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RFC here, please join -> MediaWiki_talk:Wdsearch.js#Add_link_to_search. -- Superchilum( talk to me!) 10:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
All discussions on Talk:Robert Downey Jr. are supposed to be archived after 180 days (at least, if I'm reading the template right):
{{User:MiszaBot/config | algo = old(180d) | archive = Talk:Robert Downey, Jr./Archive %(counter)d | counter = 1 | maxarchivesize = 150K | archiveheader = {{Automatic archive navigator}} | minthreadstoarchive = 1 | minthreadsleft = 4 }}
However, there's a lot of old discussions there, from anywhere between 2012 and 2016. Can anyone see why the bot isn't doing its work? Thanks! rchard2scout ( talk) 13:42, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
| archive = Talk:Robert Downey Jr./Archive %(counter)d
with no comma.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Let's say there is a cite:
{{cite web |title=USS Zumwalt |website=Naval Vessel Register |url={{NVR url|DDG-1000}} |accessdate=1 October 2016}}
Currently my bot (running off-site) is unable to parse the |url=
because it downloads the wikisource as plain text and doesn't know what {{
NVR url}}
is or how it would expand. {{NVR url}}
is just an example, there are dozens+ templates known and unknown. Is there an API (ideally) that can parse wikicode? I can't imagine using a sandbox to post the template and reading the output the volume would be high. --
Green
C 14:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Recently I have been getting an unexpected message saying "Do you want to leave this site? changes you made may not be saved Leave/stay" in a little pale blue box top centre when I hit the preview or publish buttons from source edit, This happans for both firefox and chrome on Windows 10. Clicking on leave works fine, there is no loss of edit and the preview and save work as expected. Has this happened to anyone else? · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 21:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
<references />
block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references />
or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}}
template. If you edit a different wiki, you can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
[5]— User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
I've got Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary checked in my preferences. Is there some way to get checking the This is a minor edit box count as entering a summary? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:50, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
if(wpMinoredit=document.getElementById("wpMinoredit")){wpMinoredit.onclick = function() {if(wpMinoredit.checked) {document.getElementById("wpSummary").value += " (minor edit)";}}}
I have plans on reviving Wikiproject West Bengal. Most of the participants there have left Wikipedia. Is there a way to get the names of all users who edit that particular topic so that I will be able to send invitations শুভ দোলযাত্রা — F R ™ 10:21, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
hello how to active this js in autowikibrowser-- Monorodo ( talk) 06:04, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Thursday (UTC) just being over, I see that we now have extra-long edit summaries. Do we wish to encourage comments like this which occupy more than five lines in my watchlist? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:13, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Looking to see if it's possible to offset cells on a table, for example, the top row has 2 cells (cols), the second row has 3 cells (cols), is it possible to center the top row on the second row (and if so, with mark up or some other means?)
R1/C1 | R1/C2 | |
R2/C1 | R2/C2 | R2/C3 |
R1/C1 | R1/C2 |
R2/C1 | R2/C2 | R2/C3 |
Example 1 is what I'm seeking to adjust. Example 2 is to demonstrate how I want the top row of cells offset/centered on the second row (and what is being used right now in some articles ad hoc), but I would like to do this with a single table, is possible. Thanks - theWOLFchild 16:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
R1/C1-3 | R1/C4-6 | ||||
R2/C1-2 | R2/C3-4 | R2/C5-6 |
|link=
in the ribbon images to link to the ribbon's article:
{{
ribbon devices}}
would need to be tweaked to support article links in the images that it creates.Another (related) question, why does this work, and automatically without any additional mark-up, on ribbon boards (eg: award images), but not on tables with text (eg: award names)...? Thanks again - theWOLFchild 22:22, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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File:Caribou at the campsite.jpg
I was trying to crop this image to emphasize the real subject, the caribou swimming in the river. I thought I had done that, and uploaded a new version, but when I was done could still see the top of the yellow tent for some reason. So I did it again, and the same thing happened again. In the revision history the thumbnails look like exactly what I was going for, but for some reason the actual image keeps displaying with part of the tent visible, about halfway between what it originally was and what I was attempting. I waited a few minutes in case it was some sort of server lag issue but that didn’t do it either. I’m so confused right now. Beeblebrox ( talk) 19:10, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi
Can someone tell me why Visual Editor is blocked for all of the Wikipedia: namespace, it would be very helpful for Wikiprojects if it was enabled, especially when using tables.
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 17:52, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminders @ Izno:, @ Ahecht: and @ Black Kite:, can you tell me if there is a Wikiproject: namespace on en.wiki? I really need to create some Wikiproject pages that use VE. John Cummings ( talk) 19:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
John Cummings, just try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Notability&veaction=edit . This works in easy steps.
ManosHacker talk 18:58, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
When I try to reach [8] or [9], I get:
"Hmmm...can’t reach this page Try this Make sure you’ve got the right web address: https://dispenser.info.tm Search for " https://dispenser.info.tm" on Bing Refresh the page Details". Please {{ ping}} me when you respond. -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 21:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
The current system with user scripts is admirable. However, it becomes quite regular that users use the scripts of others. Editors without the edituserjs right (i.e. not
Administrators) cannot edit the scripts of others. Unfortunately, this has lead to forking of scripts when a new feature is wanted or when the maintainer becomes inactive. Take for example
User:Theopolisme/Scripts/adminhighlighter - based on
User:Amalthea/userhighlighter.js which was in turn based on
User:Ais523/adminrights.js. Then I made this one based on that:
User:Bellezzasolo/Scripts/adminhighlighter. It would be far better to have one centralized script with parameters for custom features. At the same time, there are problems re. vandalism - user scripts are particularly sensitive, especially with malicious code possible.
Possible solutions:
∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 04:35, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Okay, here it is: I'd like to have a tab on pages that allows me to open the VisualEditor directly without having to open the source editor first and then switching. I know that this can be achieved by appending something to the URL, so what I now need is to add a tab to the page to take me directly there. Can someone with the technical skills tell me the code to use? Regards So Why 13:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/There'sNoTime currently looks like this:
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Is somebody hacking it? The interference has been getting worse over the course of the afternoon. 92.8.223.244 ( talk) 15:14, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Instead, it will only display the same mobile view with different proportion.
On Firefox, though, it will initially show the same, but then redirect you to the actual desktop view.
Is this a bug of Chrome or MediaWiki?-- fireattack ( talk) 01:37, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Can someone please take a look at this issue I brought up a few days ago? Thanks! – Srdjan m ( talk) 10:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
I've noticed that the quality of PNG rendering has improved dramatically sometime in the last few months, and thumbnails are no longer blurred. However, is it just my imagination or have JPGs gotten a lot worse? I do a lot of work cleaning up logos, and whenever I remove the artefacts from a JPG and save at a reasonable compression I'm disappointed by the low quality of the images rendered in article space. (I realize that such small logos should probably be converted to PNG files rather than JPG.) The additional compression applied by the Mediawiki software when serving images at non-native sizes is understandable with large images but pretty woeful when it comes to smaller images, especially those smaller than 100,000 megapixels (such a Fair Use logos). It seems to me that, given the already small file sizes, it's hardly worth applying additional compression at all. Where can I look at the technical specifications and maybe stick my oar in? nagual design 03:16, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
When I see the contribution history of any page (mobile website), all users are "sleeping". 179.228.224.8 ( talk) 22:14, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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I'm (often but not always) having problems editing pages. Sometimes the cursor is displaced horizontally or veryically or both from where I am actually editing; sometimes the text I have typed is randomly rearranged (the beginning of this message curfently reads "I'm (ofte nbu tnot always) havgpro niblems editing pages", but I'm pretty sure I typed it correctly). Sometimes when I view the preview it has randomwly inserted newlines, so that part of my message appears monospaced. I've taken to saving the text and then going back and correcting the typos, because that's the only way I can get it to work. I'm using Firefox 58.0.2 on two different Windows machines, and I've looked at my editing preferences in WP, and can't see anything that looks relevant.
Going back into editing after reviewing the text, I see that the first line displays correctly in review, but still appears as I copied it above in the edit window.
Help!-- ColinFine ( talk) 10:37, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
&safemode=1
to the edit url? If you log out? What is your skin at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering?
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)@ ColinFine: The 2017 wikitext editor and syntax highlight beta features can sometimes do weird things when used together. Are you using the syntax highlighting beta feature? -- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 10:48, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
We wanted to take a moment to update you all about a reader-focused feature called Page Previews, which has also been popular as a Beta Feature among editors. The Readers web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on a few things we’d like to share. Most recently we:
Other improvements:
If you haven’t already, you can enable the feature in your preferences under Appearance. Feedback on how things are working for you is welcome. The HTML endpoint change was deployed just last week and we’re very excited to see the improvements. We’re expecting some smaller bugs and edge cases, so please let us know if you notice something out of order. You can find out more about the feature on MediaWiki.org.
Thank you, CKoerner (WMF) ( talk) 20:59, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Several weeks ago I noticed I no longer get an edit tab for the lede (as I had long selected in my Preferences); to edit a lede I have to open the whole article. Any reason why? Also, about the same time I no longer have the drop-down Insert tab under the edit window that gives me a choice of Symbols, Latin, etc.; I get a box with everything (almost?) in it. I use the Vector skin, and had not made an changes to my preferences in a while. And now I don't even see (because I'm blind??) a check box for an edit tab on the lede. Anyone know what's going on here? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 21:58, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I can't seem to find the delete button in the "More" drop-down anymore. If I refresh a page quickly it's there and I can click on it and get the delete page, but if I let it load, it disappears. Could it be one of the scripts I've got? Anarchyte ( work | talk) 09:42, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Page logs… Analysis… Tools… Latest diff Purge cache Subpages
Page logs… Analysis… Tools… Delete page Latest diff Merge page Move page Protect page Purge cache Subpages
Meanwhile, even under "Page" the links are missing for PrimeHunter in the Vector skin while using Firefox. Can you try clearing your browser cache (or try in Firefox's "Private browsing")? All the links show up for me, in Chrome and Firefox. It's possible MoreMenu somehow has a cached version where it doesn't think you're an admin. — MusikAnimal talk 16:18, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Unrelated, you say clearing the cache by itself didn't do the trick, which tells me that issue probably isn't MoreMenu, because it caches using localStorage. Maybe something with ResourceLoader... who knows! — MusikAnimal talk 17:56, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
This feature is to be primarily used in collapsible assistive boxes, not in articles, although one could find such a functionality useful to build collapsible serial map boxes for metro lines, where hide/show clickables, if used instead, would mess the box and annoy as the only clickable area to do expand/contract.
Hover highlighting is useful (or needed) in Template:user sandbox+ ( granted) tool which renders like this User:ManosHacker/sandbox in English and like this el:Χρήστης:ManosHacker/πρόχειρο in Greek. There is quite a difference between the two, to catch the eye and the will to play.
Hover highlighting code, used in Greek Wikipedia, is placed in Mediawiki:Common.js and is given below.
$('.hover-bgc').hover( function() { $(this).attr("data-hover-bgc-original", $(this).css("background-color")) var parentSpec = $(this).parent('.hover-bgc-parent').attr('data-hover-bgc-child'); $(this).css({ "background-color" : ((typeof parentSpec !== typeof undefined) && (parentSpec !== false)) ? parentSpec : $(this).attr('data-hover-bgc') }); }, function() { $(this).css({ "background-color" : $(this).attr('data-hover-bgc-original') }); });
If you have a look in Template:Cheatsheet and el:Πρότυπο:Εργαλειοθήκη to compare, you will see a difference while hovering above the text of collapsible headers. By highlighting on hover, the reader gets a hint to click. For another demonstration, check el:Πρότυπο:Συγγραφή λήμματος (also in Greek) which is a collapsible help with sub-levels. There is no hint to click the collapsible, if hover highlighting is absent. And what about building a collapsible help, where click is done upon collapsible headers that reveal videos of 15 seconds each, to immediately assist an editor giving specific editing instructions? (coming soon)
I think it would be assistive to implement it in English. ManosHacker talk 11:26, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
<div class='hover-bgc' data-hover-bgc='#e5f0fe'>►hover over me</div>
T188215 is said to be fixed in MediaWiki 1.31.0-wmf.23, which has been dpployed to all Wikipedias as of 1 March. However, I am still getting the same bug: When both the 2017 wikitext editor ("new wikitext mode") and syntax highlighting are enabled, I get invisible text on image pages. (Note: A workaround is to simply refresh the page, unless two edit tabs are enabled in preferences.)
Is anyone else still getting this bug? Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 23:37, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Since today, whenever I try to use the visual editor it will sporadically delete, move, link, italicize, or add spaces to parts of the article. This video should show what I'm talking about. User:Itsquietuptown reported a similar problem here. –User Dude 02:32, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Guys, could someone remind me, how to get page ID via API if I have page title? Did look trough action=query, but didn't find the right option. Actually, I would like to get page IDs for all pages linked from this page (specifically Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/*** pages), but specific query for one page will be ok. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 18:33, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Has anyone else been having problems today adding pages to, and removing pages from, their watchlist? It started happening to me for no apparent reason at around 21:00 UTC, 7 March 2018 (I don't often have the need to do this regularly, so it's been probably at least a week since I've have to change my watchlist before today). I tried to add about 10 pages in a row (opened in different tabs) to my watchlist via the star-click method and the vast majority failed, giving a "An error occurred while changing your watchlist setting…" pop-up message. Retried, and all or almost all failed again. I tried using the Alt-Shift-w keyboard shortcut, same thing. Tried logging out and logging back in, same thing. Occasionally one attempt would work, but the majority of times failed with the same error message. Since the problem was intermittent (in particular, sometimes working), I figured it wasn't just a problem with the configuration of my browser (FF 52.4.0 on Gentoo Linux) or my particular wiki account, so I reported the issue at the Phabricator ( phab:T189160); more details can be found there. Given that no one seems to be talking about this here at VPT or at VPM, it doesn't appear to be a widespread problem, but I figured I'd post about it here, anyway. It's still happening as I post this, although the failure rate is way down (looks like waiting just a few seconds after a failed attempt is enough now to allow for a success; that wasn't true even a few hours ago). - dcljr ( talk) 05:17, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I started using STiki today. Apparently, despite me attempting to revert only one edit, it is reverting the edit I intend to revert and the edit after that without my agreement. I had to go back and undo these changes. It seems strange for STiki not to work. I pressed Vandalism when I found vandalism and it reverted that edit and the edit after that. Why is this happening? I had to stop using this tool as I can't continue if it is blindly reverting without my agreement. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 21:25, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't know if this was brought up before, but the title of certain infoboxes is not center-aligned on mobile. It seems to break depending on which {{
Infobox}} parameter is used to make the title. When you use "above", like in {{
Infobox person}}, it's fine (see
Albert Camus –
screenshot), but when you use "title", like in {{
Infobox company}}, the software seems to think it's a regular table caption and it applies text-align: left;
to it (see
Blizzard Entertainment –
screenshot). –
Srdjan m (
talk) 08:22, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi - I'm experiencing severe problems demonstrating Visual Editor during an editathon event in which we're seeing VE freeze at the 'Publish changes' stage. It will not allow me to switch back from VE to source editing, either.
We have reproduced this issue on two separate Windows machines, and in both Chrome and Firefox. In the latter instance I logged out as me and tried to edit as another autoconfirmed user here who, unlike me, has never changed any of their default settings or installed scripts or activated any beta functions. A third editor also recreated the problem via their account. There was no difference in what we experienced - VE froze. The accounts we edited from were mine, User:Jonxennialuk and User:Mainlymazza.
To reproduce the fault we edited Buxton & Leek College in VE, we tried to copy, cut and then repaste an entire section with its heading into a different part of the article. At times a few letters that we had not typed ourselves also appeared, and we deleted these. At times we lost formatting of the Heading without any user input. On hitting Publish changes the process froze, so we were unable to enter an edit summary. On trying to switch to Source editor we got as far as the 'confirm' you want to switch stage and could go no further; we had to close the programme. The same fault was recreated whilst editing another article in exactly the same manner.
Any ideas? Regards from Derby University's IWD Editathon. Nick Moyes ( talk) 13:38, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
For the second time in as many weeks, I've edit conflicted with myself on ANI. The edit goes through but I get an edit conflict message. Very strange. -- NeilN talk to me 18:05, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Bishzilla was admin in 2008 and 2009, perform some blocks, compare AN thread. See also example of block of specific user. Used to be log of these blocks! Now gone! [19] How that happen? Where is block log? Pre-September 2009 block log by other admins also apparently erased. Why history erased? Especially considering old blocks still logged under blocked user. Is bug? Now look like Jimbo Wales never blocked Bishonen. [20] ( He did, in 2009.) Disgraceful! bishzilla ROARR!! 10:33, 8 March 2018 (UTC).
The problem is fixed. Fram ( talk) 09:05, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I think it could be useful there was a template like the {{ Authority control}} template that included {{ IMDb name}} (IMDb), {{ Find a Grave}} (Find a Grave), {{ MusicBrainz artist}} (MusicBrainz), {{ Discogs artist}} (Discogs) and {{ Wikidata entity link}} (Wikidata) identifiers.
As I see it the authority control is a kind of navigation bar to other websites, specifically those that catalogue people, books and the like. It is clearly intended to assist identification of the subject. For various reasons related to reliability a number of indexes have been excluded, possibly due to reliability, although ORCID is also user-generated and is included.
Imdb is listed at the bottom of almost every article about an actor, it would make sense to have a template similar to Authority control but for biographies of people in the entertainment industry. I also don't see why there are links to all the library databases except ours, adding wikidata seems completely logical, especially as that is where the data is coming from. By having a set template, it would be easier to stop the proliferation of external links (often used as a store for promotional material), because the section would not be needed to link to IMDb/etc. It would also be easier to add the same template to all actors/musicians, and display better for people that are both. Prince of Thieves ( talk) 10:39, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
A researcher wrote to Wikimedia asking for help identifying the creation date of an article.
I responded that we typically equate the creation date to the date of the first edit.
I was slightly surprised I didn't find anything formally stating this.
I can think of a couple things to be concerned about if one adopted this is a rule (the intention, I believe, is to do a statistical analysis of the entire set of articles).
Are there other important classes of articles that could be an issue? In the case of deleted and restored articles typically the history is preserved so I don't see an issue there.
I would also urge the researcher to think about the definition of an article. For example, I believe we have more redirects than articles, and deciding to count redirects as articles would have major implications on average edits per article, for example. S Philbrick (Talk) 21:26, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
1. Read this:
2. Sign up at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ using a different user name and password (not the one you use here). You may create multiple accounts if you like, just put a note on their user pages.
3. Edit a page and put a username link in edit summary. Confirm that you are receiving the notification correctly.
4. Test at different pages and in different ways.
5. Report bugs to Phabricator.
6. Share this comment with other people on other wikis, in different languages.
-- Gryllida ( talk) 23:33, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Over the years many issues have been discovered from our engineering colleagues regarding the Education Extension, including security concerns. For this reason, and with a viable alternative platform available, we are starting the process to deprecate the extension and having it uninstalled where it has been activated. This includes this wiki Special:Courses.
This means that the following steps will be taken:
It should be noted that data of previous programs that ran on the Education Extension will remain safe, and we are working on documenting how to access that data.
Thus, we invite all Education Program Leaders (and users of the Education Extension) to take the online training for the dashboard so that you can benefit from this tool and make your work easier.
Did you know you can also use the P&E Dashboard at edit-a-thons, writing competitions, and other Wiki-based activities? More training courses for the dashboard are available here, so take a look!
Do you need to communicate with us about this?
-- On behalf of the Education Team 19:56, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
![]() | Please discuss any English Wikipedia concerns here: Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard#NOTICE:_EducationProgram_extension_is_being_deprecated |
Is there some standard forum for reporting bugs with the Wikipedia software itself? Specifically, I'm looking for a place to report the bug described at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Typography#Apparent_bug_in_rendering_\operatorname* -- The Anome ( talk) 19:31, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
\operatorname*
is replaced with \operatorname {*}
by the texvc "validation". My suggested fix is to get rid of the broken validation. @
Whatamidoing (WMF): Is there a way to influence the plans to include math as an area for improvements?--
Debenben (
talk) 22:53, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Over the last few months we've seen a number of reports at the Teahouse that our page does not display properly in iOS, and especially that our "Ask a Question" tool doesn't work on iOS devices. See here, and here. I can certainly confirm this to be the case, having first reported it myself in December 2017. The screenshot shown here was taken today, and is no different from how it displayed back then.
On clicking the blue "Ask a Question" form, it's possible to enter text into the "Subject" line, but there is no access to the box to complete the question text itself, and, as can be seen, other elements of the page overlap one another. - a real mess. I can also confirm that if I log in from my alternative account User:NM Demo (which uses only the default settings any newly signed up person would have), the problem is also seen there, too.
The issue is of special concern because new users who want to ask a question simply won't have sufficient knowledge to know what to do once the Teahouse's own form fails them. I'd really appreciate it if this could be investigated. Regards from the Teahouse, Nick Moyes ( talk) 10:51, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a
user talk namespace template message to notify editors to update the |access-date=
parameter in citing templates, such as {{
cite web}}? --
Alex
TW 11:57, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
|access-date=
: Full date when the content pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article [...] Note that access-date is the date that the URL was found to be working and to support the text being cited.This means that the parameter needs to be updated whenever the statistics are as well. For editors that do not do this, a user talk namespace template message would be handy; I was wondering if anything like this already existed. If it didn't, I was planning to create it. -- Alex TW 12:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I was tipped to use this: {{button|{{int:publishchanges}}}}
, to show Publish changes all right. Could someone give a link to int:
documentation (help, WP, mw, ...). Likely it will also lead to the available options (like this 'publishchanges'). -
DePiep (
talk) 10:19, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
{{int:publishchanges}}
displays
MediaWiki:publishchanges in the reader's interface language, e.g.
