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There are a few help pages which needs to be updated after the changes, Help:Searching for example. Cenarium ( talk) 13:21, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
See my gripe at the feedback page for the Usability Team. Tee hee. -- œ ™ 01:32, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm working on depopulating Category:Requests to move a userspace draft. When I update the page, I note that someone else is as well. (Removing the {{move draft}} template accomplishes this). Is there a way to find out who else may be working on this list?-- SPhilbrick T 15:44, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
So you need a special status to move something from the user space into the article space? Where can I read about that? Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
The front page of the website royalcliff.com appears to have been hacked, and tries to install malware for the reader. We have a few links to this website at Special:LinkSearch/www.royalcliff.com. Commons has more commons:Special:LinkSearch/www.royalcliff.com. Do we normally remove links to protect our readers? John Vandenberg ( chat) 02:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I've commented them out, and someone did the same on commons anonymously. John Vandenberg ( chat) 03:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay, so I got auto switched to Vector when the site wide change was implemented. I tried it out and didn't like a few things about it and changed back to MonoBook. Well, today I noticed that whenever I edit a page, the font in the edit box is like point 20+ and in bold. How do I get back to the normal font? RedWolf ( talk) 20:11, 15 May 2010 (UTC). I am using FF 3.6.3 on OS X. If I use Safari 4.0.5, the edit font is fine. RedWolf ( talk) 20:32, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed Wikipedia "log in" related technical trouble. When I try to search for a topic after logging in or navigate to different pages, it is showing my status as signed out. I have noticed this problem from the time appearance and navigation related new features are added to Wikipedia. Hope this problem will be resolved soon. My User name is Kandula Venkateswara Reddy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.195.140.105 ( talk) 05:52, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Since the the layout changes when I try and insert the 'reflist' shortcut from the Wiki markup drop-down (when editing) a box comes up asking if I want to navigate away from this page, and thus I need to type it in instead. Anyone else having this problem? Eldumpo ( talk) 08:51, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I just opened today user on another Wikipedia, when then after I came to log in here (i.e., English Wikipedia)it automaticaly loged me with the user from the other Wikipedia (although I didn't open any new account here), in fact, I didn't even have to log in...I don't want to edit with the same account here and there. As far as I can tell, once if one had account in E wikipedia and in G wikipedia, these were two different accounts. Have it changed? Does it mean that now if I'm blocked in one wiki then I'm blocked also in another? Just for instance, I'm sure it doesn't tell that if one is admin there he's also admin here.-- Gilisa ( talk) 14:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
In the edit mode that just magically appeared, when you click on cite templates several are missing that used to be there, such as journal. Currently only web, book, and news appear. Can I somehow go to the old display - which is much better - and get all the templates back? So yes, I don't like the new interface. I also hate the new vector skin and immediately went back to monobook. — Rlevse • Talk • 15:40, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
My usual, handy-dandy, always-use-it password for Wikipedia has tanked. No idea why, maybe because I haven't logged in in over a year.
I want to use my account to add more information to some articles I've authored.
I try having Wikipedia send the email to my account (to reset the password) and no email comes through -- not in the spam folder, not anything. It's the email account I've always used. Not sure if it's been the one I signed up to Wikipedia with, but it's a very high probability it is.
What do I do?
I have ways of proving this is 'me'. :)
Formerly (still?) Theoriste on Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.109.75.187 ( talk) 18:03, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Initially, when I entered a topic in the search box, at the top, it would list articles but then, in dark blue, gave me the option for searching for text. That latter option doesn't now happen and the magnifying glass just takes me to the first page. How do I do a full text search, please? Bridgeplayer ( talk) 18:06, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
According to SecurePoll, I must have 150 mainspace edits to vote on the May 2010 CheckUser & Oversight Elections. I have 202 (see here), but I still can't vote. Why?
A p3rson ‽ 18:21, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there any log kept as to when e-mail was enabled or disabled for a particular user? Who can access it?— Kww( talk) 18:59, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Are you talking about a user preventing other users from contacting them ( Special:Preferences), or about an admin disabling an editor's ability to email others? Because the latter is only possible via blocking... ╟─ Treasury Tag► assemblyman─╢ 19:03, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Was browsing around while logged in, clicked on my watchlist, and got told I had to log in. DuncanHill ( talk) 19:18, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I enter a word in what should be the search box, and I should be offered a choice: "go to" or "search". But only "go to" seems to be there after the recent changes. Is this yet another thing that I have to accidentally find? Michael Hardy ( talk) 20:57, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm worried because I am finding it impossible to fully log out of Wikipedia (or Wikimedia Commons) in my usual browser, Safari (version 4). The first evidence of a problem – a few hours ago – was when my edits in Safari wouldn't save, and instead I got a message referring to loss of session data and suggesting I log out. I logged out, but when I then went to the log in page, I was already logged in. This happened every time, so in addition to just refreshing the page, I emptied the Safari cache, cleared the history, shut down Safari and relaunched, cleared Wikipedia-related autofill forms in my browser, even restarted my computer, and yet every time I go to any Wikipedia page it shows me logged in. As I mentioned, when I then click "log out" it appears as though I've logged out, but then when I click on "Log in/Create new account", it takes me to the login page but with my user name already (again) showing at the top of the page, already logged in. When I click on "E-mail new password" there I get a message, "Login error - There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please hit "back" and reload the page you came from, then try again." When I follow those instructions, I continue to get pages showing me as already logged in. The only other browser on my computer is Firefox, and I checked it and I am logged out of Wikipedia there. No matter what I try, I cannot log out of Wikipedia in Safari now. (In more than a year of editing, I've never experienced this problem before.) I just tried posting this in Safari and got the same message, as with my attempted edits earlier today, "We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data," so I've now opened Firefox and logged in there, and will try to post this message via that browser. What do you suggest? SJ Morg ( talk) 03:14, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I am using Firefox 3.6.3 and none of the collapsible menus on the left side ("interaction", "toolbox", etc.) work. It works like magic in Internet Explorer. Ideas? Renata ( talk) 04:34, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I just made Template:Missouri county elected officials. This is designed to have a uniform template for all Missouri county articles. I would like it to have a spot to list the political party of the incumbent along with the incumbent's name - and for it also to automatically shade the appropriate color (blue for Democrats, red for Republicans, gray for independents). See the table at Washington County, Missouri#Local.
