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In the last two weeks, I've had two users new of
my script enquiring about loading problems. They describe a sequence of events that seem improbable, given that my script has been well tested and any fatal bugs rapidly patched, and I cannot replicate the loading problems within my own userspace. The script seems to behave inconsistently between vector.js and monobook.js environments. First was
this. The script didn't work in vector but was eventually made to work in monobook. I never thought the syntax – importScript('PATHNAME.js');
or importScript("PATHNAME.js");
– mattered, as I have both single quotes and double quotes inside my vector file and there are no problems with script importations.
Then, earlier today, another user
reported that the script apparently loads, and the sidebar buttons appear, but clicking on it only results only in a new edit summary. Now given that the function that inserts the edit summary of my MOSNUM script is the last to execute, yet earlier-placed functions do not execute on a given article as well; the instruction (i.e. doaction('diff');
) that follows the edit summary insertion is not executed, it seems highly illogical behaviour. Any idea what could be the source of the problem? --
Ohc
¡digame!
00:26, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
When editing a Wikipedia article, the user can enter up to 255 characters in the Edit summary. When a reviewer is performing an edit review on a Difference between revisions page, the comment field accepts a comment of up to 255 characters, but only about 85 are accepted; the rest are thrown away without warning. In this of February 4 I entered
which was truncated to
which is 88 characters; the full edit summary is
which is 169 characters.
In this of Troye Sivan I entered
(or possibly something longer), which was truncated to
which is 82 characters; the full edit summary is
which is 167 characters.
In this of War on Women I entered
which was truncated to
which is 86 characters; the full edit summary is
which is 166 characters.
So I don't know what is the true limiting factor on truncating an edit review comment into an Edit summary, but the limit seems to be effectively about 85 characters.
It is wrong for Wikipedia to accept up to 255 characters and truncate without warning at about 85 characters. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 10:09, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
[[Help:Reverting|Reverted]] 2 [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending]] edits by [[Special:Contributions/Carissaryy|Carissaryy]] to revision 596521603 by Filedelinkerbot: supplied reference is dead link. Please omit "th" in dates; just "August 11" not "August
[[Help:Reverting|Reverted]] {{PLURAL:$1|1 [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending]] edit|$1 [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending]] edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
Reverted $1 pending {{PLURAL:$1|edit|edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
[[H:REV|Reverted]] $1 [[WP:PC|pending]] {{PLURAL:$1|edit|edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
Reverted $1 [[WP:PC|pending]] {{PLURAL:$1|edit|edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
I'm preparing a patch for MediaWiki right now that will make it use Special:Contribs instead of Special:Contributions. Best case, it makes it here on the 6th. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 21:42, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
mb_strlen($string, '8bit');
, which is "guaranteed" to return byte length. also, as far as i can see, it does not choose the shorted alias for the namespace itself - this will also be helpful (e.g., "Special" weighs less than "מיוחד"). peace -
קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (
talk)
23:06, 26 February 2014 (UTC)Exertional Rhabdomyolysis should be at Exertional rhabdomyolysis. There's only one edit in the history or the properly capitalized page (the creation of the redirect). But I can't move it. Did WP:MOR go away when I wasn't looking, or is there something else going on here? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:07, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
At one time, someone with the sysop password was capable of locking the entire wiki against public editing with a single command, in case anonymous vandalism became rampant for a time — see nost:Wiki Administrators. Of course admins can't do this anymore, but is there another userrights package that includes it (e.g. steward), or is it possible only if you're one of the server operators? Someone at WP:ANI is wondering about the risks of vandalbots that do random things while operating on extra-dynamic IP addresses; I'm curious whether this semiprotect-the-whole-website could be done if we got to a really extreme point. Nyttend ( talk) 02:06, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
G'day Guys My exceedingly long list needs improved presentation: List_of_Australian_radio_broadcast_transmission_characteristics I have floated the table of contents right, as suggested by Ariconte in the Teahouse, which is great. But the paragraph numbering at the third level takes away from the readability of the TOC rather than adding to it, since the section headings (radio station callsigns) are sufficent in themselves. Is there a way to suppress the paragraph numbering solely at the 3rd level? TIA Samuel.dellit ( talk) 02:57, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
TOC limit}}
is left-aligned and doesn't float. To float right, use {{
TOC right|limit=n}}
where n is an integer in the range 2-5 (|limit=1
is ignored; |limit=6
is pointless). I suggest {{
TOC right|limit=3}}
for
List of Australian radio broadcast transmission characteristics. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:18, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I have no issue with how many lines you have to scroll down in a TOC if you use {{ Fancy TOC}} which puts the TOC in a fully customizable scrollbox so the TOC no longer effects the length of the page. You may also be interested in T6127, which requests a token to suppress table of contents autonumbering; T8453, which requests for a way to allow labelling certain sections with letters instead of numbers (displayed in the ToC); and/or T45494, which request to allow us a way to make table of contents numbering scheme and style localisable. While none of those bugs directly requests what you are asking for here, it could be a part of a couple of them if someone was to so comment and ask for it. Alternatively, you could always start a new bug ticket on Bugzilla to request this feature. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( t • e • c) 14:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
<div class="nonumtoc">__TOC__</div>
There's a more fundamental issue: Is the article too big and should thus be split? Or can the information be presented in a more informative fashion? Fixing the TOC to display in a certain fashion does not fix what I see as the underlying issue, that the presentation of the information is just really bad. -- Izno ( talk) 16:33, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
It seems that {{ substring}} is still using the so-called " padleft hack" which is basically a disgusting anti-pattern predating the introduction of Lua. Is there any good reason for this, or was it simply missed during the conversion efforts? It does appear to have quite a few transclusions. -- N Y Kevin 16:27, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Template:Floruit/doc#Parameters claims that {{
fl.|n}}
will sort correctly in tables, whereas {{
fl.}}
n
won't. But, unless I'm missing something, both Col 1 and Col 2 in that table sort incorrectly (i.e. 1066, 1956, 1510), if you click on the arrows next to the column names. Has something gone wrong with either {{
fl.}} or Wiki-tables?
It Is Me Here
t /
c
13:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
sortable=yes
is in the dcumentation for {{
circa}}.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
13:06, 26 February 2014 (UTC)I hate the new editing interface. It becomes impossible to edit templates. Is there any way I can turn it off. ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 02:12, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Play the video on the right and a video player pops up. If I set the video thumbnail to an unreasonable 801px, the video will play in line. Why is this? No other video embeds on any other website behaves like this. - hahnch e n 02:47, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Goto Dustforce and view the same video. Not only will a pop up player appear, it will appear wrongly sized. On Firefox, the video still plays, on Chrome it does not. - hahnch e n 02:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I've noticed some problematic that I think I can reproduce. If I compose some text in an external editor, paste that text into a talk page, then click on the icon to add a signature, it sometimes out the sig at the beginning rather than the end, even though the blinking cursor is at the end of the pasted text.
With some experimentation at User:Sphilbrick/sandbox I see that if I just paste the text, the sig goes in the right place, but if I type a colon or two, then paste, then click on the icon, it places the sig in the wrong place. (Mozilla Firefox)
Has anyone else observed this? Any suggestions?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:48, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm was updating documentation on
User talk:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js, and I noticed that my script installation instructions are specific to the Monobook skin, which is no longer default. What I wanted to do was put the user's skin in the link instead (i.e., something like [[Special:Mypage/{{#useroptions:skin}}]]), but I don't know how to get at the user options using server-side code (it's part of mw.user.options
in Javascript). Anyone know how to do this? Thanks. —
howcheng {
chat}
11:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I just went to block a user for spam username. I always use the 'Block user' facility in the sidebar. I clicked on indefinite - OK. I then went to 'Reason' and instead of the full list, I was offered seven 'Common block reasons', none of which was spam username'. The 'Warn' feature on the top toolbar worked fine - full list available. Is this a glitch, or has someone somewhere decided that we must now type in our reasons instead of having a full pulldown list as well as having the option to customise individual cases? Peridon ( talk) 12:14, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Can someone sort out why the chart at Kings of Wales family trees does not display properly? Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 15:06, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Can someone with Firefox check here to see if the headers are grey in the middle? Trying to rule out my PC. If others see it too, then I discovered a major bug in Firefox involving linear gradients with transparent stops. — Edokter ( talk) — 15:18, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
transparent
in gradients. —
Edokter (
talk) —
16:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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My Notifications menu used to show a link to a diff when someone thanked me for an edit. Right now, it looks like:
The username is linked. The article name is not linked.
I believe that the article name used to be linked and that there used to be a "show edit" link after the "XX minutes ago" statement.
Sometimes people thank me for an edit that I made a while ago, and I want to be able to see the edit. Now I have to manually type the article name or search my edit history instead of clicking a helpful link. That's not helpful.
Am I remembering this correctly? Is it just me? How can I get this useful link back? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 21:23, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
If "When an OCSP server connection fails, treat the certificate as invalid" is checked at the Firefox options menu, Wikipedia is not reachable. 87.78.121.142 ( talk) 01:20, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone help me with the large location map at
List of power stations in Sri Lanka? I want that image to be half the height, with a scroller on the image part (excluding the caption). I tried {{
Tall image}} and <div>
stuff; I can't seem to be getting it right...
Reh
man
08:06, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
#F0E
. Muddiness in the overlap happens when the hues are different; the
Sri Lanka map uses pushpin markers of five different hues. Try your demo again, but with each circle a different hue, retaining opacity="0.4"
- try it also with the circles layered in different orders. The overlap area will vary. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
16:43, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
When using the |content=
parameter with
Template:Documentation, it is breaking up the green background area on the template page in Firefox 27.0.1. See as an example:
Template:Template link templates, down at the bottom. The /doc portion is very strange.
Funandtrvl (
talk)
20:55, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
|content=
the {{{content}}}
<p>...</p>
section is being added in between the outer div and footer sections but it is being created in a different way causing the top and bottom section to close and the {{{content}}}
<p>...</p>
section is showing up not in the main div. When I enter anything into the Searchbox, the searchpage comes up instead of bringing me to the page in question, this happens whether I enter a page name, a redirect name, or a shortcut name (yes, I have spelled it properly. It's also become case sensitive, saying the page I entered doesn't exist if I use a different case (say all lower case when the shortcut is all upcaps) - 76.65.129.222 ( talk) 07:29, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Is this some issue that Wikipedia is now requiring JavaScript? (it does not work even with JS on) -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:07, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Any idea what change from Wikipedia brought this about? I notice that the styling for Wikipedia:Article_wizard is also broken across multiple browsers. The buttons for "Write an article now (for new users)", "Request an article be written on a topic", "Create something else (for advanced users)" are invisible. I assume this has occurred at the same time the searchbox broke. -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 11:39, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I'll note that the search algorithm seems faulty. franklin underwood does not show Franklin Underwood as a result in the first page of results. However, previously, the go to page function that used to work would directly bring up the "Franklin Underwood" article, now you'd have to click past the first page of results to even know it exists (and would probably assume that it doesn't exist, since it didn't show up at the top of the results) ; the WPUSA error can be seen with [4] -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 03:49, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
franklin underwood
in the search box at the top right below Log in/out. The second search box at
Special:Search has different functionality. It adds &fulltext=Search
to the url. This prevents the go function and is intentional. Which search box are you using? The top right box has a drop-down box saying "containing..." (at least in my browser). If that is activated then &fulltext=1
is added and this also disables the go function. I don't know whether there is any difference between &fulltext=Search
and &fulltext=1
. It appears &fulltext=x
for almost any x (other than 0) disables go.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
04:25, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
To clear up some confusion:
Vector's search box uses 'Go' mode by default when the user has JavaScript enabled and a browser capable of rendering the search suggestions; otherwise it uses the fulltext search mode. This is intended and a caused by a recent change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/82100/ – previously it always used 'Go' mode.
This behavior was discussed fervently on the changeset I linked above; in the end I was convinced that this is a better solution. The change was also announced in the second-to-last (I think) tech news posted here. If you disagree, please file a bug. Matma Rex talk 20:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
?useskin=monobook
to any page, for example
/info/en/?search=Special:BlankPage?useskin=monobook.
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talk)
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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
For my dissertation, I've been making a framework to make tools in the browser. It's still in development, but I'd like to start encouraging some participation in the development of Vada and its plugins/tools/apps/hacks.
A quick overview, it's written entirely in synchronous javascript (which makes it much easier to develop with), comes with a number of GUI elements with underlying code, such as a queue, a queue builder and predefined buttons (revert & warn, template user, thank user, etc.) and abstracts the API into objects with a tailored caching mechanism.
Currently on this wiki, there is an anti vandal plugin "app" that you can test, which demonstrates some of the features Vada provides.
I would appreciate thoughts, ideas and suggestions to make this framework as useful as possible.
930913( Congratulate) 18:09, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
On the page Pollinator, a piped link to taxonomic rank is somehow interrupted mid-word with "Heading 1" in heading form. Step right up and take a look before this freakish problem is fixed! What's going on? ± Lenoxus ( " *** ") — Preceding undated comment added 21:26, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Upon further investigation, it looks like a bug (appropriately enough) in the bot that undid the testing-vandalism edit. I'm guessing that if someone edited and saved it with zero changes, the problem would go away, but I could be wrong, and I sort of don't want to disturb the bug while it remains active. ± Lenoxus ( " *** ") 21:31, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
I have continually experienced problems when trying to use the service "download as PDF".
Firstly, the process is totally incapable of dealing with template:cite journal etc. Even when only using raw text (i.e. no templates at all) as references, I just tried again now to convert a page into a PDF, and the pdf has 50 references when the original page it has been rendered from has 52. References disappear, and I cannot see any reason for this.
Who can I ask about this issue please?
Many thanks for your attention in this matter, Lesion ( talk) 15:19, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
<ref name=blahblah2009>blahblah</ref>
), and the subsequent instances of the ref may be shortened <ref name=blahblah2009 />
Thanks for background... but for the time being does anyone know what bot would carry out this task:
Before:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<ref name=ref1 /> consectetur adipisicing elit.<ref name=ref1>Ref 1</ref>
After:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<ref name=ref1>Ref 1</ref> consectetur adipisicing elit.<ref name=ref1 />
I am sure I have seen bots do this, but I don't usually pay them attention. Any ideas? Thanks, Lesion ( talk) 00:38, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there some problem with the WMF Labs servers, I have been trying to use the Category Tree Intersection tool at http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/quick_intersection.php?lang=en&project=wikipedia and keep getting the error message
Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2003): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'enwiki.labsdb' (110) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 88 Fatal error: Call to a member function real_escape_string() on a non-object in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 101
Keith D ( talk) 21:46, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
I recently moved
Template:Necessary? to
Template:Overly detailed-inline and, while going over the code, noticed the unsubstitution code uses parameter |$N=Template name
.
The module Module:Unsubst is only a year old (or something similar), I think, and I'm not too familiar with Lua. Following renaming of templates, is it a requirement to update the parameter name, or can the system handle it?
First time posting here btw. meteor_sandwich_yum ( talk) 23:46, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
|$N=
parameter is the template used for the template invocation generated by the module. For example, if you had the template invocation {{subst:overly detailed-inline|one|two|foo=bar}}
, and the |$N=
parameter in
Template:Overly detailed-inline was set to "baz", then Module:Unsubst would output the template invocation {{baz|one|two|foo=bar}}
. If you hadn't updated the |$N=
parameter, the template would have produced a template call to {{
necessary?}} rather than to {{
overly detailed-inline}}. That wouldn't really have been a problem as the former is a redirect to the latter, but it is probably best to use the current template name to avoid things being unnecessarily confusing. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
01:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
|$N=
code is removed from all the transclusions. If we remove the check, and someone substitutes a template that uses Module:Unsubst before we update that transclusion, the module would include code like |$N=foo
in the template invocation it generates. I'll have another look and see if I spot anything, but that's all I've got for now. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
06:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
{{Template:Foo}}
instead of just {{Foo}}
. That's fixed in the sandbox now. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
07:02, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
The page creator tool is still down, any idea what is up with it? Giant Snowman 18:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI @ C678:, @ PiRSquared17: this is still not loading for me. Could it because I have created nearly 4,000 articles and it is therefore too big to load? Giant Snowman 12:29, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I've been trying to query the API for a list of new pages in the mainspace. I've been attempting to add the &redirect= parameter so that redirects don't show up in my query, but they don't seem to get resolved. Is there another way I can do this? Thanks, -- Jakob ( talk) 02:35, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
&apfilterredir=nonredirects
is what you are looking for...
Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=allpages&format=json&apnamespace=0&apfilterredir=nonredirects&aplimit=10?&rcshow=!redirect
is what you are looking for...
Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=recentchanges&format=json&rcnamespace=0&rcshow=!redirect&rclimit=10&rctype=new?Hi, when I was searching for kite, I saw that on the search results page for kite, there were two links to kite article page (I think so), 1 bold and one that is not bold, I would like someone to deal with this issue on Special:Search by typing in kite and checking it out, if the pages are not the same, maybe delete it under CSD A10 (if possible). Thanks for checking out the problem in advance. (Safari) -- Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa123| UPage|☺★ (talk) 09:30, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
I've tried it and got the same result. On the search page for "kite" (not the search box, the actual page Special:Search), the top two results both link to the article Kite, one bolded and one not. Also, while the dates of last modification are the same for both results, the unbolded page is 113 bytes bigger (though again, they link to the same article). SiBr4 ( talk) 13:43, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
I haven't been keeping updated with the latest code changes on Wikipedia. So I heard addOnloadHook is being deprecated with ResourceLoader? I usually use jQuery's $(document).ready() anyway, so it's not a big deal, but for some of my scripts I still use addOnloadHook because it runs the code after all $(document).ready()'s have been run.
So what would be the equivalent when written with ResourceLoader?
Thanks Gary ( talk · scripts) 18:36, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
"MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "addOnloadHook" property is deprecated. Use jQuery instead"
" suggests to me that it is already deprecated... There's actually a bunch of other deprecated stuff too that should be fixed. ""MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "insertTags" property is deprecated. Use mw.toolbar.insertTags instead"
", ""MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "wikiGetlink" property is deprecated. Use mw.util.getUrl instead."
", and ""MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "mwCustomEditButtons" property is deprecated. Use mw.toolbar instead"
". — {{U|
Technical 13}} (
t •
e •
c)
19:52, 4 March 2014 (UTC)addOnloadHook(…)
is mostly equivalent to $(window).on('load', …)
, with the caveat that the latter won't fire if you call it after the page has already been loaded – this only matters if you're doing weird things with loading scripts on-demand or when developing and testing code in the browser's console.mw.loader.using(['ext.gadget.<name>', …], function(){…}))
), which is one very big pro of caring about RL :)
Matma Rex
talk
19:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Is it possible to disable JavaScript on Wikipedia, through Wikipedia? I noticed that Wikipedia works a lot slower for me when I'm logged onto my account than when I'm logged off. Is there any way to fix this? (with turning off JavaScript being one possibility) All Hallow's Wraith ( talk) 01:40, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Something is clearly wrong with the Tic Price article and I'm not sure how to fix it. Northern Antarctica ( talk) 04:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
|}
code that I added with {{
CBB yearly record end}}. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
04:45, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Could we implement an option where the top row in a table (the one with labels) would scroll along with the broswer window when viewing long tables? Microsoft Excel has a similar feature called "Freeze Panes." It's rather annoying to have to scroll back up to recognize what a column means and we have many pages of long tables where I think such an enhancement would greatly aid the user experience. For example Assembly of the International Space Station -- Rwheimle ( talk) 10:57, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Seems like checkboxes in "Search" section of the "Preferences" are broken, here are more details.
My settings included a selection of namespaces to be searched, and when I accessed this "Preferences" section yesterday, all checkboxes were displayed as empty, what's the first issue. After selecting a few namespaces (other than "Search in all namespaces") and submitting the form, all checkboxes are displayed back as cleared. The only thing that seems to be working is the "Search in all namespaces" checkbox; when selected and submitted/saved, this checkbox displays back as expected. That's the second issue.
Tested yesterday and today on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and they behave the same; browsers used were Firefox 24 and 27. Obviously a bug – any chances, please, for fixing it? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 17:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
On Wikimedia Commons, "Thumbnail size" label in the "Appearance" section is displayed in Greek language (I guess) instead of being displayed in English. No other labels are affected by this issue, and they're all displayed in English as expected. Also, English Wikipedia isn't experiencing this issue.
Obviously a bug – any chances, please, for fixing it? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 17:38, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
It seems like "Edittools" has disappeared from under the Edit summary on pages that I'm editing. The one that usually can display "Wiki markup" tools, like inserting a defaultsort, etc. Funandtrvl ( talk) 19:47, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Moved to the policy village pump.