MediaWiki:publishchanges/de if you select "de - Deutsch" at
Special:Preferences. Any pagename in the MediaWiki namespace can be used.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:09, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
__TOC__
, but built in parser functions of form {{int:}}
with no #
are also sometimes called magic words. Extensions like
mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions can add more parser functions with #
like {{#if:}}
. Such added parser functions are not called magic words.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 17:38, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
[[MediaWiki:Lang/XX]]
, where XX
is a language code, contains XX
. That means {{int|lang}}
is replaced with XX, where XX is the language code for the current user. For example, if your user language preference is French (or if ?uselang=fr
is used in the URL), {{int|lang}}
would be fr. That happens because
c:MediaWiki:Lang/fr contains fr so lang is translated to fr for French.
phab:T4085 is relevant.
Johnuniq (
talk) 22:10, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
int
is from "interface", not "i18n" nor "integer". -
DePiep (
talk) 00:29, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
{{int:...}}
function at Commons is exactly the same as it is here, at meta, wiktionary and
all the others. At none of them does it mean integer; and I don't know where that i18n comes from. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 11:45, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Template:USS seems to have suddenly broke. For example, see USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Is there a template editor or knowledgeable admin than can take a look? This is affecting every ship article right now. - theWOLFchild 19:08, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Need an explanation, or perhaps a pointer elsewhere. How can I check that a supplied date/time string is in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format? Presumably with a suitable regex, but I can't find any parser functions for that. Do I have to dip into Lua? Is there a module for that? (I know regex, but having trying to avoid having to learn Lua.) ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 00:46, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{#time:Y-m-d H:i:s|TIME}}|TIME|yes|no}}
work.
{{3x|p}}ery (
talk) 01:30, 11 March 2018 (UTC){{extract|2001-2-1 14:30:25|show=format}}
→ ymdIf you use anything other than a plain regular expression, there is a danger the function will have limitations you didn't think about, like failing for dates before AD 100, regarding 29 February 1900 as invalid, etc. A full statement of the requirements is called for. Jc3s5h ( talk) 02:24, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
There is a rendering problem with this article, basically the title carries on way off the screen breaking the format and creating a bottom scrollbar where there would not be one normally, but the rest of the page stops short at it's normal breakpoint, leaving the title projecting on it's own. Prince of Thieves ( talk) 01:15, 12 March 2018 (UTC) ~
We used to be able to go to an account and look at all contribs in a certain year. Now we have to fiddle with a calendar and add start and end year, month and day. Does anyone know why this was changed, and is it possible to get the old interface back? SarahSV (talk) 04:33, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
<input />
or <select>...</select>
elements to the existing form. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:04, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
I'm looking for a solution to parse the {{Location map~}} templates. So from
{{Location map+|England|width=300|caption=Example.|float=right |places= {{Location map~ |England |label=[[Battle of Blore Heath|Blore Heath]] |label_size=86 |position=top |lat=52.913611 |long=-2.424722 |mark=Battle_icon_(crossed_swords).svg |marksize=16 }} {{Location map~ |England |label=[[Battle of Tewkesbury|Tewkesbury]] |label_size=86 |position=top |lat=51.986389 |long=-2.161389 |mark=Battle_icon_(crossed_swords).svg |marksize=16 }} }}
I would like to get out all label=, lat= and long= tags. Do you know any linux commandline tool, which could do this? Sorry if that's not obvious to me.-- Lazy Eight ( talk) 07:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
grep lat|sed '/lat/s/.*| *lat *= *\([^}|]*\).*$/lat=\1/g' |grep lat= grep long|sed '/lat/s/.*| *long *= *\([^}|]*\).*$/long=\1/g' |grep long=
But label broke due to the pipes in the link Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 10:17, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
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I see updated since my last visit in a lot of edit summeries. What does that mean? Is there some piece of automated software that's inserting that? It's a pretty useless edit summary, since it doesn't give somebody scanning the history any clue what changed, or why. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:51, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
.updatedmarker {display: none;}
Sorrowfully, I can't seem to find instructions for enlarging text in the edit window. I'll appreciate any help that comes in that regard. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 05:55, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
textarea { font-family: sans-serif; }
Graeme Bartlett (
talk) 06:18, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Just dropping by to let y'all know that there's an issue relating to line-height that might be of interest to anyone watching this page. – Srdjan m ( talk) 15:38, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Not sure if it's just me but my thanks doesn't seem to be working?
I go to thank someone (it then says thanked as it should) but then when I thank someone else on the same page it doesn't do anything and then when I reload the page the edit I thanked no longer says "thanked" (I just have the option to rethank basically),
Thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk 00:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
.mw-thanks-thank-link {display: none;}
I've put this in a subsection so as not to pollute the discussion of the above serious error, but I'd still be interested in an eventual answer to this, which was touched on above. While the thanks "links" on this page history for the thanks I just made today, above, still show as an unlinked "thanked" no matter how many times I refresh or purge, if I revisit the page histories for the thanks I sent yesterday the link has reverted to a blue-linked "thank", with the opportunity to do it again. Is this how it's supposed to work (ie the links revert after a period of time)? -- Begoon 02:27, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Unrelated, I love that Nihlus just Thanked me for removing Thanks =p — MusikAnimal talk 02:51, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm guessing this issue arose today; all my thanks in the log from yesterday and earlier appear to be correct. Guess I'm glad I didn't try to thank anyone today. Home Lander ( talk) 02:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm presenting problems with the thanks feature too. In the article's history the thank option disappeared from the edits, and reads as (undo | ). Only those edits I have thanked before appear as (undo | thanked). I noticed that in the Spanish Wikipedia my option is shown normally. -- Jamez42 ( talk) 03:24, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
I've been thinking a lot about the gender gap on Wikipedia recently and would like to understand if there is a relationship between the gender of a biography articleand article deletions. Is there a way to know the gender of the subject of deleted biography articles?
The question I'd most like to understand is are biographies about women more or less likely to get deleted? and if there is a large difference, why does this happen.
Also related questions:
Is the data to do this research available? And if so how ould it be collected?
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 14:29, 13 March 2018 (UTC) (@ Victuallers: who may be interested.) John Cummings ( talk) 08:32, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Does anybody have any idea why I seem to have moved the same pair of pages twice within the same minute? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:24, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there any way to discard the "unsaved changes" of the visual editor. It's all very well that it saves them, but here am I, using VE for the automatic citation filler, then copyediting in source to use LDRs. Then, VE wants to revert those changes because they weren't made under VE. This is a problem, and could catch out somebody who discarded changes for a reason. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 19:56, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi I wanted refill on Marathi Wikipedia but I don't find the way out for it. I requested for it's translation on it's Transifex page yet no response. Can anyone create a version of it for Marathi Wikipedia? I and the community is ready to help in translation and templates needed. -- ✝iѵɛɳ२२४० †ลℓк †๏ мэ 05:51, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Mvolz (WMF) and Whatamidoing (WMF): I have prepared the template data and seen that the templates are working fine. Hope y'all make the further necessary changes for citoid. -- ✝iѵɛɳ२२४० †ลℓк †๏ мэ 09:56, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Im trying to add pronunciation help to an article, in the form of a phonemic transcription using IPA, like this: ( /ˈkɒns.tənˌt[invalid input: 'a']ɪn/). It all works, except the a -- whether I use the cheat-sheet or copy the character from another good source. Where am I going wrong, please? I'm using Safari 11.0.3. Thanks -- Frans Fowler ( talk) 02:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I recently discovered that these shortcuts don't work in source code editor. I remembered them to work before. The weirder is, if you turned on syntax highlighting, upon pressing, say, ctrl+I, you can visually see the selected text became italic and then immediately changed back to normal.
I'm using Google Chrome. I have this problem on Chinese Wikipedia as well, tested logged in and logged out (to make sure it's not caused by non-default gadgets). -- fireattack ( talk) 15:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I am needing the help of a French speaking Wikipedian. On French Wikipedia, user Angela Criss is an obvious sockpuppet of Jack Gaines ( talk · contribs). As I do not speak French, could someone please inform any French Wikipedia admins as to the user's doings, and ask them to protect any articles pertaining to Alan Jackson? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 23:48, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Greetings,
The ability to notify other users in edit summaries will be available later this week, on 15 March 2018. Other users can be notified if a link to their user page is provided in an edit summary. Some user-made gadgets and scripts that automatically put user names in edit summaries may need to be changed to put a colon in the link, such as [[:User:Example]]. You can change how you receive these mention notifications in your preferences. This feature was highly requested in the 2017 Community Wishlist survey, and feedback is welcome.
Thanks, happy editing to you. - Keegan (WMF) ( talk) 21:09, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
I know there must have been plenty of people who have proposed this before, but I would like to know if the interface could be modified to allow editors to change their edit summaries after they have saved the edit, rather than having to make a new edit where they don't do anything (or as it is sometimes called, a "null edit") just to modify their last edit summary. On a project otherwise defined by an almost complete ability to modify content after it has been posted, it seems odd that no one can change their own edit summaries (but of course you shouldn't be able to change others', just your own). Every morning (there's a halo...) 03:55, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
There's a script called JWB.js that is a partial port of AWB to JavaScript. I've been looking over its source code, and I can't find the interface text. There are phrases included on the screen when the program runs, but a search of the source code does not reveal them. For example: "Enter list of pages:" is part of the interface, but it's nowhere in the source code. The same goes for the other text displayed in the program's various frames. None of it seems to be in the source code, or in the program's css page. It's got to be coming from somewhere. But where? — The Transhumanist 07:09, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
First, this is not a proposal; do not !vote on it. This is a question for anyone who has a good idea how the Wikimedia software works regarding whether something would be technically possible, as well as the difficulty level required.
Would it be possible to put a system in place which does the following:
Some information if there are any technical or legal roadblocks to the implementation of such a system would be great. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 09:14, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Normally, I only watch pages that I have edited. Occasionally, something will show up on my watchlist and I have no recollection of why I might be interested in the page, but after checking the history of the page, its talk page, and their logs, an explanation surfaces. So, it's something of a puzzle as to why this edit has shown on my watchlist. I can't find evidence of me editing the page. Insects aren't my thing either - they creep me out. This is not the first page that is watched w/o explanation. Any ideas? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:24, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
This diff page shows my long edit summary wrapping so as to not run way off the end of the page. However, this permalink page shows that same edit summary running way off the end of the page, and the same occurs when viewing this edit in my watchlist or contributions page. Is this a bug (and if so, has a Phabricator report already been filed)? Has this always been the case and I just didn't notice because I don't normally use long edit summaries without spaces? Regardless, it is an issue that needs fixing. Master of Time (talk) 23:31, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi all!
mw:Extension:Graph allows to draw graphs and charts and variously sized and colored points on maps. Documentation appears to be lacking using Vega 2 library. Vega
version 3.0 documentation is not very introductory level.
Do we have volunteers who could expand the extension documentation to include an explanation of how its features work, starting from hello world and gradually increasing complexity? And or volunteers to update the extension to Vega 3?
Specifically what interests me is the ability to create timelines spanning across several days with events with hours and minutes. I had tried this at mw:User:Gryllida/sandbox (starting from mw:Extension:Graph/Demo#Timeline_/_lifeline) but could not figure out how it should work. No error message has been produced. -- Gryllida ( talk) 02:08, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
from
and to
cannot be nil
or equal.? -
Gryllida (
talk) 11:00, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I tried to perform a WP:HISTSPLIT on Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2018_March_10#File:Taisekiji_Hoanden.JPG. Everything worked fine, except the last stage - restoring. I want to restore these revisions, but depending on which revisions I select, I am either faced with this or this error. Any clue what's going on? I've done file splits many times on Commons. But I think this is the first time I've tried on enwiki. Cheers, Reh man 02:00, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there any template which will test whether a string is a decade? Or parser code to do the same job?
I want something which will return a true/non-null for a valid decade (e.g. "1830s", "560s") but return a false/null value for a non-decade (e.g. "1741", "1920x", "sdsjjdh").
Any suggestions? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:28, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
{{#invoke:String|match|{{{DateWhichMayBeaDecade|}}}|^%d%d%d0s$|ignore_errors=true}}
{{#invoke:String|match|{{{DateWhichMayBeaDecade|}}}|^%d?%d?%d?0s$|ignore_errors=true}}
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 17:58, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
[12]%d%d0s$
to catch transposition errors like "9180s". –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 01:50, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Would it be possible to receive details about failed login attempts beyond "this happened"...?
It'd be useful to know what password they tried to use. For example, if you can tell they're just trying common passwords (e.g. password
, 123456
, etc), then you shouldn't have much to worry about. If they're using your older passwords, then you need to change your password immediately.
It'd also be useful for at least CUs (if not others) to know what IP address was used in the attempt.
Ian.thomson ( talk) 14:00, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
The_Immortal_Ten has a thumbnail in the top right of the page with obviously reversed colors. The original file at [34] looks fine, and there is a thumbnail on the image page that looks fine. I'm not sure if this is a Wikimedia bug, or if the thumbnail needs to be regenerated, but I'm not seeing an obvious way to fix this myself. Wingedsubmariner ( talk) 16:51, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
For Wikimédia France, 0x010C developed the tool Events calendar. The Events calendar is a common calendar, that can be used by anyone to share events having some connection with the Wikimedia movement. The central calendar, displayed on m:Events calendar contain all the events, while each project page can display his own, through a filter system.
The events calendar can be used on any other pages, with location or tag filters enabled. For example, it can be used to display all events of a given user-group, taking place in a city ( Paris) or linked with a given subject ( Wikisource).
It is possible to export a set of events in the iCalendar file format.
The event calendar can be viewed and used directly by anybody, connected or not, but its functionalities are limited to the features described in the template's documentation. To unlock the ability to navigate between months, to dynamically change the view or filter the events, and the easily manage events (add new ones, edit or delete existing), you will have to copy-paste those two lines in your common.js:
Pyb ( talk) 21:05, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
{{Events calendar|tags=1Lib1Ref|locations=Greece}}
for exemple, to show only 1Lib1Ref events in Greece. As others also filters their calendar, it won't show up on the calendar of people looking for events in France. It won't appear either on the Wikisource UserGroup's calendar, as they filter to show only Wikisource-related events in all countries (
meta:Wikisource Community User Group/Events). See
meta:Template:Events calendar for other examples.Hello, I have done many cleanups in which image was being used in infobox inappropriately like this. Can such tasks be performed across wiki by a bot? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 04:46, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
In Upper Twin Falls Bridge, there are two overlapping and slightly offset coordinates links in the upper-right corner (Firefox 52.6.0 on CentOS 7, vector skin). {{coord}} is in {{Infobox NRHP}} which is embedded in {{Infobox bridge}}. Since the coords are repeated in both infoboxes, would that be part of the cause? Chris857 ( talk) 16:06, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
How do I obtain my own logged in username? The userspace linking templates require you to manually enter a username. Three tildes will get me my signature, but how can I automatically get just my logged in username? Thanks, Buaidh 22:50, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
will produce it when you save. For what purpose?
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:20, 20 March 2018 (UTC){{subst:User}}
. You need someting to keep the right code on the template page itself, e.g. {{sub<noinclude></noinclude>st:REVISIONUSER}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:56, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
{{Sign in}}
, where my version will display ugly code. If {{subst:Sign in}}
is used as required then the two versions should behave the same.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Hi all, per instructions at Phabricator, I'm stopping to inquire here first; I'm well out of my depth on this and would be grateful for guidance.
I appear to be encountering a bug that is now repeatedly adding extra blank lines to the same spot in one entry ( 1, 2, 3). I'm editing in browser Firefox Quantum 58.0.2. If I'm tracking this correctly, it's only when I use the Visual Editor, although I was working on the same entry earlier in the day and this had not been happening, even on Visual Editor.
Might someone be willing, firstly, to cast a second set of eyes to make sure there's not some straightforward issue I'm overlooking, and if not, then assist me in properly reporting the matter (whether that's at Phabricator or wherever the appropriate place might be)? Much obliged! Innisfree987 ( talk) 00:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
is there any tools or way to extract only Infobox settlement from pages and save in txt. i want save infobox of citys of india in txt and run by bot to create article.-- Monorodo ( talk) 20:11, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
A keyboard shortcut to display another editor's 'User contributions' whilst on their User Page or their Talk page would seem to be incredibly useful and save a lot of fiddly mouse/finger movement and scrolling down. The link to Special:Contributions is buried half-way down the left hand side of the page in Tools, yet is one of the most frequent page links I use. I can only find one proposal of this nature on Phabricator, but it relates to Huggle. Have I missed something obvious, or would others see this as meriting a Phabricator proposal? Nick Moyes ( talk) 10:52, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
Infoboxes have been uniformly appearing for me at the top of the page, aligned left, pushing the lede down and off of my screen. Example image shown:
This can't possibly be the expected behavior, right? Viewing the desktop site in google chrome. Cheers,
Tazerdadog (
talk) 06:50, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
What is the "later revisions" menu supposed to do? If I'm at this diff page and select "7 days forward" from the "later revisions" menu, the page refreshes, but I'm left at the same diff URL. The "former revisions" menu works as I expect, taking me back that many versions or amount of time. Is this broken, or am I just not grokking how it's supposed to work? I'm sure this is some optional feature I turned on at some point, but I don't remember which feature it was. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:30, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Not sure where I got the impression that this should already be the case, but apparently it is not so. The idea is that Unprintworthy redirects (or at least Redirects from incorrect names) should not appear as autocomplete suggestions when a user types in the search bar. This is because while these redirects are useful for redirecting users who type in the query to the correct article, they are confusing as suggestions to the general user. Discussions from 2012 and 2013 don't seem to indicate consensus. Has there been more recent discussions on this? Should this be filed as a bug? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 23:04, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
I am finding the menu items to do a move of the current page, and to delete the current page, missing from the page menu. Nor are they under any other menu or sub-menu. I assume that some change has broken some script I have in my js or css page. I would like advice on this point. Has anyone else experienced such an issue? I am editing from Firefox 59.0.1. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 20:31, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't know how to display code name of user language on
Special:Preferences, such as {{UILANGCODE}}
#1 in Translatewiki.net. I find a previous talk page about it in
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive AU#Magic Word for My Preferences Language. But it isn't the answer I am looking for.
My question is, for example, if "template:abcdef" had some subpages (e.g. "/ar" or "/zh") as below, what value should I put in field "UILANGCODE"?
{{#ifexist: |{{Template:abcdef/{{UILANGCODE}}}} |{{Template:abcdef/{{UILANGCODE}}}} |{{Template:abcdef}} }}
Could somebody help me about this? Thanks. -- Garam ( talk) 11:13, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
{{int:Lang}}
to get the language code. I don't know whether they have a policy about what to use it for.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:47, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
After a long period of sleep I wanted to reactivate my bot for Teahouse archival notification (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Tigraan-testbot for details) to get it run on WMF servers as a cron job. However, the documentation to getting a bot run on the servers is quite hard to decipher. If someone could give me a step-by-step guide (either here or on my TP) it would be nice. (I already have the source code I want to run, and it would probably pass BRFA easily since it is just a refactoring of the previously-approved task, but I do not have any account on the WMF servers or OAuth key or whatever else is needed to technically run the thing). Tigraan Click here to contact me 20:57, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
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There's an option to hide bots edits from your watchlist in your preferences, and I believe it's on by default. It makes sense; approved bots pretty much always make uncontroversial changes mostly involving maintenance tasks, so you don't want your watchlist to clutter up with those.
But let's imagine a scenario where user A watchlists article P, and user B comes along, adds a maintenance template (like {{
refimprove}}) to the article without the |date=
parameter. And in subsequent edits (or even in the same edit), B also makes some pretty controversial changes. Now MaintenanceBot notices the missing date parameter and adds it.
Problem is, anyone who checks their watchlist after MaintenanceBot made the most recent edit will not see any changes to article P, and user B will (at least for a while) get away with their controversial changes.
One solution is to show the last human edit made since the page was viewed by the watcher, disregarding the most recent edit if it was made by a bot. This seems ideal, but it might be technically hard to implement without breaking something: the rollback button can no longer be displayed on only specific pages on your watchlist.
Another solution is to show bot edits where a human also made changes before the bot edit and after the watcher last saw the page. This is obviously less-than-ideal, but at least it draws attention. Smtchahal ( talk) 04:13, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Paraphrased from wikitech-l and a couple of other posts: On 14 March 2018, cryptocurrency mining software was discovered on fawiki. It was removed and the user responsible globally locked soon after. It appears (from here) that fawiki was configured so that anyone with the template editor right could also edit the MediaWiki namespace, including fa:MediaWiki:Common.js. Any website (particularly those with adverts) could attack users browsing with scripting enabled, and at enwiki, a compromised admin account could attack individuals or everyone with js exploits. Johnuniq ( talk) 04:07, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I edited the page
European Union–South Korea Free Trade Agreement to add a reference named PolletFort2011
, which I invoked from different parts of the article using the ref name="..."
syntax. Other than where it is defined, it is invoked from two places in exactly the same way, but one of them produces the error message Cite error: The named reference PolletFort2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Purging the cache for the page did not help. Is there anything obvious that I am missing? --
Joshua Issac (
talk) 21:24, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
PolletFort2011
is different from PolletFort2011"
with a trailing double quote. --
John of Reading (
talk) 21:34, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi all. I used to work on community Good Article reassessments area years ago and have recently returned. Old community reassessments are archived by Veblenbot. When I was involved I would have to manually update the category listing to open up the next archive. However I am unable to do so now. CBM ( talk · contribs) gave control of the GAR archiving function of Veblenbot to Ruhrfisch, who is no longer able to maintain it (see User talk:Ruhrfisch#WP:GAR needs category list updating.). I found two relevant discussions at the Bot noticeboard ( Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 8#New operator needed for VeblenBot and PeerReviewBot and Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 10#User:VeblenBot) The last good article reassessment that was successfully archived was in April 2015 ( Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 59).
