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When setting up template data, the preview on the template doc page ends up showing reams of this:
There often isn't any reason to fill these fields in, but they do make it quite hard to scan the tables for what's actually been specified. They also often mean the tables are too big to be a sensible replacement for existing parameter tables, which means the parameter list ends up being written out (at least) twice on template pages. Would it possible to just get rid of them when empty? User:GKFX talk 19:59, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Yep. Using CSS one can only hide the fields, but not the "label" using something like dd.mw-templatedata-doc-muted { display:none}
until they add that class to the sibling dt tag (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176956). It is possible to hide all of it entirely using javascript. 21:27, 13 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
197.218.83.2 (
talk)
In consistent with my signature style and color, I want to make my user-page's title that way. I've prepared the displaytitle which is {{DISPLAYTITLE:User:<b style="color:dimgray">Ascetic<span style="color:orangered">Rose</span></b>}}. But the problem is it is bold. I want to remove this bold feature but don't know how to.
Another problem is that is there any way to use é (as in my signature) in the title? When I put é, the warning message says it is not consistent with the original title. Can anyone help? - Ascetic Rosé 09:21, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
<b>...</b>
means bold. Use <span>...</span>
instead: {{DISPLAYTITLE:User:<span style="color:dimgray">Ascetic<span style="color:orangered">Rose</span></span>}}
. You cannot change e to é. The display name must resolve to the real name in wikilinks so it must use the same characters with a few exceptions like space/underscore and lowercase initial letter.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:48, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Is the {{convert}} template's "adj=on" parameter intended to be used with a range measurement?
Currently, if you try it, the "adj" formatting is turned on for the initial range but not for the converted range (see example below). The documentation for that template describes the "adj" parameter in Section 3, but makes no mention there of its potential functionality with ranges. "Ranges" are covered in Section 7, but, again, there's no explicit mention there of the "adj" functionality with ranges. Here is an example I came across.
The electronic license plate has a {{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm|adj=on}} digital display.
The electronic license plate has a 12-by-16-inch (30 by 41 cm) digital display.
Notice how the hyphens are correctly placed in the first range, but hyphens have not been added in the converted range.
One workaround is to omit the "adj=on" parameter after rewording the sentence to make the range measurement into a noun.
The electronic license plate has a digital display measuring {{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm}}.
The electronic license plate has a digital display measuring 12 x 16 inches (30 by 41 cm).
Perhaps the "adj=on" parameter is not expected to work with a range measurement, but perhaps the documentation should be amended to specify that (lack of) functionality?
Thanks to those who may be able to shed light on this.
Timbuk-2 (
talk)
22:09, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
{{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm|adj=on}}
→ 12-by-16-inch (30 by 41 cm){{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm|adj=on|abbr=off}}
→ 12-by-16-inch (30-by-41-centimetre)When the source description page gives only a month or year, e.g. only "July 2010", or only "2010", the Media Viewer is STILL incorrectly showing the date as the first of the month. This was raised months or even years ago, and seems to have incorrectly been given a "never bother to fix" priority. Showing a spurious "1st" date is just WRONG. It needs to be FIXED. 86.191.166.249 ( talk) 02:39, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
It probably didn't take much time for developers to realize this limitation. So it isn't due to resources, it is simply due to lack of interest. Anyway, the so-called "community" doesn't care much either way, it would take less than 30 seconds to create a CSS to override it:
span.mw-mmv-datetime { visibility : hidden; } span.mw-mmv-datetime::before { visibility : visible; content: "Click 'more details' to see date"; }
Or alternatively read the "one true date" from the file metadata API and overwrite whatever the software adds. In any case, in a few updates of the library it will eventually turn into an exception, so both sides may get what they want:
Deprecation warning: value provided is not in a recognized RFC2822 or ISO format. moment construction falls back to js Date(), which is not reliable across all browsers and versions. Non RFC2822/ISO date formats are discouraged and will be removed in an upcoming major release. Please refer to http://momentjs.com/guides/#/warnings/js-date/ for more info. Arguments: [0] _isAMomentObject: true, _isUTC: false, _useUTC: false, _l: undefined, _i: 1926, _f: undefined, _strict: undefined, _locale: [object Object]
14:41, 19 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.218.80.129 ( talk)
The user who moved the SBS Broadcasting B.V. article to Talpa TV could have just made a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. But instead, the user just cut-and-pasteed the content. What should I do? JSH-alive/ talk/ cont/ mail 15:43, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
When you click on a link in a category table of contents (TOC) near the end of the alphabet, and there are no pages in the category that start with that letter or a letter that is later in the alphabet, you get a misleading message: "There are no pages or files in this category." See, for example, this link, which currently shows the erroneous message. If you click earlier in the alphabet in the TOC for the same category, you get a message like "The following 102 pages are in this category, out of approximately 702 total. This list may not reflect recent changes."
On the "no pages" page, there are also no "previous page / next page" links, even though there should be at least a "previous page" link.
Are these things that we can fix locally, or will I need to submit a Phabricator request? I searched phab for related search terms and did not come up with anything. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 01:57, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there any reason why File:White x in red rounded square.svg appears in popups when hovering over Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 January 19? I'm not seeing it displaying anywhere on the page. Home Lander ( talk) 22:59, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
<includeonly>[[File:White x in red rounded square.svg|16px|link=|alt=Delete]] '''Closed discussion''', see [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 January 19#1516392921|full discussion]]. Result was: </includeonly>
<!-- ... -->
. And I think popups can both detect file links in the source and images in some common template parameters like |image = example.jpg
, but not image names in running text like "A common example file name is example.jpg". You would have to examine
MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js or make more tests to figure out the details (or find somebody who already knows them or has written them somewhere).
PrimeHunter (
talk)
00:02, 21 January 2018 (UTC){{void|[[File:Example.jpg]]}}
which produces nothing. Popups displays the image.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
22:51, 21 January 2018 (UTC)At present, edits that replace most of the content of a page with new content of less than about 1,000 bytes are flagged in two ways: a
tag that reads "Replaced" and is named mw-replace
, and an
automatic edit summary drawn from
MediaWiki:Autosumm-replace reading "Replaced content with '.....'". The automatic edit summary only appears when the editor did not enter an edit summary themselves.
A proposal that edits should also be flagged when the new content is more than 1,000 bytes has received support at VP Misc. Would anyone with Phabricator access care to submit the proposal there? : Noyster (talk), 18:59, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello, folks. Perhaps this is not the right place to ask this question, so feel free to point me to somewhere else.
Earlier today, one of my edits had been reverted, but I found out about it only from my Watchlist and not from the usual "red number at the top of the screen" notification system. When looking into it, I saw that the edit summary for the revert used the same "Undid revision ###### by ..." language that is used for reverts done with the "Undo" function, but the edit wasn't tagged as an "Undo". Instead, it was tagged as a "Visual edit".
I've checked the User Guide for the VisualEditor, but found nothing relevant. And so, I've come here to ask -- does the VisualEditor bypass the notification system? And if so, does anyone here know whether this is a deliberate feature?
Thank you for any assistance you can provide. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 16:28, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
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(Before the heading title above raises false alarms that my account's login credentials have been somehow compromised, they have not. This issue appears to involve some sort of (new?) MediaWiki importation tool.)
I've been editing Wikipedia for a long, long time, around a decade and a half, during which many articles I wrote or contributed to have been copied and pasted and translated into Wikipedias of other languages. That's fine/great; no problem! I'm happy/delighted to share the results or work product of my edits in other languages! But I just encountered something new and different.
I was just given a welcome message to the Bihari Wikipedia by another user, thanking me for my edits there. This surprised me as I don't speak or understand the Bihari languages, so why would I ever have edited there? So, I checked bh:Special:Contributions/Lowellian. And I recognize those edits: I did make those edits, but I made those edits to the English Wikipedia, not the Bihari Wikipedia!
After poking around the page histories some more (and navigation is difficult due to the aforementioned fact that I don't understand Bihari, so I have to do some informed guesswork clicking on links), for example https://bh.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Countries_and_territories_of_Southeast_Asia&limit=500&action=history, I can see that my edits have been somehow "copied" from the English Wikipedia to the Bihari Wikipedia, and in a way different from a normal page move: normally, when a page is moved, the edits are also moved with it so that each edit still only appears in one page history (unless it was a copy-and-paste move, in which case the text of the edits but not the edits themselves get copied/moved). But this situation appears to be something different, in which my edits are now duplicated so that the same edit history appears on both the English and Bihari Wikipedias, accredited to me.
This is fundamentally different from normal copying-and-translation of articles into other languages since that copies the prose/text (the work product of edits) rather than the actual edit history (the edits themselves). This concerns me because those page histories make it look like I have been editing the Bihari Wikipedia when I have never done so. I don't want, for instance, people complaining to me about edits I made on another-language Wikipedia that I had no knowledge of and did not make. (This is different from normal copying/translation of articles into other-language editions, since normal copying/translation doesn't make it look like I directly edited those other-language editions.)
This all appears to be done by some sort of (new?) MediaWiki importation tool? Can someone in the know provide background for what all is happening here?
— Lowellian ( reply) 22:42, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Today I have been getting Welcomed on both the Latvian and Kazakh wikis. I have never edited over there. I checked my contribs over there, but nothing shows. Could this be part of the same issue [ the previous topic about imported contributions ]? Bit of a coincidence that they both happened today and it has never happened before. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 07:26, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
You've had about 200 edits imported to the German Wikipedia so far, which the median editor would likely not describe as a small number, and about as many again across some other wikis (one at tewiki, two at arzwiki, three at gdwiki, orwiki, and lmowiki, six at mlwikisource, eight at hiwiki and simplewiki, 10 at elwiki, 12 at the testwiki, 15 at maiwiki, 20 at bhwiki, 24 at knwiki, 34 at mlwiki, and 52 at the English Wikibooks, for anyone who's keeping count).
And, as the edits are attributed to you, I suggest again that the attribution is already correct. It appears to be your personal preference for attribution to say which wiki you happened to be using at the time your original edit was saved, but I have found no actual requirement to do so. I'll cheerfully admit that I'm wrong on that point when you quote me a line from the license that says that attribution must include information about which sub-domain of which website you first posted your copyrighted content to, rather than just your name.
This is where the disconnect seems to be. You seem to have gotten the idea that there is only one "correct" way to provide attribution, and that this One True Way™ requires four specific details, and the current system provides only three of them. I can find no source that supports your belief that anything more than your username is required. For that matter, I can't even find out whether your alleged requirement of "where it was published" refers to the physical location where it was published, the legal/copyright location where it was published, or the name of the larger work that it was included in. (There is, after all, a big difference between "printed in China", "published in the United States", and "published as part of the Anthology of Something", and (given the realities of printing costs) all three of those might be simultaneously true for any given work.) So at the risk of sounding rather Wikipedian about this, please cite your sources. I've cited mine: the license doesn't mention any requirement beyond identifying (in some fashion) the human who originally created and licensed the work in question, and which work is so licensed. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
There's no way to reliably identify old imports to tag the edits, so that's not going to happen. The unexpected creation of accounts should be mostly done since most of the wikis are done. Anomie ⚔ 13:56, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
>
identifier satisfy what you are looking for? —
xaosflux
Talk
22:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Here's what I haven't yet understood about this:
So, on wikis where articles previously have been imported,
local accounts are created in order to attribute the contributing users. But most or at least some of the newly created accounts that have been reported in this thread have no contributions! Are those accounts just a side effect with no big significance (other than causing annoying welcomes and uncertainty)? Or do they reflect that contributions by that user have been imported, but the details have somehow been lost and won't therefore appear in the contributions list? --
Pipetricker (
talk)
10:09, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
The issues raised at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 57#Rogue bot or what on other language wikipedias seem better discussed here. Perhaps I should in hindsight have come here first.
One of the possible problems that occurs to me is really a restatement of the initial problem raised here by Lowellian. Somehow, we've lost sight of the difference between information, which can't be copyrighted but must be sourced by references, and text, which can be copyrighted and so must be attributed.
Accurate translation preserves the information but not the text. So when going from one language wiki to another, the references should be kept, but the attributions should not be.
In English Wikipedia, other language Wikipedias are not acceptable references, so translation into English should not be a problem: The sources are kept, the attributions discarded. Other language Wikipedias may have different policies on this, in which case it may be acceptable to add a reference to English Wikipedia if translating from here. But regardless, the attributions belong only in English Wikipedia.
Am I missing something? Andrewa ( talk) 05:55, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia seems not to support \operatorname*
in <math>...</math>
mode (the starred version is to make a following subscript display under the operator name, as with \lim
, as opposed to a usual subscript), I discovered a workaround at some point in the past, which was to use \operatorname{foo}\limits
instead (which I added to the fourth paragraph at
Help:Displaying a formula#Rendering). However, this appears not to work anymore. I'm not sure exactly when this changed, but I don't think it was too long ago. Can anyone offer any insight to what's going on or how to proceed? Thanks, –
Deacon Vorbis (
carbon •
videos)
14:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
I couldn't find it easily, but a while ago, people were talking about having proper Special:Tags on AWB edits. Thanks to User:Reedy, this may get done sooner rather than later. Two things:
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 06:38, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
"WikiProject Bridges" has changed its name to "WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels." Now we need help changing the template to work with the new name. Please have an experienced template editor make the change.