Can anyone lend a hand? Been trying to work on a solution but have been encountering difficulty. Neutrality talk 01:12, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Pertinent related discussion:
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The logo in the top left seems to have been replaced with this new one, which is smaller and less well defined than previously (at least in Classic skin). Is there any reason for this? — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 08:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
#p-logo a {background-image:url(
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/b/bc/20100513062230!Wiki.png) !important;}
I also found the new logo to be rather blah, so I've attempted to create a bolder version, shown above. Dragons flight ( talk) 11:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to comment that I really don't like the new logo, especially because it's significantly smaller than the old logo. To me, shrinking the logo communicates that Wikipedia itself is shrinking. I would strongly support any redesign that got the logo back up to its original size. – Grondemar 11:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
When I looked at Wikipedia today, I almost took my contacts out - the logo can't be that blurry! Maybe if the new logo were the size of the old one, and the characters were darker, the fuzziness would go away. -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 12:09, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I think that the new logo looks sort of irregular. I can't quite put my finger on the problem, but I think that bringing the "W" and "Ω" back into alignment helps. My gut feeling about the "bolder" version above is positive, too. Paul ( Stansifer) 12:28, 13 May 2010 (UTC) (edited to add a boldenated version, too)
I too found the logo to be a bit disappointing, particularly that it lacked contrast/definition. The improvement above is a good step, but more can probably be done. I understand that it's now a render from a complete 3d model. Anyone know where the 3d models are of the new logo? The definitions of the puzzle edges can probably be improved with a bump map. -- Gmaxwell ( talk) 13:24, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Agree with all of the above. Fixing the errors in the logo is important, and these changes should be kept, but there was no reason to make it so tiny and unremarkable.-- Danaman5 ( talk) 14:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
We seem to have unanimous consensus... File:Wiki.png can simply be reverted to an earlier version if needed. – Juliancolton | Talk 15:48, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Here's my take on things: User:DragonHawk/2010 logo. Briefly: I think there are objective reasons why some people are reacting negatively to the new logo. (1) ball is slightly smaller compared to the text, (2) puzzle edges less distinct, (3) lower contrast between symbols and background. These may or may not be "problems" if one is not comparing to the old logo. If they are considered to be worth "correcting", I think that can be done on the 3D model, not just by touching up the image (PNG/SVG). — DragonHawk ( talk| hist) 17:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I think it's important that The Powers That Be on this logo issue are aware of how disappointed folks are about the new logo. You can register your support for the old Wikipedia logo on Facebook. nohat ( talk) 16:23, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
This new logo is awful. It's smaller, poorly defined, and lacks the old italicized typface. The new logo is a punified version of the old logo. I also don't recall any consensus as to changing to this logo.
There is a glitch in which switching back to the old view will still leave you with the new distasteful logo.
To add the old logo back, add this line to your
Monobook skin
#p-logo a {background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Wiki.PNG) !important;}
Anybody else think this new logo is just bad? Smallman12q ( talk) 17:55, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I just want to chime in on the new logo. The previous logo, which I created, was certainly not without its flaws, but the new logo suffers greatly on an aesthetic level: it is too small, the anti-aliasing is very low quality, and most importantly, the sense of texture created by the edges of the pieces is completely lost. Finally, I am rather disappointed I was not included in the process to revamp the logo. No attempt was made to reach out to me to let me know this process was even being undertaken. Very poor job on all accounts. nohat ( talk) 18:05, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I've posted a blog entry expanding on my objections to the new logo. Please read it if you care to know more of my thoughts. nohat ( talk) 18:30, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia's success to date is entirely a function of our open community.
-Jimbo
Any changes to the software must be gradual and reversible. We need to make sure that any changes contribute positively to the community, as ultimately determined by everybody in Wikipedia, in full consultation with the community consensus.
-Jimbo
The rendering
The 3D work is admirable, and I'm glad we finally fixed the language problems. But the rendering is awful. I don't know who approved this, but I'm going to guess he's never met a graphic designer in his entire life. It's 1990s-style work. The contrast is absolutely too low for a logo. Logos should have clear high-contrast objects and subtle gradients. This is the opposite: it has low contrast between objects but a very extreme gradient. Any gradients should be subtle, not consume the entire object. The globe should be much lighter, it's too dark and so you have dark gray letters on a dark gray ball. And the texture of the letters and cracks is completely gone. Dragon flight's "bolder" version above is a tremendous improvement, but we can still do better.
Here's the other problem with this logo: It looks blatantly like an SVG image. Vector format is great for normal logos (one- or two-color vector images), but our project's logo isn't a normal logo, it's a photographic-style image. SVG doesn't work for it, and shoehorning a photographic-style image into a vector format will never look right. Why does the logo even need to be a server-side SVG if you can't click on it? Use the 3D software to render an actual PNG that looks right, with actual cracks between the pieces and actual gloss on the letters. The site's logo should look good: it should look like
this sign.
I understand there's always a need for a vector version for professional publishing, etc. That's totally fine, but keep it internal. Don't use it as the site's header if there's no vector functionality in the header itself.
Here's a question: Who made the logo decision and how do we make absolutely sure they get in touch with this discussion? Step 1 is to replace it with a brighter, higher-contrast image. Step 2 is to render it properly. —
Noisalt (
talk) 22:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I think the problems are these:
N4m3 ( talk) 14:33, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Discussion about the recent interface changes is at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. |
I miss the "cite" button in the editor toolbar, which in the monobook skin used to pop up a {{citation}}-template-family-editor for quick adding of reference information. Can this feature be made available in the vector skin?
We need to encourage editors to add references, and we need gadgets which make it easy doing so. The new "reference wizard" does nothing to enhance adding of proper references, neither for regular content contributors (bad) nor for "drive-by"-contributors (very bad!) and should be modified to include the buttons you got when you clicked "cite" in the monobook skin toolbar.
