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On two computers and multiple browsers, I'm suddenly seeing the title coordinates display much lower down than before. They nearly overlap infoboxes and the top line of text. Abductive ( reasoning) 19:27, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Seems to be fixed now. Thanks to whomever figured this out. - MJ ( talk) 22:32, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
{{ coord}} when used with the parameter display=title hitherto placed coordinates for the article on the title line. Now coords are being displayed slightly below the title line, and are overwriting the top of infoboxes - example at Inchinnan Castle. Seems poor. The template itself has not been edited in recent times, so presumably the change is somewhere else. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 09:54, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Category:Periodic table templates and Category:Chemistry compounds templates seem to be broken — I fixed an issue on Template:Salts by element where all articles with a template with this format would be added, but now said articles like Actinium(III) chloride are listed there. The affected articles do not list inclusion in this category on their respective pages. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 01:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone!
I am trying to upload some images onto a stub, but when I try to upload them (whilst logged into Wikipedia), my username shows up in red and does not link to my User page.
For example:
Thanks :)
{{information |Description={{en|1= Screenshot of username error. Chrome 90.0.4430.212 on Mac}} |Source=Screenshot |Date=2021-05-25 |Author=Wikipedia Authors, see the history of [[w: Rice production in China]] |Permission={{Wikipedia-screenshot|1=en|logo=no}} }}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Avoandtoast ( talk • contribs) 03:34, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone figure out what's going on with File:University of Lahore (logo).png and Universo Online? I can't find the syntax for the file anywhere in the article, but for some reason it seems to be being transcluded into it in some way. Perhaps it has to do with Special:diff/Filedelinkerbot/1022680018/this bot edit or this file redirect, but the University of Lahore logo is a non-free file and it's being flagged for a WP:NFCC#10c review and will keep being flag as such as long as the file is being used in the Universo Online article. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 07:26, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Anyone else seeing bizarre changes in how Wikipedia displays (since this morning, when all was fine)? Everything that should be small is huge (short descriptions, page data, tab labels, text in edit window etc), while article text is minute, and references even smaller. Vector skin, before you ask. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 19:22, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Noticed it right away myself when I logged in this afternoon. I wondered if this were some update that had been in work for some time, but from the looks of things it's at least a bug or it's a new feature rollout that hasn't gone quite right. And yes, I checked my Firefox's zoom level too; it's not uncommon for me to accidentally tweak it, being that I work on a laptop. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 20:59, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Nice, the choice between ugly fonts or extremely small fonts. Problem is indeed (in human language, not the .css references above) in Preferences, tab "Gadgets", section "Appearance", checkbox "Vector classic typography (use only sans-serif in Vector skin)". If this is checked, the font is since yesterday evening extremely small. If this is unchecked, you get the ugly title font and space-consuming body layout. I have made screenshots of three versions; how it looked like if you had the chackbox marked, until yesterday (good!), and the two poor choices you get now (either way too small, or a lot less on a screen than it used to be). So please, revert this change! Fram ( talk) 07:17, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Looks like the problem has been resolved. The font sizes have returned to normal for me here on the enwiki (although the text padding in previewing from source seems different now). SWinxy ( talk) 19:09, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Starting today, the text in the box of categories at the end of articles seems to be a larger font. I'm using Vector skin, and that text is now larger than the article prose or the toolbox and other WP interface text. Who did what this Thursday? DMacks ( talk) 23:15, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
The X-Tools Article Info gadget is suddenly appearing very large, and I have no idea why. Chicdat ( talk) 10:07, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
In the past day or so it appears that a margin is being applied twice to all of the articles I read, making them very narrow. The issue doesn't appear in safe mode, and appears to be a result of "removal of the "mw-body-content" class from the "bodyContent" block and its addition to the "mw-content-text" block instead" mentioned by Paul_012 above (manually changing some classes around fixes it). Has anyone else had this issue, or any suggestions other than looking through all of my scripts? LittlePuppers ( talk) 13:20, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Is this also the reason why redacted edits appear to have bold text instead of their usual appearance? LSGH ( talk) ( contributions) 02:49, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Has anyone else noticed a jump in the font-size of the Category list at the bottom of every article page? It looks about 150% or 200% of what I remember. Looking at one page as an example ( Zazou), I'm seeing this html:
<div class="printfooter">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zazou&oldid=1024460845">https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zazou&oldid=1024460845</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/info/en/?search=Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul> (a bunch of categories are here...) </ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-user-shown">Hidden categories: <ul><li> (a bunch more here...) </li></ul></div></div> </div> </div>
Did anything change in the css for those classes? (please
mention me on reply; thanks!)
Mathglot (
talk) 08:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Is this a known issue? See this example. Nick Moyes ( talk) 14:23, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
ipr-
, it was a necessity due to how the routing system works (otherwise it could mistake the /18 as referring to namespace with ID 18). Hopefully that's not too confusing for users, because you can enter normal CIDR notation in the form at
https://xtools-dev.wmflabs.org/globalcontribs and it will do the conversion for you. Here on the wiki, we have a
separate interface message for IP ranges, so we can link to Global Contribs for IP ranges easily. Templates that link to XTools may require some special handling, though. —
MusikAnimal
talk 05:03, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
"Azerbaijan: MTN (until 2015)" Gfigs ( talk) 19:52, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
I have just used the reference Navy Board Ship Models [1] - but the copyright information at the front of the book clearly says "Copyright National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 2018". There seems to be no field for this important piece of information. Have I missed it, or does it not exist? Thanks, ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 15:03, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
References
So I decided to learn Lua, and am banging my head on the screen to get this simple for loop to work here. What am I doing wrong? Cheers. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 09:10, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 504)(I get that a lot). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 01:17, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Everyday now I'm receiving the "There have been multiple failed attempts to log in to your account from a new device" notification, Can this notification be disabled as it's now being used by a sock to annoy me. Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 11:41, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I've had a request to restore List of firsts in India to an editor's userspace. When I try to restore it with full history, I am consistently getting (over a couple of days of trying) the following error:
Database error: To avoid creating high replication lag, this transaction was aborted because the write duration (6.6316473484039) exceeded the 3 second limit. If you are changing many items at once, try doing multiple smaller operations instead. [802e408b-c4c2-4eff-84ce-bd4d017a979d] 2021-05-26 08:16:25: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionSizeError"
I can restore a single revision so that the content can be viewed, but the history is lost. Is there currently a server issue (I couldn't find details of any) or can anyone suggest a workaround? The article has a fairly substantial history but nothing out of the ordinary. Thanks. -- Michig ( talk) 08:22, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
I have customized "Number of edits to show in recent changes, page histories, and in logs, by default" in
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc, but
Special:WhatLinksHere now always shows 50 items unless the URL has limit=n
. I feel like WhatLinksHere respected that setting and showed the custom number of links, or am I misremembering?
Nardog (
talk) 12:50, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
rclimit
user preference (and then to update the message verbiage at
MediaWiki:recentchangescount to advertise it). —
xaosflux
Talk 13:14, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.util'], function () {
var name = mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ).replace("Special:WhatLinksHere/", "");
mw.util.addPortletLink(
'p-tb',
mw.util.getUrl( 'Special:WhatLinksHere/' ) + encodeURIComponent(name) + '?limit=100',
'100 links here',
'pt-morelinkshere',
'100 pages containing links to this page',
null,
'#t-whatlinkshere'
);
});
I am a Crosstor and I ask if there is an archive that has been in a recorded state for 3 years now, for example? I want to know how my article once disappeared without a trace from Esperanto Wikipedia. All my searches failed. If I had a fixed condition for 3 years, I would definitely find the article. This is not listed on the standard cancellation discussion board, meaning someone has deleted it arbitrarily and secretly. Sincerely, Crosstor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crosstor ( talk • contribs) 13:36, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I've installed the script but it doesn't work well. What can I do? Dr Salvus 13:40, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
no leading zeroes. (example: 9 - correct, 09 - incorrect, however you used leading zeros. — xaosflux Talk 14:51, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
OPTION
and VALUE
are placeholder text to be replaced with the option you want to set a value for.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:19, 27 May 2021 (UTC)The template Template:United Kingdom topics has a link at the bottom "Index" which links to Index of United Kingdom-related articles. Per WP:NAVNOREDIRECT it should link to Index of United Kingdom–related articles. I would change it, but can't find where it is in the template when I edit. Thanks DuncanHill ( talk) 14:22, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
|country=The Gambia
instead of |country=Gambia
and |prefix=the
, so maybe the way to fix this would be to change that instead. –
Rummskartoffel (
talk •
contribs) 22:12, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Is it me, or has the text whitespace around thumbnails gotten bigger suddenly, especially below them:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Curabitur pretium tincidunt lacus. Nulla gravida orci a odio. Nullam varius, turpis et commodo pharetra, est eros bibendum elit, nec luctus magna felis sollicitudin mauris. Integer in mauris eu nibh euismod gravida. Duis ac tellus et risus vulputate vehicula. Donec lobortis risus a elit. Etiam tempor. Ut ullamcorper, ligula eu tempor congue, eros est euismod turpis, id tincidunt sapien risus a quam. Maecenas fermentum consequat mi. Donec fermentum. Pellentesque malesuada nulla a mi. Duis sapien sem, aliquet nec, commodo eget, consequat quis, neque. Aliquam faucibus, elit ut dictum aliquet, felis nisl adipiscing sapien, sed malesuada diam lacus eget erat. Cras mollis scelerisque nunc. Nullam arcu. Aliquam consequat. Curabitur augue lorem, dapibus quis, laoreet et, pretium ac, nisi. Aenean magna nisl, mollis quis, molestie eu, feugiat in, orci. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.
( Hohum @) 01:22, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm guessing this is one of those "perennial" questions. Could someone point me to some previous discussions that ask about separating article/user pages from the talk pages for the watchlist. Example: I want to watchlist John Wayne, but don't want to see the talk page show up in my watchlist (or the reverse). I had asked on VP talk, but it seems to be rather sparsely tended to at the moment. If this belongs at a different section, (Idea lab, proposal, etc.), feel free to move. thanks. — Ched ( talk) 07:39, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I copied {{ Coord}} to {{ X24}}, then from my user sandbox invoked
{{X24|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=inline}} {{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=inline}}
The call to {{tl:X24}} results in "Coordinates: Missing latitude", even though the two templates should do the same. Any idea why this is happening? Thnx, Ponor ( talk) 06:47, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
{{Template:Coord}}
is specifically identified as a wrapper template in
Module:Coordinates (line 54). See
Module:Arguments § Wrappers for an explanation. Basically, to get it to work like you want, you'd have to add {{Template:X24}}
to the wrappers
list in Module:Coordinates
—
sbb (
talk) 07:31, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2021_May_7#Category:Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_White_Eagle_(Poland) ended with permission to recreate the category. It can include 100+ entries from which it was removed in the past. Is there any way to automatically repopulate it, reverting the old removal of it from those articles post-deletion? Another workaround would be to just add it to articles it is present in on Polish Wikipedia and that have equivalents on English. I am certainly not looking forward to manually adding it to applicable articles... help! :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:53, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Due to
a problem with Twinkle, I have
nominated the same article three times. I
fixed the problem.
However, I would like an admin to merge my three AfD into one, since obviously there is two too many. Thanks in advance!
Veverve (
talk) 10:38, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
My apologies for writing that on en.wiki, but I don't know which Wikimedia-website to consult for this kind of problem. The wa.wiki main page is playing up right now for unknown reasons. I precise that nobody has modified the "main page" (which is, of course, protected) nor a template/module related to. Wa.wiki uses the same module of main page as wa.wiktionary. However, the main page of wa.wiktionary seems still working correctly.
Thank you in advance for your help,
--
Èl-Gueuye-Noere (
talk) 18:31, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
</div>
is the closing tag of
a div
element. Like the vast majority of HTML elements (
there are very few exceptions), each opening <div>
tag must have a balancing closing </div>
tag. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 19:59, 29 May 2021 (UTC)Is there a script that excludes dab pages from the maroon-coloured substub formatting which can be enabled in Special:Preferences under "Appearance"? Daß Wölf 14:48, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
$(".stub.mw-disambig").removeClass("stub");
should do the trick, I think. Dunno if there's a better way, though. –
Rummskartoffel (
talk •
contribs) 20:11, 29 May 2021 (UTC)As an IP, try to create a category (or follow a red link). You are not allowed and the banner points to
Wikipedia:Article_wizard/Category, which redirects to
Wikipedia:Article_wizard, which does not let you create Draft:Category:...
because of the namespace, and instructs you to follow the category's red link, so you are stuck in a loop. --
62.98.124.182 (
talk) 20:38, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
At The Gambia at the Commonwealth Games there is a category displaying at the top of the page which must be transcluding from some template or another (possibly Template:Infobox country at games?). No clue how to fix it, so I'm leaving it here for Wikipedia's technical A-Team. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 01:37, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
|games=Commonwealth Games
in the infobox (just judging by comparison with
Canada at the Commonwealth Games for instance. I added the parameter to the infobox. —
sbb (
talk) 01:58, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes#%40keyframes Harsh Rathod Poke me! 08:18, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Consider the pages Wikipedia:VPT and Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical). Here, Wikipedia:VPT actually redirects to Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical). My question is, is there any method by which I can identify all the pages which contains the text Wikipedia:VPT that is actually a redirect? I have checked What Links Here, but its not a solution as it contains links with both the source and redirected title. Adithyak1997 ( talk) 10:28, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Any reason it no longer links to the bock log? —— Serial 09:40, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
This blog post is written in the context of local government in the UK, but the issues are generic. What can we do, as editors, to improve our carbon footprint while still serving our mission? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:25, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
What parameters are supported by Template:Cite sign? We are told on the page to copy a blank version, but there is no blank version to copy. Pinging @ Tyrone Madera: for courtesy as they asked the same question. DuncanHill ( talk) 15:22, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
At https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Xaosflux/sandbox101&diff=prev&oldid=1018149200 (and any other suppressed revision), when you press on the top revision text (that says Revision as of 14:33, 16 April 2021 in this one), it says that this page revision has been removed from the public archives. Details can be found in the deletion log for this page. It should say that "this page revision has been suppressed", as it is oversight, not revision deletion. aeschylus ( talk) 12:46, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
This page revision has been <strong>deleted</strong>. Details can be found in the [{{fullurl:{{#Special:Log}}/delete|page=$1}} deletion log].
There seems to be an image caption positioning issue in {{ Infobox Site of Special Scientific Interest}} which can be seen in Bewick and Beanley Moors, and which is that when there is also a locator map, the caption for the image is beneath the map, rather than beneath the image. The dissociation of image and caption seems wrong and unhelpful. Grateful if this issue could be given some attention. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 20:34, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I just found User talk:2600:8800:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 and I have to wonder: is this even a thing? Will it work as intended? Will every IPv6 user in that 32-bit netblock be notified of new messages here? What about IPv6 netblocks? Can I leave a message for User talk:128.65.0.0/16 as well? Or is this just a simple user error? Elizium23 ( talk) 01:07, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
For me, tables with the class "mw-collapsible" or using {{
collapse}} (or similar), instead of having a hide link, it appears like this: [hide]. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 21:12, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 21:34, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 07:12, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 09:50, 31 May 2021 (UTC){{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 10:36, 31 May 2021 (UTC)I'm an avid user of Writ Keeper's excellent In-place diffs, especially in the watchlist, so I don't always need to open the changed page. It'd be great if I could cross that off the watchlist rather than keep count of everything I already looked at before clicking "mark all as read". I see this was proposed 10 years ago but couldn't find the solution. I would've thought that bullet in the watchlist could work as read/unread toggle, as it does under notifications. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 00:32, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm used to seeing notices about "configured pending changes settings" in history, but never boxed up and presented at the bottom of the article page below the categories like this. So why does Trypophobia have a box echoing a revision made by Callanecc in 2017, and formatted just like a review pending changes input box, with a button for me to Unaccept their years-ago edit? Was this part of the release that gave us the mystery-font size issue?
Snippet of html from the footer of Trypophobia
|
---|
<div id='mw-data-after-content'>
<form method="post" action="/?title=Special:RevisionReview&action=submit" id="mw-fr-reviewform">
<fieldset class="flaggedrevs_reviewform noprint">
<legend id="mw-fr-reviewformlegend"><strong>Re-review this revision</strong></legend>
<p></p>
<p class="fr-rating-controls" id="fr-rating-controls">
<span id="mw-fr-ratingselects" class="fr-rating-options">
</span>
<span id="mw-fr-confirmreview">
<label for="mw-fr-commentbox" class="fr-comment-box">Comment:</label> <input name="wpReason" size="40" value="" id="mw-fr-commentbox" maxlength="500" class="fr-comment-box" /><input name="wpApprove" id="mw-fr-submit-accept" accesskey="s" title="Mark this revision as accepted [s]" disabled="" type="submit" value="Accept revision"/> <input name="wpUnapprove" id="mw-fr-submit-unaccept" title="Revoke acceptance of this revision by marking it as unaccepted" style="" type="submit" value="Unaccept revision"/>
<script>var jsReviewNeedsChange = 0;</script> <span id="mw-fr-logtoggle" class="fr-logtoggle-excerpt" style="display:none;">(<a class="fr-toggle-text" title="Toggle display of the latest entry in the pending changes protection log">hide pending changes protection log</a>)</span></span>
<div id="mw-fr-logexcerpt"><ul class='mw-logevent-loglines'>
<li data-mw-logid="86418828" data-mw-logaction="stable/config" class="mw-logline-stable"> <a href="/?title=Special:Log&logid=86418828" title="Special:Log">05:02, October 21, 2017</a> <a href="/wiki/User:Callanecc" class="mw-userlink" title="User:Callanecc"><bdi>Callanecc</bdi></a> configured pending changes settings for <a href="/wiki/Trypophobia" title="Trypophobia">Trypophobia</a> [Auto-accept: require "autoconfirmed" permission] <span class="comment">(Persistent addition of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INTREF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INTREF">unsourced or poorly sourced content</a>)</span> <span class="mw-logevent-actionlink">(<a href="/?title=Trypophobia&action=history&offset=20171021050237" title="Trypophobia">hist</a>)</span> </li>
</ul>
<a href="/?title=Special:Log&page=Trypophobia&type=stable" title="Special:Log">View full log</a></div></p>
<input type="hidden" value="Special:RevisionReview" name="title"/>
<input type="hidden" value="Trypophobia" name="target"/>
<input id="mw-fr-input-refid" type="hidden" value="0" name="refid"/>
<input id="mw-fr-input-oldid" type="hidden" value="1026062748" name="oldid"/>
<input type="hidden" value="3928ec26fb9fdebbabbead26754c8eaf60b470c3+\" name="wpEditToken"/>
<input id="mw-fr-input-changetime" type="hidden" value="20210531050433" name="changetime"/>
<input id="mw-fr-user-reviewing" type="hidden" value="0" name="userreviewing"/>
<input type="hidden" name="templateParams"/>
<input type="hidden" name="imageParams"/>
<input type="hidden" name="fileVersion"/>
<input type="hidden" value="d9d7ef2024098573ee57c1de169900a8" name="validatedParams"/>
</fieldset>
</form>
<div class="read-more-container"></div>
</div>
|
Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 05:20, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Just curious... If importScript is deprecated and mw.loader should be used instead
,
[1] why is
Script Installer still using importScript? Is it just a string replace in the script, or does it require some transition? Cheers.
— 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 (
talk) 00:19, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
eval() is also slower than the alternatives, since it has to invoke the JavaScript interpreter, while many other constructs are optimized by modern JS engines.. I don't think
new Blob()
has that problem, though of course both will raise the blood pressure of anyone looking at your code.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 20:03, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
function importScript(location) {
mw.loader.load( '/?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=' + location);
}
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 10:29, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 11:25, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
encodeURIComponent(location)
instead of just location
(otherwise it'll fail on loading pages with names having a space in them). –
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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm just a poor back-end server guy, who occasionally dabbles in javascript, usually with sub-standard results. I've got two scripts ( source here) I've written which appear to have a race condition which sometimes causes them to run twice. I load them from User:RoySmith/common.js. The first:
mw.loader.load(' https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/spi-tools-dev/spi/tag-check.js');
does some DOM-manipulation to {{ checkuser}} templates to add an indication of how the account is tagged. That's the "M" in the yellow box in the screenshot. The other ones:
mw.loader.load(' https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/spi-tools-dev/spi/spi-tools.js'); mw.loader.load(' https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/spi-tools-dev/spi/spi-tools-dev.js');
add the "SPI Tools" and "SPI Tools (dev)" items to the More menu. Maybe once in 50 page loads, one or both of them runs twice. The screen shot shows an example where they *both* ran twice. Anybody know what's going on? I assume this is not using the mw.hook() function correctly? Perhaps wikipage.content is the wrong event to be using? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:24, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
$.ready.then(function() {...});
rather than hooking on wikipage.content – which is meant for scripts that need to run following changes to the DOM caused by other javascripts running on the page. –
SD0001 (
talk) 16:37, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
$(function() {
// Handler for .ready() called.
});
I am seeing hundreds of error messages on COVID-19 pandemic in India. The error is in bold and red "Lua error: not enough memory." When trying to edit the page, more errors of the same kind appear. (Also seeing the same at the commons category for the same article "Category:COVID-19 pandemic in India") DTM ( talk) 12:45, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
{{Update|date=April 2021}}
. I've put it back and all those Lua errors they have gone. They can also be removed by removing the date preference template so there is some weird interaction of the templates above the infobox. I've no idea why. I've left the unnecessary update template as I think that is better than all the red lua errors, but I have no clue about how to fix the problem. —
Jts1882 |
talk 16:55, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
mw.wikibase.getDescription
) and {{
commons category}} (via code in
Module:WikidataIB using mw.wikibase.getBestStatements
). It appears the tracking in
Module:Coordinates could be easily re-written to use that function and presumably not use a huge amount of memory, but the same thing does not apply to
Module:Official website, which uses some fancy logic to prefer English-language websites over websites in other languages.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 16:18, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
|display=inline,title
to |display=inline
in the {{
coordinates}} template (and remove the {{
update}}). This removes the coordinates at the top of the page, but it's not clear they should be there in the first place since the pandemic isn't definable to one location.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 15:16, 31 May 2021 (UTC){{coord|10.5276|76.2144|format=dms|type:village_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
) reduced that to 29 MB.
Johnuniq (
talk) 07:57, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
|display=inline,title
in {{
coord}} as Pppery suggested produces the same reduction from 51MB to 29MB. And as the location applies to the first covid case and not the whole article on covid in India, I don't think it should be there.mw.wikibase.getEntity():getBestStatements()
and mw.wikibase.getBestStatements()
and use of mw.wikibase.entityExists(qid)
is worth remembering. —
Jts1882 |
talk 08:32, 2 June 2021 (UTC)I wanted to see a full list of all most imported scripts with descriptions and last modified dates, not just the ones selected in WP:USL, and not separated in groups, so, after quite a bit of help here, there and everywhere, I got what I wanted here: Wikipedia:User scripts/List/sandbox. Feel free to improve it, if you have any ideas ( others have already done so). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 01:21, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
What's going on with bulletpointing using the asterisk? Unless it's just me, something has clearly changed, as if to create a new "level zero" of black circular bullet points instead of the grey square ones.