See /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Bridges_and_Tunnels#Tunnels_tag for more information.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 19:47, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there any way when using "what links here" to exclude those incoming links which are the result of a template in an article? DuncanHill ( talk) 21:43, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
I have a script (
User:R'n'B/dplupdate.js) that loaded the module mediawiki.action.history.diff
. Apparently, this module no longer exists, since the script will not run unless I comment out the reference to it. Is there a replacement for it? --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
13:53, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
mediawiki.action.history.diff
to mediawiki.diff.styles
. --
Green
C
20:27, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
While I'm sure there are other ways, I go to my contributions and see which recent ones are not the latest edit. If there is a tag such as on a redirect (I create a lot of those), I think something has been done and go there and find out mine was the last edit. This wouldn't happen if "current" was on the right.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Making such an arbitrary change will not help with a single thing (as far as usability goes). It will just be superficial. In any event, making it look as requested here is certainly possible without server-side software changes. Instead of changing the html this can be changed using CSS, the simplest approach is probably float: "right"
. 09:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
197.218.83.173 (
talk)
.mw-uctop {float:right;}
in
your CSS will float "(current)" at the right margin. Some users may prefer it but I don't recommend it for site-wide css. Depending on window size, font and zoom I get results like a line ending with "(Tag: (current)", and then "New redirect)" at the start of the next line.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:20, 23 January 2018 (UTC).mw-uctop {
display:none
}
li.mw-contributions-current::after {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
content:" (current)";
}
At some point since my last edit 29 minutes ago, the font size in my wikitext editor window dramatically increased, roughly doubling. What happened? ― Mandruss ☎ 21:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Just found the Tech News: 2018-02 notice about this:
-- Bamyers99 ( talk) 22:03, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
(Firefox) I got back to my preferred size by changing 150% to 110% in my common.css. [14] I assume any editor can get any size they want by copying the last 3 lines there and setting the percentage as desired. I hope this is the last time I have to change it. ― Mandruss ☎ 22:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I have suddenly come across a very strange problem. The text is my source editor has suddenly gone small. I use the Vector skin and I have many scripts as shown at User:Emir of Wikipedia/common.js. This is not a browser specific I have tested in on multiple browsers. It is also not a display or scaling issue as this is the only thing affected. Commons also seems to be affected by this issue. Looks like I am not the only one having this type of problem as shown in the above section. Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 21:33, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
For me, the font size in the source text editor (what I am typing into now) has got noticeably smaller, and is now rather too small for comfort. Nothing has changed at my end, that I am aware of. Has it been changed at the Wikipedia end, and, if so, is this a change that has been generally asked for? For me, I would like it put back to how it was, please. 86.191.166.249 ( talk) 03:12, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
#wpTextbox1 { font-size: 130%; } /* increase edit window font size */
Asking for the Central Kurdish Wikipedia: on the English Wikipedia, when you protect a page with one of the options, there is a different-in-color lock icon (appearing in the right side of the pages) for each of those options. I was wondering what module/template causes these locks to appear? Because on the CKB wiki, it is not working properly. Is there anything we can do about it locally or should we talk about the issue on Phabricator? Thanks in advance.--◂ épine talk♬ 11:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
{{#invoke:Protection banner|main|small=yes}}
in
ckb:Template:Pp.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
phab:T184656 has a list of 389 wikis where Tidy will be removed (and replaced by RemexHTML) on 31 January 2018. These wikis currently have fewer than 10 high-priority problems (so not the English Wikipedia).
If you are active at other wikis, please look over the list and check your favorites. If you notice problems after the switch, then please feel free to ping me, or (especially if it's urgent) leave a comment in the Phab task where the devs will see it. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:14, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
I noticed recently that if someone posts a permalink to an edit that has been revisiondeleted (for example this one) that I am able to hover over the link and see the content of the edit. I assume this is because as an admin I have viewdelete rights and would be able to see the edit anyway if I clicked a few buttons, but is this intended behaviour? Also, is it visible this way to non-admins? Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 20:42, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
Non-free use rationale}}
and its presence on an image that is not used in any article can make the image liable for speedy deletion. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
00:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)@
Redrose64: Done, thanks for the constructive advice instead of calling me out for stupidly missing that.
Home Lander (
talk)
00:30, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Someone sent me a link to a mobile Wikipedia page and I opened it on my PC, clicked "Desktop version" on the bottom and got this message. Really, they're not required at all. All you need to do is remove ".m" from the URL and that works even with cookies disabled. Why display this message then? 93.142.83.36 ( talk) 18:50, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi. The category Category:Articles without Wikidata item has 200+ articles contained within it, some of them date back to before Christmas. Some newer enteries get dealt with almost straight away, but there appears to be an issue with older ones. Does anyone know how to purge this, or which bot adds the new articles to WikiData? The user who created the category hasn't been active in a couple of months. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 11:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
PrimerHunter is right. When bot finds conflict names, it avoids to add more noise. I checked the bot contributions for 18th December, and it created this item correctly for another biography you started, so it doesn't seem like the bot stopped working. emijrp ( talk) 20:41, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I want to create an image map using File:LimassolDistrict (1).png. I know how to do it. The problem is to have the coordinates of each place. I am using polygons but is too difficult and need a lot of time. And the result is not so good. Is there a way to easy choose the shape of each place and have the coordinates of the place? Xaris333 ( talk) 20:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
{{Image label begin|image=Wyoming Locator Map.PNG|width={{{width|300}}}|float={{{float|none}}}}}
{{Image label small|x=218|y=191|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Albany County, Wyoming|Albany]]}}
{{Image label small|x=119|y=39|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Big Horn County, Wyoming|Big Horn]]}}
{{Image label small|x=222|y=50|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Campbell County, Wyoming|Campb]]}}
{{Image label small|x=170|y=188|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Carbon County, Wyoming|Carbon]]}}
{{Image label small|x=218|y=118|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Converse County, Wyoming|Converse]]}}
{{Image label small|x=264|y=31|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Crook County, Wyoming|Crook]]}}
{{Image label small|x=100|y=123|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Fremont County, Wyoming|Fremont]]}}
{{Image label small|x=278|y=169|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Goshen County, Wyoming|Gos]]}}
{{Image label small|x=100|y=80|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Hot Springs County, Wyoming|Hot Spr]]}}
{{Image label small|x=175|y=62|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Johnson County, Wyoming|Johnson]]}}
{{Image label small|x=257|y=213|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Laramie County, Wyoming|Laramie]]}}
{{Image label small|x=15|y=178|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Lincoln County, Wyoming|Lincoln]]}}
{{Image label small|x=168|y=121|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Natrona County, Wyoming|Natrona]]}}
{{Image label small|x=271|y=115|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Niobrara County, Wyoming|Niobr]]}}
{{Image label small|x=68|y=38|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Park County, Wyoming|Park]]}}
{{Image label small|x=254|y=167|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Platte County, Wyoming|Plat]]}}
{{Image label small|x=165|y=19|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Sheridan County, Wyoming|Sheridan]]}}
{{Image label small|x=40|y=138|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Sublette County, Wyoming|Sublette]]}}
{{Image label small|x=70|y=194|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Sweetwater County, Wyoming|Sweetwater]]}}
{{Image label small|x=18|y=69|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Teton County, Wyoming|Teton]]}}
{{Image label small|x=20|y=214|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Uinta County, Wyoming|Uinta]]}}
{{Image label small|x=123|y=62|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Washakie County, Wyoming|Washakie]]}}
{{Image label small|x=261|y=72|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Weston County, Wyoming|Weston]]}}
{{Image label end}}<noinclude>{{Documentation|Template:Image label begin/doc}}</noinclude>
to make the image interactive, which produces this:
<imagemap>
Image:Wyoming_counties_map.png|250px|Wyoming counties (clickable)
poly 568 639 568 580 596 580 593 426 650 425 649 428 647 428 646 432 643 434 643 442 645 444 652 445 654 447 669 446 670 442 672 434 672 431 673 427 676 424 679 424 680 475 682 475 686 636 624 638 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Albany County, Wyoming|Albany County]]
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</imagemap>
which produces
@ Zanygenius: is not that I need. I know how to create the image map. The only problem is that all programs are using rectangles, circle or polygons. I used polygons to have the coordinates of an area but is not easy and the results are not good. I need something that can select the perimeter of an area an give the coordinates of that area to use in image map. Xaris333 ( talk) 12:12, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
All Wikimedia sites were inaccessible for a couple of hours this morning, UK time. I noticed it about 10.00 UTC, has just come back up about 13.00 UTC. Have seen reports from elsewhere in Europe that others were having the same problem. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:11, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
I tried to add this following template into my common.js page:
{{subst:iusc|1=User:Caorongjin/wordcount.js}} (Don't worry, I put nowiki tag). I expected the template to load, but instead I get this error:
Error: Expected a string and instead saw {.
When I removed 1 bracket on both sides, I got:
Error: Expected a string and instead saw subst.
Remove the brackets that are left and I got these 4 errors:
Bad assignment.
Missing ";" before statement
Label 'User' on Caorongjin statement.
and the final error just said
Missing semicolon.
I am currently confused as to why this template will not work on my page. I do not know how to translate this template into JavaScript anyways. I am running Google Chrome 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit), according to chrome://version.
So far, I have tried:
and there's not much I think I can do in this situation. Cheers from CryfryDG. ( talk) 05:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
subst:
will transform it to JavaScript on save, assuming
Template:iusc exists and outputs valid JavaScript as it does here at en.wikipedia.org.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
15:01, 27 January 2018 (UTC)Anyone aware of any special interaction with media wiki and gmail wrt being able to send emails and not receive them when they're sent via media wiki? I seem to be broken at the moment, and we tested it a bit on IRC to no avail. GMG talk 23:36, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
-- This email was sent by user "Fluxbot" on the English Wikipedia to user "Xaosflux". It has been automatically delivered and the Wikimedia Foundation cannot be held responsible for its contents.
.
When I am logged in, is there a way I can see what IP addrress I am connecting from? - Bevo ( talk) 16:57, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
I was just thinking about creating a WikiProject to find articles created by IPs back when IPs could do that (before 2005), but I couldn't find any kind of record of pages created during that time, much less one of pages created by anons. Does anyone know how one might find as many of these articles in one place? Is there some tool or special page on WP that would allow you to do so? Every Morning (there's a halo...) 04:49, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Multi-column layouts with {{ col-break}} have uneven columns. Specifically, columns with only one paragraph or list are narrower than those with more than one paragraph or list. (Columns in each category are the same width.) An example follows:
Multi-column example
| ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
|
Any explanation? I would expect that all the columns would be the same width. Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 09:03, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
{{col-break|width=25%}}
, or use other column templates like Columns-start, {{
Column}}, Columns-end which use CSS and not a table.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
10:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)Hi, Every time I go to edit a page the
User:Cameltrader/Advisor.js script never loads - I have to load another script on the left for the script to then load,
I'm not sure if it's a case of I've got too many scripts or if it's related to my laptop or internet ?,
Upon looking at
User:Davey2010/vector.js I noticed I had scripts that were already at
User:Davey2010/common.js so I removed these and thought that would fix it .... but unfortunately not,
So I didn't know if someone more knowledgable than me might know, Thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk
18:05, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
*Update - Well having removed all scripts and adding them back one by one I think I've found the issue-
Clicking "Edit count" at the bottom of a contribs page fails with "The requested user does not exist" if the username contains a space. Is this a new failure or just the first time in my wikilife that I've tried it for such a username? I've already figured out the workaround, but it shouldn't be necessary. ― Mandruss ☎ 13:57, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
%20
instead of +
(or you could use underscores), but it appears the MediaWiki urldecode
parser function prefers plus signs. This means there are probably a lot of broken links all over the place... we may have to go back to the old system and add some special handling for %2B
(percent-encoded + sign). My goal is to make it work just like MediaWiki does, however far that may be from an actual standard. —
MusikAnimal
talk
19:11, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/{{urlencode:{{username}}|PATH}}
(but using |WIKI
, which adds underscores, works just as well). This is not unique to XTools -- basically +
only means a space when used in the query string (the part that follows a ?
in the URL). Note query strings still work, in which case you don't need to do any specialized encoding, e.g. https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec?project=en.wikipedia.org&username={{urlencode:{{username}}}}
. Anyway I've updated all the links within templates here on enwiki. I think most everyone else is using the old URL scheme, which will properly redirect, so hopefully there aren't many broken links on other wikis. —
MusikAnimal
talk
00:47, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
The globe link to the left of title coordinates on any article (AFAIK) with coordinates gives a 502 Bad Gateway error. How to reproduce: Go to New York City, for example, and in the upper right, to the left of the coordinates, click the little globe icon with the black downward arrow on it. I see "502 Bad Gateway (hr) nginx/1.13.6" in a pop-up window. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:33, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Hmm, this seems like a particularly awful way of embedding content:
08:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.218.89.69 ( talk)
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17:06, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
I just needed to type a "ß" and was surprised not to find that character in the "special character" dropdown (the one above the editing window in source view). Is there any way to add it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:12, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Why am I getting repeated notifications from a user talk page on fr.wp when I have not contributed to it, or been mentioned on it, in years? Does this have something to do with Flow? If so, who knows where the tap is, and how to turn it to the "closed" position? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 19:32, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello Tech Exp.