This is obviously a long term problem that may affect other processes (peer review has been mentioned in a few threads). Is it possible to archive these reviews in a different way that doesn't require the manual updating of a bot? @ GamerPro64, BlueMoonset, and Geometry guy: as editors familiar with the problem. AIRcorn (talk) 02:17, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi ya'all!
On my own mediawiki wiki - I added:
And yet template:red which coding is here:
Still looks like this:
why?
I will give you cookies if you answer.
(please)
Infinitepeace ( talk) 11:44, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to show the number of pages in a certain category at a certain time or does that require a tool to record this information beforehand? Specifically, I am under the impression that the amount of pages in Category:Good article nominees awaiting review climbed after WP:ACTRIAL ended (from ~300 last week to 400+ a week later) but I have no idea whether that's correct. Regards So Why 12:52, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
site:/info/en/?search=Category:Good_article_nominees_awaiting_review
, click the green triangle after the url and select "Cached". It currently shows 4 Mar 2018 23:35:11 GMT and says "The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 393 total".
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:30, 21 March 2018 (UTC)recentchanges
table, along with rows for edits, log entries, Wikidata changes, and so on. The watchlist works by looking for entries in recentchanges
that match pages in your watchlist.
Anomie
⚔ 20:58, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Maybe I've missed it, but this category doesn't seem to be populating as of late. Is there some specific process that should be populating it, but isn't? Home Lander ( talk) 22:33, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. How can I find a list of all fonts supported by the Wikipedia code? Leefeni de Karik ( talk) 18:15, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't know how long this has been going on as I always switch to the desktop version on my phone, but I've just noticed that on the mobile site (en.m.wiki) the internal links that appear in dark blue on the desktop site, here appear in washed out blue just like interwiki and external links. I hope this isn't a new feature, I like being able to tell where the link leads at a glance. 93.136.0.248 ( talk) 07:55, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
/* Let's color links based on destination - added by Gryllida */
#mw-content-text a:not(.external):not(.extiw){color:rgb(50,50,150);}
Is it possible to have part of a template, or some of the code of a template appear only to autoconfirmed users (or higher), but not to non-autopatrolled users? I'm thinking whether a message could be built into the AfC decline template indicating to a user that it is optional and giving them the option to move it themselves, but only have it appear if they actually have the user-rights to do the move. (assuming ACTRIAL is approved moving forward). — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 05:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
*-show
classes in our site .css:
sysop-show
templateeditor-show
extendedmover-show
patroller-show
autoconfirmed-show
user-show
span
and div
to wrap content that is only intended to be seen by editors in that group. For example, I see "deleted contribs" and "block user" links in {{
Checkuser}} because I am in group=sysop, but their <span class="sysop-show">...</span>
wrapper would make them invisible for you.
DMacks (
talk) 06:21, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
<span class="sysop-show">Please oversight the last edit on the Donald Trump page, it gives his phone number +66-666-666 in the clear</span>
(
WP:OVERSIGHT must not be requested on public forums).
Tigraan
Click here to contact me 15:51, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
anonymous-show
to show only to logged out users, FYI. We don't appear to have one for autopatrolled users, but we could create one (though I agree that here I think you want autoconfirmed-show
, not autopatrolled :) —
MusikAnimal
talk 19:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
anonymous-show
the antonym of user-show
? I can't think of a simple general way to do the *-hide
effect (show for users not in a certain group).
DMacks (
talk) 19:52, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
.anonymous-show
is hidden, and hence elements with that CSS class are only shown to logged out users. You could do the same for the other user groups. E.g. add .patroller-hide {display: none !important}
to
MediaWiki:Group-patroller.css. Indeed the !important
is important :) so that it overrides other display properties —
MusikAnimal
talk 04:17, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
!important
annotation is a cop-out, it's almost always better to use a more specific selector instead. The problem is this: what happens when you want to override an !important
declaration? There isn't a !more-important
annotation, there are no levels of importance. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:55, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
.unconfirmed-show
. Probably should document these somewhere, since they are scattered across a bunch of CSS files —
MusikAnimal
talk 15:57, 27 March 2018 (UTC).templateeditor-show { ... }
.templateeditor-show:not(.sysop-show) { ... }
If I go to my contribs log, I see nothing. How strange. Server hiccup, right? It still shows in Lupin's popups. talk to !dave 14:41, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Is there any way to turn off the edit summary ping ? .... I'm now being pinged when editors revert to my revision (ie here, I don't want to be notified when an editor reverts to my last revision ..... Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 19:30, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
I notice that the maximum number of items on a watchlist is 1000, which does not show me 30 days of articles. I know this was discussed in August 2017. Is there a plan to fix this issue? -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 14:49, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Ok. This is a little silly. In the past hour we've had:
And those are just the ones that I've seen personally. For those without access, these are just pure garbage, barely intelligible as advertising, and are either procedurally generated by throwaway accounts or such poor translations that they may as well be. Is there an obvious edit filter that would catch these, dear tech savvy people? GMG talk 13:23, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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Does not read in from User:Gryllida/watchlists, needs a debug. -- Gryllida ( talk) 21:05, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
I believe that the following used to work
A | B | C |
---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 |
0 | 4 | 2 |
but now, if you try to click on the edit link, it toggles the sorting instead. is there a way to make the edit link work again? the regular wikilinks appear to work. Frietjes ( talk) 15:44, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
<abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr>
instead of just t
. There is no current option to omit the tooltips but it could be requested at
Template talk:Navbar. Below is an unstable hack to remove the tooltip on t
with {{
replace}} in the call. I don't recommend this method but it shows that it works to remove tooltips. I don't know whether the problem can be solved without removing tooltips.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:26, 27 March 2018 (UTC)A | B | C |
---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 |
0 | 4 | 2 |
abbr
element in order to semantically mark them up as abbreviations.
The title="..."
attributes provide the expansion of those abbreviations; browsers need not display them as tooltips but most do. Screen-reader software uses these attributes in order to speak out the expansion when requested (
Graham87 (
talk ·
contribs) please confirm). --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:21, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
I just read a question at the Teahouse about RfA notices on the Watchlist, which made me realise that two RfA discussions were going on but my watchlist hasn't displayed the notice. I know I saw the notice about Lourdes' RfA, which was the most recent one before these two, so something seems to have happened in between. I have not added any code to my skin.css and I have not unchecked "Display watchlist notices" in my Preferences. What else may I have done to stop the notices from showing up? I'm not a frequent contributor to RfAs, but I do like to get the notifications! -- bonadea contributions talk 15:02, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I made this request a couple of weeks ago at Template talk:Proposed deletion#Proposed deletions needing attention but I guess there is no one watching the page who can help.
Can we have a means of removing pages from Category:Proposed deletions needing attention. I mean without the nuclear option of removing the prod template. Sometimes the new article is on a different subject to the deleted article (eg different person with same name) so the prod is actually valid. There is no obvious way for administrators to process the category when that happens. Spinning Spark 22:47, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Why does this only link to other langs if the article is red linked on WP? As an example, Zoe Cramond does not work, I've tried everything possible. Zoe Cramond only links to en, however if I spell it wrong Zoe Cramod it does the appropriate linking. Is this only available if an article doesn't exist? This seems silly as there are other reasons to use ill for existing articles (outside of article space.) CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 20:29, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
|preserve=
option to get the effect you want, ie {{ill|Zoe Cramond|es|preserve=1}}
generates
Zoe Cramond
Hawkeye7
(discuss) 20:43, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
[[:es:Zoe Cramond]]
producing
es:Zoe Cramond. See
Help:Interlanguage links#Inline links.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 20:55, 28 March 2018 (UTC)I would like to use an ordered-set implementation for Module:Infobox gene over on zh.wp, which is already using a naive dict-based set implementation for merging labels from both "en" and "zh". There is a library available under Artistic License 2.0 on GitHub, but I am not sure whether I can just introduce the library here by copying the entire file over and declaring a license different from CC-BY-SA. Can I have a compatible license declared for in a Lua Module separate from the rest of the site? I would imagine the case is similar to media files... -- Artoria 2e5 contrib 06:54, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
I moved the French town of Puget (a remote French commune) to Puget, Vaucluse in order to create a disamguation page. Now I can't seem to find the French place through my page moves. Any help is appreciated.– Gilliam ( talk) 04:57, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
The space allowed for an edit summary is far too big. See, for example, this one where the spammer has put all his text in the edit summary and nothing in the article. As well as or instead of shortening the summary length it would be possible really clever and put out a warning if the edit summary is a lot longer than the actual edit. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:17, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. I see that that discussion seems to have been closed with a firm intention to reduce the size to 500 bytes. So no further comments needed here. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
(archived without resolution) – Paine Ellsworth put'r there 17:21, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
When we go to Preferences → Gadgets and scroll down to Appearance, the first checkbox is "Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page". When this is checked, and when the "Move section [edit] links to the right side of the screen" preference is also checked, the edit link appears low enough to be sliced by the horizontal line that underscores the page title. This is unlike all the other edit links for later sections of an article. Those edit links are above the horizontal line that underscores section titles. Is it possible to raise the lead-section edit link so it appears above the line like the other edit links? (Note that if the "Move section [edit] links to the right side of the screen" preference is not checked, then the [edit] link comes right after the title and is positioned correctly above the horizontal line.) I use Windows 10 and have checked this in IE v11 and Chrome v65. Paine Ellsworth put'r there 15:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Given a revision number (ID) is it possible to get the date&time stamp of the revision? This would be for Template:Copyvio-revdel, see my post on its talk page just now. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 14:00, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to make it so we don't have to reproduce the entire article title atop the page? Right now the only way to make the template work right is to use the full title, and while this works fine for forbidden character titles it leads to articles like When the Pawn... or The Boy Bands Have Won having an unnecessarily gigantic mass of bold text at the top; accordingly, having a way to say (as a rough draft) something like "The correct article title is explained below, it exists at this title due to technical restrictions" instead of hitting readers in the face with a huge wall of text would be helpful. Before floating any kind of proposal, first I wanted to see if it was technically feasible to do so. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 16:32, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
How could I use the {{#ifexist}} expression but preclude results that are redirect pages? Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 00:31, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
That's more out of curiosity than anything else, but
WP:PERFORMANCE does not list even orders of magnitude for maximum edits or maximum API read requests for bots. I understand the whole point of the page is that you should not worry about it until someone from IT complains, but how is one supposed to see that it's plain something could cause drastic problems
? I mean, I guess anything that increases the daily number of edits or API calls by less than 0.01% is probably OK, and more than 10% is probably not-OK-unless-there-is-a-good-reason, but I am pulling those numbers out of thin air, so...
(In my case, I was thinking about an extension of Muninnbot's functionality that would require up to 10k API revision history pulls per day, thought it was a huge number, checked the high-cost SineBot and saw it makes >200 edits/day and presumably a much larger number of API read calls as it patrols recent changes, and decided not to worry; but hard numbers would be good.) Tigraan Click here to contact me 14:31, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
If you are finding that reading via the API rather than directly reading from databases is impeding your client's performance, consider whether to put it into Wikimedia's Toolforge.; I assume API calls do not load servers more than say viewing the revision history manually and the number of times the revision history of various pages is viewed per day would be in the millions, so the bot would be negligible. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 14:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
When will MediaWiki add support for Unicode IPV6 addresses? April Fools! Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 17:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
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id="toc"
attribute? If not, templates like {{
skip to talk}}
will fail. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 11:16, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
/* Misuse of the Table of Contents ID */
#toc {
outline: #ff4500 dashed 0.6em;
}
div#toc.tocclass="toc"], /* MW TOC */
div#toc.tocclass="toc plainlinks hlist" { /* Template:Compact ToC */
outline: none;
}
This started happening maybe a few months ago. Whenever I make an edit to any MediaWiki namespace page, however simple it may be, it takes 5+ seconds to save, sometimes much longer. I thought this was a slow edit filter, but I've noticed the same problem on other wikis. I found phab:T158084 but that was filed over a year ago, when for me the issue popped up late 2017 or early 2018. Has anyone else noticed this? — MusikAnimal talk 04:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
As the subject header says, with an extra order of grrrr. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 00:29, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
.postedit { display: none; }
Please see Phabricator T191167. Apparently English Wikipedia has chosen to have a line break within the word "changes" in the "This edit can be undone..." box! If this is so, can this choice be reviewed? Thank you : Noyster (talk), 11:26, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
break-word
isn't a valid value for the word-break
style. To fix it for now on a per-user basis, you can put .fmbox > tbody > tr > .mbox-text { word-break:normal !important}
on an new line in
your personal CSS page.
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 14:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Notice from the above screenshot how Global contributions has been split into "G" on one line and "lobal contributions" on the other. It's not a good technique for certain. Can it be corrected? Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 14:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
fmbox
to fmbox-warning
; this should at least keep the change from breaking edit notices, while keeping the fix for the warning ones. I'll look at getting it more specific, but for now, that should relieve most of the problems, at least with edit notices and the like.
Writ Keeper
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♔ 15:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Who can tell me how the "related articles" section of a page in mobile view is populated? Is this something editors can control/influence, or is the "related articles" list generated by some algorithm? I'm seeing some really strange things listed there that seem to have no obvious relevance to the article in question. As an example I'm looking at the Tom (TV series) article, which has United States Senate election in South Carolina, 2014 and Payload (EP) as related articles. 28bytes ( talk) 15:18, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello all. Bishzilla, always hospitable, has attempted to add a link to her pocket to her sig, as a standing invitation to little users to request residence there. The proposed sig looks like this, bishzilla ROARR!! pocket, and like this in edit mode: [[User:Bishzilla|<b style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:125%;color:#0FF">''bishzilla''</b>]] [[User talk:Bishzilla|<i style="color:#E0E;font-size:175%;"><small><small><small><sub>R</sub>OA</small>R</small>R!</small>!</i>]] <b>[[User:Bishzilla/Self-requested pocketings|<span style="color:red;">pocket</span>]]</b> Is that a problem? Too big? I ask because when she attempted to paste it into her preferences, there didn't seem to be room for it — it was cut off. For comparison, this is her current sig: bishzilla ROARR!!. I can't find any explicit limitation in Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing your signature — just a general implication that "a lot of code" is undesirable. So, does the version with the pocket have too much code? Or is it a problem of space in the Preferences signature field, which can possibly be overcome? Before you opine that even Bishzilla's regular sig is objectionably tacky and garish and takes up too much space, I'll mention that she never, or hardly ever, posts on article talkpages or in Wikipedia space. Normally only on the user talkpages of friends, who have never objected to her current sig, and would hopefully be pleased with the "pocket" version too. Bishonen | talk 17:41, 23 March 2018 (UTC).
{{subst:User:Bishzilla/Sig}}
and have as long a signature length as you want. However, for the most part, you're requested to remain inside or around the 255 character length signature. Given that this is a joke account, it might be a reasonable
WP:IAR spot. That said, you should not use <font>
per
WP:SIG#Font tags. --
Izno (
talk) 19:03, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps this can be done without transcluding. To begin with, you could save 24 characters by redirecting User:Bishzilla/P to User:Bishzilla/Self-requested pocketings, and using the redirect in the signature. Also, perhaps you can cut a few characters by using a font with a shorter name than "comic sans ms". bd2412 T 13:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
estimates that the English Wikipedia still has more than 5,000,000 high-priority errors to clean up.<- You are implying incorrectly that we need to work through 5M errors. We instead need to work through 10k errors. -- Izno ( talk) 20:49, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
This is fyi only. Works now, so no feedback needed if you're happy with it:
Lua error in Module:Hatnote_list at line 179: attempt to concatenate field 'extratext' (a nil value).
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What I did: went to the Wikipedia search box on an article page, and typed in 'Galliass' (sans quotes) and hit Return.
Not repeatable, when I tried the same thing again.
Mathglot (
talk) 05:31, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Okay so this is just weird. im seeing the text {{subst:tfm|Infobox Muslim leader]} on the top of the page for Visakha. It appears to be attached to the infobox too, so i cant remove it without removing the infobox. Any idea how to fix this? I havent been able to find anything apparent in the source code that would cause this. Wikiman5676 ( talk) 06:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I am not quite sure on how to do this myself of asking here. Is it possible to merge {{ Infobox religious building/color}} and {{ Infobox deity/color}} somehow? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 11:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Is my eyesight deceiving me? or have the alert bell & notice screen symbols been enlarged. GoodDay ( talk) 01:01, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
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I just CSD-tagged Anthony P. Sgro and Frank Ippolito while patrolling, and they were both deleted. Both were recreated with what seemed to me to be the same material, although I can't actually check. They were recreated within minutes. Is this just a coincidence or is there a technical problem here allowing people to recover deleted articles? Natureium ( talk) 18:56, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I've come across some probably unintended behaviour with revision deletion. I don't really have the phabricatoor skills to deal with it. It's long been known that you can't revision-delete the latest revision text. An error is displayed: "Revision visibility could not be updated: Error hiding the item ...: This is the current revision. It cannot be hidden." I always thought the username and edit summary could be deleted, as was mentioned in our description of the tool. [60] If you try to delete them there is no error displayed, and they disappear from the page history. However they are both still visible if you look at the oldid= revision. I think they should probably be hidden from that place, but if not an error should be displayed. You can see an example of this here. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:02, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
uselang=qqx
shows all three
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MediaWiki:Revision-info-current but it's currently only called with Something in the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanzeel Akhtar is causing it to show up on Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting. I can't seem to locate the problem-- Auric talk 18:24, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
If anyone who is available would take a look at the problem noted here Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Odd archivebox it would be appreciated. MarnetteD| Talk 23:10, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Is it possible to get a list of param of an infobox via template / module rather than listing it manually? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 16:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Provides some menu items on Wikipedia's search results page to modify search results:
It's a bit cludgy, and I'd like to make it more efficient.
Suggestions are welcome. Please post comments to its workshop page (link in heading). — The Transhumanist 10:08, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Hey there! On my custom-made reviews page, where I showcase all my Did you know... and GA-class reviews, some errors, such as a "lint error" and other unspecified errors are brought up when I attempt to indent a collapsed table, which is holding a transclusion of my GA-Class reviews. This was discovered and brought up to me by Anomalocaris, when he discovered the errors on my page through Special:LintErrors/multiline-html-table-in-list and subsequently removed the indents. This was later discussed on his talk page, leading to me bringing this issue to the Village pump. I just wanted to ask a simple question; is it possible to transclude a GA Review and put it into anything that's collapsible (and collapsed by default), and indent it, without causing any problems? As noted on his talk page, I have seemed to have unconsciously done this correctly in the "Did you know... reviews" section, but the same process doesn't seem to work in the "Good article reviews" section. What seems to be the thing I'm doing wrong on one section and doing right in the other? – PhilipTerryGraham ( talk · articles · reviews) 08:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
==GA Review==
". I understand why you'd want to draw attention to that, but it doesn't seem to be breaking anything, or at least not in a way that makes the page show up on some sort of "broken pages" list. All the problems I have been concerned about have been solved. The colon problem was the only problem I ever addressed, really. – PhilipTerryGraham (
talk ·
articles ·
reviews) 09:45, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Category:Temporary maintenance holdings - over 82,000 articles in this, and it's appearing for no reason in articles (see e.g. Darren Moore) - any idea why? Giant Snowman 13:32, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, anybody know why block templates like {{ SockBlock}} don't display in mobile view? Seems like that would create a good deal of confusion for people who get blocked and have no idea what their next step is, and that could be why we get a lot of unblock requests sent through UTRS, which just wind up getting closed without resolution. Is this something that would have to be changed at the template level? Is this something the community prefers? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 15:32, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Whenever I add this navbox to an article that already contains other navboxes (refer to any article in the navbox), it always added a few trailing lines of whitespace. I can't figure out why that's happening. Erpert blah, blah, blah... 00:36, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
<noinclude>
should usually be on the same line as the last transcluded code.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:41, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Starting on April 9th we'll migrate the servers running the MediaWiki application servers to a new release of the ICU Unicode library ( International Components for Unicode) (from version 52 to 57). This unblocks some future work on upgrading the servers to a new Operating System release and will also allow the use of improved internationalisation in the future (as wikis will then be able to use features introduced by the new ICU release such as new collation definitions, and allows us to use a more recent version of Unicode in MediaWiki).
This migration will cause some unavoidable temporary user-visible impact: The sorting of some category pages will be distorted – all pages which have been updated with the new software version will use the new sorting while untouched pages still use the old sorting. As such, we need to run a maintenance script to update the sorting for old entries.
The distortions may last from a few hours (on medium-sized wikis), up to a day (on the largest wikis), and a few days on English Wikipedia. The start-time will depend upon when the migration script reaches each wiki.
This affects a number of large wikis (including eight out of the ten biggest Wikipedias). The detailed list and the task for the technical implementation is at phab:T189295. Thank you. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 20:07, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
I've
finally managed to get access to deleted revisions via the API, but have now realised that one of the key bits of data that I'd like isn't there. Is there any reason that sizediff
is in
Special:Contributions and action=query&list=usercontribs
but not in
Special:DeletedContributions and action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions
? It doesn't make much sense to me that the data is being calculated but then discarded when the contribs are deleted. It seems like I can extract it using action=compare&prop=diffsize
but that means making one request per diff, rather than getting 500 in one query, as is possible from action=query&list=usercontribs
.
SmartSE (
talk) 19:03, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
compare&prop=size
and manually calculating the diff so I guess I'll have to live with that.
SmartSE (
talk) 20:17, 5 April 2018 (UTC)So I finally managed to get some free time this afternoon, and when I logged on, this script kept popping up errors. I know it is this one because the error code that comes up on every page load says this:
Javascript Error https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki%7Cmediawiki.legacy.wikibits&only=scripts&skin=monobook&version=1nv7gwr at line 52: Uncaught TypeError: fn is not a function
and this is the only script I have enabled that uses jQuery. How can I fix this, and what is the problem so I don't have this problem next time? Bardic Wizard ( talk • Happy Easter!) 01:03, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
In October 2017, English Wikipedia community members approved an RfC requesting implementation of mapframe—a feature that enables contributors to easily display dynamic maps within article pages. At the time, there was some question about whether technical support for the maps service would be available long term. I’m writing now to say that those questions have been answered, and a small team will be assigned for routine maps maintenance. So, assuming the community still wants mapframe on enwiki, we’re ready to turn it on in April. Here’s some background on where things currently stand.
