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DannyS712 bot, a bot which is supposed to look after various daily or weekly maintenance tasks, hasn't made any edits since July 1, including failing to update Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (2) in eleven days despite that being a thing that's supposed to happen weekly, but the bot's maintainer says on their own userpage that they're not around much lately, and they haven't made any Wikipedia edits at all since July 3, so there's no way to know when they'll be back in order to look into it if I approach them personally (especially in July, when any editor could very well be on vacation for a couple of weeks). So could somebody take a quick gander into whether there's a problem with the bot, and maybe jumpstart it again if there is? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 15:53, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
When I edit admin-protected pages like Template:Disambig editnotice, I get nearly-white text on a very light pink background, and it's nearly invisible. Does anyone know where this color is set? Is that part of the skin CSS?
BTW, I added class=skin-invert to that template, but the results are pretty ugly in dark mode. It (and many other templates) could probably use upgrading to CSS variables with the palette from [1], though it's very difficult for me to edit it safely at the moment. -- Beland ( talk) 03:46, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
i read about half this thread and understood less than that, but one thing i think i understand was what Redrose64 said: The pink reminds me that I'm editing a protected page, and that I need to exercise extra caution. What if the pink were added as a border around the browser window or editing area instead of a background that potentially camouflages the text? Would that be an equally effective reminder? and maybe do similarly for other "alerts"? i don't know how many such color-coded alerts exist; i'm an anonymous IP rather than a registered user or admin, so i guess i don't see some of these things. But maybe instead of having light-mode-black-on-white-(and-sometimes-black-on-pink) change to dark-mode-white-on-black-(and-sometimes-white-on-dark-red-or-yellow-on-ugly-brown), maybe instead light mode and dark mode could just toggle black-on-white to white-on-black with both sharing the "double word score" pink border (or maybe a border of pink-and-red stripes like these, or Battenburg markings) for Alert Type X, and for Alert Type Y light and dark mode can share a "triple letter score" shade(s)-of-blue border, and so on like that?
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 10:04, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Courtesy link:
Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources § Can I copy from open license or public domain sources?
Courtesy link:
Draft:License compatibility
If that subject line does not look cryptic to you, I would love to have your advice. I am trying to spin off the table about License compatibility that you can view here, into a template so I can use it in multiple articles, and add user-configurable style, and I am running into problems using CSS to reproduce the blue background in the first row. Currently, the template is at Draft:License compatibility. I am busy on two tracks: adding parameters for user stylability, and moving the original style to Draft:License compatibility/styles.css as default style. In trying to reproduce the original table style with the blue background and bolded white font in the top row as seen here, I tried the following at Draft:License compatibility/styles.css:
.lic-comp tbody tr:first-child {
background-color:blue;
color:white;
}
but it doesn't seem to be working properly; instead of rendering the top row with blue background, it is rendering the *second row* with blue background, and I don't understand why. Thanks for any tips you can offer. Mathglot ( talk) 09:33, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
<tbody>
, not <thead>
, even if the first one(s) include only <th>
s. If the table is sortable, jquery.tablesorter puts the first row in <thead>
for JavaScript-enabled users. You should probably add a class to the row itself rather than rely on a pseudo-class.
Nardog (
talk)
09:45, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Html for table
|
---|
|
|- class="..."
.
Nardog (
talk)
10:11, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
class= dir= id= lang= style= title=
) attributes that are valid on
a <tr>
element are also permitted on |-
, which is the direct equivalent in Wikitext. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
19:09, 22 July 2024 (UTC)th
to your code:.lic-comp tbody tr:first-child th {
background-color:blue;
color:white;
}
<th>
, not <tr>
, so it takes precedence over your custom style in TemplateStyles. .lic-comp tr:first-child > th
is one way to do it.
Nardog (
talk)
10:50, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
<tbody>
in the first row to <thead class="mw-sticky-header-element">
. tbody is still in the second row so your CSS matches there instead. id's can be applied to rows like |- id="header"
which can be targeted with #header th {...}
. I often use row id's to link to a row. See
Help:Tables and locations#Section link or map link to a row anchor.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
10:38, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
I am often editing dates in citations manually, there might be tools to help? Specifically things like converting all |date=
to mdy/dmy, and converting certain parameters to iso. Do tools like this exist? --
Green
C
17:06, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Perhaps this is impossible, but I noticed that Talk:AC/DC is technically a subpage of the unrelated Talk:AC disambiguation, merely due to the backslash's double function as a title & subpage sorter (classic Wikipedia shenanigans). Is this removable somehow? Not a huge issue, but certainly not ideal either. Aza24 (talk) 06:18, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
.page-Talk_AC_DC .subpages {display:none;}
in
MediaWiki:Common.css but I don't support it. Each unwanted link would need its own code and the increased CSS size doesn't seem worth it. It would still be a subpage with other associated features.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
10:41, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
.mw-parser-output
and this isn't there.
* Pppery *
it has begun...
15:30, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
On this page, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, when I click the edit link on a particular section, any section, it brings me to the section before the one I clicked. I recently transcluded the sections so I'm not sure if this is part of the problem and it is buggy right now since this is new, but I am working on it to try to bring it so it can be stable and free from bugs. Interstellarity ( talk) 22:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
When a wikilink on a page points to that same page, it displays as bold rather than regular blue. These are not clickable links, as one is already on that page. As of...recently...however, the mouse cursor over these items still turns from the normal pointer into the hand as if it were a regular link. Vector2022, Firefox-115.13.0esr. Examples tested are [[User:DMacks]] on User:DMacks and spot-checking several navboxes (mainspace pages that transclude templates with a link to the mainspace page). DMacks ( talk) 22:38, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
I use Wikipedia on my laptop and PC, which both have roughly the same size screens. Now, I haven't made any setting changes, and everything is fine on my laptop, but on my PC, out of the blue, Wikipedia is no longer using the full page width. For some things! Talk pages are fine, infoboxes are where they should be, same with end of article templates and category lists. It's just the article text itself (and any images in the article) that isn't using the full screen - its right-hand border is roughly in line with the standard infobox position. I've taken a few screenshots to illustrate the problem.
[2] (regular article with infobox)
[3] (categories at end of article)
[4] (talk page)
[5] (editing)
Any help would be very much appreciated. Bertaut ( talk) 00:15, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
?safemode=1
in the URL bar and then hit your version of "go" and see if the issue persists.
Izno (
talk)
00:29, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
We have a dark mode now, but I'm confused about how templates should handle background colors. An editor raised a specific issue at Template_talk:Bar_chart#Dark_mode_error, and I asked that individual, but maybe other people will have this same confusion.