Look at this table. It says here that the "total" amount of pages reflects baisically every page that is not an article (and probably doesn't include former revisions of articles. But A simple exapmle show this count is wrong. "Cebuano" Wiki has about 5M articles and less then 9M pages. Even if it has 0 ammount of WikiSpace articles, each article on the main space should have a talk pages. This alone should bring the total amount of pages to nearly 11M.
If this count is being done by technical funcation, there is a Tech issue here. If only the definitions are wrong, pls transfer this input to the correct talk page. I will make the change according to your assistance.
BTW I have a feeling this table can be found in other wikiprojects. So if something IS wrong let's fix it accross the board.
Peace be with you all, 15:23, 30 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mateo ( talk • contribs)
When I try to access certain Wikipedia pages, I get "Request from 63.145.101.232 via cp1068 cp1068, Varnish XID 549421111 Error: 503, Backend fetch failed at Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:41:51 GMT". -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 19:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
It seemed to last for less than a minute (for me, anyway), and I think it affected all pages/all wikis. I wonder if this was the same error that User:Vchimpanzee reported at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 161#Wikimedia error on 15 January.
The main text of today's error said, next to a logo similar to File:Wikimedia-logo black.svg:
Error
Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem.
Please try again in a few minutes.
See the error message at the bottom of this page for more information.
If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:59, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
There is now a post-mortem on this incident at wikitech:Incident documentation/20180129-MediaWiki for anyone who's interested. TL;DR - Some configuration files were updated in the wrong order, causing server errors for about 8 minutes. the wub "?!" 00:19, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
From Zanygenius
@ Admin:(s), I find (2 times) that I'll create something, say on my userspace, {if--the link was there to start with, then I create it} and find it's redlinked for 5-10 minutes. I find that a little weird. I mean, I can live with it, but it is something of interest that this can even happen. (Yes I've tried purging the page). Any thoughts? Sincerely, User: Zanygenius( talk page) 05:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to filter the deletion log so that it only includes pages deleted from mainspace? I've tried adding &namespace=0
to
this link like in contributions but it has no effect. Please ping if you reply.
SmartSE (
talk)
01:28, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
I received a notification that an edit I made had been reverted. The problem is that I didn't make that edit. When I looked at my contributions, I found that someone has been using my account to create an article and edit two others. I changed my password and then reverted all the edits that were made. I could not revert the edit that created the article, We Leak Info, so I deleted the content and posted a note asking someone to delete the article. If anyone reading this can do so, I would appreciate it. I don't know whether there is anyplace I should make a formal report of the hacking. So if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great. At the very least, I wanted to document here that the edits made on my account on 30 and 31 January 2018 are not mine. Taxman1913 ( talk) 18:38, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
I would like some general thoughts on that. The specific situation behind the question is a template ({{ interlinear}}) that formats long-ish strings of linguistically annotated text. One parameter of this template gives a list of the meanings of the glossing abbreviations used. This list is likely to be the same for all invocations of the template on a given page. There can be dozens such invocations in a given article, so it's undesirable to have to specify the same long parameter each time (as pointed out on the template's talk page).
One solution I can think of is to specify this list once: in an invisible (style="display:none;"
) section at the end of the article and then to set the template to automatically look for this section and transclude it (via
labeled section transclusion) as the needed parameter. Does anyone see any issues with that? I'm aware of the performance cost (adding about 50% to overall processing time), but at the scale that this is going to be used, it's unlikely to make a noticeable difference. Are there more elegant alternative ways of achieving the same result? –
Uanfala (talk)
22:41, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
tags instead of markup that remains invisibly in the HTML.
{{3x|p}}ery (
talk)
23:16, 31 January 2018 (UTC)This... may be somehow difficult to implement and not useful enough to justify the trouble, but is it possible for us to cobble together a gadget that would make a nice little highlight around images that are part of CAT:COMMONS? I'm thinking similar to the gadget that highlights links to disambiguation pages. I realize I could just slog through the category directly, but that doesn't really solve anything as far as what I'm doing.
For context, as fortune has it, I'm picking through a lot of articles on US Civil War generals, and most of the images (unsurprisingly) are from the 1860s, meaning that they're pretty much automatically eligible for transfer to Commons. But what I'm ending up doing is opening a new tab for every single image in the article, to see if it pops up with a Commons icon or a Wikipedia one (I have it set to take me directly to Commons if it's already there and skip the enwiki page). That just seems like a lot of extra clicking for something that intuitively seems it should be fairly easy to streamline. GMG talk 13:22, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
:linkclass*="image"][href*="commons"
{
border:5px solid black !important;
}
imgsrc*="/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/" { border:5px solid black !important; }
|thumb
get the black bar on the left, non-thumb images (such as those in an infobox) get it both sides. Very small images - such as those in a {{
portal bar}}
- get the black border all round. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
23:25, 31 January 2018 (UTC)I have seen a lot of Wikipedia pages using Infoboxes with unknown parameters. A module is being used now in some of the Infoboxes to add such pages to a tracking category and such tracking is highly useful. Would it be possible to add such code to {{ Infobox}} or Module:Infobox itself, so as to get rid of adding each parameter to every template manually? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 03:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
It is not impossible. It is just somewhat hard. One way would be to redesign the templates so that they to use lua internally rather than a hybrid inefficient mix of templates + lua + templates + parser functions. That way lua modules invoke the main infobox as a library, rather than as a pseudo-template / parser function. That would give module:infobox full access to all parameters. Of course this would make those templates harder to customize for the average user. Although that is mostly a function of bad design and a lack of separation of input / processing and output. 197.218.89.69 ( talk) 11:30, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
What should be true is (Module:Wikidata/doc}
getValue
: Returns wiki-linked values, if applicable. All other values will be output similar to {{#property:}}
, except that if values with preferred rank exist, then only they are returned. Unlike formatStatements
from
ru:Модуль:Wikidata, getValue
does not yet pick up any references (see
Module talk:Wikidata/Archive 1#Why the references from Wikidata get dropped?).I.e. only preferred rank should show. But now it takes everything, not just preferred rank but also normal rank and even deprecated rank. See
Pilar, Cebu – bottom of infobox.
Uses {{
PH wikidata|climate_type}}
=
| climate_type = {{safesubst:ucfirst:{{safesubst:#invoke:Wikidata|getValue|P2564|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}}}
Kangaroo caught ( talk) 02:59, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello. How can I found all my subpages? Xaris333 ( talk) 21:36, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
FWIW - seems that sharing certain Wikipedia article titles in email messages and related may be a problem for some - the ending ")" in a title like " /info/en/?search=Spectre_(security_vulnerability) " may be dropped/omitted - resulting in an url like => " /info/en/?search=Spectre_(security_vulnerability " instead - one workaround seems to be creating a " WP:Redirect" for " Spectre (security vulnerability" directed to the correct main title (ie, " Spectre (security vulnerability)" - is there some other (even better) workarounds? - perhaps underneath-the-hood coding (or even policy adj?) of some sort may be needed for such titles? - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 17:00, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Spectre_(song)
into a clickable link but they have to guess where the url ends. They often guess some characters like a period, comma or right parenthesis is not part of the url. Mediawiki can also guess wrong.
/info/en/?search=Sammy_Davis_Jr. drops the period and only works because
Sammy Davis Jr redirects to
Sammy Davis Jr. It's much more common to write a period after a url than for the period to be part of the url so MediaWiki makes a sensible guess. We already help all users coming from a link which dropped a right parenthesis at the end. Non-existing pages display
MediaWiki:Noarticletext. We use it to transclude {{
No article text}} which checks whether you get an existing page name by adding a right parenthesis. Then we suggest that link like in
/info/en/?search=Spectre_(song which says "Did you mean:
Spectre (song)?" I don't think we should make automatic redirects. If you mail a raw url to somebody and don't know whether their mail software has the issue then you can
percent-encode )
as %29
:
/info/en/?search=Spectre_(song%29. This url should work in more programs which turn url's into links. It may work in even more if you also encode (
as %28
:
/info/en/?search=Spectre_%28song%29.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
19:47, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
The Wikipedia page Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) has been changed on 1 February 2018 by Xaris333, see /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical) for the current revision. To view this change, see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=next&oldid=823531010 For all changes since your last visit, see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=0&oldid=823531010
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29
, but it's less readable for humans. It's requested in
phab:T40265 and others. See also
phab:T23615.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
22:03, 1 February 2018 (UTC)It was reported at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Searching Sevåg that entering "Sevåg" with å in the normal search box (corresponds to the "Go" button in some other skins) goes directly to Sevag without displaying search results. A redirect at Sevåg has since been created so that example is now invalid. My tests show "å" only goes to "a" in some cases. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=Emmy+Awård goes to Emmy Award, but https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=Awård does not go to Award. Is this intended behaviour and is there a system to it? Emmy Awård and Awård are red links and should remain so. https://simple.wikipedia.org/?search=Emmy+Awård goes to simple:Emmy Award and https://simple.wikipedia.org/?search=Awård goes to simple:Award, unlike enwiki. PrimeHunter ( talk) 15:13, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I wasn't sure whether to post this here or at Proposals. Feel free to copy/paste it there if necessary.
I think the Watchlist could make better use of space. To the left there's a column that's almost entirely empty where edits are marked with m for minor and b for bot edits, etc. The placeholders are left blank if they don't apply, the upshot of which is an inch wide space with the rest of the content squashed into the remaining space. I think it would be better if that column had a dynamic width so it could be kept to a minimum while still displaying relevant information. Does anybody else agree? nagual design 09:46, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
is used instead; there may be up to seven nbsps. So you would need the script to eliminate those nbsps from the table cell that matches the selector td.mw-enhanced-rc
but that in itself might not reduce the width of the column by much. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
14:56, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
User talk:Misza13#View source script is not working. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 20:01, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
This thread Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Introduction of a malware link into a citation may need the assistance of the regulars at this village pump. MarnetteD| Talk 05:50, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Trying to use this family tree tool User:GregU/familytree.js. Added these codes to User:Makeandtoss/monobook.js and User:Makeandtoss/vector.js, but nothing happened. Makeandtoss ( talk) 11:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
addOnloadHook
, which AFAIK has been obsolete fro over a year. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
11:59, 3 February 2018 (UTC)When I type two spaces, I get a period automatically inserted in the edit box. Well, at least in Chrome using the web editor (I don't know about other platforms). Most of the time, that's fine. But, when I type a citation at the end of a sentence, i.e. <ref name="foo"/>, that goes after the period I've already typed, so it's wrong (and annoying). Is there any way to turn this auto-insertion feature off? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
I think that there is a bug in MediaWiki. I undid a recent , the cumulative effects of which should have been nil, other than two entries in the page history, and one on each user contribs list. In fact, the full protection that had been added by Amortias ( talk · contribs) was silently lifted, as if I had also undone this prot. Worse, the fact was not logged in either the page history or logs, so my manual replacement of the prot may seem odd when somebody reads through the page history at a later date. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 10:56, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Since the last week, somebody is attempting to login to my account, about 6-8 times a day. Though I'm not much concerned about them being successful at it, what's bugging me is the loads of messages that are filling the alerts and my e-mail. Is there something that can be done to get rid of this? Thanks, MT Train Discuss 03:35, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
Below and to the right ! Can it be fixed ? Thanks GrahamHardy ( talk) 07:55, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi
I want to make a request similar to a bot request or a Lua request but for Javascript, does anyone know of anywhere I could make this request? What I want I think should be quite simple, its a form that fills in sections of a table and then saves to a new section of a talk page.
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 19:24, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
A user trying to find an archived version of a dead link pointed me at this, which leads to the appropriate archived article -- and then after a couple of seconds blanks the page. I'm going to say this is OK (though obviously not ideal) as an archive.org link, since one can see the text (and it is visible in the source), but does anyone have any idea what causes this and how to prevent it? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 22:08, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, on Czech Wikipedia we have an issue with our GeoGroup template. The template is correct, urls are correct, but sometimes (only sometimes) both the osm4wiki tool (OSM link) and the wp-world tool (Google Maps link) give broken output, as you can see here or here. If you find a GeoGroup template on these pages and click on OSM link, you get broken encoding, but map shows correctly. If you click on Google Maps link, there is no map shown. If you click on Export... link (kmlexport tool), the link is also correct, but the resulting KML is blank. Do you know, what could be the problem? Is there some bug in kmlexport tool (used by all three links)? It happens only for some Czech Wikipedia pages, not for all pages using our GeoGroup template. -- Dvorapa ( talk) 01:02, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Template:BusyEmail to see why the text isn't vertically justified? It'll have something to do with how either Template:Busy or Template:tmbox are set up, but it must be fixable – I've seen plenty of tmbox templates where the text sits nicely in the vertical centre without any issues.-- Newbiepedian ( talk · contribs · X! · logs) 05:58, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
{{tmbox|text=Some text}}
it's actually not vertically centered; it's just not as noticeable. There's a small amount of space you can see if you use the "inspect element" tool (in Firefox, Chrome, and I'm sure other browsers as well).