Timestamp for archive purposes. – xeno talk 02:39, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
When I preview an edit, I'm now taken directly to the edit window (ironically, from the edit window) instead of the the top (preview, with the red "This is only a preview...") section. Trouble is, I don't know if I need to continue editing until after I've read the preview and it's inconvenient to have to keep scrolling up. I checked my preferences, and couldn't find any gadgets or other stuff that would cause this. I use XP (stop laughing) and FF 27.0.1. Is it a bug, or is it me? Thanks for any help and all the best, Mini apolis 16:54, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
resolved}} - discussion continued, so let it go :-) . OP is answered. -
DePiep (
talk)
21:37, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
I am creating a link like this:
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in. Is it possible and advisable to interrupt the underlines at the fraction (denominator)? I found that class="nounderlines"
doesn't seem to work on parts of a wikilink. -
DePiep (
talk)
18:34, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
text-decoration
rule (used internally by the browser for underlines, strike-throughs and some more exotic things), unlike, say font-weight
or text-transform
. That's because it's not applied to the individual characters, but to an entire text "box" (which can in fact be seen in the original example here). My explanation is probably not very clear, but consider the difference between {{
fraction|1|9}}
→ 1⁄9 or {{
fraction|1|10}}
→ 1⁄10 show as boxed hex codes for me, which is an accessibility problem for a sighted reader. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
14:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
fraction}}
well over a year ago, but there was no firm conclusion. The discussion is archived at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility/Archive 3#Template:Fraction but some comments went to
Template talk:Frac#Template:Fraction and accessibility instead, despite
WP:MULTI. Please bear in mind that the template has been
heavily modified since then, and so my comments (such as those about one-seventh etc.) should be read in the context of the template as it stood at the time.{{
fraction}}
but use {{
frac}}
instead, which I am informed is somewhat more accessibility-compliant. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
16:26, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear almighty technical people, I have stumbled across a relic of a time long-ago when wiki-pages and templates were manually formatted, and their meaning could only be divined by those already gifted by 'the sight'. Consequently I'd be very grateful for any help unpicking this template: Template:Infobox muscle, I want to add a section using the 'below' parameter that is bold and italic and reads: Anatomical terms of bone . -- LT910001 ( talk) 08:39, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
If one goes to the article Dawes (band), at the very lower left of the browser appears the phrases in very strange manner:
If you hover the cursor over it, it goes away. But when you reload the page, it will come back. I notice the source for the glitch is likely the band's official website, which has the identical phrasing at the same place. [27] How is this website glitch getting onto our page? Is this the new face of spam? Is it only on Safari? What is up with this, as I have never seen anything like this before? Doc talk 16:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Might not be the place this should be posted, but has anyone noticed an IP Special:Contributions/10.4.1.126 is going through a whole slew of pages and manually archiving large chunks at random? Does anyone know if this is some Wikimedia person doing this? — Maile ( talk) 02:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I received a notification ( screenshot) that said Joe Graham was linked from [No page] (not sure how to properly format that link). There are a couple of issues with this. I don't appear to be watching Joe Graham and the second link is obviously bad. Killiondude ( talk) 20:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Since yesterday I've been having problems with the "Insert Citation" functionality (you know, "Cite" on my javascript toolbar). The citation templates fill in properly, but when I click "Add citation" I get kicked back to the editing window (which is normal) but without the citation being added. I found that if I do "Preview citation" first (and then I double-click so at least I save the plain text), and then click again to the proper place in the edit window, and then click "Add citation", that it works properly. But this is real irritating. Drmies ( talk) 15:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
mwCustomEditButtons
should be migrated to mw.toolbar.addButton(s)
insertTags
should be replaced by mw.toolbar.insertTags
Looking over the many articles posted to PROD, I find that a large minority, perhaps as high as 50%, are questionable, and a smaller subset, perhaps 20%, clearly fail the criterion. This is supposed to be backed up by a "last chance save" by the deleting admin, but there appears to be no statistics on whether or not this actually occurs.
Given that there doesn't seem to be any closing requirement other than deleting, and that the PROD can be removed by anyone at any time with a similar lack of record keeping, I'm wondering if anyone might suggest ways to collect statistics on this? Theoretically the search would be something to the effect of "how many articles have had a PROD tag applied, how many of those were ultimately deleted, how many were not". My concern is that the last, perhaps most important, part may be difficult to collect - how would one find edits that remove PROD tags specifically?
Maury Markowitz ( talk) 16:41, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone here make up the template {{R from Merger}} which would do exactly as {{R from Merge}} now does (so they could basically be interchangeable)? This would help us mergists—who often do merge and redirects quickly and on the fly—and who really, really hate going back to fix such a minor issue. Thanks, GenQuest "Talk to Me" 20:36, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
When I click on my Reflinks link, I am getting a page not found message from toolserver. It was working fine yesterday. Anybody know if the url has changed or if it has been taken down for maintenance? The link I use (installed in my browser toolbar is "javascript:location='//toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py/'+(typeof wgPageName!='undefined'?wgContentLanguage+':'+wgPageName:)+'?client=bookmark&citeweb=on&overwrite=simple&limit=20';"). Thanks danno_ uk 21:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
I have the Admin dashboard on my User:Peridon/links page. Normally, when I open the page, the dashboard opens with it. Today, it's just coming up as a blue link to Template:Admin dashboard which I have to click. Not a big deal, but puzzling. No-one's done anything to the /links page or the template since last year, and I've not changed any settings on my computer or altered my preferences here. (Monobook, XP Pro in Classic mode, Firefox 20) Peridon ( talk) 12:58, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
rfplinks}}
, since there is one on every single permission request. Either that should be simplified, or the delay between closure of a request and its archiving should be shortened. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:34, 9 March 2014 (UTC)|newadmin=yes
is exclusively set. I'll add some other customizing parameters to the template so that it will be customizable as to showing the various
WP:PERM sections. It will work such as the perm page won't show in the template unless there has been an edit to that page in "x" amount of time unless the admin says they don't want to see any perm requests at all by setting |showperm=no
. Otherwise the showperm parameter will accept a numeric value in the number of seconds (or perhaps more flexible, not sure yet) since last edit. I'll add full documentation when I'm done. The "new admin" turning off should fix the immediate issue, I hope. — {{U|
Technical 13}} (
t •
e •
c)
15:08, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Thanks, everyone. And it's back to normal now. Peridon ( talk) 18:17, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
|archivenow=
, |archiveprefix=
and |key=
. Such configuration would not allow the dwell time on the page after approval/denial to be specified. The bot would just archive any with the specified text (e.g. {{Already done}}, {{done}} and {{not done}}) the next time it ran on the page. This is probably preferable to someone having to manually archive on a continuous basis. Because the archives would not be under the originating page, a |key=
would need to be generated prior to enabling the archiving or the bot will put the archives in its default location ({{FULLPAGENAME}}/Archives/). —
Makyen (
talk)
23:46, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone fix my talk page? Whenever I check it, it comes up almost blank. I think it has something to do with the templates on it. I also need to archive it, but that is another matter entirely. :) ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 18:26, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
</div>
, which suggests that
User:Editorofthewiki/Navigation and
User talk:Editorofthewiki/Header might contain some malformed HTML. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:06, 9 March 2014 (UTC)The transclusion counter at http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Boys_Night_Out&namespace=10 seems to be out of service. -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 18:42, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
In the table at Malaysia Airlines Flight 370#Passengers and crew, when clicking on the sorting button for the "Nationality" column for the first time, nothing happens because the nationalities are already listed in alphabetical order by default. Is it possible to make it so that it instead sorts in reverse alphabetical order the first time you click on the sorting button? Hey mid ( contribs) 19:09, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
The AFC tool could be used to start Wikidata entries. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/2014 6#Wikidata for more. Help from a coder would be appreciated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:41, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
I have started getting Error 404 reported when trying to run transcluded_changes.py. The url I have been using is https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/transcluded_changes.py?page=Template:WikiProject_Caves. Has the tool moved or been withdraw? Thanks. Langcliffe ( talk) 22:12, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Panic over - it's come back. Langcliffe ( talk) 13:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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I've been trying to get onto Reflinks but every time, whether I use the link on WP or the direct web address, it comes up with a 502 bad gateway error message. What is wrong? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 09:43, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi all, I am trying to add User:Mr.Z-man's excellent new "Popular pages" list to the WikiProject Palestine front page, but I can't get it to work. As soon as I swap it in the page doesn't work any more.
Perhaps because the list is too big? Just wondering if you have any idea how I can fix it. I didn't realise there was a limit on these things.
Oncenawhile ( talk) 10:41, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
As per WP:CIRCULAR, Wikipedia should never be used to cite itself. Is it technically possible to have a maintenance category populated with articles that have circular references? This seems like a good idea. It would be populated with articles that contain references like
or
or
among other possible scenarios. There is a inline template about circular references (see {{ Circular-ref}} but I don't see its point and just started a conversation on its talk page about that. Jason Quinn ( talk) 03:49, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
<
ref>
tags not using a template unless
Cite is changed. --
Gadget850
talk
12:35, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Hello, I would like to get this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idfonline/12966001753/in/set-72157641943868053 into the infobox on this page KLOS C. The photo has creativecommons permissions, as I have seen often used here on Wikipedia via Flickr but I am unclear on how to move a photo from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Juneau Mike ( talk) 17:18, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
A single character change in a large block of text such as this diff can often be tedious to locate. In this case a comma was removed after "waxy" in a 2,700 character paragraph. Is there a way of making such a change more visible? I do a large amount of RCP and often quit in exasperation attempting to find such changes. Thank you Jim1138 ( talk) 20:54, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
td.diff-deletedline .diffchange,
td.diff-addedline .diffchange {
/* Maybe my display contrast is bad, but I can hardly see the highlight. */
background:#f88;
}
I have been consistently getting a Internal Server Error when trying to use count lately. Anyone else? What can be done about it? Thanks in advance, X Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:25, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
and tried to tell me AddWittyNameHere does not exist. Existential crisis here! I apparently do not exist! AddWittyNameHere ( talk) 22:42, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't see what is being mentioned here, making it impossible for me to look into.— cyberpower ChatAbsent 16:37, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Not resolved for me, not sure about others. It's been on and off, but mostly off, since I first posted on 3 March 2014. X Ottawahitech ( talk) 19:22, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Someone's been messing with the code again; links such as File:New Jersey Dry Town Listing.pdf do not currently lead to a page where I can click to see the deletion history. This breaks things and needs to be fixed. -- Elvey ( talk) 00:30, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
importScript( 'User:Technical 13/Scripts/fileRedlinks.js' );// [[User:Technical 13/Scripts/fileRedlinks]] makes image redlinks work like page redlinks.
'enwiki' => '//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload'
then I think
File:New Jersey Dry Town Listing.pdf would go to
[44] instead of
[45]. So the upload wizard would be replaced by the default upload form, and the latter displays the deletion log (and actually places the file name in the upload form).
PrimeHunter (
talk)
03:32, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I've just noticed that this edit by John of Reading ( talk · contribs) shows as (-12) in the watchlist, but (-13) in the page history and the user's contribs. What might cause this discrepancy? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:35, 9 March 2014 (UTC) amended Redrose64 ( talk) 13:29, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
&curid=21438123
piece? I'm just guessing here...
meteor_sandwich_yum (
talk)
12:11, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
character (1 byte)?
meteor_sandwich_yum (
talk)
12:21, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
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1FE0 0A 3D 3D 3D 41 72 74 69-63 6C 65 20 74 61 6C 6B .===Article talk
1FF0 3D 3D 3D 0A 2A 6D 65 20-7B 7B 74 6C 7C 74 6D 66 ===.*me {{tl|tmf
2000 72 6F 6D 7D 7D 2C 20 7B-7B 74 6C 7C 74 6D 74 6F rom}}, {{tl|tmto
2010 7D 7D 0A 0A 3D 3D 3D 55-73 65 72 20 74 61 6C 6B }}..===User talk
debug
to get the actual hex dump, but first the data needs to be obtained and prepared.Extended content
|
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|
It's happening over and over to me that I create or answer a proposal and as soon as I click 'Save page', the Internet Explorer 9 browser can't display the web page and I would like that problem fixed. After that problem, I then have to click 'Read' then click 'Leave page' to see my proposal. That problem doen't seem to be happening much in articles or talk pages. My proposals don't get lost from losing an internet connection but I still don't like it. Blackbombchu ( talk) 02:53, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Two of my recent requests ( Infoboxes not using parent template, Remove link tracking) at WP:BOTREQ (I'll post a pointer to this discussion there) have recently been archived: the former unanswered, the latter after someone said they'd do the work, then pulled out. I've had each of these happen previously. (aside Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 25 is still waiting, months after an RfC approved the work).
I appreciate that bot operators are volunteers, and am grateful for what they do do, but what can we do to increase the takeup rate? Should we keep a list of such requests, separate from the archives (which also include declined and satisfied requests), so that new or returning operators can more easily find them? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:52, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Hey! I want to place some userboxes into a scroll box with a title in each scroll box on my userpage, however I don't know how. Also I want another scroll box to be right beside it so it could be parallel to each other. Any suggestions? -- ///EuroCar GT 18:37, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
About me | What I like | What I've done |
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Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. |
Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. |
Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. |
Hi all - I use Google Chrome (latest version), and lately (perhaps a week or so) I've noticed that the Twinkle script and other gadgets sometimes fail to load. This also causes diffs and even simple editing and saving to fail. I thought it was a Twinkle issue, but I just checked the Chrome error log and this is what I see: Blocked script execution in ' /info/en/?search=Special:Watchlist' because the document's frame is sandboxed and the 'allow-scripts' permission is not set.. Any idea what could be causing this? Mozilla (latest) and IE 11 don't exhibit this issue at all. The only loosely related thing I found was this, but it seems to be related to apps within Google, and Wikipedia is not an app. I only have three extensions enabled (AdBlock, GoogleDocs and a tabs-related one) so I don't think that might be the issue. Also, it seems to be intermittent, not permanent. Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated. § FreeRangeFrog croak 03:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
When I edit a page, like I do now, it would be very nice to have a Javascript to show some warnings like:
And probably some other kind of warnings that editors might consider useful. Of course, the program should allow me to define "Text1", "Text2", etc, somewhere in it's preferences. For example, at this moment I am editing a lot of articoles for adding DEFAULTSORT. When I edit a page, I would like to know if it contains a certain template, which has to be removed - in case it exists in that page. It's a waste of time to try with CTRL + F on every page I edit, especially when I have to remove more than one template or text. I need the program to warn me about it automatically. Is it possible to create such a script? Or there might be some browser addons for that? Probably such a task it's doable with GreaseMonkey. — Ark25 ( talk) 19:35, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
If I enter a range into Special:Contributions, it only finds a single result, and then stops. This is on both /16 and /24 ranges. Examples;
When this worked, it used to show the results in reverse "alphabetical" order (i.e. X.X.X.99, X.X.X.98, etc.) So it looks like its finding them all, but then only showing the "first" in its list. Tested in Firefox 27 & IE10, Windows 7. Black Kite ( talk) 23:51, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Firefox 27.0.1, Windows 8.1 Modern skin I am transitioning from Windows XP. Much WP Preferences that I take for granted on XP are non-existant on 8.1, Request Page Protection is gone, Purge the page is gone, my little tab to fix dashes with a script, etc. And, in fact, the only thing that appears at the top of the article is "Article", "Talk, "Edit This Page", "History", "Move" and "Unwatch" Even more inconvenient on my own main user page, there is no longer the User tab with the drop down menu to tell me where my subpages are, the sandboxes, the .js pages, the .css pages. I suspect my scripts are gone, because I have nothing extra in "Tools" In the search bar, I no longer get a pop suggestion when I type in an article name. Inconvenient. Any solutions? — Maile ( talk) 17:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I've proposed a change to the way we structure the system of portal images for the {{ portal}} template over at Template talk:Portal#New image database proposal. Please comment there if you are interested. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:39, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I've recently changed my email address. But as of yet it hasn't confirmed it. It says its sent me a confirmation email and I've received nothing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
We are looking for students willing to work on Wikimedia technical projects in the context of Google Summer of Code. There is still time to become a strong GSoC candidate for Wikimedia (but no much, the deadline for submissions is March 21). See mw:Google Summer of Code 2014 and this post. Your help spreading this call is welcome: Facebook, Twitter i Google+. Thank you.-- Qgil ( talk) 05:45, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
I have created {{
Main cat only}}. Used in a template, it categorises the article (mainspace), but in other spaces just gives feedback text, using the colon [[:Category:...]]
. A major advantage is that, when the hosting template tests OK, no code change is needed (no removal of |demospace=main
or the draft colon). This by simple template code. It is also named {{
Article cat only}} by redirect, which may be more inviting for draft editors.
One issue arises. When the template expands into feedback text, that can happen in an infobox (as maintenance categorization goes). That will disrupt the box layout & structure. Is there a possibility to present the feedback text otherwise? (css title text? Wikitext near bottom of page?). Except for the obvious edits, pls use the sandbox. - DePiep ( talk) 14:05, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Starting this afternoon (~1:30PM Eastern time, it's almost 8:30PM now), I haven't been able to use the Search function; instead, I just get this message: "An error has occurred while searching: HTTP request timed out." I'm using Firefox 27.0.1 on two different internet connections but the same device (I don't have access to anything else right now). Any ideas? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 00:24, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Another data point: I consistently found a similar problem when searching for "A-b testing" (no quotes). (I wanted A/B testing.) Message was "An error has occurred while searching: The search backend returned an error: ". Certes ( talk) 01:31, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Back in the early days of Wikipedia (before 2003) user right changes (including administrator promotions) and many other things were done by the developers. I wanted to know if it's still technically possible for a developer today to change user rights of an account, delete or protect pages, block other user from editing, change usernames, lock/unlock user accounts, etc. ? And even if that's possible, In the interest of transparency, is there any way to check and see all the developer actions that have ever been made on the English Wikipedia ? Thank you. - TheGeneralUser (talk) 12:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to clean up hacky code concerning a two-column numbered list.
On the page Pokémon#Films ( permalink), I came across this code:
{{col-begin}} {{col-2}} # ''[[Pokémon: The First Movie|Pokémon: The First Movie—Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' (1998) # ''[[Pokémon: The Movie 2000|Pokémon: The Movie 2000—The Power of One]]'' (1999) # ''[[Pokémon 3: The Movie|Pokémon 3: The Movie—Spell of the Unown]]'' (2000) # ''[[Pokémon 4Ever|Pokémon 4Ever—Celebi: Voice of the Forest]]'' (2001) # ''[[Pokémon Heroes]]'' (2002) # ''[[Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker]]'' (2003) # ''[[Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys]]'' (2004) # ''[[Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' (2005){{col-2}} <ol start="9"> <li>''[[Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]'' (2006)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai]]'' (2007)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior]]'' (2008)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]'' (2009)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]'' (2010)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and White—Victini and Zekrom|Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and <br> Pokémon the Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom]]'' (2011)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice]]'' (2012)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened]]'' (2013)</li> </ol> {{col-2}} {{col-end}}
Which is pretty messy. It begins with wikimarkup (hashes to stand for numbers), switches over to HTML <ol>
and <li>
elements, and throws in {{
col-begin}}, {{
col-2}}, and {{
col-end}} into the mix!
An elegant solution would be to remove all HTML begin with {{div col}} and end with {{div col end}}. I did want to support CSS-incompatible browsers such as IE9 and former, so was considering Template:Multi-column numbered list( talk links history). Can anybody tell me if this uses CSS in a way that would prevent proper rendering of columns in old browsers? If this template works I might want to use it on pages where it might actually make a difference.
Open to suggestions or opinions. Meteor sandwich yum ( talk) 06:09, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
col-2}}
. It's possible to amend this so that it's almost entirely Wiki markup with just a tiny amount (only one tag) of HTML. Consider the middle part - this could be altered to # ''[[Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' (2005){{col-2}}
#<li value=9> ''[[Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]'' (2006)
# ''[[Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai]]'' (2007)
<li value=>
is only necessary on one of them. Finally remove the </ol>
.{{
div col}}
/{{
div col end}}
should definitely be the way to go. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
08:06, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
{| valign="top"
|-
| valign="top" | <ul><ol start="{{{1|1}}}" style="list-style-type:{{{lst|decimal}}}"><li>{{{2}}}</ol></ul>
| valign="top" | <ul><ol start="{{#expr:{{{1|1}}}+{{{3|1}}}}}" style="list-style-type:{{{lst|decimal}}}">{{{4}}}</ol></ul>
{{#if:{{{5|}}}|{{!}} valign="top" {{!}} <ul><ol start="{{#expr:{{{1|1}}}+{{{3|1}}}+{{{5|1}}}}}" style="list-style-type:{{{lst|decimal}}}">{{{6}}}</ol></ul>}}
|}
{{autocol | n=9 |ncols=3 |num=y|wrap=y|colgap=7
|a |b |c |d |e |f
|g|h|i|}}
style=
attribute, it always has CSS, because that is the sole purpose of style=
. Wherever a HTML tag uses the class=
attribute, it probably has CSS, but the class=
attribute can also be used to create a label, for instance the
COinS metadata emitted by e.g. {{
cite book}}
is labelled with class="Z3988"
. Wherever a HTML tag uses the id=
attribute, which is primarily used to create a label, it might have CSS as well: for instance, the little red square which tells you that you have notifications is the element <li id="pt-notifications">...</li>
and there is some CSS that is specific to that id=
. These three attributes may be found on any HTML element that is permitted within the body of a HTML document, including on the <body>
tag itself.list-style-type:
CSS property. That goes right back to
CSS 1, so is recognised by most versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari also IE 4 and later. The permitted values have been enhanced in the meantime: see
CSS 2, . Further enhancements are proposed for
CSS 3 but that document is still at the
Working Draft stage - it's not yet a
W3C Recommendation, so some browsers may not yet support these features. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
09:31, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
class=
attributes. And I see what you mean now! Thank you so much! Gives me a bunch of ideas on how to proceed. I think I'll stick with {{
div col}}
/{{
div col end}}
for this one.