As an example at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#RD:_Gavin_MacLeod, look at the change that my comment made - compare [5] and [6]. My comment indented using :*, but that's also changed the following comments to use the old bulletpoint style. Black Kite (talk) 22:14, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
** x
(which means <li><ul><li>x</li></ul></li>
within the original list, not :* x
which I believe will end the original <ul> and create a completely separate definition list containing a bulleted list.
User:GKFX
talk 22:38, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
<li>...</li>
elements to be emitted bare - that is, without the enclosing <ul>...</ul>
tags. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:58, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
* bullet point</div>
with no newline before the tag. I still don't quite understand what happened, but it works now.
User:GKFX
talk 18:59, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
I imagine most people this affects have seen it already, but just in case, I'm giving this more visibility. If you run code that uses CSRF tokens, you'll need to know about this change. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:17, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi all
I've been playing around with Special:LinkSearch, I think it could be an extremely useful for Wikipedians working with external organisations to encourage them to share knowledge and content if we could provide them with a total number of links. Is there something I can add to the URL to make it display a total? Here's an example search
If this isn't something I can do already is this something technically simple I can ask for on Phabricator?
Thanks very much John Cummings ( talk) 11:00, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM externallinks WHERE el_index_60 LIKE 'https://org.unesco.%';
), or with a lot of API queries and some manual processing of the results. A count built into the page would probably have to be capped for performance.
Anomie
⚔ 11:52, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
%
in there is capturing all of them, if you wanted it to be more specific you could put in "org.unesco.en%" for only en.unesco.org for example. —
xaosflux
Talk 16:24, 2 June 2021 (UTC)The phantom command used to work fine. But now when I use the phantom command in a math formula I get an error message: User:Just_granpa/sandbox.
Here is a discussion about it at stackexchange: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/599758/phantom-command-error Just granpa ( talk) 11:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
Text in non-Latin scripts should never be in italics or boldface. This is especially true for Chinese, which becomes unreadable in bold or italics even to many who could usually read it. Nobody deliberately typesets Chinese in bold or italics, but many infoboxes do so, as they automatically format text in italics or in bold (for example, book titles). Depending on the infobox, this can be fixed either with a
language code parameter or in the
more
pedestrian way of using {{
noitalic}} or {{
nobold}}.
The problem is how to actually find all these violations: is there a way to search for any text displayed in bold or italics that uses a given non-Latin character set? —
Kusma (
talk) 09:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Now at Template talk:Infobox. — Kusma ( talk) 12:59, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Please rename Stadio Pierluigi Penzo to Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo. Thanks!!! -- 93.35.184.189 ( talk) 15:41, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
I forked Mdaniels5757's excellent markAdmins script, in spite of it being configurable, bc I wanted to use icons with tooltips instead of acronyms in paranteses separated by slashes. I managed to ungroup them in the xml from the user links, so it can be tooltipped, but haven't figured out how to do that. Any suggestions? I tried this. but evidently that's not it. I gather I need to create abbr nodes, but I'm fumbling in the dark. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 07:55, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
<abbr></abbr>
is incorrect markup. Would you be happy with a <span></span>
using a title attribute? I believe most browsers (I'm ignoring smart phones, as usual) show item titles as a tooltip when you hover. See
Template:Tooltip (and its code) for ideas. —
JohnFromPinckney (
talk /
edits) 11:44, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
Need Template Help if Possible - Tried to upgrade the " Template:Human timeline" to a somewhat larger (for better font sizes) template at => " Template:Human timeline/sandbox5" - some of the Note links (on the right side margin) seem OK (4 of 10), but several Note links (6 of 10) are NOT OK (no linking?) for some reason (except for these 6 Note links, all other of the 28 links in the template are OK) - I'm stumped with the 6 (NOT OK) Note links at the moment - any help with these particular links would be greatly appreciated - Thanks - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 14:56, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
@ Buidhe, Hike395, MarMi wiki, and Rummskartoffel: (and others) - Thank you for your comments - QUESTIONS: is there a Fix for this problem Display Bug? (click-and-drag-mouse doesn't seem to work) - or should this concern be presented (escalated?) to some other appropriate Wikipedia discussion group? - if so, which one exactly? - in any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 21:31, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
Done @
MarMi wiki and
Rummskartoffel: (and others) - Possible Solution - all links now seem to work OK (using => WinTel10/ChromeBrowser/DellXPS8900) in "
Template:Human timeline/sandbox5" - after removing/commenting-out => "
annotations-width=8.8
" in the template coding - hope this helps in some way - iac - Stay Safe and Healthy !! -
Drbogdan (
talk) 00:53, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
I made a module and its template: {Module:Cube 3D} and {Template:Cube 3D}. The module is working fine but I don't get why the HTML is not rendering when we use the template: User:Harshrathod50/Cube 3D. Harsh Rathod Poke me! 04:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
<div style="/* insecure input */"></div>
. There is a possibility your Lua could be amended to remove the offending inline styles and then you would get some output, but it would not necessarily be the output you want (one of the styles in question would be acceptable with TemplateStyles, but I leave that as an exercise to the reader)
Izno (
talk) 05:12, 3 June 2021 (UTC)@
Izno: Where to get the list of css style attributes not accepted here? Why the var, calc
are insecure? I don't get it. What is TemplateStyles?
Harsh Rathod
Poke me! 06:00, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
How to print the sanitized output on the console?
Harsh Rathod
Poke me! 07:23, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
@
Izno: Just a little help once again. Can you please point out those properties which are causing the problem. Right now the properties containing var
are the problem. I got that. Is there any more issue that you could point out. I also want to ask where can I see this output you saw: <div style="/* insecure input */"></div>
Harsh Rathod
Poke me! 08:00, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
url()
is insecure and is stripped from wikitext. It is allowed in TemplateStyles for a small set of websites. The output was in browser console.
Izno (
talk) 17:23, 5 June 2021 (UTC)The protected
Template:Country data Czech Republic was edited today to set shortname alias = Czechia
. This breaks some uses of the template that uses the country name to generate a link to an article. For instance {{flb|CZE}}
now expands to non-existing
Czech Republic, while before it expanded to
Czech Republic. The same for
Template:fl-rt,
Template:fl19,
Template:flw and others. Can someone please fix this somehow? I cannot edit the protected template, nor am I sure what is the right course of an action (revert the change? rename the articles? create a redirect? add
link alias-floorball
exception? (though other uses apart from floorball might be affected too))
Sidenote: While I personally do not object the use of "Czechia", it seems that the change violates a consensus: Talk:Czech Republic#Czechia.
Thanks. Prikryl ( talk) 09:22, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Occasionally, I am welcomed on a different-language Wikipedia (so far Italian and German). This seems to happen spontaneously. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 14:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
After a Teahouse discussion, the two people helping me there suggested that I ask here. (For a quick summary of that discussion, see the 6 June 2021 comment by User:Ganbaruby.)
Here are two examples (each going to a wrong location within the target Wikipedia article, COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois):
User:Ganbaruby reported that the Redirect he/she tested misbehaved in Safari, but worked correctly in Chrome. (All my testing was in Safari; sorry: I don't know how to determine what version of Safari I was using.) CWBoast ( talk) 02:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Any suggestions on how to search a page's diffs? For example, I want to know if there are any previous edits of Parliament of Singapore which are similar to Special:Diff/1027141563. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:12, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
which are similarcomponent is going to be a far stretch. If you just want to search for a phrase or string, you could use Special:Export to export all of the revisions of the page, then just use a text search tool on the output file. (Limited to 1000 revisions). — xaosflux Talk 14:14, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
In the infobox at Bantu languages, the Southern Bantu branch doesn't show up, even though it is present in the code. I found out that the number of displayable branches is capped at 20 (something I hadn't realised as of yet), and the parameter "child21=" results in an internal error message. What's the best way to deal with this awkward situation? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 19:16, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
<br>
in child20. But the whole idea of displaying a list of numbered parameters seemed pointless so I replaced it with one long parameter containing the list.
[8] Maybe the infobox documentation should suggest this. The list is rather long for an infobox but it's not my field.
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talk) 21:51, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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Can I configure my Wikipedia account to use MFA? Ideally, it would work like GitHub or NPM where I can use an authenticator mobile app and have some recovery codes which I can use in case when my phone is stolen. Grillofrances ( talk) 02:25, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm a marine biologist specialized in Echinodermata. I would like to be informed of any new picture of these animals so I can review the identification and, when useful, add them to the relevant Wikipedia articles. But as there are over 7000 species of the, of course I can't check all the categories every day. I used to benefit from Ogrebot's newsfeed for a long and useful time but it is no longer working. Do you guys know any other way I could get such uploading newsfeed ? (knowing that I'm not a hacker).
Thanks and best regards,
FredD ( talk) 07:22, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Take a look at Dillon County under "Major intersections" in South Carolina Highway 38. There are two places called Oak Grove, South Carolina. The one that had an article before I added the one in Dillon County has more people and is obviously more notable.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:43, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
I am making a tool for monitoring Category:Requests for unblock. I looked at the IRC feed but it does not seem to monitor additions and removals from categories.
Right now I am using the API to ask for its members every few minutes, but it would be nicer if I could get a feed as I prefer not to bother the API too much. Does anyone know a better way to monitor for additions and removals from a category? HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 02:44, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there a way to build a URL which gets you to the "Change protection" screen, but with fields pre-filled? You can do that with block user, via Special:Block, i.e. this, but as far as I can tell from the wikimedia manual, there's no version of that for page protection. What I'm hoping to do is be able to have a script which creates a link you can click on to take you to a pre-filled out form, which you just have to review and click the "Confirm" button. I know I can do it directly through the API, but if I can do it with a clickable link, that would be preferable. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
name
attribute of the input fields. You can inspect the DOM to see what they are. This technique should work on most all forms in MediaWiki. Here's an example that touches almost every field:
[15]. —
MusikAnimal
talk 16:24, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Five minutes ago, my Watch list looked like it always did. Is it my imagination, or are the square green boxes on the left new (as of the last 5 minutes, it seems). Some are green. Some are the same old blue color they always were. I went over and looked at my Commons watchlist, and the little boxes to the left are all the same blue color. I'm not sure what the green color is supposed to signify. Clicking on any color of them, does not change the color. So, what is the purpose? — Maile ( talk) 23:08, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
type
effectively overrideable?So I made a function in
Module:Lua class (last function) that tries to override/build upon the default type
to support new "types". I was testing it in
User:Alexiscoutinho/sandbox 1 and noticed that it behaves differently if you are previewing. When you view the sandbox normally, it should contain "table table table". However, if you preview the page (without edits of course) it would now contain "class Base instance" (which is desired). What is going on? Why is the type
function behaving differently?
Alexiscoutinho (
talk) 21:33, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
@
Awesome Aasim and
BrandonXLF: The editing window for QuickEdit appears in the text editor for addmylinks. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 18:50, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 06:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 15:53, 6 June 2021 (UTC){{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
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When I load any .js page on the desktop version of Wikipedia, I cannot paste or copy text, so I have to switch to the mobile version. Is there a way to get a round this? (I think
WikEd allowed me to view text normally.) ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 16:52, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 19:55, 8 June 2021 (UTC){{
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on reply) 06:25, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
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on reply) 21:28, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
<>
icon at the left of the toolbar to switch between the normal editor and the code editor.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:37, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there any way to make links to other language wikipedias, commons, Wiktionary, etc, open in a new tab? I sometimes forget that they don't behave like normal external links and it's annoying. DuncanHill ( talk) 00:59, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
$(function() { $('.extiw').attr('target', '_blank'); });
to
special:mypage/common.js. –
SD0001 (
talk) 04:20, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
'.extiw'
to '.extiw .interlanguage-link-target'
to cover them as well. –
SD0001 (
talk) 16:37, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
'.extiw, .interlanguage-link-target'
–
SD0001 (
talk) 16:52, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Alexiscoutinho ( talk) 22:43, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone know what's happening here? It seems like an attempt to create a redirect to a centralized talk page, but the "../" isn't something I've seen before and it's not currently working. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 17:58, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Why am I seeing one hidden category showing up at the top of the main category list at the bottom of an article?
On the article
Simone de Beauvoir, the first category I see is "
Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers", a maintenance category. The next two cats are
Simone de Beauvoir, followed by
1908 births; these two correspond to the first two categories explicitly in the article wikicode. The first category is not in the wikicode anywhere, which is not surprising, as it is a maintenance category that is probably dragged in by a citation with an |oclc=
param.
I have my preferences set so that I see hidden maintenance categories, and after the main category list which is displayed to everybody, the hidden cat list starts off with: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list; CS1 maint: archived copy as title; Articles with short description, and so on. Why doesn't the WORLDCATID maintenance category appear somewhere with these hidden categories, instead of the top of the main category list? Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 01:32, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
At Miawpukek First Nation, I tried to embed an infobox in order to remove duplication and shorten the infobox. It didn't work too well. If an editor could look at User:Magnolia677/sandbox I would appreciate the input. Thank you! Magnolia677 ( talk) 10:49, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
QUESTIONS: Tried uploading a recent NASA 2gb PNG image ( at " https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA24663_fullres.png" on NASA-page => " https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24663" ) (takes awhile - ~1hr/?) - but Commons didn't seem to accept it for some reason - is the image file-size too large for Wikipedia? - Is there some workaround? - image seems relevant to several NASA articles (ie, " Perseverance (rover)", " Timeline of Mars 2020" and possibly more) - downloaded image file opens OK in my Firefox browser (Wintel10/Firefox/DellXPS8900) - iac - Thanks in advance for a reply - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 11:41, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
FWIW - seems — * Perserverance at Van Zyl (AVideo360; 1:40; Spring 2021) on YouTube ( related site; 2GB PNG-image) — added to " Timeline of Mars 2020#External links" may be sufficient for now - Thanks for all the comments above - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 14:58, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Have you ever been frustrated because there's no way to map namespace numbers to namespace names in a database query? I hereby present Quarry 55924 for your amusement. There's hacks, there's ugly hacks, and then there's hacks that are so ugly you're proud of them. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:40, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
enwiki_p
, the SQL should also (preferably) be wiki-neutral to maximise reusability. The method in
Quarry 55915
SELECT CONCAT('[[', IF (pt.pt_namespace=14,':',''), '{{ns:', CAST(pt.pt_namespace AS CHAR), '}}:', pt.pt_title, ']]')
dewiki_p
, enwiki_p
, commonswiki_p
, & metawiki_p
. -
Cabayi (
talk) 07:29, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
SELECT CONCAT('[[', IF (pt.pt_namespace=6,':',IF (pt.pt_namespace=14,':','')), '{{ns:', CAST(pt.pt_namespace AS CHAR), '}}:', pt.pt_title, ']]') page,
amended to handle files as well
|
---|
No documentation, so I hacked one example, so it needs to be pretty. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 08:37, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
Bad documentation}}
template, you don't need to post here. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:49, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Silly Question: is it possible change to User:Talk:Talk from User:0mtwb9gd5wx ? .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 08:47, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
for (;;)
would be cool/amusing as my
"forever" username. Boy, was I ever wrong.
Cabayi (
talk) 09:25, 13 June 2021 (UTC)On
this revision of my common.js page, all the code is disabled. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 14:20, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
About a month ago I brought up the possibility of removing the education program talk namespace at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 189#Education program namespace removal. This was prompted by T217137 and similar tasks which resulted in removal from other Wikis following that the namespace was emptied either through deletion or moves. Currently there are 0 pages in the Education program namespace and 1,427 pages in the Education program talk namespace. My plan is to move most pages from their current location of Education program talk:FOO to Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/FOO. Some pages that have no significant content (such as the supported by wikied messages) will/have been deleted outright without archiving. Assuming there are no objections in the next few days I will proceed with this plan. -- Trialpears ( talk) 08:38, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm noticing that Template:Authority control at the bottom of articles isn't autocollapsing today as it usually does. Anyone else notice this? – Muboshgu ( talk) 19:11, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
A how-to guide asserts that Vega Code can be copied to wiki and be used to generate charts/graphs. Then, why does this code not work? TrangaBellam ( talk) 10:20, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
graph
extension though - so you may get some better responses here:
mw:Extension talk:Graph. —
xaosflux
Talk 11:53, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Apologies for all the pings. Vega 3.0 (or later versions) are not integrated according to T165118. T223026#7117287 mentions quite-old developments and I would be interested to know of any updates. TrangaBellam ( talk) 13:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, probably just my device, or, are there any other mobile users experiencing categories being visible(in a block like manner) whilst in mobile view? is there a d.i.y manner for me to remedy this? Celestina007 ( talk) 20:34, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
#catlinks {display: none;}
to
your minerva.css. –
Rummskartoffel (
talk •
contribs) 21:02, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Bug? The "Next 500 results →" link at https://sigma.toolforge.org/usersearch.py?name=50.201.195.170+&page=Talk%3AWuhan_Institute_of_Virology&server=enwiki&max= doesn't work. Σ runs it? (Leads to https://sigma.toolforge.org/usersearch.py?startdate=None&name=50.201.195.170+&page=Talk%3AWuhan_Institute_of_Virology&server=enwiki&max=500 which leads to itself. Started here.) -- 50.201.195.170 ( talk) 23:50, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Up until recently there was not a way to search for edits by IP addresses. At some point this became possible, but I have simply never gotten around to implementing this. → Σ σ ς. ( Sigma) 10:00, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
the link above doesn't work because there's a space at the endUmm...gaslighting? The links in my OP above obviously don't have spaces in 'em. They can't; they're bare URLs. (And no %20's either.) No, they were certainly not working and work now. -- 50.201.195.170 ( talk) 00:05, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Clicking on "Find edits by user" today is taking me to a new user interface at xtools.wmflabs.org. It was a different one until yesterday. Is there any notice or discussion around this? How can I remove the pie charts that show up in that page? I could not find a way to see a customized result, even after logging in to that site. Or, how can I go back to the older interface? - Jay Talk 13:02, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
I already addressed this concern at Wikipedia talk:User scripts#Not working but no one is responding. Help me, please. — hueman1 ( talk • contributions) 14:08, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Uncaught ReferenceError: capitalScript is not defined at <anonymous>:1:701 at domEval (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at runScript (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:13) at enqueue (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at execute (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:14) at doPropagation (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:6)
— hueman1 ( talk • contributions) 02:23, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
importScript('User:WikiMasterGhibif/capitalize.js');
–
SD0001 (
talk) 08:16, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there a command which, for lack of a better term, I'd call {{scrunch}} which would do what I requested here? (what someone on the help desk calls "Yes the gap is kind of annoying") Pi314m ( talk) 00:58, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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googling Special:CreateAccount for example, or googling Special:UserLogin or any other special page to my knowledge, I've seen it always says "No information is available for this page. Learn why." Why is that? Also some others like googling Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations also don't seem to work either, but it never seems to work for special pages. Why does it not work specifically for special pages, or for any other specific page? It doesn't appear to be the same as noindexing, as you can search for the page, it just doesn't give you info. 54nd60x ( talk) 13:44, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Special pages can't be indexed because there is nothing to index: a special page doesn't actually exist until you visit it.Could you please explain that? Does it mean that special pages have visible content but they aren't actually editable as it's just transclusion of MediaWiki pages? Also, why is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations and perhaps some other non-special pages noindexed? Does it have to do with privacy? 54nd60x ( talk) 10:41, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Disallow: /wiki/Special:
. Special pages are generated on demand and often rely on url parameters. Many special pages often change content, depend on the user viewing them, or have rather arbitrary content we don't want random searchers to find instead of our articles.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:41, 13 June 2021 (UTC)@ PrimeHunter: I was browsing special pages and found that the content can be changed with ?uselang=$1, as in Special:SpecialPages vs. Special:SpecialPages?uselang=es. However, I noticed that the content of Special:MathWikibase is always written in the wiki's language (i.e. it's in Spanish on es.wp and in English on en.wp but the contents are not messages and the content of the page cannot be changed based on user preferences.) Where is the source content of these special pages that allows it to be different across different wikis, and how can it be edited if some major change must be made? 54nd60x ( talk) 00:48, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
There is something broken at Schengen Area: the text seem to be mostly in red with some huge font size. I have slow connection to the internet at the moment and can not debug it. Can someone look at it? -- Jarekt ( talk) 09:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Anyone seen a template or Lua function that returns the link or id to the last revision of a given page before the current one? (Bonus points for one that returns the last revision by a given user!)
Cheers. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 05:13, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
diff=cur&oldid=prev
help? As in {{
diff|Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|cur|prev|this diff}}
→
this diff. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:04, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Can the {{ BLP editintro}} be displayed on any article whose talk page contains the {{ BLP}} header? Aasim ( talk) 03:30, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
BLP editintro}}
is shown automatically when editing a page categorized as either
Category:Living people or
Category:Possibly living people. The edit intro is injected into the edit URL by
MediaWiki:Common.js.{{
BLP}}
message is shown (when viewing, not when editing) if a {{
WikiProject banner shell}}
is present, and it has |BLP=yes
; also if a {{
WikiProject Biography}}
is present, and it has |living=yes
, and is not enclosed in a {{
WikiProject banner shell}}
.{{
WikiProject Biography}}
with |living=yes
. I don't think that it is still running. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:16, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
if ( mw.config.get( 'wgNamespaceNumber' ) === 0 ) {
$( function () {
if ( document.getElementById( 'disambigbox' ) ) {
addEditIntro( 'Template:Disambig_editintro' );
}
} );
$( function () {
var cats = mw.config.get( 'wgCategories' );
if ( !cats ) {
return;
}
if ( $.inArray( 'Living people', cats ) !== -1 || $.inArray( 'Possibly living people', cats ) !== -1 ) {
addEditIntro( 'Template:BLP_editintro' );
}
} );
}
From a sub-discussion at WP:VPW#IP Masking Update, you get the attached warning box when you try to block a sensitive IP range. What produces that? Is there some edit filter? Something in the interface? Back-end wikicode? And, more to the point, how can we add 192.0.2.0/24, to give admins a safe (sandbox) range to experiment with? -- RoySmith (talk) 17:08, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Quick CSS question, what's the default left margin between the edge of an image and the article body text? I'm trying to get a table to match. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 23:34, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
floatright
or floatleft
classes.)
Izno (
talk) 00:33, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
PLease can someone help me fix
this revision of my page. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 18:06, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
scriptmanager
, but check scriptmanger
, without the second "a". scriptmanger
is presumably undefined, and will throw an error.
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 18:54, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 19:01, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
function importScript(location) {
mw.loader.load( '/?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=' + encodeURIComponent(location));
}
Thanks Writ Keeper! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwerfjkl ( talk • contribs) 19:29, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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I'm not sure if there's an appropriate place to suggest this apart from here, so just throwing it out: I just corrected "Rieter" to "Reiter" in a ref, something that happens fairly often. I think if we made a semi-automated tool that found automatic last names in references (the same way the citation tool does) and spit out a list of instances where it differed by only one letter, it'd get quite a few hits. Does this sound feasible, and if so, would anyone like to take it on? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:04, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Please see:
Other than the left margin what differences, if any, is your screenreader showing in the 2 sections.