The issue is that many templates use a pale (but not white) background to set boxes aside from the main content. These templates typically leave the "color" property of text alone. The default color is black but becomes white in dark mode. The resulting pale text on a pale background is unreadable. For example, activate dark mode and check out Prince Albert, Saskatchewan#Demographics. The glowing template there is {{ Canada census}}. It uses the background colors #f8f9fa and lavender and does not change the "color" property of the text. [6] This seems to be a bug in dark mode, but I see many similar templates listed at this bug-tracking page as if they are template bugs: [7]
The recommendations from the WMF seem to suggest defining a light and dark background color on each template? [8] If that's the answer, then that's the answer, but seems like a massive amount of work when templates exist for years without being fixed for mobile, screen readers, narrow screens, the new desktop theme, and so on.
Also, what does this mean for templates that allow a user to set the background? On {{ bar chart}} this would make the text unreadable on at least one of the two modes, and so user-determined colors would need to be disabled. [9] I looked up a version of Elie Wiesel that I know has the background-color set at the page level for its {{ quote box}}es. [10] I see "html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .quotebox:not(.notheme)" disabling both "background" and "color" properties at the site's theme level. This appears to have been done for many widely used templates (infoboxes and nav boxes), but what is expected for other templates?
I imagine the background colors cannot just be turned off because templates like {{ legend}} use them for meaning. But is there no way for the site to automatically figure that black text with a custom background color should not become white? Rjjiii ( talk) 05:57, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
background-color-neutral-subtle
which in light mode is a near-white grey. I have been normalizing templates to that color as the base when I encounter a near-white. In the case of the census template, it is the exact same color in light mode as you have pointed out. (It's probable that I'm the one to blame: I would have added that color to the template when I was removing the use of infobox class from non-infoboxes.)seems like a massive amount of work when templates exist for years without being fixed for mobile, screen readers, narrow screens, the new desktop theme, and so on.Welcome to Wikipedia. Identify priorities and backlogs (for example, MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do), advertise that you're working on it ( ;) ), fix things that affect you personally when you find them, and ultimately, do what you can. Izno ( talk) 17:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I'm a first-time technical contributor, so I'm not entirely sure if this is the best place for this request, but I believe kickstarting a conversation here is a good start. I've just created my first module in Lua and would welcome feedback and a review from the more experienced technical members of our community.
The module, Module:Korean transliteration notice, is designed to support articles about Korea. Unfortunately, there is no universal method for romanizing the Korean language, with the two Korean governments having different standards and Western academia preferring another.
According to the MOS:KO, there are established conventions for which articles should use which method, but there is currently no categorization, automation, enforcement, or awareness among many editors and a template like this would help greatly and be a good first step.
Don't know Korean? Don't worry. This module is designed to work very similarly to Module:English variant notice, which I used as a foundation for the transliteration module. Here are some key links to the documentation and example template outputs:
Since this is my first attempt at this stuff on Wikipedia, I'm bound to have missed something. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on:
Once the module has been reviewed here or on the module talk page, I'll seek further community feedback from the MOS:KO community.
Thank you in advance for your time and expertise!
Best regards,
-- Nonabelian ( talk) 15:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
require ('strict')
at the top. Do you really mean to export all of the functions in the module? If not, then function p.whatever()
should be changed to local function whatever()
(may require repositioning in the module).Performance considerationsThere are some cases where you should worry about performance (templates widely used like millions of pages, or several hundred uses per page, or the modules are huge), but otherwise, don't worry about it. Izno ( talk) 18:01, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Currently, {{ Documentation subpage}} is added to module doc pages with MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header. The problem with this approach is that the system message does not add Category:Module documentation pages. If we want to add it, we have to either transclude {{ Documentation subpage}} ourselves, which makes it appear twice, or add the category directly, which makes it much harder to update in case the category is moved in the future.
I have gone with the second approach for now by editing Template:Documentation/preload-module-doc to add the category, but I don't think that it's a good idea. What we should do instead is blank MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header and transclude {{ Documentation subpage}} manually to all the module doc pages, as was suggested in MediaWiki talk:Scribunto-doc-page-header § Category:Module documentation pages. Nickps ( talk) 16:01, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
... [[Category:{{#switch:{{SUBJECTSPACE}} |Template=Template |Module=Module |User=User |#default=Wikipedia}} documentation pages]] ...
. My naive question is: why isn't that code working? Does an if statement need to be redesigned? Can something else be tweaked inside that template? I'm not clear on how the page-header page "adds" the doc subpage to the template without actually transcluding it; maybe the category could be "added" in the same way that the doc subpage template is "added". –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
16:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
system messages do not add categories(see phab:T289404). If the template is included directly to a page, like in Module:Citation/CS1/doc, the categorisation works as intended. That's what I want to do, but if MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header isn't blanked first, people will see the message appear twice, assume it's a mistake and remove the template. Nickps ( talk) 16:23, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
What we should do instead is blank MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header and transclude {{ Documentation subpage}} manually to all the module doc pages– this sounds as a good workaround for phab:T289404 to me. It will a) make Category:Module documentation pages useful on watchlists and b) make /doc pages consistent, because right now some /doc subpages of modules end up with two banners.
Hello, I found a problem on Commons. The problem is with images in SVG format, where there is distortion in the display of the text of the image, a change in the location of the text display, and a difference in the size of the text display.
This is a sample image, please click and view. So if you click on it, it will appear to you like this.
I thought the problem was due to the program I use to edit photos. For about a full day, I was experimenting with solving the problem, trying different size dimensions and so on, but it was not solved. Then in the end I discovered that the cause of the problem was the Commons website and not me.
I was also able to find out the reason for the problem on the Commons website. It occurs because the text is in a large size, and if you reduce it, the text size will be displayed at approximately the correct size.
Therefore, I ask that the technicians responsible please fix this defect, because it is a major problem. I have stopped editing images until the problem is fixed. Unfortunately, many people must have stopped designing images in this format and uploading them to Wikipedia articles because of this problem.