Related questions to think about, though less important to me:
Skäpperöd ( talk) 09:39, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
It might be that there is an issue with IE and refToolbar. IE requires a special mode of the script, and that wasn't really tested I think. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 12:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The new UI for the edit box seems to have been a mess:
I'm thinking of setting up an RFC about getting refTools reinstated. Any comments? -- Philcha ( talk) 13:30, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Apoc2400/refToolbar.js');
from you monobook.js and move importScript('User:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js');
to your vector.js. —
TheDJ (
talk •
contribs) 13:36, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay, I think I've fixed the refToolbar gadget. I've confirmed my fix in IE8 and FF 3.6.3. The problem was that Gadgets and user scripts are loaded in different places in the <head>, gadgets are loaded before some of the UsabilityInitiative scripts that refToolbar depends on. It also appears that the dialogs have been re-enabled in IE (IE 8 at least), so anyone using the new toolbar with the dialogs enabled in preferences should be using the new script - User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar 2.0. Users using the new toolbar with dialogs disabled will be using a modified version of the old script and users using the old toolbar will be using an updated version of the old script - Wikipedia:refToolPlus. Mr. Z-man 19:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I've tried all of the above, but I still don't get a Cite button. Using Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows 7. There are plenty of messages in the error console, how do I tell what is relevant? Most are warnings; one error "mw.usability is undefined"; expanding this, the following is highlighted: mw.usability.addMessages( { "cite-section-label" : "Cite", RolandR ( talk) 22:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I've lost the Cite button (it was there yesterday under vector - see above). This my setup: Firefox3.6.3 on Win7; new toolbar with dialogs enabled in preferences; refTools in gadgets disabled; importScript('User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar 2.0.js'); in my vector.js file; there are some css java console warnings, but nothing relating to refToolbar that I can see. I hope this helps. -- Bruce1ee talk 06:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I had the same problem, but followed the instructions above and now it's working. I have a new problem though: I had recently started using refToolPlus, which has some really cool new features. I guess there's no way to incorporate this into the enhanced editing toolbox? Lampman ( talk) 14:54, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
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...is too small. Seriously, this impacts usability in a big way. / wangi ( talk) 10:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Ok; compare:
I'm not aware of anything out of the ordinary in my browser setup (FF 3.6.4, Windows). Thanks/ wangi ( talk) 11:21, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Dodoïste - as mentioned above the screen shots are from Firefox 3.6.4 running on Windows XP - let me know if there is any further detail required. Thanks/ wangi ( talk) 09:48, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
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Posting this in case anyone wants to know how: User:PleaseStand/vector.css. PleaseStand (talk) 11:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
A friendly Keegan Peterzell from the Wikipedia Information Team on email told me to try posting this idea here. I hope that's okay!
It was just to mention creating a URL shortener for others to use when linking to wikipedia.org or another relevant page, when posting messages for their friends and followers on social networking sites. I notice other organistation cleverly shortening their domains for this purpose e.g. foursquare http://4sq.com, Yahoo http://y.ahoo & Youtube http://youtu.be.
I'm not sure how this would all come together with the purchasing of a Kiribati domain as an example, and unfortunately I'm not skilled enough yet to know or aid in the technicalities but I thought of the following URL which might work! http://wi.ki/
Here's a tweet that I directed at Jimbo and Wikipedia on Twitter a few days back. @Wikipedia @jimmy_wales it would be nice to see a http://wi.ki URL shortner -some links: http://to./437k http://to./3zyd http://www.nic.ki/
I'm more than happy to do any running around, basic web stuff or documentation as that's about my skill limit in helping with this should it be needed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassan Yate ( talk • contribs) 07:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I like the wi.ki idea (and the Foundation really ought to be involved in domain purchasing stuff); in the meantime, there's already http://enwp.org , which I believe is run by some Wikipedian or other. I've been using that on Twitter (as @wikinihiltres) already. {{ Nihiltres| talk| edits| ⚡}} 19:14, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I actually looked into buying wi.ki once. IIRC, they were charging completely unreasonable amounts for the .ki domain (at least for me to pay for it :p) ^ demon [omg plz] 12:58, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I had an idea for this that would make it work even better I think. It would cost money to have the shortening domain. Wi.ki is decidedly more expensive than wiki.to or wiki.us or whatever. However, Wikimedia is used on several sites. If other sites using it wanted to use the url shortener themselves, they'd pay maybe a few dollars a month for it. Together, collectively, those who wish to use it would help subsidize the cost of keeping it so Wiki themselves wont have to pay it. They use it too of course, but anyone using the platform would have access to it.
75.110.90.85 (
talk) 14:32, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Discussion about the recent interface changes is at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. |
If you try to search for (not go to) something, you are automatically redirected to the page with such name if it exists. In Commons Vector there was a Go button, here it was displayed in the bottom row of suggestions, but now it's gone. The magnifying glass, despite its traditional meaning, does not lead to search page. It's pretty annoying to click on the magnifying glass, go to Special:Search and type a query there every time, is there any easier way to do it in Vector? — NickK ( talk) 19:40, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Actually, the new suggestions code was disabled because of a few bugs. However the old suggestions code doesn't have the "Search pages containing ..." entry, which the new code offers as a replacement for the "Search" button basically. So since 9 hours, the Search page is almost totally unreachable... This is being looked into now. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 20:30, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
As most here know <s>, <u>, <b>, etc. are deprecated in HTML. I read here that <s> is redundant to wiki markup. Doubt that these tags have anything to do with our markup and are just passed into HTML. Am I right? – droll [chat] 21:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
The very useful article alert bot has been
dead for over a month now, apparently over some login issues. This is quite absurd. FIX the problem now so that we can be aware of what's going on in our project, and not just come across things by chance when it's all too late.