Testing for accessibility problems. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 23:05, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
style=display:inline-table
can not be added within the table wikitext, because long captions will mess things up in mobile portrait view, or other narrow screens. It must be added outside the table wikitext."(unindent). Wow, that's great, isaacl. I added the <div> example on the bottom here:
I did not need the padding. Instead one can leave a space between the ending and beginning div tags. Or put them on 2 different lines:
</div> <div style=display:inline-table>
-- Timeshifter ( talk) 02:20, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Player | Matches | Goals |
---|---|---|
Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson | 407 | 0 |
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson | 364 | 1,875 |
Player | Goals | Matches | Average |
---|---|---|---|
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson | 1,875 | 364 | 5.15 |
Ólafur Stefánsson | 1,570 | 330 | 4.76 |
Everybody: Narrow your browser screen to see the tables wrap (one drop below the other). Works in mobile view too. The relevant div wikitext:
<div style=display:inline-table> --Table-- </div> <div style=display:inline-table> --Table-- </div>
-- Timeshifter ( talk) 13:23, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
How come there are still issues with the font size when using the classic vector skin gadget (e. g. as to the rendering of references and categories)?-- Hildeoc ( talk) 14:08, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
font-size: 0.8125em;
for .mw-body-content, #bodyContent
in
MediaWiki:Gadget-VectorClassic.css, I guess. --
AKlapper (WMF) (
talk) 18:31, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Did someone change the text in the orange box that comes up when someone leaves you a new talk page message, and if so, could we change it back (or for me to change my stylesheet to change it for myself)? It's longer now and "Talk" is randomly capitalised. Anarchyte ( talk) 06:47, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
When I point my mouse at de Havilland DH 108 the preview shews the title, a picture, and the text "|produced = 1946–1947". Something is wrong in the infobox but I can't see what. DuncanHill ( talk) 02:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there any reason why Wikipedia appeared to be inaccessible around one hour ago? All other websites were working properly, but every time I tried to go to any Wikipedia page, a WMF error page showed up instead. LSGH ( talk) ( contributions) 10:19, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
I am locked in a weird argument with another editor about whether Wikipedia should serve valid HTML or not, and what qualities wikitext needs to/does not need to/should not have. We're so entrenched in our opinions that I think I'm going to make my first RfC. My question (placed here, since HTML generation is kind of a technical matter) is: where would such an RfC be most appropriate? Help talk:HTML in wikitext? Somewhere else? — JohnFromPinckney ( talk / edits) 19:21, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
whether Wikipedia should serve valid HTMLthough sounds like a software bug (i.e. if we are "serving" invalid html in our rendered pages to viewers) - if the bug is coming from something we've done on-wiki - then place it near where that it, if the bug is coming from the linter/rendering engine/etc - then open a bug report. Fixing technical malfunctions doesn't normally require as much of a consensus gathering exercise like changing the manual of style would. One thing you've done well is to think about this ahead of time - and really what page hosts the RfC isn't super important, so long as it is advertised at any of the venues that are applicable and ends up being well-attended. — xaosflux Talk 20:48, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
<li>
elements (which they add manually into the wikitext) don't need <ul>
or <ol>
so insists on removing them or reverting my additions. I say the resultant page is invalid HTML (although my browser seems to display it nicely) and so is wrong for us to do (and recommend, for example, on
Help talk:Table). —
JohnFromPinckney (
talk /
edits) 21:34, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
<li>
that occurs outside of any enclosing <ol>...</ol>
or <ul>...</ul>
pair is indeed invalid. See
HTML 5.1 spec, the part beginning "Contexts in which this element can be used". --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:02, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
<li>
tags. See
Category:Articles with HTML markup —
GhostInTheMachine
talk to me 22:27, 15 June 2021 (UTC)</p>
is not strictly necessary for MediaWiki installations that output HTML 5 (such as Wikipedia)." --
Timeshifter (
talk) 00:06, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
<p>
for you, such that the page output does not contain invalid HTML code. (See
here for an example.) It doesn't do that for uncontained <li>
, so that's not a relevant comparison here.
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 00:38, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
<p>
, the page output would not be invalid HTML. If you refer to the
HTML 5.1 spec it has a whole paragraph headed "Tag omission in text/html" which is quite comprehensive - there are very few situations where the omission of a </p>
would not be valid. In XHTML it was quite true that omitting a </p>
tag was invalid (in fact, all closing tags were mandatory), but the MediaWiki software was switched from outputting XHTML to HTML5 in September 2012. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 07:57, 16 June 2021 (UTC)</p>
tag is mentioned eight times - all of which are in examples, it is not used in text. The <p>
tag is found ten times - eight of which are in examples, paired with the aforementioned </p>
tags, one is in a summary label and just one is in the text. There is nothing that explicitly states that <p> without </p> is also malformed HTMLor any variant on that. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 07:57, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I want to thank everyone who chimed in here and below and at Timeshifter's talk. I appreciate the extra experience and knowledge. — JohnFromPinckney ( talk / edits) 10:37, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I just noticed this:
For some use cases it is possible to emulate the ifexist effect with css, by using the selectors
a.new
(to select links to unexisting pages) ora:not(.new)
(to select links to existing pages).
Has anyone taken a stab at putting that into a template? I'd imagine it'd use a WP:TemplateStyles css to declare the class and hide the redlinks (though I see there was some controversy about doing that 13 years ago). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 23:24, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
manipulating color). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 02:53, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:SockBlock § Inaccessible on mobile. I'm posting this here to get more eyes on the issue, and hopefully formulate an appropriate edit request. In short, {{ SockBlock}} cannot be viewed on mobile unless the desktop website is used, or by opening into the edit window for source material. Unfortunately, I don't have the technical know-how to be able to convert the template properly. Ideas welcome. Sdrqaz ( talk) 17:27, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
At the very least, could we update out documentation so all of our message boxes clearly say whether they are visible on mobile or not? A quick ctrl-f mobile gave me zero information about this. For things that we want to be visible on mobile, we should use code that makes them visible on mobile. — Kusma ( talk) 19:25, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
(I was told to ask here from the Teahouse, see Wikipedia:Teahouse#Possibility_of_viewing_tooltips_on_mobile.) Is it possible to view tooltips in articles (the ones indicated by dotted underlining) while viewing Wikipedia on mobile? Although the underlining appears, when that is touched the tooltip doesn't appear. This is the same even when using Desktop view in mobile. NS-Merni ( talk) 06:15, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
When you edit a module, the second infobox says "Editors can experiment in this modules's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages." when it should be "Editors can experiment in this module's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.". Alexiscoutinho ( talk) 20:14, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
How come when inserting a copied Wiki link to a lemma with special characters like
/info/en/?search=%C3%9Cbermensch
(for the article
Übermensch) and selecting To a wiki page
in the "Insert link" form of the 2010 wikitext editor toolbar, the output is still a faulty link %C3%9Cbermensch
with a warning saying The requested page title contains invalid characters: "%C3".
– as has been the case for many years now? This seems to happen in all Wikis, by the way. (Has there ever existed a corresponding Phab ticket or anything similar dealing with this issue?)--
Hildeoc (
talk) 21:29, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
[[/info/en/?search=Apple]]
The URL you specified looks like it was intended as a link to another wiki page. Do you want to make it an internal link?
--
Hildeoc (
talk) 14:41, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
I've seen a couple of similar discussions, but they are very old. Every time I talk about deleted contributions below I mean DEPRECATED TEMPLATES.
Alexiscoutinho ( talk) 14:26, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
I'd ask at User talk:Evad37/OneClickArchiver.js but Evad37 doesn't seem to have been active since the beginning of this month.
I tried archiving a discussion at
WP:ANI with OneClickArchiver and it's
archiving the wrong one. The automated edit summary is labelling the discussion that I want to archive, though, so it seems like some sort of heading detection issue. Anyone know what the problem is? (please
mention me on reply) —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 ) 22:36, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
This link isn't working, it says that section editing is not enabled. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 22:18, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
section=new
in the url but JavaScript pages don't have sections. Where did you see the link?
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:31, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 06:19, 19 June 2021 (UTC)There is a discussion going on at wikiproject basketball regarding presentation of statistical data for players in basketball articles. I won't reprise all of the discussion, but some editors prefer only ratios for certain statistics. While I support the inclusion of ratios, there are times I think it's helpful to see the statistics as totals per year. While showing both might be an obvious answer, the inclusion of all fields in a single table generates an unwieldy sized table.
I'd like to explore an option to eat our cake and have it too.
I'm intrigued by the presentation in many info boxes about locations that gives you the option of showing one of several maps or all maps with a simple click of a radio button. As an example, see the info box for Alliance,_Ohio, which allows you to choose whether you want to present a map of Ohio, a map of the United States, a map of North America, or all three. While I can see that this is done with a switch, I haven't figured out whether this same concept could be applied to tables.
In short, I'm trying to figure out if I can set up something so that a single table (probably defaulting to the ratios) is presented but the user has option to switch to the totals table or to see both.
I've presented example data in User:Sphilbrick/Stats_options. The first table labeled "ALL" is not what I want as it is too wide, although it does reflect the standard presentation in typical schools media guides or record books. What I would like to do is have both tables available, the one labeled "Ratios" and the one labeled "Totals", with one showing as a default and the ability with a radio burtton to switch to the other or see both simultaneously. I am concerned about Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility issues. My hope is that the broad acceptance of the map option means the accessibility concern doesn't apply. (As a related point, I had some initial concerns about the header row showing popup abbreviations, but I see MOS explicitly allows that MOS:NOHOVER.)
Can someone tell me if this is feasible and if so how to implement it?
As a secondary technical question, I generally like to use the visual editor to add tables by constructing them in Excel and then copying and pasting them. I haven't figured out how to handle the heading row using visual editor. Is there something I'm missing?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:11, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
scope="col"
, producing
Special:PermaLink/1029041109
* Pppery *
it has begun... 14:50, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
I thought I'd try including the two tables in the article in a special section that would be hidden, then transclude the two tables into the switcher template but that attempt failed miserably. I'm guessing that it is not acceptable to do a tranclusion on a page that incorporates information from that same page; I got a template loop error.
I did find an approach that works, see User:Sphilbrick/Stats example, but I'm worried that this will be frowned upon because I dropped the tables into sub pages then transluded.
According to Wikipedia:Subpages in the section on disallowed uses:
Using subpages for permanent content that is meant to be part of the encyclopedia.
I think the rationale is that a reader should never have to visit a sub page to see relevant content but that doesn't apply in this case given the transclusion. It does mean that updates to information by editors would require visiting there but editors unlike readers are not going to have any difficulty locating the data.
I put together a simple example so that it's visible here rather than having to go to the user page to see it:
YEAR | GP | MPG | APG | BPG |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 18.56 | 1.15 | 0.59 |
1996-97 | 28 | 17.86 | 1.25 | 0.54 |
YEAR | GP | MIN | A | BK |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 631 | 39 | 20 |
1996-97 | 28 | 500 | 35 | 15 |
-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:40, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Pppery, I have some success with your {{ wikitable}} suggestion. Here's a toy example:
YEAR | GP | MPG | APG | BK |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 18.56 | 1.15 | 0.59 |
1996-97 | 28 | 17.86 | 1.25 | 0.54 |
YEAR | GP | MIN | A | BK |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 631 | 39 | 20 |
1996-97 | 28 | 500 | 35 | 15 |
An example with real data can be seen in User:Sphilbrick/Stats example
The only downside is that it requires me to construct the tables manually, line by line and using the sub pages allows me to copy and paste tables from Excel, but I have a feeling the community is not going to accept sub pages. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help, one of these two options should work.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 11:22, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
How I can see original upload//log/page for this image (it was moved to Commons)? Current file has comment "I created this myself 20/4/08" by Taopman. What could a comment from those years mean? I found source which says that take a picture was only possible on 27 April 2007. Eurohunter ( talk) 12:24, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
self|cc-by-3.0}}
. There is nothing else in the deleted history. —
Kusma (
talk) 12:45, 19 June 2021 (UTC)There is a discussion at Template talk:Nihongo#Template-protected_edit request on 7 June_2021 — Kerning issues about the use of CSS margins to modify kerning within the Nihongo template. Some technical insight would be appreciated. — Goszei ( talk) 06:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Harv cites are not my jam but when Harv errors and warnings litter an article it annoys me so I try to fix them. That being said, since they are not my jam, they are often a source of frustration to me because I usually cannot easily figure out exactly what is wrong. So, O Wiki Technical/Coding Mavens Who Understand All The Niceties of Harvard/Sfnm/etc Citations... could someone PLEASE take a look at Chester A. Arthur and tell me why it is littered with 44 "Harv errors"? I tried to fix one - the Abbot cite - but was unsuccessful. If you could explain it here, maybe step-by-step in somewhat plain English so my addled brain can understand that would be awesome. If you don't mind, please don't fix the issues at the article - explain it here and I'll get at it myself. I know it's probably something incredibly simple but I am just not seeing what the issue is at the moment. Thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 17:24, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
Excerpt}} Gives the impression that I can transclude a specific table if it has an ID.
I've looked at
Help:Table But I'm not clear how to create the ID. Is it done with an anchor?--
S Philbrick
(Talk) 16:46, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
When I look at War of the Fifth Coalition on my Android mobile with Chrome Version 91.0.4472.101, I cannot see the result of the template "Campaignbox Napoleonic Wars" and I get no warning that something cannot be displayed. Even if I turn on desktop mode I cannot see any result of any campaignbox. The same is true for my Android tablet with Amazon Silk. The campaignboxes are very important to allow the user to navigate easily from article to article. Ruedi33a ( talk) 14:54, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
navbox-mobile
which is similar to navbox
but renders on mobile. {{
Navbox}} and other templates could have an option for which class to use. Editors would probably disagree which navboxes are important enough to show on mobile so we would get one more thing to fight over.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:56, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
navbox-mobile
to render on both desktop and mobile, not forking to only render on mobile.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 09:50, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
|mobile=yes
. If the parameter is set then they add a new class navbox-mobile
instead of adding navbox
. navbox-mobile
should have the same styling as navbox
so it renders the same on desktop, but it also renders on mobile since navbox
is no longer present. This assumes the mobile developers don't decide to also omit navbox-mobile
from mobile. We can make a guideline about only using |mobile=yes
on small or essential navboxes. Individual navbox templates may pass on the parameter, e.g. using {{
Academy Award Best Actor}}
on
Academy Award for Best Actor to render on that article in mobile, but not on the biographies.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 20:59, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
The fundamental problem with mobile seems that Wikipedians like to manually write things that work on the desktop with no regard for mobile.This is simply not true. The
{{
campaignbox}}
template has been using class="navbox"
for many years, and did so long before the devs started writing a special skin for mobile displays and provided the
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ domain to go with it. It was the devs who made a deliberate decision that any element belonging to the navbox class should not be displayed in mobile. So don't blame Wikipedians. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 07:19, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
makes no sense. The next obvious solution is to cull and cut down desktop navboxes until they make sense also on mobile, and to display them everywhere again. — Kusma ( talk) 08:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
First I have to thank everybody joining this discussion about my question. I started as an ignorant human being and now I am on the long, cumbersome way to become a Wikipedian.
Summary: As a simple user I did not know the link "Desktop" hidden at the bottom of every wiki page. I have tried it now once and the result on my mobile was disastrous: the normal text is OK, the text of the infoboxes and campaignboxes is too small to be readable and must be increased manually. I will never use desktop mode again. If a wikipedian will say to me use "Desktop" mode to see the campaignboxes, I will know that this is an answer out of
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: absolutely correct but does not help at all. The situation is that a user sees only 95-99% of this kind of wiki article on his mobile/tablet and gets no warning.
I suggest this solution: The simple infobox is a perfect replacement to solve the problem but the infobox seems to be too boring and too ugly for wikipedians. Compare Template:French invasion of russia mobile with Template:Campaignbox Napoleon's invasion of Russia. I suggest to replace each campaignbox with an infobox or something better than infobox that is visible on a mobile/tablet.
Ruedi33a (
talk) 11:00, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Could someone give me a non-technical current consensus please? For example Ruedi33a has created {{ Peninsular War 1810 1811 mobile}} (currently transcluded from 16 articles) to replace {{ Campaignbox Peninsular War (1810–1811)}} (currently transcluded from one article). That is just one example of the many new "mobile" templates they have created. Is there any consensus for this? FDW777 ( talk) 11:45, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Which combination of page protections, user rights, and actions produces review/approve-a in the logs? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:07, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Since the last time when I open an article, the paragraphs open automatically, please fix the bug and make it open manually. Mohmad Abdul sahib☆ (message☎me!) 19:38, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Firstly, Im not sure if this is the correct forum for "how to..." questions - if not, please re-direct me!
I have created a template related to the civil war and mercenary involvement in the Congo in the 1960's - this is the template, let's call it Target Template:
The section titled "Main Operations and Battles" contains a list of events that is described in another template - below is the one concerned - lets call this one Source Template:
The "Source Template" data for "Main Operations and Battles" is the primary data and is maintained in "Source Template" by unknown editors. To keep "Target Template" up to date, I can (a.) copy all the "Main Operations and Battles" wiki-links from "Source Template"' to "Target Template" [this is what I have done] and check from time to time that any changes made to "Source Template" is manually replicated to "Target Template;" or (b.) nest the data from "Source Template" directly inside "Target Template" so that it is only maintained in "Source Template."
I want to use option (b.) - please assist in letting me know how to do this? Farawayman ( talk) 20:09, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there a gadget to expand all collapsed sections on a page, including nested ones? An article like My Little Television needs over 50 clicks to show all its content, which can be inconvenient when searching. I could probably throw some JavaScript together to fiddle with the mw-collapsible-* classes but the idea seems too obvious to be original, so I expect this wheel has already been invented. Certes ( talk) 17:00, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
$('.mw-collapsed').each(function () { $(this).data('mwCollapsible').expand() });
would do it, but they shouldn't be collapsed in the first place per
MOS:DONTHIDE.
Nardog (
talk) 17:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
I, being a mobile user, cannot copy text from a page's normal view, and have to into editing mode to do it, which can be problematic on pages using {{PAGENAME}} and similar. Is there a way around this? ―
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How to create such graphs? I know that external application for it is needed. Eurohunter ( talk) 22:46, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm looking for a template to strip formatting from a wikilink and give me the raw target. {{ Delink}} works quite well but for piped links it gives me the label instead of the target.
For example, I want:
I did try using Module:String a regular expression but the pipe character is confusing things. Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 06:49, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
delinkWikilink(s)
at
Module:Delink#L-38 to do that because titlearea
(poorly named, that) gets the target article name so you could return it after
Module:Delink#L-59?{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=no}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=yes}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=target}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|]]|wikilinks=target}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu]]|wikilinks=target}}
{{
!}}
is a |
):{{
#invoke:String|match|s=[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|pattern=%[%[([^]{{
!}}
]+)|plain=0|nomatch=}}
MarMi wiki (
talk) 22:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)If anyone can help, there is a gif I'm using on Cai Lun's article. However, at FAC, two users have expressed that it goes rather quickly between images (an insight I agree with); I attempted to use this website to slow down the process to five seconds per image, but when I uploaded it, it became exact some speed. Any advice or solutions would be appreciated—and apologies if this is the wrong forum for such a query. Best - Aza24 ( talk) 22:38, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
When WikiMiniAtlas coordinates are inside a File template in an article, the tooltip is cut off by the image box and is not shown outside of it, as can be seen on this page. I tested this on Windows 10 in Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Does anyone else have this problem? DxhaFFer ( talk) 14:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there any way to get a gallery to display on a specified number of lines (for desktop)? I got the one here to display nicely on one full line on my display, but when I tried a different monitor it went onto a second line. There doesn't seem to be anything at Help:Gallery tag, so I'm thinking it might be necessary to use some HTML in the widths parameter or something like that. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 23:08, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
I get
Uncaught ReferenceError: pathoschild is not defined at <anonymous>:5:89 at domEval (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at runScript (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:13) at enqueue (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at execute (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:14) at doPropagation (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:6)
when running this code:
pathoschild.TemplateScript.add({ name:'ScriptInstallation', script: function(editor) { editor .prepend('== Installation ==') .prepend(';Method 1:') .prepend('Get [[User:Enterprisey/script-installer|ScriptInstaller]], then navigate to [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}.js]] and click "Install" at the top.') .prepend(';Method 2:') .prepend('(This can be used on any-language Wikipedia.)') .prepend('# Place {{tlx|lusc|1{{=}}{{FULLPAGENAME}}.js}} on the bottom of [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] or [[Special:MyPage/skin.js]].') .prepend('# Press "Publish Changes".') .prepend(';Method 3:') .prepend('(This can only be used on the English Wikipedia.)') .prepend('# Place {{tlx|iusc|1{{=}}{{FULLPAGENAME}}.js}} on the bottom of [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] or [[Special:MyPage/skin.js]].') .prepend('# Press "Publish Changes"') .appendEditSummary('Added script installation text') .clickDiff(); } });
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on reply) 17:27, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 18:10, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
pathoschild.templatescript.js
is already loaded. Your
common.js calls the loader and then runs the above code straight away. This does not give any time for templatescript.js
to be fetched and so it has not yet defined the pathoschild
object. Take a look at
mw.loader.using or
TemplateScript as a gadget or framework for ways to defer your code to after the script has loaded —
GhostInTheMachine
talk to me 19:01, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
editor.prepend('some text{newline]')
? ―
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𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 13:22, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
\n
to create a line break, e.g. editor.prepend("Line 1\nLine 2")
. –
Rummskartoffel 15:20, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
/n
. {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 15:42, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Is there updated version of this blank map with national borders? The other question is how to edit it expect Paint? Eurohunter ( talk) 18:52, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
When I check my watchlist the Navajo line has an odd note beside it - a small clock symbol - and when I hover over it "30 days left on your watchlist" shows up. When did that start and why? Vsmith ( talk) 16:14, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
I made a thread here a while back about how strong formatting shows up within mobile amboxes (unlike bold formatting): Template talk:Notability#Strong markup. Is this a proper use of strong formatting? Any technical thoughts, ideas? — Goszei ( talk) 01:05, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
On desktop, amboxes are considered important enough to display even to non-editors. This is used by non-editors to recognize when there are potential issues with an article on WP. But on the mobile versions of Wikipedia, the amboxes are hidden or relegated to a subpage (E.g. on the Wikipedia iOS app, amboxes are not displayed but instead there is a link "page issues" at the end of the article.)
My opinion is, we should give amboxes similar prominence on mobile that we give them on desktop. I.e. display them at the top of the page or section. 15:44, 20 June 2021 (UTC) TOA The owner of all ☑️
I recently tagged a page for speedy deletion using those tabs at the top of the page (can't remember what they are called). The tagging happened correctly, the creator was messaged, but the page itself did not then appear on my watchlist. I'm sure when I've done this before the pages were added to my watchlist. DuncanHill ( talk) 23:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Background
Traditionally, WMF projects and volunteers coordinated on Freenode IRC servers. Should we migrate (or aim to migrate) these projects to Libera Chat instead? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:13, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
The question here is to address what we should general aim to try to do. I'm well aware each project is independent and can setup IRC channels wherever they want. However, we could decide that we encourage specific servers and discourage others, and try to migrate the 'official' Wikipedia/Wikimedia IRC channels to Libera instead of Freenode. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:17, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Is there a setting to make the enhanced watchlist (that which groups changes to the same page) show up on mobile? Cheers. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 03:17, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Tech folks,
Special:WantedCategories and Special:UnusedCategories always update every 3 days, starting on the first day of the month but they haven't updated today. I have no idea what bot or program is responsible for updating Special pages and these pages have no edit history to check. They have talk pages but not ones that anyone ever checks. Any ideas? Is there a general lag today? Liz Read! Talk! 19:52, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
the Job gets run every three days, but can take more than a day to get through the list.So unless it is a couple of days over, its not worth raising a phab ticket yet. — xaosflux Talk 20:10, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
I thought once upon a time, we were able to just open the lead section and edit it. I don't see such a link now. Did I imagine such a thing existed? Did I change some preference that took it away? I use Modern skin. — Maile ( talk) 02:22, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
[edit]
link at the end of the page title. Are you using the desktop site? Which skin are you using? —
xaosflux
Talk 10:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)See WP:VPM#Server switch for details. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:47, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
I've filed a BRFA that proposes a task to substitute all uses of {{ date}} in mainspace, given that (a) its documentation says that it should only be used within other templates, and (b) there is no need to use the template in articles, simply writing out the date serves the same purpose.