Note: I do not want to raise the discussion within the Commons project, because it is a very important problem related to the display of images in Wikipedia articles, and Because there is no interest from technicians within the Commons project. Mohmad Abdul sahib talk☎ talk 21:55, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
@ Matma Rex: I think I discovered the cause of the problem, it is caused by a difference in dots per inch. Because I downloaded an image in SVG format for the year 2010 and wanted to modify it, but I saw this message inside the program:
was created in an older version of Inkscape (90 DPI) and we need to make it compatible with newer versions (96 DPI). Tell us about this file. This file contains digital artwork for screen display (Choose if unsure.) This file is intended for physical output, such as paper or 30 prints. Create a backup file in same directory. More details: We've updated Inkscape to follow the CSS standard of 36 OPI for better browser compatibility we used to use 50 DPI. Digital artwork for screen. display will be converted to 96 DPI without scaling and should be unaffected. Artwork drawn at 90 DPI for a specific physical size will be too small if converted to 96 DPI without any scaling. There are two scaling methods. Scaling the whole document: The least error-prone method, this preserves the appearance of the artwork, including filters and the position of masks etc. The scale of the artwork relative to the document size may not be accurate. Scaling individual elements in the artwork: This method is less reliable and can result in a changed appearance but is better for physical output that relles on accurate sizes and positions (for example for 3D printing. More information about this change are available in the Inliscape
I have installed Inkscape version 0.48 (2010). Then I tried editing the image and uploading it to Commons, and I did not see any distortion or any problems with the text. __________________ There is another problem, which is when you open the image in this way, right-click on it and then download it directly, without clicking on the download icon, the image is not downloaded in SVG format, but rather in PNG format, and this is a big problem that should not happen. Mohmad Abdul sahib talk☎ talk 04:55, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
switch
element in SVG. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
10:51, 27 July 2024 (UTC)the Commons project cannot be accessed according to the desired language- have you checked that the setting at c:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal-i18n is correct? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 09:53, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
I have opened a report here. I cannot handle the issue and follow up the problem programmatically, because I am not a programmer. By opening the issue in the Librsvg project forum, it becomes clear that following up on the problem and diagnosing its cause is the responsibility of Wikipedia members. I did everything I could do, and the rest requires your intervention. Mohmad Abdul sahib talk☎ talk 17:40, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello - I was using { avoided double redirect} incorrectly and creating redirect categorization redundancy on edits on my account from before July 19, 2024. I would like to request anyone with experience with automation to run a (hopefully already existing) script to prune redirects created by my account - that is, removing redundant categorization from redirects using {avoided double redirect}. Alternatively, any helpful pointers to completing this task on my own would be appreciated (should I try AWB?). Tule-hog ( talk) 22:04, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
I'm having problems deleting pages, I get the following message when I try to delete the old-fashioned way:
And when using Twinkle:
Is this more Thursday problems? Liz Read! Talk! 23:22, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
i'm repeating myself, but: Do we have (or should we have) a central thread where all of the discussions about the launch of dark mode should be in one place?
Maybe something like Wikipedia:Centralized discussion?
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 07:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
See also
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 09:13, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Parts of these pages have dark text on a light background in dark mode:
Village pump (Policy - Technical - Proposals (persistent) - Idea lab - WMF - Miscellaneous)
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This page contains discussions that have been archived from Village pump (technical). Please do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to revive any of these discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic.
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Filename extension: .gif
Internet media type: image/gif
Type code: GIFf
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI): com.compuserve.gif
Magic number: GIF87a/GIF89a
<code>THIS</code>
instead of {{code|THAT}}
?Thanks and good luck, you Wikipedia hackers, code crackers, slackers, wasting time with all the talk page blackeners.
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 07:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
As mentioned above:
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 07:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
i've done a bit of Wikipedia browsing and editing on my smartphone, mostly in dark mode since i learned it was an option (Wednesday July 10?).
On my laptop, wikipedia.org addresses redirect by default to en.wikipedia.org and light mode, but i have sometimes edited the web address to en.m.wikipedia.org to get the mobile dark mode on my laptop.
Today (Saturday July 27) on my laptop, en.wikipedia.org (i think it was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox if that matters) gave me a pop-up alert saying something along the lines of "dark mode is available in the Appearance link of the menu on the right side of the screen" but i can't find Appearance listed in any of the five menus i've found:
Appearance is also not visibly part of the footer "menu":
i also checked Wikipedia's Main Page with similar results (no Appearance nor ⋮三).
i exited the pop-up in search of the Appearance link and have not been able to get the pop-up again (which is normally a good thing, but right now means i can't double check anything about it, like, "did it say Appearance or appearances?")
If anyone knows what's going on here, please don't leave me in the dark. i mean, let me in on the dark. You know what i mean. ;-)
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 19:44, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
Usually the start discussion notice is displayed on talk pages with no comments; But, now its in all talk pages. Even in Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical), Don't know how long it has been but I just noticed it. Is it a glitch or something??? Vestrian24Bio ( TALK) 11:48, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
I wasn't sure if the requested template page was monitored very often... it looks sort of dead. So just bringing it to my betters attention here.
The current and prior templates need to be merged into a catchall so we can have a percentage if we want but also have no percentage for many articles. I could simply make two separate templates and rename them so we could use either, if that's preferred at wikipedia. or we add an attribute to the current template that adds the (72.6%) after the win loss. We use the template because so many editors forget to use an ndash instead of a hyphen. If it's better or easier to have two templates just let me know. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 19:25, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
The list starts at #2, instead of #1. Can someone make the necessary fix? Home Lander ( talk) 23:41, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that Srikanth Odela isn’t appearing in Google search results for his Wikipedia page. can anyone please help me understand why? BubbleWombleBee12 ( talk) 11:00, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
For some reason when you click on the archive links at WP:NPOVN you end up being redirected to the WP:RSN archives. Could someone fix this. Blueboar ( talk) 11:19, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi all at the Pump, it's easy to feel disconnected despite the fantastic and often thankless efforts you make to keep WP going behind the scenes. I don't do barnstars, but here's a pic of a huge medieval barn instead. Well done, and thank you again for all your tireless and often unacknowledged hard work. MinorProphet ( talk)— Preceding undated comment added 13:24, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
On List of Anaheim Ducks seasons, when you view the page logged out and scroll down far enough, the year by year table partially covers up the appearance settings (in Google Chrome, Windows 11, for what it's worth). I'm guessing this probably isn't intended; is there a means of nudging the settings over so they are fully visible for users? Home Lander ( talk) 17:06, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is the right forum. Feel free to move it to a proper one, such as WP:Village pump (idea lab).
When page A needs to be renamed to B, but B redirects to A, what commonly happens is that B gets moved to C without leaving a redirect (so that page B is free), meaning A can then be renamed to B, and C can be renamed to B, also without leaving a redirect. This is called a round robin move. Alternatively, the redirect B can simply be deleted. Since this is commonly done, is it feasibility and technically possible to do the two moves at the same time (eg, A to B and B to A at the same time), removing the need for a third one? JuniperChill ( talk) 19:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
The UK Space Agency article has a logo at the top which is supposed to have the red, blue and white colors of the union jack, however the image doesn't actually use white, it uses transparent so it blends in with the off-white panel. However in dark mode the transparent area appears black so the logo appears red, blue and black which is wrong. The solution would be for images not to use transparent colors when they should be white although this would upset people who want the image to blend in with the off-white background panel. Termynaytor ( talk) 04:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
#fff
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
08:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
2.1 Master logo // The master logo is red, white and blue, and should primarily be used on a white background.Also, a zip file with logos can be downloaded from UK Space Agency communications resources. — andrybak ( talk) 13:43, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
<svg>...</svg>
element itself, plus one <path />
element each for the red and blue portions. There is nothing to specify either background or transparency - SVG images are implicitly transparent, except for those areas where an object has been drawn that is 100% opaque.<rect x="0" y="0" width="500" height="140" fill="white" stroke="none" />
which draws a white background before the coloured bits.See https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Redirects&action=history
This page has WP:Pending changes activated. The edit history listing now looks odd when Dark mode is activated. On edits that have been accepted, that line has a white background instead of black/dark and the text is light-colored, making it more hard to read. Instead, this should be a dark grey background, lighter than the standard background, so as to fit with the dark scheme, and make the text readable.