Anon126 (
notify me of responses! /
talk /
contribs)
07:25, 5 February 2018 (UTC)Wikipedia has a problem with top right side templates expanding and then collapsing when the page is loaded. For example, in calculus article the Template:Calculus loads expanded then immediately collapses. This is a widespread problem on many wikipedia articles and templates. If nobody can figure out how to fix this issue, I propose eliminating the "[show]" and "[hide]" parameters of the templates so the templates always load fully expanded. Brian Everlasting ( talk) 01:25, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
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I am interested in writing a (java)script that will apply some conversion functions to a highlighted piece of text in the edit box and change it to replace the highlighted piece. A simple example would be to swap lower and uppercase, when the caps lock was left on. Another example would be to do the function of this sed command "sed -e 's/, P/|/g' -e 's/P//g' -e 's/, and /|/'" which converts a comma separated list of precaution codes into the template format. I have quite a few more conversions I would like to do. Are there any scripts around that I could copy and use to adapt? Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 06:55, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey, I normally use my contribs page to see if others have edited pages since I did, and having "current" at the end of the line is useful for this purpose, whereas I imagine tags ( like the "new redirect" one) are mainly meant to be searchable via Ctrl+F or equivalent, and do not need to be at the end. Obviously it's not worth fighting over either way, but I'm curious if anyone knows the reason or where I can find it. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 10:44, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Re Phab:T143970 (created in 2016), is there a work-around for validating a Wikidata entity/QID in Lua? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 00:33, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
--Module:HackValidEntity
function p.entityid(frame)
foo =mw.wikibase.getEntity(frame.args1])
end
local id = "Qxx"
if frame:preprocess("{{#iferror:{{#invoke:HackValidEntity|entityid|".. id .. "}}|fail}}") == "fail" then
return "invalid entity"
end
resolvePropertyId
but for properties. However, it's still uncomfortably hackish. --
Ahecht (
TALK
There seems to be a non-hacky approach to get this (might need more thorough testing):
local id = "P00000000000000000" -- or "Q00000000000000000" if mw.wikibase.getEntityUrl( id ) then return true end
This is presumably better because it probably doesn't need to load the whole entity which can consume a lot of memory and potentially hit the parser limit. Still, this is something that should be implemented in scribunto & wikibase itself. Catching errors like this should be trivial. The hacky approach is probably still the only valid way to catch strange unexpected errors like the "nil error of doom" ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039). As long as xpcall, and pcall can't be trusted it is probably a good idea to either wrap all critical modules with that, or use a string check for "class = error" before rendering the final output. 15:05, 6 February 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.218.83.244 ( talk)
From some inadvertent issues, and subsequent testing on a sandbox page, it seems that the Mediawiki API does not report an edit conflict when the conflicting edits are made by the same user? Testing: I opened the same version of the same sandbox page in two separate AWB sessions, made and saved an edit in one session, then made a conflicting edit in the second AWB session and saved (AWB save uses API to update page). At the time of second save the second session must have had an out of date revision of the page, yet the API saved the page without error (overwriting page content with that of second save, effectively reverting changes from first save). Does anybody know if this is expected behaviour? Thanks Rjwilmsi 15:05, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
I just now signed on and had a Notification that is odd for many reasons:
And that's it. Anyone have any idea what is going on? I have had no interactions with this particular editor, they didn't mention me on their talk page any where at all, so ??? Shearonink ( talk) 01:36, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
{{User:GeneralizationsAreBad}}
instead of [[User:GeneralizationsAreBad]]
. The former transcludes the user page which has a link to your user page in an old signature by you. Notifications of mentions are caused by a signed edit with a wikilink to your user page in the rendered page. The software doesn't know whether the link is intentional or accidental. We could quickly confirm this or give another or more precise explanation if you just posted the link on "View changes", or at the very least the username so we could look for the diff in the their talk page history. I have no idea why you continue to keep it secret and force us to guess.
PrimeHunter (
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11:37, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi {{User:GeneralizationsAreBad}}
instead of Hi [[User:GeneralizationsAreBad]]
. They quickly fixed it so it was difficult to find the edit later without knowing the page. We could have saved a lot of time if
Shearonink had justed posted the page from the start or at least when xaosflux asked for it.
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15:58, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
There's a banner that first popped up several days ago containing the text "Wikivoyage is celebrating its 5th anniversary! Help us grow by sharing travel information about destinations that interest you". When I first received it, I used the "X" link to dismiss it, that would (I presume) have set a cookie to prevent the notice reappearing. But it has reappeared several times, each time I have dismissed it again but it comes back a while later - sometimes a day or two, sometimes much less - like ten minutes just now. Do they keep changing the cookie ID or something? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:20, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
The option "Make sure that headers of tables remain in view as long as the table is in view" under Testing and Development no longer keeps the headers anchored for me. This used to work. Did something change? I am still using Chrome. Terrorist96 ( talk) 01:07, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Anyone here proficient in the handling of images, both here and at commons? Or the delinker bots that update images? An editor deleted an image in favor of a different image. The image is of a military award ribbon. This affects the BLPs of numerous military officers and other articles. I brought this to his attention, and he said that we need to wait for the delinker to start. At one point it did, and it changed 73 articles. But there is still over a 100 pages in need of updating, that are currently showing a blank spot on the officer's ribbon boards.
The delinker has stopped. "JuTa" has stopped replying. Can someone here take a look at this problem and see if there is fix to be had? Thank you - theWOLFchild 04:38, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
A new editor asked if they could use an underscore as part of their username. They were successful creating a username with an underscore but it renders as a space. Is it possible to do something so that it renders as an underscore ? I think the answer is no, but I thought I'd check here. S Philbrick (Talk) 17:04, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
[[A Username With Underscores]]
to [[A Username With Underscores|A_Username_With_Underscores]]
. The title of pages can be replaced, as well, using the {{
DISPLAYTITLE}} template.
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants
Tell me all about it.
17:07, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:Sphilbrick_alt}}
would display "Sphilbrick_alt" at top of the page. I guess you can also type underscores at login, but page histories, logs, search results and many other places cannot display underscores instead of spaces.
PrimeHunter (
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18:27, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
It seems that image captions that contain subscript or superscript do not render as such when an image is clicked on to see in the media viewer (example provided here). Is this on Wikipedia's end? Either way, does anyone know of a workaround? Thanks, – Deacon Vorbis ( carbon • videos) 01:19, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia's coverage of JavaScript is a bit rough. But, it has grown immense, with coverage of the JavaScript ecosystem beyond the core language far surpassing that of JavaScript itself.
Here are some pages that attempt to organize and provide access to all this information:
The Outline of JavaScript is a hierarchical presentation of the entire JavaScript ecosystem. When complete, it will be added to the outline collection at Portal:Contents/Outlines.
The Glossary of JavaScript is an alphabetical list of terms and jargon used in working with and talking about JavaScript. After the definitions have been filled in, it will be added to the collection of glossaries at Portal:Contents/Glossaries, where, hopefully, others will develop it further.
The Index of JavaScript-related articles will eventually include every article about JavaScript-related topics on Wikipedia. Though incomplete, it has already been added to the collection of indices at Portal:Contents/Indices.
The JS Resource library is a listing of reference material that can be mined for citations. It is more extensive and is organized differently than the further reading list included in the outline mentioned above. It aims to include all significant material on and off the Web about JavaScript.
To organize project-level information about JavaScript is the Outline of scripts. It attempts to cover everything about using and developing JavaScript programs (user scripts and gadgets) on Wikipedia. Especially, where to find them and other JavaScript source code.
These are very rough and no doubt full of gaps and errors. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at them to see how they might be improved.
All comments and contributions are welcomed and appreciated.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 07:04, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
I have had a couple of wikistalkers, who subsequently used sockpuppetry to evade indefinite blocks imposed on them. I wonder whether a recent stalker may be using a proxy to obfuscate their actual IP address. Anyone here with experience tracking abuse of proxies?
They don't seem to have noticed, but, their most recent edits also changed some URLs, inserting ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" after the domain.
UWO is the University of Western Ontario, in London. Only some of the URLs get mapped.
In this edit ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" gets inserted into 25 urls.
In this edit ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" gets inserted into 23 urls.
In this edit ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" gets inserted into 13 urls.
Trying one of the proxified urls gives an error message.
Has anyone got an explanation for this?
Thanks! Geo Swan ( talk) 10:14, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
For example:
{{Birth date|-123|2|5}}
now displays February 5, -123 (solid: February 5, -123), maybe it is actually 124 BCE.
I wish that it can displays February 5, 124 BCE. This is Taiwania Justo speaking ( Reception Room) 02:11, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
{{extract|-123|2|5|show=mdy}}
→ February 5, 124 BC{{extract|2 Feb 124 BCE|show=mdy}}
→ February 2, 124 BCEIs there a way of editing the entries that appear in the drop down box to remove entries that are of my creation that are no longer useful? Nthep ( talk) 18:31, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, all! I've never used the watchlist feature before, but I recently wanted to try it out to get a basic stream of content from the Current Events page and eventually set the watchlist up in an RSS reader. However, after adding Portal:Current Events to my watchlist, it appears to only be showing Portal talk: Current events and its changes, as opposed to the page itself. I can watch the individual days with no issue, but watching the entire page seems to not work. Is this normal, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance. Kilroy94 ( talk) 02:03, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
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When setting up template data, the preview on the template doc page ends up showing reams of this:
There often isn't any reason to fill these fields in, but they do make it quite hard to scan the tables for what's actually been specified. They also often mean the tables are too big to be a sensible replacement for existing parameter tables, which means the parameter list ends up being written out (at least) twice on template pages. Would it possible to just get rid of them when empty? User:GKFX talk 19:59, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Yep. Using CSS one can only hide the fields, but not the "label" using something like dd.mw-templatedata-doc-muted { display:none}
until they add that class to the sibling dt tag (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176956). It is possible to hide all of it entirely using javascript. 21:27, 13 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding
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197.218.83.2 (
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In consistent with my signature style and color, I want to make my user-page's title that way. I've prepared the displaytitle which is {{DISPLAYTITLE:User:<b style="color:dimgray">Ascetic<span style="color:orangered">Rose</span></b>}}. But the problem is it is bold. I want to remove this bold feature but don't know how to.
Another problem is that is there any way to use é (as in my signature) in the title? When I put é, the warning message says it is not consistent with the original title. Can anyone help? - Ascetic Rosé 09:21, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
<b>...</b>
means bold. Use <span>...</span>
instead: {{DISPLAYTITLE:User:<span style="color:dimgray">Ascetic<span style="color:orangered">Rose</span></span>}}
. You cannot change e to é. The display name must resolve to the real name in wikilinks so it must use the same characters with a few exceptions like space/underscore and lowercase initial letter.
PrimeHunter (
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11:48, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Is the {{convert}} template's "adj=on" parameter intended to be used with a range measurement?
Currently, if you try it, the "adj" formatting is turned on for the initial range but not for the converted range (see example below). The documentation for that template describes the "adj" parameter in Section 3, but makes no mention there of its potential functionality with ranges. "Ranges" are covered in Section 7, but, again, there's no explicit mention there of the "adj" functionality with ranges. Here is an example I came across.
The electronic license plate has a {{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm|adj=on}} digital display.
The electronic license plate has a 12-by-16-inch (30 by 41 cm) digital display.
Notice how the hyphens are correctly placed in the first range, but hyphens have not been added in the converted range.
One workaround is to omit the "adj=on" parameter after rewording the sentence to make the range measurement into a noun.
The electronic license plate has a digital display measuring {{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm}}.
The electronic license plate has a digital display measuring 12 x 16 inches (30 by 41 cm).
Perhaps the "adj=on" parameter is not expected to work with a range measurement, but perhaps the documentation should be amended to specify that (lack of) functionality?
Thanks to those who may be able to shed light on this.