This is technically a cosmetic task, as the rendered wikitext wouldn't change - I would hope that some latitude can be extended given that it would be a one-time run, and is "enforcing" (for want of a better word) existing documentation. Of course, we may decide that the documentation doesn't accurately reflect consensus - in that case the BRFA can be withdrawn/denied and the documentation updated.
It may be best for comments to be made at the BRFA to keep things in one place, although I'm equally happy for the discussion to happen here. Thanks! firefly ( t · c ) 17:20, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to get the shortcut box at Wikipedia:Task Center to the top of the page without pushing the header box off-center? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:54, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
clear}}
(or apply the style clear
to the div) just after the div.position:absolute
(with z-index:1
to make it on top).
MarMi wiki (
talk) 23:43, 27 June 2021 (UTC)I use the responsive monobook skin, which changes several things depending on the size of my window/screen. When I receive a crosswiki notification, it shows up as a little blue "1" in the notifications inbox in both designs. However, if I click on it to see the notification, I can only see it in the classic design. There is no "notifications from another wiki" message in the small-screen/mobile version (but all notifications from enwiki are visible there). There seems to be no way to find out what a crosswiki blue 1 is about without changing screen size / turning off the responsive design. Is this intentional? If no, can this be fixed? If yes, why? Could crosswiki notifications at least have a different colour? (So I know I can't read them on my phone and will have to wait until I get back to my desktop). The software telling me I have messages but sometimes not telling me what they are isn't great. — Kusma ( talk) 08:57, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Turning Javascript off makes the "Recent activity" box on Special:Notifications disappear. Does anybody know which piece of code produces it? — Kusma ( talk) 11:29, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Adding .mw-echo-ui-notificationsInboxWidget-sidebar {display:block;}
to
User:Kusma/monobook.css unhides the Recent activity box. It is a rather ugly workaround (I have to scroll to the side on my phone), but I don't speak CSS so I can't fix this. Thank you
Rummskartoffel for the help! —
Kusma (
talk) 14:51, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia logo shown on the left-hand-side panel with Skin:Timeless is a PNG image, but all other Wikimedia projects with Skin:Timeless use an SVG image for their logo. As the PNG logo is bitmap, the Wikipedia logo becomes blurry on higher-resolution displays, yet the SVG logo of Wikipedia is available. I also noticed that this issue happens across all Wikipedias so there should be a global solution for it. 🐱 💬 11:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
At the current FARC for Duke University, I'm wondering if there's any easy way to simultaneously ping all 50 members of Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Duke University. I've seen this done fairly often at Wikidata, but I'm not sure if the same functionality exists here. If not, I think it'd be a nice thing to create. We would probably want to build a safeguard to prevent abuse by limiting it to categories with, say, less than 100 members. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:18, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
let api = new mw.Api();
await api
.get({
action: "query",
format: "json",
list: "categorymembers",
cmtitle: "Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Duke University",
cmnamespace: "2",
cmlimit: "50",
formatversion: "2",
})
.then(response =>
response.query.categorymembers
.map(entry => `[[${entry.title.split("/")[0}]]`)
.join(", ")
);
[[User:Example]], [[User:Example]], [[User:Example]] ...
, which you can then just paste as wikitext. –
Rummskartoffel 21:21, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
importScript( "User:Rummskartoffel/generate pings.js" );
instead. –
Rummskartoffel 08:48, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Where is the message that currently displays "Technical maintenance will be performed soon 05:00 UTC - 05:30 UTC During this time you might not be able to save any edits."? It's wrong; 05:00 UTC was more than eight hours ago. Judging by Tech News above, it should read 14:00 UTC to 14:30 UTC - can we get this changed? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 13:40, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
I have noticed this for quite a while so decided to do a quick test with it today (it's not meant to be super comprehensive so bear with me).
I open Phillip Davey with my dev tool opened and "Disable cache" checked. I then refresh the page 10 times to see the average loading time. Then I repeat it after logged out.
The difference is very obvious: ignoring any resources, only look at the first HTTP request for the HTML:
I understand it can't be as fast, but this is pretty bad and very noticeable when just browsing around. Is there anyway to improve it? Thanks! -- fireattack ( talk) 14:47, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
— 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 22:24, 28 June 2021 (UTC)An ad-hoc analysis among users of en.wikipedia.org who have edited in the last 30 days shows that about 4% of active editors have the "thumb size" option set.
Anyone else having this issue or is it just me? Satellizer el Bridget (Talk) 03:22, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Has someone an idea how to resolve the sfn error on User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/Guallatiri? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 10:36, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
At WikiProject Sweep, we're still stuck at the stage of trying to determine the criteria of the list of pages to be swept. Would anyone be able to answer or know where we could go to find the results of these queries?
Cheers, {{u| Sdkb}} talk 09:04, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Would it be possible to perform some sort of check so that {{ Contains special characters}} is only displayed when someone actually lacks the rendering support needed to display them? It's unneeded otherwise, and as rendering technology has improved over time, this has become increasingly common. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:34, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Please refer to this discussion. The image File:Young_Folks'_History_of_Rome_illus090.png does not seem to want to render correctly on any pages. Can someone with technical knowledge please fix? Thanks. -- œ ™ 08:37, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
In fact, many similar images in commons:User:Helix84/gallery don't seem to display either. -- œ ™ 08:41, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm trying to query Wikidata in an enwiki gadget. Sadly it just throws CORS errors, the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header is missing. I don't get it.. does this mean it's impossible to query Wikidata in an enwiki gadget? — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 21:16, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
origin=*
. There's a phab ticket somewhere that seeks to make this requirement unnecessary. –
SD0001 (
talk) 08:14, 28 June 2021 (UTC)'origin' parameter does not match Origin header), why doesn't it just check that something else? A passed parameter can't be trusted anyhow. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 19:12, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey there,
I've a contentious statement that is supported by a lot of sources, and I'm trying to group them in a note so we don't have a whole list in-line. Is there a better way to do this than this? Specifically, is there a way of exposing the refs in the note, so that they're immediately visible when hovering with the mouse pointer?
Thanks. François Robere ( talk) 08:46, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
There is a bug in one of the unblock templates, I posted about it on the talk page but I don't think anyone is watching it as it was empty. Any help at Template talk:Unblock-un on hold would be greatly appreciated. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 06:17, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
blocking administrator
was left in place. I've tried using the template and filling in the parameters and it appears to work as expected. I could however be missing something!
firefly (
t ·
c ) 06:25, 1 July 2021 (UTC){{{3|{{{reason|original unblock reason}}}}}}
(line 23) to get the unblock reason, which is correct, but the decline template uses {{{1|{{{reason|original unblock reason}}}}}}
(line 27) to get the unblock reason, which is wrong as parameter 1 is where the blocking administor's name goes. To fix this, you would just need to replace the shown code on line 27 with the shown code on line 23. –
BrandonXLF (
talk) 06:44, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
I keep getting an error message, "An error has occurred while searching: Search is currently too busy. Please try again later." In other tries it is super slow. Abductive ( reasoning) 02:33, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search= is currently failing, a first, in my experience. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 05:57, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Why does Ollagüe appear in Category:Articles containing undetermined-language text? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 15:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
|native_name=
but not |native_name_lang=
to the infobox.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 15:29, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey! So I was sending a mass message, and while my log states that I only sent one message, why does MediaWiki MassMessage Delivery sometimes send the message later again, to certain pages on the message list, but not to all pages, for example, I sent a message at X o clock, only once. Then a few hours later, I did not send another message, via mass message, and the same message will get sent again. Even though I only sent it once, and my log only shows I sent it once. This has happened 2 times now. Is there a way to fix this? -- つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 21:41, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
The OpenStreetMap conference, "State of the Map", has an impressive, easy to use, tool for switching timezones on its programme page.
Could we use that, or something very like it, on Wikipedia and sister projects, for our events? The tools I've seen used by us for such things seem much more clunky. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:52, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a way to produce a list of pages within a given category which contain at least one redlink? For example, Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics has one redlink (it did have a few more, but I created redirects). Can a search be done on either Category:Canada at the Summer Olympics by year or Category:Nations at the 2000 Summer Olympics to find pages with at least one redlink? Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:23, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi, If the articles have been deleted uner PROD or BLPROD, where can we find the hist diff/log for the nomination of PROD/BLPROD edits? Thaks in advance. Cassiopeia( talk) 09:32, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
tags: [ "twinkle" ]
is probably the edit that added the PROD. If you also want the diff ID for some reason, you can look for &drvprop=
in the URL and replace it by &drvprop=ids%7C
. –
SD0001 (
talk) 05:07, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Statistics stopped working, see [37] - "pageviews-20210702-110000.gz" is the last file. -- BlueDonny ( talk) 05:45, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
This may be related to this discussion at the RedWarn talkpage.
When I try to edit pages, I cannot publish changes, which I think is due to this error:
mdlLogic.js:1 Uncaught URIError: URI malformed at decodeURIComponent (<anonymous>) at Function.t.EPPyTH (mdlLogic.js:1) at t (mdlLogic.js:1) at Object.mw.loader.load (<anonymous>:2:180) at Object.preloadDeflate (<anonymous>:351:854) at <anonymous>:40:348
― Qwerfjkl talk 18:20, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Greetings.
I am with you one of the Arabic Wikipedia editors :), I work sometimes in a dark atmosphere (like now when writing to you) on a bright white screen, which annoys me a bit especially when I see the page of the site, I think we could coordinate with the rest of the other wikis or with programmers in Wikipedia in order to give this appearance, and make it Within the Appearance section of the preferences page for each Wikipedia user, with the ability to specify the time of their appearance (as it is present and familiar to you in the settings of computers (such as Windows 10) or mobile phones), and it is not hidden from you that these sites exist in other recent sites such as Twitter and YouTube.
Could you please accept this small suggestion :)? Thank you and best regards. -- A3bdula3ziz ( talk) 01:39, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Ohh that is nice. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 07:34, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
How do I get rid of the sfn error on User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/Eifuku? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 20:56, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
|ref=none
to the wikitext of ref 15, to explicitly state that the sfn should link to the other one.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 21:06, 3 July 2021 (UTC)<ref name="CantwellNewman2016b">{{cite report|last1=Cantwell|first1=Kasey|last2=Newman|first2=Jim|url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/17556|year=2016|title=Okeanos Explorer ROV dive summary, EX1605L3, June 26, 2016}}</ref>
* {{cite report|last1=Cantwell|first1=Kasey|last2=Newman|first2=Jim|url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/17555|year=2016|title=Okeanos Explorer ROV dive summary, EX1605L3, June 25, 2016}}
{{
sfn|Cantwell|Newman|2016|p=3}}
don't know which to link to.
|ref=none
to the one in References.|year=2016
to |year=2016a
in one and to |year=2016b
in the other, and in the {{
sfn}}
alter |2016
to either |2016a
or to |2016b
whichever is applicable. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:33, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
If [/info/en/?search=Talk:Main_Page?action=delete] this is correct, I have a question. Does that mean that if I were to make over 5,000 edits to my user page, no one here would be able to delete it? And what if over 5,000 edits were made to an admin's own user page, and they couldn't delete it by their own request? This doesn't seem clear why the protection should be given in this case. Are there any exceptions to this? And can an admin send a screenshot of what happens when attempting to delete pages with 5k+ revisions? 54nd60x ( talk) 12:26, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Apparently the 5k limit is not all. There is also an special deletion in place when pages exceed 1000 revisions. When an page that big gets deleted, that is put into Job queue and the revisions are deleted in batches, from oldest to newest. Even if the page gets edits or even moved from the point that the admin requests for deletion, then that action is still archived just like with an normal deletion, and any subsequent deletions of the same page whilst this process is underway does not affect the process - that was actually tested by the developers. There is a note on pages like those that there is an deletion in progress. See phab:T198176.-- Snævar ( talk) 10:38, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
If my memory serves me right very large pages were deleted in the past, either by accident or due to compromised accounts. It was highly disruptive causing a lot of load on the database servers as well as taking a long time to restore. This was very long ago, back when being here for 2 years made you an old timer. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 08:52, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
I have problems with mobile search on Chrome in iOS, with the articles I frequently read not appearing with incomplete search strings, but appearing only when complete. For example, when typing in COV and expecting to see COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic and related articles in results, I would see Covariance, Coventry, Covina, etc. Is this a bug, problem with browser, or something else?- TagaSanPedroAko ( talk) 07:07, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
The past few hours if i type a name into the upper-right search bar it doesn't show up. For example if i type Julian Assange his name doesn't appear but "Julian Assange Show" does. are other users experiencing this weird issue?? 158.222.185.250 ( talk) 11:55, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
I also want to reiterate problems I've been having with the search function today, as users here and here have. One way the problem manifest itself to me recently was that it required not only a complete string to return the article I was looking for; it required case sensitivity as well. For example, if searching for the article Light of a Clear Blue Morning, typing "light of a clear blue morning" or even "Light of A Clear Blue Morning" does not return it in the search bar. It must be complete and correct title case for the article to appear at all. This is not the only problem I have encountered with search today, but it is a specific anecdote that might shed some light on the nature of the problem.
It does not appear to be limited to Chrome on iOS, as has been previously speculated. This problem occurs for me across two devices, neither of which match those specifications.-- Sunshineisles2 ( talk) 23:22, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Every version of Remdesivir, since creation, when I start to edit it, displays:
Lua error in Module:Sanctions at line 60: attempt to index field '_topicData' (a boolean value).
when I copy to sandbox this does not happen. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 19:27, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
In the article President of Portugal I saw some texts overlapped together at the Graphical timeline (since 1910) section, which illistrated with timeline tag, is there any way to make collision avoidance there? -- Great Brightstar ( talk) 17:40, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Context: [38]. Google Chrome has implemented this "text fragment" URL feature for a year now, and it is today used within at least 9,260 articles. When a URL with this ":~:text=" string is clicked in Chrome, the page will be jumped to the corresponding text (strangely, my search shows these also have been added in inter-wiki links). They don't work in browsers other than Chrome, and don't even work all the time in Chrome (at least for me).
Google Search has been appending this string to its results in order to jump people to the text in webpages visible in the results snippet. It appears that editors have copy and pasting these URL's and leaving the extraneous string in; a small sampling of my search shows that they almost always have no correspondence with the text that is being verified, and so I think editors have been mostly been leaving this in the URL by complete accident. For this reason, I think they should be removed en masse, perhaps a task handled continuously by a bot (or AWB?). I would be given some pause if they were being used like a citation template's |quote parameter, but that doesn't appear to be the case at all, with almost all uses being apparently accidental.
What should be done about these, if anything? — Goszei ( talk) 07:50, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that on the desktop version of vec.wiki are disappeared the languages links to the other Wikipedia languages editions. How can I solve? -- 62.18.11.223 ( talk) 20:08, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
&useskinversion=1
may be used to for the old version on a page load if needed. —
xaosflux
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@ Matma Rex wrote mw:Extension:DiscussionTools/How it works. I understand that it contains the information you might need to get the Reply tool to work inside another script/tool. I post the link here in case anyone's interested.
If you don't remember what the Reply tool is, then clicking on /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)?dtenable=1 will give you [reply] buttons after each signature on this page. You can enable it under "Discussion tools" in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. The newest feature (not yet available here) is the ability to get notifications about new comments in any individual ==Section==, regardless of whether the page is on your watchlist. If you want to test that, it's up on Meta-Wiki (enable it at m:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures, control it at m:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion). Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:11, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
notifications about new comments in any individual Section, regardless of whether the page is on your watchlistis a feature I would die for! Eagerly looking forward to that. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:25, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Certain scripts (
Ohconfucius's formatgeneral, Sources, and Common Terms, as well as TemplateScript) only show up on pages with &action=submit
appended to their URL, as well as some random text.
―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 13:41, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Once you are in edit mode, there is a button .... Unless I'm misunderstanding and they don't work in edit mode. – Rummskartoffel 17:09, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 17:31, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 20:24, 23 June 2021 (UTC){{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 17:01, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
I get this:
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load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:63 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'indexOf' of undefined at Array.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:760:12) at Object.ARA_Functions.getSuggestions (<anonymous>:380:24) at Object.ARA_Functions.scan (<anonymous>:299:45) at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:22:16) at mightThrow (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:60) at process (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:61) mdlLogic.js:1 Uncaught URIError: URI malformed at decodeURIComponent (<anonymous>) at Function.t.EPPyTH (mdlLogic.js:1) at t (mdlLogic.js:1) at Object.mw.loader.load (<anonymous>:2:180) at <anonymous>:6:11 at Object.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:1:724) at mightThrow (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:60) at process (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:61) Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'end' of null at jQuery.fn.init.getCaretPosition (<anonymous>:106:580) at jQuery.fn.init.$.fn.textSelection (<anonymous>:201:237) at jQuery.fn.init.$.fn.wikiEditor (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.wikiEditor&skin=vector&version=10s2l:11) at Object.mw.addWikiEditor (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.wikiEditor&skin=vector&version=10s2l:5) at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.wikiEditor&skin=vector&version=10s2l:5) at mightThrow (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:60) at process (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:61) Uncaught URIError: URI malformed at decodeURIComponent (<anonymous>) at Function.t.EPPyTH (mdlLogic.js:1) at t (mdlLogic.js:1) at Object.mw.loader.load (<anonymous>:2:180) at Object.preloadDeflate (<anonymous>:158:106) at load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.visualEditor.articleTarget%2Ccore%2CdesktopArticleTarget%2Cmwsave%2Cmwtransclusion&skin=vector&version=1ga9r:9 |
Very minor question, but puzzling me nonetheless. In discussion at the current RfA someone mentioned XTools Admin Score; as one does, i took a look and, curious, entered mine own account. It says that the account is 0 days old. So i looked at Special:List Users, which also gives no creation date for LindsayH. Am i missing something very simple (most likely), or is there something wrong with my account? Thanks; happy days, Lindsay H ello 19:06, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
user_registration
field was added to the database (in December 2005) did not have that filed filled in. Where such accounts had edits, the timestamp of the first edit was used to fill in the field as a guess. But if you created your account before but did not make any edits until after, you won't have a registration date recorded. There's a bug open about filling the rest in (
T20638), but it seems unlikely anyone will get around to it since they haven't for so long yet.
Anomie
⚔ 19:29, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem with some refs on the River Lugg article. I have used {{sfn |Jacklin |2015 |p=2}} twice, and Jacklin is defined in the bibliography. However, I am getting a "Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTEJacklin20152" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page)." message. This is not normally a problem, since I have used {{sfn |Priestley |1831 |p=697}} twice in the same article, and that is ok. Any suggestions as to how to fix it? Thanks. Bob1960evens ( talk) 09:40, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Why does the parser error with something like myContainer.in(key)
, but not with myContainer['in'](key)
? Is this a bug?
Alexiscoutinho (
talk) 21:01, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
in
is a Lua keyword. See
mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual#Tokens.Thanks :) I've decided to use myContainer.has(key)
instead, which is much better.
Alexiscoutinho (
talk) 01:41, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
DAB Solver tool link was developed by User:Dispenser/Dab_solver. I saw "was" because I understand the tool is no longer being maintained. Yesterday it caused a storm in a teacup with an oversensitive editor who objected when I reverted a change that replaced a disambiguation link (not ideal) with a redirect (not idea) and instead I put the correct link in there. I also noticed that in the background, with the person using the tool being unaware, it is changing correct instances of {{ Cite web}} (and its cite siblings) with {{ cite web}} - despite the fact that other tools/bots change it from lowercase to uppercase. Given that the tool isn't being maintained, is not properly fixing dab links as it advertises, and is doing odd things in the background, should it be allowed to continue editing or be blocked? 10mmsocket ( talk) 08:05, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
References
{{!}} Thesaurus.com
does not belong in |title=
because that is not the title of the page that readers see. Been seeing more and more of these kinds of citations.{{!}} Thesaurus.com
titles most likely come from the
User:V111P/js/WebRef script for generating cites from web pages. I know, because I sometimes use said tool, that it has a tendency to append the name of the publication in the title with that exclamation mark, even in cases where it also puts that publication name in the |work=
parameter. I have no idea why, but I try to always remove it from the title myself. —
Amakuru (
talk) 13:07, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
<title>
element from the target and using it unchanged for |title=
instead of trying to figure out what the human reader sees as the title when viewing the page content. It's hardly mysterious, IMO. —
JohnFromPinckney (
talk /
edits) 14:38, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
<title>...</title>
doesn't make that information correct. On the example page, for example, there are two <title>...</title>
tags:
<title data-react-helmet="true">OVERSENSITIVE Synonyms: 246 Synonyms & Antonyms for OVERSENSITIVE | Thesaurus.com</title>
– source for browser tab<title>Thesaurus.com</title>
|title=
in the example above but doesn't match that text in the browser tab:
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:title" content="Synonyms of oversensitive | Thesaurus.com"/>
I've run into some errors, and after testing on my alt, it appears I'm opening edit pages differently. By default, th editing pages load with a toolbar at the top, but in my slt, it has features at the top, and the publish, show changes etc. buttons at the button. How do I get the latter editing mode as my default? (The latter editing mode also appears to have an older UI, and is similar to the Convenient Discussions one.) ― Qwerfjkl talk 20:59, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
This:
mw.hook('convenientDiscussions.commentsReady').add(function () {
// comments_in_local_time.js import code
importScript('User:Gary/comments in local time.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Gary/comments in local time.js]]
});
doesn't seem to load comments in local time. This is being loaded after Convenient Discussions. ― Qwerfjkl talk 06:21, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
o/w/api.php?titles=r&origin=*&format=json&formatversion=2&uselang=content&maxage=86400&smaxage=86400&action=query&prop=revisions|info&rvprop=content&rvlimit=1:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
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load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:135 GET https://phabricator-bug-status.toolforge.org/queryTasks?callback=jQuery36009011871784048877_1625672516298&ids=%5B93049%2C286115%2C285766%5D&_=1625672516299 net::ERR_ABORTED 500 send @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:135 ajax @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:129 jQuery.ajax @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:150 (anonymous) @ VM1236:266 (anonymous) @ VM1236:267 runScript @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:12 execute @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:14 doPropagation @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:6 requestIdleCallback (async) requestPropagation @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:7 setAndPropagate @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:7 implement @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:19 (anonymous) @ VM1236:1 domEval @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11 (anonymous) @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:17 requestIdleCallback (async) asyncEval @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:17 work @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:18 enqueue @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11 load @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:20 (anonymous) @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:68 (anonymous) @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:68 |
which appears before the other erros. ― Qwerfjkl talk 15:45, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
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On two computers and multiple browsers, I'm suddenly seeing the title coordinates display much lower down than before. They nearly overlap infoboxes and the top line of text. Abductive ( reasoning) 19:27, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Seems to be fixed now. Thanks to whomever figured this out. - MJ ( talk) 22:32, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
{{ coord}} when used with the parameter display=title hitherto placed coordinates for the article on the title line. Now coords are being displayed slightly below the title line, and are overwriting the top of infoboxes - example at Inchinnan Castle. Seems poor. The template itself has not been edited in recent times, so presumably the change is somewhere else. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 09:54, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Category:Periodic table templates and Category:Chemistry compounds templates seem to be broken — I fixed an issue on Template:Salts by element where all articles with a template with this format would be added, but now said articles like Actinium(III) chloride are listed there. The affected articles do not list inclusion in this category on their respective pages. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 01:24, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi everyone!
