't include April 19, but rather Template:April 19. Editing April 19 to include Template:April 6 only adjusts April 19 and would not show up on the main page. If, however, you were to edit Template:April 19 to include Template:April 6 (and do the same for all calendar days), the output would be a recursive, endless loop including the entire calendar and repeating infinitely.
Having the main page include April 19 (that is, as a new template, not as April 19), however, would mean having to create a whole series of nested templates, involving changing every single link to a date in the whole wiki (many thousands of links).
April 19 is not a template and cannot be included as one. So, to keep the date links simple throughout the wiki (i.e., linking simply to the date and not to a template), April 19 would need to include a Template:April 19, which would in turn include nested templates for Template:April 19 (new) and Template:April 19 (old). (It couldn't just include Template:April 6, because that would introduce recursion.)
But that then introduces confusion for folks who click on April 19 and see two sets of feasts, one labeled as "Old" and one as "New." This would be a problem, for instance, in the Annunciation article. You click on March 25 and see that the "New" feasts include Annunciation, but the "Old" do not. Does that mean that Old Calendarists aren't celebrating the Annunciation on March 25? In fact, they are celebrating it on March 25, but by another calendar. I can think of no way of solving that problem.


I really think we need to find some sort of extension for the wiki so that it can "know" what day it was 13 days ago. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 13:45, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
I agree that your fix would be the ultimate fix, but short of that, is it possible to put templates inside of templates? If so, you could have a template for Apirl 19 which is formated such that it has two subtemplates: one with the menologion for April 19th, and another that would be preceeded by a lable such as April 6th, O.S. (or something like that) with a template for the April 6th Menologion.
To make this happen, we would need to rename the calendar templates as we now have them, and then creat new templates for each day that would point to two of those renamed templates for each day. If you think it would work, I would be happy to do the actual foot work on it, once we had an agreed upon format. Frjohnwhiteford 18:41, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
Yes, templates can be nested. I do think that it would work, but it doesn't solve the problem I outlined in my last paragraph above. When you click on the non-template date article, you see two sets of dates, one "new" and the other "old." But which one did the link you followed reference?
I also think the 13 problem days during a leap year would make for some serious design imbalance and ugliness on the Main Page. (Of course, having two sets of feasts will likely require some redesigning, anyway.)
I'm hoping that FrJohn might be willing to look into the idea of automating this before we do a massive amount of hard-coding for it, because I definitely agree that we should be able to put the OS feasts on the Main Page, too. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 19:28, April 19, 2007 (PDT)
Addendum: Okay, I've learned that I was wrong about including articles that are in the main namespace (i.e., anything that doesn't have a "Something:" in front of it). You can include a main namespace article by this syntax: {{:ArticleName}}.
If we have to do the hard-coding solution, it might end up being possible not to have to nest templates, after all. We would, however, have to reformat the calendar day articles (e.g., April 19) with various instances of <includeonly> and <noinclude> tags. (I could probably make my bot do that.)
Perhaps, for instance, the OS feasts could be put inside <includeonly> tags. That way, the only way you'd see them is when the date article is transcluded onto the Main Page. Then, all the apparatus we'd like to appear when one clicks on the day (e.g., categories, headers, etc.) would be put inside <noinclude> tags so that it wouldn't appear on the Main Page. (This solves my "Which kind of date did I click from?" problem, BTW, since you'd only see one set of dates.) —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 19:50, April 19, 2007 (PDT)

Automating it

Well, I just messed around with importing various templates from meta:Category:Date computing template, but I either imported them wrongly or perhaps our wiki doesn't (yet?) have the extensions to do this sort of math. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 20:30, April 19, 2007 (PDT)

Something missing

In the Saints starting topic the Greek saints aren't mentioned( they are mentioned thought in the Saints starting page). —Harry

The Lithuanian Saints were missing too - Andrew 12:23, March 31, 2008 (PDT)

Christ is Risen on Main Page

Hi, could someone please add the Christ is Risen tag and maybe a picture to this main page!! Vasiliki 23:07, April 28, 2008 (UTC)

Done. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 23:37, April 28, 2008 (UTC)

Hi, its time to change the "FEATURED ARTICLE" from Paschal Homily to something ...else! - Vasiliki 01:01, July 3, 2008 (UTC)

Monophysitism vs Oriental Orthodoxy

Hi, I don't understand the difference between Monophysitism and Oriental Orthodoxy and their difference with the East Orthodox Church. What is their main difference? Should we merge the two articles? --Consta 14:15, December 5, 2008 (UTC)

Nope. The Oriental Orthodox do not believe in Monophysitism, but rather Miaphysitism. Read the articles for some of the details. (Admittedly, they do need some expansion and further work.) In the future, please direct comments, questions and suggestions about those articles on the relevant articles themselves. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 15:35, December 5, 2008 (UTC)


Saint of the day?

I listen to Ancient Faith Radio, and they do the saint of the day. Maybe we should link to that page, where additional info can be found. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iliada (talkcontribs) .

We usually keep external links confined to articles and not on the main page, which is dedicated to internal links to OrthodoxWiki. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 11:31, March 17, 2009 (UTC)