Meteor sandwich yum (
talk)
22:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Is there a way to search the block log, other than loading 500-page chunks and using Ctrl+F on each one? I'd like to find recent WP:NLT blocks without running "find" requests on each page of 500 blocks. In addition to that, is there a way to exclude one or more admins from the results? The recent log is full of blocks by User:ProcseeBot of open proxies; I'd like to look at the log without Procseebot results. Nyttend ( talk) 17:35, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
&limit=
field allows any integer value between 1 and 5000. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:48, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Got "Internal error": "Cannot reject these changes because someone already accepted some (or all) of the edits." when rejecting a pending change that was reverted by someone else. Wording should be changed. Mark Schierbecker ( talk) 21:33, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
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07:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
FYI, the double redirect bots are working extremely slowly today. -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 00:35, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone else noticed that recently the Sinhala script has started to appear much larger than other scripts when used with Template:Lang and Template:Lang-si? It's OK when the template isn't used.
Sinhala | English | |
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Template:Lang | ශ්රී ලංකාව | Sri Lanka |
Template:Lang-si | Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාව | Sinhala: Sri Lanka |
Template:Lang-en | English: ශ්රී ලංකාව | English: Sri Lanka |
Without template | ශ්රී ලංකාව | Sri Lanka |
I've tried it with three different browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Safari) and they all show Sinhala script to be larger when the templates are used.-- obi2canibe talk contr 20:42, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
lang}}
and {{
lang-si}}
have the same effect on your examples: they enclose the text in the HTML markup <span xml:lang="si" lang="si">ශ්රී ලංකාව</span>
. On the third row, {{
lang-en}}
doesn't actually do anything, the rendered HTML is just the same as the row "Without template". What this suggests is that there is some special processing being done for <span xml:lang="si" lang="si">
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:18, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
lang
attributes. This might depend on whether its web fonts option has been turned on. –
PartTimeGnome (
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contribs)
20:34, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Is it possible to open a page for read only, by option? More specific: I have TE right (no admin right). When developing code I work in a template /sandbox. To prevent accidental edit saving the (protected) live template code, I'd like to open that one in 'read only' mode by choice, maybe in an url link. Possible? - DePiep ( talk) 09:54, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
input#wpSave { display: none; }
Today, I was researching some of the ArbCom disputes when I saw a log entry from Phoenix7777 ( talk · contribs) (see log entries) showing simply the word "protect" without reference to any target article. For reference the first instance was I believed targeted to the Senkaku Islands dispute, see Senkaku Islands log for this. I notice also that the page was previously fully protected from moves due to the warring happening there, and that Phoenix is not a sysop so he has no ability commit any sort of logged administrative actions.
TeleComNasSprVen ( talk • contribs) 10:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
<li class="mw-logline-articlefeedbackv5"><input name="ids[54663738]" type="checkbox" value="1" /> 11:47, 6 February 2014 <a href="/info/en/?search=User:Phoenix7777" title="User:Phoenix7777" class="mw-userlink">Phoenix7777</a> <span class="mw-usertoollinks">(<a href="/info/en/?search=User_talk:Phoenix7777" title="User talk:Phoenix7777">talk</a> | <a href="/info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Phoenix7777" title="Special:Contributions/Phoenix7777">contribs</a> | <a href="/info/en/?search=Special:Block/Phoenix7777" title="Special:Block/Phoenix7777">block</a>)</span> protect </li>
mw-logline-articlefeedbackv5
but I'm not sure it's worth it. The article is not revealed. ids[54663738] is an id for the log entry.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:31, 17 March 2014 (UTC)I'm alerting Fabrice Florin, the product manager who handled the Article Feedback tool and its recent removal from this wiki, to this issue. -- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone explain this? It's an edit purporting to be from IP address 8.8.8.8, which is a Google public DNS server address, advising someone on a technical aspect of Wikipedia editing. Most explanations I can think of aren't persuasive. Maybe I'm missing something. 70.36.142.114 ( talk) 14:33, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Taking a look at Category:Pages with missing references list (usually populated by 20-100 mostly-article pages, now at 6k+ mostly-not-article ones), it's obvious that some kind of widely-transcluded something (template? module?) has been broken recently, resulting in ref errors being thrown at thousands of Portal- and Wikipedia-space pages. I've had no luck tracking down the broken transclusion with my usual methods; can I get some more eyes trying to figure out what happened? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 15:37, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I created an article ( Laricobius osakensis) with a couple of cite doi templates. Usually there is a delay in the bot filling in the citation. But it has been many hours and when I click on "jump the queue" I am taken to an error page. Is this a known problem? Abductive ( reasoning) 17:01, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there a way to search the text of edit summaries, either (1) within a single article or (2) across all Wikipedia articles?
If there isn't, can such a function be added? Dezastru ( talk) 21:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
&limit=5000
, which displays up to 5000 history entries on a single page. There are very few pages with more revisions than this, so stepping to a second page would be rare with 5000-per-page. –
PartTimeGnome (
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contribs)
23:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
limit=5000
doesn't always work. There might be something else that can restrict the number of revisions shown. –
PartTimeGnome (
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contribs)
21:40, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I'll keep an eye on the page for that tool from Sigma, in particular, to see when it's running again. Dezastru ( talk) 02:51, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
I was checking the links on WP:Tools, and came across http://www.keybreeze.com/lettercommands.htm. I have McAfee Internet Security Suite, which blocked it as a malware site and marked it "red".
I wanted a couple more tests, so I checked virustotal and submitted the website to Anubis (Anubis.iseclab.org/). Virustotal said it was "suspicious" but inconclusive; Anubis (I think) confirms my suspicion.
I want to remove it, just to be safe. All it did was give hotkeys, anyway, which accesskeys and various other Internet programs can replace.
This may sound like a dumb question, but: will anybody be dumb enough to re-instate the link (assuming it wasn't a false positive report)—a WP:RANDY editor perhaps? I can never really tell. Meteor sandwich yum ( talk) 22:43, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
When a link in a citation has been cyber-squatted, how should we deal with it? It would be best to stop it being clickable, in case it now hosts porn, malware or other undesirable content. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:23, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
|accessdate=
. The WebCite and archive.is bookmarklets have only been minimally tested as I usually only have to check archive.org.Archive site | Bookmarklet |
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Archive.org | javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href))
|
WebCite | javascript:void(window.open('http://www.webcitation.org/query.php?url='+location.href))
|
Mementos interface | javascript:void(window.open('http://www.webarchive.org.uk/mementos/search/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'?referrer='+encodeURIComponent(document.referrer)))
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javascript:void(window.open('http://www.archive.is/search/?q='+location.href)) |
<del>...</del>
on the line instead of completely removing it. I have restored the line, but left it struck-out. Chalk the deletion up to being a bit over-zealous about rectifying my non-compliance with an RfC about which I was previously unaware. However, for talk page continuity, it should remain. —
Makyen (
talk)
10:05, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
A very useful tool Edits by user at the top of every articles' Revision history is currently Missing In Action. When will this tool be available again? It was formerly found on the 4th line from the top of Revision history, for example, at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Sense_and_reference&action=history, the fourth external tool link, when counted from the left. Instead of the tool, you get The URI you have requested, http://tools.wmflabs.org/?503, is not currently serviced. -- Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 20:24, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Ugh. I don't have time to figure this crap out right now. I definitely did a "become usersearch" before running "webservice start". I have a feeling I'm going to go through the trouble of creating a .lighttpd.conf file (whatever the hell that is) and add debug.log-request-handling = "enable" (whatever the hell that is), and the result is that I'm going to get an archaic error log that doesn't tell me anything.
The tools have worked for months and I haven't made any changes to them whatsoever, I haven't even logged in to the Labs server for months. If someone wants to take over these tools, just say the word and they're yours. And tell me how to give you access to them. They're all written in Python. User:Σ has taken over some of my other tools, maybe he'll be interested in taking over more. It may be a week or longer before I have time to figure out why they're not working. The whole Tool Labs thing is way too complicated, obtuse, and poorly documented. ‑Scottywong | chatter _ 04:41, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Please accept my apologies for the trouble, Scottywong. While necessary, I am aware that the requirement to migrate from one datacenter to another did cause work and some inconvenience to volunteers. That said, I recommend strongly that you (and all Labs users) subscribe to the labs-l mailing list where advance warning and instructions are posted for any upcoming change; this way you'll get enough advance notice to schedule any intervention on your own schedule.
For the immediate issue, would you like me to add Sigma (or anyone else) as a maintainer to your tool if you don't have the opportunity to do so yourself? — MPelletier (WMF) ( talk) 13:41, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
The last few times I've tried to add a reference using the Citation template I have finished filling out the boxes and when I go to Add Citation it refreshes as if its been added but when it returns to the edit text screen the citation is not there and what I'd added has been lost. I edit using iPad and when I originally started editing with this I recalled I needed some help to get citation to work in the first place. Hope someone can assist. Eldumpo ( talk) 07:47, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
I have expanded the autofixing of Lua wp:CS1 cite templates to begin rebuilding a URL which contains a vertical bar/pipe "|" and was parsed as an extra parameter at the bar. Does anyone know of common source websites which tend to have internal bars "|" in the URL? (it already handles "nl.newsbank.com") For multiple bars, there is the danger that Lua script could get the portions parsed in reverse order, unsure which portion to append into the URL first. I have an essay discussion at:
Reply either here or in that essay talk-page, as preferred. No hurry. Thanks. - Wikid77 12:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Duplication Detector on Labs is vital to reviewing nominations at Did you know. It's link is on every template of every nomination. As of yesterday, I began getting a message that "No webservice. The URI you have requested, http://tools.wmflabs.org/dupdet/, is not currently serviced." It has been maintained by Dcoetzee who has not edited since Feb 2, 2014. Anybody know what is going on? — Maile ( talk) 17:49, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Look at User talk:Robertgreer/to do/dance2 as of this edit. Why does the template throw up the big warning? Did we want it to do this for every page in user talk space? Unlike a primary talk page (e.g. User talk:Robertgreer), this is simply the talk page for a userspace page, so it can be deleted like any other page. Nyttend ( talk) 21:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
db-author}}
requires a |rationale=
parameter when used on user talk pages. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
22:02, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
What stats can we see, about how many times an audio or video file, such as File:Benedict cumberbatch in front row b00wqfnd-crop.flac, has been played; and from which pages it was launched? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:04, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
What MediaWiki message is responsible for the "X is a student in Y (Z)" layout that I'm currently seeing at the top of a lot of contributions pages? I've tried CTRL+F through Special:AllMessages to no avail. TeleComNasSprVen ( talk • contribs) 18:42, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
When a user attempts to create or edit the file description page for a file hosted on Wikimedia Commons, the following message is displayed above the editing window:
Just out of interest, how is this heading created? Is there a template somewhere, such as an edit notice (like Template:Editnotices/Namespace/File talk), which generates it? A MediaWiki page? SuperMario Man ( talk ) 19:12, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
For it seems like at least two weeks, I no longer have the choice between "Search" and "Go" in the search box in the upper right hand corner. I thought this might be discussed on this page, but I see nothing. When I automatically display images, there is now a shape that looks like a "Q" on the right edge of the search box, possibly intended as a symbol for a magnifying glass. A mouse hover over the box displays, "Search Wikipedia [f]". My main question is how do I go directly to a Wikipedia page when I know the title? I'm finding that in some cases, it is easier to open Google and search from there. Unscintillating ( talk) 22:20, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Unscintillating: What skin are you currently using? Have you changed your skin any time in the past two months? What is your browser and operating system? This should help us diagnose the problem. -- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, when a table column heading is made bold
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I see a kind of "double bold" formatting that is heavier than ordinary bold. What actually is this formatting? And is it intentional, or is it a random side-effect of something that one is not supposed to do? 86.129.17.138 ( talk) 02:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
The CSS specification allows one to use up to 9 bolding levels, but currently only a few fonts and a few browsers support that. If you "nest" bolding, it is going to get bolder sometimes. :) Below are examples of the 9 styles in order from the lightest to the boldest for the curious. Matma Rex talk 08:35, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I can't figure out how to fix this. Can anybody have a look at Template talk:Multicol#Proposed Edit and see if they can fix this? Meteor sandwich yum ( talk) 05:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I used for a long time a tool: tools:~verisimilus/Bot/DOI_bot/. This migrated to somewhere and it is not clear to where or how to operate it. The list given somewhere on the page gives another citation tool, but this leads to a guy how wants to help with some migration.
I was never interested in programming nor do I want to follow all talks about all server and computer and software movements, but is there a possibility to get the information what hapend and why in a place close to the user?
-- Stone ( talk) 21:26, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm getting a 502 error at the usual http://utrs.wmflabs.org/ address, and have been for a couple of hours - anyone know what's going on there? Feel free to point me at the place where this has undoubtedly already been discussed; I'm rarely the first to spot these things... Yunshui 雲 水 23:52, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
At Line of succession to the British throne#Line of succession there is an image link to File:Prince Charles.jpg, but rather than displaying that image, the page is displaying an image of what appears to be a wedding cake. The page appears the same after purging and after a null edit, so I'm guessing that some kind of database glitch is responsible, rather than image vandalism. Do others see the same thing, and does anyone know how it can be fixed? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:02, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
$wgThumbnailEpoch = '20130101000000';
. The file page history
[61] shows the cake image was moved in 2010 so the thumbnails at the old title were presumably made before that and long before 2013.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
02:12, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Could someone with templating chops please look at my bug fix request at Template talk:Oldid#Bug: use with .7Coldid.3D_adds .7Ctitle.3DMain Page? It should be a quick one. Thanks. — Scott • talk 13:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
as you can see (or at least, as i can see), this template appears to be broken.
if you can't see the problem, let me describe what i see: in the tempalte page, you'll notice, in the demo, that the 3rd generation appears to be squashed: the boxes around
collapse to a single fat line, that slashes the text in the middle. you can see the effect, e.g., in Template:Genealogy of the Olympians in Greek mythology - nothing special about this one, i chose it at random from the "what links here" of Template:Chart. for your convenience, i'm transcluding it here:
Extended content
|
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is this a known issue? does someone have a solution?
Background: long time ago, we imported the grandfather of Template:Chart, namely Template:Family tree into hewiki. the imported template is borked now, and when looking for a solution i noticed that the original is now deprecated. i thought we'll have to re-import the updated one (not a pleasant task - this template code is so complicated that one can go blind if one stares at it for too long), but then i realized that the not-deprecated template is also borked...
peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) ( talk) 15:46, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
At WP:PHYS, on the right column is a link to "Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity". This should be transcluded, but I can't find the reason for why it's not. The code on the WP:PHYS page is
<div style="float:right; width:39%"> <!-- This adjusts the margins for the boxes aligned on the "right" --> {{Portal:Physics/box-header|Current activity|Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity}} {{/Current activity}} {{Portal:Physics/box-footer|}} </div>
which should transclude Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity. What gives? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:50, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I see from
Help:Magic words that {{ns:Χ}}
will get you the alias of a namespace from its index. How can one do the reverse? —
Scott •
talk
20:17, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at {{ What links here}}, which I just rebuilt, and zap whatever's causing the extra space that's appearing after the page title here? I can't put my finger on it.
{{
what links here|Example|Wikipedia}}
→
Pages that link to "Example" in namespace "Wikipedia"Thanks in advance! — Scott • talk 01:36, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems incredibly slow for me right now -- is it just me, or are other people noticing anything? — Steve Summit ( talk) 03:34, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
[this refers to this thread above]
We have regional consensus, then, that there is a problem with server performance every evening on the US East Coast. Is there a problem in the late afternoon on the US West Coast? Is there a problem in the small hours of the morning in the UK? Is there a problem in the morning in East Asia and Oceania? If so, then the problem is strictly time-dependent. If the problem is, as suggested, localized to the region and the time, then it does have something to do with load-balancing in the data centers. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:19, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm on Verizon in Central New Jersey and have been having the Wikipedia (Commons as well) slowness like others as well (including right now, 9:00 PM EDT). Last year, Verizon was throttling Youtube and I used the tricks in this blog post to block a range of IPs to get around their throttling. It generally worked though a couple of times Youtube was going just as slow as prior to the modification. Is there a similar IP address range for Wikipedia that can be blocked to get around this? — Mr. Matté ( Talk/ Contrib) 01:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I switched from Time Warner (100 over 50) to Verizon Fios (500 over 100) today (in NY), and when using Wikipedia and Commons it's much slower than the Time Warner service.- Godot13 ( talk) 02:37, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks, I'm Faidon from WMF's technical operations. Thanks for all of your reports and for identifying that Verizon is the common factor between all of you, this has been extremely helpful. The issues you're experiencing are most likely caused by network congestion, but our transit links with our ISPs are not congested, so it's likely something internal to the upstream ISP we use to reach Verizon ( GTT, a tier-1 network) or something specific between Verizon and them. We've already mailed Verizon's NOC but we've had no reply so far. We were hoping that the promises made to their customers about the issue being fixed today would be true, but unfortunately apparently they didn't alleviate the issue.
I've just special-cased Verizon and redirected traffic to Verizon using another upstream ISP of ours ( NTT America), so please do let us know if you're still experiencing problems today. We will continue the investigation and raise the issue with our upstream as well, in case there is something on their side. Thanks for your patience! Faidon Liambotis (WMF) ( talk) 15:01, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Although it may seem like it's just Wikipedia that's slow, due to the network structure that ISPs use, it can still sometimes be a wider problem caused by a failure on the ISP's end. In order to help the engineers in ops determine where the problem is, it would be helpful if people who are experiencing this slowness could perform a network diagnostic using something like traceroute to the English Wikipedia and save the results to a text file.
Instructions:
traceroute en.wikipedia.org
.tracert en.wikipedia.org
. If you're on Windows, you could also run
PathPing by typing pathping en.wikipedia.org
which provides more detailed results.Be patient when running these commands, as they can sometimes take a long time to execute. Save the entire result of whichever command you run to a text file. You could run these commands when you're not having the problems as well, to act as a control. The people in ops should greatly appreciate having this information.
Disclaimer: I'm not in ops, I'm just a person who's had to diagnose these sorts of problems before.
-- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:49, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
-s
that night.) —
Steve Summit (
talk)
19:01, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Recently I created {{ old talk on redirect}}, which populates Category:Talk pages of pages converted to redirects. Except, when you look there, it doesn't. But if you look at pages where it's used (e.g. Wikipedia talk:De-adminship), the category does appear. Is this due to some delay in category listings being updated? — Scott • talk 12:24, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I don't know if it's the same effect, but some changes to templates that result in recategorization of articles can take months to apply new categories to the articles. See the tracking at Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_4#Update_to_the_live_CS1_module_week_of_2013-11-03 for an example; it took 70 days for the new category to be applied to all affected articles. This number is not an outlier, either; articles are still being recategorized based on the most recent updates to the CS1 citation module, which were applied on 15 February, 37 days ago. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:22, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
The MediaWiki installed version of MathJax is v2.3. Nageh's script is v2.2, but has the added feature of automatically using your local STIX fonts. Does MW's v2.3 has an JS option to use my local fonts? — Edokter ( talk) — 22:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
v2.3 also changed its text-align to center (This is a change to MathJax config itself). There an RFC about this about having this changed back, but where is it? (A single line of CSS can fix this.) — Edokter ( talk) — 22:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there a problem over scripts not loading. Since yesterday the loading of pages seems to be very slow and hangs once it gets to loading in user scripts, such as the date conversion script, called from the monobook.js file. Keith D ( talk) 16:43, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there some css I can put in my personal css space to show all "collapsed" things as uncollapsed when a page loads? NE Ent 21:34, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
How come there is no"minor edit" check box on the mobile Wikipedia? -- Kndimov ( talk) 22:19, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Are there any JavaScript coders out there that can help to deal with the backlog at Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests? There are five requests in the category, all of them for JavaScript pages, and the oldest one is from 12 March. You don't have to be an admin to help, either. The main thing is the code is reviewed to make sure that it works and that it doesn't introduce any security risks, so reviewing it and noting your findings on the request page is just as helpful as making the edit yourself. If non-admins review the code, then an admin will see that review and can make the edit for you. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
http://i.imgur.com/GOWiuks.png and /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:User_scripts | Under "Inline" and such. It's not working. Ging287 ( talk) 19:54, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
WP:2R says that humans should not bother with fixing of double redirects, so I think that the following text above the page move form should be removed: Be sure to check for double or broken redirects. You are responsible for making sure that links continue to point where they are supposed to go. — Petr Matas 19:20, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
I've been working on {{ Drum corps show summary}} recently, and I've run into this problem: it can only have a finite number of rows hard-coded into it, so for a workaround, I added a parameter that outputs the same code without the headings or the ending brackets, effectively extending the limit on how many rows the template will allow. But when I split some of the cells in a row in half, and the last parameter in these split cells is left undefined (not when it's empty, though when it is that creates a different problem), the rows added after that using the template with no header do not display correctly. Here is an example. Gamma Metroid ( talk) 21:35, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
{{{place9}}}
parameter. To solve this, you can add another parameter to omit the ending "|}" of the first table and then place two templates after each other.
SiBr4 (
talk)
22:00, 25 March 2014 (UTC)Does anyone know if the functionality hosted at http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/ghct has been migrated to labs? If so, MediaWiki:GeoHack.js may need to be updated as it references the toolserver link. 28bytes ( talk) 22:03, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
At the bottom of the page Talk:Macular degeneration, the last I can see displayed (on two different computers, one with Internet Explorer and the other with Chrome) is "Help needed ... [etc]", ending with "... increased risk of AMD." I looked at "View history" thinking to insert the editor and date info, but edit mode shows that this section is indeed signed properly, and is followed by a new non-displaying section, "Primary sources". This last section also does not display in the TOC. One thing that I thought was strange is that the OP's reply 5 minutes later to his original 13 January 2014 post was also signed properly with 4 tildes, but in edit mode these still show as tildes rather than being wiki-translated to name and date.