I am trying to upload some images onto a stub, but when I try to upload them (whilst logged into Wikipedia), my username shows up in red and does not link to my User page.
For example:
Thanks :)
{{information |Description={{en|1= Screenshot of username error. Chrome 90.0.4430.212 on Mac}} |Source=Screenshot |Date=2021-05-25 |Author=Wikipedia Authors, see the history of [[w: Rice production in China]] |Permission={{Wikipedia-screenshot|1=en|logo=no}} }}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Avoandtoast ( talk • contribs) 03:34, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Can anyone figure out what's going on with File:University of Lahore (logo).png and Universo Online? I can't find the syntax for the file anywhere in the article, but for some reason it seems to be being transcluded into it in some way. Perhaps it has to do with Special:diff/Filedelinkerbot/1022680018/this bot edit or this file redirect, but the University of Lahore logo is a non-free file and it's being flagged for a WP:NFCC#10c review and will keep being flag as such as long as the file is being used in the Universo Online article. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 07:26, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Anyone else seeing bizarre changes in how Wikipedia displays (since this morning, when all was fine)? Everything that should be small is huge (short descriptions, page data, tab labels, text in edit window etc), while article text is minute, and references even smaller. Vector skin, before you ask. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 19:22, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Noticed it right away myself when I logged in this afternoon. I wondered if this were some update that had been in work for some time, but from the looks of things it's at least a bug or it's a new feature rollout that hasn't gone quite right. And yes, I checked my Firefox's zoom level too; it's not uncommon for me to accidentally tweak it, being that I work on a laptop. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 20:59, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Nice, the choice between ugly fonts or extremely small fonts. Problem is indeed (in human language, not the .css references above) in Preferences, tab "Gadgets", section "Appearance", checkbox "Vector classic typography (use only sans-serif in Vector skin)". If this is checked, the font is since yesterday evening extremely small. If this is unchecked, you get the ugly title font and space-consuming body layout. I have made screenshots of three versions; how it looked like if you had the chackbox marked, until yesterday (good!), and the two poor choices you get now (either way too small, or a lot less on a screen than it used to be). So please, revert this change! Fram ( talk) 07:17, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Looks like the problem has been resolved. The font sizes have returned to normal for me here on the enwiki (although the text padding in previewing from source seems different now). SWinxy ( talk) 19:09, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Starting today, the text in the box of categories at the end of articles seems to be a larger font. I'm using Vector skin, and that text is now larger than the article prose or the toolbox and other WP interface text. Who did what this Thursday? DMacks ( talk) 23:15, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
The X-Tools Article Info gadget is suddenly appearing very large, and I have no idea why. Chicdat ( talk) 10:07, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
In the past day or so it appears that a margin is being applied twice to all of the articles I read, making them very narrow. The issue doesn't appear in safe mode, and appears to be a result of "removal of the "mw-body-content" class from the "bodyContent" block and its addition to the "mw-content-text" block instead" mentioned by Paul_012 above (manually changing some classes around fixes it). Has anyone else had this issue, or any suggestions other than looking through all of my scripts? LittlePuppers ( talk) 13:20, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Is this also the reason why redacted edits appear to have bold text instead of their usual appearance? LSGH ( talk) ( contributions) 02:49, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Has anyone else noticed a jump in the font-size of the Category list at the bottom of every article page? It looks about 150% or 200% of what I remember. Looking at one page as an example ( Zazou), I'm seeing this html:
<div class="printfooter">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zazou&oldid=1024460845">https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zazou&oldid=1024460845</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/info/en/?search=Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul> (a bunch of categories are here...) </ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-user-shown">Hidden categories: <ul><li> (a bunch more here...) </li></ul></div></div> </div> </div>
Did anything change in the css for those classes? (please
mention me on reply; thanks!)
Mathglot (
talk) 08:36, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Is this a known issue? See this example. Nick Moyes ( talk) 14:23, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
ipr-
, it was a necessity due to how the routing system works (otherwise it could mistake the /18 as referring to namespace with ID 18). Hopefully that's not too confusing for users, because you can enter normal CIDR notation in the form at
https://xtools-dev.wmflabs.org/globalcontribs and it will do the conversion for you. Here on the wiki, we have a
separate interface message for IP ranges, so we can link to Global Contribs for IP ranges easily. Templates that link to XTools may require some special handling, though. —
MusikAnimal
talk 05:03, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
"Azerbaijan: MTN (until 2015)" Gfigs ( talk) 19:52, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
I have just used the reference Navy Board Ship Models [1] - but the copyright information at the front of the book clearly says "Copyright National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 2018". There seems to be no field for this important piece of information. Have I missed it, or does it not exist? Thanks, ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 15:03, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
References
So I decided to learn Lua, and am banging my head on the screen to get this simple for loop to work here. What am I doing wrong? Cheers. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 09:10, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 504)(I get that a lot). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 01:17, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Everyday now I'm receiving the "There have been multiple failed attempts to log in to your account from a new device" notification, Can this notification be disabled as it's now being used by a sock to annoy me. Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 11:41, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I've had a request to restore List of firsts in India to an editor's userspace. When I try to restore it with full history, I am consistently getting (over a couple of days of trying) the following error:
Database error: To avoid creating high replication lag, this transaction was aborted because the write duration (6.6316473484039) exceeded the 3 second limit. If you are changing many items at once, try doing multiple smaller operations instead. [802e408b-c4c2-4eff-84ce-bd4d017a979d] 2021-05-26 08:16:25: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBTransactionSizeError"
I can restore a single revision so that the content can be viewed, but the history is lost. Is there currently a server issue (I couldn't find details of any) or can anyone suggest a workaround? The article has a fairly substantial history but nothing out of the ordinary. Thanks. -- Michig ( talk) 08:22, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
I have customized "Number of edits to show in recent changes, page histories, and in logs, by default" in
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc, but
Special:WhatLinksHere now always shows 50 items unless the URL has limit=n
. I feel like WhatLinksHere respected that setting and showed the custom number of links, or am I misremembering?
Nardog (
talk) 12:50, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
rclimit
user preference (and then to update the message verbiage at
MediaWiki:recentchangescount to advertise it). —
xaosflux
Talk 13:14, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.util'], function () {
var name = mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ).replace("Special:WhatLinksHere/", "");
mw.util.addPortletLink(
'p-tb',
mw.util.getUrl( 'Special:WhatLinksHere/' ) + encodeURIComponent(name) + '?limit=100',
'100 links here',
'pt-morelinkshere',
'100 pages containing links to this page',
null,
'#t-whatlinkshere'
);
});
I am a Crosstor and I ask if there is an archive that has been in a recorded state for 3 years now, for example? I want to know how my article once disappeared without a trace from Esperanto Wikipedia. All my searches failed. If I had a fixed condition for 3 years, I would definitely find the article. This is not listed on the standard cancellation discussion board, meaning someone has deleted it arbitrarily and secretly. Sincerely, Crosstor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crosstor ( talk • contribs) 13:36, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I've installed the script but it doesn't work well. What can I do? Dr Salvus 13:40, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
no leading zeroes. (example: 9 - correct, 09 - incorrect, however you used leading zeros. — xaosflux Talk 14:51, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
OPTION
and VALUE
are placeholder text to be replaced with the option you want to set a value for.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:19, 27 May 2021 (UTC)The template Template:United Kingdom topics has a link at the bottom "Index" which links to Index of United Kingdom-related articles. Per WP:NAVNOREDIRECT it should link to Index of United Kingdom–related articles. I would change it, but can't find where it is in the template when I edit. Thanks DuncanHill ( talk) 14:22, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
|country=The Gambia
instead of |country=Gambia
and |prefix=the
, so maybe the way to fix this would be to change that instead. –
Rummskartoffel (
talk •
contribs) 22:12, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Is it me, or has the text whitespace around thumbnails gotten bigger suddenly, especially below them:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Curabitur pretium tincidunt lacus. Nulla gravida orci a odio. Nullam varius, turpis et commodo pharetra, est eros bibendum elit, nec luctus magna felis sollicitudin mauris. Integer in mauris eu nibh euismod gravida. Duis ac tellus et risus vulputate vehicula. Donec lobortis risus a elit. Etiam tempor. Ut ullamcorper, ligula eu tempor congue, eros est euismod turpis, id tincidunt sapien risus a quam. Maecenas fermentum consequat mi. Donec fermentum. Pellentesque malesuada nulla a mi. Duis sapien sem, aliquet nec, commodo eget, consequat quis, neque. Aliquam faucibus, elit ut dictum aliquet, felis nisl adipiscing sapien, sed malesuada diam lacus eget erat. Cras mollis scelerisque nunc. Nullam arcu. Aliquam consequat. Curabitur augue lorem, dapibus quis, laoreet et, pretium ac, nisi. Aenean magna nisl, mollis quis, molestie eu, feugiat in, orci. In hac habitasse platea dictumst.
( Hohum @) 01:22, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm guessing this is one of those "perennial" questions. Could someone point me to some previous discussions that ask about separating article/user pages from the talk pages for the watchlist. Example: I want to watchlist John Wayne, but don't want to see the talk page show up in my watchlist (or the reverse). I had asked on VP talk, but it seems to be rather sparsely tended to at the moment. If this belongs at a different section, (Idea lab, proposal, etc.), feel free to move. thanks. — Ched ( talk) 07:39, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I copied {{ Coord}} to {{ X24}}, then from my user sandbox invoked
{{X24|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=inline}} {{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=inline}}
The call to {{tl:X24}} results in "Coordinates: Missing latitude", even though the two templates should do the same. Any idea why this is happening? Thnx, Ponor ( talk) 06:47, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
{{Template:Coord}}
is specifically identified as a wrapper template in
Module:Coordinates (line 54). See
Module:Arguments § Wrappers for an explanation. Basically, to get it to work like you want, you'd have to add {{Template:X24}}
to the wrappers
list in Module:Coordinates
—
sbb (
talk) 07:31, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2021_May_7#Category:Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_White_Eagle_(Poland) ended with permission to recreate the category. It can include 100+ entries from which it was removed in the past. Is there any way to automatically repopulate it, reverting the old removal of it from those articles post-deletion? Another workaround would be to just add it to articles it is present in on Polish Wikipedia and that have equivalents on English. I am certainly not looking forward to manually adding it to applicable articles... help! :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:53, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Due to
a problem with Twinkle, I have
nominated the same article three times. I
fixed the problem.
However, I would like an admin to merge my three AfD into one, since obviously there is two too many. Thanks in advance!
Veverve (
talk) 10:38, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
My apologies for writing that on en.wiki, but I don't know which Wikimedia-website to consult for this kind of problem. The wa.wiki main page is playing up right now for unknown reasons. I precise that nobody has modified the "main page" (which is, of course, protected) nor a template/module related to. Wa.wiki uses the same module of main page as wa.wiktionary. However, the main page of wa.wiktionary seems still working correctly.
Thank you in advance for your help,
--
Èl-Gueuye-Noere (
talk) 18:31, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
</div>
is the closing tag of
a div
element. Like the vast majority of HTML elements (
there are very few exceptions), each opening <div>
tag must have a balancing closing </div>
tag. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 19:59, 29 May 2021 (UTC)Is there a script that excludes dab pages from the maroon-coloured substub formatting which can be enabled in Special:Preferences under "Appearance"? Daß Wölf 14:48, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
$(".stub.mw-disambig").removeClass("stub");
should do the trick, I think. Dunno if there's a better way, though. –
Rummskartoffel (
talk •
contribs) 20:11, 29 May 2021 (UTC)As an IP, try to create a category (or follow a red link). You are not allowed and the banner points to
Wikipedia:Article_wizard/Category, which redirects to
Wikipedia:Article_wizard, which does not let you create Draft:Category:...
because of the namespace, and instructs you to follow the category's red link, so you are stuck in a loop. --
62.98.124.182 (
talk) 20:38, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
At The Gambia at the Commonwealth Games there is a category displaying at the top of the page which must be transcluding from some template or another (possibly Template:Infobox country at games?). No clue how to fix it, so I'm leaving it here for Wikipedia's technical A-Team. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 01:37, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
|games=Commonwealth Games
in the infobox (just judging by comparison with
Canada at the Commonwealth Games for instance. I added the parameter to the infobox. —
sbb (
talk) 01:58, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes#%40keyframes Harsh Rathod Poke me! 08:18, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Consider the pages Wikipedia:VPT and Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical). Here, Wikipedia:VPT actually redirects to Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical). My question is, is there any method by which I can identify all the pages which contains the text Wikipedia:VPT that is actually a redirect? I have checked What Links Here, but its not a solution as it contains links with both the source and redirected title. Adithyak1997 ( talk) 10:28, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Any reason it no longer links to the bock log? —— Serial 09:40, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
This blog post is written in the context of local government in the UK, but the issues are generic. What can we do, as editors, to improve our carbon footprint while still serving our mission? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:25, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
What parameters are supported by Template:Cite sign? We are told on the page to copy a blank version, but there is no blank version to copy. Pinging @ Tyrone Madera: for courtesy as they asked the same question. DuncanHill ( talk) 15:22, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
At https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Xaosflux/sandbox101&diff=prev&oldid=1018149200 (and any other suppressed revision), when you press on the top revision text (that says Revision as of 14:33, 16 April 2021 in this one), it says that this page revision has been removed from the public archives. Details can be found in the deletion log for this page. It should say that "this page revision has been suppressed", as it is oversight, not revision deletion. aeschylus ( talk) 12:46, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
This page revision has been <strong>deleted</strong>. Details can be found in the [{{fullurl:{{#Special:Log}}/delete|page=$1}} deletion log].
There seems to be an image caption positioning issue in {{ Infobox Site of Special Scientific Interest}} which can be seen in Bewick and Beanley Moors, and which is that when there is also a locator map, the caption for the image is beneath the map, rather than beneath the image. The dissociation of image and caption seems wrong and unhelpful. Grateful if this issue could be given some attention. -- Tagishsimon ( talk) 20:34, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I just found User talk:2600:8800:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 and I have to wonder: is this even a thing? Will it work as intended? Will every IPv6 user in that 32-bit netblock be notified of new messages here? What about IPv6 netblocks? Can I leave a message for User talk:128.65.0.0/16 as well? Or is this just a simple user error? Elizium23 ( talk) 01:07, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
For me, tables with the class "mw-collapsible" or using {{
collapse}} (or similar), instead of having a hide link, it appears like this: [hide]. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 21:12, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 21:34, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 07:12, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 09:50, 31 May 2021 (UTC){{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 10:36, 31 May 2021 (UTC)I'm an avid user of Writ Keeper's excellent In-place diffs, especially in the watchlist, so I don't always need to open the changed page. It'd be great if I could cross that off the watchlist rather than keep count of everything I already looked at before clicking "mark all as read". I see this was proposed 10 years ago but couldn't find the solution. I would've thought that bullet in the watchlist could work as read/unread toggle, as it does under notifications. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ( talk) 00:32, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm used to seeing notices about "configured pending changes settings" in history, but never boxed up and presented at the bottom of the article page below the categories like this. So why does Trypophobia have a box echoing a revision made by Callanecc in 2017, and formatted just like a review pending changes input box, with a button for me to Unaccept their years-ago edit? Was this part of the release that gave us the mystery-font size issue?
Snippet of html from the footer of Trypophobia
|
---|
<div id='mw-data-after-content'>
<form method="post" action="/?title=Special:RevisionReview&action=submit" id="mw-fr-reviewform">
<fieldset class="flaggedrevs_reviewform noprint">
<legend id="mw-fr-reviewformlegend"><strong>Re-review this revision</strong></legend>
<p></p>
<p class="fr-rating-controls" id="fr-rating-controls">
<span id="mw-fr-ratingselects" class="fr-rating-options">
</span>
<span id="mw-fr-confirmreview">
<label for="mw-fr-commentbox" class="fr-comment-box">Comment:</label> <input name="wpReason" size="40" value="" id="mw-fr-commentbox" maxlength="500" class="fr-comment-box" /><input name="wpApprove" id="mw-fr-submit-accept" accesskey="s" title="Mark this revision as accepted [s]" disabled="" type="submit" value="Accept revision"/> <input name="wpUnapprove" id="mw-fr-submit-unaccept" title="Revoke acceptance of this revision by marking it as unaccepted" style="" type="submit" value="Unaccept revision"/>
<script>var jsReviewNeedsChange = 0;</script> <span id="mw-fr-logtoggle" class="fr-logtoggle-excerpt" style="display:none;">(<a class="fr-toggle-text" title="Toggle display of the latest entry in the pending changes protection log">hide pending changes protection log</a>)</span></span>
<div id="mw-fr-logexcerpt"><ul class='mw-logevent-loglines'>
<li data-mw-logid="86418828" data-mw-logaction="stable/config" class="mw-logline-stable"> <a href="/?title=Special:Log&logid=86418828" title="Special:Log">05:02, October 21, 2017</a> <a href="/wiki/User:Callanecc" class="mw-userlink" title="User:Callanecc"><bdi>Callanecc</bdi></a> configured pending changes settings for <a href="/wiki/Trypophobia" title="Trypophobia">Trypophobia</a> [Auto-accept: require "autoconfirmed" permission] <span class="comment">(Persistent addition of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INTREF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INTREF">unsourced or poorly sourced content</a>)</span> <span class="mw-logevent-actionlink">(<a href="/?title=Trypophobia&action=history&offset=20171021050237" title="Trypophobia">hist</a>)</span> </li>
</ul>
<a href="/?title=Special:Log&page=Trypophobia&type=stable" title="Special:Log">View full log</a></div></p>
<input type="hidden" value="Special:RevisionReview" name="title"/>
<input type="hidden" value="Trypophobia" name="target"/>
<input id="mw-fr-input-refid" type="hidden" value="0" name="refid"/>
<input id="mw-fr-input-oldid" type="hidden" value="1026062748" name="oldid"/>
<input type="hidden" value="3928ec26fb9fdebbabbead26754c8eaf60b470c3+\" name="wpEditToken"/>
<input id="mw-fr-input-changetime" type="hidden" value="20210531050433" name="changetime"/>
<input id="mw-fr-user-reviewing" type="hidden" value="0" name="userreviewing"/>
<input type="hidden" name="templateParams"/>
<input type="hidden" name="imageParams"/>
<input type="hidden" name="fileVersion"/>
<input type="hidden" value="d9d7ef2024098573ee57c1de169900a8" name="validatedParams"/>
</fieldset>
</form>
<div class="read-more-container"></div>
</div>
|
Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 05:20, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Just curious... If importScript is deprecated and mw.loader should be used instead
,
[1] why is
Script Installer still using importScript? Is it just a string replace in the script, or does it require some transition? Cheers.
— 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 (
talk) 00:19, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
eval() is also slower than the alternatives, since it has to invoke the JavaScript interpreter, while many other constructs are optimized by modern JS engines.. I don't think
new Blob()
has that problem, though of course both will raise the blood pressure of anyone looking at your code.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 20:03, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
function importScript(location) {
mw.loader.load( '/?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=' + location);
}
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 10:29, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 11:25, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
encodeURIComponent(location)
instead of just location
(otherwise it'll fail on loading pages with names having a space in them). –
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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm just a poor back-end server guy, who occasionally dabbles in javascript, usually with sub-standard results. I've got two scripts ( source here) I've written which appear to have a race condition which sometimes causes them to run twice. I load them from User:RoySmith/common.js. The first:
mw.loader.load(' https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/spi-tools-dev/spi/tag-check.js');
does some DOM-manipulation to {{ checkuser}} templates to add an indication of how the account is tagged. That's the "M" in the yellow box in the screenshot. The other ones:
mw.loader.load(' https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/spi-tools-dev/spi/spi-tools.js'); mw.loader.load(' https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/spi-tools-dev/spi/spi-tools-dev.js');
add the "SPI Tools" and "SPI Tools (dev)" items to the More menu. Maybe once in 50 page loads, one or both of them runs twice. The screen shot shows an example where they *both* ran twice. Anybody know what's going on? I assume this is not using the mw.hook() function correctly? Perhaps wikipage.content is the wrong event to be using? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:24, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
$.ready.then(function() {...});
rather than hooking on wikipage.content – which is meant for scripts that need to run following changes to the DOM caused by other javascripts running on the page. –
SD0001 (
talk) 16:37, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
$(function() {
// Handler for .ready() called.
});
I am seeing hundreds of error messages on COVID-19 pandemic in India. The error is in bold and red "Lua error: not enough memory." When trying to edit the page, more errors of the same kind appear. (Also seeing the same at the commons category for the same article "Category:COVID-19 pandemic in India") DTM ( talk) 12:45, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
{{Update|date=April 2021}}
. I've put it back and all those Lua errors they have gone. They can also be removed by removing the date preference template so there is some weird interaction of the templates above the infobox. I've no idea why. I've left the unnecessary update template as I think that is better than all the red lua errors, but I have no clue about how to fix the problem. —
Jts1882 |
talk 16:55, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
mw.wikibase.getDescription
) and {{
commons category}} (via code in
Module:WikidataIB using mw.wikibase.getBestStatements
). It appears the tracking in
Module:Coordinates could be easily re-written to use that function and presumably not use a huge amount of memory, but the same thing does not apply to
Module:Official website, which uses some fancy logic to prefer English-language websites over websites in other languages.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 16:18, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
|display=inline,title
to |display=inline
in the {{
coordinates}} template (and remove the {{
update}}). This removes the coordinates at the top of the page, but it's not clear they should be there in the first place since the pandemic isn't definable to one location.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 15:16, 31 May 2021 (UTC){{coord|10.5276|76.2144|format=dms|type:village_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
) reduced that to 29 MB.
Johnuniq (
talk) 07:57, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
|display=inline,title
in {{
coord}} as Pppery suggested produces the same reduction from 51MB to 29MB. And as the location applies to the first covid case and not the whole article on covid in India, I don't think it should be there.mw.wikibase.getEntity():getBestStatements()
and mw.wikibase.getBestStatements()
and use of mw.wikibase.entityExists(qid)
is worth remembering. —
Jts1882 |
talk 08:32, 2 June 2021 (UTC)I wanted to see a full list of all most imported scripts with descriptions and last modified dates, not just the ones selected in WP:USL, and not separated in groups, so, after quite a bit of help here, there and everywhere, I got what I wanted here: Wikipedia:User scripts/List/sandbox. Feel free to improve it, if you have any ideas ( others have already done so). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 01:21, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
What's going on with bulletpointing using the asterisk? Unless it's just me, something has clearly changed, as if to create a new "level zero" of black circular bullet points instead of the grey square ones.
As an example at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#RD:_Gavin_MacLeod, look at the change that my comment made - compare [5] and [6]. My comment indented using :*, but that's also changed the following comments to use the old bulletpoint style. Black Kite (talk) 22:14, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
** x
(which means <li><ul><li>x</li></ul></li>
within the original list, not :* x
which I believe will end the original <ul> and create a completely separate definition list containing a bulleted list.