The-Pope (
talk) 11:49, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
The very useful User:ArticleAlertbot has been dead since early April, apparently due to a change in the API login requirements. The original bot owner is no longer active, and others who have tried to get it running again, have had problems getting the appropriate logins. See User_talk:Legoktm/April_2010#AA_bot for some discussions. Can someone with the appropriate knowledge, access and power please re-enable the bot, either by doing it directly or by talking with the Legoktm or Headbomb or Tedder or someone listed on that talk page. Thank you. The-Pope ( talk) 15:49, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I failed to input the photo credit into my initial photo upload, File:Stafne's defect.JPG. I'd like to say that the photo was provided for any and all use by Richard Holiday, DMD. Thanks. DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 20:59, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi all. I had a script running in my monobook.js file which added to the sidebar on the left some links to pages I commonly used. When I moved to Vector (and yes, moved my .js file to /vector.js), I find that the script no longer works. Is the script salvagable for use with the new skin? If not, are there any alternatives? The script in question is at the very bottom of User:AGK/vector.js. AGK 00:02, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
ReferenceError: Can't find variable: FriendlyConfig
prototype.wikimedia.org/s-2/js/mwEmbed/jsScriptLoader.php?class=mwEmbed,mw.EmbedPlayer,ctrlBuilder,$j.ui.slider,kskinConfig,mw.style.kskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText&uselang=en&urid=r121:136mwCheckForGadget
prototype.wikimedia.org/s-2/js/mwEmbed/jsScriptLoader.php?class=mwEmbed,mw.EmbedPlayer,ctrlBuilder,$j.ui.slider,kskinConfig,mw.style.kskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText&uselang=en&urid=r121:136gadget already installed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-mwEmbed.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&278z63
AGK 13:49, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Often, when I come back to edit a page having been off doing other things I find myself logged out. How long without editing before you get logged out, please? Bridgeplayer ( talk) 02:47, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Can someone fix the white space at the top? 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 09:17, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Veliky Novgorod has the same problem. 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 09:18, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
First, if this is the wrong place for this question, please tells me where I can get the information I need.
It's easiest to explain with an example, User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods, which has 3 lower-level sub-pages, User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/Sfn, User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/Harvard and User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/List-defined references. If the whole structure is copied (not moved)to e.g. a Wikiproject Project, I'd like a facility that automatically update in the copied pages to that the "root" "User:Philcha" part of all these wikilinks now show the Wikiproject Project like [[Wikiproject/Sandbox/Reference_methods]], [[Wikiproject/Sandbox/Reference_methods/Sfn]], etc. -- Philcha ( talk) 09:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I might be asking this in the wrong place, but anyway... Since the latest Wikimedia blog post states that, "Over the next few weeks, the new interface will cascade to all language Wikipedias", I just wanted to clarify some things here:
Flagellvm·Dei 17:07, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Why doesn't Category:Roads opened in 1936 show up in Category:1936 in road transport? It's been more than two hours since the first one was created and half an hour since the latter. I have purged both category pages. __ meco ( talk) 22:22, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I've been having an intermittent fault with pop-ups. Sometimes instead of the preview coming up, a tiny little square box (in appearance similar to the normal box that pop-ups appear in) with no text in it appears. I am using the old-stylee Wikipedia & Chrome on Win-XP. As far as I can recall, this has only happened since the change to the new-style default skin (which obviously I discarded almost immediately). DuncanHill ( talk) 23:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
The only practical effect so far of the "improvements" in the way we view Wikipedia pages is that there's no "move" button. We can no longer change the title of Wikipedia articles, as far as I can tell. Did whoever thought of these changes know that that might matter? Can someone tell me how to do that? Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:20, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
What in Hell does the designer of such a thing use for brains?? How irresponsible can you get? Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:18, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Amalthea/VectorMenuToTabs.js');
to
your vector.js should do the trick.
Svick (
talk) 14:07, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Funandtrvl wrote: "The move button is hiding under the arrow where the purge button is if you have that turned on in your preferences." I never suspected there was such a thing as a "purge" button. I use the "move" button every day. How was I expected to find the "move" button? There wasn't anything to click on to seek such information, as far as I know. Michael Hardy ( talk) 10:31, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
The down arrow and dropdown menu are awful. Please give us a way to get rid of it and flatten them into tabs without having to import a JS script. — Lowellian ( reply) 17:04, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Apparently now the move button can be found without enabling a "purge" button. After someone above said you use an arrow where the "purge" button is, I looked and didn't find any arrow. Later I looked and an arrow was there. Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:58, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is the TOC not shown at either Talk:Franz Schubert or Talk:György Ligeti, even though they both have more than four headings? I've figured out that it has something to do with the presence of a "/Comments" subpage, but even using Special:ExpandTemplates doesn't help me figure out why the TOC doesn't show on those pages. Can the problem be rectified, and if so, how? Graham 87 10:12, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is the website http://rollyo.com/ blacklisted at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist when the article Rollyo has an external link to it under "External links"? [6] -- Wavelength ( talk) 18:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Why does Wikipedia not let me upload File:CCKLogo.gif over the Commons file? I am trying to do this because I know that because of copyright reasons it should be deleted at Commons and re-uploaded locally. Do I really have to wait until Commons deletes the file unless I use a different name? To make matters worse, the "Upload warning" cannot be ignored with the checkbox, and it seems to be broken, including the text "File:$1". PleaseStand (talk) 01:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Because it is against both toolserver and enwiki policy for bots to edit while logged out, a proposal to permanently soft-block the toolserver IPs has begun at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy. Pcap ping 08:44, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Anyone know why the bots aren't regularly cleaning the Tutorial sandboxes anymore? I reported this back in April but it seems nothing was done. See User_talk:ClueBot_Commons/Archives/2010/April#ClueBot_II_no_longer_clearing_tutorial_sandboxes for the full report.
I'm thinking this bot issue may have something to do with the "change in the API login requirements" mentioned in the post- #Dead Article Alert Bot above. -- œ ™ 09:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please be so kind and explain what is going on with this page in my userspace? Notice where it's located. Now notice the title being shown. And what's all that UNIQ stuff? The page is still usable, but I've never seen a more weird bug (?). Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); May 18, 2010; 15:28 (UTC)
{{Title override}}
in the past, and it wasn't pretty). It's not a big deal for a page in my userspace, but the template being transcluded is also transcluded by
WP:RUSSIA, the title of which is also being overridden. That's a serious problem. Does anyone know why the title is being overridden in the first place?—
Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (
yo?); May 18, 2010; 18:59 (UTC)I ran What links here for redirects on WP:MOS. It is giving some weird results such as Private military company, User talk:Niki K, and Indian Posse. The page are indeed redirects, but not to the MoS. Can someone please explain this behavior? — Ost ( talk) 18:31, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
My test page at User:Grover cleveland/IPATest copies an example of #replace directly from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Parser_functions_in_templates but it doesn't seem to work. Am I doing something wrong, or is #replace not supported? And, if not, is there any way to do text substitution on a string within templates? Thanks! Grover cleveland ( talk) 22:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've fixed my main problems: User:Virgolette/vector.css
Advantages:
There is also a way to reduce the wasted space on top of the page (see User:Dragons flight/vector.css for example), but I suggest to wait until the 2 extra links "Take me back" and "New features" will disappear. Please, I need a feedback, especially from Safari and Chrome users. Thanks! -- Virgolette ( talk) 21:29, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Copied from Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change, which may soon be canceled.