I'm not seeing anything that looks wrong to me in the formatting of this "Primary sources" section, much less why the signature in the previous section would also have been wiped out, when it did display properly before. If anyone can fix the problem, I'd be very curious to know how this happened. Thanks for any help. Milkunderwood ( talk) 23:10, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
<ref>
tag missing its closing angle bracket, so the rest of the page got eaten up as part of the reference. I've simply commented out the reference, since it is a named ref, but there isn't a corresponding ref with that name with the ref's content. –
PartTimeGnome (
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contribs)
23:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)Hi, I'm trying to send a mass message using this list: Wikipedia:MED/med250. It's not delivering though and nothing is queued. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Jake Ocaasi t | c 12:26, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Do protection settings automatically move with a page with some sort of protection, even if moved by a non-sysop? Provided there are no sysop-only protections in effect? Lieutenant of Melkor ( talk) 16:32, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
It appears that Typography Refresh will be applied to Vector skin users on April 3. With the new VectorBeta CSS, the blockquote font size will change and the quote will be enclosed in fat quotes. See for example mw:Template:Quote. -- Gadget850 talk 01:03, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure that's a fair assessment. If you look at the two Talk archives for the beta feature, you'll see many comments about the core typography changes. Font choice was hotly debated and analyzed in-depth with a qualitative scoring system, and there was a large amount of off-wiki debate on the public community developer mailing list, Wikitech-l. We went through three major iterations where we served different primary font stacks for the body copy and headings, experimenting with putting different font-families first. The version that's being released is very much the result of feedback from the community. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 16:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Wait a minute... The new blockquote styling is enabled now. Enable typography refresh and take a look. -- Gadget850 talk 15:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
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-- Gadget850 talk 15:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I just discovered this under Preferences --> Gadgets --> Testing and development. It makes images look so much nicer, without the extra lines around them. Thank you to the people who developed it! SlimVirgin (talk) 03:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Why have col-begin/col-break/col-end started behaving differently all of a sudden? BMK ( talk) 19:40, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
col-begin}}
. What I was hoping to convey was that any recent changes to that template were not made as a consequence of
Template talk:Multicol#Proposed Edit, which concerns {{
multicol}}
and {{
div col}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:36, 26 March 2014 (UTC)Sorry, I was hoping someone would just recognize what had happened without my having to describe it in detail. OK, up until a day or so ago, the following code:
{{col-begin}}{{col-break}} *List element 1 *List element 2 *List element 3 *List element 4 {{col-break|gap=4em}} *List element 5 *List element 6 List element 7 {{col-end}}
Would result in a list such as this:
List element 1 List element 5 List element 2 List element 6 List element 3 List element 7 List element 4
Now, it results in a list like this:
List element 1 List element 5 List element 2 List element 6 List element 3 List element 7 List element 4
So the ability to control the separation of one part of the list from the other (using the "gap=" parameter) seems to have disappeared, and both parts of the list are presented at what seems to be a standard distance apart. Thus lists that fit in nicely to the left of an infobox, for instance, are now forced down to below the infobox, leave a whopping big block of whitespace. (Ironically, since the columnization of the list was done in order to reduce the whitespace in the article caused by a single column list).
Is that sufficient to help identify the problem? BMK ( talk) 01:55, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
That aside, how can I best get the result I used to obtain? BMK ( talk) 17:06, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
col-begin}}
{{
col-break}}
on the same line? If you put a newline between them, does that fix it? --
Redrose64 (
talk)
17:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
|gap=
parameter, which I see is coded into {{
col-break}}
but is not mentioned in the documentation for that template. But I'm afraid that I can't work out what is being attempted here, since the above examples are not real-world. Please give an example (two or three would be better) of an actual article which uses {{
col-begin}}
{{
col-break}}
and {{
col-break|gap=4em}}
in the manner shown above, and where the intended appearance has changed. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
In any event, take a look at the article Without Pity, in which the cast list uses the above code and, on my screen, with my resolution, used to live nicely to the left of the infobox. Now (with no change in the code, on my screen, at my resolution), the gap between the two columns of the list is very large, and is therefore pushed down to below the infobox.
I hope that's clear. BMK ( talk) 02:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm seeking confirmation that "Block account creation stops the user from creating a new account for 24 hours after the block is made" as described at Wikipedia:New admin/Blocking#User blocks.2Funblocks only disables that feature for 24 hours even if you're blocking the account indefinitely. This is the only place where it seems to state this, as at WP:HARDBLOCK (which is only for IP's but the only place that mentions account creation block but not how the mechanism works) it does not mention it and thus implies the account creation block lasts the duration of the time of the block (for example an indefinite block with that setting ticked would disable account creation indefinitely as well). Thanks! Mkdw talk 18:26, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone know the current link to check how many articles an editor has created? I would like to check my own creation stats. I seem to have lost the link for that, but I believe it was once on Toolserver and then Labs, tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/, but this one does not seem to be active. — Maile ( talk) 13:04, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hope this helps. Feel free to visit my talk page. Jay Dubya ( talk) 17:49, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
So, I was a bit quick to the draw in my browser the other day and found myself going to wikipeda.org (2 i's instead of 3). What I found was a portal that looks to pseudo-randomly refer traffic to spamming and phishing affiliate pages, for example allclktrk.com which plays an audio file and attempts to phish users into downloading a fake "update" for adobe. I haven't had enough time to check and see if the audio file was part of an overflow attempt. I'd be really surprised if it wasn't. Sometimes if you're lucky you get looped through a couple of extra affiliates and end up somewhere like a landing page on intuit's (real) web page.
They forward subdomains using a wildcard, for en.wikipeda works but also stuff that we wouldn't cover like cn.wikipeda.org or isuck.wikipeda.org. The domain is registered by Jasper Developments Pty Ltd, a web design firm in Australia. (note: I am not affiliated with them, and in fact I've never heard of them) http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=wikipeda.org&type=domain
I have some additional data and would be happy to provide more. There are strong and easy remedies to deal with domains outside of the foundation's control but that are preying on Wikipedia users in this manner. I am happy to discuss further so we can figure out how to best protect users that may not be technically proficient. While I have a significant amount of professional experience in network security, Im not interested in selling my services; just trying to protect other users. Thanks. Jay Dubya ( talk) 18:06, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm working with a group of students who want to download their sandboxes in PDF form, using the link in the sidebar. However, even after trying this on multiple computers/setups, we've found that some of the references do not appear in the PDF version, even when they are part of the article body (ie. not in any template that should be excluded from download). For example, User:CodyG123/sandbox has 10 references, but when downloaded has nine, and two of those are part of the sandbox template. Anyone know what the problem is? Nikkimaria ( talk) 01:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
If you visit Template:US Judiciaries (or any page that contains this template) and hit the "E" on the top left (part of the V·T·E), you are taken to the edit page of Template:USJudiciaries. I assume this is a mistake, some bug when moving templates. Choor monster ( talk) 12:09, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, I've added Template:Columns-list to a list. This required editing in not only the two places expected (opening the template at the start, closing it at the end) but also replacing an "=" with "=". Without this additional fix, the entire list would display as just the single character "2".
It wasn't that hard for me to locate the problematic character as I dimly recalled that "=" had caused trouble with some other template a while back.
I'm pretty much ignorant of template processing, so shan't tinker with the template. -- Hoary ( talk) 12:38, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
|1=
(or |2=
, depending on which parameter is used), or use {{
=}} instead of a regular "=". Or you may use {{
div col}} directly so you dont have to use parameters. —
Edokter (
talk) —
13:23, 30 March 2014 (UTC)I am trying to notify @ Thardin12: that I placed a GAN of theirs on hold but when I went to edit their page I noticed several delivered messages that were not showing up when the page was loaded. Can someone take a look at this? Lazy Bastard Guy 19:33, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
There are certain common errors that editors make that are often missed when saving before previewing a page, for example, adding a reference without including a closing </ref> link, adding reference links with out a {{ reflist}} tag, or creating a link to a disambiguation page. I propose that, in the same way that an editor will be prompted if they attempt to save certain templates that must be substed, an editor attempting to make a save that would introduce an error of these types should get a notice before saving, saying something to the effect of "This edit will add a <ref> tag without including a closing </ref> tag. Do you wish to continue?", or "This edit will add a link to the disambiguation page, Phoenix. Do you wish to continue?" The editor would then be given the option to go ahead and save despite the error, or to return to editing in order to fix it.
I believe that such a system would help prevent a lot of maintenance fixes from being required in the first place, particularly with respect to disambiguation links, which most editors can not tell are ambiguous without clicking on the link. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:36, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
I was first alerted to this problem through an edit request, specifically to "fix the script error in the line for Resident Evil 5". The error message reads "Lua error: Too many calls to mw.language:formatDate()." I'm guessing this has to do with the date formatting done by {{ vgrtbl}} used to format the release dates. What, if anything, can be done about this? Some searching reveals that similar problems have been brought up before. Anon126 ( talk - contribs) 01:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
{{ Val}} has started forcing numbers to display in a monospace font, contrary to other templates such as {{ gaps}} and making it an eyesore in our articles (especially when tables randomly display different numbers in different sizes). But I can't find the dependent template where the change was made. Can anyone help? — kwami ( talk) 04:47, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
digits
class in Common.css. Hope this helps. —
Edokter (
talk) —
11:18, 28 March 2014 (UTC).digits
class to the template, or even the table. Note that this was done specifically to counter formatting issues caused by fonts with old-style numerals. Candara and Georgia are the most notable. Not many other sans serif fonts even have these; you just happened to pick a font that does. Try using Calibri instead, and you will notice all digits are the same again. If you want to keep Candara, I can give some CSS to counter it. —
Edokter (
talk) —
01:11, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Aargh! You just added .digits to {su}, didn't you? Now we're back to the situation that created the last, huge argument, where assymmetrical uncertainties like 123+456
−789 is screwed up (cf. 123+456
−789). Literally half of all instances of this on Wikipedia (I've counted) are due to my edits, and last time I reverted them all so that our tables and infoboxes wouldn't look horrible. We debated how to handle this for weeks, and finally came to consensus. Could you just allow that hard-won agreement to stand, and revert
this edit? —
kwami (
talk)
23:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
My default serif font is Palatino Linotype. Yes, your example appears to be Georgia, and correct, the examples at MOS:NUM are old style digits. However, we don't use Val at MOS:NUM, so what you're doing here has no effect there.
I don't understand. Since you know that the examples at MOS:NUM do not display tabular digits and do not line up, why have you set Val for tabular digits? That screws up Candara, but has no effect on Georgia, and has no effect on the MOS. And why set Val for tabular digits only some of the time, so that different parts of a number conflict?
I also don't understand about TNR. If it doesn't have OS digits, wouldn't that be exactly what you want, since it would avoid the problem?
As for your adjustment of my CSS, now Candara displays tabular Old Style digits, which is a good result. Georgia, however, is still messed up. So, (1) wouldn't that CSS fix be good to add to the WP default CSS, so that everyone gets the benefit, and (2) how does any of this address the supposed problem, that Georgia does not have tabular digits?
Here are the previous examples, but using the Val template (this after you installed my CSS, which allows lining/tabular spacing, but keeps OS forms):
The digits class makes no difference in Georgia. In Candara, the digits class makes no difference to the {su} part, of course, but does affect the width of the one in the main part. In Georgia, it makes no difference at all. Also, in Candara, the super- and sub-scripts are tabular Old Style digits. In Georgia, they are non-tabular Old Style digits, the same as they were before you adjusted my CSS, and the same as they are (and were) at MOS:NUM. So, with all this work, you've corrected the display for a single person (me), but haven't addressed the fact that the digits don't line up in Georgia, which was supposed to be the reason for the fix, nor that you've made Val to screw up the display of assymmetrical uncertainties for everyone who's chosen a font with Old Style numbers, apart for Georgian, which has thwarted your fix. — kwami ( talk) 21:29, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
OpenType font settings are a strange beast. For me, the lining/tabular feature combination work on Candara, Georgia and most other fonts with defualt old-style numerals. The Time New Roman example was to see if it contains old-style numerals; it does, but they only work whn not using tabular display, so tabular would automatically force lining numerals. — Edokter ( talk) — 11:23, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
<span class="nowrap">
<span class="{{#ifeq: {{{lining|}}} | yes | digits}} nowrap">
Discussion moving back to the template talk page. — kwami ( talk) 07:44, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
This SVG looks fine, has valid code (I checked), and yet is displaying very poorly on the page. Not sure how to fix this. It's a shame that we can't have SVGs be SVGs because some people still use IE8. Any ideas as to what's causing this, or is it just a bug in MW? ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 17:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
On IRC a few days ago, someone asked, "Does anybody know a tool that can automatically "play" all the diffs or the versions of an article? To show how it grew over time?"
We used to have a few that worked (listed at Wikipedia:Tools#Visualization and elsewhere) but I can't find anything that works currently.
(I checked the "AniWiki"[1] and "Wikipedia Animate"[2] greasemonkey scripts, as mentioned in The Signpost in 2005, but neither worked anymore.)
Does anyone here know of a working tool? (or where else to ask?) Thanks. – Quiddity ( talk) 18:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
When I edit in template space, I see a box below the editbox that says Preview page with this template Page title: <inputbox> Show preview (button)
. I have no idea what it does. Can someone link to some documentation or background page for this one? -
DePiep (
talk)
06:45, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that {{ Nutshell}} displayed broken HTML lists (i.e. three lists of one item instead of a list of three items) when more than one unnamed parameter was passed to it, contrary to guidelines about gaps between list items, at Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process). I fixed this by converting the list from wiki-markup to HTML, but was that the most elegant method? I couldn't find anything in the previous code that should have broken the HTML lists, and I don't know Lua so I can't tell whether Module:Message box (which is ultimately called by the nutshell template) had anything to do with the problem. Graham 87 07:05, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
{{Nutshell |It is not necessary or desirable to reply to every comment in a discussion. |The more often you use the same reason in a given discussion, the weaker it becomes. |Everyone has the same right to be heard in any discussion. }}
{{Nutshell |1=It is not necessary or desirable to reply to every comment in a discussion. |2=The more often you use the same reason in a given discussion, the weaker it becomes. |3=Everyone has the same right to be heard in any discussion. }}
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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Preferences > Gadgets > Editing > "Add two new dropdown boxes below the edit summary box with some useful default summaries"
There's no link to a page about the gadget. Where is it? Who is maintaining it? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
defaultsummaries|defaultsummaries.js
This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:
This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.
For more information:
-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team
This was also in the latest edition of the The Signpost, for those follow it. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 23:13, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
User:Σ shows error message "The requested page or revision cannot be found" etc. I wonder if this is due to a bug or something. - Synsepalum2013 ( talk) 14:04, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
"An error has occurred while searching: The search backend returned an error:" here every time I try to search. -- Elvey ( talk) 21:17, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
&srbackend=CirrusSearch
to the results page (every time it loads) or switch on the BetaFeature. In the mean time I'll look into the error.
NEverett (WMF) (
talk)
21:30, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
I started a thread " Use interwiki links instead of HTML anchors?" at MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright that may interest some of you. Jason Quinn ( talk) 03:45, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Is there an easy to find page with instructions on specifically what to copy to a talk page to get automatic archiving started? Am extremely confused and can't find a clear answer. Hopeful thanks in advance! -- LT910001 ( talk) 10:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Would someone be kind to look into the Valls Cabinet article and see what's wrong with the formatting since "References" pops up in the middle of a table instead of at the bottom where it as customary is inserted. Regards, Iselilja ( talk) 11:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible/desirable to create a gadget which would detect if a user opens a page (in edit mode), copies its contents and then closes the edit window? In this situation it could remind the user that he should give credits to the authors if he uses the copied material in some other place. It is relatively common to see users copying e.g. English Wikipedia's templates to other wikis, or translating articles, etc... without linking to the original pages. Helder.wiki 15:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
There are currently 340 articles in Category:HDS different on Wikidata, which doesn't exist. If anyone knows of an easy way to determine where it is generated, and whether it is useful in any way, then we can see whether it needs creation (and hiding) or removal. And a small trout for the editor adding some maintenance category to a template without creating it. Fram ( talk) 07:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Move creates redirects automatically even when they're illegal, like moving an article to the draft namespace. If should notice this and not create them. Otherwise you end up with the situation like Sara shahmohammadi. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:15, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
...approximates this styling?:
font-size:110%;line-height:1.4em;text-align:center;white-space:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;
...or perhaps one for its crucial elements...?:
text-align:center;white-space:normal;
If so, please divulge!
Thanks, Sardanaphalus ( talk) 14:42, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The "Help" link in the "Interaction" section of the left sidebar is broken; instead of jumping to a Wikipedia help page, it sends you off to a Mediawiki page. The corresponding link at Commons, "Help portal", is also broken. -- John of Reading ( talk) 20:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The previous font size was perfectly fine as it was. Now, the new one is uncomfortable to read.
If it ain't broke, don't break it. Please restore the previous font size, or at least make an easily visible font resizer button. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.136.248.192 ( talk) 23:13, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is Wikipedia extra scrolly lately? I don't know if it's because of the new font or the fact that I'm temporarily stuck on IE 10, but now, whenever I scroll down to the bottom, I get an extra ~2 screen heights of blankness at the bottom. Any ideas? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 00:14, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
There may be some technical explanation for this, but I don't know what it could be.
A few weeks ago, Deepak Chopra tweeted about a death threat in the Ralph Abraham article. [80] Responses to the tweet seem to acknowledge the vandalism, with one person posting a screenshot. [81] Someone else did a blog post about it. [82]
However, the only contemporaneous edits to the article were some vandalism by 71.119.92.56 four days prior to Chopra's tweet, which was immediately reverted by ClueBot. [83] Ah, but that just means the death threat was suppressed, right? That's what I had thought. However admins have told me that there are no suppressed edits in the Ralph Abraham article. I also know that 71.119.92.56's edits are in fact the death threats in question.
Now we shift to seemingly less probable explanations. Chopra was complaining about a non-vandalized article? And other people were too? The screenshots didn't have have the "old revision" tag on them, so people were using the latter part of an old diff to create screenshots? Well maybe, I guess, but here comes the monkey wrench: one screenshot was of the Google Knowledge Graph! [84] You know, the thing that appears on the right when you type "Ralph Abraham" into Google. [85] Since ClueBot reverted the vandalism immediately, how the heck did Google pick it up? Just astoundingly unlucky timing? Perhaps there is a caching bug somewhere?
Resorting to other presumably less probable explanations: the vandal, having a freshly vandalized page, took the screenshots? The screenshots were faked? Multiple admins are lying about the page having no suppressed edits? There is an extra secret level of uber suppression that non-uber admins cannot see? I am somewhat kidding, but I'm still perplexed. vzaak 05:04, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I look here but I didn't find it. I want to make a citation for an excel file (is online), for a specific sheet. Is there any specific way? Xaris333 ( talk) 05:18, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
|title=
for a prose description of the file, |at=
to indicate the sheet name, and |url=
for the web address, including the http://
. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
06:31, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
|format=XLS
may be useful, too.
—PC
-XT
+
09:38, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
|at=
for that - e.g. |at=Sheet 1, cells J20:L39
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
09:57, 4 April 2014 (UTC)Hi.
It is amazing just how many search results came up before I started this topic, not one of them relevant. (I still might have missed something.)
Contrary to what the documentation of Template:TODAY says, Subst in this code snippet does not work, at least for me:
<ref>{{cite web |accessdate={{subst:TODAY}} |title=Languages |work=Apache HTTP Server |agency=Ohloh |publisher= Black Duck Software |url=https://www.ohloh.net/p/apache/analyses/latest/languages_summary}}</ref> {{Reflist}}
Result:
{{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |accessdate=
(
help)
Screenshot:
Why is that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Codename Lisa ( talk • contribs) 06:59, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
When they did the font change, on (only) one of my PC's (all use Firefox browser) all of the body font went to "narrow" and is very hard to read. Is the is known problem / Is there a known fix for this? North8000 ( talk) 15:32, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
I've just noticed today that when using the search box (Vector, top right of the screen) the predicted-text dropdown is suddenly thrown over to the left - it has the same vertical position and width, but is now somewhere just to the right of the "talk" tab. If I resize the browser window, it moves around accordingly, but doesn't snap into the correct place. Purging doesn't help, nor does being logged out. (I'm using Chromium 31.0.1650.63, but I get more or less the same on Firefox 26 - perhaps a little further left.)
The weird thing... it only happens on this page, only on VP:T. It doesn't occur, as far as I can tell, on any other page; it doesn't happen in the edit window. I assume there's some kind of weird CSS rendering in one of the examples above that's causing it, but goodness knows where. Anyone else seeing this, or is it Just Broken For Me (tm)? Andrew Gray ( talk) 20:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
The Wikipedia documentation prohibits registration of shared accounts. Please provide your input here (to help me, please try to separate thoughts and create subsections for verbose discussion). Thanks. Gryllida ( talk) 03:26, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
I made some
edits on Commons, but when I use the "Global contributions" link at the bottom of my English WP
contributions page, no edits for Commons are listed. Does Commons not count towards global contributions?