User:GKFX
talk 22:38, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
<li>...</li>
elements to be emitted bare - that is, without the enclosing <ul>...</ul>
tags. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:58, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
* bullet point</div>
with no newline before the tag. I still don't quite understand what happened, but it works now.
User:GKFX
talk 18:59, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
I imagine most people this affects have seen it already, but just in case, I'm giving this more visibility. If you run code that uses CSRF tokens, you'll need to know about this change. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:17, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi all
I've been playing around with Special:LinkSearch, I think it could be an extremely useful for Wikipedians working with external organisations to encourage them to share knowledge and content if we could provide them with a total number of links. Is there something I can add to the URL to make it display a total? Here's an example search
If this isn't something I can do already is this something technically simple I can ask for on Phabricator?
Thanks very much John Cummings ( talk) 11:00, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM externallinks WHERE el_index_60 LIKE 'https://org.unesco.%';
), or with a lot of API queries and some manual processing of the results. A count built into the page would probably have to be capped for performance.
Anomie
⚔ 11:52, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
%
in there is capturing all of them, if you wanted it to be more specific you could put in "org.unesco.en%" for only en.unesco.org for example. —
xaosflux
Talk 16:24, 2 June 2021 (UTC)The phantom command used to work fine. But now when I use the phantom command in a math formula I get an error message: User:Just_granpa/sandbox.
Here is a discussion about it at stackexchange: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/599758/phantom-command-error Just granpa ( talk) 11:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
Text in non-Latin scripts should never be in italics or boldface. This is especially true for Chinese, which becomes unreadable in bold or italics even to many who could usually read it. Nobody deliberately typesets Chinese in bold or italics, but many infoboxes do so, as they automatically format text in italics or in bold (for example, book titles). Depending on the infobox, this can be fixed either with a
language code parameter or in the
more
pedestrian way of using {{
noitalic}} or {{
nobold}}.
The problem is how to actually find all these violations: is there a way to search for any text displayed in bold or italics that uses a given non-Latin character set? —
Kusma (
talk) 09:35, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Now at Template talk:Infobox. — Kusma ( talk) 12:59, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Please rename Stadio Pierluigi Penzo to Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo. Thanks!!! -- 93.35.184.189 ( talk) 15:41, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
I forked Mdaniels5757's excellent markAdmins script, in spite of it being configurable, bc I wanted to use icons with tooltips instead of acronyms in paranteses separated by slashes. I managed to ungroup them in the xml from the user links, so it can be tooltipped, but haven't figured out how to do that. Any suggestions? I tried this. but evidently that's not it. I gather I need to create abbr nodes, but I'm fumbling in the dark. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 07:55, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
<abbr></abbr>
is incorrect markup. Would you be happy with a <span></span>
using a title attribute? I believe most browsers (I'm ignoring smart phones, as usual) show item titles as a tooltip when you hover. See
Template:Tooltip (and its code) for ideas. —
JohnFromPinckney (
talk /
edits) 11:44, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
Need Template Help if Possible - Tried to upgrade the " Template:Human timeline" to a somewhat larger (for better font sizes) template at => " Template:Human timeline/sandbox5" - some of the Note links (on the right side margin) seem OK (4 of 10), but several Note links (6 of 10) are NOT OK (no linking?) for some reason (except for these 6 Note links, all other of the 28 links in the template are OK) - I'm stumped with the 6 (NOT OK) Note links at the moment - any help with these particular links would be greatly appreciated - Thanks - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 14:56, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
@ Buidhe, Hike395, MarMi wiki, and Rummskartoffel: (and others) - Thank you for your comments - QUESTIONS: is there a Fix for this problem Display Bug? (click-and-drag-mouse doesn't seem to work) - or should this concern be presented (escalated?) to some other appropriate Wikipedia discussion group? - if so, which one exactly? - in any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 21:31, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
Done @
MarMi wiki and
Rummskartoffel: (and others) - Possible Solution - all links now seem to work OK (using => WinTel10/ChromeBrowser/DellXPS8900) in "
Template:Human timeline/sandbox5" - after removing/commenting-out => "
annotations-width=8.8
" in the template coding - hope this helps in some way - iac - Stay Safe and Healthy !! -
Drbogdan (
talk) 00:53, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
I made a module and its template: {Module:Cube 3D} and {Template:Cube 3D}. The module is working fine but I don't get why the HTML is not rendering when we use the template: User:Harshrathod50/Cube 3D. Harsh Rathod Poke me! 04:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
<div style="/* insecure input */"></div>
. There is a possibility your Lua could be amended to remove the offending inline styles and then you would get some output, but it would not necessarily be the output you want (one of the styles in question would be acceptable with TemplateStyles, but I leave that as an exercise to the reader)
Izno (
talk) 05:12, 3 June 2021 (UTC)@
Izno: Where to get the list of css style attributes not accepted here? Why the var, calc
are insecure? I don't get it. What is TemplateStyles?
Harsh Rathod
Poke me! 06:00, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
How to print the sanitized output on the console?
Harsh Rathod
Poke me! 07:23, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
@
Izno: Just a little help once again. Can you please point out those properties which are causing the problem. Right now the properties containing var
are the problem. I got that. Is there any more issue that you could point out. I also want to ask where can I see this output you saw: <div style="/* insecure input */"></div>
Harsh Rathod
Poke me! 08:00, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
url()
is insecure and is stripped from wikitext. It is allowed in TemplateStyles for a small set of websites. The output was in browser console.
Izno (
talk) 17:23, 5 June 2021 (UTC)The protected
Template:Country data Czech Republic was edited today to set shortname alias = Czechia
. This breaks some uses of the template that uses the country name to generate a link to an article. For instance {{flb|CZE}}
now expands to non-existing
Czech Republic, while before it expanded to
Czech Republic. The same for
Template:fl-rt,
Template:fl19,
Template:flw and others. Can someone please fix this somehow? I cannot edit the protected template, nor am I sure what is the right course of an action (revert the change? rename the articles? create a redirect? add
link alias-floorball
exception? (though other uses apart from floorball might be affected too))
Sidenote: While I personally do not object the use of "Czechia", it seems that the change violates a consensus: Talk:Czech Republic#Czechia.
Thanks. Prikryl ( talk) 09:22, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Occasionally, I am welcomed on a different-language Wikipedia (so far Italian and German). This seems to happen spontaneously. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 14:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
After a Teahouse discussion, the two people helping me there suggested that I ask here. (For a quick summary of that discussion, see the 6 June 2021 comment by User:Ganbaruby.)
Here are two examples (each going to a wrong location within the target Wikipedia article, COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois):
User:Ganbaruby reported that the Redirect he/she tested misbehaved in Safari, but worked correctly in Chrome. (All my testing was in Safari; sorry: I don't know how to determine what version of Safari I was using.) CWBoast ( talk) 02:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Any suggestions on how to search a page's diffs? For example, I want to know if there are any previous edits of Parliament of Singapore which are similar to Special:Diff/1027141563. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:12, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
which are similarcomponent is going to be a far stretch. If you just want to search for a phrase or string, you could use Special:Export to export all of the revisions of the page, then just use a text search tool on the output file. (Limited to 1000 revisions). — xaosflux Talk 14:14, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
In the infobox at Bantu languages, the Southern Bantu branch doesn't show up, even though it is present in the code. I found out that the number of displayable branches is capped at 20 (something I hadn't realised as of yet), and the parameter "child21=" results in an internal error message. What's the best way to deal with this awkward situation? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 19:16, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
<br>
in child20. But the whole idea of displaying a list of numbered parameters seemed pointless so I replaced it with one long parameter containing the list.
[8] Maybe the infobox documentation should suggest this. The list is rather long for an infobox but it's not my field.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:51, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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Can I configure my Wikipedia account to use MFA? Ideally, it would work like GitHub or NPM where I can use an authenticator mobile app and have some recovery codes which I can use in case when my phone is stolen. Grillofrances ( talk) 02:25, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm a marine biologist specialized in Echinodermata. I would like to be informed of any new picture of these animals so I can review the identification and, when useful, add them to the relevant Wikipedia articles. But as there are over 7000 species of the, of course I can't check all the categories every day. I used to benefit from Ogrebot's newsfeed for a long and useful time but it is no longer working. Do you guys know any other way I could get such uploading newsfeed ? (knowing that I'm not a hacker).
Thanks and best regards,
FredD ( talk) 07:22, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Take a look at Dillon County under "Major intersections" in South Carolina Highway 38. There are two places called Oak Grove, South Carolina. The one that had an article before I added the one in Dillon County has more people and is obviously more notable.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:43, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
I am making a tool for monitoring Category:Requests for unblock. I looked at the IRC feed but it does not seem to monitor additions and removals from categories.
Right now I am using the API to ask for its members every few minutes, but it would be nicer if I could get a feed as I prefer not to bother the API too much. Does anyone know a better way to monitor for additions and removals from a category? HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 02:44, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there a way to build a URL which gets you to the "Change protection" screen, but with fields pre-filled? You can do that with block user, via Special:Block, i.e. this, but as far as I can tell from the wikimedia manual, there's no version of that for page protection. What I'm hoping to do is be able to have a script which creates a link you can click on to take you to a pre-filled out form, which you just have to review and click the "Confirm" button. I know I can do it directly through the API, but if I can do it with a clickable link, that would be preferable. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:00, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
name
attribute of the input fields. You can inspect the DOM to see what they are. This technique should work on most all forms in MediaWiki. Here's an example that touches almost every field:
[15]. —
MusikAnimal
talk 16:24, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Five minutes ago, my Watch list looked like it always did. Is it my imagination, or are the square green boxes on the left new (as of the last 5 minutes, it seems). Some are green. Some are the same old blue color they always were. I went over and looked at my Commons watchlist, and the little boxes to the left are all the same blue color. I'm not sure what the green color is supposed to signify. Clicking on any color of them, does not change the color. So, what is the purpose? — Maile ( talk) 23:08, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
type
effectively overrideable?So I made a function in
Module:Lua class (last function) that tries to override/build upon the default type
to support new "types". I was testing it in
User:Alexiscoutinho/sandbox 1 and noticed that it behaves differently if you are previewing. When you view the sandbox normally, it should contain "table table table". However, if you preview the page (without edits of course) it would now contain "class Base instance" (which is desired). What is going on? Why is the type
function behaving differently?
Alexiscoutinho (
talk) 21:33, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
@
Awesome Aasim and
BrandonXLF: The editing window for QuickEdit appears in the text editor for addmylinks. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 18:50, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 06:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
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When I load any .js page on the desktop version of Wikipedia, I cannot paste or copy text, so I have to switch to the mobile version. Is there a way to get a round this? (I think
WikEd allowed me to view text normally.) ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 16:52, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
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<>
icon at the left of the toolbar to switch between the normal editor and the code editor.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:37, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there any way to make links to other language wikipedias, commons, Wiktionary, etc, open in a new tab? I sometimes forget that they don't behave like normal external links and it's annoying. DuncanHill ( talk) 00:59, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
$(function() { $('.extiw').attr('target', '_blank'); });
to
special:mypage/common.js. –
SD0001 (
talk) 04:20, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
'.extiw'
to '.extiw .interlanguage-link-target'
to cover them as well. –
SD0001 (
talk) 16:37, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
'.extiw, .interlanguage-link-target'
–
SD0001 (
talk) 16:52, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Alexiscoutinho ( talk) 22:43, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone know what's happening here? It seems like an attempt to create a redirect to a centralized talk page, but the "../" isn't something I've seen before and it's not currently working. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 17:58, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Why am I seeing one hidden category showing up at the top of the main category list at the bottom of an article?
On the article
Simone de Beauvoir, the first category I see is "
Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers", a maintenance category. The next two cats are
Simone de Beauvoir, followed by
1908 births; these two correspond to the first two categories explicitly in the article wikicode. The first category is not in the wikicode anywhere, which is not surprising, as it is a maintenance category that is probably dragged in by a citation with an |oclc=
param.
I have my preferences set so that I see hidden maintenance categories, and after the main category list which is displayed to everybody, the hidden cat list starts off with: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list; CS1 maint: archived copy as title; Articles with short description, and so on. Why doesn't the WORLDCATID maintenance category appear somewhere with these hidden categories, instead of the top of the main category list? Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 01:32, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
At Miawpukek First Nation, I tried to embed an infobox in order to remove duplication and shorten the infobox. It didn't work too well. If an editor could look at User:Magnolia677/sandbox I would appreciate the input. Thank you! Magnolia677 ( talk) 10:49, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
QUESTIONS: Tried uploading a recent NASA 2gb PNG image ( at " https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA24663_fullres.png" on NASA-page => " https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24663" ) (takes awhile - ~1hr/?) - but Commons didn't seem to accept it for some reason - is the image file-size too large for Wikipedia? - Is there some workaround? - image seems relevant to several NASA articles (ie, " Perseverance (rover)", " Timeline of Mars 2020" and possibly more) - downloaded image file opens OK in my Firefox browser (Wintel10/Firefox/DellXPS8900) - iac - Thanks in advance for a reply - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 11:41, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
FWIW - seems — * Perserverance at Van Zyl (AVideo360; 1:40; Spring 2021) on YouTube ( related site; 2GB PNG-image) — added to " Timeline of Mars 2020#External links" may be sufficient for now - Thanks for all the comments above - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 14:58, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Have you ever been frustrated because there's no way to map namespace numbers to namespace names in a database query? I hereby present Quarry 55924 for your amusement. There's hacks, there's ugly hacks, and then there's hacks that are so ugly you're proud of them. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:40, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
enwiki_p
, the SQL should also (preferably) be wiki-neutral to maximise reusability. The method in
Quarry 55915
SELECT CONCAT('[[', IF (pt.pt_namespace=14,':',''), '{{ns:', CAST(pt.pt_namespace AS CHAR), '}}:', pt.pt_title, ']]')
dewiki_p
, enwiki_p
, commonswiki_p
, & metawiki_p
. -
Cabayi (
talk) 07:29, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
SELECT CONCAT('[[', IF (pt.pt_namespace=6,':',IF (pt.pt_namespace=14,':','')), '{{ns:', CAST(pt.pt_namespace AS CHAR), '}}:', pt.pt_title, ']]') page,
amended to handle files as well
|
---|
No documentation, so I hacked one example, so it needs to be pretty. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 08:37, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
Bad documentation}}
template, you don't need to post here. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:49, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Silly Question: is it possible change to User:Talk:Talk from User:0mtwb9gd5wx ? .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 08:47, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
for (;;)
would be cool/amusing as my
"forever" username. Boy, was I ever wrong.
Cabayi (
talk) 09:25, 13 June 2021 (UTC)On
this revision of my common.js page, all the code is disabled. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 14:20, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
About a month ago I brought up the possibility of removing the education program talk namespace at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 189#Education program namespace removal. This was prompted by T217137 and similar tasks which resulted in removal from other Wikis following that the namespace was emptied either through deletion or moves. Currently there are 0 pages in the Education program namespace and 1,427 pages in the Education program talk namespace. My plan is to move most pages from their current location of Education program talk:FOO to Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/FOO. Some pages that have no significant content (such as the supported by wikied messages) will/have been deleted outright without archiving. Assuming there are no objections in the next few days I will proceed with this plan. -- Trialpears ( talk) 08:38, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm noticing that Template:Authority control at the bottom of articles isn't autocollapsing today as it usually does. Anyone else notice this? – Muboshgu ( talk) 19:11, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
A how-to guide asserts that Vega Code can be copied to wiki and be used to generate charts/graphs. Then, why does this code not work? TrangaBellam ( talk) 10:20, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
graph
extension though - so you may get some better responses here:
mw:Extension talk:Graph. —
xaosflux
Talk 11:53, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Apologies for all the pings. Vega 3.0 (or later versions) are not integrated according to T165118. T223026#7117287 mentions quite-old developments and I would be interested to know of any updates. TrangaBellam ( talk) 13:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, probably just my device, or, are there any other mobile users experiencing categories being visible(in a block like manner) whilst in mobile view? is there a d.i.y manner for me to remedy this? Celestina007 ( talk) 20:34, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
#catlinks {display: none;}
to
your minerva.css. –
Rummskartoffel (
talk •
contribs) 21:02, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Bug? The "Next 500 results →" link at https://sigma.toolforge.org/usersearch.py?name=50.201.195.170+&page=Talk%3AWuhan_Institute_of_Virology&server=enwiki&max= doesn't work. Σ runs it? (Leads to https://sigma.toolforge.org/usersearch.py?startdate=None&name=50.201.195.170+&page=Talk%3AWuhan_Institute_of_Virology&server=enwiki&max=500 which leads to itself. Started here.) -- 50.201.195.170 ( talk) 23:50, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Up until recently there was not a way to search for edits by IP addresses. At some point this became possible, but I have simply never gotten around to implementing this. → Σ σ ς. ( Sigma) 10:00, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
the link above doesn't work because there's a space at the endUmm...gaslighting? The links in my OP above obviously don't have spaces in 'em. They can't; they're bare URLs. (And no %20's either.) No, they were certainly not working and work now. -- 50.201.195.170 ( talk) 00:05, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Clicking on "Find edits by user" today is taking me to a new user interface at xtools.wmflabs.org. It was a different one until yesterday. Is there any notice or discussion around this? How can I remove the pie charts that show up in that page? I could not find a way to see a customized result, even after logging in to that site. Or, how can I go back to the older interface? - Jay Talk 13:02, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
I already addressed this concern at Wikipedia talk:User scripts#Not working but no one is responding. Help me, please. — hueman1 ( talk • contributions) 14:08, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Uncaught ReferenceError: capitalScript is not defined at <anonymous>:1:701 at domEval (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at runScript (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:13) at enqueue (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at execute (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:14) at doPropagation (load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:6)
— hueman1 ( talk • contributions) 02:23, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
importScript('User:WikiMasterGhibif/capitalize.js');
–
SD0001 (
talk) 08:16, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there a command which, for lack of a better term, I'd call {{scrunch}} which would do what I requested here? (what someone on the help desk calls "Yes the gap is kind of annoying") Pi314m ( talk) 00:58, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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googling Special:CreateAccount for example, or googling Special:UserLogin or any other special page to my knowledge, I've seen it always says "No information is available for this page. Learn why." Why is that? Also some others like googling Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations also don't seem to work either, but it never seems to work for special pages. Why does it not work specifically for special pages, or for any other specific page? It doesn't appear to be the same as noindexing, as you can search for the page, it just doesn't give you info. 54nd60x ( talk) 13:44, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Special pages can't be indexed because there is nothing to index: a special page doesn't actually exist until you visit it.Could you please explain that? Does it mean that special pages have visible content but they aren't actually editable as it's just transclusion of MediaWiki pages? Also, why is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations and perhaps some other non-special pages noindexed? Does it have to do with privacy? 54nd60x ( talk) 10:41, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
Disallow: /wiki/Special:
. Special pages are generated on demand and often rely on url parameters. Many special pages often change content, depend on the user viewing them, or have rather arbitrary content we don't want random searchers to find instead of our articles.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:41, 13 June 2021 (UTC)@ PrimeHunter: I was browsing special pages and found that the content can be changed with ?uselang=$1, as in Special:SpecialPages vs. Special:SpecialPages?uselang=es. However, I noticed that the content of Special:MathWikibase is always written in the wiki's language (i.e. it's in Spanish on es.wp and in English on en.wp but the contents are not messages and the content of the page cannot be changed based on user preferences.) Where is the source content of these special pages that allows it to be different across different wikis, and how can it be edited if some major change must be made? 54nd60x ( talk) 00:48, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
There is something broken at Schengen Area: the text seem to be mostly in red with some huge font size. I have slow connection to the internet at the moment and can not debug it. Can someone look at it? -- Jarekt ( talk) 09:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Anyone seen a template or Lua function that returns the link or id to the last revision of a given page before the current one? (Bonus points for one that returns the last revision by a given user!)
Cheers. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 05:13, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
diff=cur&oldid=prev
help? As in {{
diff|Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|cur|prev|this diff}}
→
this diff. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:04, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Can the {{ BLP editintro}} be displayed on any article whose talk page contains the {{ BLP}} header? Aasim ( talk) 03:30, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
BLP editintro}}
is shown automatically when editing a page categorized as either
Category:Living people or
Category:Possibly living people. The edit intro is injected into the edit URL by
MediaWiki:Common.js.{{
BLP}}
message is shown (when viewing, not when editing) if a {{
WikiProject banner shell}}
is present, and it has |BLP=yes
; also if a {{
WikiProject Biography}}
is present, and it has |living=yes
, and is not enclosed in a {{
WikiProject banner shell}}
.{{
WikiProject Biography}}
with |living=yes
. I don't think that it is still running. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:16, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
if ( mw.config.get( 'wgNamespaceNumber' ) === 0 ) {
$( function () {
if ( document.getElementById( 'disambigbox' ) ) {
addEditIntro( 'Template:Disambig_editintro' );
}
} );
$( function () {
var cats = mw.config.get( 'wgCategories' );
if ( !cats ) {
return;
}
if ( $.inArray( 'Living people', cats ) !== -1 || $.inArray( 'Possibly living people', cats ) !== -1 ) {
addEditIntro( 'Template:BLP_editintro' );
}
} );
}
From a sub-discussion at WP:VPW#IP Masking Update, you get the attached warning box when you try to block a sensitive IP range. What produces that? Is there some edit filter? Something in the interface? Back-end wikicode? And, more to the point, how can we add 192.0.2.0/24, to give admins a safe (sandbox) range to experiment with? -- RoySmith (talk) 17:08, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Quick CSS question, what's the default left margin between the edge of an image and the article body text? I'm trying to get a table to match. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 23:34, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
floatright
or floatleft
classes.)
Izno (
talk) 00:33, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
PLease can someone help me fix
this revision of my page. ―
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𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
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on reply) 18:06, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
scriptmanager
, but check scriptmanger
, without the second "a". scriptmanger
is presumably undefined, and will throw an error.
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 18:54, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 19:01, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
function importScript(location) {
mw.loader.load( '/?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=' + encodeURIComponent(location));
}
Thanks Writ Keeper! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwerfjkl ( talk • contribs) 19:29, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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I'm not sure if there's an appropriate place to suggest this apart from here, so just throwing it out: I just corrected "Rieter" to "Reiter" in a ref, something that happens fairly often. I think if we made a semi-automated tool that found automatic last names in references (the same way the citation tool does) and spit out a list of instances where it differed by only one letter, it'd get quite a few hits. Does this sound feasible, and if so, would anyone like to take it on? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 05:04, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Please see:
Other than the left margin what differences, if any, is your screenreader showing in the 2 sections.