In the new Vector skin, the special characters and wiki markup listed under the edit box can be inserted into the edit box by simply left-clicking on them in Firefox 3.6.3. However, this procedure will not work using IE8 in Vector. But a much more laborious procedure using the clipboard will work in IE8/Vector. Move the cursor to a position immediately to the right of the special character where the "hand" changes to a vertical bar, left-click and hold while dragging the cursor over the special character to highlight it, then use ctrl-C and ctrl-V to transfer it to and from the clipboard to the position of the cursor in the edit box. Clicking worked fine in both browsers under Monobook. Also, the warning message that you may lose unsaved edits appears even while left-clicking on a special character in both browsers, which seems counter-intuitive because this is part of the editing process. — Joe Kress ( talk) 08:45, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
See also WP:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports#Edittools do not work in Internet Explorer. Amalthea 21:43, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is that my svg at File:ISS_components.svg doesn't seem to be thumbnailed correctly, but when I click on it, firefox 3.6 correctly renders it? Smallman12q ( talk) 02:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
x
attribute of the tspan
elements having a list of values for each label character, instead of a single value, causing RSVG to treat the value as zero. Perhaps deleting the extra values would fix this. For example: <tspan style="..." x="186.25751 191.67688 195.73938 197.54312 202.06062 206.57813 210.64063" y="318.52719" sodipodi:role="line" id="tspan4358">Science</tspan>
—
Richardguk (
talk) 07:43, 17 May 2010 (UTC)I'd like to add it to Assembly of the International Space Station but it doesn't seem to thumbnail correctly... Smallman12q ( talk) 21:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
The Wikimedia SVG renderer frequently has this resizing problem with fonts like Times and Helvetica. Try replacing them with Liberation Serif and Liberation Sans (fonts that are present by default on the renderer and have the same metrics as Times and Helvetica respectively) and it should work much better. Your image doesn't use Times but it does use Helvetica; I'm pretty sure that's the problem. You don't even have to do any redrawing: just substitute the string "Liberation Sans" for "Helvetica" wherever it appears in your file. — David Eppstein ( talk) 01:14, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
The text is very blocky...compare how the png version would scale down to the svg... Smallman12q ( talk) 14:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. There has recently been some debate over maps in infoboxes and a lot of people who think maps in infoboxes bloat the table. There is also often a disgreement in which scale map is better, e.g Mobile, Alabama some people would find simply the local census map too localised, two maps with the state locator too bloated and others way even wish to see Mobile on a US map. Given this I was wondering if a technical genius on here could look into the mapping feature presented in the infobox at here (click where it says Voir situation) (a little understanding of French might also help) and draw up some coding which can be added to Template:Infobox settlement or any other infobox with a pushpin map option. This would be of enormous benefit to wikipedia given the diversity of preferences and demands and would seemingly solve a long-term argument over which map to use when the choice can be there for whatever scale the reader wishes to see. This will become increasingly needed into the future too as more localised maps of places are made and may often be at the expense of wider maps and may confuse a lot of people. If we could import this feature then there will be no arguments over bloated infoboxes and which map is more appropriate. The reader can choose his preference by clicking it.
It has something to do with Modèle:Géolocalisation on french wiki. I wonder if a genius also with a little understanding of French could look into this. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:15, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there no way at all to send an email to amazon.com? I had trouble ordering something and wanted to ask for assistance. I went through their contact interface and was told I couldn't contact them because I didn't have an order number. That seems really really rude. Michael Hardy ( talk) 03:02, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
No, it's not optional. You can't contact them at all without a valid order number. The page you're pointing to is the same one I tried before posting here. It is precisely because of my experience with the particular page you're linking to that I posted here.
I actually intended this for the computing reference desk and posted here by mistake, and then there. Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Sigh.......
Yes. I was logged in. I could not contact amazon because I didn't have a valid order number. The reason why I wanted to contact them was that I didn't have a valid order number because I was unable to buy something because my billing address is in the USA. Michael Hardy ( talk) 06:02, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Have there been any changes in the past eight hours that might have affected the script User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib.js? (It's a very useful script that hides pages in your "Contributions" list for which you are the most recent editor.) I know for a fact that it was working when I was previously on, but when I try to use it today it removes all edits, not just the "top" ones. The script itself was last changed over two weeks ago, and has been working for me since then. Anyone have any ideas on this? -- Ckatz chat spy 16:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, yes, there's an extra link that it isn't expecting that now exists. Of course, this link probably doesn't exist for non-admins, so the script will now have to adjust based on whether the person has sysop rights. I can fix it, or someone else can... Ale_Jrb talk 17:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I didn't think that this script was working last week; I had posted on the talk page about it when I was having trouble with other Special:Contributions scripts and I hadn't seen this one get updated so I didn't uncomment it in my skin. Was it just me having problems with it until today? — Ost ( talk) 17:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Heh, I didn't know that this script existed, and coded my own. It's interesting to see the differences: the approach is similar, but the style is slightly different and my version fades to opacity 0.25 instead of setting display:none;
. But in either case, I think that the obvious problems are the following: history entries, log entries, and contribution entries ("HLC" entries, let's shorten it to) are a) not quite a consistent standard b) HLC entries are mostly contextually opaque to JavaScript (e.g. try picking a random log entry and trying to extract the page it refers to, in a way that would still work reliably if the log entry were rearranged), c) we keep duplicating the effort of parsing them for our scripts and d) we don't clearly identify for scripts what assumptions they make about the content (my inner logician talking :P). I think we ought to take a look at some of these problems and how they might be solved. {{
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File:Google notebook.png doesn't render even if I re-render the image in GIMP and re-upload it. What's wrong? -- Bea o 19:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
There is a red link that doesn't work on the special page for book ISBN searches. For example, Special:BookSources/082121750X. It's under the link for "Learn how to bypass this page and go to the same book source every time." Jason Quinn ( talk) 23:49, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
What's the "researcher" userright all about? Stifle ( talk) 10:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
My watchlist isn't showing anything More than 1 day of edits, even if I select "show last 3/7/all days". Any solution? Thx, ManishEarth Talk • Stalk 15:15, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia users,
I propose that, on the main page (en.wikipedia.org), as soon as a visitor enters, the search bar is automatically selected (i.e. he/she does not have to click on it to insert text.