-- 65.92.247.96 ( talk) 07:01, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Template talk:Hidden archive top § Heading text colour unreadable in dark mode.
Rummskartoffel
10:53, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
There's this recurring issue at Special:WantedCategories where a redlinked Category:Clean-up categories from YYYY gets generated because somebody has erroneously backdated a maintenance template to 15 or 20 years ago — following which a bot automatically recreates the resulting redlinked maintenance-queue category for that specific template, but then leaves the general "clean-up" container as a redlink that ends up becoming the category cleanup crew's job to fix.
For example, Category:Articles with unsourced statements from July 2004 has been recreated four times within the past two weeks, just from people accidentally typing 2004 instead of 2024 in a {{ citation needed}} template somewhere in an article, which is obviously just a disruptive pain in the badonkadonk to have to keep dealing with over and over.
I've asked here before, and was told that it was possible, but obviously it didn't happen: is there any way that maintenance templates like {{ citation needed}} can be made to do an ifexist check on categories, and file nonexisters in an error-catcher category (e.g. "citation needed with dating problems" or something along those lines) instead of causing the recreation of a redlinked category that's already been cleaned up and deleted in the past? Bearcat ( talk) 13:21, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
{{
Monthly maintenance category|cat=Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations by month}}
.At Great Britain at the Olympics the sections are not collapsible as expected on the mobile interface. In my sandbox I tried removing sections until it worked again, then reinstating that section and removing everything else, only to find that it worked again. I also tried fixing the markup errors (specifically, invalid HTML attributes) but that didn't fix it either. So I can only assume the cause is the "Medals by sport" section just being excessively large. Is this a known limitation of the collapsing mechanism? Should that section be split up so the collapsing works? Hairy Dude ( talk) 16:49, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
The three linked "related articles" at the bottom of each article page are showing their thumbnails in photographic negative for me. A temporary glitch, a problem on my end (mobile android chrome), I don't know -- standard images in-article look fine. I wanted to let someone know in case there is an issue to fix. See, e.g., bottom of Thomas Cromwell or Wyatt's rebellion. Al Begamut ( talk) 17:04, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
So every once and a while I come across a composer with 3–4 works on Wikipedia, but no navigational template, so I go ahead and make one. Is there any way to generate a list of composers who are missing one still? Not sure if this is a bot-request matter, AWB request or something else entirely. (see parent cat)
So essentially, I'd be looking for categories like [[Category:Compositions by Example Person]] which have more than 2 pages, but there is no corresponding {{ Example Person}} that exists. Aza24 (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
In dark mode, at {{ Stabbing Westward}}, the actual link for Stabbing Westward is an extremely dark grey that is difficult to see on a black background. Also, when editing, anything that is NOT a link is grey text on a white background. It was not this way before. Does anyone know how to fix this?
-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 22:10, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics, the subpages /leftpanel, /rightpanel, and /Members are supposed to be transcluded, but since recently they are shown as links. As far as I can tell, there were not any recent changes made to this project page or its subpages that could have triggered this. The issue with /leftpanel was reported on the project talk page on 28 July. Anyone know what caused it or how it could be fixed? – Editør ( talk) 08:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1838 242 1 -total
37.90% 696 694 1 Wikipedia:WikiProject_Athletics/rightpanel
28.63% 526 307 1 Wikipedia:WikiProject_Athletics/leftpanel
23.79% 437 326 1 Template:Scrolling_window
21.97% 403 905 1 User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult
19.57% 359 777 1 Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Athletics_articles_by_quality_statistics
19.35% 355 777 1 User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Athletics
16.46% 302 510 15 User:AlexNewArtBot/MaintDisplay
14.55% 267 473 196 Template:Pagelinks
14.43% 265 233 1 User:WP_1.0_bot/WikiWork
—
Qwerfjkl
talk
09:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
{{scrolling window|link=User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult|height=700px|title=New articles}}
in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/leftpanel. The transcluded content is passed multiple times and the size is added each time. If the code is replaced with a link to
User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult then
Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics will go from breaking the 2 MB limit to only using 7% of it.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
09:56, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
{{User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult}}
and purged the project page's cache, the transcluded content of /leftpanel was displayed again, so part of the issue seems to be caused by {{
scrolling window}}
making the project page exceed some limit as you indicated. I'm not sure why this happened now, maybe because there the transcluded contents were much longer than usual due to the Summer Olympics? I have reverted my edit, because the project page became too long without the scrolling window. However, the change and purge didn't fix the transclusion issue for /rightpanel and /Members. – Editør (
talk)
10:53, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
[[User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult]]
without transclusion. If you want it transcluded and scrolling then you can place this directly somewhere in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics: <div style="font-size: 90%; height: 700px; border: 1px solid gray; overflow: auto; padding: 0.5em 1em; " title="New articles">
{{User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult}}
</div>
Where do I report an error in trying to add a redirect category to an existing redirect using the Tag button?
I tried to add the {{ R with possibilities}} tag to a redirect, and it created a second empty redirect shell. The original redirect had been Special:Permalink/1210632744. When I tried to add the additional category, using the Tag button, it applied this diff: Special:Diff/1237443069. As can be seen, it moved the existing redirects into a new shell, leaving an empty shell.
I have corrected it, but this is a bug.
If I should report this somewhere else, where? Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:02, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
{{
r cs}}
. The page
Benjamin Howard (filmmaker) has been deleted, but admins may view the problem diff
here. --
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For example if a logo is all-white png it wouldn't be visible so a black background color is added to make it visible. Neocorelight ( Talk) 03:24, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, I was directed here after asking this question at the Teahouse. Roger Uren is a page I created for a former diplomat that was investigated by Australian intelligence services for alleged espionage. I told a friend to look it up, they searched for it in google as "Roger Uren Wikipedia". His page didn't pop up, but all mentions of him on other Wikipedia pages did. The Roger Uren page was created in early April (over 90 days ago). Is there any reason why it wouldn't appear? Another user told me that the Wikipedia page appears in a basic search of his name, but disappears when you add "Wikipedia" to the search. 30Four ( talk) 05:04, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
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DannyS712 bot, a bot which is supposed to look after various daily or weekly maintenance tasks, hasn't made any edits since July 1, including failing to update Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (2) in eleven days despite that being a thing that's supposed to happen weekly, but the bot's maintainer says on their own userpage that they're not around much lately, and they haven't made any Wikipedia edits at all since July 3, so there's no way to know when they'll be back in order to look into it if I approach them personally (especially in July, when any editor could very well be on vacation for a couple of weeks). So could somebody take a quick gander into whether there's a problem with the bot, and maybe jumpstart it again if there is? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 15:53, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
When I edit admin-protected pages like Template:Disambig editnotice, I get nearly-white text on a very light pink background, and it's nearly invisible. Does anyone know where this color is set? Is that part of the skin CSS?