Lyryn
talk
04:46, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
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In the last two weeks, I've had two users new of
my script enquiring about loading problems. They describe a sequence of events that seem improbable, given that my script has been well tested and any fatal bugs rapidly patched, and I cannot replicate the loading problems within my own userspace. The script seems to behave inconsistently between vector.js and monobook.js environments. First was
this. The script didn't work in vector but was eventually made to work in monobook. I never thought the syntax – importScript('PATHNAME.js');
or importScript("PATHNAME.js");
– mattered, as I have both single quotes and double quotes inside my vector file and there are no problems with script importations.
Then, earlier today, another user
reported that the script apparently loads, and the sidebar buttons appear, but clicking on it only results only in a new edit summary. Now given that the function that inserts the edit summary of my MOSNUM script is the last to execute, yet earlier-placed functions do not execute on a given article as well; the instruction (i.e. doaction('diff');
) that follows the edit summary insertion is not executed, it seems highly illogical behaviour. Any idea what could be the source of the problem? --
Ohc
¡digame!
00:26, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
When editing a Wikipedia article, the user can enter up to 255 characters in the Edit summary. When a reviewer is performing an edit review on a Difference between revisions page, the comment field accepts a comment of up to 255 characters, but only about 85 are accepted; the rest are thrown away without warning. In this of February 4 I entered
which was truncated to
which is 88 characters; the full edit summary is
which is 169 characters.
In this of Troye Sivan I entered
(or possibly something longer), which was truncated to
which is 82 characters; the full edit summary is
which is 167 characters.
In this of War on Women I entered
which was truncated to
which is 86 characters; the full edit summary is
which is 166 characters.
So I don't know what is the true limiting factor on truncating an edit review comment into an Edit summary, but the limit seems to be effectively about 85 characters.
It is wrong for Wikipedia to accept up to 255 characters and truncate without warning at about 85 characters. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 10:09, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
[[Help:Reverting|Reverted]] 2 [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending]] edits by [[Special:Contributions/Carissaryy|Carissaryy]] to revision 596521603 by Filedelinkerbot: supplied reference is dead link. Please omit "th" in dates; just "August 11" not "August
[[Help:Reverting|Reverted]] {{PLURAL:$1|1 [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending]] edit|$1 [[Wikipedia:Pending changes|pending]] edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
Reverted $1 pending {{PLURAL:$1|edit|edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
[[H:REV|Reverted]] $1 [[WP:PC|pending]] {{PLURAL:$1|edit|edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
Reverted $1 [[WP:PC|pending]] {{PLURAL:$1|edit|edits}} by $2 to revision $3 by $4
I'm preparing a patch for MediaWiki right now that will make it use Special:Contribs instead of Special:Contributions. Best case, it makes it here on the 6th. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 21:42, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
mb_strlen($string, '8bit');
, which is "guaranteed" to return byte length. also, as far as i can see, it does not choose the shorted alias for the namespace itself - this will also be helpful (e.g., "Special" weighs less than "מיוחד"). peace -
קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (
talk)
23:06, 26 February 2014 (UTC)Exertional Rhabdomyolysis should be at Exertional rhabdomyolysis. There's only one edit in the history or the properly capitalized page (the creation of the redirect). But I can't move it. Did WP:MOR go away when I wasn't looking, or is there something else going on here? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:07, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
At one time, someone with the sysop password was capable of locking the entire wiki against public editing with a single command, in case anonymous vandalism became rampant for a time — see nost:Wiki Administrators. Of course admins can't do this anymore, but is there another userrights package that includes it (e.g. steward), or is it possible only if you're one of the server operators? Someone at WP:ANI is wondering about the risks of vandalbots that do random things while operating on extra-dynamic IP addresses; I'm curious whether this semiprotect-the-whole-website could be done if we got to a really extreme point. Nyttend ( talk) 02:06, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
G'day Guys My exceedingly long list needs improved presentation: List_of_Australian_radio_broadcast_transmission_characteristics I have floated the table of contents right, as suggested by Ariconte in the Teahouse, which is great. But the paragraph numbering at the third level takes away from the readability of the TOC rather than adding to it, since the section headings (radio station callsigns) are sufficent in themselves. Is there a way to suppress the paragraph numbering solely at the 3rd level? TIA Samuel.dellit ( talk) 02:57, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
TOC limit}}
is left-aligned and doesn't float. To float right, use {{
TOC right|limit=n}}
where n is an integer in the range 2-5 (|limit=1
is ignored; |limit=6
is pointless). I suggest {{
TOC right|limit=3}}
for
List of Australian radio broadcast transmission characteristics. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:18, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I have no issue with how many lines you have to scroll down in a TOC if you use {{ Fancy TOC}} which puts the TOC in a fully customizable scrollbox so the TOC no longer effects the length of the page. You may also be interested in T6127, which requests a token to suppress table of contents autonumbering; T8453, which requests for a way to allow labelling certain sections with letters instead of numbers (displayed in the ToC); and/or T45494, which request to allow us a way to make table of contents numbering scheme and style localisable. While none of those bugs directly requests what you are asking for here, it could be a part of a couple of them if someone was to so comment and ask for it. Alternatively, you could always start a new bug ticket on Bugzilla to request this feature. — {{U| Technical 13}} ( t • e • c) 14:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
<div class="nonumtoc">__TOC__</div>
There's a more fundamental issue: Is the article too big and should thus be split? Or can the information be presented in a more informative fashion? Fixing the TOC to display in a certain fashion does not fix what I see as the underlying issue, that the presentation of the information is just really bad. -- Izno ( talk) 16:33, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
It seems that {{ substring}} is still using the so-called " padleft hack" which is basically a disgusting anti-pattern predating the introduction of Lua. Is there any good reason for this, or was it simply missed during the conversion efforts? It does appear to have quite a few transclusions. -- N Y Kevin 16:27, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Template:Floruit/doc#Parameters claims that {{
fl.|n}}
will sort correctly in tables, whereas {{
fl.}}
n
won't. But, unless I'm missing something, both Col 1 and Col 2 in that table sort incorrectly (i.e. 1066, 1956, 1510), if you click on the arrows next to the column names. Has something gone wrong with either {{
fl.}} or Wiki-tables?
It Is Me Here
t /
c
13:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
sortable=yes
is in the dcumentation for {{
circa}}.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
13:06, 26 February 2014 (UTC)I hate the new editing interface. It becomes impossible to edit templates. Is there any way I can turn it off. ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 02:12, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Play the video on the right and a video player pops up. If I set the video thumbnail to an unreasonable 801px, the video will play in line. Why is this? No other video embeds on any other website behaves like this. - hahnch e n 02:47, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Goto Dustforce and view the same video. Not only will a pop up player appear, it will appear wrongly sized. On Firefox, the video still plays, on Chrome it does not. - hahnch e n 02:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I've noticed some problematic that I think I can reproduce. If I compose some text in an external editor, paste that text into a talk page, then click on the icon to add a signature, it sometimes out the sig at the beginning rather than the end, even though the blinking cursor is at the end of the pasted text.
With some experimentation at User:Sphilbrick/sandbox I see that if I just paste the text, the sig goes in the right place, but if I type a colon or two, then paste, then click on the icon, it places the sig in the wrong place. (Mozilla Firefox)
Has anyone else observed this? Any suggestions?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 21:48, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm was updating documentation on
User talk:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js, and I noticed that my script installation instructions are specific to the Monobook skin, which is no longer default. What I wanted to do was put the user's skin in the link instead (i.e., something like [[Special:Mypage/{{#useroptions:skin}}]]), but I don't know how to get at the user options using server-side code (it's part of mw.user.options
in Javascript). Anyone know how to do this? Thanks. —
howcheng {
chat}
11:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I just went to block a user for spam username. I always use the 'Block user' facility in the sidebar. I clicked on indefinite - OK. I then went to 'Reason' and instead of the full list, I was offered seven 'Common block reasons', none of which was spam username'. The 'Warn' feature on the top toolbar worked fine - full list available. Is this a glitch, or has someone somewhere decided that we must now type in our reasons instead of having a full pulldown list as well as having the option to customise individual cases? Peridon ( talk) 12:14, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Can someone sort out why the chart at Kings of Wales family trees does not display properly? Thanks. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 15:06, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Can someone with Firefox check here to see if the headers are grey in the middle? Trying to rule out my PC. If others see it too, then I discovered a major bug in Firefox involving linear gradients with transparent stops. — Edokter ( talk) — 15:18, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
transparent
in gradients. —
Edokter (
talk) —
16:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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My Notifications menu used to show a link to a diff when someone thanked me for an edit. Right now, it looks like:
The username is linked. The article name is not linked.
I believe that the article name used to be linked and that there used to be a "show edit" link after the "XX minutes ago" statement.
Sometimes people thank me for an edit that I made a while ago, and I want to be able to see the edit. Now I have to manually type the article name or search my edit history instead of clicking a helpful link. That's not helpful.
Am I remembering this correctly? Is it just me? How can I get this useful link back? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 21:23, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
If "When an OCSP server connection fails, treat the certificate as invalid" is checked at the Firefox options menu, Wikipedia is not reachable. 87.78.121.142 ( talk) 01:20, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone help me with the large location map at
List of power stations in Sri Lanka? I want that image to be half the height, with a scroller on the image part (excluding the caption). I tried {{
Tall image}} and <div>
stuff; I can't seem to be getting it right...
Reh
man
08:06, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
#F0E
. Muddiness in the overlap happens when the hues are different; the
Sri Lanka map uses pushpin markers of five different hues. Try your demo again, but with each circle a different hue, retaining opacity="0.4"
- try it also with the circles layered in different orders. The overlap area will vary. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
16:43, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
When using the |content=
parameter with
Template:Documentation, it is breaking up the green background area on the template page in Firefox 27.0.1. See as an example:
Template:Template link templates, down at the bottom. The /doc portion is very strange.
Funandtrvl (
talk)
20:55, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
|content=
the {{{content}}}
<p>...</p>
section is being added in between the outer div and footer sections but it is being created in a different way causing the top and bottom section to close and the {{{content}}}
<p>...</p>
section is showing up not in the main div. When I enter anything into the Searchbox, the searchpage comes up instead of bringing me to the page in question, this happens whether I enter a page name, a redirect name, or a shortcut name (yes, I have spelled it properly. It's also become case sensitive, saying the page I entered doesn't exist if I use a different case (say all lower case when the shortcut is all upcaps) - 76.65.129.222 ( talk) 07:29, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Is this some issue that Wikipedia is now requiring JavaScript? (it does not work even with JS on) -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 05:07, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Any idea what change from Wikipedia brought this about? I notice that the styling for Wikipedia:Article_wizard is also broken across multiple browsers. The buttons for "Write an article now (for new users)", "Request an article be written on a topic", "Create something else (for advanced users)" are invisible. I assume this has occurred at the same time the searchbox broke. -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 11:39, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I'll note that the search algorithm seems faulty. franklin underwood does not show Franklin Underwood as a result in the first page of results. However, previously, the go to page function that used to work would directly bring up the "Franklin Underwood" article, now you'd have to click past the first page of results to even know it exists (and would probably assume that it doesn't exist, since it didn't show up at the top of the results) ; the WPUSA error can be seen with [4] -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 03:49, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
franklin underwood
in the search box at the top right below Log in/out. The second search box at
Special:Search has different functionality. It adds &fulltext=Search
to the url. This prevents the go function and is intentional. Which search box are you using? The top right box has a drop-down box saying "containing..." (at least in my browser). If that is activated then &fulltext=1
is added and this also disables the go function. I don't know whether there is any difference between &fulltext=Search
and &fulltext=1
. It appears &fulltext=x
for almost any x (other than 0) disables go.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
04:25, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
To clear up some confusion:
Vector's search box uses 'Go' mode by default when the user has JavaScript enabled and a browser capable of rendering the search suggestions; otherwise it uses the fulltext search mode. This is intended and a caused by a recent change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/82100/ – previously it always used 'Go' mode.
This behavior was discussed fervently on the changeset I linked above; in the end I was convinced that this is a better solution. The change was also announced in the second-to-last (I think) tech news posted here. If you disagree, please file a bug. Matma Rex talk 20:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
?useskin=monobook
to any page, for example
/info/en/?search=Special:BlankPage?useskin=monobook.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
For my dissertation, I've been making a framework to make tools in the browser. It's still in development, but I'd like to start encouraging some participation in the development of Vada and its plugins/tools/apps/hacks.
A quick overview, it's written entirely in synchronous javascript (which makes it much easier to develop with), comes with a number of GUI elements with underlying code, such as a queue, a queue builder and predefined buttons (revert & warn, template user, thank user, etc.) and abstracts the API into objects with a tailored caching mechanism.
Currently on this wiki, there is an anti vandal plugin "app" that you can test, which demonstrates some of the features Vada provides.
I would appreciate thoughts, ideas and suggestions to make this framework as useful as possible.
930913( Congratulate) 18:09, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
On the page Pollinator, a piped link to taxonomic rank is somehow interrupted mid-word with "Heading 1" in heading form. Step right up and take a look before this freakish problem is fixed! What's going on? ± Lenoxus ( " *** ") — Preceding undated comment added 21:26, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Upon further investigation, it looks like a bug (appropriately enough) in the bot that undid the testing-vandalism edit. I'm guessing that if someone edited and saved it with zero changes, the problem would go away, but I could be wrong, and I sort of don't want to disturb the bug while it remains active. ± Lenoxus ( " *** ") 21:31, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
I have continually experienced problems when trying to use the service "download as PDF".
Firstly, the process is totally incapable of dealing with template:cite journal etc. Even when only using raw text (i.e. no templates at all) as references, I just tried again now to convert a page into a PDF, and the pdf has 50 references when the original page it has been rendered from has 52. References disappear, and I cannot see any reason for this.
Who can I ask about this issue please?
Many thanks for your attention in this matter, Lesion ( talk) 15:19, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
<ref name=blahblah2009>blahblah</ref>
), and the subsequent instances of the ref may be shortened <ref name=blahblah2009 />
Thanks for background... but for the time being does anyone know what bot would carry out this task:
Before:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<ref name=ref1 /> consectetur adipisicing elit.<ref name=ref1>Ref 1</ref>
After:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<ref name=ref1>Ref 1</ref> consectetur adipisicing elit.<ref name=ref1 />
I am sure I have seen bots do this, but I don't usually pay them attention. Any ideas? Thanks, Lesion ( talk) 00:38, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there some problem with the WMF Labs servers, I have been trying to use the Category Tree Intersection tool at http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/quick_intersection.php?lang=en&project=wikipedia and keep getting the error message
Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2003): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'enwiki.labsdb' (110) in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 88 Fatal error: Call to a member function real_escape_string() on a non-object in /data/project/magnustools/public_html/php/common.php on line 101
Keith D ( talk) 21:46, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
I recently moved
Template:Necessary? to
Template:Overly detailed-inline and, while going over the code, noticed the unsubstitution code uses parameter |$N=Template name
.
The module Module:Unsubst is only a year old (or something similar), I think, and I'm not too familiar with Lua. Following renaming of templates, is it a requirement to update the parameter name, or can the system handle it?
First time posting here btw. meteor_sandwich_yum ( talk) 23:46, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
|$N=
parameter is the template used for the template invocation generated by the module. For example, if you had the template invocation {{subst:overly detailed-inline|one|two|foo=bar}}
, and the |$N=
parameter in
Template:Overly detailed-inline was set to "baz", then Module:Unsubst would output the template invocation {{baz|one|two|foo=bar}}
. If you hadn't updated the |$N=
parameter, the template would have produced a template call to {{
necessary?}} rather than to {{
overly detailed-inline}}. That wouldn't really have been a problem as the former is a redirect to the latter, but it is probably best to use the current template name to avoid things being unnecessarily confusing. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
01:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
|$N=
code is removed from all the transclusions. If we remove the check, and someone substitutes a template that uses Module:Unsubst before we update that transclusion, the module would include code like |$N=foo
in the template invocation it generates. I'll have another look and see if I spot anything, but that's all I've got for now. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
06:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
{{Template:Foo}}
instead of just {{Foo}}
. That's fixed in the sandbox now. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
07:02, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
The page creator tool is still down, any idea what is up with it? Giant Snowman 18:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI @ C678:, @ PiRSquared17: this is still not loading for me. Could it because I have created nearly 4,000 articles and it is therefore too big to load? Giant Snowman 12:29, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I've been trying to query the API for a list of new pages in the mainspace. I've been attempting to add the &redirect= parameter so that redirects don't show up in my query, but they don't seem to get resolved. Is there another way I can do this? Thanks, -- Jakob ( talk) 02:35, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
&apfilterredir=nonredirects
is what you are looking for...
Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=allpages&format=json&apnamespace=0&apfilterredir=nonredirects&aplimit=10?&rcshow=!redirect
is what you are looking for...
Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=recentchanges&format=json&rcnamespace=0&rcshow=!redirect&rclimit=10&rctype=new?Hi, when I was searching for kite, I saw that on the search results page for kite, there were two links to kite article page (I think so), 1 bold and one that is not bold, I would like someone to deal with this issue on Special:Search by typing in kite and checking it out, if the pages are not the same, maybe delete it under CSD A10 (if possible). Thanks for checking out the problem in advance. (Safari) -- Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa123| UPage|☺★ (talk) 09:30, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
I've tried it and got the same result. On the search page for "kite" (not the search box, the actual page Special:Search), the top two results both link to the article Kite, one bolded and one not. Also, while the dates of last modification are the same for both results, the unbolded page is 113 bytes bigger (though again, they link to the same article). SiBr4 ( talk) 13:43, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
I haven't been keeping updated with the latest code changes on Wikipedia. So I heard addOnloadHook is being deprecated with ResourceLoader? I usually use jQuery's $(document).ready() anyway, so it's not a big deal, but for some of my scripts I still use addOnloadHook because it runs the code after all $(document).ready()'s have been run.
So what would be the equivalent when written with ResourceLoader?
Thanks Gary ( talk · scripts) 18:36, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
"MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "addOnloadHook" property is deprecated. Use jQuery instead"
" suggests to me that it is already deprecated... There's actually a bunch of other deprecated stuff too that should be fixed. ""MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "insertTags" property is deprecated. Use mw.toolbar.insertTags instead"
", ""MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "wikiGetlink" property is deprecated. Use mw.util.getUrl instead."
", and ""MWDeprecationWarning: Use of "mwCustomEditButtons" property is deprecated. Use mw.toolbar instead"
". — {{U|
Technical 13}} (
t •
e •
c)
19:52, 4 March 2014 (UTC)addOnloadHook(…)
is mostly equivalent to $(window).on('load', …)
, with the caveat that the latter won't fire if you call it after the page has already been loaded – this only matters if you're doing weird things with loading scripts on-demand or when developing and testing code in the browser's console.mw.loader.using(['ext.gadget.<name>', …], function(){…}))
), which is one very big pro of caring about RL :)
Matma Rex
talk
19:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Is it possible to disable JavaScript on Wikipedia, through Wikipedia? I noticed that Wikipedia works a lot slower for me when I'm logged onto my account than when I'm logged off. Is there any way to fix this? (with turning off JavaScript being one possibility) All Hallow's Wraith ( talk) 01:40, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Something is clearly wrong with the Tic Price article and I'm not sure how to fix it. Northern Antarctica ( talk) 04:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
|}
code that I added with {{
CBB yearly record end}}. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
04:45, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Could we implement an option where the top row in a table (the one with labels) would scroll along with the broswer window when viewing long tables? Microsoft Excel has a similar feature called "Freeze Panes." It's rather annoying to have to scroll back up to recognize what a column means and we have many pages of long tables where I think such an enhancement would greatly aid the user experience. For example Assembly of the International Space Station -- Rwheimle ( talk) 10:57, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Seems like checkboxes in "Search" section of the "Preferences" are broken, here are more details.
My settings included a selection of namespaces to be searched, and when I accessed this "Preferences" section yesterday, all checkboxes were displayed as empty, what's the first issue. After selecting a few namespaces (other than "Search in all namespaces") and submitting the form, all checkboxes are displayed back as cleared. The only thing that seems to be working is the "Search in all namespaces" checkbox; when selected and submitted/saved, this checkbox displays back as expected. That's the second issue.
Tested yesterday and today on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and they behave the same; browsers used were Firefox 24 and 27. Obviously a bug – any chances, please, for fixing it? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 17:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
On Wikimedia Commons, "Thumbnail size" label in the "Appearance" section is displayed in Greek language (I guess) instead of being displayed in English. No other labels are affected by this issue, and they're all displayed in English as expected. Also, English Wikipedia isn't experiencing this issue.
Obviously a bug – any chances, please, for fixing it? — Dsimic ( talk | contribs) 17:38, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
It seems like "Edittools" has disappeared from under the Edit summary on pages that I'm editing. The one that usually can display "Wiki markup" tools, like inserting a defaultsort, etc. Funandtrvl ( talk) 19:47, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Moved to the policy village pump.