Furthermore, seeing as the search is the most important part of the site, I propose that the search bar be lengthened to fit the entire horizontal width of the website, or at least a larger length than it currently is. The bar can retain its original length when the user navigates away from the main page, e.g. to an article.
The search bar on www.wikipedia.org has the right idea. However I prefer to enter en.wikipedia.org as I enjoy reading the articles and headlines on the front page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.159.96 ( talk) 18:34, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Is this a bug or a feature:
In this diff ( [10]) various userbox-like symbols are visible above the diff made by the IP. But it is actually the user's talk page that contains the edit notice. The reasons why this bothers me are:
However it doesn't seem to be present on historical versions of a page. Wnt ( talk) 23:08, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
{{/Talk header}}
which transcludes
User talk:DIREKTOR/Talk header which transcludes
User:DIREKTOR/Icons which uses absolute position to render outside the normal area.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:24, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
&diffonly=1
to a diff url like
[11] will omit rendering the page.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
What allows suggestions to show up in searches in the search bar? Is it an extension or a change to LocalSettings.php? — MC10 ( T• C• GB• L) 01:28, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Over the past couple of months I've been blocking Tor exit nodes, and I don't think I'm the only one who's been seeing them around again. The latest example today is 89.248.169.109 ( talk · contribs). Is the Tor extension working OK? Does anyone have a link to the cached list of blocked IPs? -- zzuuzz (talk) 14:06, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I was following the afd page’s instructions on how to add a page to the afd log, but when I tried to save, the spam filter stopped me, saying I was trying to insert a blacklisted link: I believe it was examiner.com, examiner.org, or somesuch. However, I did not insert any link of this sort. I was trying to add the afd for Twilight: The Musical Help! Bramble claw x 01:47, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I brought this up on Template talk:Importance and Wikipedia talk:Oversight, but nobody watching had an efficient idea, so I'll run this by everyone here. There are 118 deleted edits in Template:Importance's history that would be much better placed, undeleted, in the history of Template:Cleanup-importance, since the template was re-purposed. The change itself should not be controversial, but the poor man's process to get them there sounds pretty disruptive to me because the templates are transcluded in millions of articles. Is it still safe to do that? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 07:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to permanently expand the toolbox ? Surely we shouldn't have to expand it every time we check what links here or user contributions. Cenarium ( talk) 14:43, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I've proposed another way of displaying the TFA editnotice using the editnotice loader and TFA title. I'd like to make sure that it's technically ok. Cenarium ( talk) 18:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Discussion about the recent interface changes is at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. |
Section renamed from "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!" — Martin ( MSGJ · talk)
Everything's changed! Unofficial kvetching thread. 86.41.61.203 ( talk) 06:39, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Just to buck the trend, I think the new interface is pretty cool actually. You'll get used to it. (Though there still doesn't seem to be a direct link to the article history from the discussion page, etc. And I would move the "current-page-related" links like What Links Here from the toolbox to the drop-down list at the top with Move and Purge, now we have such a list.)-- Kotniski ( talk) 07:29, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The links on the left don't show on Konqueror -- where do I report that? Niels E ( talk) 08:00, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Agreed that this new skin is hideous. The most annoying thing about it for me is the large gap of whitespace between the top two rows, which was never there in the old skin (see next topic below, where I ask for a solution; I would prefer for them to kill it entirely in the base skin, but for now I'll settle for someone helping me find a way to reduce it via my user CSS). This whitespace is not only ugly in and of itself but also shoves down the layout of the entire page, significantly reducing the amount of text seen onscreen on small resolutions. — Lowellian ( reply) 08:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Just switched back to the old skin after putting up with the new one for about an hour today. Old skin looks much better. Whitespace at top of page gone. Search returned to left side. From a visual and usability point of view the new skin has no advantages for me. Is there any agreement to force the new skin on passing visitors? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 23:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi all,
So I remembered that I intended to activate single-revision deletion a few weeks ago. I (finally) got around to it this evening. Enjoy it, and as always, if there are any problems, please mail wikitech-l, file a bug, throw rocks at me or something.