Over the last few months, the Collaboration team has been working on a project called Map Improvements 2018, which will conclude at the end of June, 2018. The goals are twofold: 1) to ensure that Kartographer and the associated map systems are stable and can be easily maintained by the small team mentioned above; and 2) to address the winning 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, fulfilling its two “main wishes” and as many of the other wishes as time allows. (The main wishes are T112948 “All map location names should be shown in the user's language”—a very challenging but fundamental upgrade; and T180907 “Add zoom level 19.”)
This list of approved tasks for the Map Improvements project shows the type of work that’s been prioritized. A lot of effort is going into getting the technology onto a stable footing. The new user-facing features being added come mostly from the Wishlist request and have been selected because they improve the usefulness of what one might call “locator” maps—maps that show location and basic geography—as opposed to more advanced annotation and interactive mapping features. (The philosophy behind that decision is explained on the project page, but the short version is that a more advanced service would require a lot of technical resources.)
Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers' understanding across a wide range of topics. Fifteen Wikipedias and all other wiki projects are using mapframe today to display maps on hundreds of thousands of pages. Unless we hear from you that the consensus on adding mapframe to English Wikipedia has changed since last year’s RfC, we plan to move forward in April 2018. This is a timeframe that, should any unexpected issues arise, will enable the Collaboration team to deal with those concerns before rolling off the project in July 2018. So, if you foresee any issues, let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping! JMatazzoni (WMF) ( talk) 20:14, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
<maplink>
and <graph>
to emulate what <mapframe>
would give you natively (those interested in the details, look
here). The result looks pretty similar; compare the map on
Stalbridge that you mentioned with the examples I posted up above. If and when mapframe is deployed here on English Wikipedia, the {{
OSM Location map}} template (or its uses) could probably be changed to use mapframe over time; the template has a lot of advanced features, most of which (not sure if all) are supported in mapframe too. However, I recommend using <mapframe>
directly rather than through a template, because then people can visually edit the map (add markers etc) using VisualEditor. --
Roan Kattouw (WMF) (
talk) 14:16, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Looks like we're good to go. Thanks for all your input. With the support I see here, we'll plan to release mapframe to English Wikipedia as soon as we've released T112948, which provides for the display of map labels in English instead of in the language of the territory mapped (as long as English labels are available in the underlying map data from OpenStreetMap). We expect to release that challenging but fundamental upgrade in the next few weeks, so an April release of mapframe looks to be on track. I'll keep you posted. If questions or issues arise in the meanwhile, please post them to the Map Improvements 2018 talk page. — JMatazzoni (WMF) ( talk) 00:08, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Discussion/Replies to the above:
-- Yurik ( talk) 00:32, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Trade_route_from_the_Varangians_to_the_Greeks
In this article of a problem with Ukrainian. I have added Ukrainian, using a template of languages which were in article. The Ukrainian translation has to be obligatory: because the znachushchy percent of a route passes through Ukraine and the Ukrainian city of Kiev was the center of Kievan Rus'. Through Kiev Dnieper (waterway of a route) flows Bohdan Bondar ( talk) 10:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
The copyvios tool on labs (ie: https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/) appears to have stopped working against a Google search. Attempting to do so just reports a 403 error, and has throughout most of the day. Any ideas? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:52, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
An error occurred while using the search engine (Google Error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden). Try reloading the page. If the error persists, repeat the check without using the search engine.
Discussion on the talk page:
WT:VPT#Archiving interval for WP:VPT
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Pipetricker (
talk) 13:41, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
We at NPP have been having problems the past few days with marking pages for deletion. (See Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers for discussion) When applying certain tags, a message comes up saying "failed to apply tags the page". Does anyone know what's up with this? Natureium ( talk) 16:25, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Some time in the past few weeks, the appearance of some dropdown menus changed. I think this is related to the first item in the March 26 Tech news and covered in phab:T97631. The upshot is that dropdown menus are larger and more in -line with the overall vector theme; examples are the dropdowns at Special:MovePage and when deleting.
I much prefer the compressed menus, and can't figure out how to undo this. The old menus are there (awkwardly uneven: named wpNewTitleNs
for move and with #wpDeleteReasonList
id for delete) but are hidden by the addition of display: none
in the css for .oo-ui-dropdownInputWidget select
. It should be trivial to show those, but I don't know how to hide the new menus; there are no id
s, and (I think?) the .oo-ui-dropdownWidget
class is too broad. Any thoughts? ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 16:29, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
.oo-ui-menuOptionWidget {padding: 0.2em 1em;}
, but do bear in mind that personal overrides might lead to unexpected breakages, elsewhere or in the future.
Quiddity (WMF) (
talk) 22:40, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
id
? I used to hide oversight and office actions from delete menus, found that quite helpful. I'll note the RevDel menu is still how it used to be. ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 01:00, 6 April 2018 (UTC)A week ago I pointed to a (future) problem with tree lists, but so far nobody has responded. Is there a CSS doctor in the house? Please comment at template talk:Tree list#Tree list will break. -- bdijkstra ( talk) 08:43, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Update: problem fixed! -- bdijkstra ( talk) 19:06, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I have a problem. Lately I've been working on the Wolfenstein: The New Order article, and I've been replacing broken WebCite archive links with those from the Wayback Machine. Suddenly, however, Rhain has reverted my edit on many links, even though a few links archived are dead, and claimed that there was " Nothing wrong with previous links. WebCite is fine." But I tried telling him that Google Chrome says the WebCite links are broken, and all I get is the message "This site cannot be reached", as indicated in this link. But I feel worried. If the WebCite links are broken when Rhain claims they are not, then is WebCite truly necessary? I'm very confused. -- Angeldeb82 ( talk) 01:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't see the tools at the bottom of the textarea right now. I checked every browser and every old WikiEditor, and I still don't see it. Is there something wrong with MediaWiki:Edittools and MediaWiki:Edittools.js? -- George Ho ( talk) 21:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Wait a minute. When logged-out, I can see the lower tools. When logged-in, I can't. I'm very positive it's not my common.js subpage because I still didn't see the tools when I reinserted and then re-deleted the script code. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
?debug=true
to sample some pages, but I still can't find any relevant errors. Nonetheless, when I used ?debug=true
for a source page, like a
link to
adding a new section, the URL containing the additional entry leads to the full source code of the whole venue page. I tried ?safemode=1
, resulting in
this URL, but the problem still exists. --
George Ho (
talk) 22:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
div id="editpage-specialchars" title="Click on the character or tag to insert it into the edit window"
. I still don't know why "editpage-specialchars" is missing. --
George Ho (
talk) 23:34, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Look what I found!— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:47, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
There was a ridiculously long one on this rev the other day. - X201 ( talk) 19:04, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there any way to customize the images in templates using CSS? I want a script that replaces the default brooms, hands, globes, arrows, etc. with something similar to the "Red Cats" theme that was formerly available for Firefox. Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 03:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
If after 3 reversions (unless tuned lower) an editor became automatically unable to edit that page alone, for 24 hours, we could nearly end edit wars by making them technically impossible. Could something like this be done (technically)? Are there reasons for not doing so (technically)? Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 12:28, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Hlists on mobile (en.m.wikipedia.org...) are not outputting any middle dot as on desktop version but empty space instead. Maybe MediaWiki:Mobile.css could be modified in order to fix this. This problem also happened before and used to be fixed.
Also, when desktop version is being viewed on a mobile device - there are no hlist separators between items at the very bottom of the page (Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers ...).
Btw, at the top of Village pump page (only mobile version), first and third items (Table of contents and End of page links) are not displayed and their bullets are displayed so there is •First discussion• •New post or something like that. -- Obsuser ( talk) 13:56, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
This diff looks weird to me. The link content says that it's a diff in Trump and JCPOA while it takes me to somewhere else, i.e. Woodford Reserve Is this a bug? Saff V. ( talk) 13:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
oldid=
parameter is probably missing a digit. The title=
parameter is ignored for these links if a revision ID is included;
this link doesn't contain the page title, but the linked page displays the same content.
Jc86035's alternate account (
talk) 13:58, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to get notified when someone other than you creates a subpage in your userspace? Apparently this has happened to me before and I had no idea until now. Thanks, ansh 666 00:44, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I have Two-Factor Authentication ... a feature I normally support, but which now threatens to lock me out of my account.
My cell phone received an update; and it froze at the launch screen. I tried to troubleshoot it myself; then called my carrier via a landline. When a half dozen attempts all failed, finally gave in and did a factory reset on my phone - wiping out the two-factor authentication setup. Without the two-factor code, I can no longer log into my Wikipedia account on my phone's browser. So on my laptop I go to my profile to try to re-activate tw-factor authentication ... only to find the only menu option is to entirely disable it, but only IF I enter my two-factor code first.
In other words, I can no longer log into my account on a new device, and I cannot find a way to disable the "feature". Once my laptop crashes, needs replaced, or just decides it's time to re-verify my identity ... I'll likely lose access to my account entirely.
Does anyone have a suggested work-around for this? Or is this account doomed to be lost? I'm hoping there's a solution I've overlooked - but I'm losing hope. Help? --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:41, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
Is there some way to know how many users are blocked because of their username? If so is there a way to know how many of these were because the name was a name of an organisation?
A bit of background, I recently ran a gender gap event ( Wiki4Women) where one of the new contributors who took part User:YEMEN EMBASSY THE HAGE was almost immediately blocked because of their username.
Their experience was:
This is really not ideal, given that they have shown in interest in Wikipedia and are likely knowledgeable and could also be a potential partner for Wikimedia, in terms of knowledge, content and potentially resources like event hosting, funding etc.
I think it is reasonable to assume this happened because they were unaware that they could not use the name of an organisation in their username. Currently Special:CreateAccount simply has a link that says 'help me chose' implying that there are better choices but all names are allowed, which is not true.
Can I suggest that we try to understand how often this happens and to try to think of some simple ways to reduce this happening? E.g a very simplified list of username rules on the sign up page (possibly based on the most common blocking and other issues because of username choices).
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 21:41, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I have created an alternative to the current main page here. Where can I get consensus where there or not to add it to WP:main page alternatives page. Also despite being heavily discouraged in WP:VPI(On an earlier version) I would like to know what are the chances of it replacing the main page on a later date(I agree that it still will need a lot of improvement before such a thing occurs) — F R + 09:53, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
There's a formatting error appearing in the infobox at Hampton Roads, something to do with the rounding of the total area. I've had a play with it but I can't get it to resolve. Can someone sort it out? Home Lander ( talk) 03:43, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
|area_km2
and |area_mi2
parameters take only raw numbers and nothing more. Reference for these area values can only be added to dedicated |area_footnotes
parameter. This is because, the "raw values" are used to do the calculation and autogenerate the value of the third |total
parameter, which is not in the source code. So basically, anything beyond raw number will generate expression error. –
Ammarpad (
talk) 06:44, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
So I'm starting a new user script, and I want to know how to add css to the script without adding a css file. Longer version: I'm attempting to write a script that gets the class of a page (the wikiproject assessment) and changes the wikipedia logo to the icon for it. (Think User:Zhaofeng Li/RetroLogo, but responsive. Bardic Wizard ( talk • Happy Easter!) 02:55, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
$('.mw-wiki-logo').css('background-image', 'url(https://upload.wikimedia.org/...something...)')
I reported an IP at WP:AIV using the standard {{ IPvandal}} template. I then received an alert saying "Your mention of 121.220.60.89 was not sent because the user is anonymous". Evidently the wiki software interpreted my AIV report as an attempt to ping the vandal. Two questions:
Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 09:41, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
This is fixed in Module:Navbar. Pages still showing the error can be purged. Only report if purge does not work. PrimeHunter ( talk) 13:54, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I make some edits on Malaysian general election, 2018 but a problem appears there. It reads: "Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div." Can anyone please solve this problem? Thanks. Aamuizz ( talk) 13:04, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi good folk. Not sure if this is where I should post this, but being bold! International Communist Party has shown a red error - for many versions, it seems. I'm hoping a cleverer editor than I am will fancy correcting it.
The error, in red, reads:
"Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div.".
Thanks in advance; I'll see if I can learn from the fix. Trafford09 ( talk) 13:10, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
div
into a local
. Don't know if that is 'the' fix but at least the module isn't failing with the big red error message.
Primefac? You were the last editor.I saw the same problem at a completely unrelated area Programmable Logic Controller. North8000 ( talk) 13:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div.
This template is redirect to Template:Information security and used in articles.
For example in Network security.
Please fix this error. Thanks. Oleg3280 ( talk) 13:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Did Wikimedia just disable seeking in a video?
I noticed like 2 months ago or so that when I play a video (like that in The Sheik (film)#Cast), I can't seek the video. It's very annoying because there may be extremely long clips that I don't want to watch in full or that I want to repeat a part.
I was redirected here from Meta. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 19:46, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I think {{ Authority control}} should appear below language links on the left side instead of appearing below every article. Also it should appear by default, instead of adding the template to every article. Can this be done? How? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 19:49, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
What I'm looking for is a way to add a column of numbers to a table to rank all the rows, that would change automatically if a row is removed or added (so we don't have to renumber all the rows that are below the changed row). Similar to the way # character will automatically number bullet points, it doesn't matter if you add/remove/swap entries, they are always in numerical order (a table with a column of # characters that do the same thing would be great). I've looked through the help;table guide and didn't find anything that would suit the article I want to modify. If anyone here has a solution, it would be appreciated. Cheers - theWOLFchild 02:34, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
The article viewership data source hasn't been updated in April. I posted this to the Analytics mailing list, but haven't received a response after several days. This is the data source that powers the WP:5000 and from which the WP:Top25Report is derived, and we're already behind one of the weekly reports. West.andrew.g ( talk) 14:25, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I use the Opera web browser (yes, I know I'm weird) and the past few days I've been having trouble viewing page histories outside of the user space, and I was wondering if it was something with mediawiki or my browser (to my knowledge, I haven't changed anything.) I've uploaded a screenshot of how the page history looks when I view this page and also how the page history looks when I view a user page. Oddly enough, not all user pages look normal (my own looks the same as the VPT history), but the only pages where I see a normal history are user pages. It also doesn't seem to have anything to do with number of revisions, as I've had the issue with pages that only have one revision. TonyBallioni ( talk) 23:49, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Can someone explain what "{{#statements:P18}}" is please?, I've come across it twice acting as the infobox image (recent article being Kris Aquino) so now the curiosity's got the better of me, Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 02:39, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
{{#statements}}
gets the data from Wikidata.
image (P18) in this case. See
d:Wikidata:How to use data on Wikimedia projects#Parser function. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 04:16, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
A move discussion is being held at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Requested move 10 April 2018 which may be of interest to editors following this page. It relates to the Wikipedia:Did you know nomination process and the Wikipedia:Template namespace guideline. -- Netoholic @ 19:59, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I have the " Use a black background with green text" gadget enabled in my preferences. For the last few days (possibly longer, I had been away from desktop access), it has displayed mainly as usual, but with a strip across the top of the page in grey. Today, vast swathes of every page display as green text on a grey background. Anyone know what is up? DuncanHill ( talk) 14:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I have made the sandbox and testcases and started a discussion at Template talk:Infobox writer. Comments and any other help is invited. Thanks Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 09:04, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Over the last few weeks- the |commons-on-osm overlay has stopped updating. for instance File:Whitstable Harbour West Quay 8137.jpg was uploaded to Commons on 14th March and still is not visible on the OSM map overlay.
When viewing the file on here (en:)- well it does click you over to Commons- then- using the link in the summary box Camera location 51° 21′ 47.26″ N, 1° 01′ 32.65″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth info. I suppose technically this is a Commons tool- but it does affect us here. Any ideas?-- ClemRutter ( talk) 10:54, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I used to be a big user of RefLinks, and switched to reFill since that seems to be the go-to URL processor. I could've sworn it was better a month and some ago, but as of late the vast majority of the time I run reFill, I need to manually go in and figure out the "publisher=" field, even when using really established news sources like The Telegraph or New York Times.
Has something gone wonky with reFill? Why is it not filling out the publisher field? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 02:27, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, website). Not normally used for periodicals. ... Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work (for example, The New York Times Co. publishes The New York Times newspaper, so there is no reason to name the publisher).– Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:37, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I thought it would be worth bringing to your attention that upon logging in, NoScript blocks the editing toolbar at the top of the article, making it impossible to edit the lede or the infobox. Oddly, though, the edit button remains visible for any subsequent sections of the article. Obviously, placing Wikipedia in the trusted zone (or logging out) restores functionality. I have not attempted to replicate this issue on the desktop version of Firefox, but I can do so if desired.
Incidentally, the only reason I discovered this glitch is that the article editor is utterly unusable in Chrome on Android. (Come to think of it, it's also unusable in the AdBlock browser, which is strange, considering that browser is simply a modified version of Firefox). Are there any plans to rectify the crippling incompatibilities that continue to plague the editor in Chrome? Nonstopdrivel ( talk) 09:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello all. I'm currently working on moving the main page of the Simple English Wiktionary to the project namespace, as well as making the necessary adjustments (including removing the page title from the top of the page). What related templates and modules are needed for that task?
Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place; I could not figure out if this belonged in technical or miscellaneous. hiàn 21:10, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Main_Page
. Templates and modules depend on how the wiki makes the contents of the main page. I haven't examined that for your wiki.
MediaWiki:Mainpage tells the name of the main page to the interface. I suggest you start by copying the code but wait with changing
MediaWiki:Mainpage until the new page works as wanted.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:10, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I've asked it before, I am asking it again. Would it be possible to automate edits like these. Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 08:50, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
The outage time was roughly between 22:00 UTC to 23:36 UTC. However, I was able to access the website using a proxy in Tokyo during this time period. This website [79], is saying that I'm not the only one who had this problem either, there have been 134 reports of people having the same problem, during roughly the same time period, to that site.
So, what happened? I'm not watching this page, please ping me if you reply. QuietOwl ( talk) 23:54, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I've got a weird category sorting problem I can't seem to figure out, and wanted to ask if anybody can assist. I created an article about Canadian writer Fernand Dorais about 10 minutes ago — but for some reason I can't seem to identify, even though I used the DEFAULTSORT template to specify the correct sortkey it seems to be acting completely randomly in different categories: in both Category:1928 births and Category:2003 deaths it does seem to be sorting him in his correct alphabetical spot in the D list, but in most other categories he's getting bumped all the way to the bottom of the D list below other writers he should be ahead of in alph order, and in Category:Canadian male novelists he's entirely failing to show up at all. Can anybody look into this and figure out how to fix it? Bearcat ( talk) 23:35, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
There appear to be having a number of indexing problems at this category.
These are examples, I have checked a couple of other categories which appear to have the same problem – which may only affect categories containing categories. Does that make sense?-- Richhoncho ( talk) 11:10, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I need help regarding a category I started about World Series-winning managers. It was nominated for deletion, but it was chosen to be kept. Now, however, when I try to add more names, I find that the category is not being properly alphabetized. I hope there's somebody here on Wikipedia that can help me fix this problem. I did try to fix it myself, but I was fighting a losing battle. If you can help me, please leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you very much. Mr. Brain ( talk)
I just came back to check on the category, and before I do anything else, I wanna thank whoever fixed the problem I was having with the alphabetization of the category of World Series-winning managers very much. I mean it from the bottom of my heart. Mr. Brain ( talk)
After positive results from our most recent A/B tests on Page Previews on German and English Wikipedias, the Readers web team are planning the next steps of feature rollout for the first half of April 2018. We have requested feedback on how Page Previews should behave for logged-in users. There's a discussion happening over on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). Yours, OVasileva (WMF) ( talk) 20:27, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Special:Diff/836168056 broke the <noinclude>
s and wikitables in this one, but I couldn't restore it to the old version and make it work. Symptoms of this are seen at
Talk:List of TCP and UDP port numbers.
toollabs:templatecount says 107 transclusions, so it's fortunately not as widespread of an issue as I initially feared it to be. I'm not sure how to really solve this one though. 84.250.17.211 ( talk) 03:08, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Not browser specific. The Save button is grayed out. I've tried it in Firefox and Chrome. Been going on since at least last week. Affects everything - English Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, Media Wiki, Wikidata. Also applies to other languages. — Maile ( talk) 11:32, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I just converted a former redirect, 1945
1945 (film), to an article, adding a hatnote using {{
About}}
to help users get to the target of the former redirect. Although the article is no longer a redirect, the hatnote says
Why does it say "redirect" instead of "article"? Will it fix itself automatically in time, or do I have to do something? — Anomalocaris ( talk) 20:24, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
This returns:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/app.py", line 33, in inner return func(*a, **kw) File "/data/project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/app.py", line 82, in usersearch_py return tpl.render(store=store) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/template.py", line 445, in render return runtime._render(self, self.callable_, args, data) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 829, in _render **_kwargs_for_callable(callable_, data)) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 864, in _render_context _exec_template(inherit, lclcontext, args=args, kwargs=kwargs) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 890, in _exec_template callable_(context, *args, **kwargs) File "usersearch_query_mako", line 50, in render_body File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/usersearch.py", line 128, in fix_results yield self.contrib_line(args) File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/tool.py", line 102, in contrib_line stamp = ch_locale(store.lang, ts.strftime, [fmt]) File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/localeshit.py", line 33, in ch_locale p.start() File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/multiprocessing/process.py", line 111, in start self._popen = Popen(self) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/multiprocessing/forking.py", line 91, in __init__ sys.stderr.flush() OSError: [Errno 116] Stale file handle
-- NeilN talk to me 19:26, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
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RFC here, please join -> MediaWiki_talk:Wdsearch.js#Add_link_to_search. -- Superchilum( talk to me!) 10:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
All discussions on Talk:Robert Downey Jr. are supposed to be archived after 180 days (at least, if I'm reading the template right):
{{User:MiszaBot/config | algo = old(180d) | archive = Talk:Robert Downey, Jr./Archive %(counter)d | counter = 1 | maxarchivesize = 150K | archiveheader = {{Automatic archive navigator}} | minthreadstoarchive = 1 | minthreadsleft = 4 }}
However, there's a lot of old discussions there, from anywhere between 2012 and 2016. Can anyone see why the bot isn't doing its work? Thanks! rchard2scout ( talk) 13:42, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
| archive = Talk:Robert Downey Jr./Archive %(counter)d
with no comma.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Let's say there is a cite:
{{cite web |title=USS Zumwalt |website=Naval Vessel Register |url={{NVR url|DDG-1000}} |accessdate=1 October 2016}}
Currently my bot (running off-site) is unable to parse the |url=
because it downloads the wikisource as plain text and doesn't know what {{
NVR url}}
is or how it would expand. {{NVR url}}
is just an example, there are dozens+ templates known and unknown. Is there an API (ideally) that can parse wikicode? I can't imagine using a sandbox to post the template and reading the output the volume would be high. --
Green
C 14:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Recently I have been getting an unexpected message saying "Do you want to leave this site? changes you made may not be saved Leave/stay" in a little pale blue box top centre when I hit the preview or publish buttons from source edit, This happans for both firefox and chrome on Windows 10. Clicking on leave works fine, there is no loss of edit and the preview and save work as expected. Has this happened to anyone else? · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 21:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
<references />
block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references />
or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}}
template. If you edit a different wiki, you can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
[5]— User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
I've got Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary checked in my preferences. Is there some way to get checking the This is a minor edit box count as entering a summary? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:50, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
if(wpMinoredit=document.getElementById("wpMinoredit")){wpMinoredit.onclick = function() {if(wpMinoredit.checked) {document.getElementById("wpSummary").value += " (minor edit)";}}}
I have plans on reviving Wikiproject West Bengal. Most of the participants there have left Wikipedia. Is there a way to get the names of all users who edit that particular topic so that I will be able to send invitations শুভ দোলযাত্রা — F R ™ 10:21, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
hello how to active this js in autowikibrowser-- Monorodo ( talk) 06:04, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Thursday (UTC) just being over, I see that we now have extra-long edit summaries. Do we wish to encourage comments like this which occupy more than five lines in my watchlist? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:13, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Looking to see if it's possible to offset cells on a table, for example, the top row has 2 cells (cols), the second row has 3 cells (cols), is it possible to center the top row on the second row (and if so, with mark up or some other means?)