Timbuk-2 (
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22:09, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
{{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm|adj=on}}
→ 12-by-16-inch (30 by 41 cm){{convert|12|by|16|inch|cm|adj=on|abbr=off}}
→ 12-by-16-inch (30-by-41-centimetre)When the source description page gives only a month or year, e.g. only "July 2010", or only "2010", the Media Viewer is STILL incorrectly showing the date as the first of the month. This was raised months or even years ago, and seems to have incorrectly been given a "never bother to fix" priority. Showing a spurious "1st" date is just WRONG. It needs to be FIXED. 86.191.166.249 ( talk) 02:39, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
It probably didn't take much time for developers to realize this limitation. So it isn't due to resources, it is simply due to lack of interest. Anyway, the so-called "community" doesn't care much either way, it would take less than 30 seconds to create a CSS to override it:
span.mw-mmv-datetime { visibility : hidden; } span.mw-mmv-datetime::before { visibility : visible; content: "Click 'more details' to see date"; }
Or alternatively read the "one true date" from the file metadata API and overwrite whatever the software adds. In any case, in a few updates of the library it will eventually turn into an exception, so both sides may get what they want:
Deprecation warning: value provided is not in a recognized RFC2822 or ISO format. moment construction falls back to js Date(), which is not reliable across all browsers and versions. Non RFC2822/ISO date formats are discouraged and will be removed in an upcoming major release. Please refer to http://momentjs.com/guides/#/warnings/js-date/ for more info. Arguments: [0] _isAMomentObject: true, _isUTC: false, _useUTC: false, _l: undefined, _i: 1926, _f: undefined, _strict: undefined, _locale: [object Object]
14:41, 19 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.218.80.129 ( talk)
The user who moved the SBS Broadcasting B.V. article to Talpa TV could have just made a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. But instead, the user just cut-and-pasteed the content. What should I do? JSH-alive/ talk/ cont/ mail 15:43, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
When you click on a link in a category table of contents (TOC) near the end of the alphabet, and there are no pages in the category that start with that letter or a letter that is later in the alphabet, you get a misleading message: "There are no pages or files in this category." See, for example, this link, which currently shows the erroneous message. If you click earlier in the alphabet in the TOC for the same category, you get a message like "The following 102 pages are in this category, out of approximately 702 total. This list may not reflect recent changes."
On the "no pages" page, there are also no "previous page / next page" links, even though there should be at least a "previous page" link.
Are these things that we can fix locally, or will I need to submit a Phabricator request? I searched phab for related search terms and did not come up with anything. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 01:57, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there any reason why File:White x in red rounded square.svg appears in popups when hovering over Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 January 19? I'm not seeing it displaying anywhere on the page. Home Lander ( talk) 22:59, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
<includeonly>[[File:White x in red rounded square.svg|16px|link=|alt=Delete]] '''Closed discussion''', see [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 January 19#1516392921|full discussion]]. Result was: </includeonly>
<!-- ... -->
. And I think popups can both detect file links in the source and images in some common template parameters like |image = example.jpg
, but not image names in running text like "A common example file name is example.jpg". You would have to examine
MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js or make more tests to figure out the details (or find somebody who already knows them or has written them somewhere).
PrimeHunter (
talk)
00:02, 21 January 2018 (UTC){{void|[[File:Example.jpg]]}}
which produces nothing. Popups displays the image.
PrimeHunter (
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22:51, 21 January 2018 (UTC)At present, edits that replace most of the content of a page with new content of less than about 1,000 bytes are flagged in two ways: a
tag that reads "Replaced" and is named mw-replace
, and an
automatic edit summary drawn from
MediaWiki:Autosumm-replace reading "Replaced content with '.....'". The automatic edit summary only appears when the editor did not enter an edit summary themselves.
A proposal that edits should also be flagged when the new content is more than 1,000 bytes has received support at VP Misc. Would anyone with Phabricator access care to submit the proposal there? : Noyster (talk), 18:59, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello, folks. Perhaps this is not the right place to ask this question, so feel free to point me to somewhere else.
Earlier today, one of my edits had been reverted, but I found out about it only from my Watchlist and not from the usual "red number at the top of the screen" notification system. When looking into it, I saw that the edit summary for the revert used the same "Undid revision ###### by ..." language that is used for reverts done with the "Undo" function, but the edit wasn't tagged as an "Undo". Instead, it was tagged as a "Visual edit".
I've checked the User Guide for the VisualEditor, but found nothing relevant. And so, I've come here to ask -- does the VisualEditor bypass the notification system? And if so, does anyone here know whether this is a deliberate feature?
Thank you for any assistance you can provide. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 16:28, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
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(Before the heading title above raises false alarms that my account's login credentials have been somehow compromised, they have not. This issue appears to involve some sort of (new?) MediaWiki importation tool.)
I've been editing Wikipedia for a long, long time, around a decade and a half, during which many articles I wrote or contributed to have been copied and pasted and translated into Wikipedias of other languages. That's fine/great; no problem! I'm happy/delighted to share the results or work product of my edits in other languages! But I just encountered something new and different.
I was just given a welcome message to the Bihari Wikipedia by another user, thanking me for my edits there. This surprised me as I don't speak or understand the Bihari languages, so why would I ever have edited there? So, I checked bh:Special:Contributions/Lowellian. And I recognize those edits: I did make those edits, but I made those edits to the English Wikipedia, not the Bihari Wikipedia!
After poking around the page histories some more (and navigation is difficult due to the aforementioned fact that I don't understand Bihari, so I have to do some informed guesswork clicking on links), for example https://bh.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Countries_and_territories_of_Southeast_Asia&limit=500&action=history, I can see that my edits have been somehow "copied" from the English Wikipedia to the Bihari Wikipedia, and in a way different from a normal page move: normally, when a page is moved, the edits are also moved with it so that each edit still only appears in one page history (unless it was a copy-and-paste move, in which case the text of the edits but not the edits themselves get copied/moved). But this situation appears to be something different, in which my edits are now duplicated so that the same edit history appears on both the English and Bihari Wikipedias, accredited to me.
This is fundamentally different from normal copying-and-translation of articles into other languages since that copies the prose/text (the work product of edits) rather than the actual edit history (the edits themselves). This concerns me because those page histories make it look like I have been editing the Bihari Wikipedia when I have never done so. I don't want, for instance, people complaining to me about edits I made on another-language Wikipedia that I had no knowledge of and did not make. (This is different from normal copying/translation of articles into other-language editions, since normal copying/translation doesn't make it look like I directly edited those other-language editions.)
This all appears to be done by some sort of (new?) MediaWiki importation tool? Can someone in the know provide background for what all is happening here?
— Lowellian ( reply) 22:42, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Today I have been getting Welcomed on both the Latvian and Kazakh wikis. I have never edited over there. I checked my contribs over there, but nothing shows. Could this be part of the same issue [ the previous topic about imported contributions ]? Bit of a coincidence that they both happened today and it has never happened before. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 07:26, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
You've had about 200 edits imported to the German Wikipedia so far, which the median editor would likely not describe as a small number, and about as many again across some other wikis (one at tewiki, two at arzwiki, three at gdwiki, orwiki, and lmowiki, six at mlwikisource, eight at hiwiki and simplewiki, 10 at elwiki, 12 at the testwiki, 15 at maiwiki, 20 at bhwiki, 24 at knwiki, 34 at mlwiki, and 52 at the English Wikibooks, for anyone who's keeping count).
And, as the edits are attributed to you, I suggest again that the attribution is already correct. It appears to be your personal preference for attribution to say which wiki you happened to be using at the time your original edit was saved, but I have found no actual requirement to do so. I'll cheerfully admit that I'm wrong on that point when you quote me a line from the license that says that attribution must include information about which sub-domain of which website you first posted your copyrighted content to, rather than just your name.
This is where the disconnect seems to be. You seem to have gotten the idea that there is only one "correct" way to provide attribution, and that this One True Way™ requires four specific details, and the current system provides only three of them. I can find no source that supports your belief that anything more than your username is required. For that matter, I can't even find out whether your alleged requirement of "where it was published" refers to the physical location where it was published, the legal/copyright location where it was published, or the name of the larger work that it was included in. (There is, after all, a big difference between "printed in China", "published in the United States", and "published as part of the Anthology of Something", and (given the realities of printing costs) all three of those might be simultaneously true for any given work.) So at the risk of sounding rather Wikipedian about this, please cite your sources. I've cited mine: the license doesn't mention any requirement beyond identifying (in some fashion) the human who originally created and licensed the work in question, and which work is so licensed. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
There's no way to reliably identify old imports to tag the edits, so that's not going to happen. The unexpected creation of accounts should be mostly done since most of the wikis are done. Anomie ⚔ 13:56, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
>
identifier satisfy what you are looking for? —
xaosflux
Talk
22:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Here's what I haven't yet understood about this:
So, on wikis where articles previously have been imported,
local accounts are created in order to attribute the contributing users. But most or at least some of the newly created accounts that have been reported in this thread have no contributions! Are those accounts just a side effect with no big significance (other than causing annoying welcomes and uncertainty)? Or do they reflect that contributions by that user have been imported, but the details have somehow been lost and won't therefore appear in the contributions list? --
Pipetricker (
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10:09, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
The issues raised at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 57#Rogue bot or what on other language wikipedias seem better discussed here. Perhaps I should in hindsight have come here first.
One of the possible problems that occurs to me is really a restatement of the initial problem raised here by Lowellian. Somehow, we've lost sight of the difference between information, which can't be copyrighted but must be sourced by references, and text, which can be copyrighted and so must be attributed.
Accurate translation preserves the information but not the text. So when going from one language wiki to another, the references should be kept, but the attributions should not be.
In English Wikipedia, other language Wikipedias are not acceptable references, so translation into English should not be a problem: The sources are kept, the attributions discarded. Other language Wikipedias may have different policies on this, in which case it may be acceptable to add a reference to English Wikipedia if translating from here. But regardless, the attributions belong only in English Wikipedia.
Am I missing something? Andrewa ( talk) 05:55, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia seems not to support \operatorname*
in <math>...</math>
mode (the starred version is to make a following subscript display under the operator name, as with \lim
, as opposed to a usual subscript), I discovered a workaround at some point in the past, which was to use \operatorname{foo}\limits
instead (which I added to the fourth paragraph at
Help:Displaying a formula#Rendering). However, this appears not to work anymore. I'm not sure exactly when this changed, but I don't think it was too long ago. Can anyone offer any insight to what's going on or how to proceed? Thanks, –
Deacon Vorbis (
carbon •
videos)
14:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
I couldn't find it easily, but a while ago, people were talking about having proper Special:Tags on AWB edits. Thanks to User:Reedy, this may get done sooner rather than later. Two things:
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 06:38, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
"WikiProject Bridges" has changed its name to "WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels." Now we need help changing the template to work with the new name. Please have an experienced template editor make the change.
See /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Bridges_and_Tunnels#Tunnels_tag for more information.-- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 19:47, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there any way when using "what links here" to exclude those incoming links which are the result of a template in an article? DuncanHill ( talk) 21:43, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
I have a script (
User:R'n'B/dplupdate.js) that loaded the module mediawiki.action.history.diff
. Apparently, this module no longer exists, since the script will not run unless I comment out the reference to it. Is there a replacement for it? --
R'n'B (
call me Russ)
13:53, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
mediawiki.action.history.diff
to mediawiki.diff.styles
. --
Green
C
20:27, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
While I'm sure there are other ways, I go to my contributions and see which recent ones are not the latest edit. If there is a tag such as on a redirect (I create a lot of those), I think something has been done and go there and find out mine was the last edit. This wouldn't happen if "current" was on the right.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Making such an arbitrary change will not help with a single thing (as far as usability goes). It will just be superficial. In any event, making it look as requested here is certainly possible without server-side software changes. Instead of changing the html this can be changed using CSS, the simplest approach is probably float: "right"
. 09:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
197.218.83.173 (
talk)
.mw-uctop {float:right;}
in
your CSS will float "(current)" at the right margin. Some users may prefer it but I don't recommend it for site-wide css. Depending on window size, font and zoom I get results like a line ending with "(Tag: (current)", and then "New redirect)" at the start of the next line.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:20, 23 January 2018 (UTC).mw-uctop {
display:none
}
li.mw-contributions-current::after {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
content:" (current)";
}
At some point since my last edit 29 minutes ago, the font size in my wikitext editor window dramatically increased, roughly doubling. What happened? ― Mandruss ☎ 21:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Just found the Tech News: 2018-02 notice about this:
-- Bamyers99 ( talk) 22:03, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
(Firefox) I got back to my preferred size by changing 150% to 110% in my common.css. [14] I assume any editor can get any size they want by copying the last 3 lines there and setting the percentage as desired. I hope this is the last time I have to change it. ― Mandruss ☎ 22:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I have suddenly come across a very strange problem. The text is my source editor has suddenly gone small. I use the Vector skin and I have many scripts as shown at User:Emir of Wikipedia/common.js. This is not a browser specific I have tested in on multiple browsers. It is also not a display or scaling issue as this is the only thing affected. Commons also seems to be affected by this issue. Looks like I am not the only one having this type of problem as shown in the above section. Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 21:33, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
For me, the font size in the source text editor (what I am typing into now) has got noticeably smaller, and is now rather too small for comfort. Nothing has changed at my end, that I am aware of. Has it been changed at the Wikipedia end, and, if so, is this a change that has been generally asked for? For me, I would like it put back to how it was, please. 86.191.166.249 ( talk) 03:12, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
#wpTextbox1 { font-size: 130%; } /* increase edit window font size */
Asking for the Central Kurdish Wikipedia: on the English Wikipedia, when you protect a page with one of the options, there is a different-in-color lock icon (appearing in the right side of the pages) for each of those options. I was wondering what module/template causes these locks to appear? Because on the CKB wiki, it is not working properly. Is there anything we can do about it locally or should we talk about the issue on Phabricator? Thanks in advance.--◂ épine talk♬ 11:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
{{#invoke:Protection banner|main|small=yes}}
in
ckb:Template:Pp.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
phab:T184656 has a list of 389 wikis where Tidy will be removed (and replaced by RemexHTML) on 31 January 2018. These wikis currently have fewer than 10 high-priority problems (so not the English Wikipedia).