BTW, I added class=skin-invert to that template, but the results are pretty ugly in dark mode. It (and many other templates) could probably use upgrading to CSS variables with the palette from [1], though it's very difficult for me to edit it safely at the moment. -- Beland ( talk) 03:46, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
i read about half this thread and understood less than that, but one thing i think i understand was what Redrose64 said: The pink reminds me that I'm editing a protected page, and that I need to exercise extra caution. What if the pink were added as a border around the browser window or editing area instead of a background that potentially camouflages the text? Would that be an equally effective reminder? and maybe do similarly for other "alerts"? i don't know how many such color-coded alerts exist; i'm an anonymous IP rather than a registered user or admin, so i guess i don't see some of these things. But maybe instead of having light-mode-black-on-white-(and-sometimes-black-on-pink) change to dark-mode-white-on-black-(and-sometimes-white-on-dark-red-or-yellow-on-ugly-brown), maybe instead light mode and dark mode could just toggle black-on-white to white-on-black with both sharing the "double word score" pink border (or maybe a border of pink-and-red stripes like these, or Battenburg markings) for Alert Type X, and for Alert Type Y light and dark mode can share a "triple letter score" shade(s)-of-blue border, and so on like that?
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 10:04, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Courtesy link:
Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources § Can I copy from open license or public domain sources?
Courtesy link:
Draft:License compatibility
If that subject line does not look cryptic to you, I would love to have your advice. I am trying to spin off the table about License compatibility that you can view here, into a template so I can use it in multiple articles, and add user-configurable style, and I am running into problems using CSS to reproduce the blue background in the first row. Currently, the template is at Draft:License compatibility. I am busy on two tracks: adding parameters for user stylability, and moving the original style to Draft:License compatibility/styles.css as default style. In trying to reproduce the original table style with the blue background and bolded white font in the top row as seen here, I tried the following at Draft:License compatibility/styles.css:
.lic-comp tbody tr:first-child {
background-color:blue;
color:white;
}
but it doesn't seem to be working properly; instead of rendering the top row with blue background, it is rendering the *second row* with blue background, and I don't understand why. Thanks for any tips you can offer. Mathglot ( talk) 09:33, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
<tbody>
, not <thead>
, even if the first one(s) include only <th>
s. If the table is sortable, jquery.tablesorter puts the first row in <thead>
for JavaScript-enabled users. You should probably add a class to the row itself rather than rely on a pseudo-class.
Nardog (
talk)
09:45, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Html for table
|
---|
|
|- class="..."
.
Nardog (
talk)
10:11, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
class= dir= id= lang= style= title=
) attributes that are valid on
a <tr>
element are also permitted on |-
, which is the direct equivalent in Wikitext. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
19:09, 22 July 2024 (UTC)th
to your code:.lic-comp tbody tr:first-child th {
background-color:blue;
color:white;
}
<th>
, not <tr>
, so it takes precedence over your custom style in TemplateStyles. .lic-comp tr:first-child > th
is one way to do it.
Nardog (
talk)
10:50, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
<tbody>
in the first row to <thead class="mw-sticky-header-element">
. tbody is still in the second row so your CSS matches there instead. id's can be applied to rows like |- id="header"
which can be targeted with #header th {...}
. I often use row id's to link to a row. See
Help:Tables and locations#Section link or map link to a row anchor.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
10:38, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
I am often editing dates in citations manually, there might be tools to help? Specifically things like converting all |date=
to mdy/dmy, and converting certain parameters to iso. Do tools like this exist? --
Green
C
17:06, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Perhaps this is impossible, but I noticed that Talk:AC/DC is technically a subpage of the unrelated Talk:AC disambiguation, merely due to the backslash's double function as a title & subpage sorter (classic Wikipedia shenanigans). Is this removable somehow? Not a huge issue, but certainly not ideal either. Aza24 (talk) 06:18, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
.page-Talk_AC_DC .subpages {display:none;}
in
MediaWiki:Common.css but I don't support it. Each unwanted link would need its own code and the increased CSS size doesn't seem worth it. It would still be a subpage with other associated features.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
10:41, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
.mw-parser-output
and this isn't there.
* Pppery *
it has begun...
15:30, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
On this page, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, when I click the edit link on a particular section, any section, it brings me to the section before the one I clicked. I recently transcluded the sections so I'm not sure if this is part of the problem and it is buggy right now since this is new, but I am working on it to try to bring it so it can be stable and free from bugs. Interstellarity ( talk) 22:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
When a wikilink on a page points to that same page, it displays as bold rather than regular blue. These are not clickable links, as one is already on that page. As of...recently...however, the mouse cursor over these items still turns from the normal pointer into the hand as if it were a regular link. Vector2022, Firefox-115.13.0esr. Examples tested are [[User:DMacks]] on User:DMacks and spot-checking several navboxes (mainspace pages that transclude templates with a link to the mainspace page). DMacks ( talk) 22:38, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
I use Wikipedia on my laptop and PC, which both have roughly the same size screens. Now, I haven't made any setting changes, and everything is fine on my laptop, but on my PC, out of the blue, Wikipedia is no longer using the full page width. For some things! Talk pages are fine, infoboxes are where they should be, same with end of article templates and category lists. It's just the article text itself (and any images in the article) that isn't using the full screen - its right-hand border is roughly in line with the standard infobox position. I've taken a few screenshots to illustrate the problem.
[2] (regular article with infobox)
[3] (categories at end of article)
[4] (talk page)
[5] (editing)
Any help would be very much appreciated. Bertaut ( talk) 00:15, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
?safemode=1
in the URL bar and then hit your version of "go" and see if the issue persists.
Izno (
talk)
00:29, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
We have a dark mode now, but I'm confused about how templates should handle background colors. An editor raised a specific issue at Template_talk:Bar_chart#Dark_mode_error, and I asked that individual, but maybe other people will have this same confusion.