R1/C1 | R1/C2 | |
R2/C1 | R2/C2 | R2/C3 |
R1/C1 | R1/C2 |
R2/C1 | R2/C2 | R2/C3 |
Example 1 is what I'm seeking to adjust. Example 2 is to demonstrate how I want the top row of cells offset/centered on the second row (and what is being used right now in some articles ad hoc), but I would like to do this with a single table, is possible. Thanks - theWOLFchild 16:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
R1/C1-3 | R1/C4-6 | ||||
R2/C1-2 | R2/C3-4 | R2/C5-6 |
|link=
in the ribbon images to link to the ribbon's article:
{{
ribbon devices}}
would need to be tweaked to support article links in the images that it creates.Another (related) question, why does this work, and automatically without any additional mark-up, on ribbon boards (eg: award images), but not on tables with text (eg: award names)...? Thanks again - theWOLFchild 22:22, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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I was trying to crop this image to emphasize the real subject, the caribou swimming in the river. I thought I had done that, and uploaded a new version, but when I was done could still see the top of the yellow tent for some reason. So I did it again, and the same thing happened again. In the revision history the thumbnails look like exactly what I was going for, but for some reason the actual image keeps displaying with part of the tent visible, about halfway between what it originally was and what I was attempting. I waited a few minutes in case it was some sort of server lag issue but that didn’t do it either. I’m so confused right now. Beeblebrox ( talk) 19:10, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi
Can someone tell me why Visual Editor is blocked for all of the Wikipedia: namespace, it would be very helpful for Wikiprojects if it was enabled, especially when using tables.
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 17:52, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminders @ Izno:, @ Ahecht: and @ Black Kite:, can you tell me if there is a Wikiproject: namespace on en.wiki? I really need to create some Wikiproject pages that use VE. John Cummings ( talk) 19:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
John Cummings, just try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Notability&veaction=edit . This works in easy steps.
ManosHacker talk 18:58, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
When I try to reach [8] or [9], I get:
"Hmmm...can’t reach this page Try this Make sure you’ve got the right web address: https://dispenser.info.tm Search for " https://dispenser.info.tm" on Bing Refresh the page Details". Please {{ ping}} me when you respond. -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 21:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
The current system with user scripts is admirable. However, it becomes quite regular that users use the scripts of others. Editors without the edituserjs right (i.e. not
Administrators) cannot edit the scripts of others. Unfortunately, this has lead to forking of scripts when a new feature is wanted or when the maintainer becomes inactive. Take for example
User:Theopolisme/Scripts/adminhighlighter - based on
User:Amalthea/userhighlighter.js which was in turn based on
User:Ais523/adminrights.js. Then I made this one based on that:
User:Bellezzasolo/Scripts/adminhighlighter. It would be far better to have one centralized script with parameters for custom features. At the same time, there are problems re. vandalism - user scripts are particularly sensitive, especially with malicious code possible.
Possible solutions:
∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 04:35, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Okay, here it is: I'd like to have a tab on pages that allows me to open the VisualEditor directly without having to open the source editor first and then switching. I know that this can be achieved by appending something to the URL, so what I now need is to add a tab to the page to take me directly there. Can someone with the technical skills tell me the code to use? Regards So Why 13:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/There'sNoTime currently looks like this:
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Is somebody hacking it? The interference has been getting worse over the course of the afternoon. 92.8.223.244 ( talk) 15:14, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Instead, it will only display the same mobile view with different proportion.
On Firefox, though, it will initially show the same, but then redirect you to the actual desktop view.
Is this a bug of Chrome or MediaWiki?-- fireattack ( talk) 01:37, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Can someone please take a look at this issue I brought up a few days ago? Thanks! – Srdjan m ( talk) 10:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
I've noticed that the quality of PNG rendering has improved dramatically sometime in the last few months, and thumbnails are no longer blurred. However, is it just my imagination or have JPGs gotten a lot worse? I do a lot of work cleaning up logos, and whenever I remove the artefacts from a JPG and save at a reasonable compression I'm disappointed by the low quality of the images rendered in article space. (I realize that such small logos should probably be converted to PNG files rather than JPG.) The additional compression applied by the Mediawiki software when serving images at non-native sizes is understandable with large images but pretty woeful when it comes to smaller images, especially those smaller than 100,000 megapixels (such a Fair Use logos). It seems to me that, given the already small file sizes, it's hardly worth applying additional compression at all. Where can I look at the technical specifications and maybe stick my oar in? nagual design 03:16, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
When I see the contribution history of any page (mobile website), all users are "sleeping". 179.228.224.8 ( talk) 22:14, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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I'm (often but not always) having problems editing pages. Sometimes the cursor is displaced horizontally or veryically or both from where I am actually editing; sometimes the text I have typed is randomly rearranged (the beginning of this message curfently reads "I'm (ofte nbu tnot always) havgpro niblems editing pages", but I'm pretty sure I typed it correctly). Sometimes when I view the preview it has randomwly inserted newlines, so that part of my message appears monospaced. I've taken to saving the text and then going back and correcting the typos, because that's the only way I can get it to work. I'm using Firefox 58.0.2 on two different Windows machines, and I've looked at my editing preferences in WP, and can't see anything that looks relevant.
Going back into editing after reviewing the text, I see that the first line displays correctly in review, but still appears as I copied it above in the edit window.
Help!-- ColinFine ( talk) 10:37, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
&safemode=1
to the edit url? If you log out? What is your skin at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering?
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)@ ColinFine: The 2017 wikitext editor and syntax highlight beta features can sometimes do weird things when used together. Are you using the syntax highlighting beta feature? -- Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 10:48, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
We wanted to take a moment to update you all about a reader-focused feature called Page Previews, which has also been popular as a Beta Feature among editors. The Readers web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on a few things we’d like to share. Most recently we:
Other improvements:
If you haven’t already, you can enable the feature in your preferences under Appearance. Feedback on how things are working for you is welcome. The HTML endpoint change was deployed just last week and we’re very excited to see the improvements. We’re expecting some smaller bugs and edge cases, so please let us know if you notice something out of order. You can find out more about the feature on MediaWiki.org.
Thank you, CKoerner (WMF) ( talk) 20:59, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Several weeks ago I noticed I no longer get an edit tab for the lede (as I had long selected in my Preferences); to edit a lede I have to open the whole article. Any reason why? Also, about the same time I no longer have the drop-down Insert tab under the edit window that gives me a choice of Symbols, Latin, etc.; I get a box with everything (almost?) in it. I use the Vector skin, and had not made an changes to my preferences in a while. And now I don't even see (because I'm blind??) a check box for an edit tab on the lede. Anyone know what's going on here? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 21:58, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I can't seem to find the delete button in the "More" drop-down anymore. If I refresh a page quickly it's there and I can click on it and get the delete page, but if I let it load, it disappears. Could it be one of the scripts I've got? Anarchyte ( work | talk) 09:42, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Page logs… Analysis… Tools… Latest diff Purge cache Subpages
Page logs… Analysis… Tools… Delete page Latest diff Merge page Move page Protect page Purge cache Subpages
Meanwhile, even under "Page" the links are missing for PrimeHunter in the Vector skin while using Firefox. Can you try clearing your browser cache (or try in Firefox's "Private browsing")? All the links show up for me, in Chrome and Firefox. It's possible MoreMenu somehow has a cached version where it doesn't think you're an admin. — MusikAnimal talk 16:18, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Unrelated, you say clearing the cache by itself didn't do the trick, which tells me that issue probably isn't MoreMenu, because it caches using localStorage. Maybe something with ResourceLoader... who knows! — MusikAnimal talk 17:56, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
This feature is to be primarily used in collapsible assistive boxes, not in articles, although one could find such a functionality useful to build collapsible serial map boxes for metro lines, where hide/show clickables, if used instead, would mess the box and annoy as the only clickable area to do expand/contract.
Hover highlighting is useful (or needed) in Template:user sandbox+ ( granted) tool which renders like this User:ManosHacker/sandbox in English and like this el:Χρήστης:ManosHacker/πρόχειρο in Greek. There is quite a difference between the two, to catch the eye and the will to play.
Hover highlighting code, used in Greek Wikipedia, is placed in Mediawiki:Common.js and is given below.
$('.hover-bgc').hover( function() { $(this).attr("data-hover-bgc-original", $(this).css("background-color")) var parentSpec = $(this).parent('.hover-bgc-parent').attr('data-hover-bgc-child'); $(this).css({ "background-color" : ((typeof parentSpec !== typeof undefined) && (parentSpec !== false)) ? parentSpec : $(this).attr('data-hover-bgc') }); }, function() { $(this).css({ "background-color" : $(this).attr('data-hover-bgc-original') }); });
If you have a look in Template:Cheatsheet and el:Πρότυπο:Εργαλειοθήκη to compare, you will see a difference while hovering above the text of collapsible headers. By highlighting on hover, the reader gets a hint to click. For another demonstration, check el:Πρότυπο:Συγγραφή λήμματος (also in Greek) which is a collapsible help with sub-levels. There is no hint to click the collapsible, if hover highlighting is absent. And what about building a collapsible help, where click is done upon collapsible headers that reveal videos of 15 seconds each, to immediately assist an editor giving specific editing instructions? (coming soon)
I think it would be assistive to implement it in English. ManosHacker talk 11:26, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
<div class='hover-bgc' data-hover-bgc='#e5f0fe'>►hover over me</div>
T188215 is said to be fixed in MediaWiki 1.31.0-wmf.23, which has been dpployed to all Wikipedias as of 1 March. However, I am still getting the same bug: When both the 2017 wikitext editor ("new wikitext mode") and syntax highlighting are enabled, I get invisible text on image pages. (Note: A workaround is to simply refresh the page, unless two edit tabs are enabled in preferences.)
Is anyone else still getting this bug? Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 23:37, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Since today, whenever I try to use the visual editor it will sporadically delete, move, link, italicize, or add spaces to parts of the article. This video should show what I'm talking about. User:Itsquietuptown reported a similar problem here. –User Dude 02:32, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Guys, could someone remind me, how to get page ID via API if I have page title? Did look trough action=query, but didn't find the right option. Actually, I would like to get page IDs for all pages linked from this page (specifically Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/*** pages), but specific query for one page will be ok. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 18:33, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Has anyone else been having problems today adding pages to, and removing pages from, their watchlist? It started happening to me for no apparent reason at around 21:00 UTC, 7 March 2018 (I don't often have the need to do this regularly, so it's been probably at least a week since I've have to change my watchlist before today). I tried to add about 10 pages in a row (opened in different tabs) to my watchlist via the star-click method and the vast majority failed, giving a "An error occurred while changing your watchlist setting…" pop-up message. Retried, and all or almost all failed again. I tried using the Alt-Shift-w keyboard shortcut, same thing. Tried logging out and logging back in, same thing. Occasionally one attempt would work, but the majority of times failed with the same error message. Since the problem was intermittent (in particular, sometimes working), I figured it wasn't just a problem with the configuration of my browser (FF 52.4.0 on Gentoo Linux) or my particular wiki account, so I reported the issue at the Phabricator ( phab:T189160); more details can be found there. Given that no one seems to be talking about this here at VPT or at VPM, it doesn't appear to be a widespread problem, but I figured I'd post about it here, anyway. It's still happening as I post this, although the failure rate is way down (looks like waiting just a few seconds after a failed attempt is enough now to allow for a success; that wasn't true even a few hours ago). - dcljr ( talk) 05:17, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I started using STiki today. Apparently, despite me attempting to revert only one edit, it is reverting the edit I intend to revert and the edit after that without my agreement. I had to go back and undo these changes. It seems strange for STiki not to work. I pressed Vandalism when I found vandalism and it reverted that edit and the edit after that. Why is this happening? I had to stop using this tool as I can't continue if it is blindly reverting without my agreement. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 21:25, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't know if this was brought up before, but the title of certain infoboxes is not center-aligned on mobile. It seems to break depending on which {{
Infobox}} parameter is used to make the title. When you use "above", like in {{
Infobox person}}, it's fine (see
Albert Camus –
screenshot), but when you use "title", like in {{
Infobox company}}, the software seems to think it's a regular table caption and it applies text-align: left;
to it (see
Blizzard Entertainment –
screenshot). –
Srdjan m (
talk) 08:22, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi - I'm experiencing severe problems demonstrating Visual Editor during an editathon event in which we're seeing VE freeze at the 'Publish changes' stage. It will not allow me to switch back from VE to source editing, either.
We have reproduced this issue on two separate Windows machines, and in both Chrome and Firefox. In the latter instance I logged out as me and tried to edit as another autoconfirmed user here who, unlike me, has never changed any of their default settings or installed scripts or activated any beta functions. A third editor also recreated the problem via their account. There was no difference in what we experienced - VE froze. The accounts we edited from were mine, User:Jonxennialuk and User:Mainlymazza.
To reproduce the fault we edited Buxton & Leek College in VE, we tried to copy, cut and then repaste an entire section with its heading into a different part of the article. At times a few letters that we had not typed ourselves also appeared, and we deleted these. At times we lost formatting of the Heading without any user input. On hitting Publish changes the process froze, so we were unable to enter an edit summary. On trying to switch to Source editor we got as far as the 'confirm' you want to switch stage and could go no further; we had to close the programme. The same fault was recreated whilst editing another article in exactly the same manner.
Any ideas? Regards from Derby University's IWD Editathon. Nick Moyes ( talk) 13:38, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
For the second time in as many weeks, I've edit conflicted with myself on ANI. The edit goes through but I get an edit conflict message. Very strange. -- NeilN talk to me 18:05, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Bishzilla was admin in 2008 and 2009, perform some blocks, compare AN thread. See also example of block of specific user. Used to be log of these blocks! Now gone! [19] How that happen? Where is block log? Pre-September 2009 block log by other admins also apparently erased. Why history erased? Especially considering old blocks still logged under blocked user. Is bug? Now look like Jimbo Wales never blocked Bishonen. [20] ( He did, in 2009.) Disgraceful! bishzilla ROARR!! 10:33, 8 March 2018 (UTC).
The problem is fixed. Fram ( talk) 09:05, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I think it could be useful there was a template like the {{ Authority control}} template that included {{ IMDb name}} (IMDb), {{ Find a Grave}} (Find a Grave), {{ MusicBrainz artist}} (MusicBrainz), {{ Discogs artist}} (Discogs) and {{ Wikidata entity link}} (Wikidata) identifiers.
As I see it the authority control is a kind of navigation bar to other websites, specifically those that catalogue people, books and the like. It is clearly intended to assist identification of the subject. For various reasons related to reliability a number of indexes have been excluded, possibly due to reliability, although ORCID is also user-generated and is included.
Imdb is listed at the bottom of almost every article about an actor, it would make sense to have a template similar to Authority control but for biographies of people in the entertainment industry. I also don't see why there are links to all the library databases except ours, adding wikidata seems completely logical, especially as that is where the data is coming from. By having a set template, it would be easier to stop the proliferation of external links (often used as a store for promotional material), because the section would not be needed to link to IMDb/etc. It would also be easier to add the same template to all actors/musicians, and display better for people that are both. Prince of Thieves ( talk) 10:39, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
A researcher wrote to Wikimedia asking for help identifying the creation date of an article.
I responded that we typically equate the creation date to the date of the first edit.
I was slightly surprised I didn't find anything formally stating this.
I can think of a couple things to be concerned about if one adopted this is a rule (the intention, I believe, is to do a statistical analysis of the entire set of articles).
Are there other important classes of articles that could be an issue? In the case of deleted and restored articles typically the history is preserved so I don't see an issue there.
I would also urge the researcher to think about the definition of an article. For example, I believe we have more redirects than articles, and deciding to count redirects as articles would have major implications on average edits per article, for example. S Philbrick (Talk) 21:26, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
1. Read this:
2. Sign up at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ using a different user name and password (not the one you use here). You may create multiple accounts if you like, just put a note on their user pages.
3. Edit a page and put a username link in edit summary. Confirm that you are receiving the notification correctly.
4. Test at different pages and in different ways.
5. Report bugs to Phabricator.
6. Share this comment with other people on other wikis, in different languages.
-- Gryllida ( talk) 23:33, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Over the years many issues have been discovered from our engineering colleagues regarding the Education Extension, including security concerns. For this reason, and with a viable alternative platform available, we are starting the process to deprecate the extension and having it uninstalled where it has been activated. This includes this wiki Special:Courses.
This means that the following steps will be taken:
It should be noted that data of previous programs that ran on the Education Extension will remain safe, and we are working on documenting how to access that data.
Thus, we invite all Education Program Leaders (and users of the Education Extension) to take the online training for the dashboard so that you can benefit from this tool and make your work easier.
Did you know you can also use the P&E Dashboard at edit-a-thons, writing competitions, and other Wiki-based activities? More training courses for the dashboard are available here, so take a look!
Do you need to communicate with us about this?
-- On behalf of the Education Team 19:56, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
![]() | Please discuss any English Wikipedia concerns here: Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard#NOTICE:_EducationProgram_extension_is_being_deprecated |
Is there some standard forum for reporting bugs with the Wikipedia software itself? Specifically, I'm looking for a place to report the bug described at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Typography#Apparent_bug_in_rendering_\operatorname* -- The Anome ( talk) 19:31, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
\operatorname*
is replaced with \operatorname {*}
by the texvc "validation". My suggested fix is to get rid of the broken validation. @
Whatamidoing (WMF): Is there a way to influence the plans to include math as an area for improvements?--
Debenben (
talk) 22:53, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Over the last few months we've seen a number of reports at the Teahouse that our page does not display properly in iOS, and especially that our "Ask a Question" tool doesn't work on iOS devices. See here, and here. I can certainly confirm this to be the case, having first reported it myself in December 2017. The screenshot shown here was taken today, and is no different from how it displayed back then.
On clicking the blue "Ask a Question" form, it's possible to enter text into the "Subject" line, but there is no access to the box to complete the question text itself, and, as can be seen, other elements of the page overlap one another. - a real mess. I can also confirm that if I log in from my alternative account User:NM Demo (which uses only the default settings any newly signed up person would have), the problem is also seen there, too.
The issue is of special concern because new users who want to ask a question simply won't have sufficient knowledge to know what to do once the Teahouse's own form fails them. I'd really appreciate it if this could be investigated. Regards from the Teahouse, Nick Moyes ( talk) 10:51, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a
user talk namespace template message to notify editors to update the |access-date=
parameter in citing templates, such as {{
cite web}}? --
Alex
TW 11:57, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
|access-date=
: Full date when the content pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article [...] Note that access-date is the date that the URL was found to be working and to support the text being cited.This means that the parameter needs to be updated whenever the statistics are as well. For editors that do not do this, a user talk namespace template message would be handy; I was wondering if anything like this already existed. If it didn't, I was planning to create it. -- Alex TW 12:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I was tipped to use this: {{button|{{int:publishchanges}}}}
, to show Publish changes all right. Could someone give a link to int:
documentation (help, WP, mw, ...). Likely it will also lead to the available options (like this 'publishchanges'). -
DePiep (
talk) 10:19, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
{{int:publishchanges}}
displays
MediaWiki:publishchanges in the reader's interface language, e.g.