— Andrew Garrett • talk 14:19, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I can't comment on any bugs without knowing which bugs you're talking about. — Andrew Garrett • talk 14:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Looks fantastic, really very smooth. I wonder if the link at the end of a log item couldn't be changed to something more descriptive. The deletion log has "view/restore," blocking has "unblock|change block," whereas "more..." seems to imply a set of other options, not "change." ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 14:58, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I had no idea this was going to be implemented, and it made me panic for a second and think I had gotten oversight access accidentally. Steven Walling 04:37, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed some user pages appearing on important categories, e.g. User:Cr2pr/cybrarian on Category:India (now removed). One only needs to edit their own user page for this to happen. There needs to be a way to prevent such listing of user pages on categories of articles. Geeteshgadkari ( talk) 13:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Are the two de links here showing up for anyone? OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 21:02, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
When I switched from monobook to vector, I got an unpleasant side effect: The coloring defined in my .css (the content of monobook.css is identical to vector.css) file now also effects the top right links (id: pt-userpage, pt-mytalk, pt-mycontris). How can that be disabled? -- Leyo 19:10, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I typed sox vlc in the RD search field at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing and the first line of output was:
The line seems to occur on every search. Could it be removed please? Comet Tuttle ( talk) 22:30, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
[12] Sad face. – xeno talk 23:13, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
(P.S. How hard would it be to css or otherwise tweak the page view link to default (or provide an additional link) to last month? – xeno talk 23:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC))
Page view statistics [http://stats.grok.se/en/{{#time:Ym}}/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} this month] '''·''' [http://stats.grok.se/en/{{#ifeq:{{#time:n}}|1|{{#expr:{{#time:Y}}-1}}12|{{#time:Y}}{{padleft:{{#expr:{{#time:n}}-1}}|2}}}}/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} last month]
The page view stats button is missing on the history page... Will it be back? And if not why not??-- Oracleofottawa ( talk) 02:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
When I go to preview an article I'm editing I sometimes click on the minor help box by mistake, and when you click on it your edit is lost. Is there any way it could be re-positioned or else a way for the preview edit to remain? Eldumpo ( talk) 08:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
#minoredit_helplink { display: none; }
This is an idea about checking the references during editing the article. You find reference to existing article (if the referenced notion does not need new article), and insert its, mistakes expelled. uk:Вікіпедія:Кнайпа_(технічні_питання)#Виправлення посилань в процесі редагування -- W.M.drossel ( talk) 08:44, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
If you go to the article AOL, the title is MediaWiki talk:AOL? What's up with that? I got a feeling that one of the transcluded templates has messed up its use of {{DISLPAYTITLE:}} Gary King ( talk) 17:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I am working on a template that I would like to behave differently based on the current user's language preferences. E.g. if it's "en" do A; but if it's "en-GB" do B. Is there any way to do this? Thanks! Grover cleveland ( talk) 19:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
{{gender:username | return text if user is male | return text if user is female | return text if user hasn't defined their gender}}
{{int:message name}}
, which is related to what you originally requested. But instead of returning the user's language tag itself, this returns the contents of
MediaWiki:message name/language-tag.{{MediaWiki:exif-colorspace}}
=
Color space{{MediaWiki:exif-colorspace/en-gb}}
= Colour space{{int:exif-colorspace}}
=
Color space (this is determined by your user preference language).{{#switch:{{int:exif-colorspace}}|{{:MediaWiki:exif-colorspace/en-gb}}=matches British English|does not match British English}}
The novel, Lad: A Dog, is properly written in that fashion, however because Lad: is the prefix for the Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish), Wikipedia, an article here can't have the name of Lad: A Dog. You can't even write it without prefixing it with a colon. So the article was created at Lad, A Dog instead, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions). In its current FAC, an article has questioned whether there is not some way to "fix" it so the article is at the correct title. Reading over the technical restrictions guideline again, it seemed like there was not, but I added {{ Namespace conflict}} template to help clarify it. However, the same editor felt a definitive answer was needed one way or another, so this seemed to be the best place to ask the question. Is it possible to make the article have the title Lad: A Dog without it going over to the non-existent "A Dog" article at lad.wikipedia.org? -- AnmaFinotera ( talk · contribs) 03:33, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Lad, A Dog is the best we can do, and it does show up in the search box's list of choices (although clicking on the suggestion is required to get to the article). For a similar example, see Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, in which q: is the interwiki prefix for Wikiquote. For a while, there was a soft redirect called Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! on Wikiquote, but it got deleted several times in 2008 and 2009. If the Ladino Wikipedia would create a soft redirect called A Dog... PleaseStand (talk) 05:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Another user has generated a list of untagged derm-related redirects. I wanted to know if someone could help tag these redirect talk pages with
{{WPMED|class=redirect|importance=|dermatology=yes}}
? Perhaps there is an automated way to do this? Thanks in advance for your help! --- kilbad ( talk) 17:27, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I added quotes to one word and this is what the diff looks like. __ meco ( talk) 08:49, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Neither sulutil:PleaseStand nor the Wikipedia edit counter work for me. I can, however, connect to the Commons edit counter. PleaseStand (talk) 06:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I have created a request for comment on the flagged revisions trial, motivated by an unexpected, unannounced and publicly undiscussed change of configuration removing the reviewer usergroup. Please weigh in there. Cenarium ( talk) 12:58, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry to post a question that with some searching or digging into code I would probably answer but I imagine it would be simpler and quicker to ask it here. (And the result of the question will be put to a Wikipedia-related purpose so it's not totally off-topic.)
Can namespace 14 be reliably trusted to always be the Category namespace (not only on Wikipedia or WikiMedia installations but across all MediaWiki installations)? I suppose there are two answers that for my purposes would be sufficient for a 'yes': an absolute 'always yes' or 'no, but in practice always yes'.
Is it the same for all the default namespaces?
Many thanks, --RA ( talk) 18:20, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
NS_CATEGORY
constant, and if its JavaScript, there is a wgCanonicalNamespace
variable that will always be the default English namespace name (assuming there is one).
Mr.
Z-man 18:32, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
meta=siteinfo
the
number and canonical name of each namespace can be gotten at. Presumably that is reliable (in theory as much as in practice). Do you think that's right? --RA (
talk) 18:41, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a good reason why a search such as
comma incategory:"Wikipedia Manual of Style"
doesn't traverse subcategories? If not, I'm going to report that at BugZilla.
A. di M. (
talk) 19:15, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
ArticleAlertbot has been down since early April. It appears that there have been API issues or something to do with logins, or somesuch. (I am not very fluent in all this tech-y stuff). Anyways, it appears that other users who have tried to repair the bot have had problems as well (such as User:Tedder not having a toolserver account or something like that). The bot's programmer, user:B. Wolterding has been fairly inactive lately, popping in occasionally. Is there anyone here that could please try to repair the bot? Bramble claw x 15:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to find or build a template, a thumbnail, or ? I want to display both wiki and commons pic of the day, but control the size and float, can this be done. It would be nice to be able to add or work with the captions and/or text. but if this requires something like java or any kind of script then that would be beyond my knowledge. Mlpearc pull my chain Trib's 16:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, does anyone know how, or could help me with, getting a plain text list of a particular user's Commons uploads which still exist (as in, are not red links)? It should ideally look like:
...etcetera. Thanks! ╟─ Treasury Tag► directorate─╢ 17:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Excellent—thanks so much! ╟─ Treasury Tag► constablewick─╢ 21:02, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Someone should take a look at the external link detection code. On a number of occasions I've had a Captcha thrown up with the statement "Your edit contains external links", despite the fact that there were no external links added in the edit (Example edit where this happened [15] - I've seen it primarily on the Reference Desk, and primarily when the "edit section" link is used to initiate editing). I'm guessing that there is an external link somewhere else in the section that the detection code isn't smart enough to realize is pre-existing, despite the fact that the diff generation code has no problem figuring out what is and is not new. -- 174.24.200.38 ( talk) 17:56, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone check out the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Add class="rellink" to MediaWiki:Print.css? Thanks, -- The Evil IP address ( talk) 19:32, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to collapse sections on my talk and user pages - if so, what is the code for it?