Timestamp for archive purposes. – xeno talk 02:39, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
When I preview an edit, I'm now taken directly to the edit window (ironically, from the edit window) instead of the the top (preview, with the red "This is only a preview...") section. Trouble is, I don't know if I need to continue editing until after I've read the preview and it's inconvenient to have to keep scrolling up. I checked my preferences, and couldn't find any gadgets or other stuff that would cause this. I use XP (stop laughing) and FF 27.0.1. Is it a bug, or is it me? Thanks for any help and all the best, Mini apolis 16:54, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
resolved}} - discussion continued, so let it go :-) . OP is answered. -
DePiep (
talk)
21:37, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
I am creating a link like this:
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in. Is it possible and advisable to interrupt the underlines at the fraction (denominator)? I found that class="nounderlines"
doesn't seem to work on parts of a wikilink. -
DePiep (
talk)
18:34, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
text-decoration
rule (used internally by the browser for underlines, strike-throughs and some more exotic things), unlike, say font-weight
or text-transform
. That's because it's not applied to the individual characters, but to an entire text "box" (which can in fact be seen in the original example here). My explanation is probably not very clear, but consider the difference between {{
fraction|1|9}}
→ 1⁄9 or {{
fraction|1|10}}
→ 1⁄10 show as boxed hex codes for me, which is an accessibility problem for a sighted reader. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
14:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
fraction}}
well over a year ago, but there was no firm conclusion. The discussion is archived at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility/Archive 3#Template:Fraction but some comments went to
Template talk:Frac#Template:Fraction and accessibility instead, despite
WP:MULTI. Please bear in mind that the template has been
heavily modified since then, and so my comments (such as those about one-seventh etc.) should be read in the context of the template as it stood at the time.{{
fraction}}
but use {{
frac}}
instead, which I am informed is somewhat more accessibility-compliant. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
16:26, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear almighty technical people, I have stumbled across a relic of a time long-ago when wiki-pages and templates were manually formatted, and their meaning could only be divined by those already gifted by 'the sight'. Consequently I'd be very grateful for any help unpicking this template: Template:Infobox muscle, I want to add a section using the 'below' parameter that is bold and italic and reads: Anatomical terms of bone . -- LT910001 ( talk) 08:39, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
If one goes to the article Dawes (band), at the very lower left of the browser appears the phrases in very strange manner:
If you hover the cursor over it, it goes away. But when you reload the page, it will come back. I notice the source for the glitch is likely the band's official website, which has the identical phrasing at the same place. [27] How is this website glitch getting onto our page? Is this the new face of spam? Is it only on Safari? What is up with this, as I have never seen anything like this before? Doc talk 16:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Might not be the place this should be posted, but has anyone noticed an IP Special:Contributions/10.4.1.126 is going through a whole slew of pages and manually archiving large chunks at random? Does anyone know if this is some Wikimedia person doing this? — Maile ( talk) 02:31, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I received a notification ( screenshot) that said Joe Graham was linked from [No page] (not sure how to properly format that link). There are a couple of issues with this. I don't appear to be watching Joe Graham and the second link is obviously bad. Killiondude ( talk) 20:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Since yesterday I've been having problems with the "Insert Citation" functionality (you know, "Cite" on my javascript toolbar). The citation templates fill in properly, but when I click "Add citation" I get kicked back to the editing window (which is normal) but without the citation being added. I found that if I do "Preview citation" first (and then I double-click so at least I save the plain text), and then click again to the proper place in the edit window, and then click "Add citation", that it works properly. But this is real irritating. Drmies ( talk) 15:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
mwCustomEditButtons
should be migrated to mw.toolbar.addButton(s)
insertTags
should be replaced by mw.toolbar.insertTags
Looking over the many articles posted to PROD, I find that a large minority, perhaps as high as 50%, are questionable, and a smaller subset, perhaps 20%, clearly fail the criterion. This is supposed to be backed up by a "last chance save" by the deleting admin, but there appears to be no statistics on whether or not this actually occurs.
Given that there doesn't seem to be any closing requirement other than deleting, and that the PROD can be removed by anyone at any time with a similar lack of record keeping, I'm wondering if anyone might suggest ways to collect statistics on this? Theoretically the search would be something to the effect of "how many articles have had a PROD tag applied, how many of those were ultimately deleted, how many were not". My concern is that the last, perhaps most important, part may be difficult to collect - how would one find edits that remove PROD tags specifically?
Maury Markowitz ( talk) 16:41, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone here make up the template {{R from Merger}} which would do exactly as {{R from Merge}} now does (so they could basically be interchangeable)? This would help us mergists—who often do merge and redirects quickly and on the fly—and who really, really hate going back to fix such a minor issue. Thanks, GenQuest "Talk to Me" 20:36, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
When I click on my Reflinks link, I am getting a page not found message from toolserver. It was working fine yesterday. Anybody know if the url has changed or if it has been taken down for maintenance? The link I use (installed in my browser toolbar is "javascript:location='//toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py/'+(typeof wgPageName!='undefined'?wgContentLanguage+':'+wgPageName:)+'?client=bookmark&citeweb=on&overwrite=simple&limit=20';"). Thanks danno_ uk 21:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
I have the Admin dashboard on my User:Peridon/links page. Normally, when I open the page, the dashboard opens with it. Today, it's just coming up as a blue link to Template:Admin dashboard which I have to click. Not a big deal, but puzzling. No-one's done anything to the /links page or the template since last year, and I've not changed any settings on my computer or altered my preferences here. (Monobook, XP Pro in Classic mode, Firefox 20) Peridon ( talk) 12:58, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
rfplinks}}
, since there is one on every single permission request. Either that should be simplified, or the delay between closure of a request and its archiving should be shortened. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:34, 9 March 2014 (UTC)|newadmin=yes
is exclusively set. I'll add some other customizing parameters to the template so that it will be customizable as to showing the various
WP:PERM sections. It will work such as the perm page won't show in the template unless there has been an edit to that page in "x" amount of time unless the admin says they don't want to see any perm requests at all by setting |showperm=no
. Otherwise the showperm parameter will accept a numeric value in the number of seconds (or perhaps more flexible, not sure yet) since last edit. I'll add full documentation when I'm done. The "new admin" turning off should fix the immediate issue, I hope. — {{U|
Technical 13}} (
t •
e •
c)
15:08, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Thanks, everyone. And it's back to normal now. Peridon ( talk) 18:17, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
|archivenow=
, |archiveprefix=
and |key=
. Such configuration would not allow the dwell time on the page after approval/denial to be specified. The bot would just archive any with the specified text (e.g. {{Already done}}, {{done}} and {{not done}}) the next time it ran on the page. This is probably preferable to someone having to manually archive on a continuous basis. Because the archives would not be under the originating page, a |key=
would need to be generated prior to enabling the archiving or the bot will put the archives in its default location ({{FULLPAGENAME}}/Archives/). —
Makyen (
talk)
23:46, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone fix my talk page? Whenever I check it, it comes up almost blank. I think it has something to do with the templates on it. I also need to archive it, but that is another matter entirely. :) ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 18:26, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
</div>
, which suggests that
User:Editorofthewiki/Navigation and
User talk:Editorofthewiki/Header might contain some malformed HTML. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:06, 9 March 2014 (UTC)The transclusion counter at http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&name=Boys_Night_Out&namespace=10 seems to be out of service. -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 18:42, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
In the table at Malaysia Airlines Flight 370#Passengers and crew, when clicking on the sorting button for the "Nationality" column for the first time, nothing happens because the nationalities are already listed in alphabetical order by default. Is it possible to make it so that it instead sorts in reverse alphabetical order the first time you click on the sorting button? Hey mid ( contribs) 19:09, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
The AFC tool could be used to start Wikidata entries. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/2014 6#Wikidata for more. Help from a coder would be appreciated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:41, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
I have started getting Error 404 reported when trying to run transcluded_changes.py. The url I have been using is https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/transcluded_changes.py?page=Template:WikiProject_Caves. Has the tool moved or been withdraw? Thanks. Langcliffe ( talk) 22:12, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Panic over - it's come back. Langcliffe ( talk) 13:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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I've been trying to get onto Reflinks but every time, whether I use the link on WP or the direct web address, it comes up with a 502 bad gateway error message. What is wrong? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 09:43, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi all, I am trying to add User:Mr.Z-man's excellent new "Popular pages" list to the WikiProject Palestine front page, but I can't get it to work. As soon as I swap it in the page doesn't work any more.
Perhaps because the list is too big? Just wondering if you have any idea how I can fix it. I didn't realise there was a limit on these things.
Oncenawhile ( talk) 10:41, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
As per WP:CIRCULAR, Wikipedia should never be used to cite itself. Is it technically possible to have a maintenance category populated with articles that have circular references? This seems like a good idea. It would be populated with articles that contain references like
or
or
among other possible scenarios. There is a inline template about circular references (see {{ Circular-ref}} but I don't see its point and just started a conversation on its talk page about that. Jason Quinn ( talk) 03:49, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
<
ref>
tags not using a template unless
Cite is changed. --
Gadget850
talk
12:35, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Hello, I would like to get this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idfonline/12966001753/in/set-72157641943868053 into the infobox on this page KLOS C. The photo has creativecommons permissions, as I have seen often used here on Wikipedia via Flickr but I am unclear on how to move a photo from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Juneau Mike ( talk) 17:18, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
A single character change in a large block of text such as this diff can often be tedious to locate. In this case a comma was removed after "waxy" in a 2,700 character paragraph. Is there a way of making such a change more visible? I do a large amount of RCP and often quit in exasperation attempting to find such changes. Thank you Jim1138 ( talk) 20:54, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
td.diff-deletedline .diffchange,
td.diff-addedline .diffchange {
/* Maybe my display contrast is bad, but I can hardly see the highlight. */
background:#f88;
}
I have been consistently getting a Internal Server Error when trying to use count lately. Anyone else? What can be done about it? Thanks in advance, X Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:25, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
and tried to tell me AddWittyNameHere does not exist. Existential crisis here! I apparently do not exist! AddWittyNameHere ( talk) 22:42, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't see what is being mentioned here, making it impossible for me to look into.— cyberpower ChatAbsent 16:37, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Not resolved for me, not sure about others. It's been on and off, but mostly off, since I first posted on 3 March 2014. X Ottawahitech ( talk) 19:22, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Someone's been messing with the code again; links such as File:New Jersey Dry Town Listing.pdf do not currently lead to a page where I can click to see the deletion history. This breaks things and needs to be fixed. -- Elvey ( talk) 00:30, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
importScript( 'User:Technical 13/Scripts/fileRedlinks.js' );// [[User:Technical 13/Scripts/fileRedlinks]] makes image redlinks work like page redlinks.
'enwiki' => '//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload'
then I think
File:New Jersey Dry Town Listing.pdf would go to
[44] instead of
[45]. So the upload wizard would be replaced by the default upload form, and the latter displays the deletion log (and actually places the file name in the upload form).
PrimeHunter (
talk)
03:32, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I've just noticed that this edit by John of Reading ( talk · contribs) shows as (-12) in the watchlist, but (-13) in the page history and the user's contribs. What might cause this discrepancy? -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:35, 9 March 2014 (UTC) amended Redrose64 ( talk) 13:29, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
&curid=21438123
piece? I'm just guessing here...
meteor_sandwich_yum (
talk)
12:11, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
character (1 byte)?
meteor_sandwich_yum (
talk)
12:21, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
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1FE0 0A 3D 3D 3D 41 72 74 69-63 6C 65 20 74 61 6C 6B .===Article talk
1FF0 3D 3D 3D 0A 2A 6D 65 20-7B 7B 74 6C 7C 74 6D 66 ===.*me {{tl|tmf
2000 72 6F 6D 7D 7D 2C 20 7B-7B 74 6C 7C 74 6D 74 6F rom}}, {{tl|tmto
2010 7D 7D 0A 0A 3D 3D 3D 55-73 65 72 20 74 61 6C 6B }}..===User talk
debug
to get the actual hex dump, but first the data needs to be obtained and prepared.Extended content
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It's happening over and over to me that I create or answer a proposal and as soon as I click 'Save page', the Internet Explorer 9 browser can't display the web page and I would like that problem fixed. After that problem, I then have to click 'Read' then click 'Leave page' to see my proposal. That problem doen't seem to be happening much in articles or talk pages. My proposals don't get lost from losing an internet connection but I still don't like it. Blackbombchu ( talk) 02:53, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Two of my recent requests ( Infoboxes not using parent template, Remove link tracking) at WP:BOTREQ (I'll post a pointer to this discussion there) have recently been archived: the former unanswered, the latter after someone said they'd do the work, then pulled out. I've had each of these happen previously. (aside Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 25 is still waiting, months after an RfC approved the work).
I appreciate that bot operators are volunteers, and am grateful for what they do do, but what can we do to increase the takeup rate? Should we keep a list of such requests, separate from the archives (which also include declined and satisfied requests), so that new or returning operators can more easily find them? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:52, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Hey! I want to place some userboxes into a scroll box with a title in each scroll box on my userpage, however I don't know how. Also I want another scroll box to be right beside it so it could be parallel to each other. Any suggestions? -- ///EuroCar GT 18:37, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
About me | What I like | What I've done |
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Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. Boxes about you. |
Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. Boxes about what you like. |
Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. Boxes about what you've done. |
Hi all - I use Google Chrome (latest version), and lately (perhaps a week or so) I've noticed that the Twinkle script and other gadgets sometimes fail to load. This also causes diffs and even simple editing and saving to fail. I thought it was a Twinkle issue, but I just checked the Chrome error log and this is what I see: Blocked script execution in ' /info/en/?search=Special:Watchlist' because the document's frame is sandboxed and the 'allow-scripts' permission is not set.. Any idea what could be causing this? Mozilla (latest) and IE 11 don't exhibit this issue at all. The only loosely related thing I found was this, but it seems to be related to apps within Google, and Wikipedia is not an app. I only have three extensions enabled (AdBlock, GoogleDocs and a tabs-related one) so I don't think that might be the issue. Also, it seems to be intermittent, not permanent. Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated. § FreeRangeFrog croak 03:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
When I edit a page, like I do now, it would be very nice to have a Javascript to show some warnings like:
And probably some other kind of warnings that editors might consider useful. Of course, the program should allow me to define "Text1", "Text2", etc, somewhere in it's preferences. For example, at this moment I am editing a lot of articoles for adding DEFAULTSORT. When I edit a page, I would like to know if it contains a certain template, which has to be removed - in case it exists in that page. It's a waste of time to try with CTRL + F on every page I edit, especially when I have to remove more than one template or text. I need the program to warn me about it automatically. Is it possible to create such a script? Or there might be some browser addons for that? Probably such a task it's doable with GreaseMonkey. — Ark25 ( talk) 19:35, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
If I enter a range into Special:Contributions, it only finds a single result, and then stops. This is on both /16 and /24 ranges. Examples;
When this worked, it used to show the results in reverse "alphabetical" order (i.e. X.X.X.99, X.X.X.98, etc.) So it looks like its finding them all, but then only showing the "first" in its list. Tested in Firefox 27 & IE10, Windows 7. Black Kite ( talk) 23:51, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Firefox 27.0.1, Windows 8.1 Modern skin I am transitioning from Windows XP. Much WP Preferences that I take for granted on XP are non-existant on 8.1, Request Page Protection is gone, Purge the page is gone, my little tab to fix dashes with a script, etc. And, in fact, the only thing that appears at the top of the article is "Article", "Talk, "Edit This Page", "History", "Move" and "Unwatch" Even more inconvenient on my own main user page, there is no longer the User tab with the drop down menu to tell me where my subpages are, the sandboxes, the .js pages, the .css pages. I suspect my scripts are gone, because I have nothing extra in "Tools" In the search bar, I no longer get a pop suggestion when I type in an article name. Inconvenient. Any solutions? — Maile ( talk) 17:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
I've proposed a change to the way we structure the system of portal images for the {{ portal}} template over at Template talk:Portal#New image database proposal. Please comment there if you are interested. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:39, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I've recently changed my email address. But as of yet it hasn't confirmed it. It says its sent me a confirmation email and I've received nothing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
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I have created {{
Main cat only}}. Used in a template, it categorises the article (mainspace), but in other spaces just gives feedback text, using the colon [[:Category:...]]
. A major advantage is that, when the hosting template tests OK, no code change is needed (no removal of |demospace=main
or the draft colon). This by simple template code. It is also named {{
Article cat only}} by redirect, which may be more inviting for draft editors.
One issue arises. When the template expands into feedback text, that can happen in an infobox (as maintenance categorization goes). That will disrupt the box layout & structure. Is there a possibility to present the feedback text otherwise? (css title text? Wikitext near bottom of page?). Except for the obvious edits, pls use the sandbox. - DePiep ( talk) 14:05, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Starting this afternoon (~1:30PM Eastern time, it's almost 8:30PM now), I haven't been able to use the Search function; instead, I just get this message: "An error has occurred while searching: HTTP request timed out." I'm using Firefox 27.0.1 on two different internet connections but the same device (I don't have access to anything else right now). Any ideas? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 00:24, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Another data point: I consistently found a similar problem when searching for "A-b testing" (no quotes). (I wanted A/B testing.) Message was "An error has occurred while searching: The search backend returned an error: ". Certes ( talk) 01:31, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Back in the early days of Wikipedia (before 2003) user right changes (including administrator promotions) and many other things were done by the developers. I wanted to know if it's still technically possible for a developer today to change user rights of an account, delete or protect pages, block other user from editing, change usernames, lock/unlock user accounts, etc. ? And even if that's possible, In the interest of transparency, is there any way to check and see all the developer actions that have ever been made on the English Wikipedia ? Thank you. - TheGeneralUser (talk) 12:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to clean up hacky code concerning a two-column numbered list.
On the page Pokémon#Films ( permalink), I came across this code:
{{col-begin}} {{col-2}} # ''[[Pokémon: The First Movie|Pokémon: The First Movie—Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' (1998) # ''[[Pokémon: The Movie 2000|Pokémon: The Movie 2000—The Power of One]]'' (1999) # ''[[Pokémon 3: The Movie|Pokémon 3: The Movie—Spell of the Unown]]'' (2000) # ''[[Pokémon 4Ever|Pokémon 4Ever—Celebi: Voice of the Forest]]'' (2001) # ''[[Pokémon Heroes]]'' (2002) # ''[[Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker]]'' (2003) # ''[[Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys]]'' (2004) # ''[[Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' (2005){{col-2}} <ol start="9"> <li>''[[Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]'' (2006)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai]]'' (2007)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior]]'' (2008)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]'' (2009)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]'' (2010)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and White—Victini and Zekrom|Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and <br> Pokémon the Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom]]'' (2011)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice]]'' (2012)</li> <li>''[[Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened]]'' (2013)</li> </ol> {{col-2}} {{col-end}}
Which is pretty messy. It begins with wikimarkup (hashes to stand for numbers), switches over to HTML <ol>
and <li>
elements, and throws in {{
col-begin}}, {{
col-2}}, and {{
col-end}} into the mix!
An elegant solution would be to remove all HTML begin with {{div col}} and end with {{div col end}}. I did want to support CSS-incompatible browsers such as IE9 and former, so was considering Template:Multi-column numbered list( talk links history). Can anybody tell me if this uses CSS in a way that would prevent proper rendering of columns in old browsers? If this template works I might want to use it on pages where it might actually make a difference.
Open to suggestions or opinions. Meteor sandwich yum ( talk) 06:09, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
col-2}}
. It's possible to amend this so that it's almost entirely Wiki markup with just a tiny amount (only one tag) of HTML. Consider the middle part - this could be altered to # ''[[Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew]]'' (2005){{col-2}}
#<li value=9> ''[[Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea]]'' (2006)
# ''[[Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai]]'' (2007)
<li value=>
is only necessary on one of them. Finally remove the </ol>
.{{
div col}}
/{{
div col end}}
should definitely be the way to go. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
08:06, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
{| valign="top"
|-
| valign="top" | <ul><ol start="{{{1|1}}}" style="list-style-type:{{{lst|decimal}}}"><li>{{{2}}}</ol></ul>
| valign="top" | <ul><ol start="{{#expr:{{{1|1}}}+{{{3|1}}}}}" style="list-style-type:{{{lst|decimal}}}">{{{4}}}</ol></ul>
{{#if:{{{5|}}}|{{!}} valign="top" {{!}} <ul><ol start="{{#expr:{{{1|1}}}+{{{3|1}}}+{{{5|1}}}}}" style="list-style-type:{{{lst|decimal}}}">{{{6}}}</ol></ul>}}
|}
{{autocol | n=9 |ncols=3 |num=y|wrap=y|colgap=7
|a |b |c |d |e |f
|g|h|i|}}
style=
attribute, it always has CSS, because that is the sole purpose of style=
. Wherever a HTML tag uses the class=
attribute, it probably has CSS, but the class=
attribute can also be used to create a label, for instance the
COinS metadata emitted by e.g. {{
cite book}}
is labelled with class="Z3988"
. Wherever a HTML tag uses the id=
attribute, which is primarily used to create a label, it might have CSS as well: for instance, the little red square which tells you that you have notifications is the element <li id="pt-notifications">...</li>
and there is some CSS that is specific to that id=
. These three attributes may be found on any HTML element that is permitted within the body of a HTML document, including on the <body>
tag itself.list-style-type:
CSS property. That goes right back to
CSS 1, so is recognised by most versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari also IE 4 and later. The permitted values have been enhanced in the meantime: see
CSS 2, . Further enhancements are proposed for
CSS 3 but that document is still at the
Working Draft stage - it's not yet a
W3C Recommendation, so some browsers may not yet support these features. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
09:31, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
class=
attributes. And I see what you mean now! Thank you so much! Gives me a bunch of ideas on how to proceed. I think I'll stick with {{
div col}}
/{{
div col end}}
for this one.