MediaWiki:publishchanges/de if you select "de - Deutsch" at
Special:Preferences. Any pagename in the MediaWiki namespace can be used.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:09, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
__TOC__
, but built in parser functions of form {{int:}}
with no #
are also sometimes called magic words. Extensions like
mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions can add more parser functions with #
like {{#if:}}
. Such added parser functions are not called magic words.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 17:38, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
[[MediaWiki:Lang/XX]]
, where XX
is a language code, contains XX
. That means {{int|lang}}
is replaced with XX, where XX is the language code for the current user. For example, if your user language preference is French (or if ?uselang=fr
is used in the URL), {{int|lang}}
would be fr. That happens because
c:MediaWiki:Lang/fr contains fr so lang is translated to fr for French.
phab:T4085 is relevant.
Johnuniq (
talk) 22:10, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
int
is from "interface", not "i18n" nor "integer". -
DePiep (
talk) 00:29, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
{{int:...}}
function at Commons is exactly the same as it is here, at meta, wiktionary and
all the others. At none of them does it mean integer; and I don't know where that i18n comes from. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 11:45, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Template:USS seems to have suddenly broke. For example, see USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Is there a template editor or knowledgeable admin than can take a look? This is affecting every ship article right now. - theWOLFchild 19:08, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Need an explanation, or perhaps a pointer elsewhere. How can I check that a supplied date/time string is in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format? Presumably with a suitable regex, but I can't find any parser functions for that. Do I have to dip into Lua? Is there a module for that? (I know regex, but having trying to avoid having to learn Lua.) ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 00:46, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{#time:Y-m-d H:i:s|TIME}}|TIME|yes|no}}
work.
{{3x|p}}ery (
talk) 01:30, 11 March 2018 (UTC){{extract|2001-2-1 14:30:25|show=format}}
→ ymdIf you use anything other than a plain regular expression, there is a danger the function will have limitations you didn't think about, like failing for dates before AD 100, regarding 29 February 1900 as invalid, etc. A full statement of the requirements is called for. Jc3s5h ( talk) 02:24, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
There is a rendering problem with this article, basically the title carries on way off the screen breaking the format and creating a bottom scrollbar where there would not be one normally, but the rest of the page stops short at it's normal breakpoint, leaving the title projecting on it's own. Prince of Thieves ( talk) 01:15, 12 March 2018 (UTC) ~
We used to be able to go to an account and look at all contribs in a certain year. Now we have to fiddle with a calendar and add start and end year, month and day. Does anyone know why this was changed, and is it possible to get the old interface back? SarahSV (talk) 04:33, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
<input />
or <select>...</select>
elements to the existing form. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:04, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
I'm looking for a solution to parse the {{Location map~}} templates. So from
{{Location map+|England|width=300|caption=Example.|float=right |places= {{Location map~ |England |label=[[Battle of Blore Heath|Blore Heath]] |label_size=86 |position=top |lat=52.913611 |long=-2.424722 |mark=Battle_icon_(crossed_swords).svg |marksize=16 }} {{Location map~ |England |label=[[Battle of Tewkesbury|Tewkesbury]] |label_size=86 |position=top |lat=51.986389 |long=-2.161389 |mark=Battle_icon_(crossed_swords).svg |marksize=16 }} }}
I would like to get out all label=, lat= and long= tags. Do you know any linux commandline tool, which could do this? Sorry if that's not obvious to me.-- Lazy Eight ( talk) 07:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
grep lat|sed '/lat/s/.*| *lat *= *\([^}|]*\).*$/lat=\1/g' |grep lat= grep long|sed '/lat/s/.*| *long *= *\([^}|]*\).*$/long=\1/g' |grep long=
But label broke due to the pipes in the link Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 10:17, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
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I see updated since my last visit in a lot of edit summeries. What does that mean? Is there some piece of automated software that's inserting that? It's a pretty useless edit summary, since it doesn't give somebody scanning the history any clue what changed, or why. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:51, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
.updatedmarker {display: none;}
Sorrowfully, I can't seem to find instructions for enlarging text in the edit window. I'll appreciate any help that comes in that regard. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 05:55, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
textarea { font-family: sans-serif; }
Graeme Bartlett (
talk) 06:18, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Just dropping by to let y'all know that there's an issue relating to line-height that might be of interest to anyone watching this page. – Srdjan m ( talk) 15:38, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Not sure if it's just me but my thanks doesn't seem to be working?
I go to thank someone (it then says thanked as it should) but then when I thank someone else on the same page it doesn't do anything and then when I reload the page the edit I thanked no longer says "thanked" (I just have the option to rethank basically),
Thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk 00:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
.mw-thanks-thank-link {display: none;}
I've put this in a subsection so as not to pollute the discussion of the above serious error, but I'd still be interested in an eventual answer to this, which was touched on above. While the thanks "links" on this page history for the thanks I just made today, above, still show as an unlinked "thanked" no matter how many times I refresh or purge, if I revisit the page histories for the thanks I sent yesterday the link has reverted to a blue-linked "thank", with the opportunity to do it again. Is this how it's supposed to work (ie the links revert after a period of time)? -- Begoon 02:27, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Unrelated, I love that Nihlus just Thanked me for removing Thanks =p — MusikAnimal talk 02:51, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm guessing this issue arose today; all my thanks in the log from yesterday and earlier appear to be correct. Guess I'm glad I didn't try to thank anyone today. Home Lander ( talk) 02:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
I'm presenting problems with the thanks feature too. In the article's history the thank option disappeared from the edits, and reads as (undo | ). Only those edits I have thanked before appear as (undo | thanked). I noticed that in the Spanish Wikipedia my option is shown normally. -- Jamez42 ( talk) 03:24, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
I've been thinking a lot about the gender gap on Wikipedia recently and would like to understand if there is a relationship between the gender of a biography articleand article deletions. Is there a way to know the gender of the subject of deleted biography articles?
The question I'd most like to understand is are biographies about women more or less likely to get deleted? and if there is a large difference, why does this happen.
Also related questions:
Is the data to do this research available? And if so how ould it be collected?
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 14:29, 13 March 2018 (UTC) (@ Victuallers: who may be interested.) John Cummings ( talk) 08:32, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Does anybody have any idea why I seem to have moved the same pair of pages twice within the same minute? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:24, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there any way to discard the "unsaved changes" of the visual editor. It's all very well that it saves them, but here am I, using VE for the automatic citation filler, then copyediting in source to use LDRs. Then, VE wants to revert those changes because they weren't made under VE. This is a problem, and could catch out somebody who discarded changes for a reason. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 19:56, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi I wanted refill on Marathi Wikipedia but I don't find the way out for it. I requested for it's translation on it's Transifex page yet no response. Can anyone create a version of it for Marathi Wikipedia? I and the community is ready to help in translation and templates needed. -- ✝iѵɛɳ२२४० †ลℓк †๏ мэ 05:51, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Mvolz (WMF) and Whatamidoing (WMF): I have prepared the template data and seen that the templates are working fine. Hope y'all make the further necessary changes for citoid. -- ✝iѵɛɳ२२४० †ลℓк †๏ мэ 09:56, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Im trying to add pronunciation help to an article, in the form of a phonemic transcription using IPA, like this: ( /ˈkɒns.tənˌt[invalid input: 'a']ɪn/). It all works, except the a -- whether I use the cheat-sheet or copy the character from another good source. Where am I going wrong, please? I'm using Safari 11.0.3. Thanks -- Frans Fowler ( talk) 02:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I recently discovered that these shortcuts don't work in source code editor. I remembered them to work before. The weirder is, if you turned on syntax highlighting, upon pressing, say, ctrl+I, you can visually see the selected text became italic and then immediately changed back to normal.
I'm using Google Chrome. I have this problem on Chinese Wikipedia as well, tested logged in and logged out (to make sure it's not caused by non-default gadgets). -- fireattack ( talk) 15:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I am needing the help of a French speaking Wikipedian. On French Wikipedia, user Angela Criss is an obvious sockpuppet of Jack Gaines ( talk · contribs). As I do not speak French, could someone please inform any French Wikipedia admins as to the user's doings, and ask them to protect any articles pertaining to Alan Jackson? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 23:48, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Greetings,
The ability to notify other users in edit summaries will be available later this week, on 15 March 2018. Other users can be notified if a link to their user page is provided in an edit summary. Some user-made gadgets and scripts that automatically put user names in edit summaries may need to be changed to put a colon in the link, such as [[:User:Example]]. You can change how you receive these mention notifications in your preferences. This feature was highly requested in the 2017 Community Wishlist survey, and feedback is welcome.
Thanks, happy editing to you. - Keegan (WMF) ( talk) 21:09, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
I know there must have been plenty of people who have proposed this before, but I would like to know if the interface could be modified to allow editors to change their edit summaries after they have saved the edit, rather than having to make a new edit where they don't do anything (or as it is sometimes called, a "null edit") just to modify their last edit summary. On a project otherwise defined by an almost complete ability to modify content after it has been posted, it seems odd that no one can change their own edit summaries (but of course you shouldn't be able to change others', just your own). Every morning (there's a halo...) 03:55, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
There's a script called JWB.js that is a partial port of AWB to JavaScript. I've been looking over its source code, and I can't find the interface text. There are phrases included on the screen when the program runs, but a search of the source code does not reveal them. For example: "Enter list of pages:" is part of the interface, but it's nowhere in the source code. The same goes for the other text displayed in the program's various frames. None of it seems to be in the source code, or in the program's css page. It's got to be coming from somewhere. But where? — The Transhumanist 07:09, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
First, this is not a proposal; do not !vote on it. This is a question for anyone who has a good idea how the Wikimedia software works regarding whether something would be technically possible, as well as the difficulty level required.
Would it be possible to put a system in place which does the following:
Some information if there are any technical or legal roadblocks to the implementation of such a system would be great. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 09:14, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Normally, I only watch pages that I have edited. Occasionally, something will show up on my watchlist and I have no recollection of why I might be interested in the page, but after checking the history of the page, its talk page, and their logs, an explanation surfaces. So, it's something of a puzzle as to why this edit has shown on my watchlist. I can't find evidence of me editing the page. Insects aren't my thing either - they creep me out. This is not the first page that is watched w/o explanation. Any ideas? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:24, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
This diff page shows my long edit summary wrapping so as to not run way off the end of the page. However, this permalink page shows that same edit summary running way off the end of the page, and the same occurs when viewing this edit in my watchlist or contributions page. Is this a bug (and if so, has a Phabricator report already been filed)? Has this always been the case and I just didn't notice because I don't normally use long edit summaries without spaces? Regardless, it is an issue that needs fixing. Master of Time (talk) 23:31, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi all!
mw:Extension:Graph allows to draw graphs and charts and variously sized and colored points on maps. Documentation appears to be lacking using Vega 2 library. Vega
version 3.0 documentation is not very introductory level.
Do we have volunteers who could expand the extension documentation to include an explanation of how its features work, starting from hello world and gradually increasing complexity? And or volunteers to update the extension to Vega 3?
Specifically what interests me is the ability to create timelines spanning across several days with events with hours and minutes. I had tried this at mw:User:Gryllida/sandbox (starting from mw:Extension:Graph/Demo#Timeline_/_lifeline) but could not figure out how it should work. No error message has been produced. -- Gryllida ( talk) 02:08, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
from
and to
cannot be nil
or equal.? -
Gryllida (
talk) 11:00, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I tried to perform a WP:HISTSPLIT on Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2018_March_10#File:Taisekiji_Hoanden.JPG. Everything worked fine, except the last stage - restoring. I want to restore these revisions, but depending on which revisions I select, I am either faced with this or this error. Any clue what's going on? I've done file splits many times on Commons. But I think this is the first time I've tried on enwiki. Cheers, Reh man 02:00, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there any template which will test whether a string is a decade? Or parser code to do the same job?
I want something which will return a true/non-null for a valid decade (e.g. "1830s", "560s") but return a false/null value for a non-decade (e.g. "1741", "1920x", "sdsjjdh").
Any suggestions? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:28, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
{{#invoke:String|match|{{{DateWhichMayBeaDecade|}}}|^%d%d%d0s$|ignore_errors=true}}
{{#invoke:String|match|{{{DateWhichMayBeaDecade|}}}|^%d?%d?%d?0s$|ignore_errors=true}}
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 17:58, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
[12]%d%d0s$
to catch transposition errors like "9180s". –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 01:50, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Would it be possible to receive details about failed login attempts beyond "this happened"...?
It'd be useful to know what password they tried to use. For example, if you can tell they're just trying common passwords (e.g. password
, 123456
, etc), then you shouldn't have much to worry about. If they're using your older passwords, then you need to change your password immediately.
It'd also be useful for at least CUs (if not others) to know what IP address was used in the attempt.
Ian.thomson ( talk) 14:00, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
The_Immortal_Ten has a thumbnail in the top right of the page with obviously reversed colors. The original file at [34] looks fine, and there is a thumbnail on the image page that looks fine. I'm not sure if this is a Wikimedia bug, or if the thumbnail needs to be regenerated, but I'm not seeing an obvious way to fix this myself. Wingedsubmariner ( talk) 16:51, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
For Wikimédia France, 0x010C developed the tool Events calendar. The Events calendar is a common calendar, that can be used by anyone to share events having some connection with the Wikimedia movement. The central calendar, displayed on m:Events calendar contain all the events, while each project page can display his own, through a filter system.
The events calendar can be used on any other pages, with location or tag filters enabled. For example, it can be used to display all events of a given user-group, taking place in a city ( Paris) or linked with a given subject ( Wikisource).
It is possible to export a set of events in the iCalendar file format.
The event calendar can be viewed and used directly by anybody, connected or not, but its functionalities are limited to the features described in the template's documentation. To unlock the ability to navigate between months, to dynamically change the view or filter the events, and the easily manage events (add new ones, edit or delete existing), you will have to copy-paste those two lines in your common.js:
Pyb ( talk) 21:05, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
{{Events calendar|tags=1Lib1Ref|locations=Greece}}
for exemple, to show only 1Lib1Ref events in Greece. As others also filters their calendar, it won't show up on the calendar of people looking for events in France. It won't appear either on the Wikisource UserGroup's calendar, as they filter to show only Wikisource-related events in all countries (
meta:Wikisource Community User Group/Events). See
meta:Template:Events calendar for other examples.Hello, I have done many cleanups in which image was being used in infobox inappropriately like this. Can such tasks be performed across wiki by a bot? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 04:46, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
In Upper Twin Falls Bridge, there are two overlapping and slightly offset coordinates links in the upper-right corner (Firefox 52.6.0 on CentOS 7, vector skin). {{coord}} is in {{Infobox NRHP}} which is embedded in {{Infobox bridge}}. Since the coords are repeated in both infoboxes, would that be part of the cause? Chris857 ( talk) 16:06, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
How do I obtain my own logged in username? The userspace linking templates require you to manually enter a username. Three tildes will get me my signature, but how can I automatically get just my logged in username? Thanks, Buaidh 22:50, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
will produce it when you save. For what purpose?
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:20, 20 March 2018 (UTC){{subst:User}}
. You need someting to keep the right code on the template page itself, e.g. {{sub<noinclude></noinclude>st:REVISIONUSER}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:56, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
{{Sign in}}
, where my version will display ugly code. If {{subst:Sign in}}
is used as required then the two versions should behave the same.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Hi all, per instructions at Phabricator, I'm stopping to inquire here first; I'm well out of my depth on this and would be grateful for guidance.
I appear to be encountering a bug that is now repeatedly adding extra blank lines to the same spot in one entry ( 1, 2, 3). I'm editing in browser Firefox Quantum 58.0.2. If I'm tracking this correctly, it's only when I use the Visual Editor, although I was working on the same entry earlier in the day and this had not been happening, even on Visual Editor.
Might someone be willing, firstly, to cast a second set of eyes to make sure there's not some straightforward issue I'm overlooking, and if not, then assist me in properly reporting the matter (whether that's at Phabricator or wherever the appropriate place might be)? Much obliged! Innisfree987 ( talk) 00:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
is there any tools or way to extract only Infobox settlement from pages and save in txt. i want save infobox of citys of india in txt and run by bot to create article.-- Monorodo ( talk) 20:11, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
A keyboard shortcut to display another editor's 'User contributions' whilst on their User Page or their Talk page would seem to be incredibly useful and save a lot of fiddly mouse/finger movement and scrolling down. The link to Special:Contributions is buried half-way down the left hand side of the page in Tools, yet is one of the most frequent page links I use. I can only find one proposal of this nature on Phabricator, but it relates to Huggle. Have I missed something obvious, or would others see this as meriting a Phabricator proposal? Nick Moyes ( talk) 10:52, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
Infoboxes have been uniformly appearing for me at the top of the page, aligned left, pushing the lede down and off of my screen. Example image shown:
This can't possibly be the expected behavior, right? Viewing the desktop site in google chrome. Cheers,
Tazerdadog (
talk) 06:50, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
What is the "later revisions" menu supposed to do? If I'm at this diff page and select "7 days forward" from the "later revisions" menu, the page refreshes, but I'm left at the same diff URL. The "former revisions" menu works as I expect, taking me back that many versions or amount of time. Is this broken, or am I just not grokking how it's supposed to work? I'm sure this is some optional feature I turned on at some point, but I don't remember which feature it was. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:30, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Not sure where I got the impression that this should already be the case, but apparently it is not so. The idea is that Unprintworthy redirects (or at least Redirects from incorrect names) should not appear as autocomplete suggestions when a user types in the search bar. This is because while these redirects are useful for redirecting users who type in the query to the correct article, they are confusing as suggestions to the general user. Discussions from 2012 and 2013 don't seem to indicate consensus. Has there been more recent discussions on this? Should this be filed as a bug? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 23:04, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
I am finding the menu items to do a move of the current page, and to delete the current page, missing from the page menu. Nor are they under any other menu or sub-menu. I assume that some change has broken some script I have in my js or css page. I would like advice on this point. Has anyone else experienced such an issue? I am editing from Firefox 59.0.1. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 20:31, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't know how to display code name of user language on
Special:Preferences, such as {{UILANGCODE}}
#1 in Translatewiki.net. I find a previous talk page about it in
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive AU#Magic Word for My Preferences Language. But it isn't the answer I am looking for.
My question is, for example, if "template:abcdef" had some subpages (e.g. "/ar" or "/zh") as below, what value should I put in field "UILANGCODE"?
{{#ifexist: |{{Template:abcdef/{{UILANGCODE}}}} |{{Template:abcdef/{{UILANGCODE}}}} |{{Template:abcdef}} }}
Could somebody help me about this? Thanks. -- Garam ( talk) 11:13, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
{{int:Lang}}
to get the language code. I don't know whether they have a policy about what to use it for.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:47, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
After a long period of sleep I wanted to reactivate my bot for Teahouse archival notification (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Tigraan-testbot for details) to get it run on WMF servers as a cron job. However, the documentation to getting a bot run on the servers is quite hard to decipher. If someone could give me a step-by-step guide (either here or on my TP) it would be nice. (I already have the source code I want to run, and it would probably pass BRFA easily since it is just a refactoring of the previously-approved task, but I do not have any account on the WMF servers or OAuth key or whatever else is needed to technically run the thing). Tigraan Click here to contact me 20:57, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
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There's an option to hide bots edits from your watchlist in your preferences, and I believe it's on by default. It makes sense; approved bots pretty much always make uncontroversial changes mostly involving maintenance tasks, so you don't want your watchlist to clutter up with those.
But let's imagine a scenario where user A watchlists article P, and user B comes along, adds a maintenance template (like {{
refimprove}}) to the article without the |date=
parameter. And in subsequent edits (or even in the same edit), B also makes some pretty controversial changes. Now MaintenanceBot notices the missing date parameter and adds it.
Problem is, anyone who checks their watchlist after MaintenanceBot made the most recent edit will not see any changes to article P, and user B will (at least for a while) get away with their controversial changes.
One solution is to show the last human edit made since the page was viewed by the watcher, disregarding the most recent edit if it was made by a bot. This seems ideal, but it might be technically hard to implement without breaking something: the rollback button can no longer be displayed on only specific pages on your watchlist.
Another solution is to show bot edits where a human also made changes before the bot edit and after the watcher last saw the page. This is obviously less-than-ideal, but at least it draws attention. Smtchahal ( talk) 04:13, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Paraphrased from wikitech-l and a couple of other posts: On 14 March 2018, cryptocurrency mining software was discovered on fawiki. It was removed and the user responsible globally locked soon after. It appears (from here) that fawiki was configured so that anyone with the template editor right could also edit the MediaWiki namespace, including fa:MediaWiki:Common.js. Any website (particularly those with adverts) could attack users browsing with scripting enabled, and at enwiki, a compromised admin account could attack individuals or everyone with js exploits. Johnuniq ( talk) 04:07, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I edited the page
European Union–South Korea Free Trade Agreement to add a reference named PolletFort2011
, which I invoked from different parts of the article using the ref name="..."
syntax. Other than where it is defined, it is invoked from two places in exactly the same way, but one of them produces the error message Cite error: The named reference PolletFort2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Purging the cache for the page did not help. Is there anything obvious that I am missing? --
Joshua Issac (
talk) 21:24, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
PolletFort2011
is different from PolletFort2011"
with a trailing double quote. --
John of Reading (
talk) 21:34, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi all. I used to work on community Good Article reassessments area years ago and have recently returned. Old community reassessments are archived by Veblenbot. When I was involved I would have to manually update the category listing to open up the next archive. However I am unable to do so now. CBM ( talk · contribs) gave control of the GAR archiving function of Veblenbot to Ruhrfisch, who is no longer able to maintain it (see User talk:Ruhrfisch#WP:GAR needs category list updating.). I found two relevant discussions at the Bot noticeboard ( Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 8#New operator needed for VeblenBot and PeerReviewBot and Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 10#User:VeblenBot) The last good article reassessment that was successfully archived was in April 2015 ( Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Archive 59).
This is obviously a long term problem that may affect other processes (peer review has been mentioned in a few threads). Is it possible to archive these reviews in a different way that doesn't require the manual updating of a bot? @ GamerPro64, BlueMoonset, and Geometry guy: as editors familiar with the problem. AIRcorn (talk) 02:17, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi ya'all!