If you are active at other wikis, please look over the list and check your favorites. If you notice problems after the switch, then please feel free to ping me, or (especially if it's urgent) leave a comment in the Phab task where the devs will see it. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:14, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
I noticed recently that if someone posts a permalink to an edit that has been revisiondeleted (for example this one) that I am able to hover over the link and see the content of the edit. I assume this is because as an admin I have viewdelete rights and would be able to see the edit anyway if I clicked a few buttons, but is this intended behaviour? Also, is it visible this way to non-admins? Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 20:42, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
Non-free use rationale}}
and its presence on an image that is not used in any article can make the image liable for speedy deletion. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
00:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)@
Redrose64: Done, thanks for the constructive advice instead of calling me out for stupidly missing that.
Home Lander (
talk)
00:30, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Someone sent me a link to a mobile Wikipedia page and I opened it on my PC, clicked "Desktop version" on the bottom and got this message. Really, they're not required at all. All you need to do is remove ".m" from the URL and that works even with cookies disabled. Why display this message then? 93.142.83.36 ( talk) 18:50, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi. The category Category:Articles without Wikidata item has 200+ articles contained within it, some of them date back to before Christmas. Some newer enteries get dealt with almost straight away, but there appears to be an issue with older ones. Does anyone know how to purge this, or which bot adds the new articles to WikiData? The user who created the category hasn't been active in a couple of months. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 11:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
PrimerHunter is right. When bot finds conflict names, it avoids to add more noise. I checked the bot contributions for 18th December, and it created this item correctly for another biography you started, so it doesn't seem like the bot stopped working. emijrp ( talk) 20:41, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I want to create an image map using File:LimassolDistrict (1).png. I know how to do it. The problem is to have the coordinates of each place. I am using polygons but is too difficult and need a lot of time. And the result is not so good. Is there a way to easy choose the shape of each place and have the coordinates of the place? Xaris333 ( talk) 20:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
{{Image label begin|image=Wyoming Locator Map.PNG|width={{{width|300}}}|float={{{float|none}}}}}
{{Image label small|x=218|y=191|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Albany County, Wyoming|Albany]]}}
{{Image label small|x=119|y=39|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Big Horn County, Wyoming|Big Horn]]}}
{{Image label small|x=222|y=50|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Campbell County, Wyoming|Campb]]}}
{{Image label small|x=170|y=188|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Carbon County, Wyoming|Carbon]]}}
{{Image label small|x=218|y=118|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Converse County, Wyoming|Converse]]}}
{{Image label small|x=264|y=31|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Crook County, Wyoming|Crook]]}}
{{Image label small|x=100|y=123|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Fremont County, Wyoming|Fremont]]}}
{{Image label small|x=278|y=169|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Goshen County, Wyoming|Gos]]}}
{{Image label small|x=100|y=80|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Hot Springs County, Wyoming|Hot Spr]]}}
{{Image label small|x=175|y=62|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Johnson County, Wyoming|Johnson]]}}
{{Image label small|x=257|y=213|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Laramie County, Wyoming|Laramie]]}}
{{Image label small|x=15|y=178|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Lincoln County, Wyoming|Lincoln]]}}
{{Image label small|x=168|y=121|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Natrona County, Wyoming|Natrona]]}}
{{Image label small|x=271|y=115|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Niobrara County, Wyoming|Niobr]]}}
{{Image label small|x=68|y=38|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Park County, Wyoming|Park]]}}
{{Image label small|x=254|y=167|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Platte County, Wyoming|Plat]]}}
{{Image label small|x=165|y=19|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Sheridan County, Wyoming|Sheridan]]}}
{{Image label small|x=40|y=138|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Sublette County, Wyoming|Sublette]]}}
{{Image label small|x=70|y=194|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Sweetwater County, Wyoming|Sweetwater]]}}
{{Image label small|x=18|y=69|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Teton County, Wyoming|Teton]]}}
{{Image label small|x=20|y=214|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Uinta County, Wyoming|Uinta]]}}
{{Image label small|x=123|y=62|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Washakie County, Wyoming|Washakie]]}}
{{Image label small|x=261|y=72|scale={{{width|300}}}/300|text=[[Weston County, Wyoming|Weston]]}}
{{Image label end}}<noinclude>{{Documentation|Template:Image label begin/doc}}</noinclude>
to make the image interactive, which produces this:
<imagemap>
Image:Wyoming_counties_map.png|250px|Wyoming counties (clickable)
poly 568 639 568 580 596 580 593 426 650 425 649 428 647 428 646 432 643 434 643 442 645 444 652 445 654 447 669 446 670 442 672 434 672 431 673 427 676 424 679 424 680 475 682 475 686 636 624 638 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Albany County, Wyoming|Albany County]]
poly 318 46 318 65 320 66 320 117 321 118 321 169 474 170 474 149 471 144 472 142 470 138 470 137 469 135 469 132 468 130 465 130 463 130 460 128 458 128 458 123 454 117 447 107 432 101 425 91 418 93 414 90 410 91 410 80 401 76 401 70 398 66 398 58 397 52 396 48 388 46 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Horn County, Wyoming|Big Horn County]]
poly 591 46 592 64 594 85 593 115 596 268 697 266 693 154 692 84 693 74 691 63 690 56 688 44 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Campbell County, Wyoming|Campbell County]]
poly 569 639 567 581 595 580 591 426 511 428 432 428 434 477 436 478 434 542 388 541 388 580 390 580 389 639 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Carbon County, Wyoming|Carbon County]]
poly 716 265 590 268 592 426 650 425 650 429 648 429 648 433 644 434 644 444 653 445 668 445 674 426 679 424 679 399 721 397 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Converse County, Wyoming|Converse County]]
poly 803 161 798 39 690 42 689 59 692 60 691 74 691 75 694 164 694 164 745 163 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Crook County, Wyoming|Crook County]]
poly 433 452 433 427 431 426 430 375 436 375 436 327 434 324 435 276 434 274 432 274 432 269 425 269 425 273 365 273 365 274 346 275 346 273 333 272 333 269 320 268 320 264 307 263 307 258 295 257 295 252 282 252 282 250 256 250 256 238 247 228 242 223 238 216 235 216 235 212 231 208 227 204 226 202 221 202 218 199 212 200 205 207 205 213 199 217 193 221 186 221 186 213 186 205 182 204 183 199 176 200 173 198 172 201 164 189 160 270 192 270 192 285 197 285 199 292 200 295 200 302 202 312 206 319 211 331 213 333 212 339 226 345 230 349 236 352 238 359 242 364 246 370 246 375 250 376 258 383 258 384 258 386 264 386 264 425 267 424 266 451 331 452 415 451 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Fremont County, Wyoming|Fremont County]]
poly 813 393 748 396 753 550 820 548 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Goshen County, Wyoming|Goshen County]]
poly 425 273 425 247 413 247 413 234 387 233 386 222 362 221 362 216 349 217 349 209 337 209 337 195 330 194 330 184 298 182 298 195 285 195 283 208 266 208 266 220 243 222 247 223 249 227 252 230 257 238 256 249 279 252 282 252 294 253 294 257 306 256 308 256 308 262 320 265 321 267 331 267 333 273 344 273 344 275 362 275 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Hot Springs County, Wyoming|Hot Springs County]]
poly 595 268 596 210 594 167 594 111 451 112 455 115 459 119 458 123 458 125 461 126 466 130 468 136 472 135 472 140 470 142 473 146 474 155 474 170 476 174 476 221 478 223 478 270 535 270 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson County, Wyoming|Johnson County]]
poly 824 631 820 549 753 550 752 538 683 539 686 636 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Laramie County, Wyoming|Laramie County]]
poly 153 549 155 448 100 445 102 420 97 419 97 381 94 379 94 370 98 370 102 302 76 302 76 291 66 292 65 290 53 289 41 545 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Wyoming|Lincoln County]]
poly 589 269 592 426 431 427 431 376 436 376 436 324 435 325 435 273 432 272 432 269 479 270 519 270 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Natrona County, Wyoming|Natrona County]]
poly 813 393 808 261 717 265 722 397 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Niobrara County, Wyoming|Niobrara County]]
poly 62 39 318 46 318 65 321 65 320 118 321 118 321 168 322 169 322 182 297 181 298 195 285 195 285 207 266 208 266 220 243 221 233 206 225 199 220 200 219 197 211 201 204 214 191 219 185 217 188 212 187 206 182 201 185 200 178 199 173 197 169 197 163 190 163 172 156 170 159 160 156 157 155 150 149 146 146 140 146 135 139 130 139 122 142 114 139 111 137 108 130 106 130 105 100 102 100 90 60 89 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Park County, Wyoming|Park County]]
poly 752 537 747 396 678 398 684 538 718 539 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Platte County, Wyoming|Platte County]]
poly 594 109 590 46 393 45 396 50 396 56 400 63 397 65 401 73 401 76 408 79 408 82 408 88 415 92 427 94 433 100 443 103 447 106 449 111 534 110 548 111 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Sheridan County, Wyoming|Sheridan County]]
poly 266 451 267 427 263 426 263 388 257 388 257 381 250 376 247 377 248 370 238 363 233 351 224 346 217 340 212 339 212 331 207 323 202 315 202 301 201 293 197 287 192 287 191 272 159 271 160 282 160 282 129 282 127 294 103 294 103 317 101 319 100 369 95 369 94 380 98 380 96 418 102 419 102 444 196 449 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Sublette County, Wyoming|Sublette County]]
poly 149 636 154 447 433 453 433 477 434 479 434 541 388 543 388 581 390 582 389 638 253 639 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Sweetwater County, Wyoming|Sweetwater County]]
poly 53 288 60 88 101 90 101 102 131 102 131 107 138 109 139 112 141 116 141 124 141 132 146 142 151 148 157 158 157 163 157 168 157 171 163 171 160 283 128 282 128 294 103 294 103 302 76 302 78 291 66 291 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Teton County, Wyoming|Teton County]]
poly 150 633 152 549 42 545 38 631 91 633 150 637 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Uinta County, Wyoming|Uinta County]]
poly 478 269 478 223 476 223 476 170 323 170 322 180 329 182 331 195 337 196 338 207 349 209 349 216 362 216 360 219 387 222 387 234 413 234 413 245 424 247 426 266 426 268 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Washakie County, Wyoming|Washakie County]]
poly 808 262 803 160 694 164 697 266 [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Weston County, Wyoming|Weston County]]
desc none
</imagemap>
which produces
@ Zanygenius: is not that I need. I know how to create the image map. The only problem is that all programs are using rectangles, circle or polygons. I used polygons to have the coordinates of an area but is not easy and the results are not good. I need something that can select the perimeter of an area an give the coordinates of that area to use in image map. Xaris333 ( talk) 12:12, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
All Wikimedia sites were inaccessible for a couple of hours this morning, UK time. I noticed it about 10.00 UTC, has just come back up about 13.00 UTC. Have seen reports from elsewhere in Europe that others were having the same problem. DuncanHill ( talk) 13:11, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
I tried to add this following template into my common.js page:
{{subst:iusc|1=User:Caorongjin/wordcount.js}} (Don't worry, I put nowiki tag). I expected the template to load, but instead I get this error:
Error: Expected a string and instead saw {.
When I removed 1 bracket on both sides, I got:
Error: Expected a string and instead saw subst.
Remove the brackets that are left and I got these 4 errors:
Bad assignment.
Missing ";" before statement
Label 'User' on Caorongjin statement.
and the final error just said
Missing semicolon.
I am currently confused as to why this template will not work on my page. I do not know how to translate this template into JavaScript anyways. I am running Google Chrome 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit), according to chrome://version.
So far, I have tried:
and there's not much I think I can do in this situation. Cheers from CryfryDG. ( talk) 05:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
subst:
will transform it to JavaScript on save, assuming
Template:iusc exists and outputs valid JavaScript as it does here at en.wikipedia.org.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
15:01, 27 January 2018 (UTC)Anyone aware of any special interaction with media wiki and gmail wrt being able to send emails and not receive them when they're sent via media wiki? I seem to be broken at the moment, and we tested it a bit on IRC to no avail. GMG talk 23:36, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
-- This email was sent by user "Fluxbot" on the English Wikipedia to user "Xaosflux". It has been automatically delivered and the Wikimedia Foundation cannot be held responsible for its contents.
.