Testing for accessibility problems. -- Timeshifter ( talk) 23:05, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
style=display:inline-table
can not be added within the table wikitext, because long captions will mess things up in mobile portrait view, or other narrow screens. It must be added outside the table wikitext."(unindent). Wow, that's great, isaacl. I added the <div> example on the bottom here:
I did not need the padding. Instead one can leave a space between the ending and beginning div tags. Or put them on 2 different lines:
</div> <div style=display:inline-table>
-- Timeshifter ( talk) 02:20, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Player | Matches | Goals |
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Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson | 407 | 0 |
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson | 364 | 1,875 |
Player | Goals | Matches | Average |
---|---|---|---|
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson | 1,875 | 364 | 5.15 |
Ólafur Stefánsson | 1,570 | 330 | 4.76 |
Everybody: Narrow your browser screen to see the tables wrap (one drop below the other). Works in mobile view too. The relevant div wikitext:
<div style=display:inline-table> --Table-- </div> <div style=display:inline-table> --Table-- </div>
-- Timeshifter ( talk) 13:23, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
How come there are still issues with the font size when using the classic vector skin gadget (e. g. as to the rendering of references and categories)?-- Hildeoc ( talk) 14:08, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
font-size: 0.8125em;
for .mw-body-content, #bodyContent
in
MediaWiki:Gadget-VectorClassic.css, I guess. --
AKlapper (WMF) (
talk) 18:31, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Did someone change the text in the orange box that comes up when someone leaves you a new talk page message, and if so, could we change it back (or for me to change my stylesheet to change it for myself)? It's longer now and "Talk" is randomly capitalised. Anarchyte ( talk) 06:47, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
When I point my mouse at de Havilland DH 108 the preview shews the title, a picture, and the text "|produced = 1946–1947". Something is wrong in the infobox but I can't see what. DuncanHill ( talk) 02:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there any reason why Wikipedia appeared to be inaccessible around one hour ago? All other websites were working properly, but every time I tried to go to any Wikipedia page, a WMF error page showed up instead. LSGH ( talk) ( contributions) 10:19, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
I am locked in a weird argument with another editor about whether Wikipedia should serve valid HTML or not, and what qualities wikitext needs to/does not need to/should not have. We're so entrenched in our opinions that I think I'm going to make my first RfC. My question (placed here, since HTML generation is kind of a technical matter) is: where would such an RfC be most appropriate? Help talk:HTML in wikitext? Somewhere else? — JohnFromPinckney ( talk / edits) 19:21, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
whether Wikipedia should serve valid HTMLthough sounds like a software bug (i.e. if we are "serving" invalid html in our rendered pages to viewers) - if the bug is coming from something we've done on-wiki - then place it near where that it, if the bug is coming from the linter/rendering engine/etc - then open a bug report. Fixing technical malfunctions doesn't normally require as much of a consensus gathering exercise like changing the manual of style would. One thing you've done well is to think about this ahead of time - and really what page hosts the RfC isn't super important, so long as it is advertised at any of the venues that are applicable and ends up being well-attended. — xaosflux Talk 20:48, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
<li>
elements (which they add manually into the wikitext) don't need <ul>
or <ol>
so insists on removing them or reverting my additions. I say the resultant page is invalid HTML (although my browser seems to display it nicely) and so is wrong for us to do (and recommend, for example, on
Help talk:Table). —
JohnFromPinckney (
talk /
edits) 21:34, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
<li>
that occurs outside of any enclosing <ol>...</ol>
or <ul>...</ul>
pair is indeed invalid. See
HTML 5.1 spec, the part beginning "Contexts in which this element can be used". --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:02, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
<li>
tags. See
Category:Articles with HTML markup —
GhostInTheMachine
talk to me 22:27, 15 June 2021 (UTC)</p>
is not strictly necessary for MediaWiki installations that output HTML 5 (such as Wikipedia)." --
Timeshifter (
talk) 00:06, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
<p>
for you, such that the page output does not contain invalid HTML code. (See
here for an example.) It doesn't do that for uncontained <li>
, so that's not a relevant comparison here.
Writ Keeper
⚇
♔ 00:38, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
<p>
, the page output would not be invalid HTML. If you refer to the
HTML 5.1 spec it has a whole paragraph headed "Tag omission in text/html" which is quite comprehensive - there are very few situations where the omission of a </p>
would not be valid. In XHTML it was quite true that omitting a </p>
tag was invalid (in fact, all closing tags were mandatory), but the MediaWiki software was switched from outputting XHTML to HTML5 in September 2012. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 07:57, 16 June 2021 (UTC)</p>
tag is mentioned eight times - all of which are in examples, it is not used in text. The <p>
tag is found ten times - eight of which are in examples, paired with the aforementioned </p>
tags, one is in a summary label and just one is in the text. There is nothing that explicitly states that <p> without </p> is also malformed HTMLor any variant on that. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 07:57, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I want to thank everyone who chimed in here and below and at Timeshifter's talk. I appreciate the extra experience and knowledge. — JohnFromPinckney ( talk / edits) 10:37, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
I just noticed this:
For some use cases it is possible to emulate the ifexist effect with css, by using the selectors
a.new
(to select links to unexisting pages) ora:not(.new)
(to select links to existing pages).
Has anyone taken a stab at putting that into a template? I'd imagine it'd use a WP:TemplateStyles css to declare the class and hide the redlinks (though I see there was some controversy about doing that 13 years ago). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 23:24, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
manipulating color). — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 02:53, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:SockBlock § Inaccessible on mobile. I'm posting this here to get more eyes on the issue, and hopefully formulate an appropriate edit request. In short, {{ SockBlock}} cannot be viewed on mobile unless the desktop website is used, or by opening into the edit window for source material. Unfortunately, I don't have the technical know-how to be able to convert the template properly. Ideas welcome. Sdrqaz ( talk) 17:27, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
At the very least, could we update out documentation so all of our message boxes clearly say whether they are visible on mobile or not? A quick ctrl-f mobile gave me zero information about this. For things that we want to be visible on mobile, we should use code that makes them visible on mobile. — Kusma ( talk) 19:25, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
(I was told to ask here from the Teahouse, see Wikipedia:Teahouse#Possibility_of_viewing_tooltips_on_mobile.) Is it possible to view tooltips in articles (the ones indicated by dotted underlining) while viewing Wikipedia on mobile? Although the underlining appears, when that is touched the tooltip doesn't appear. This is the same even when using Desktop view in mobile. NS-Merni ( talk) 06:15, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
When you edit a module, the second infobox says "Editors can experiment in this modules's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages." when it should be "Editors can experiment in this module's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.". Alexiscoutinho ( talk) 20:14, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
How come when inserting a copied Wiki link to a lemma with special characters like
/info/en/?search=%C3%9Cbermensch
(for the article
Übermensch) and selecting To a wiki page
in the "Insert link" form of the 2010 wikitext editor toolbar, the output is still a faulty link %C3%9Cbermensch
with a warning saying The requested page title contains invalid characters: "%C3".
– as has been the case for many years now? This seems to happen in all Wikis, by the way. (Has there ever existed a corresponding Phab ticket or anything similar dealing with this issue?)--
Hildeoc (
talk) 21:29, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
[[/info/en/?search=Apple]]
The URL you specified looks like it was intended as a link to another wiki page. Do you want to make it an internal link?
--
Hildeoc (
talk) 14:41, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
I've seen a couple of similar discussions, but they are very old. Every time I talk about deleted contributions below I mean DEPRECATED TEMPLATES.
Alexiscoutinho ( talk) 14:26, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
I'd ask at User talk:Evad37/OneClickArchiver.js but Evad37 doesn't seem to have been active since the beginning of this month.
I tried archiving a discussion at
WP:ANI with OneClickArchiver and it's
archiving the wrong one. The automated edit summary is labelling the discussion that I want to archive, though, so it seems like some sort of heading detection issue. Anyone know what the problem is? (please
mention me on reply) —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 ) 22:36, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
This link isn't working, it says that section editing is not enabled. ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 22:18, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
section=new
in the url but JavaScript pages don't have sections. Where did you see the link?
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:31, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 06:19, 19 June 2021 (UTC)There is a discussion going on at wikiproject basketball regarding presentation of statistical data for players in basketball articles. I won't reprise all of the discussion, but some editors prefer only ratios for certain statistics. While I support the inclusion of ratios, there are times I think it's helpful to see the statistics as totals per year. While showing both might be an obvious answer, the inclusion of all fields in a single table generates an unwieldy sized table.
I'd like to explore an option to eat our cake and have it too.
I'm intrigued by the presentation in many info boxes about locations that gives you the option of showing one of several maps or all maps with a simple click of a radio button. As an example, see the info box for Alliance,_Ohio, which allows you to choose whether you want to present a map of Ohio, a map of the United States, a map of North America, or all three. While I can see that this is done with a switch, I haven't figured out whether this same concept could be applied to tables.
In short, I'm trying to figure out if I can set up something so that a single table (probably defaulting to the ratios) is presented but the user has option to switch to the totals table or to see both.
I've presented example data in User:Sphilbrick/Stats_options. The first table labeled "ALL" is not what I want as it is too wide, although it does reflect the standard presentation in typical schools media guides or record books. What I would like to do is have both tables available, the one labeled "Ratios" and the one labeled "Totals", with one showing as a default and the ability with a radio burtton to switch to the other or see both simultaneously. I am concerned about Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility issues. My hope is that the broad acceptance of the map option means the accessibility concern doesn't apply. (As a related point, I had some initial concerns about the header row showing popup abbreviations, but I see MOS explicitly allows that MOS:NOHOVER.)
Can someone tell me if this is feasible and if so how to implement it?
As a secondary technical question, I generally like to use the visual editor to add tables by constructing them in Excel and then copying and pasting them. I haven't figured out how to handle the heading row using visual editor. Is there something I'm missing?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:11, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
scope="col"
, producing
Special:PermaLink/1029041109
* Pppery *
it has begun... 14:50, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
I thought I'd try including the two tables in the article in a special section that would be hidden, then transclude the two tables into the switcher template but that attempt failed miserably. I'm guessing that it is not acceptable to do a tranclusion on a page that incorporates information from that same page; I got a template loop error.
I did find an approach that works, see User:Sphilbrick/Stats example, but I'm worried that this will be frowned upon because I dropped the tables into sub pages then transluded.
According to Wikipedia:Subpages in the section on disallowed uses:
Using subpages for permanent content that is meant to be part of the encyclopedia.
I think the rationale is that a reader should never have to visit a sub page to see relevant content but that doesn't apply in this case given the transclusion. It does mean that updates to information by editors would require visiting there but editors unlike readers are not going to have any difficulty locating the data.
I put together a simple example so that it's visible here rather than having to go to the user page to see it:
YEAR | GP | MPG | APG | BPG |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 18.56 | 1.15 | 0.59 |
1996-97 | 28 | 17.86 | 1.25 | 0.54 |
YEAR | GP | MIN | A | BK |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 631 | 39 | 20 |
1996-97 | 28 | 500 | 35 | 15 |
-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:40, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Pppery, I have some success with your {{ wikitable}} suggestion. Here's a toy example:
YEAR | GP | MPG | APG | BK |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 18.56 | 1.15 | 0.59 |
1996-97 | 28 | 17.86 | 1.25 | 0.54 |
YEAR | GP | MIN | A | BK |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995-96 | 34 | 631 | 39 | 20 |
1996-97 | 28 | 500 | 35 | 15 |
An example with real data can be seen in User:Sphilbrick/Stats example
The only downside is that it requires me to construct the tables manually, line by line and using the sub pages allows me to copy and paste tables from Excel, but I have a feeling the community is not going to accept sub pages. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help, one of these two options should work.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 11:22, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
How I can see original upload//log/page for this image (it was moved to Commons)? Current file has comment "I created this myself 20/4/08" by Taopman. What could a comment from those years mean? I found source which says that take a picture was only possible on 27 April 2007. Eurohunter ( talk) 12:24, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
self|cc-by-3.0}}
. There is nothing else in the deleted history. —
Kusma (
talk) 12:45, 19 June 2021 (UTC)There is a discussion at Template talk:Nihongo#Template-protected_edit request on 7 June_2021 — Kerning issues about the use of CSS margins to modify kerning within the Nihongo template. Some technical insight would be appreciated. — Goszei ( talk) 06:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Harv cites are not my jam but when Harv errors and warnings litter an article it annoys me so I try to fix them. That being said, since they are not my jam, they are often a source of frustration to me because I usually cannot easily figure out exactly what is wrong. So, O Wiki Technical/Coding Mavens Who Understand All The Niceties of Harvard/Sfnm/etc Citations... could someone PLEASE take a look at Chester A. Arthur and tell me why it is littered with 44 "Harv errors"? I tried to fix one - the Abbot cite - but was unsuccessful. If you could explain it here, maybe step-by-step in somewhat plain English so my addled brain can understand that would be awesome. If you don't mind, please don't fix the issues at the article - explain it here and I'll get at it myself. I know it's probably something incredibly simple but I am just not seeing what the issue is at the moment. Thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 17:24, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
Excerpt}} Gives the impression that I can transclude a specific table if it has an ID.
I've looked at
Help:Table But I'm not clear how to create the ID. Is it done with an anchor?--
S Philbrick
(Talk) 16:46, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
When I look at War of the Fifth Coalition on my Android mobile with Chrome Version 91.0.4472.101, I cannot see the result of the template "Campaignbox Napoleonic Wars" and I get no warning that something cannot be displayed. Even if I turn on desktop mode I cannot see any result of any campaignbox. The same is true for my Android tablet with Amazon Silk. The campaignboxes are very important to allow the user to navigate easily from article to article. Ruedi33a ( talk) 14:54, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
navbox-mobile
which is similar to navbox
but renders on mobile. {{
Navbox}} and other templates could have an option for which class to use. Editors would probably disagree which navboxes are important enough to show on mobile so we would get one more thing to fight over.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:56, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
navbox-mobile
to render on both desktop and mobile, not forking to only render on mobile.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 09:50, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
|mobile=yes
. If the parameter is set then they add a new class navbox-mobile
instead of adding navbox
. navbox-mobile
should have the same styling as navbox
so it renders the same on desktop, but it also renders on mobile since navbox
is no longer present. This assumes the mobile developers don't decide to also omit navbox-mobile
from mobile. We can make a guideline about only using |mobile=yes
on small or essential navboxes. Individual navbox templates may pass on the parameter, e.g. using {{
Academy Award Best Actor}}
on
Academy Award for Best Actor to render on that article in mobile, but not on the biographies.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 20:59, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
The fundamental problem with mobile seems that Wikipedians like to manually write things that work on the desktop with no regard for mobile.This is simply not true. The
{{
campaignbox}}
template has been using class="navbox"
for many years, and did so long before the devs started writing a special skin for mobile displays and provided the
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ domain to go with it. It was the devs who made a deliberate decision that any element belonging to the navbox class should not be displayed in mobile. So don't blame Wikipedians. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 07:19, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
makes no sense. The next obvious solution is to cull and cut down desktop navboxes until they make sense also on mobile, and to display them everywhere again. — Kusma ( talk) 08:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
First I have to thank everybody joining this discussion about my question. I started as an ignorant human being and now I am on the long, cumbersome way to become a Wikipedian.
Summary: As a simple user I did not know the link "Desktop" hidden at the bottom of every wiki page. I have tried it now once and the result on my mobile was disastrous: the normal text is OK, the text of the infoboxes and campaignboxes is too small to be readable and must be increased manually. I will never use desktop mode again. If a wikipedian will say to me use "Desktop" mode to see the campaignboxes, I will know that this is an answer out of
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: absolutely correct but does not help at all. The situation is that a user sees only 95-99% of this kind of wiki article on his mobile/tablet and gets no warning.
I suggest this solution: The simple infobox is a perfect replacement to solve the problem but the infobox seems to be too boring and too ugly for wikipedians. Compare Template:French invasion of russia mobile with Template:Campaignbox Napoleon's invasion of Russia. I suggest to replace each campaignbox with an infobox or something better than infobox that is visible on a mobile/tablet.
Ruedi33a (
talk) 11:00, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Could someone give me a non-technical current consensus please? For example Ruedi33a has created {{ Peninsular War 1810 1811 mobile}} (currently transcluded from 16 articles) to replace {{ Campaignbox Peninsular War (1810–1811)}} (currently transcluded from one article). That is just one example of the many new "mobile" templates they have created. Is there any consensus for this? FDW777 ( talk) 11:45, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Which combination of page protections, user rights, and actions produces review/approve-a in the logs? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:07, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Since the last time when I open an article, the paragraphs open automatically, please fix the bug and make it open manually. Mohmad Abdul sahib☆ (message☎me!) 19:38, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Firstly, Im not sure if this is the correct forum for "how to..." questions - if not, please re-direct me!
I have created a template related to the civil war and mercenary involvement in the Congo in the 1960's - this is the template, let's call it Target Template:
The section titled "Main Operations and Battles" contains a list of events that is described in another template - below is the one concerned - lets call this one Source Template:
The "Source Template" data for "Main Operations and Battles" is the primary data and is maintained in "Source Template" by unknown editors. To keep "Target Template" up to date, I can (a.) copy all the "Main Operations and Battles" wiki-links from "Source Template"' to "Target Template" [this is what I have done] and check from time to time that any changes made to "Source Template" is manually replicated to "Target Template;" or (b.) nest the data from "Source Template" directly inside "Target Template" so that it is only maintained in "Source Template."
I want to use option (b.) - please assist in letting me know how to do this? Farawayman ( talk) 20:09, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there a gadget to expand all collapsed sections on a page, including nested ones? An article like My Little Television needs over 50 clicks to show all its content, which can be inconvenient when searching. I could probably throw some JavaScript together to fiddle with the mw-collapsible-* classes but the idea seems too obvious to be original, so I expect this wheel has already been invented. Certes ( talk) 17:00, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
$('.mw-collapsed').each(function () { $(this).data('mwCollapsible').expand() });
would do it, but they shouldn't be collapsed in the first place per
MOS:DONTHIDE.
Nardog (
talk) 17:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
I, being a mobile user, cannot copy text from a page's normal view, and have to into editing mode to do it, which can be problematic on pages using {{PAGENAME}} and similar. Is there a way around this? ―
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How to create such graphs? I know that external application for it is needed. Eurohunter ( talk) 22:46, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm looking for a template to strip formatting from a wikilink and give me the raw target. {{ Delink}} works quite well but for piped links it gives me the label instead of the target.
For example, I want:
I did try using Module:String a regular expression but the pipe character is confusing things. Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 06:49, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
delinkWikilink(s)
at
Module:Delink#L-38 to do that because titlearea
(poorly named, that) gets the target article name so you could return it after
Module:Delink#L-59?{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=no}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=yes}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|wikilinks=target}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu|]]|wikilinks=target}}
{{delink|[[Liloan, Cebu]]|wikilinks=target}}
{{
!}}
is a |
):{{
#invoke:String|match|s=[[Liloan, Cebu|Liloan]]|pattern=%[%[([^]{{
!}}
]+)|plain=0|nomatch=}}
MarMi wiki (
talk) 22:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)If anyone can help, there is a gif I'm using on Cai Lun's article. However, at FAC, two users have expressed that it goes rather quickly between images (an insight I agree with); I attempted to use this website to slow down the process to five seconds per image, but when I uploaded it, it became exact some speed. Any advice or solutions would be appreciated—and apologies if this is the wrong forum for such a query. Best - Aza24 ( talk) 22:38, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
When WikiMiniAtlas coordinates are inside a File template in an article, the tooltip is cut off by the image box and is not shown outside of it, as can be seen on this page. I tested this on Windows 10 in Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Does anyone else have this problem? DxhaFFer ( talk) 14:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Is there any way to get a gallery to display on a specified number of lines (for desktop)? I got the one here to display nicely on one full line on my display, but when I tried a different monitor it went onto a second line. There doesn't seem to be anything at Help:Gallery tag, so I'm thinking it might be necessary to use some HTML in the widths parameter or something like that. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 23:08, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
I get
Uncaught ReferenceError: pathoschild is not defined at <anonymous>:5:89 at domEval (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at runScript (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:13) at enqueue (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11) at execute (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:14) at doPropagation (/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:6)
when running this code:
pathoschild.TemplateScript.add({ name:'ScriptInstallation', script: function(editor) { editor .prepend('== Installation ==') .prepend(';Method 1:') .prepend('Get [[User:Enterprisey/script-installer|ScriptInstaller]], then navigate to [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}.js]] and click "Install" at the top.') .prepend(';Method 2:') .prepend('(This can be used on any-language Wikipedia.)') .prepend('# Place {{tlx|lusc|1{{=}}{{FULLPAGENAME}}.js}} on the bottom of [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] or [[Special:MyPage/skin.js]].') .prepend('# Press "Publish Changes".') .prepend(';Method 3:') .prepend('(This can only be used on the English Wikipedia.)') .prepend('# Place {{tlx|iusc|1{{=}}{{FULLPAGENAME}}.js}} on the bottom of [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] or [[Special:MyPage/skin.js]].') .prepend('# Press "Publish Changes"') .appendEditSummary('Added script installation text') .clickDiff(); } });
―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 17:27, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 18:10, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
pathoschild.templatescript.js
is already loaded. Your
common.js calls the loader and then runs the above code straight away. This does not give any time for templatescript.js
to be fetched and so it has not yet defined the pathoschild
object. Take a look at
mw.loader.using or
TemplateScript as a gadget or framework for ways to defer your code to after the script has loaded —
GhostInTheMachine
talk to me 19:01, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
editor.prepend('some text{newline]')
? ―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 13:22, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
\n
to create a line break, e.g. editor.prepend("Line 1\nLine 2")
. –
Rummskartoffel 15:20, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
/n
. {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 15:42, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Is there updated version of this blank map with national borders? The other question is how to edit it expect Paint? Eurohunter ( talk) 18:52, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
When I check my watchlist the Navajo line has an odd note beside it - a small clock symbol - and when I hover over it "30 days left on your watchlist" shows up. When did that start and why? Vsmith ( talk) 16:14, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
I made a thread here a while back about how strong formatting shows up within mobile amboxes (unlike bold formatting): Template talk:Notability#Strong markup. Is this a proper use of strong formatting? Any technical thoughts, ideas? — Goszei ( talk) 01:05, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
On desktop, amboxes are considered important enough to display even to non-editors. This is used by non-editors to recognize when there are potential issues with an article on WP. But on the mobile versions of Wikipedia, the amboxes are hidden or relegated to a subpage (E.g. on the Wikipedia iOS app, amboxes are not displayed but instead there is a link "page issues" at the end of the article.)
My opinion is, we should give amboxes similar prominence on mobile that we give them on desktop. I.e. display them at the top of the page or section. 15:44, 20 June 2021 (UTC) TOA The owner of all ☑️
I recently tagged a page for speedy deletion using those tabs at the top of the page (can't remember what they are called). The tagging happened correctly, the creator was messaged, but the page itself did not then appear on my watchlist. I'm sure when I've done this before the pages were added to my watchlist. DuncanHill ( talk) 23:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Background
Traditionally, WMF projects and volunteers coordinated on Freenode IRC servers. Should we migrate (or aim to migrate) these projects to Libera Chat instead? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:13, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
The question here is to address what we should general aim to try to do. I'm well aware each project is independent and can setup IRC channels wherever they want. However, we could decide that we encourage specific servers and discourage others, and try to migrate the 'official' Wikipedia/Wikimedia IRC channels to Libera instead of Freenode. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:17, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Is there a setting to make the enhanced watchlist (that which groups changes to the same page) show up on mobile? Cheers. — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 03:17, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Tech folks,
Special:WantedCategories and Special:UnusedCategories always update every 3 days, starting on the first day of the month but they haven't updated today. I have no idea what bot or program is responsible for updating Special pages and these pages have no edit history to check. They have talk pages but not ones that anyone ever checks. Any ideas? Is there a general lag today? Liz Read! Talk! 19:52, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
the Job gets run every three days, but can take more than a day to get through the list.So unless it is a couple of days over, its not worth raising a phab ticket yet. — xaosflux Talk 20:10, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
I thought once upon a time, we were able to just open the lead section and edit it. I don't see such a link now. Did I imagine such a thing existed? Did I change some preference that took it away? I use Modern skin. — Maile ( talk) 02:22, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
[edit]
link at the end of the page title. Are you using the desktop site? Which skin are you using? —
xaosflux
Talk 10:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)See WP:VPM#Server switch for details. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:47, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
I've filed a BRFA that proposes a task to substitute all uses of {{ date}} in mainspace, given that (a) its documentation says that it should only be used within other templates, and (b) there is no need to use the template in articles, simply writing out the date serves the same purpose.