On my own mediawiki wiki - I added:
And yet template:red which coding is here:
Still looks like this:
why?
I will give you cookies if you answer.
(please)
Infinitepeace ( talk) 11:44, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to show the number of pages in a certain category at a certain time or does that require a tool to record this information beforehand? Specifically, I am under the impression that the amount of pages in Category:Good article nominees awaiting review climbed after WP:ACTRIAL ended (from ~300 last week to 400+ a week later) but I have no idea whether that's correct. Regards So Why 12:52, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
site:/info/en/?search=Category:Good_article_nominees_awaiting_review
, click the green triangle after the url and select "Cached". It currently shows 4 Mar 2018 23:35:11 GMT and says "The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 393 total".
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:30, 21 March 2018 (UTC)recentchanges
table, along with rows for edits, log entries, Wikidata changes, and so on. The watchlist works by looking for entries in recentchanges
that match pages in your watchlist.
Anomie
⚔ 20:58, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Maybe I've missed it, but this category doesn't seem to be populating as of late. Is there some specific process that should be populating it, but isn't? Home Lander ( talk) 22:33, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. How can I find a list of all fonts supported by the Wikipedia code? Leefeni de Karik ( talk) 18:15, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't know how long this has been going on as I always switch to the desktop version on my phone, but I've just noticed that on the mobile site (en.m.wiki) the internal links that appear in dark blue on the desktop site, here appear in washed out blue just like interwiki and external links. I hope this isn't a new feature, I like being able to tell where the link leads at a glance. 93.136.0.248 ( talk) 07:55, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
/* Let's color links based on destination - added by Gryllida */
#mw-content-text a:not(.external):not(.extiw){color:rgb(50,50,150);}
Is it possible to have part of a template, or some of the code of a template appear only to autoconfirmed users (or higher), but not to non-autopatrolled users? I'm thinking whether a message could be built into the AfC decline template indicating to a user that it is optional and giving them the option to move it themselves, but only have it appear if they actually have the user-rights to do the move. (assuming ACTRIAL is approved moving forward). — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 05:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
*-show
classes in our site .css:
sysop-show
templateeditor-show
extendedmover-show
patroller-show
autoconfirmed-show
user-show
span
and div
to wrap content that is only intended to be seen by editors in that group. For example, I see "deleted contribs" and "block user" links in {{
Checkuser}} because I am in group=sysop, but their <span class="sysop-show">...</span>
wrapper would make them invisible for you.
DMacks (
talk) 06:21, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
<span class="sysop-show">Please oversight the last edit on the Donald Trump page, it gives his phone number +66-666-666 in the clear</span>
(
WP:OVERSIGHT must not be requested on public forums).
Tigraan
Click here to contact me 15:51, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
anonymous-show
to show only to logged out users, FYI. We don't appear to have one for autopatrolled users, but we could create one (though I agree that here I think you want autoconfirmed-show
, not autopatrolled :) —
MusikAnimal
talk 19:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
anonymous-show
the antonym of user-show
? I can't think of a simple general way to do the *-hide
effect (show for users not in a certain group).
DMacks (
talk) 19:52, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
.anonymous-show
is hidden, and hence elements with that CSS class are only shown to logged out users. You could do the same for the other user groups. E.g. add .patroller-hide {display: none !important}
to
MediaWiki:Group-patroller.css. Indeed the !important
is important :) so that it overrides other display properties —
MusikAnimal
talk 04:17, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
!important
annotation is a cop-out, it's almost always better to use a more specific selector instead. The problem is this: what happens when you want to override an !important
declaration? There isn't a !more-important
annotation, there are no levels of importance. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:55, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
.unconfirmed-show
. Probably should document these somewhere, since they are scattered across a bunch of CSS files —
MusikAnimal
talk 15:57, 27 March 2018 (UTC).templateeditor-show { ... }
.templateeditor-show:not(.sysop-show) { ... }
If I go to my contribs log, I see nothing. How strange. Server hiccup, right? It still shows in Lupin's popups. talk to !dave 14:41, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Is there any way to turn off the edit summary ping ? .... I'm now being pinged when editors revert to my revision (ie here, I don't want to be notified when an editor reverts to my last revision ..... Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 19:30, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
I notice that the maximum number of items on a watchlist is 1000, which does not show me 30 days of articles. I know this was discussed in August 2017. Is there a plan to fix this issue? -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 14:49, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Ok. This is a little silly. In the past hour we've had:
And those are just the ones that I've seen personally. For those without access, these are just pure garbage, barely intelligible as advertising, and are either procedurally generated by throwaway accounts or such poor translations that they may as well be. Is there an obvious edit filter that would catch these, dear tech savvy people? GMG talk 13:23, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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Does not read in from User:Gryllida/watchlists, needs a debug. -- Gryllida ( talk) 21:05, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
I believe that the following used to work
A | B | C |
---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 |
0 | 4 | 2 |
but now, if you try to click on the edit link, it toggles the sorting instead. is there a way to make the edit link work again? the regular wikilinks appear to work. Frietjes ( talk) 15:44, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
<abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr>
instead of just t
. There is no current option to omit the tooltips but it could be requested at
Template talk:Navbar. Below is an unstable hack to remove the tooltip on t
with {{
replace}} in the call. I don't recommend this method but it shows that it works to remove tooltips. I don't know whether the problem can be solved without removing tooltips.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:26, 27 March 2018 (UTC)A | B | C |
---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 |
0 | 4 | 2 |
abbr
element in order to semantically mark them up as abbreviations.
The title="..."
attributes provide the expansion of those abbreviations; browsers need not display them as tooltips but most do. Screen-reader software uses these attributes in order to speak out the expansion when requested (
Graham87 (
talk ·
contribs) please confirm). --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:21, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
I just read a question at the Teahouse about RfA notices on the Watchlist, which made me realise that two RfA discussions were going on but my watchlist hasn't displayed the notice. I know I saw the notice about Lourdes' RfA, which was the most recent one before these two, so something seems to have happened in between. I have not added any code to my skin.css and I have not unchecked "Display watchlist notices" in my Preferences. What else may I have done to stop the notices from showing up? I'm not a frequent contributor to RfAs, but I do like to get the notifications! -- bonadea contributions talk 15:02, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I made this request a couple of weeks ago at Template talk:Proposed deletion#Proposed deletions needing attention but I guess there is no one watching the page who can help.
Can we have a means of removing pages from Category:Proposed deletions needing attention. I mean without the nuclear option of removing the prod template. Sometimes the new article is on a different subject to the deleted article (eg different person with same name) so the prod is actually valid. There is no obvious way for administrators to process the category when that happens. Spinning Spark 22:47, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Why does this only link to other langs if the article is red linked on WP? As an example, Zoe Cramond does not work, I've tried everything possible. Zoe Cramond only links to en, however if I spell it wrong Zoe Cramod it does the appropriate linking. Is this only available if an article doesn't exist? This seems silly as there are other reasons to use ill for existing articles (outside of article space.) CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 20:29, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
|preserve=
option to get the effect you want, ie {{ill|Zoe Cramond|es|preserve=1}}
generates
Zoe Cramond
Hawkeye7
(discuss) 20:43, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
[[:es:Zoe Cramond]]
producing
es:Zoe Cramond. See
Help:Interlanguage links#Inline links.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 20:55, 28 March 2018 (UTC)I would like to use an ordered-set implementation for Module:Infobox gene over on zh.wp, which is already using a naive dict-based set implementation for merging labels from both "en" and "zh". There is a library available under Artistic License 2.0 on GitHub, but I am not sure whether I can just introduce the library here by copying the entire file over and declaring a license different from CC-BY-SA. Can I have a compatible license declared for in a Lua Module separate from the rest of the site? I would imagine the case is similar to media files... -- Artoria 2e5 contrib 06:54, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
I moved the French town of Puget (a remote French commune) to Puget, Vaucluse in order to create a disamguation page. Now I can't seem to find the French place through my page moves. Any help is appreciated.– Gilliam ( talk) 04:57, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
The space allowed for an edit summary is far too big. See, for example, this one where the spammer has put all his text in the edit summary and nothing in the article. As well as or instead of shortening the summary length it would be possible really clever and put out a warning if the edit summary is a lot longer than the actual edit. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:17, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. I see that that discussion seems to have been closed with a firm intention to reduce the size to 500 bytes. So no further comments needed here. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
(archived without resolution) – Paine Ellsworth put'r there 17:21, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
When we go to Preferences → Gadgets and scroll down to Appearance, the first checkbox is "Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page". When this is checked, and when the "Move section [edit] links to the right side of the screen" preference is also checked, the edit link appears low enough to be sliced by the horizontal line that underscores the page title. This is unlike all the other edit links for later sections of an article. Those edit links are above the horizontal line that underscores section titles. Is it possible to raise the lead-section edit link so it appears above the line like the other edit links? (Note that if the "Move section [edit] links to the right side of the screen" preference is not checked, then the [edit] link comes right after the title and is positioned correctly above the horizontal line.) I use Windows 10 and have checked this in IE v11 and Chrome v65. Paine Ellsworth put'r there 15:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Given a revision number (ID) is it possible to get the date&time stamp of the revision? This would be for Template:Copyvio-revdel, see my post on its talk page just now. DES (talk) DESiegel Contribs 14:00, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to make it so we don't have to reproduce the entire article title atop the page? Right now the only way to make the template work right is to use the full title, and while this works fine for forbidden character titles it leads to articles like When the Pawn... or The Boy Bands Have Won having an unnecessarily gigantic mass of bold text at the top; accordingly, having a way to say (as a rough draft) something like "The correct article title is explained below, it exists at this title due to technical restrictions" instead of hitting readers in the face with a huge wall of text would be helpful. Before floating any kind of proposal, first I wanted to see if it was technically feasible to do so. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい) 16:32, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
How could I use the {{#ifexist}} expression but preclude results that are redirect pages? Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 00:31, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
That's more out of curiosity than anything else, but
WP:PERFORMANCE does not list even orders of magnitude for maximum edits or maximum API read requests for bots. I understand the whole point of the page is that you should not worry about it until someone from IT complains, but how is one supposed to see that it's plain something could cause drastic problems
? I mean, I guess anything that increases the daily number of edits or API calls by less than 0.01% is probably OK, and more than 10% is probably not-OK-unless-there-is-a-good-reason, but I am pulling those numbers out of thin air, so...
(In my case, I was thinking about an extension of Muninnbot's functionality that would require up to 10k API revision history pulls per day, thought it was a huge number, checked the high-cost SineBot and saw it makes >200 edits/day and presumably a much larger number of API read calls as it patrols recent changes, and decided not to worry; but hard numbers would be good.) Tigraan Click here to contact me 14:31, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
If you are finding that reading via the API rather than directly reading from databases is impeding your client's performance, consider whether to put it into Wikimedia's Toolforge.; I assume API calls do not load servers more than say viewing the revision history manually and the number of times the revision history of various pages is viewed per day would be in the millions, so the bot would be negligible. Galobtter ( pingó mió) 14:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
When will MediaWiki add support for Unicode IPV6 addresses? April Fools! Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 17:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
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id="toc"
attribute? If not, templates like {{
skip to talk}}
will fail. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 11:16, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
/* Misuse of the Table of Contents ID */
#toc {
outline: #ff4500 dashed 0.6em;
}
div#toc.tocclass="toc"], /* MW TOC */
div#toc.tocclass="toc plainlinks hlist" { /* Template:Compact ToC */
outline: none;
}
This started happening maybe a few months ago. Whenever I make an edit to any MediaWiki namespace page, however simple it may be, it takes 5+ seconds to save, sometimes much longer. I thought this was a slow edit filter, but I've noticed the same problem on other wikis. I found phab:T158084 but that was filed over a year ago, when for me the issue popped up late 2017 or early 2018. Has anyone else noticed this? — MusikAnimal talk 04:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
As the subject header says, with an extra order of grrrr. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 00:29, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
.postedit { display: none; }
Please see Phabricator T191167. Apparently English Wikipedia has chosen to have a line break within the word "changes" in the "This edit can be undone..." box! If this is so, can this choice be reviewed? Thank you : Noyster (talk), 11:26, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
break-word
isn't a valid value for the word-break
style. To fix it for now on a per-user basis, you can put .fmbox > tbody > tr > .mbox-text { word-break:normal !important}
on an new line in
your personal CSS page.
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 14:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Notice from the above screenshot how Global contributions has been split into "G" on one line and "lobal contributions" on the other. It's not a good technique for certain. Can it be corrected? Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 14:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
fmbox
to fmbox-warning
; this should at least keep the change from breaking edit notices, while keeping the fix for the warning ones. I'll look at getting it more specific, but for now, that should relieve most of the problems, at least with edit notices and the like.
Writ Keeper
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♔ 15:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Who can tell me how the "related articles" section of a page in mobile view is populated? Is this something editors can control/influence, or is the "related articles" list generated by some algorithm? I'm seeing some really strange things listed there that seem to have no obvious relevance to the article in question. As an example I'm looking at the Tom (TV series) article, which has United States Senate election in South Carolina, 2014 and Payload (EP) as related articles. 28bytes ( talk) 15:18, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello all. Bishzilla, always hospitable, has attempted to add a link to her pocket to her sig, as a standing invitation to little users to request residence there. The proposed sig looks like this, bishzilla ROARR!! pocket, and like this in edit mode: [[User:Bishzilla|<b style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:125%;color:#0FF">''bishzilla''</b>]] [[User talk:Bishzilla|<i style="color:#E0E;font-size:175%;"><small><small><small><sub>R</sub>OA</small>R</small>R!</small>!</i>]] <b>[[User:Bishzilla/Self-requested pocketings|<span style="color:red;">pocket</span>]]</b> Is that a problem? Too big? I ask because when she attempted to paste it into her preferences, there didn't seem to be room for it — it was cut off. For comparison, this is her current sig: bishzilla ROARR!!. I can't find any explicit limitation in Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing your signature — just a general implication that "a lot of code" is undesirable. So, does the version with the pocket have too much code? Or is it a problem of space in the Preferences signature field, which can possibly be overcome? Before you opine that even Bishzilla's regular sig is objectionably tacky and garish and takes up too much space, I'll mention that she never, or hardly ever, posts on article talkpages or in Wikipedia space. Normally only on the user talkpages of friends, who have never objected to her current sig, and would hopefully be pleased with the "pocket" version too. Bishonen | talk 17:41, 23 March 2018 (UTC).
{{subst:User:Bishzilla/Sig}}
and have as long a signature length as you want. However, for the most part, you're requested to remain inside or around the 255 character length signature. Given that this is a joke account, it might be a reasonable
WP:IAR spot. That said, you should not use <font>
per
WP:SIG#Font tags. --
Izno (
talk) 19:03, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps this can be done without transcluding. To begin with, you could save 24 characters by redirecting User:Bishzilla/P to User:Bishzilla/Self-requested pocketings, and using the redirect in the signature. Also, perhaps you can cut a few characters by using a font with a shorter name than "comic sans ms". bd2412 T 13:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
estimates that the English Wikipedia still has more than 5,000,000 high-priority errors to clean up.<- You are implying incorrectly that we need to work through 5M errors. We instead need to work through 10k errors. -- Izno ( talk) 20:49, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
This is fyi only. Works now, so no feedback needed if you're happy with it:
Lua error in Module:Hatnote_list at line 179: attempt to concatenate field 'extratext' (a nil value).
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What I did: went to the Wikipedia search box on an article page, and typed in 'Galliass' (sans quotes) and hit Return.
Not repeatable, when I tried the same thing again.
Mathglot (
talk) 05:31, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Okay so this is just weird. im seeing the text {{subst:tfm|Infobox Muslim leader]} on the top of the page for Visakha. It appears to be attached to the infobox too, so i cant remove it without removing the infobox. Any idea how to fix this? I havent been able to find anything apparent in the source code that would cause this. Wikiman5676 ( talk) 06:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I am not quite sure on how to do this myself of asking here. Is it possible to merge {{ Infobox religious building/color}} and {{ Infobox deity/color}} somehow? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 11:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Is my eyesight deceiving me? or have the alert bell & notice screen symbols been enlarged. GoodDay ( talk) 01:01, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
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I just CSD-tagged Anthony P. Sgro and Frank Ippolito while patrolling, and they were both deleted. Both were recreated with what seemed to me to be the same material, although I can't actually check. They were recreated within minutes. Is this just a coincidence or is there a technical problem here allowing people to recover deleted articles? Natureium ( talk) 18:56, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I've come across some probably unintended behaviour with revision deletion. I don't really have the phabricatoor skills to deal with it. It's long been known that you can't revision-delete the latest revision text. An error is displayed: "Revision visibility could not be updated: Error hiding the item ...: This is the current revision. It cannot be hidden." I always thought the username and edit summary could be deleted, as was mentioned in our description of the tool. [60] If you try to delete them there is no error displayed, and they disappear from the page history. However they are both still visible if you look at the oldid= revision. I think they should probably be hidden from that place, but if not an error should be displayed. You can see an example of this here. -- zzuuzz (talk) 10:02, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
uselang=qqx
shows all three
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MediaWiki:Revision-info-current but it's currently only called with Something in the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanzeel Akhtar is causing it to show up on Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting. I can't seem to locate the problem-- Auric talk 18:24, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
If anyone who is available would take a look at the problem noted here Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Odd archivebox it would be appreciated. MarnetteD| Talk 23:10, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Is it possible to get a list of param of an infobox via template / module rather than listing it manually? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 16:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Provides some menu items on Wikipedia's search results page to modify search results:
It's a bit cludgy, and I'd like to make it more efficient.
Suggestions are welcome. Please post comments to its workshop page (link in heading). — The Transhumanist 10:08, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Hey there! On my custom-made reviews page, where I showcase all my Did you know... and GA-class reviews, some errors, such as a "lint error" and other unspecified errors are brought up when I attempt to indent a collapsed table, which is holding a transclusion of my GA-Class reviews. This was discovered and brought up to me by Anomalocaris, when he discovered the errors on my page through Special:LintErrors/multiline-html-table-in-list and subsequently removed the indents. This was later discussed on his talk page, leading to me bringing this issue to the Village pump. I just wanted to ask a simple question; is it possible to transclude a GA Review and put it into anything that's collapsible (and collapsed by default), and indent it, without causing any problems? As noted on his talk page, I have seemed to have unconsciously done this correctly in the "Did you know... reviews" section, but the same process doesn't seem to work in the "Good article reviews" section. What seems to be the thing I'm doing wrong on one section and doing right in the other? – PhilipTerryGraham ( talk · articles · reviews) 08:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
==GA Review==
". I understand why you'd want to draw attention to that, but it doesn't seem to be breaking anything, or at least not in a way that makes the page show up on some sort of "broken pages" list. All the problems I have been concerned about have been solved. The colon problem was the only problem I ever addressed, really. – PhilipTerryGraham (
talk ·
articles ·
reviews) 09:45, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Category:Temporary maintenance holdings - over 82,000 articles in this, and it's appearing for no reason in articles (see e.g. Darren Moore) - any idea why? Giant Snowman 13:32, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, anybody know why block templates like {{ SockBlock}} don't display in mobile view? Seems like that would create a good deal of confusion for people who get blocked and have no idea what their next step is, and that could be why we get a lot of unblock requests sent through UTRS, which just wind up getting closed without resolution. Is this something that would have to be changed at the template level? Is this something the community prefers? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 15:32, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Whenever I add this navbox to an article that already contains other navboxes (refer to any article in the navbox), it always added a few trailing lines of whitespace. I can't figure out why that's happening. Erpert blah, blah, blah... 00:36, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
<noinclude>
should usually be on the same line as the last transcluded code.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:41, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Starting on April 9th we'll migrate the servers running the MediaWiki application servers to a new release of the ICU Unicode library ( International Components for Unicode) (from version 52 to 57). This unblocks some future work on upgrading the servers to a new Operating System release and will also allow the use of improved internationalisation in the future (as wikis will then be able to use features introduced by the new ICU release such as new collation definitions, and allows us to use a more recent version of Unicode in MediaWiki).
This migration will cause some unavoidable temporary user-visible impact: The sorting of some category pages will be distorted – all pages which have been updated with the new software version will use the new sorting while untouched pages still use the old sorting. As such, we need to run a maintenance script to update the sorting for old entries.
The distortions may last from a few hours (on medium-sized wikis), up to a day (on the largest wikis), and a few days on English Wikipedia. The start-time will depend upon when the migration script reaches each wiki.
This affects a number of large wikis (including eight out of the ten biggest Wikipedias). The detailed list and the task for the technical implementation is at phab:T189295. Thank you. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 20:07, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
I've
finally managed to get access to deleted revisions via the API, but have now realised that one of the key bits of data that I'd like isn't there. Is there any reason that sizediff
is in
Special:Contributions and action=query&list=usercontribs
but not in
Special:DeletedContributions and action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions
? It doesn't make much sense to me that the data is being calculated but then discarded when the contribs are deleted. It seems like I can extract it using action=compare&prop=diffsize
but that means making one request per diff, rather than getting 500 in one query, as is possible from action=query&list=usercontribs
.
SmartSE (
talk) 19:03, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
compare&prop=size
and manually calculating the diff so I guess I'll have to live with that.
SmartSE (
talk) 20:17, 5 April 2018 (UTC)So I finally managed to get some free time this afternoon, and when I logged on, this script kept popping up errors. I know it is this one because the error code that comes up on every page load says this:
Javascript Error https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki%7Cmediawiki.legacy.wikibits&only=scripts&skin=monobook&version=1nv7gwr at line 52: Uncaught TypeError: fn is not a function
and this is the only script I have enabled that uses jQuery. How can I fix this, and what is the problem so I don't have this problem next time? Bardic Wizard ( talk • Happy Easter!) 01:03, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
In October 2017, English Wikipedia community members approved an RfC requesting implementation of mapframe—a feature that enables contributors to easily display dynamic maps within article pages. At the time, there was some question about whether technical support for the maps service would be available long term. I’m writing now to say that those questions have been answered, and a small team will be assigned for routine maps maintenance. So, assuming the community still wants mapframe on enwiki, we’re ready to turn it on in April. Here’s some background on where things currently stand.