When I am logged in, is there a way I can see what IP addrress I am connecting from? - Bevo ( talk) 16:57, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
I was just thinking about creating a WikiProject to find articles created by IPs back when IPs could do that (before 2005), but I couldn't find any kind of record of pages created during that time, much less one of pages created by anons. Does anyone know how one might find as many of these articles in one place? Is there some tool or special page on WP that would allow you to do so? Every Morning (there's a halo...) 04:49, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Multi-column layouts with {{ col-break}} have uneven columns. Specifically, columns with only one paragraph or list are narrower than those with more than one paragraph or list. (Columns in each category are the same width.) An example follows:
Multi-column example
| ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
|
Any explanation? I would expect that all the columns would be the same width. Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 09:03, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
{{col-break|width=25%}}
, or use other column templates like Columns-start, {{
Column}}, Columns-end which use CSS and not a table.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
10:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)Hi, Every time I go to edit a page the
User:Cameltrader/Advisor.js script never loads - I have to load another script on the left for the script to then load,
I'm not sure if it's a case of I've got too many scripts or if it's related to my laptop or internet ?,
Upon looking at
User:Davey2010/vector.js I noticed I had scripts that were already at
User:Davey2010/common.js so I removed these and thought that would fix it .... but unfortunately not,
So I didn't know if someone more knowledgable than me might know, Thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk
18:05, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
*Update - Well having removed all scripts and adding them back one by one I think I've found the issue-
Clicking "Edit count" at the bottom of a contribs page fails with "The requested user does not exist" if the username contains a space. Is this a new failure or just the first time in my wikilife that I've tried it for such a username? I've already figured out the workaround, but it shouldn't be necessary. ― Mandruss ☎ 13:57, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
%20
instead of +
(or you could use underscores), but it appears the MediaWiki urldecode
parser function prefers plus signs. This means there are probably a lot of broken links all over the place... we may have to go back to the old system and add some special handling for %2B
(percent-encoded + sign). My goal is to make it work just like MediaWiki does, however far that may be from an actual standard. —
MusikAnimal
talk
19:11, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/{{urlencode:{{username}}|PATH}}
(but using |WIKI
, which adds underscores, works just as well). This is not unique to XTools -- basically +
only means a space when used in the query string (the part that follows a ?
in the URL). Note query strings still work, in which case you don't need to do any specialized encoding, e.g. https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec?project=en.wikipedia.org&username={{urlencode:{{username}}}}
. Anyway I've updated all the links within templates here on enwiki. I think most everyone else is using the old URL scheme, which will properly redirect, so hopefully there aren't many broken links on other wikis. —
MusikAnimal
talk
00:47, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
The globe link to the left of title coordinates on any article (AFAIK) with coordinates gives a 502 Bad Gateway error. How to reproduce: Go to New York City, for example, and in the upper right, to the left of the coordinates, click the little globe icon with the black downward arrow on it. I see "502 Bad Gateway (hr) nginx/1.13.6" in a pop-up window. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:33, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Hmm, this seems like a particularly awful way of embedding content:
08:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.218.89.69 ( talk)
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17:06, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
I just needed to type a "ß" and was surprised not to find that character in the "special character" dropdown (the one above the editing window in source view). Is there any way to add it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:12, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Why am I getting repeated notifications from a user talk page on fr.wp when I have not contributed to it, or been mentioned on it, in years? Does this have something to do with Flow? If so, who knows where the tap is, and how to turn it to the "closed" position? Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 19:32, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello Tech Exp.
Look at this table. It says here that the "total" amount of pages reflects baisically every page that is not an article (and probably doesn't include former revisions of articles. But A simple exapmle show this count is wrong. "Cebuano" Wiki has about 5M articles and less then 9M pages. Even if it has 0 ammount of WikiSpace articles, each article on the main space should have a talk pages. This alone should bring the total amount of pages to nearly 11M.
If this count is being done by technical funcation, there is a Tech issue here. If only the definitions are wrong, pls transfer this input to the correct talk page. I will make the change according to your assistance.
BTW I have a feeling this table can be found in other wikiprojects. So if something IS wrong let's fix it accross the board.
Peace be with you all, 15:23, 30 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mateo ( talk • contribs)
When I try to access certain Wikipedia pages, I get "Request from 63.145.101.232 via cp1068 cp1068, Varnish XID 549421111 Error: 503, Backend fetch failed at Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:41:51 GMT". -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 19:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
It seemed to last for less than a minute (for me, anyway), and I think it affected all pages/all wikis. I wonder if this was the same error that User:Vchimpanzee reported at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 161#Wikimedia error on 15 January.
The main text of today's error said, next to a logo similar to File:Wikimedia-logo black.svg:
Error
Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem.
Please try again in a few minutes.
See the error message at the bottom of this page for more information.
If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.
Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:59, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
There is now a post-mortem on this incident at wikitech:Incident documentation/20180129-MediaWiki for anyone who's interested. TL;DR - Some configuration files were updated in the wrong order, causing server errors for about 8 minutes. the wub "?!" 00:19, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
From Zanygenius
@ Admin:(s), I find (2 times) that I'll create something, say on my userspace, {if--the link was there to start with, then I create it} and find it's redlinked for 5-10 minutes. I find that a little weird. I mean, I can live with it, but it is something of interest that this can even happen. (Yes I've tried purging the page). Any thoughts? Sincerely, User: Zanygenius( talk page) 05:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to filter the deletion log so that it only includes pages deleted from mainspace? I've tried adding &namespace=0
to
this link like in contributions but it has no effect. Please ping if you reply.
SmartSE (
talk)
01:28, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
I received a notification that an edit I made had been reverted. The problem is that I didn't make that edit. When I looked at my contributions, I found that someone has been using my account to create an article and edit two others. I changed my password and then reverted all the edits that were made. I could not revert the edit that created the article, We Leak Info, so I deleted the content and posted a note asking someone to delete the article. If anyone reading this can do so, I would appreciate it. I don't know whether there is anyplace I should make a formal report of the hacking. So if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great. At the very least, I wanted to document here that the edits made on my account on 30 and 31 January 2018 are not mine. Taxman1913 ( talk) 18:38, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
I would like some general thoughts on that. The specific situation behind the question is a template ({{ interlinear}}) that formats long-ish strings of linguistically annotated text. One parameter of this template gives a list of the meanings of the glossing abbreviations used. This list is likely to be the same for all invocations of the template on a given page. There can be dozens such invocations in a given article, so it's undesirable to have to specify the same long parameter each time (as pointed out on the template's talk page).
One solution I can think of is to specify this list once: in an invisible (style="display:none;"
) section at the end of the article and then to set the template to automatically look for this section and transclude it (via
labeled section transclusion) as the needed parameter. Does anyone see any issues with that? I'm aware of the performance cost (adding about 50% to overall processing time), but at the scale that this is going to be used, it's unlikely to make a noticeable difference. Are there more elegant alternative ways of achieving the same result? –
Uanfala (talk)
22:41, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
tags instead of markup that remains invisibly in the HTML.
{{3x|p}}ery (
talk)
23:16, 31 January 2018 (UTC)This... may be somehow difficult to implement and not useful enough to justify the trouble, but is it possible for us to cobble together a gadget that would make a nice little highlight around images that are part of CAT:COMMONS? I'm thinking similar to the gadget that highlights links to disambiguation pages. I realize I could just slog through the category directly, but that doesn't really solve anything as far as what I'm doing.
For context, as fortune has it, I'm picking through a lot of articles on US Civil War generals, and most of the images (unsurprisingly) are from the 1860s, meaning that they're pretty much automatically eligible for transfer to Commons. But what I'm ending up doing is opening a new tab for every single image in the article, to see if it pops up with a Commons icon or a Wikipedia one (I have it set to take me directly to Commons if it's already there and skip the enwiki page). That just seems like a lot of extra clicking for something that intuitively seems it should be fairly easy to streamline. GMG talk 13:22, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
:linkclass*="image"][href*="commons"
{
border:5px solid black !important;
}
imgsrc*="/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/" { border:5px solid black !important; }
|thumb
get the black bar on the left, non-thumb images (such as those in an infobox) get it both sides. Very small images - such as those in a {{
portal bar}}
- get the black border all round. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
23:25, 31 January 2018 (UTC)I have seen a lot of Wikipedia pages using Infoboxes with unknown parameters. A module is being used now in some of the Infoboxes to add such pages to a tracking category and such tracking is highly useful. Would it be possible to add such code to {{ Infobox}} or Module:Infobox itself, so as to get rid of adding each parameter to every template manually? -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 03:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
It is not impossible. It is just somewhat hard. One way would be to redesign the templates so that they to use lua internally rather than a hybrid inefficient mix of templates + lua + templates + parser functions. That way lua modules invoke the main infobox as a library, rather than as a pseudo-template / parser function. That would give module:infobox full access to all parameters. Of course this would make those templates harder to customize for the average user. Although that is mostly a function of bad design and a lack of separation of input / processing and output. 197.218.89.69 ( talk) 11:30, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
What should be true is (Module:Wikidata/doc}
getValue
: Returns wiki-linked values, if applicable. All other values will be output similar to {{#property:}}
, except that if values with preferred rank exist, then only they are returned. Unlike formatStatements
from
ru:Модуль:Wikidata, getValue
does not yet pick up any references (see
Module talk:Wikidata/Archive 1#Why the references from Wikidata get dropped?).I.e. only preferred rank should show. But now it takes everything, not just preferred rank but also normal rank and even deprecated rank. See
Pilar, Cebu – bottom of infobox.
Uses {{
PH wikidata|climate_type}}
=
| climate_type = {{safesubst:ucfirst:{{safesubst:#invoke:Wikidata|getValue|P2564|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}}}
Kangaroo caught ( talk) 02:59, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello. How can I found all my subpages? Xaris333 ( talk) 21:36, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
FWIW - seems that sharing certain Wikipedia article titles in email messages and related may be a problem for some - the ending ")" in a title like " /info/en/?search=Spectre_(security_vulnerability) " may be dropped/omitted - resulting in an url like => " /info/en/?search=Spectre_(security_vulnerability " instead - one workaround seems to be creating a " WP:Redirect" for " Spectre (security vulnerability" directed to the correct main title (ie, " Spectre (security vulnerability)" - is there some other (even better) workarounds? - perhaps underneath-the-hood coding (or even policy adj?) of some sort may be needed for such titles? - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 17:00, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Spectre_(song)
into a clickable link but they have to guess where the url ends. They often guess some characters like a period, comma or right parenthesis is not part of the url. Mediawiki can also guess wrong.
/info/en/?search=Sammy_Davis_Jr. drops the period and only works because
Sammy Davis Jr redirects to
Sammy Davis Jr. It's much more common to write a period after a url than for the period to be part of the url so MediaWiki makes a sensible guess. We already help all users coming from a link which dropped a right parenthesis at the end. Non-existing pages display
MediaWiki:Noarticletext. We use it to transclude {{
No article text}} which checks whether you get an existing page name by adding a right parenthesis. Then we suggest that link like in
/info/en/?search=Spectre_(song which says "Did you mean:
Spectre (song)?" I don't think we should make automatic redirects. If you mail a raw url to somebody and don't know whether their mail software has the issue then you can
percent-encode )
as %29
:
/info/en/?search=Spectre_(song%29. This url should work in more programs which turn url's into links. It may work in even more if you also encode (
as %28
:
/info/en/?search=Spectre_%28song%29.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
19:47, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
The Wikipedia page Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) has been changed on 1 February 2018 by Xaris333, see /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical) for the current revision. To view this change, see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=next&oldid=823531010 For all changes since your last visit, see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=0&oldid=823531010
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29
, but it's less readable for humans. It's requested in
phab:T40265 and others. See also
phab:T23615.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
22:03, 1 February 2018 (UTC)It was reported at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Searching Sevåg that entering "Sevåg" with å in the normal search box (corresponds to the "Go" button in some other skins) goes directly to Sevag without displaying search results. A redirect at Sevåg has since been created so that example is now invalid. My tests show "å" only goes to "a" in some cases. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=Emmy+Awård goes to Emmy Award, but https://en.wikipedia.org/?search=Awård does not go to Award. Is this intended behaviour and is there a system to it? Emmy Awård and Awård are red links and should remain so. https://simple.wikipedia.org/?search=Emmy+Awård goes to simple:Emmy Award and https://simple.wikipedia.org/?search=Awård goes to simple:Award, unlike enwiki. PrimeHunter ( talk) 15:13, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I wasn't sure whether to post this here or at Proposals. Feel free to copy/paste it there if necessary.