Meteor sandwich yum (
talk)
22:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Is there a way to search the block log, other than loading 500-page chunks and using Ctrl+F on each one? I'd like to find recent WP:NLT blocks without running "find" requests on each page of 500 blocks. In addition to that, is there a way to exclude one or more admins from the results? The recent log is full of blocks by User:ProcseeBot of open proxies; I'd like to look at the log without Procseebot results. Nyttend ( talk) 17:35, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
&limit=
field allows any integer value between 1 and 5000. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:48, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Got "Internal error": "Cannot reject these changes because someone already accepted some (or all) of the edits." when rejecting a pending change that was reverted by someone else. Wording should be changed. Mark Schierbecker ( talk) 21:33, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
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FYI, the double redirect bots are working extremely slowly today. -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 00:35, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone else noticed that recently the Sinhala script has started to appear much larger than other scripts when used with Template:Lang and Template:Lang-si? It's OK when the template isn't used.
Sinhala | English | |
---|---|---|
Template:Lang | ශ්රී ලංකාව | Sri Lanka |
Template:Lang-si | Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාව | Sinhala: Sri Lanka |
Template:Lang-en | English: ශ්රී ලංකාව | English: Sri Lanka |
Without template | ශ්රී ලංකාව | Sri Lanka |
I've tried it with three different browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Safari) and they all show Sinhala script to be larger when the templates are used.-- obi2canibe talk contr 20:42, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
lang}}
and {{
lang-si}}
have the same effect on your examples: they enclose the text in the HTML markup <span xml:lang="si" lang="si">ශ්රී ලංකාව</span>
. On the third row, {{
lang-en}}
doesn't actually do anything, the rendered HTML is just the same as the row "Without template". What this suggests is that there is some special processing being done for <span xml:lang="si" lang="si">
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:18, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
lang
attributes. This might depend on whether its web fonts option has been turned on. –
PartTimeGnome (
talk |
contribs)
20:34, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Is it possible to open a page for read only, by option? More specific: I have TE right (no admin right). When developing code I work in a template /sandbox. To prevent accidental edit saving the (protected) live template code, I'd like to open that one in 'read only' mode by choice, maybe in an url link. Possible? - DePiep ( talk) 09:54, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
input#wpSave { display: none; }
Today, I was researching some of the ArbCom disputes when I saw a log entry from Phoenix7777 ( talk · contribs) (see log entries) showing simply the word "protect" without reference to any target article. For reference the first instance was I believed targeted to the Senkaku Islands dispute, see Senkaku Islands log for this. I notice also that the page was previously fully protected from moves due to the warring happening there, and that Phoenix is not a sysop so he has no ability commit any sort of logged administrative actions.
TeleComNasSprVen ( talk • contribs) 10:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
<li class="mw-logline-articlefeedbackv5"><input name="ids[54663738]" type="checkbox" value="1" /> 11:47, 6 February 2014 <a href="/info/en/?search=User:Phoenix7777" title="User:Phoenix7777" class="mw-userlink">Phoenix7777</a> <span class="mw-usertoollinks">(<a href="/info/en/?search=User_talk:Phoenix7777" title="User talk:Phoenix7777">talk</a> | <a href="/info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/Phoenix7777" title="Special:Contributions/Phoenix7777">contribs</a> | <a href="/info/en/?search=Special:Block/Phoenix7777" title="Special:Block/Phoenix7777">block</a>)</span> protect </li>
mw-logline-articlefeedbackv5
but I'm not sure it's worth it. The article is not revealed. ids[54663738] is an id for the log entry.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:31, 17 March 2014 (UTC)I'm alerting Fabrice Florin, the product manager who handled the Article Feedback tool and its recent removal from this wiki, to this issue. -- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Can someone explain this? It's an edit purporting to be from IP address 8.8.8.8, which is a Google public DNS server address, advising someone on a technical aspect of Wikipedia editing. Most explanations I can think of aren't persuasive. Maybe I'm missing something. 70.36.142.114 ( talk) 14:33, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Taking a look at Category:Pages with missing references list (usually populated by 20-100 mostly-article pages, now at 6k+ mostly-not-article ones), it's obvious that some kind of widely-transcluded something (template? module?) has been broken recently, resulting in ref errors being thrown at thousands of Portal- and Wikipedia-space pages. I've had no luck tracking down the broken transclusion with my usual methods; can I get some more eyes trying to figure out what happened? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 15:37, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I created an article ( Laricobius osakensis) with a couple of cite doi templates. Usually there is a delay in the bot filling in the citation. But it has been many hours and when I click on "jump the queue" I am taken to an error page. Is this a known problem? Abductive ( reasoning) 17:01, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there a way to search the text of edit summaries, either (1) within a single article or (2) across all Wikipedia articles?
If there isn't, can such a function be added? Dezastru ( talk) 21:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
&limit=5000
, which displays up to 5000 history entries on a single page. There are very few pages with more revisions than this, so stepping to a second page would be rare with 5000-per-page. –
PartTimeGnome (
talk |
contribs)
23:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
limit=5000
doesn't always work. There might be something else that can restrict the number of revisions shown. –
PartTimeGnome (
talk |
contribs)
21:40, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I'll keep an eye on the page for that tool from Sigma, in particular, to see when it's running again. Dezastru ( talk) 02:51, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
I was checking the links on WP:Tools, and came across http://www.keybreeze.com/lettercommands.htm. I have McAfee Internet Security Suite, which blocked it as a malware site and marked it "red".
I wanted a couple more tests, so I checked virustotal and submitted the website to Anubis (Anubis.iseclab.org/). Virustotal said it was "suspicious" but inconclusive; Anubis (I think) confirms my suspicion.
I want to remove it, just to be safe. All it did was give hotkeys, anyway, which accesskeys and various other Internet programs can replace.
This may sound like a dumb question, but: will anybody be dumb enough to re-instate the link (assuming it wasn't a false positive report)—a WP:RANDY editor perhaps? I can never really tell. Meteor sandwich yum ( talk) 22:43, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
When a link in a citation has been cyber-squatted, how should we deal with it? It would be best to stop it being clickable, in case it now hosts porn, malware or other undesirable content. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:23, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
|accessdate=
. The WebCite and archive.is bookmarklets have only been minimally tested as I usually only have to check archive.org.Archive site | Bookmarklet |
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Archive.org | javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href))
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WebCite | javascript:void(window.open('http://www.webcitation.org/query.php?url='+location.href))
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Mementos interface | javascript:void(window.open('http://www.webarchive.org.uk/mementos/search/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'?referrer='+encodeURIComponent(document.referrer)))
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javascript:void(window.open('http://www.archive.is/search/?q='+location.href)) |
<del>...</del>
on the line instead of completely removing it. I have restored the line, but left it struck-out. Chalk the deletion up to being a bit over-zealous about rectifying my non-compliance with an RfC about which I was previously unaware. However, for talk page continuity, it should remain. —
Makyen (
talk)
10:05, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
A very useful tool Edits by user at the top of every articles' Revision history is currently Missing In Action. When will this tool be available again? It was formerly found on the 4th line from the top of Revision history, for example, at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Sense_and_reference&action=history, the fourth external tool link, when counted from the left. Instead of the tool, you get The URI you have requested, http://tools.wmflabs.org/?503, is not currently serviced. -- Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 20:24, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Ugh. I don't have time to figure this crap out right now. I definitely did a "become usersearch" before running "webservice start". I have a feeling I'm going to go through the trouble of creating a .lighttpd.conf file (whatever the hell that is) and add debug.log-request-handling = "enable" (whatever the hell that is), and the result is that I'm going to get an archaic error log that doesn't tell me anything.
The tools have worked for months and I haven't made any changes to them whatsoever, I haven't even logged in to the Labs server for months. If someone wants to take over these tools, just say the word and they're yours. And tell me how to give you access to them. They're all written in Python. User:Σ has taken over some of my other tools, maybe he'll be interested in taking over more. It may be a week or longer before I have time to figure out why they're not working. The whole Tool Labs thing is way too complicated, obtuse, and poorly documented. ‑Scottywong | chatter _ 04:41, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Please accept my apologies for the trouble, Scottywong. While necessary, I am aware that the requirement to migrate from one datacenter to another did cause work and some inconvenience to volunteers. That said, I recommend strongly that you (and all Labs users) subscribe to the labs-l mailing list where advance warning and instructions are posted for any upcoming change; this way you'll get enough advance notice to schedule any intervention on your own schedule.
For the immediate issue, would you like me to add Sigma (or anyone else) as a maintainer to your tool if you don't have the opportunity to do so yourself? — MPelletier (WMF) ( talk) 13:41, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
The last few times I've tried to add a reference using the Citation template I have finished filling out the boxes and when I go to Add Citation it refreshes as if its been added but when it returns to the edit text screen the citation is not there and what I'd added has been lost. I edit using iPad and when I originally started editing with this I recalled I needed some help to get citation to work in the first place. Hope someone can assist. Eldumpo ( talk) 07:47, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
I have expanded the autofixing of Lua wp:CS1 cite templates to begin rebuilding a URL which contains a vertical bar/pipe "|" and was parsed as an extra parameter at the bar. Does anyone know of common source websites which tend to have internal bars "|" in the URL? (it already handles "nl.newsbank.com") For multiple bars, there is the danger that Lua script could get the portions parsed in reverse order, unsure which portion to append into the URL first. I have an essay discussion at:
Reply either here or in that essay talk-page, as preferred. No hurry. Thanks. - Wikid77 12:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Duplication Detector on Labs is vital to reviewing nominations at Did you know. It's link is on every template of every nomination. As of yesterday, I began getting a message that "No webservice. The URI you have requested, http://tools.wmflabs.org/dupdet/, is not currently serviced." It has been maintained by Dcoetzee who has not edited since Feb 2, 2014. Anybody know what is going on? — Maile ( talk) 17:49, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Look at User talk:Robertgreer/to do/dance2 as of this edit. Why does the template throw up the big warning? Did we want it to do this for every page in user talk space? Unlike a primary talk page (e.g. User talk:Robertgreer), this is simply the talk page for a userspace page, so it can be deleted like any other page. Nyttend ( talk) 21:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
db-author}}
requires a |rationale=
parameter when used on user talk pages. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
22:02, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
What stats can we see, about how many times an audio or video file, such as File:Benedict cumberbatch in front row b00wqfnd-crop.flac, has been played; and from which pages it was launched? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:04, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
What MediaWiki message is responsible for the "X is a student in Y (Z)" layout that I'm currently seeing at the top of a lot of contributions pages? I've tried CTRL+F through Special:AllMessages to no avail. TeleComNasSprVen ( talk • contribs) 18:42, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
When a user attempts to create or edit the file description page for a file hosted on Wikimedia Commons, the following message is displayed above the editing window:
Just out of interest, how is this heading created? Is there a template somewhere, such as an edit notice (like Template:Editnotices/Namespace/File talk), which generates it? A MediaWiki page? SuperMario Man ( talk ) 19:12, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
For it seems like at least two weeks, I no longer have the choice between "Search" and "Go" in the search box in the upper right hand corner. I thought this might be discussed on this page, but I see nothing. When I automatically display images, there is now a shape that looks like a "Q" on the right edge of the search box, possibly intended as a symbol for a magnifying glass. A mouse hover over the box displays, "Search Wikipedia [f]". My main question is how do I go directly to a Wikipedia page when I know the title? I'm finding that in some cases, it is easier to open Google and search from there. Unscintillating ( talk) 22:20, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Unscintillating: What skin are you currently using? Have you changed your skin any time in the past two months? What is your browser and operating system? This should help us diagnose the problem. -- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, when a table column heading is made bold
like this |
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I see a kind of "double bold" formatting that is heavier than ordinary bold. What actually is this formatting? And is it intentional, or is it a random side-effect of something that one is not supposed to do? 86.129.17.138 ( talk) 02:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
The CSS specification allows one to use up to 9 bolding levels, but currently only a few fonts and a few browsers support that. If you "nest" bolding, it is going to get bolder sometimes. :) Below are examples of the 9 styles in order from the lightest to the boldest for the curious. Matma Rex talk 08:35, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I can't figure out how to fix this. Can anybody have a look at Template talk:Multicol#Proposed Edit and see if they can fix this? Meteor sandwich yum ( talk) 05:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I used for a long time a tool: tools:~verisimilus/Bot/DOI_bot/. This migrated to somewhere and it is not clear to where or how to operate it. The list given somewhere on the page gives another citation tool, but this leads to a guy how wants to help with some migration.
I was never interested in programming nor do I want to follow all talks about all server and computer and software movements, but is there a possibility to get the information what hapend and why in a place close to the user?
-- Stone ( talk) 21:26, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm getting a 502 error at the usual http://utrs.wmflabs.org/ address, and have been for a couple of hours - anyone know what's going on there? Feel free to point me at the place where this has undoubtedly already been discussed; I'm rarely the first to spot these things... Yunshui 雲 水 23:52, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
At Line of succession to the British throne#Line of succession there is an image link to File:Prince Charles.jpg, but rather than displaying that image, the page is displaying an image of what appears to be a wedding cake. The page appears the same after purging and after a null edit, so I'm guessing that some kind of database glitch is responsible, rather than image vandalism. Do others see the same thing, and does anyone know how it can be fixed? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:02, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
$wgThumbnailEpoch = '20130101000000';
. The file page history
[61] shows the cake image was moved in 2010 so the thumbnails at the old title were presumably made before that and long before 2013.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
02:12, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Could someone with templating chops please look at my bug fix request at Template talk:Oldid#Bug: use with .7Coldid.3D_adds .7Ctitle.3DMain Page? It should be a quick one. Thanks. — Scott • talk 13:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
as you can see (or at least, as i can see), this template appears to be broken.
if you can't see the problem, let me describe what i see: in the tempalte page, you'll notice, in the demo, that the 3rd generation appears to be squashed: the boxes around
collapse to a single fat line, that slashes the text in the middle. you can see the effect, e.g., in Template:Genealogy of the Olympians in Greek mythology - nothing special about this one, i chose it at random from the "what links here" of Template:Chart. for your convenience, i'm transcluding it here:
Extended content
|
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is this a known issue? does someone have a solution?
Background: long time ago, we imported the grandfather of Template:Chart, namely Template:Family tree into hewiki. the imported template is borked now, and when looking for a solution i noticed that the original is now deprecated. i thought we'll have to re-import the updated one (not a pleasant task - this template code is so complicated that one can go blind if one stares at it for too long), but then i realized that the not-deprecated template is also borked...
peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) ( talk) 15:46, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
At WP:PHYS, on the right column is a link to "Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity". This should be transcluded, but I can't find the reason for why it's not. The code on the WP:PHYS page is
<div style="float:right; width:39%"> <!-- This adjusts the margins for the boxes aligned on the "right" --> {{Portal:Physics/box-header|Current activity|Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity}} {{/Current activity}} {{Portal:Physics/box-footer|}} </div>
which should transclude Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity. What gives? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:50, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I see from
Help:Magic words that {{ns:Χ}}
will get you the alias of a namespace from its index. How can one do the reverse? —
Scott •
talk
20:17, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at {{ What links here}}, which I just rebuilt, and zap whatever's causing the extra space that's appearing after the page title here? I can't put my finger on it.
{{
what links here|Example|Wikipedia}}
→
Pages that link to "Example" in namespace "Wikipedia"Thanks in advance! — Scott • talk 01:36, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems incredibly slow for me right now -- is it just me, or are other people noticing anything? — Steve Summit ( talk) 03:34, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
[this refers to this thread above]
We have regional consensus, then, that there is a problem with server performance every evening on the US East Coast. Is there a problem in the late afternoon on the US West Coast? Is there a problem in the small hours of the morning in the UK? Is there a problem in the morning in East Asia and Oceania? If so, then the problem is strictly time-dependent. If the problem is, as suggested, localized to the region and the time, then it does have something to do with load-balancing in the data centers. Robert McClenon ( talk) 02:19, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm on Verizon in Central New Jersey and have been having the Wikipedia (Commons as well) slowness like others as well (including right now, 9:00 PM EDT). Last year, Verizon was throttling Youtube and I used the tricks in this blog post to block a range of IPs to get around their throttling. It generally worked though a couple of times Youtube was going just as slow as prior to the modification. Is there a similar IP address range for Wikipedia that can be blocked to get around this? — Mr. Matté ( Talk/ Contrib) 01:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I switched from Time Warner (100 over 50) to Verizon Fios (500 over 100) today (in NY), and when using Wikipedia and Commons it's much slower than the Time Warner service.- Godot13 ( talk) 02:37, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks, I'm Faidon from WMF's technical operations. Thanks for all of your reports and for identifying that Verizon is the common factor between all of you, this has been extremely helpful. The issues you're experiencing are most likely caused by network congestion, but our transit links with our ISPs are not congested, so it's likely something internal to the upstream ISP we use to reach Verizon ( GTT, a tier-1 network) or something specific between Verizon and them. We've already mailed Verizon's NOC but we've had no reply so far. We were hoping that the promises made to their customers about the issue being fixed today would be true, but unfortunately apparently they didn't alleviate the issue.
I've just special-cased Verizon and redirected traffic to Verizon using another upstream ISP of ours ( NTT America), so please do let us know if you're still experiencing problems today. We will continue the investigation and raise the issue with our upstream as well, in case there is something on their side. Thanks for your patience! Faidon Liambotis (WMF) ( talk) 15:01, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Although it may seem like it's just Wikipedia that's slow, due to the network structure that ISPs use, it can still sometimes be a wider problem caused by a failure on the ISP's end. In order to help the engineers in ops determine where the problem is, it would be helpful if people who are experiencing this slowness could perform a network diagnostic using something like traceroute to the English Wikipedia and save the results to a text file.
Instructions:
traceroute en.wikipedia.org
.tracert en.wikipedia.org
. If you're on Windows, you could also run
PathPing by typing pathping en.wikipedia.org
which provides more detailed results.Be patient when running these commands, as they can sometimes take a long time to execute. Save the entire result of whichever command you run to a text file. You could run these commands when you're not having the problems as well, to act as a control. The people in ops should greatly appreciate having this information.
Disclaimer: I'm not in ops, I'm just a person who's had to diagnose these sorts of problems before.
-- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:49, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
-s
that night.) —
Steve Summit (
talk)
19:01, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Recently I created {{ old talk on redirect}}, which populates Category:Talk pages of pages converted to redirects. Except, when you look there, it doesn't. But if you look at pages where it's used (e.g. Wikipedia talk:De-adminship), the category does appear. Is this due to some delay in category listings being updated? — Scott • talk 12:24, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I don't know if it's the same effect, but some changes to templates that result in recategorization of articles can take months to apply new categories to the articles. See the tracking at Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_4#Update_to_the_live_CS1_module_week_of_2013-11-03 for an example; it took 70 days for the new category to be applied to all affected articles. This number is not an outlier, either; articles are still being recategorized based on the most recent updates to the CS1 citation module, which were applied on 15 February, 37 days ago. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:22, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
The MediaWiki installed version of MathJax is v2.3. Nageh's script is v2.2, but has the added feature of automatically using your local STIX fonts. Does MW's v2.3 has an JS option to use my local fonts? — Edokter ( talk) — 22:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
v2.3 also changed its text-align to center (This is a change to MathJax config itself). There an RFC about this about having this changed back, but where is it? (A single line of CSS can fix this.) — Edokter ( talk) — 22:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there a problem over scripts not loading. Since yesterday the loading of pages seems to be very slow and hangs once it gets to loading in user scripts, such as the date conversion script, called from the monobook.js file. Keith D ( talk) 16:43, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there some css I can put in my personal css space to show all "collapsed" things as uncollapsed when a page loads? NE Ent 21:34, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
How come there is no"minor edit" check box on the mobile Wikipedia? -- Kndimov ( talk) 22:19, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Are there any JavaScript coders out there that can help to deal with the backlog at Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests? There are five requests in the category, all of them for JavaScript pages, and the oldest one is from 12 March. You don't have to be an admin to help, either. The main thing is the code is reviewed to make sure that it works and that it doesn't introduce any security risks, so reviewing it and noting your findings on the request page is just as helpful as making the edit yourself. If non-admins review the code, then an admin will see that review and can make the edit for you. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
http://i.imgur.com/GOWiuks.png and /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:User_scripts | Under "Inline" and such. It's not working. Ging287 ( talk) 19:54, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
WP:2R says that humans should not bother with fixing of double redirects, so I think that the following text above the page move form should be removed: Be sure to check for double or broken redirects. You are responsible for making sure that links continue to point where they are supposed to go. — Petr Matas 19:20, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
I've been working on {{ Drum corps show summary}} recently, and I've run into this problem: it can only have a finite number of rows hard-coded into it, so for a workaround, I added a parameter that outputs the same code without the headings or the ending brackets, effectively extending the limit on how many rows the template will allow. But when I split some of the cells in a row in half, and the last parameter in these split cells is left undefined (not when it's empty, though when it is that creates a different problem), the rows added after that using the template with no header do not display correctly. Here is an example. Gamma Metroid ( talk) 21:35, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
{{{place9}}}
parameter. To solve this, you can add another parameter to omit the ending "|}" of the first table and then place two templates after each other.
SiBr4 (
talk)
22:00, 25 March 2014 (UTC)Does anyone know if the functionality hosted at http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/ghct has been migrated to labs? If so, MediaWiki:GeoHack.js may need to be updated as it references the toolserver link. 28bytes ( talk) 22:03, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
At the bottom of the page Talk:Macular degeneration, the last I can see displayed (on two different computers, one with Internet Explorer and the other with Chrome) is "Help needed ... [etc]", ending with "... increased risk of AMD." I looked at "View history" thinking to insert the editor and date info, but edit mode shows that this section is indeed signed properly, and is followed by a new non-displaying section, "Primary sources". This last section also does not display in the TOC. One thing that I thought was strange is that the OP's reply 5 minutes later to his original 13 January 2014 post was also signed properly with 4 tildes, but in edit mode these still show as tildes rather than being wiki-translated to name and date.