Over the last few months, the Collaboration team has been working on a project called Map Improvements 2018, which will conclude at the end of June, 2018. The goals are twofold: 1) to ensure that Kartographer and the associated map systems are stable and can be easily maintained by the small team mentioned above; and 2) to address the winning 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, fulfilling its two “main wishes” and as many of the other wishes as time allows. (The main wishes are T112948 “All map location names should be shown in the user's language”—a very challenging but fundamental upgrade; and T180907 “Add zoom level 19.”)
This list of approved tasks for the Map Improvements project shows the type of work that’s been prioritized. A lot of effort is going into getting the technology onto a stable footing. The new user-facing features being added come mostly from the Wishlist request and have been selected because they improve the usefulness of what one might call “locator” maps—maps that show location and basic geography—as opposed to more advanced annotation and interactive mapping features. (The philosophy behind that decision is explained on the project page, but the short version is that a more advanced service would require a lot of technical resources.)
Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers' understanding across a wide range of topics. Fifteen Wikipedias and all other wiki projects are using mapframe today to display maps on hundreds of thousands of pages. Unless we hear from you that the consensus on adding mapframe to English Wikipedia has changed since last year’s RfC, we plan to move forward in April 2018. This is a timeframe that, should any unexpected issues arise, will enable the Collaboration team to deal with those concerns before rolling off the project in July 2018. So, if you foresee any issues, let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping! JMatazzoni (WMF) ( talk) 20:14, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
<maplink>
and <graph>
to emulate what <mapframe>
would give you natively (those interested in the details, look
here). The result looks pretty similar; compare the map on
Stalbridge that you mentioned with the examples I posted up above. If and when mapframe is deployed here on English Wikipedia, the {{
OSM Location map}} template (or its uses) could probably be changed to use mapframe over time; the template has a lot of advanced features, most of which (not sure if all) are supported in mapframe too. However, I recommend using <mapframe>
directly rather than through a template, because then people can visually edit the map (add markers etc) using VisualEditor. --
Roan Kattouw (WMF) (
talk) 14:16, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Looks like we're good to go. Thanks for all your input. With the support I see here, we'll plan to release mapframe to English Wikipedia as soon as we've released T112948, which provides for the display of map labels in English instead of in the language of the territory mapped (as long as English labels are available in the underlying map data from OpenStreetMap). We expect to release that challenging but fundamental upgrade in the next few weeks, so an April release of mapframe looks to be on track. I'll keep you posted. If questions or issues arise in the meanwhile, please post them to the Map Improvements 2018 talk page. — JMatazzoni (WMF) ( talk) 00:08, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Discussion/Replies to the above:
-- Yurik ( talk) 00:32, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Trade_route_from_the_Varangians_to_the_Greeks
In this article of a problem with Ukrainian. I have added Ukrainian, using a template of languages which were in article. The Ukrainian translation has to be obligatory: because the znachushchy percent of a route passes through Ukraine and the Ukrainian city of Kiev was the center of Kievan Rus'. Through Kiev Dnieper (waterway of a route) flows Bohdan Bondar ( talk) 10:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
The copyvios tool on labs (ie: https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/) appears to have stopped working against a Google search. Attempting to do so just reports a 403 error, and has throughout most of the day. Any ideas? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 22:52, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
An error occurred while using the search engine (Google Error: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden). Try reloading the page. If the error persists, repeat the check without using the search engine.
Discussion on the talk page:
WT:VPT#Archiving interval for WP:VPT
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Pipetricker (
talk) 13:41, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
We at NPP have been having problems the past few days with marking pages for deletion. (See Wikipedia_talk:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers for discussion) When applying certain tags, a message comes up saying "failed to apply tags the page". Does anyone know what's up with this? Natureium ( talk) 16:25, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Some time in the past few weeks, the appearance of some dropdown menus changed. I think this is related to the first item in the March 26 Tech news and covered in phab:T97631. The upshot is that dropdown menus are larger and more in -line with the overall vector theme; examples are the dropdowns at Special:MovePage and when deleting.
I much prefer the compressed menus, and can't figure out how to undo this. The old menus are there (awkwardly uneven: named wpNewTitleNs
for move and with #wpDeleteReasonList
id for delete) but are hidden by the addition of display: none
in the css for .oo-ui-dropdownInputWidget select
. It should be trivial to show those, but I don't know how to hide the new menus; there are no id
s, and (I think?) the .oo-ui-dropdownWidget
class is too broad. Any thoughts? ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 16:29, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
.oo-ui-menuOptionWidget {padding: 0.2em 1em;}
, but do bear in mind that personal overrides might lead to unexpected breakages, elsewhere or in the future.
Quiddity (WMF) (
talk) 22:40, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
id
? I used to hide oversight and office actions from delete menus, found that quite helpful. I'll note the RevDel menu is still how it used to be. ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 01:00, 6 April 2018 (UTC)A week ago I pointed to a (future) problem with tree lists, but so far nobody has responded. Is there a CSS doctor in the house? Please comment at template talk:Tree list#Tree list will break. -- bdijkstra ( talk) 08:43, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Update: problem fixed! -- bdijkstra ( talk) 19:06, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I have a problem. Lately I've been working on the Wolfenstein: The New Order article, and I've been replacing broken WebCite archive links with those from the Wayback Machine. Suddenly, however, Rhain has reverted my edit on many links, even though a few links archived are dead, and claimed that there was " Nothing wrong with previous links. WebCite is fine." But I tried telling him that Google Chrome says the WebCite links are broken, and all I get is the message "This site cannot be reached", as indicated in this link. But I feel worried. If the WebCite links are broken when Rhain claims they are not, then is WebCite truly necessary? I'm very confused. -- Angeldeb82 ( talk) 01:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't see the tools at the bottom of the textarea right now. I checked every browser and every old WikiEditor, and I still don't see it. Is there something wrong with MediaWiki:Edittools and MediaWiki:Edittools.js? -- George Ho ( talk) 21:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Wait a minute. When logged-out, I can see the lower tools. When logged-in, I can't. I'm very positive it's not my common.js subpage because I still didn't see the tools when I reinserted and then re-deleted the script code. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
?debug=true
to sample some pages, but I still can't find any relevant errors. Nonetheless, when I used ?debug=true
for a source page, like a
link to
adding a new section, the URL containing the additional entry leads to the full source code of the whole venue page. I tried ?safemode=1
, resulting in
this URL, but the problem still exists. --
George Ho (
talk) 22:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
div id="editpage-specialchars" title="Click on the character or tag to insert it into the edit window"
. I still don't know why "editpage-specialchars" is missing. --
George Ho (
talk) 23:34, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Look what I found!— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:47, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
There was a ridiculously long one on this rev the other day. - X201 ( talk) 19:04, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there any way to customize the images in templates using CSS? I want a script that replaces the default brooms, hands, globes, arrows, etc. with something similar to the "Red Cats" theme that was formerly available for Firefox. Lojbanist remove cattle from stage 03:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
If after 3 reversions (unless tuned lower) an editor became automatically unable to edit that page alone, for 24 hours, we could nearly end edit wars by making them technically impossible. Could something like this be done (technically)? Are there reasons for not doing so (technically)? Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 12:28, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Hlists on mobile (en.m.wikipedia.org...) are not outputting any middle dot as on desktop version but empty space instead. Maybe MediaWiki:Mobile.css could be modified in order to fix this. This problem also happened before and used to be fixed.
Also, when desktop version is being viewed on a mobile device - there are no hlist separators between items at the very bottom of the page (Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers ...).
Btw, at the top of Village pump page (only mobile version), first and third items (Table of contents and End of page links) are not displayed and their bullets are displayed so there is •First discussion• •New post or something like that. -- Obsuser ( talk) 13:56, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
This diff looks weird to me. The link content says that it's a diff in Trump and JCPOA while it takes me to somewhere else, i.e. Woodford Reserve Is this a bug? Saff V. ( talk) 13:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
oldid=
parameter is probably missing a digit. The title=
parameter is ignored for these links if a revision ID is included;
this link doesn't contain the page title, but the linked page displays the same content.
Jc86035's alternate account (
talk) 13:58, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way to get notified when someone other than you creates a subpage in your userspace? Apparently this has happened to me before and I had no idea until now. Thanks, ansh 666 00:44, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I have Two-Factor Authentication ... a feature I normally support, but which now threatens to lock me out of my account.
My cell phone received an update; and it froze at the launch screen. I tried to troubleshoot it myself; then called my carrier via a landline. When a half dozen attempts all failed, finally gave in and did a factory reset on my phone - wiping out the two-factor authentication setup. Without the two-factor code, I can no longer log into my Wikipedia account on my phone's browser. So on my laptop I go to my profile to try to re-activate tw-factor authentication ... only to find the only menu option is to entirely disable it, but only IF I enter my two-factor code first.
In other words, I can no longer log into my account on a new device, and I cannot find a way to disable the "feature". Once my laptop crashes, needs replaced, or just decides it's time to re-verify my identity ... I'll likely lose access to my account entirely.
Does anyone have a suggested work-around for this? Or is this account doomed to be lost? I'm hoping there's a solution I've overlooked - but I'm losing hope. Help? --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:41, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi all
Is there some way to know how many users are blocked because of their username? If so is there a way to know how many of these were because the name was a name of an organisation?
A bit of background, I recently ran a gender gap event ( Wiki4Women) where one of the new contributors who took part User:YEMEN EMBASSY THE HAGE was almost immediately blocked because of their username.
Their experience was:
This is really not ideal, given that they have shown in interest in Wikipedia and are likely knowledgeable and could also be a potential partner for Wikimedia, in terms of knowledge, content and potentially resources like event hosting, funding etc.
I think it is reasonable to assume this happened because they were unaware that they could not use the name of an organisation in their username. Currently Special:CreateAccount simply has a link that says 'help me chose' implying that there are better choices but all names are allowed, which is not true.
Can I suggest that we try to understand how often this happens and to try to think of some simple ways to reduce this happening? E.g a very simplified list of username rules on the sign up page (possibly based on the most common blocking and other issues because of username choices).
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 21:41, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I have created an alternative to the current main page here. Where can I get consensus where there or not to add it to WP:main page alternatives page. Also despite being heavily discouraged in WP:VPI(On an earlier version) I would like to know what are the chances of it replacing the main page on a later date(I agree that it still will need a lot of improvement before such a thing occurs) — F R + 09:53, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
There's a formatting error appearing in the infobox at Hampton Roads, something to do with the rounding of the total area. I've had a play with it but I can't get it to resolve. Can someone sort it out? Home Lander ( talk) 03:43, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
|area_km2
and |area_mi2
parameters take only raw numbers and nothing more. Reference for these area values can only be added to dedicated |area_footnotes
parameter. This is because, the "raw values" are used to do the calculation and autogenerate the value of the third |total
parameter, which is not in the source code. So basically, anything beyond raw number will generate expression error. –
Ammarpad (
talk) 06:44, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
So I'm starting a new user script, and I want to know how to add css to the script without adding a css file. Longer version: I'm attempting to write a script that gets the class of a page (the wikiproject assessment) and changes the wikipedia logo to the icon for it. (Think User:Zhaofeng Li/RetroLogo, but responsive. Bardic Wizard ( talk • Happy Easter!) 02:55, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
$('.mw-wiki-logo').css('background-image', 'url(https://upload.wikimedia.org/...something...)')
I reported an IP at WP:AIV using the standard {{ IPvandal}} template. I then received an alert saying "Your mention of 121.220.60.89 was not sent because the user is anonymous". Evidently the wiki software interpreted my AIV report as an attempt to ping the vandal. Two questions:
Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 09:41, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
This is fixed in Module:Navbar. Pages still showing the error can be purged. Only report if purge does not work. PrimeHunter ( talk) 13:54, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I make some edits on Malaysian general election, 2018 but a problem appears there. It reads: "Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div." Can anyone please solve this problem? Thanks. Aamuizz ( talk) 13:04, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi good folk. Not sure if this is where I should post this, but being bold! International Communist Party has shown a red error - for many versions, it seems. I'm hoping a cleverer editor than I am will fancy correcting it.
The error, in red, reads:
"Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div.".
Thanks in advance; I'll see if I can learn from the fix. Trafford09 ( talk) 13:10, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
div
into a local
. Don't know if that is 'the' fix but at least the module isn't failing with the big red error message.
Primefac? You were the last editor.I saw the same problem at a completely unrelated area Programmable Logic Controller. North8000 ( talk) 13:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div.
This template is redirect to Template:Information security and used in articles.
For example in Network security.
Please fix this error. Thanks. Oleg3280 ( talk) 13:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Did Wikimedia just disable seeking in a video?
I noticed like 2 months ago or so that when I play a video (like that in The Sheik (film)#Cast), I can't seek the video. It's very annoying because there may be extremely long clips that I don't want to watch in full or that I want to repeat a part.
I was redirected here from Meta. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 19:46, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I think {{ Authority control}} should appear below language links on the left side instead of appearing below every article. Also it should appear by default, instead of adding the template to every article. Can this be done? How? Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 19:49, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
What I'm looking for is a way to add a column of numbers to a table to rank all the rows, that would change automatically if a row is removed or added (so we don't have to renumber all the rows that are below the changed row). Similar to the way # character will automatically number bullet points, it doesn't matter if you add/remove/swap entries, they are always in numerical order (a table with a column of # characters that do the same thing would be great). I've looked through the help;table guide and didn't find anything that would suit the article I want to modify. If anyone here has a solution, it would be appreciated. Cheers - theWOLFchild 02:34, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
The article viewership data source hasn't been updated in April. I posted this to the Analytics mailing list, but haven't received a response after several days. This is the data source that powers the WP:5000 and from which the WP:Top25Report is derived, and we're already behind one of the weekly reports. West.andrew.g ( talk) 14:25, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I use the Opera web browser (yes, I know I'm weird) and the past few days I've been having trouble viewing page histories outside of the user space, and I was wondering if it was something with mediawiki or my browser (to my knowledge, I haven't changed anything.) I've uploaded a screenshot of how the page history looks when I view this page and also how the page history looks when I view a user page. Oddly enough, not all user pages look normal (my own looks the same as the VPT history), but the only pages where I see a normal history are user pages. It also doesn't seem to have anything to do with number of revisions, as I've had the issue with pages that only have one revision. TonyBallioni ( talk) 23:49, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Can someone explain what "{{#statements:P18}}" is please?, I've come across it twice acting as the infobox image (recent article being Kris Aquino) so now the curiosity's got the better of me, Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 02:39, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
{{#statements}}
gets the data from Wikidata.
image (P18) in this case. See
d:Wikidata:How to use data on Wikimedia projects#Parser function. —
JJMC89 (
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C) 04:16, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
A move discussion is being held at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Requested move 10 April 2018 which may be of interest to editors following this page. It relates to the Wikipedia:Did you know nomination process and the Wikipedia:Template namespace guideline. -- Netoholic @ 19:59, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I have the " Use a black background with green text" gadget enabled in my preferences. For the last few days (possibly longer, I had been away from desktop access), it has displayed mainly as usual, but with a strip across the top of the page in grey. Today, vast swathes of every page display as green text on a grey background. Anyone know what is up? DuncanHill ( talk) 14:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I have made the sandbox and testcases and started a discussion at Template talk:Infobox writer. Comments and any other help is invited. Thanks Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 09:04, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Over the last few weeks- the |commons-on-osm overlay has stopped updating. for instance File:Whitstable Harbour West Quay 8137.jpg was uploaded to Commons on 14th March and still is not visible on the OSM map overlay.
When viewing the file on here (en:)- well it does click you over to Commons- then- using the link in the summary box Camera location 51° 21′ 47.26″ N, 1° 01′ 32.65″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth info. I suppose technically this is a Commons tool- but it does affect us here. Any ideas?-- ClemRutter ( talk) 10:54, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I used to be a big user of RefLinks, and switched to reFill since that seems to be the go-to URL processor. I could've sworn it was better a month and some ago, but as of late the vast majority of the time I run reFill, I need to manually go in and figure out the "publisher=" field, even when using really established news sources like The Telegraph or New York Times.
Has something gone wonky with reFill? Why is it not filling out the publisher field? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 02:27, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, website). Not normally used for periodicals. ... Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work (for example, The New York Times Co. publishes The New York Times newspaper, so there is no reason to name the publisher).– Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:37, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I thought it would be worth bringing to your attention that upon logging in, NoScript blocks the editing toolbar at the top of the article, making it impossible to edit the lede or the infobox. Oddly, though, the edit button remains visible for any subsequent sections of the article. Obviously, placing Wikipedia in the trusted zone (or logging out) restores functionality. I have not attempted to replicate this issue on the desktop version of Firefox, but I can do so if desired.
Incidentally, the only reason I discovered this glitch is that the article editor is utterly unusable in Chrome on Android. (Come to think of it, it's also unusable in the AdBlock browser, which is strange, considering that browser is simply a modified version of Firefox). Are there any plans to rectify the crippling incompatibilities that continue to plague the editor in Chrome? Nonstopdrivel ( talk) 09:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello all. I'm currently working on moving the main page of the Simple English Wiktionary to the project namespace, as well as making the necessary adjustments (including removing the page title from the top of the page). What related templates and modules are needed for that task?
Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place; I could not figure out if this belonged in technical or miscellaneous. hiàn 21:10, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Main_Page
. Templates and modules depend on how the wiki makes the contents of the main page. I haven't examined that for your wiki.
MediaWiki:Mainpage tells the name of the main page to the interface. I suggest you start by copying the code but wait with changing
MediaWiki:Mainpage until the new page works as wanted.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:10, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I've asked it before, I am asking it again. Would it be possible to automate edits like these. Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 08:50, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
The outage time was roughly between 22:00 UTC to 23:36 UTC. However, I was able to access the website using a proxy in Tokyo during this time period. This website [79], is saying that I'm not the only one who had this problem either, there have been 134 reports of people having the same problem, during roughly the same time period, to that site.
So, what happened? I'm not watching this page, please ping me if you reply. QuietOwl ( talk) 23:54, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I've got a weird category sorting problem I can't seem to figure out, and wanted to ask if anybody can assist. I created an article about Canadian writer Fernand Dorais about 10 minutes ago — but for some reason I can't seem to identify, even though I used the DEFAULTSORT template to specify the correct sortkey it seems to be acting completely randomly in different categories: in both Category:1928 births and Category:2003 deaths it does seem to be sorting him in his correct alphabetical spot in the D list, but in most other categories he's getting bumped all the way to the bottom of the D list below other writers he should be ahead of in alph order, and in Category:Canadian male novelists he's entirely failing to show up at all. Can anybody look into this and figure out how to fix it? Bearcat ( talk) 23:35, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
There appear to be having a number of indexing problems at this category.
These are examples, I have checked a couple of other categories which appear to have the same problem – which may only affect categories containing categories. Does that make sense?-- Richhoncho ( talk) 11:10, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I need help regarding a category I started about World Series-winning managers. It was nominated for deletion, but it was chosen to be kept. Now, however, when I try to add more names, I find that the category is not being properly alphabetized. I hope there's somebody here on Wikipedia that can help me fix this problem. I did try to fix it myself, but I was fighting a losing battle. If you can help me, please leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you very much. Mr. Brain ( talk)
I just came back to check on the category, and before I do anything else, I wanna thank whoever fixed the problem I was having with the alphabetization of the category of World Series-winning managers very much. I mean it from the bottom of my heart. Mr. Brain ( talk)
After positive results from our most recent A/B tests on Page Previews on German and English Wikipedias, the Readers web team are planning the next steps of feature rollout for the first half of April 2018. We have requested feedback on how Page Previews should behave for logged-in users. There's a discussion happening over on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). Yours, OVasileva (WMF) ( talk) 20:27, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Special:Diff/836168056 broke the <noinclude>
s and wikitables in this one, but I couldn't restore it to the old version and make it work. Symptoms of this are seen at
Talk:List of TCP and UDP port numbers.
toollabs:templatecount says 107 transclusions, so it's fortunately not as widespread of an issue as I initially feared it to be. I'm not sure how to really solve this one though. 84.250.17.211 ( talk) 03:08, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Not browser specific. The Save button is grayed out. I've tried it in Firefox and Chrome. Been going on since at least last week. Affects everything - English Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource, Media Wiki, Wikidata. Also applies to other languages. — Maile ( talk) 11:32, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I just converted a former redirect, 1945
1945 (film), to an article, adding a hatnote using {{
About}}
to help users get to the target of the former redirect. Although the article is no longer a redirect, the hatnote says
Why does it say "redirect" instead of "article"? Will it fix itself automatically in time, or do I have to do something? — Anomalocaris ( talk) 20:24, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
This returns:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/app.py", line 33, in inner return func(*a, **kw) File "/data/project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/app.py", line 82, in usersearch_py return tpl.render(store=store) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/template.py", line 445, in render return runtime._render(self, self.callable_, args, data) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 829, in _render **_kwargs_for_callable(callable_, data)) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 864, in _render_context _exec_template(inherit, lclcontext, args=args, kwargs=kwargs) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/mako/runtime.py", line 890, in _exec_template callable_(context, *args, **kwargs) File "usersearch_query_mako", line 50, in render_body File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/usersearch.py", line 128, in fix_results yield self.contrib_line(args) File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/tool.py", line 102, in contrib_line stamp = ch_locale(store.lang, ts.strftime, [fmt]) File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/sigma/cherry/cherryhtml/localeshit.py", line 33, in ch_locale p.start() File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/multiprocessing/process.py", line 111, in start self._popen = Popen(self) File "/home/sigma/.local/lib/python3.3/multiprocessing/forking.py", line 91, in __init__ sys.stderr.flush() OSError: [Errno 116] Stale file handle
-- NeilN talk to me 19:26, 13 April 2018 (UTC)