The issue is that many templates use a pale (but not white) background to set boxes aside from the main content. These templates typically leave the "color" property of text alone. The default color is black but becomes white in dark mode. The resulting pale text on a pale background is unreadable. For example, activate dark mode and check out Prince Albert, Saskatchewan#Demographics. The glowing template there is {{ Canada census}}. It uses the background colors #f8f9fa and lavender and does not change the "color" property of the text. [6] This seems to be a bug in dark mode, but I see many similar templates listed at this bug-tracking page as if they are template bugs: [7]
The recommendations from the WMF seem to suggest defining a light and dark background color on each template? [8] If that's the answer, then that's the answer, but seems like a massive amount of work when templates exist for years without being fixed for mobile, screen readers, narrow screens, the new desktop theme, and so on.
Also, what does this mean for templates that allow a user to set the background? On {{ bar chart}} this would make the text unreadable on at least one of the two modes, and so user-determined colors would need to be disabled. [9] I looked up a version of Elie Wiesel that I know has the background-color set at the page level for its {{ quote box}}es. [10] I see "html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .quotebox:not(.notheme)" disabling both "background" and "color" properties at the site's theme level. This appears to have been done for many widely used templates (infoboxes and nav boxes), but what is expected for other templates?
I imagine the background colors cannot just be turned off because templates like {{ legend}} use them for meaning. But is there no way for the site to automatically figure that black text with a custom background color should not become white? Rjjiii ( talk) 05:57, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
background-color-neutral-subtle
which in light mode is a near-white grey. I have been normalizing templates to that color as the base when I encounter a near-white. In the case of the census template, it is the exact same color in light mode as you have pointed out. (It's probable that I'm the one to blame: I would have added that color to the template when I was removing the use of infobox class from non-infoboxes.)seems like a massive amount of work when templates exist for years without being fixed for mobile, screen readers, narrow screens, the new desktop theme, and so on.Welcome to Wikipedia. Identify priorities and backlogs (for example, MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do), advertise that you're working on it ( ;) ), fix things that affect you personally when you find them, and ultimately, do what you can. Izno ( talk) 17:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I'm a first-time technical contributor, so I'm not entirely sure if this is the best place for this request, but I believe kickstarting a conversation here is a good start. I've just created my first module in Lua and would welcome feedback and a review from the more experienced technical members of our community.
The module, Module:Korean transliteration notice, is designed to support articles about Korea. Unfortunately, there is no universal method for romanizing the Korean language, with the two Korean governments having different standards and Western academia preferring another.
According to the MOS:KO, there are established conventions for which articles should use which method, but there is currently no categorization, automation, enforcement, or awareness among many editors and a template like this would help greatly and be a good first step.
Don't know Korean? Don't worry. This module is designed to work very similarly to Module:English variant notice, which I used as a foundation for the transliteration module. Here are some key links to the documentation and example template outputs:
Since this is my first attempt at this stuff on Wikipedia, I'm bound to have missed something. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on:
Once the module has been reviewed here or on the module talk page, I'll seek further community feedback from the MOS:KO community.
Thank you in advance for your time and expertise!
Best regards,
-- Nonabelian ( talk) 15:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
require ('strict')
at the top. Do you really mean to export all of the functions in the module? If not, then function p.whatever()
should be changed to local function whatever()
(may require repositioning in the module).Performance considerationsThere are some cases where you should worry about performance (templates widely used like millions of pages, or several hundred uses per page, or the modules are huge), but otherwise, don't worry about it. Izno ( talk) 18:01, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Currently, {{ Documentation subpage}} is added to module doc pages with MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header. The problem with this approach is that the system message does not add Category:Module documentation pages. If we want to add it, we have to either transclude {{ Documentation subpage}} ourselves, which makes it appear twice, or add the category directly, which makes it much harder to update in case the category is moved in the future.
I have gone with the second approach for now by editing Template:Documentation/preload-module-doc to add the category, but I don't think that it's a good idea. What we should do instead is blank MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header and transclude {{ Documentation subpage}} manually to all the module doc pages, as was suggested in MediaWiki talk:Scribunto-doc-page-header § Category:Module documentation pages. Nickps ( talk) 16:01, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
... [[Category:{{#switch:{{SUBJECTSPACE}} |Template=Template |Module=Module |User=User |#default=Wikipedia}} documentation pages]] ...
. My naive question is: why isn't that code working? Does an if statement need to be redesigned? Can something else be tweaked inside that template? I'm not clear on how the page-header page "adds" the doc subpage to the template without actually transcluding it; maybe the category could be "added" in the same way that the doc subpage template is "added". –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
16:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
system messages do not add categories(see phab:T289404). If the template is included directly to a page, like in Module:Citation/CS1/doc, the categorisation works as intended. That's what I want to do, but if MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header isn't blanked first, people will see the message appear twice, assume it's a mistake and remove the template. Nickps ( talk) 16:23, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
What we should do instead is blank MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-header and transclude {{ Documentation subpage}} manually to all the module doc pages– this sounds as a good workaround for phab:T289404 to me. It will a) make Category:Module documentation pages useful on watchlists and b) make /doc pages consistent, because right now some /doc subpages of modules end up with two banners.
Hello, I found a problem on Commons. The problem is with images in SVG format, where there is distortion in the display of the text of the image, a change in the location of the text display, and a difference in the size of the text display.
This is a sample image, please click and view. So if you click on it, it will appear to you like this.
I thought the problem was due to the program I use to edit photos. For about a full day, I was experimenting with solving the problem, trying different size dimensions and so on, but it was not solved. Then in the end I discovered that the cause of the problem was the Commons website and not me.
I was also able to find out the reason for the problem on the Commons website. It occurs because the text is in a large size, and if you reduce it, the text size will be displayed at approximately the correct size.
Therefore, I ask that the technicians responsible please fix this defect, because it is a major problem. I have stopped editing images until the problem is fixed. Unfortunately, many people must have stopped designing images in this format and uploading them to Wikipedia articles because of this problem.