I'm not seeing anything that looks wrong to me in the formatting of this "Primary sources" section, much less why the signature in the previous section would also have been wiped out, when it did display properly before. If anyone can fix the problem, I'd be very curious to know how this happened. Thanks for any help. Milkunderwood ( talk) 23:10, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
<ref>
tag missing its closing angle bracket, so the rest of the page got eaten up as part of the reference. I've simply commented out the reference, since it is a named ref, but there isn't a corresponding ref with that name with the ref's content. –
PartTimeGnome (
talk |
contribs)
23:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)Hi, I'm trying to send a mass message using this list: Wikipedia:MED/med250. It's not delivering though and nothing is queued. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Jake Ocaasi t | c 12:26, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Do protection settings automatically move with a page with some sort of protection, even if moved by a non-sysop? Provided there are no sysop-only protections in effect? Lieutenant of Melkor ( talk) 16:32, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
It appears that Typography Refresh will be applied to Vector skin users on April 3. With the new VectorBeta CSS, the blockquote font size will change and the quote will be enclosed in fat quotes. See for example mw:Template:Quote. -- Gadget850 talk 01:03, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure that's a fair assessment. If you look at the two Talk archives for the beta feature, you'll see many comments about the core typography changes. Font choice was hotly debated and analyzed in-depth with a qualitative scoring system, and there was a large amount of off-wiki debate on the public community developer mailing list, Wikitech-l. We went through three major iterations where we served different primary font stacks for the body copy and headings, experimenting with putting different font-families first. The version that's being released is very much the result of feedback from the community. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 16:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Wait a minute... The new blockquote styling is enabled now. Enable typography refresh and take a look. -- Gadget850 talk 15:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
-- Gadget850 talk 15:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I just discovered this under Preferences --> Gadgets --> Testing and development. It makes images look so much nicer, without the extra lines around them. Thank you to the people who developed it! SlimVirgin (talk) 03:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Why have col-begin/col-break/col-end started behaving differently all of a sudden? BMK ( talk) 19:40, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
col-begin}}
. What I was hoping to convey was that any recent changes to that template were not made as a consequence of
Template talk:Multicol#Proposed Edit, which concerns {{
multicol}}
and {{
div col}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:36, 26 March 2014 (UTC)Sorry, I was hoping someone would just recognize what had happened without my having to describe it in detail. OK, up until a day or so ago, the following code:
{{col-begin}}{{col-break}} *List element 1 *List element 2 *List element 3 *List element 4 {{col-break|gap=4em}} *List element 5 *List element 6 List element 7 {{col-end}}
Would result in a list such as this:
List element 1 List element 5 List element 2 List element 6 List element 3 List element 7 List element 4
Now, it results in a list like this:
List element 1 List element 5 List element 2 List element 6 List element 3 List element 7 List element 4
So the ability to control the separation of one part of the list from the other (using the "gap=" parameter) seems to have disappeared, and both parts of the list are presented at what seems to be a standard distance apart. Thus lists that fit in nicely to the left of an infobox, for instance, are now forced down to below the infobox, leave a whopping big block of whitespace. (Ironically, since the columnization of the list was done in order to reduce the whitespace in the article caused by a single column list).
Is that sufficient to help identify the problem? BMK ( talk) 01:55, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
That aside, how can I best get the result I used to obtain? BMK ( talk) 17:06, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
col-begin}}
{{
col-break}}
on the same line? If you put a newline between them, does that fix it? --
Redrose64 (
talk)
17:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
|gap=
parameter, which I see is coded into {{
col-break}}
but is not mentioned in the documentation for that template. But I'm afraid that I can't work out what is being attempted here, since the above examples are not real-world. Please give an example (two or three would be better) of an actual article which uses {{
col-begin}}
{{
col-break}}
and {{
col-break|gap=4em}}
in the manner shown above, and where the intended appearance has changed. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
In any event, take a look at the article Without Pity, in which the cast list uses the above code and, on my screen, with my resolution, used to live nicely to the left of the infobox. Now (with no change in the code, on my screen, at my resolution), the gap between the two columns of the list is very large, and is therefore pushed down to below the infobox.
I hope that's clear. BMK ( talk) 02:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm seeking confirmation that "Block account creation stops the user from creating a new account for 24 hours after the block is made" as described at Wikipedia:New admin/Blocking#User blocks.2Funblocks only disables that feature for 24 hours even if you're blocking the account indefinitely. This is the only place where it seems to state this, as at WP:HARDBLOCK (which is only for IP's but the only place that mentions account creation block but not how the mechanism works) it does not mention it and thus implies the account creation block lasts the duration of the time of the block (for example an indefinite block with that setting ticked would disable account creation indefinitely as well). Thanks! Mkdw talk 18:26, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone know the current link to check how many articles an editor has created? I would like to check my own creation stats. I seem to have lost the link for that, but I believe it was once on Toolserver and then Labs, tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/, but this one does not seem to be active. — Maile ( talk) 13:04, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hope this helps. Feel free to visit my talk page. Jay Dubya ( talk) 17:49, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
So, I was a bit quick to the draw in my browser the other day and found myself going to wikipeda.org (2 i's instead of 3). What I found was a portal that looks to pseudo-randomly refer traffic to spamming and phishing affiliate pages, for example allclktrk.com which plays an audio file and attempts to phish users into downloading a fake "update" for adobe. I haven't had enough time to check and see if the audio file was part of an overflow attempt. I'd be really surprised if it wasn't. Sometimes if you're lucky you get looped through a couple of extra affiliates and end up somewhere like a landing page on intuit's (real) web page.
They forward subdomains using a wildcard, for en.wikipeda works but also stuff that we wouldn't cover like cn.wikipeda.org or isuck.wikipeda.org. The domain is registered by Jasper Developments Pty Ltd, a web design firm in Australia. (note: I am not affiliated with them, and in fact I've never heard of them) http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=wikipeda.org&type=domain
I have some additional data and would be happy to provide more. There are strong and easy remedies to deal with domains outside of the foundation's control but that are preying on Wikipedia users in this manner. I am happy to discuss further so we can figure out how to best protect users that may not be technically proficient. While I have a significant amount of professional experience in network security, Im not interested in selling my services; just trying to protect other users. Thanks. Jay Dubya ( talk) 18:06, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm working with a group of students who want to download their sandboxes in PDF form, using the link in the sidebar. However, even after trying this on multiple computers/setups, we've found that some of the references do not appear in the PDF version, even when they are part of the article body (ie. not in any template that should be excluded from download). For example, User:CodyG123/sandbox has 10 references, but when downloaded has nine, and two of those are part of the sandbox template. Anyone know what the problem is? Nikkimaria ( talk) 01:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
If you visit Template:US Judiciaries (or any page that contains this template) and hit the "E" on the top left (part of the V·T·E), you are taken to the edit page of Template:USJudiciaries. I assume this is a mistake, some bug when moving templates. Choor monster ( talk) 12:09, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, I've added Template:Columns-list to a list. This required editing in not only the two places expected (opening the template at the start, closing it at the end) but also replacing an "=" with "=". Without this additional fix, the entire list would display as just the single character "2".
It wasn't that hard for me to locate the problematic character as I dimly recalled that "=" had caused trouble with some other template a while back.
I'm pretty much ignorant of template processing, so shan't tinker with the template. -- Hoary ( talk) 12:38, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
|1=
(or |2=
, depending on which parameter is used), or use {{
=}} instead of a regular "=". Or you may use {{
div col}} directly so you dont have to use parameters. —
Edokter (
talk) —
13:23, 30 March 2014 (UTC)I am trying to notify @ Thardin12: that I placed a GAN of theirs on hold but when I went to edit their page I noticed several delivered messages that were not showing up when the page was loaded. Can someone take a look at this? Lazy Bastard Guy 19:33, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
There are certain common errors that editors make that are often missed when saving before previewing a page, for example, adding a reference without including a closing </ref> link, adding reference links with out a {{ reflist}} tag, or creating a link to a disambiguation page. I propose that, in the same way that an editor will be prompted if they attempt to save certain templates that must be substed, an editor attempting to make a save that would introduce an error of these types should get a notice before saving, saying something to the effect of "This edit will add a <ref> tag without including a closing </ref> tag. Do you wish to continue?", or "This edit will add a link to the disambiguation page, Phoenix. Do you wish to continue?" The editor would then be given the option to go ahead and save despite the error, or to return to editing in order to fix it.
I believe that such a system would help prevent a lot of maintenance fixes from being required in the first place, particularly with respect to disambiguation links, which most editors can not tell are ambiguous without clicking on the link. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:36, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
I was first alerted to this problem through an edit request, specifically to "fix the script error in the line for Resident Evil 5". The error message reads "Lua error: Too many calls to mw.language:formatDate()." I'm guessing this has to do with the date formatting done by {{ vgrtbl}} used to format the release dates. What, if anything, can be done about this? Some searching reveals that similar problems have been brought up before. Anon126 ( talk - contribs) 01:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
{{ Val}} has started forcing numbers to display in a monospace font, contrary to other templates such as {{ gaps}} and making it an eyesore in our articles (especially when tables randomly display different numbers in different sizes). But I can't find the dependent template where the change was made. Can anyone help? — kwami ( talk) 04:47, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
digits
class in Common.css. Hope this helps. —
Edokter (
talk) —
11:18, 28 March 2014 (UTC).digits
class to the template, or even the table. Note that this was done specifically to counter formatting issues caused by fonts with old-style numerals. Candara and Georgia are the most notable. Not many other sans serif fonts even have these; you just happened to pick a font that does. Try using Calibri instead, and you will notice all digits are the same again. If you want to keep Candara, I can give some CSS to counter it. —
Edokter (
talk) —
01:11, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Aargh! You just added .digits to {su}, didn't you? Now we're back to the situation that created the last, huge argument, where assymmetrical uncertainties like 123+456
−789 is screwed up (cf. 123+456
−789). Literally half of all instances of this on Wikipedia (I've counted) are due to my edits, and last time I reverted them all so that our tables and infoboxes wouldn't look horrible. We debated how to handle this for weeks, and finally came to consensus. Could you just allow that hard-won agreement to stand, and revert
this edit? —
kwami (
talk)
23:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
My default serif font is Palatino Linotype. Yes, your example appears to be Georgia, and correct, the examples at MOS:NUM are old style digits. However, we don't use Val at MOS:NUM, so what you're doing here has no effect there.
I don't understand. Since you know that the examples at MOS:NUM do not display tabular digits and do not line up, why have you set Val for tabular digits? That screws up Candara, but has no effect on Georgia, and has no effect on the MOS. And why set Val for tabular digits only some of the time, so that different parts of a number conflict?
I also don't understand about TNR. If it doesn't have OS digits, wouldn't that be exactly what you want, since it would avoid the problem?
As for your adjustment of my CSS, now Candara displays tabular Old Style digits, which is a good result. Georgia, however, is still messed up. So, (1) wouldn't that CSS fix be good to add to the WP default CSS, so that everyone gets the benefit, and (2) how does any of this address the supposed problem, that Georgia does not have tabular digits?
Here are the previous examples, but using the Val template (this after you installed my CSS, which allows lining/tabular spacing, but keeps OS forms):
The digits class makes no difference in Georgia. In Candara, the digits class makes no difference to the {su} part, of course, but does affect the width of the one in the main part. In Georgia, it makes no difference at all. Also, in Candara, the super- and sub-scripts are tabular Old Style digits. In Georgia, they are non-tabular Old Style digits, the same as they were before you adjusted my CSS, and the same as they are (and were) at MOS:NUM. So, with all this work, you've corrected the display for a single person (me), but haven't addressed the fact that the digits don't line up in Georgia, which was supposed to be the reason for the fix, nor that you've made Val to screw up the display of assymmetrical uncertainties for everyone who's chosen a font with Old Style numbers, apart for Georgian, which has thwarted your fix. — kwami ( talk) 21:29, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
OpenType font settings are a strange beast. For me, the lining/tabular feature combination work on Candara, Georgia and most other fonts with defualt old-style numerals. The Time New Roman example was to see if it contains old-style numerals; it does, but they only work whn not using tabular display, so tabular would automatically force lining numerals. — Edokter ( talk) — 11:23, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
<span class="nowrap">
<span class="{{#ifeq: {{{lining|}}} | yes | digits}} nowrap">
Discussion moving back to the template talk page. — kwami ( talk) 07:44, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
This SVG looks fine, has valid code (I checked), and yet is displaying very poorly on the page. Not sure how to fix this. It's a shame that we can't have SVGs be SVGs because some people still use IE8. Any ideas as to what's causing this, or is it just a bug in MW? ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 17:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
On IRC a few days ago, someone asked, "Does anybody know a tool that can automatically "play" all the diffs or the versions of an article? To show how it grew over time?"
We used to have a few that worked (listed at Wikipedia:Tools#Visualization and elsewhere) but I can't find anything that works currently.
(I checked the "AniWiki"[1] and "Wikipedia Animate"[2] greasemonkey scripts, as mentioned in The Signpost in 2005, but neither worked anymore.)
Does anyone here know of a working tool? (or where else to ask?) Thanks. – Quiddity ( talk) 18:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
When I edit in template space, I see a box below the editbox that says Preview page with this template Page title: <inputbox> Show preview (button)
. I have no idea what it does. Can someone link to some documentation or background page for this one? -
DePiep (
talk)
06:45, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that {{ Nutshell}} displayed broken HTML lists (i.e. three lists of one item instead of a list of three items) when more than one unnamed parameter was passed to it, contrary to guidelines about gaps between list items, at Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process). I fixed this by converting the list from wiki-markup to HTML, but was that the most elegant method? I couldn't find anything in the previous code that should have broken the HTML lists, and I don't know Lua so I can't tell whether Module:Message box (which is ultimately called by the nutshell template) had anything to do with the problem. Graham 87 07:05, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
{{Nutshell |It is not necessary or desirable to reply to every comment in a discussion. |The more often you use the same reason in a given discussion, the weaker it becomes. |Everyone has the same right to be heard in any discussion. }}
{{Nutshell |1=It is not necessary or desirable to reply to every comment in a discussion. |2=The more often you use the same reason in a given discussion, the weaker it becomes. |3=Everyone has the same right to be heard in any discussion. }}
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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Preferences > Gadgets > Editing > "Add two new dropdown boxes below the edit summary box with some useful default summaries"
There's no link to a page about the gadget. Where is it? Who is maintaining it? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
defaultsummaries|defaultsummaries.js
This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:
This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.
For more information:
-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team
This was also in the latest edition of the The Signpost, for those follow it. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 23:13, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
User:Σ shows error message "The requested page or revision cannot be found" etc. I wonder if this is due to a bug or something. - Synsepalum2013 ( talk) 14:04, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
"An error has occurred while searching: The search backend returned an error:" here every time I try to search. -- Elvey ( talk) 21:17, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
&srbackend=CirrusSearch
to the results page (every time it loads) or switch on the BetaFeature. In the mean time I'll look into the error.
NEverett (WMF) (
talk)
21:30, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
I started a thread " Use interwiki links instead of HTML anchors?" at MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright that may interest some of you. Jason Quinn ( talk) 03:45, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Is there an easy to find page with instructions on specifically what to copy to a talk page to get automatic archiving started? Am extremely confused and can't find a clear answer. Hopeful thanks in advance! -- LT910001 ( talk) 10:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Would someone be kind to look into the Valls Cabinet article and see what's wrong with the formatting since "References" pops up in the middle of a table instead of at the bottom where it as customary is inserted. Regards, Iselilja ( talk) 11:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible/desirable to create a gadget which would detect if a user opens a page (in edit mode), copies its contents and then closes the edit window? In this situation it could remind the user that he should give credits to the authors if he uses the copied material in some other place. It is relatively common to see users copying e.g. English Wikipedia's templates to other wikis, or translating articles, etc... without linking to the original pages. Helder.wiki 15:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
There are currently 340 articles in Category:HDS different on Wikidata, which doesn't exist. If anyone knows of an easy way to determine where it is generated, and whether it is useful in any way, then we can see whether it needs creation (and hiding) or removal. And a small trout for the editor adding some maintenance category to a template without creating it. Fram ( talk) 07:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Move creates redirects automatically even when they're illegal, like moving an article to the draft namespace. If should notice this and not create them. Otherwise you end up with the situation like Sara shahmohammadi. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:15, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
...approximates this styling?:
font-size:110%;line-height:1.4em;text-align:center;white-space:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;
...or perhaps one for its crucial elements...?:
text-align:center;white-space:normal;
If so, please divulge!
Thanks, Sardanaphalus ( talk) 14:42, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The "Help" link in the "Interaction" section of the left sidebar is broken; instead of jumping to a Wikipedia help page, it sends you off to a Mediawiki page. The corresponding link at Commons, "Help portal", is also broken. -- John of Reading ( talk) 20:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The previous font size was perfectly fine as it was. Now, the new one is uncomfortable to read.
If it ain't broke, don't break it. Please restore the previous font size, or at least make an easily visible font resizer button. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.136.248.192 ( talk) 23:13, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is Wikipedia extra scrolly lately? I don't know if it's because of the new font or the fact that I'm temporarily stuck on IE 10, but now, whenever I scroll down to the bottom, I get an extra ~2 screen heights of blankness at the bottom. Any ideas? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 00:14, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
There may be some technical explanation for this, but I don't know what it could be.
A few weeks ago, Deepak Chopra tweeted about a death threat in the Ralph Abraham article. [80] Responses to the tweet seem to acknowledge the vandalism, with one person posting a screenshot. [81] Someone else did a blog post about it. [82]
However, the only contemporaneous edits to the article were some vandalism by 71.119.92.56 four days prior to Chopra's tweet, which was immediately reverted by ClueBot. [83] Ah, but that just means the death threat was suppressed, right? That's what I had thought. However admins have told me that there are no suppressed edits in the Ralph Abraham article. I also know that 71.119.92.56's edits are in fact the death threats in question.
Now we shift to seemingly less probable explanations. Chopra was complaining about a non-vandalized article? And other people were too? The screenshots didn't have have the "old revision" tag on them, so people were using the latter part of an old diff to create screenshots? Well maybe, I guess, but here comes the monkey wrench: one screenshot was of the Google Knowledge Graph! [84] You know, the thing that appears on the right when you type "Ralph Abraham" into Google. [85] Since ClueBot reverted the vandalism immediately, how the heck did Google pick it up? Just astoundingly unlucky timing? Perhaps there is a caching bug somewhere?
Resorting to other presumably less probable explanations: the vandal, having a freshly vandalized page, took the screenshots? The screenshots were faked? Multiple admins are lying about the page having no suppressed edits? There is an extra secret level of uber suppression that non-uber admins cannot see? I am somewhat kidding, but I'm still perplexed. vzaak 05:04, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I look here but I didn't find it. I want to make a citation for an excel file (is online), for a specific sheet. Is there any specific way? Xaris333 ( talk) 05:18, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
|title=
for a prose description of the file, |at=
to indicate the sheet name, and |url=
for the web address, including the http://
. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
06:31, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
|format=XLS
may be useful, too.
—PC
-XT
+
09:38, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
|at=
for that - e.g. |at=Sheet 1, cells J20:L39
--
Redrose64 (
talk)
09:57, 4 April 2014 (UTC)Hi.
It is amazing just how many search results came up before I started this topic, not one of them relevant. (I still might have missed something.)
Contrary to what the documentation of Template:TODAY says, Subst in this code snippet does not work, at least for me:
<ref>{{cite web |accessdate={{subst:TODAY}} |title=Languages |work=Apache HTTP Server |agency=Ohloh |publisher= Black Duck Software |url=https://www.ohloh.net/p/apache/analyses/latest/languages_summary}}</ref> {{Reflist}}
Result:
{{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |accessdate=
(
help)
Screenshot:
Why is that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Codename Lisa ( talk • contribs) 06:59, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
When they did the font change, on (only) one of my PC's (all use Firefox browser) all of the body font went to "narrow" and is very hard to read. Is the is known problem / Is there a known fix for this? North8000 ( talk) 15:32, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
I've just noticed today that when using the search box (Vector, top right of the screen) the predicted-text dropdown is suddenly thrown over to the left - it has the same vertical position and width, but is now somewhere just to the right of the "talk" tab. If I resize the browser window, it moves around accordingly, but doesn't snap into the correct place. Purging doesn't help, nor does being logged out. (I'm using Chromium 31.0.1650.63, but I get more or less the same on Firefox 26 - perhaps a little further left.)
The weird thing... it only happens on this page, only on VP:T. It doesn't occur, as far as I can tell, on any other page; it doesn't happen in the edit window. I assume there's some kind of weird CSS rendering in one of the examples above that's causing it, but goodness knows where. Anyone else seeing this, or is it Just Broken For Me (tm)? Andrew Gray ( talk) 20:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
The Wikipedia documentation prohibits registration of shared accounts. Please provide your input here (to help me, please try to separate thoughts and create subsections for verbose discussion). Thanks. Gryllida ( talk) 03:26, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
I made some
edits on Commons, but when I use the "Global contributions" link at the bottom of my English WP
contributions page, no edits for Commons are listed. Does Commons not count towards global contributions?
Lyryn
talk
04:46, 5 April 2014 (UTC)