This is technically a cosmetic task, as the rendered wikitext wouldn't change - I would hope that some latitude can be extended given that it would be a one-time run, and is "enforcing" (for want of a better word) existing documentation. Of course, we may decide that the documentation doesn't accurately reflect consensus - in that case the BRFA can be withdrawn/denied and the documentation updated.
It may be best for comments to be made at the BRFA to keep things in one place, although I'm equally happy for the discussion to happen here. Thanks! firefly ( t · c ) 17:20, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
Does anyone know how to get the shortcut box at Wikipedia:Task Center to the top of the page without pushing the header box off-center? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:54, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
clear}}
(or apply the style clear
to the div) just after the div.position:absolute
(with z-index:1
to make it on top).
MarMi wiki (
talk) 23:43, 27 June 2021 (UTC)I use the responsive monobook skin, which changes several things depending on the size of my window/screen. When I receive a crosswiki notification, it shows up as a little blue "1" in the notifications inbox in both designs. However, if I click on it to see the notification, I can only see it in the classic design. There is no "notifications from another wiki" message in the small-screen/mobile version (but all notifications from enwiki are visible there). There seems to be no way to find out what a crosswiki blue 1 is about without changing screen size / turning off the responsive design. Is this intentional? If no, can this be fixed? If yes, why? Could crosswiki notifications at least have a different colour? (So I know I can't read them on my phone and will have to wait until I get back to my desktop). The software telling me I have messages but sometimes not telling me what they are isn't great. — Kusma ( talk) 08:57, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Turning Javascript off makes the "Recent activity" box on Special:Notifications disappear. Does anybody know which piece of code produces it? — Kusma ( talk) 11:29, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Adding .mw-echo-ui-notificationsInboxWidget-sidebar {display:block;}
to
User:Kusma/monobook.css unhides the Recent activity box. It is a rather ugly workaround (I have to scroll to the side on my phone), but I don't speak CSS so I can't fix this. Thank you
Rummskartoffel for the help! —
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talk) 14:51, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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The Wikipedia logo shown on the left-hand-side panel with Skin:Timeless is a PNG image, but all other Wikimedia projects with Skin:Timeless use an SVG image for their logo. As the PNG logo is bitmap, the Wikipedia logo becomes blurry on higher-resolution displays, yet the SVG logo of Wikipedia is available. I also noticed that this issue happens across all Wikipedias so there should be a global solution for it. 🐱 💬 11:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
At the current FARC for Duke University, I'm wondering if there's any easy way to simultaneously ping all 50 members of Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Duke University. I've seen this done fairly often at Wikidata, but I'm not sure if the same functionality exists here. If not, I think it'd be a nice thing to create. We would probably want to build a safeguard to prevent abuse by limiting it to categories with, say, less than 100 members. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:18, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
let api = new mw.Api();
await api
.get({
action: "query",
format: "json",
list: "categorymembers",
cmtitle: "Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Duke University",
cmnamespace: "2",
cmlimit: "50",
formatversion: "2",
})
.then(response =>
response.query.categorymembers
.map(entry => `[[${entry.title.split("/")[0}]]`)
.join(", ")
);
[[User:Example]], [[User:Example]], [[User:Example]] ...
, which you can then just paste as wikitext. –
Rummskartoffel 21:21, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
importScript( "User:Rummskartoffel/generate pings.js" );
instead. –
Rummskartoffel 08:48, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Where is the message that currently displays "Technical maintenance will be performed soon 05:00 UTC - 05:30 UTC During this time you might not be able to save any edits."? It's wrong; 05:00 UTC was more than eight hours ago. Judging by Tech News above, it should read 14:00 UTC to 14:30 UTC - can we get this changed? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 13:40, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
I have noticed this for quite a while so decided to do a quick test with it today (it's not meant to be super comprehensive so bear with me).
I open Phillip Davey with my dev tool opened and "Disable cache" checked. I then refresh the page 10 times to see the average loading time. Then I repeat it after logged out.
The difference is very obvious: ignoring any resources, only look at the first HTTP request for the HTML:
I understand it can't be as fast, but this is pretty bad and very noticeable when just browsing around. Is there anyway to improve it? Thanks! -- fireattack ( talk) 14:47, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
— 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 22:24, 28 June 2021 (UTC)An ad-hoc analysis among users of en.wikipedia.org who have edited in the last 30 days shows that about 4% of active editors have the "thumb size" option set.
Anyone else having this issue or is it just me? Satellizer el Bridget (Talk) 03:22, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Has someone an idea how to resolve the sfn error on User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/Guallatiri? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 10:36, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
At WikiProject Sweep, we're still stuck at the stage of trying to determine the criteria of the list of pages to be swept. Would anyone be able to answer or know where we could go to find the results of these queries?
Cheers, {{u| Sdkb}} talk 09:04, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Would it be possible to perform some sort of check so that {{ Contains special characters}} is only displayed when someone actually lacks the rendering support needed to display them? It's unneeded otherwise, and as rendering technology has improved over time, this has become increasingly common. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:34, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Please refer to this discussion. The image File:Young_Folks'_History_of_Rome_illus090.png does not seem to want to render correctly on any pages. Can someone with technical knowledge please fix? Thanks. -- œ ™ 08:37, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
In fact, many similar images in commons:User:Helix84/gallery don't seem to display either. -- œ ™ 08:41, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm trying to query Wikidata in an enwiki gadget. Sadly it just throws CORS errors, the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header is missing. I don't get it.. does this mean it's impossible to query Wikidata in an enwiki gadget? — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 21:16, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
origin=*
. There's a phab ticket somewhere that seeks to make this requirement unnecessary. –
SD0001 (
talk) 08:14, 28 June 2021 (UTC)'origin' parameter does not match Origin header), why doesn't it just check that something else? A passed parameter can't be trusted anyhow. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 19:12, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey there,
I've a contentious statement that is supported by a lot of sources, and I'm trying to group them in a note so we don't have a whole list in-line. Is there a better way to do this than this? Specifically, is there a way of exposing the refs in the note, so that they're immediately visible when hovering with the mouse pointer?
Thanks. François Robere ( talk) 08:46, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
There is a bug in one of the unblock templates, I posted about it on the talk page but I don't think anyone is watching it as it was empty. Any help at Template talk:Unblock-un on hold would be greatly appreciated. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 06:17, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
blocking administrator
was left in place. I've tried using the template and filling in the parameters and it appears to work as expected. I could however be missing something!
firefly (
t ·
c ) 06:25, 1 July 2021 (UTC){{{3|{{{reason|original unblock reason}}}}}}
(line 23) to get the unblock reason, which is correct, but the decline template uses {{{1|{{{reason|original unblock reason}}}}}}
(line 27) to get the unblock reason, which is wrong as parameter 1 is where the blocking administor's name goes. To fix this, you would just need to replace the shown code on line 27 with the shown code on line 23. –
BrandonXLF (
talk) 06:44, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
I keep getting an error message, "An error has occurred while searching: Search is currently too busy. Please try again later." In other tries it is super slow. Abductive ( reasoning) 02:33, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?search= is currently failing, a first, in my experience. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 05:57, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
Why does Ollagüe appear in Category:Articles containing undetermined-language text? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 15:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
|native_name=
but not |native_name_lang=
to the infobox.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 15:29, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey! So I was sending a mass message, and while my log states that I only sent one message, why does MediaWiki MassMessage Delivery sometimes send the message later again, to certain pages on the message list, but not to all pages, for example, I sent a message at X o clock, only once. Then a few hours later, I did not send another message, via mass message, and the same message will get sent again. Even though I only sent it once, and my log only shows I sent it once. This has happened 2 times now. Is there a way to fix this? -- つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 21:41, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
The OpenStreetMap conference, "State of the Map", has an impressive, easy to use, tool for switching timezones on its programme page.
Could we use that, or something very like it, on Wikipedia and sister projects, for our events? The tools I've seen used by us for such things seem much more clunky. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:52, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a way to produce a list of pages within a given category which contain at least one redlink? For example, Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics has one redlink (it did have a few more, but I created redirects). Can a search be done on either Category:Canada at the Summer Olympics by year or Category:Nations at the 2000 Summer Olympics to find pages with at least one redlink? Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:23, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi, If the articles have been deleted uner PROD or BLPROD, where can we find the hist diff/log for the nomination of PROD/BLPROD edits? Thaks in advance. Cassiopeia( talk) 09:32, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
tags: [ "twinkle" ]
is probably the edit that added the PROD. If you also want the diff ID for some reason, you can look for &drvprop=
in the URL and replace it by &drvprop=ids%7C
. –
SD0001 (
talk) 05:07, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Statistics stopped working, see [37] - "pageviews-20210702-110000.gz" is the last file. -- BlueDonny ( talk) 05:45, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
This may be related to this discussion at the RedWarn talkpage.
When I try to edit pages, I cannot publish changes, which I think is due to this error:
mdlLogic.js:1 Uncaught URIError: URI malformed at decodeURIComponent (<anonymous>) at Function.t.EPPyTH (mdlLogic.js:1) at t (mdlLogic.js:1) at Object.mw.loader.load (<anonymous>:2:180) at Object.preloadDeflate (<anonymous>:351:854) at <anonymous>:40:348
― Qwerfjkl talk 18:20, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Greetings.
I am with you one of the Arabic Wikipedia editors :), I work sometimes in a dark atmosphere (like now when writing to you) on a bright white screen, which annoys me a bit especially when I see the page of the site, I think we could coordinate with the rest of the other wikis or with programmers in Wikipedia in order to give this appearance, and make it Within the Appearance section of the preferences page for each Wikipedia user, with the ability to specify the time of their appearance (as it is present and familiar to you in the settings of computers (such as Windows 10) or mobile phones), and it is not hidden from you that these sites exist in other recent sites such as Twitter and YouTube.
Could you please accept this small suggestion :)? Thank you and best regards. -- A3bdula3ziz ( talk) 01:39, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Ohh that is nice. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 07:34, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
How do I get rid of the sfn error on User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/Eifuku? Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 20:56, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
|ref=none
to the wikitext of ref 15, to explicitly state that the sfn should link to the other one.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 21:06, 3 July 2021 (UTC)<ref name="CantwellNewman2016b">{{cite report|last1=Cantwell|first1=Kasey|last2=Newman|first2=Jim|url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/17556|year=2016|title=Okeanos Explorer ROV dive summary, EX1605L3, June 26, 2016}}</ref>
* {{cite report|last1=Cantwell|first1=Kasey|last2=Newman|first2=Jim|url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/17555|year=2016|title=Okeanos Explorer ROV dive summary, EX1605L3, June 25, 2016}}
{{
sfn|Cantwell|Newman|2016|p=3}}
don't know which to link to.
|ref=none
to the one in References.|year=2016
to |year=2016a
in one and to |year=2016b
in the other, and in the {{
sfn}}
alter |2016
to either |2016a
or to |2016b
whichever is applicable. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:33, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
If [/info/en/?search=Talk:Main_Page?action=delete] this is correct, I have a question. Does that mean that if I were to make over 5,000 edits to my user page, no one here would be able to delete it? And what if over 5,000 edits were made to an admin's own user page, and they couldn't delete it by their own request? This doesn't seem clear why the protection should be given in this case. Are there any exceptions to this? And can an admin send a screenshot of what happens when attempting to delete pages with 5k+ revisions? 54nd60x ( talk) 12:26, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Apparently the 5k limit is not all. There is also an special deletion in place when pages exceed 1000 revisions. When an page that big gets deleted, that is put into Job queue and the revisions are deleted in batches, from oldest to newest. Even if the page gets edits or even moved from the point that the admin requests for deletion, then that action is still archived just like with an normal deletion, and any subsequent deletions of the same page whilst this process is underway does not affect the process - that was actually tested by the developers. There is a note on pages like those that there is an deletion in progress. See phab:T198176.-- Snævar ( talk) 10:38, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
If my memory serves me right very large pages were deleted in the past, either by accident or due to compromised accounts. It was highly disruptive causing a lot of load on the database servers as well as taking a long time to restore. This was very long ago, back when being here for 2 years made you an old timer. HighInBC Need help? Just ask. 08:52, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
I have problems with mobile search on Chrome in iOS, with the articles I frequently read not appearing with incomplete search strings, but appearing only when complete. For example, when typing in COV and expecting to see COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic and related articles in results, I would see Covariance, Coventry, Covina, etc. Is this a bug, problem with browser, or something else?- TagaSanPedroAko ( talk) 07:07, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
The past few hours if i type a name into the upper-right search bar it doesn't show up. For example if i type Julian Assange his name doesn't appear but "Julian Assange Show" does. are other users experiencing this weird issue?? 158.222.185.250 ( talk) 11:55, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
I also want to reiterate problems I've been having with the search function today, as users here and here have. One way the problem manifest itself to me recently was that it required not only a complete string to return the article I was looking for; it required case sensitivity as well. For example, if searching for the article Light of a Clear Blue Morning, typing "light of a clear blue morning" or even "Light of A Clear Blue Morning" does not return it in the search bar. It must be complete and correct title case for the article to appear at all. This is not the only problem I have encountered with search today, but it is a specific anecdote that might shed some light on the nature of the problem.
It does not appear to be limited to Chrome on iOS, as has been previously speculated. This problem occurs for me across two devices, neither of which match those specifications.-- Sunshineisles2 ( talk) 23:22, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
Every version of Remdesivir, since creation, when I start to edit it, displays:
Lua error in Module:Sanctions at line 60: attempt to index field '_topicData' (a boolean value).
when I copy to sandbox this does not happen. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx ( talk) 19:27, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
In the article President of Portugal I saw some texts overlapped together at the Graphical timeline (since 1910) section, which illistrated with timeline tag, is there any way to make collision avoidance there? -- Great Brightstar ( talk) 17:40, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Context: [38]. Google Chrome has implemented this "text fragment" URL feature for a year now, and it is today used within at least 9,260 articles. When a URL with this ":~:text=" string is clicked in Chrome, the page will be jumped to the corresponding text (strangely, my search shows these also have been added in inter-wiki links). They don't work in browsers other than Chrome, and don't even work all the time in Chrome (at least for me).
Google Search has been appending this string to its results in order to jump people to the text in webpages visible in the results snippet. It appears that editors have copy and pasting these URL's and leaving the extraneous string in; a small sampling of my search shows that they almost always have no correspondence with the text that is being verified, and so I think editors have been mostly been leaving this in the URL by complete accident. For this reason, I think they should be removed en masse, perhaps a task handled continuously by a bot (or AWB?). I would be given some pause if they were being used like a citation template's |quote parameter, but that doesn't appear to be the case at all, with almost all uses being apparently accidental.
What should be done about these, if anything? — Goszei ( talk) 07:50, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that on the desktop version of vec.wiki are disappeared the languages links to the other Wikipedia languages editions. How can I solve? -- 62.18.11.223 ( talk) 20:08, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
&useskinversion=1
may be used to for the old version on a page load if needed. —
xaosflux
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@ Matma Rex wrote mw:Extension:DiscussionTools/How it works. I understand that it contains the information you might need to get the Reply tool to work inside another script/tool. I post the link here in case anyone's interested.
If you don't remember what the Reply tool is, then clicking on /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)?dtenable=1 will give you [reply] buttons after each signature on this page. You can enable it under "Discussion tools" in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. The newest feature (not yet available here) is the ability to get notifications about new comments in any individual ==Section==, regardless of whether the page is on your watchlist. If you want to test that, it's up on Meta-Wiki (enable it at m:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures, control it at m:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion). Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:11, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
notifications about new comments in any individual Section, regardless of whether the page is on your watchlistis a feature I would die for! Eagerly looking forward to that. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:25, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Certain scripts (
Ohconfucius's formatgeneral, Sources, and Common Terms, as well as TemplateScript) only show up on pages with &action=submit
appended to their URL, as well as some random text.
―
Qwerfjkl |
𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂 (please use {{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 13:41, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Once you are in edit mode, there is a button .... Unless I'm misunderstanding and they don't work in edit mode. – Rummskartoffel 17:09, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 17:31, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
{{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 20:24, 23 June 2021 (UTC){{
reply to|Qwerfjkl}}
on reply) 17:01, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
I get this:
Large output dump
|
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load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:63 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'indexOf' of undefined at Array.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:760:12) at Object.ARA_Functions.getSuggestions (<anonymous>:380:24) at Object.ARA_Functions.scan (<anonymous>:299:45) at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:22:16) at mightThrow (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:60) at process (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:61) mdlLogic.js:1 Uncaught URIError: URI malformed at decodeURIComponent (<anonymous>) at Function.t.EPPyTH (mdlLogic.js:1) at t (mdlLogic.js:1) at Object.mw.loader.load (<anonymous>:2:180) at <anonymous>:6:11 at Object.<anonymous> (<anonymous>:1:724) at mightThrow (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:60) at process (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:61) Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'end' of null at jQuery.fn.init.getCaretPosition (<anonymous>:106:580) at jQuery.fn.init.$.fn.textSelection (<anonymous>:201:237) at jQuery.fn.init.$.fn.wikiEditor (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.wikiEditor&skin=vector&version=10s2l:11) at Object.mw.addWikiEditor (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.wikiEditor&skin=vector&version=10s2l:5) at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.wikiEditor&skin=vector&version=10s2l:5) at mightThrow (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:60) at process (load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.CodeMirror|ext.CodeMirror.data|jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=pg4sw:61) Uncaught URIError: URI malformed at decodeURIComponent (<anonymous>) at Function.t.EPPyTH (mdlLogic.js:1) at t (mdlLogic.js:1) at Object.mw.loader.load (<anonymous>:2:180) at Object.preloadDeflate (<anonymous>:158:106) at load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.visualEditor.articleTarget%2Ccore%2CdesktopArticleTarget%2Cmwsave%2Cmwtransclusion&skin=vector&version=1ga9r:9 |
Very minor question, but puzzling me nonetheless. In discussion at the current RfA someone mentioned XTools Admin Score; as one does, i took a look and, curious, entered mine own account. It says that the account is 0 days old. So i looked at Special:List Users, which also gives no creation date for LindsayH. Am i missing something very simple (most likely), or is there something wrong with my account? Thanks; happy days, Lindsay H ello 19:06, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
user_registration
field was added to the database (in December 2005) did not have that filed filled in. Where such accounts had edits, the timestamp of the first edit was used to fill in the field as a guess. But if you created your account before but did not make any edits until after, you won't have a registration date recorded. There's a bug open about filling the rest in (
T20638), but it seems unlikely anyone will get around to it since they haven't for so long yet.
Anomie
⚔ 19:29, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem with some refs on the River Lugg article. I have used {{sfn |Jacklin |2015 |p=2}} twice, and Jacklin is defined in the bibliography. However, I am getting a "Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTEJacklin20152" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page)." message. This is not normally a problem, since I have used {{sfn |Priestley |1831 |p=697}} twice in the same article, and that is ok. Any suggestions as to how to fix it? Thanks. Bob1960evens ( talk) 09:40, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Why does the parser error with something like myContainer.in(key)
, but not with myContainer['in'](key)
? Is this a bug?
Alexiscoutinho (
talk) 21:01, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
in
is a Lua keyword. See
mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual#Tokens.Thanks :) I've decided to use myContainer.has(key)
instead, which is much better.
Alexiscoutinho (
talk) 01:41, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
DAB Solver tool link was developed by User:Dispenser/Dab_solver. I saw "was" because I understand the tool is no longer being maintained. Yesterday it caused a storm in a teacup with an oversensitive editor who objected when I reverted a change that replaced a disambiguation link (not ideal) with a redirect (not idea) and instead I put the correct link in there. I also noticed that in the background, with the person using the tool being unaware, it is changing correct instances of {{ Cite web}} (and its cite siblings) with {{ cite web}} - despite the fact that other tools/bots change it from lowercase to uppercase. Given that the tool isn't being maintained, is not properly fixing dab links as it advertises, and is doing odd things in the background, should it be allowed to continue editing or be blocked? 10mmsocket ( talk) 08:05, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
References
{{!}} Thesaurus.com
does not belong in |title=
because that is not the title of the page that readers see. Been seeing more and more of these kinds of citations.{{!}} Thesaurus.com
titles most likely come from the
User:V111P/js/WebRef script for generating cites from web pages. I know, because I sometimes use said tool, that it has a tendency to append the name of the publication in the title with that exclamation mark, even in cases where it also puts that publication name in the |work=
parameter. I have no idea why, but I try to always remove it from the title myself. —
Amakuru (
talk) 13:07, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
<title>
element from the target and using it unchanged for |title=
instead of trying to figure out what the human reader sees as the title when viewing the page content. It's hardly mysterious, IMO. —
JohnFromPinckney (
talk /
edits) 14:38, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
<title>...</title>
doesn't make that information correct. On the example page, for example, there are two <title>...</title>
tags:
<title data-react-helmet="true">OVERSENSITIVE Synonyms: 246 Synonyms & Antonyms for OVERSENSITIVE | Thesaurus.com</title>
– source for browser tab<title>Thesaurus.com</title>
|title=
in the example above but doesn't match that text in the browser tab:
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:title" content="Synonyms of oversensitive | Thesaurus.com"/>
I've run into some errors, and after testing on my alt, it appears I'm opening edit pages differently. By default, th editing pages load with a toolbar at the top, but in my slt, it has features at the top, and the publish, show changes etc. buttons at the button. How do I get the latter editing mode as my default? (The latter editing mode also appears to have an older UI, and is similar to the Convenient Discussions one.) ― Qwerfjkl talk 20:59, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
This:
mw.hook('convenientDiscussions.commentsReady').add(function () {
// comments_in_local_time.js import code
importScript('User:Gary/comments in local time.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Gary/comments in local time.js]]
});
doesn't seem to load comments in local time. This is being loaded after Convenient Discussions. ― Qwerfjkl talk 06:21, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
o/w/api.php?titles=r&origin=*&format=json&formatversion=2&uselang=content&maxage=86400&smaxage=86400&action=query&prop=revisions|info&rvprop=content&rvlimit=1:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
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load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:135 GET https://phabricator-bug-status.toolforge.org/queryTasks?callback=jQuery36009011871784048877_1625672516298&ids=%5B93049%2C286115%2C285766%5D&_=1625672516299 net::ERR_ABORTED 500 send @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:135 ajax @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:129 jQuery.ajax @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core|jquery.ui&skin=vector&version=1a0i7:150 (anonymous) @ VM1236:266 (anonymous) @ VM1236:267 runScript @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:12 execute @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:14 doPropagation @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:6 requestIdleCallback (async) requestPropagation @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:7 setAndPropagate @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:7 implement @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:19 (anonymous) @ VM1236:1 domEval @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11 (anonymous) @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:17 requestIdleCallback (async) asyncEval @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:17 work @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:18 enqueue @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:11 load @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:20 (anonymous) @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:68 (anonymous) @ load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector:68 |
which appears before the other erros. ― Qwerfjkl talk 15:45, 7 July 2021 (UTC)