Note: I do not want to raise the discussion within the Commons project, because it is a very important problem related to the display of images in Wikipedia articles, and Because there is no interest from technicians within the Commons project. Mohmad Abdul sahib talk☎ talk 21:55, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
@ Matma Rex: I think I discovered the cause of the problem, it is caused by a difference in dots per inch. Because I downloaded an image in SVG format for the year 2010 and wanted to modify it, but I saw this message inside the program:
was created in an older version of Inkscape (90 DPI) and we need to make it compatible with newer versions (96 DPI). Tell us about this file. This file contains digital artwork for screen display (Choose if unsure.) This file is intended for physical output, such as paper or 30 prints. Create a backup file in same directory. More details: We've updated Inkscape to follow the CSS standard of 36 OPI for better browser compatibility we used to use 50 DPI. Digital artwork for screen. display will be converted to 96 DPI without scaling and should be unaffected. Artwork drawn at 90 DPI for a specific physical size will be too small if converted to 96 DPI without any scaling. There are two scaling methods. Scaling the whole document: The least error-prone method, this preserves the appearance of the artwork, including filters and the position of masks etc. The scale of the artwork relative to the document size may not be accurate. Scaling individual elements in the artwork: This method is less reliable and can result in a changed appearance but is better for physical output that relles on accurate sizes and positions (for example for 3D printing. More information about this change are available in the Inliscape
I have installed Inkscape version 0.48 (2010). Then I tried editing the image and uploading it to Commons, and I did not see any distortion or any problems with the text. __________________ There is another problem, which is when you open the image in this way, right-click on it and then download it directly, without clicking on the download icon, the image is not downloaded in SVG format, but rather in PNG format, and this is a big problem that should not happen. Mohmad Abdul sahib talk☎ talk 04:55, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
switch
element in SVG. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
10:51, 27 July 2024 (UTC)the Commons project cannot be accessed according to the desired language- have you checked that the setting at c:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal-i18n is correct? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 09:53, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
I have opened a report here. I cannot handle the issue and follow up the problem programmatically, because I am not a programmer. By opening the issue in the Librsvg project forum, it becomes clear that following up on the problem and diagnosing its cause is the responsibility of Wikipedia members. I did everything I could do, and the rest requires your intervention. Mohmad Abdul sahib talk☎ talk 17:40, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello - I was using { avoided double redirect} incorrectly and creating redirect categorization redundancy on edits on my account from before July 19, 2024. I would like to request anyone with experience with automation to run a (hopefully already existing) script to prune redirects created by my account - that is, removing redundant categorization from redirects using {avoided double redirect}. Alternatively, any helpful pointers to completing this task on my own would be appreciated (should I try AWB?). Tule-hog ( talk) 22:04, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
I'm having problems deleting pages, I get the following message when I try to delete the old-fashioned way:
And when using Twinkle:
Is this more Thursday problems? Liz Read! Talk! 23:22, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
i'm repeating myself, but: Do we have (or should we have) a central thread where all of the discussions about the launch of dark mode should be in one place?
Maybe something like Wikipedia:Centralized discussion?
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 07:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
See also
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 09:13, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Parts of these pages have dark text on a light background in dark mode:
Village pump (Policy - Technical - Proposals (persistent) - Idea lab - WMF - Miscellaneous)
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This page contains discussions that have been archived from Village pump (technical). Please do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to revive any of these discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic.
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Filename extension: .gif
Internet media type: image/gif
Type code: GIFf
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI): com.compuserve.gif
Magic number: GIF87a/GIF89a
<code>THIS</code>
instead of {{code|THAT}}
?Thanks and good luck, you Wikipedia hackers, code crackers, slackers, wasting time with all the talk page blackeners.
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 07:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
As mentioned above:
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 07:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
i've done a bit of Wikipedia browsing and editing on my smartphone, mostly in dark mode since i learned it was an option (Wednesday July 10?).
On my laptop, wikipedia.org addresses redirect by default to en.wikipedia.org and light mode, but i have sometimes edited the web address to en.m.wikipedia.org to get the mobile dark mode on my laptop.
Today (Saturday July 27) on my laptop, en.wikipedia.org (i think it was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox if that matters) gave me a pop-up alert saying something along the lines of "dark mode is available in the Appearance link of the menu on the right side of the screen" but i can't find Appearance listed in any of the five menus i've found:
Appearance is also not visibly part of the footer "menu":
i also checked Wikipedia's Main Page with similar results (no Appearance nor ⋮三).
i exited the pop-up in search of the Appearance link and have not been able to get the pop-up again (which is normally a good thing, but right now means i can't double check anything about it, like, "did it say Appearance or appearances?")
If anyone knows what's going on here, please don't leave me in the dark. i mean, let me in on the dark. You know what i mean. ;-)
-- 173.67.42.107 ( talk) 19:44, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
Usually the start discussion notice is displayed on talk pages with no comments; But, now its in all talk pages. Even in Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical), Don't know how long it has been but I just noticed it. Is it a glitch or something??? Vestrian24Bio ( TALK) 11:48, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
I wasn't sure if the requested template page was monitored very often... it looks sort of dead. So just bringing it to my betters attention here.
The current and prior templates need to be merged into a catchall so we can have a percentage if we want but also have no percentage for many articles. I could simply make two separate templates and rename them so we could use either, if that's preferred at wikipedia. or we add an attribute to the current template that adds the (72.6%) after the win loss. We use the template because so many editors forget to use an ndash instead of a hyphen. If it's better or easier to have two templates just let me know. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 19:25, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
The list starts at #2, instead of #1. Can someone make the necessary fix? Home Lander ( talk) 23:41, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that Srikanth Odela isn’t appearing in Google search results for his Wikipedia page. can anyone please help me understand why? BubbleWombleBee12 ( talk) 11:00, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
For some reason when you click on the archive links at WP:NPOVN you end up being redirected to the WP:RSN archives. Could someone fix this. Blueboar ( talk) 11:19, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi all at the Pump, it's easy to feel disconnected despite the fantastic and often thankless efforts you make to keep WP going behind the scenes. I don't do barnstars, but here's a pic of a huge medieval barn instead. Well done, and thank you again for all your tireless and often unacknowledged hard work. MinorProphet ( talk)— Preceding undated comment added 13:24, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
On List of Anaheim Ducks seasons, when you view the page logged out and scroll down far enough, the year by year table partially covers up the appearance settings (in Google Chrome, Windows 11, for what it's worth). I'm guessing this probably isn't intended; is there a means of nudging the settings over so they are fully visible for users? Home Lander ( talk) 17:06, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
I am not sure if this is the right forum. Feel free to move it to a proper one, such as WP:Village pump (idea lab).
When page A needs to be renamed to B, but B redirects to A, what commonly happens is that B gets moved to C without leaving a redirect (so that page B is free), meaning A can then be renamed to B, and C can be renamed to B, also without leaving a redirect. This is called a round robin move. Alternatively, the redirect B can simply be deleted. Since this is commonly done, is it feasibility and technically possible to do the two moves at the same time (eg, A to B and B to A at the same time), removing the need for a third one? JuniperChill ( talk) 19:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
The UK Space Agency article has a logo at the top which is supposed to have the red, blue and white colors of the union jack, however the image doesn't actually use white, it uses transparent so it blends in with the off-white panel. However in dark mode the transparent area appears black so the logo appears red, blue and black which is wrong. The solution would be for images not to use transparent colors when they should be white although this would upset people who want the image to blend in with the off-white background panel. Termynaytor ( talk) 04:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
#fff
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
08:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
2.1 Master logo // The master logo is red, white and blue, and should primarily be used on a white background.Also, a zip file with logos can be downloaded from UK Space Agency communications resources. — andrybak ( talk) 13:43, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
<svg>...</svg>
element itself, plus one <path />
element each for the red and blue portions. There is nothing to specify either background or transparency - SVG images are implicitly transparent, except for those areas where an object has been drawn that is 100% opaque.<rect x="0" y="0" width="500" height="140" fill="white" stroke="none" />
which draws a white background before the coloured bits.See https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Redirects&action=history
This page has WP:Pending changes activated. The edit history listing now looks odd when Dark mode is activated. On edits that have been accepted, that line has a white background instead of black/dark and the text is light-colored, making it more hard to read. Instead, this should be a dark grey background, lighter than the standard background, so as to fit with the dark scheme, and make the text readable.