I think the Watchlist could make better use of space. To the left there's a column that's almost entirely empty where edits are marked with m for minor and b for bot edits, etc. The placeholders are left blank if they don't apply, the upshot of which is an inch wide space with the rest of the content squashed into the remaining space. I think it would be better if that column had a dynamic width so it could be kept to a minimum while still displaying relevant information. Does anybody else agree? nagual design 09:46, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
is used instead; there may be up to seven nbsps. So you would need the script to eliminate those nbsps from the table cell that matches the selector td.mw-enhanced-rc
but that in itself might not reduce the width of the column by much. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
14:56, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
User talk:Misza13#View source script is not working. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 20:01, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
This thread Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Introduction of a malware link into a citation may need the assistance of the regulars at this village pump. MarnetteD| Talk 05:50, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Trying to use this family tree tool User:GregU/familytree.js. Added these codes to User:Makeandtoss/monobook.js and User:Makeandtoss/vector.js, but nothing happened. Makeandtoss ( talk) 11:27, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
addOnloadHook
, which AFAIK has been obsolete fro over a year. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
11:59, 3 February 2018 (UTC)When I type two spaces, I get a period automatically inserted in the edit box. Well, at least in Chrome using the web editor (I don't know about other platforms). Most of the time, that's fine. But, when I type a citation at the end of a sentence, i.e. <ref name="foo"/>, that goes after the period I've already typed, so it's wrong (and annoying). Is there any way to turn this auto-insertion feature off? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
I think that there is a bug in MediaWiki. I undid a recent , the cumulative effects of which should have been nil, other than two entries in the page history, and one on each user contribs list. In fact, the full protection that had been added by Amortias ( talk · contribs) was silently lifted, as if I had also undone this prot. Worse, the fact was not logged in either the page history or logs, so my manual replacement of the prot may seem odd when somebody reads through the page history at a later date. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 10:56, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Since the last week, somebody is attempting to login to my account, about 6-8 times a day. Though I'm not much concerned about them being successful at it, what's bugging me is the loads of messages that are filling the alerts and my e-mail. Is there something that can be done to get rid of this? Thanks, MT Train Discuss 03:35, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
Below and to the right ! Can it be fixed ? Thanks GrahamHardy ( talk) 07:55, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi
I want to make a request similar to a bot request or a Lua request but for Javascript, does anyone know of anywhere I could make this request? What I want I think should be quite simple, its a form that fills in sections of a table and then saves to a new section of a talk page.
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 19:24, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
A user trying to find an archived version of a dead link pointed me at this, which leads to the appropriate archived article -- and then after a couple of seconds blanks the page. I'm going to say this is OK (though obviously not ideal) as an archive.org link, since one can see the text (and it is visible in the source), but does anyone have any idea what causes this and how to prevent it? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 22:08, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, on Czech Wikipedia we have an issue with our GeoGroup template. The template is correct, urls are correct, but sometimes (only sometimes) both the osm4wiki tool (OSM link) and the wp-world tool (Google Maps link) give broken output, as you can see here or here. If you find a GeoGroup template on these pages and click on OSM link, you get broken encoding, but map shows correctly. If you click on Google Maps link, there is no map shown. If you click on Export... link (kmlexport tool), the link is also correct, but the resulting KML is blank. Do you know, what could be the problem? Is there some bug in kmlexport tool (used by all three links)? It happens only for some Czech Wikipedia pages, not for all pages using our GeoGroup template. -- Dvorapa ( talk) 01:02, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Template:BusyEmail to see why the text isn't vertically justified? It'll have something to do with how either Template:Busy or Template:tmbox are set up, but it must be fixable – I've seen plenty of tmbox templates where the text sits nicely in the vertical centre without any issues.-- Newbiepedian ( talk · contribs · X! · logs) 05:58, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
{{tmbox|text=Some text}}
it's actually not vertically centered; it's just not as noticeable. There's a small amount of space you can see if you use the "inspect element" tool (in Firefox, Chrome, and I'm sure other browsers as well).
Anon126 (
notify me of responses! /
talk /
contribs)
07:25, 5 February 2018 (UTC)Wikipedia has a problem with top right side templates expanding and then collapsing when the page is loaded. For example, in calculus article the Template:Calculus loads expanded then immediately collapses. This is a widespread problem on many wikipedia articles and templates. If nobody can figure out how to fix this issue, I propose eliminating the "[show]" and "[hide]" parameters of the templates so the templates always load fully expanded. Brian Everlasting ( talk) 01:25, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Header of table uncollapsed by default |
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Content of table uncollapsed by default |
Header of table collapsed by default |
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Content of table collapsed by default |
mw-collapsed
class.Please [feel free to] "see" the oldest (and, at this time, the "only") version of the "Talk:" page File talk:Boko Haram insurgency map.png. -- Mike Schwartz ( talk) 19:01, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
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I am interested in writing a (java)script that will apply some conversion functions to a highlighted piece of text in the edit box and change it to replace the highlighted piece. A simple example would be to swap lower and uppercase, when the caps lock was left on. Another example would be to do the function of this sed command "sed -e 's/, P/|/g' -e 's/P//g' -e 's/, and /|/'" which converts a comma separated list of precaution codes into the template format. I have quite a few more conversions I would like to do. Are there any scripts around that I could copy and use to adapt? Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 06:55, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Hey, I normally use my contribs page to see if others have edited pages since I did, and having "current" at the end of the line is useful for this purpose, whereas I imagine tags ( like the "new redirect" one) are mainly meant to be searchable via Ctrl+F or equivalent, and do not need to be at the end. Obviously it's not worth fighting over either way, but I'm curious if anyone knows the reason or where I can find it. Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 10:44, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Re Phab:T143970 (created in 2016), is there a work-around for validating a Wikidata entity/QID in Lua? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 00:33, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
--Module:HackValidEntity
function p.entityid(frame)
foo =mw.wikibase.getEntity(frame.args1])
end
local id = "Qxx"
if frame:preprocess("{{#iferror:{{#invoke:HackValidEntity|entityid|".. id .. "}}|fail}}") == "fail" then
return "invalid entity"
end
resolvePropertyId
but for properties. However, it's still uncomfortably hackish. --
Ahecht (
TALK
There seems to be a non-hacky approach to get this (might need more thorough testing):
local id = "P00000000000000000" -- or "Q00000000000000000" if mw.wikibase.getEntityUrl( id ) then return true end
This is presumably better because it probably doesn't need to load the whole entity which can consume a lot of memory and potentially hit the parser limit. Still, this is something that should be implemented in scribunto & wikibase itself. Catching errors like this should be trivial. The hacky approach is probably still the only valid way to catch strange unexpected errors like the "nil error of doom" ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039). As long as xpcall, and pcall can't be trusted it is probably a good idea to either wrap all critical modules with that, or use a string check for "class = error" before rendering the final output. 15:05, 6 February 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.218.83.244 ( talk)
From some inadvertent issues, and subsequent testing on a sandbox page, it seems that the Mediawiki API does not report an edit conflict when the conflicting edits are made by the same user? Testing: I opened the same version of the same sandbox page in two separate AWB sessions, made and saved an edit in one session, then made a conflicting edit in the second AWB session and saved (AWB save uses API to update page). At the time of second save the second session must have had an out of date revision of the page, yet the API saved the page without error (overwriting page content with that of second save, effectively reverting changes from first save). Does anybody know if this is expected behaviour? Thanks Rjwilmsi 15:05, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
I just now signed on and had a Notification that is odd for many reasons:
And that's it. Anyone have any idea what is going on? I have had no interactions with this particular editor, they didn't mention me on their talk page any where at all, so ??? Shearonink ( talk) 01:36, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
{{User:GeneralizationsAreBad}}
instead of [[User:GeneralizationsAreBad]]
. The former transcludes the user page which has a link to your user page in an old signature by you. Notifications of mentions are caused by a signed edit with a wikilink to your user page in the rendered page. The software doesn't know whether the link is intentional or accidental. We could quickly confirm this or give another or more precise explanation if you just posted the link on "View changes", or at the very least the username so we could look for the diff in the their talk page history. I have no idea why you continue to keep it secret and force us to guess.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:37, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi {{User:GeneralizationsAreBad}}
instead of Hi [[User:GeneralizationsAreBad]]
. They quickly fixed it so it was difficult to find the edit later without knowing the page. We could have saved a lot of time if
Shearonink had justed posted the page from the start or at least when xaosflux asked for it.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
15:58, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
There's a banner that first popped up several days ago containing the text "Wikivoyage is celebrating its 5th anniversary! Help us grow by sharing travel information about destinations that interest you". When I first received it, I used the "X" link to dismiss it, that would (I presume) have set a cookie to prevent the notice reappearing. But it has reappeared several times, each time I have dismissed it again but it comes back a while later - sometimes a day or two, sometimes much less - like ten minutes just now. Do they keep changing the cookie ID or something? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:20, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
The option "Make sure that headers of tables remain in view as long as the table is in view" under Testing and Development no longer keeps the headers anchored for me. This used to work. Did something change? I am still using Chrome. Terrorist96 ( talk) 01:07, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
Anyone here proficient in the handling of images, both here and at commons? Or the delinker bots that update images? An editor deleted an image in favor of a different image. The image is of a military award ribbon. This affects the BLPs of numerous military officers and other articles. I brought this to his attention, and he said that we need to wait for the delinker to start. At one point it did, and it changed 73 articles. But there is still over a 100 pages in need of updating, that are currently showing a blank spot on the officer's ribbon boards.
The delinker has stopped. "JuTa" has stopped replying. Can someone here take a look at this problem and see if there is fix to be had? Thank you - theWOLFchild 04:38, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
A new editor asked if they could use an underscore as part of their username. They were successful creating a username with an underscore but it renders as a space. Is it possible to do something so that it renders as an underscore ? I think the answer is no, but I thought I'd check here. S Philbrick (Talk) 17:04, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
[[A Username With Underscores]]
to [[A Username With Underscores|A_Username_With_Underscores]]
. The title of pages can be replaced, as well, using the {{
DISPLAYTITLE}} template.
ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants
Tell me all about it.
17:07, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:Sphilbrick_alt}}
would display "Sphilbrick_alt" at top of the page. I guess you can also type underscores at login, but page histories, logs, search results and many other places cannot display underscores instead of spaces.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
18:27, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
It seems that image captions that contain subscript or superscript do not render as such when an image is clicked on to see in the media viewer (example provided here). Is this on Wikipedia's end? Either way, does anyone know of a workaround? Thanks, – Deacon Vorbis ( carbon • videos) 01:19, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia's coverage of JavaScript is a bit rough. But, it has grown immense, with coverage of the JavaScript ecosystem beyond the core language far surpassing that of JavaScript itself.
Here are some pages that attempt to organize and provide access to all this information:
The Outline of JavaScript is a hierarchical presentation of the entire JavaScript ecosystem. When complete, it will be added to the outline collection at Portal:Contents/Outlines.
The Glossary of JavaScript is an alphabetical list of terms and jargon used in working with and talking about JavaScript. After the definitions have been filled in, it will be added to the collection of glossaries at Portal:Contents/Glossaries, where, hopefully, others will develop it further.
The Index of JavaScript-related articles will eventually include every article about JavaScript-related topics on Wikipedia. Though incomplete, it has already been added to the collection of indices at Portal:Contents/Indices.
The JS Resource library is a listing of reference material that can be mined for citations. It is more extensive and is organized differently than the further reading list included in the outline mentioned above. It aims to include all significant material on and off the Web about JavaScript.
To organize project-level information about JavaScript is the Outline of scripts. It attempts to cover everything about using and developing JavaScript programs (user scripts and gadgets) on Wikipedia. Especially, where to find them and other JavaScript source code.
These are very rough and no doubt full of gaps and errors. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at them to see how they might be improved.
All comments and contributions are welcomed and appreciated.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 07:04, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
I have had a couple of wikistalkers, who subsequently used sockpuppetry to evade indefinite blocks imposed on them. I wonder whether a recent stalker may be using a proxy to obfuscate their actual IP address. Anyone here with experience tracking abuse of proxies?
They don't seem to have noticed, but, their most recent edits also changed some URLs, inserting ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" after the domain.
UWO is the University of Western Ontario, in London. Only some of the URLs get mapped.
In this edit ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" gets inserted into 25 urls.
In this edit ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" gets inserted into 23 urls.
In this edit ".proxy1.lib.uwo.ca" gets inserted into 13 urls.
Trying one of the proxified urls gives an error message.
Has anyone got an explanation for this?
Thanks! Geo Swan ( talk) 10:14, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
For example:
{{Birth date|-123|2|5}}
now displays February 5, -123 (solid: February 5, -123), maybe it is actually 124 BCE.
I wish that it can displays February 5, 124 BCE. This is Taiwania Justo speaking ( Reception Room) 02:11, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
{{extract|-123|2|5|show=mdy}}
→ February 5, 124 BC{{extract|2 Feb 124 BCE|show=mdy}}
→ February 2, 124 BCEIs there a way of editing the entries that appear in the drop down box to remove entries that are of my creation that are no longer useful? Nthep ( talk) 18:31, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello, all! I've never used the watchlist feature before, but I recently wanted to try it out to get a basic stream of content from the Current Events page and eventually set the watchlist up in an RSS reader. However, after adding Portal:Current Events to my watchlist, it appears to only be showing Portal talk: Current events and its changes, as opposed to the page itself. I can watch the individual days with no issue, but watching the entire page seems to not work. Is this normal, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance. Kilroy94 ( talk) 02:03, 30 January 2018 (UTC)