-- 65.92.247.96 ( talk) 07:01, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
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Rummskartoffel
10:53, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
There's this recurring issue at Special:WantedCategories where a redlinked Category:Clean-up categories from YYYY gets generated because somebody has erroneously backdated a maintenance template to 15 or 20 years ago — following which a bot automatically recreates the resulting redlinked maintenance-queue category for that specific template, but then leaves the general "clean-up" container as a redlink that ends up becoming the category cleanup crew's job to fix.
For example, Category:Articles with unsourced statements from July 2004 has been recreated four times within the past two weeks, just from people accidentally typing 2004 instead of 2024 in a {{ citation needed}} template somewhere in an article, which is obviously just a disruptive pain in the badonkadonk to have to keep dealing with over and over.
I've asked here before, and was told that it was possible, but obviously it didn't happen: is there any way that maintenance templates like {{ citation needed}} can be made to do an ifexist check on categories, and file nonexisters in an error-catcher category (e.g. "citation needed with dating problems" or something along those lines) instead of causing the recreation of a redlinked category that's already been cleaned up and deleted in the past? Bearcat ( talk) 13:21, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
{{
Monthly maintenance category|cat=Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations by month}}
.At Great Britain at the Olympics the sections are not collapsible as expected on the mobile interface. In my sandbox I tried removing sections until it worked again, then reinstating that section and removing everything else, only to find that it worked again. I also tried fixing the markup errors (specifically, invalid HTML attributes) but that didn't fix it either. So I can only assume the cause is the "Medals by sport" section just being excessively large. Is this a known limitation of the collapsing mechanism? Should that section be split up so the collapsing works? Hairy Dude ( talk) 16:49, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
The three linked "related articles" at the bottom of each article page are showing their thumbnails in photographic negative for me. A temporary glitch, a problem on my end (mobile android chrome), I don't know -- standard images in-article look fine. I wanted to let someone know in case there is an issue to fix. See, e.g., bottom of Thomas Cromwell or Wyatt's rebellion. Al Begamut ( talk) 17:04, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
So every once and a while I come across a composer with 3–4 works on Wikipedia, but no navigational template, so I go ahead and make one. Is there any way to generate a list of composers who are missing one still? Not sure if this is a bot-request matter, AWB request or something else entirely. (see parent cat)
So essentially, I'd be looking for categories like [[Category:Compositions by Example Person]] which have more than 2 pages, but there is no corresponding {{ Example Person}} that exists. Aza24 (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
In dark mode, at {{ Stabbing Westward}}, the actual link for Stabbing Westward is an extremely dark grey that is difficult to see on a black background. Also, when editing, anything that is NOT a link is grey text on a white background. It was not this way before. Does anyone know how to fix this?
-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 22:10, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics, the subpages /leftpanel, /rightpanel, and /Members are supposed to be transcluded, but since recently they are shown as links. As far as I can tell, there were not any recent changes made to this project page or its subpages that could have triggered this. The issue with /leftpanel was reported on the project talk page on 28 July. Anyone know what caused it or how it could be fixed? – Editør ( talk) 08:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)
100.00% 1838 242 1 -total
37.90% 696 694 1 Wikipedia:WikiProject_Athletics/rightpanel
28.63% 526 307 1 Wikipedia:WikiProject_Athletics/leftpanel
23.79% 437 326 1 Template:Scrolling_window
21.97% 403 905 1 User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult
19.57% 359 777 1 Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Athletics_articles_by_quality_statistics
19.35% 355 777 1 User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/Athletics
16.46% 302 510 15 User:AlexNewArtBot/MaintDisplay
14.55% 267 473 196 Template:Pagelinks
14.43% 265 233 1 User:WP_1.0_bot/WikiWork
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Qwerfjkl
talk
09:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
{{scrolling window|link=User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult|height=700px|title=New articles}}
in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/leftpanel. The transcluded content is passed multiple times and the size is added each time. If the code is replaced with a link to
User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult then
Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics will go from breaking the 2 MB limit to only using 7% of it.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
09:56, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
{{User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult}}
and purged the project page's cache, the transcluded content of /leftpanel was displayed again, so part of the issue seems to be caused by {{
scrolling window}}
making the project page exceed some limit as you indicated. I'm not sure why this happened now, maybe because there the transcluded contents were much longer than usual due to the Summer Olympics? I have reverted my edit, because the project page became too long without the scrolling window. However, the change and purge didn't fix the transclusion issue for /rightpanel and /Members. – Editør (
talk)
10:53, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
[[User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult]]
without transclusion. If you want it transcluded and scrolling then you can place this directly somewhere in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics: <div style="font-size: 90%; height: 700px; border: 1px solid gray; overflow: auto; padding: 0.5em 1em; " title="New articles">
{{User:AlexNewArtBot/AthleticsSearchResult}}
</div>
Where do I report an error in trying to add a redirect category to an existing redirect using the Tag button?
I tried to add the {{ R with possibilities}} tag to a redirect, and it created a second empty redirect shell. The original redirect had been Special:Permalink/1210632744. When I tried to add the additional category, using the Tag button, it applied this diff: Special:Diff/1237443069. As can be seen, it moved the existing redirects into a new shell, leaving an empty shell.
I have corrected it, but this is a bug.
If I should report this somewhere else, where? Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:02, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
{{
r cs}}
. The page
Benjamin Howard (filmmaker) has been deleted, but admins may view the problem diff
here. --
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talk)
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For example if a logo is all-white png it wouldn't be visible so a black background color is added to make it visible. Neocorelight ( Talk) 03:24, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hi there, I was directed here after asking this question at the Teahouse. Roger Uren is a page I created for a former diplomat that was investigated by Australian intelligence services for alleged espionage. I told a friend to look it up, they searched for it in google as "Roger Uren Wikipedia". His page didn't pop up, but all mentions of him on other Wikipedia pages did. The Roger Uren page was created in early April (over 90 days ago). Is there any reason why it wouldn't appear? Another user told me that the Wikipedia page appears in a basic search of his name, but disappears when you add "Wikipedia" to the search. 30Four ( talk) 05:04, 30 July 2024 (UTC)