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Are you trying to do something like this? |
Tisane ( talk) 21:15, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I added a link to several maintenance categories, (e.g. Category:Uncategorized pages), that goes to a random page in that category. It uses the tool "Random page in category". I found it very helpful, allowing me to get pages to categorize without always starting at the beginning of the alphabet or scrolling through endless lists. Bu yesterday it stopped working. I now get a message that says "Fatal Error: Sorry, this tool has been disabled for the English Wikipedia." Anyone know why or where to complain?-- agr ( talk) 22:01, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
The romanisation of the Bulgarian word for "search" has been mistaken at wikipedia.org. Where can I report that? (And what is really the point of romanising all non-Latin alphabet words?) -- Магьосник ( talk) 01:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
IPad mobile safari handles section anchors poorly. If I navigate to a page (not a hash marked subsection) I can scroll up or down the page at will, but if I navigate to a specific section and scroll up or down the browser will lurch back to the anchored link. I don't know why this happens or whose fault it is, so I'm coming here for some feedback or comments. Does anyone see this behavior on the iPhone? On their iPad? Do they see the behavior on other sites which use the same page anchoring techniques? Protonk ( talk) 00:08, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Please see this edit history. My db tag was placed at the same time as the previous one, but mine overrode the other. I got no edit conflict warning. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 22:13, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Go to the Alaskan Klee Kai article, please. Then click on the image in the infobox. Notice how the dog in the image is reversed between the article and the file page? Why does that happen? Dismas| (talk) 14:08, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone remove Wikipedia:Template messages/Translation from Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation please. I know its down to {{ Source need translation}} and {{ Inline need translation}} but I can't figure out how to stop it appearing in the category. Thanks-- Jac16888 Talk 17:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes when I go to my watchlist, the skin changes from vector to monobook without me doing anything to make it appear in monobook. Is there anything wrong? ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐) 23:42, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
I made a new edit notice Here and when I edit my user talk space the notice is shown twice Here what's wrong ? Mlpearc pull my chain Trib's 02:37, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanx that was it. but I guess I'm going to have to put up with it, editing without it sucks. But thanx that was it. Mlpearc pull my chain Trib's 09:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Add this to Special:Mypage/skin.js and purge:
var wikEdDoCloneWarnings = false;
---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
I've got the extended edit bar (with the buttons for easy redirects, ref, cite, etc), but have noticed that when I go to edit it doesn't shew up first time, I have to reload the edit screen. I use the old default skin, with Chrome on WinXP. DuncanHill ( talk) 14:56, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
{{ Start infobox page}} is used in {{ Infobox tennis biography}} and the page becomes too wide. The content in <pre> of /doc may cause the problem. style="overflow: auto" should fix it but it doesn't. Please help me. -- Quest for Truth ( talk) 17:09, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
overflow: auto
didn't work there (it showed up correctly on the /doc page), but white-space: pre-wrap
works – it allows line breaks. Besides, I think it's better this way.
Svick (
talk) 19:25, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
After hitting the site tonight, I just noticed that I'm somewhere halfway between the vector and monobook skins. The main layout is vector, but my toolbar on the edit page just reverted to the old monobook style. I've done several full refreshes, edited my preferences, and still nothing. For what it's worth, I'm not using wikEd. Anyone else having this issue tonight? Maybe it's a sitewide thing... — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:19, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Just to update, this issue appears to be resolved for me (for now, at least). Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 18:22, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there some way to have the random article link so it is not quite so random?
Do not show me any pages...
DMahalko ( talk) 04:28, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I got this error:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "Revision::insertOn". Database returned error "1290: The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement (10.0.6.26)".
Anyone else experiencing this? It doesn't seem like very friendly behavior; when I hit "Back," I had lost my edit. Should I submit this to Bugzilla? Tisane ( talk) 06:04, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I’m wondering if the indexing routine is “stuck”. Last evening, pages created before 23:00 19 May were indexed, and those after were not. This morning, the same is true, suggesting that not a single page has been indexed in the last 12 hours. I do realize it takes some time to index new pages, but the process is rarely this far behind, and it looks to me like it is not progressing. SPhilbrick T 12:11, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that there are two different templates for US officer ranks: Template:US officer ranks and Template:US Officer ranks collapsed. The only difference between them is supposed to be that the one is collapsed and the other is not. (See the talk page.) Because of code duplication the templates have diverged. Is there a way to have Template:US officer ranks passed a parameter that collapses it? By default it should be open. This would allow us to delete the other template. I will take care of the other changes to sync the templates again. I just need help with the collapsible navbox part. Jason Quinn ( talk) 15:23, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. This probably has been asked already, but ever since the switch to the new Beta Wikipedia version, my Popups function no longer works. Now when I mouse over a link or diff that would normally provide a popup, no such popup appears. To fix this problem, do I need to go to my monobook script or is it something in my preferences? Thanks. ~ A H 1( T C U) 02:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:AstroHurricane001/monobook.js');
Is it possible? Kind of a pain to have to go to the page logs. – xeno talk 12:24, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Accessibility to Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (accessibility)/ Where did the former's archives go? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
We have a vast number of templates, such as {{ Areas of Birmingham}} which have a list, rendered as text, separated by in-line bullet characters. These would be better rendered as HTML lists, styled horizontally and with the bullets hidden or rendered as CSS background images. A template, {{ flatlist}}, exists for this purpose, but is disliked by some editors for its use of a CSS border as as separating character. Please can anyone suggest improvements, which might result in its uptake? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
See WP:Help desk#Image corrupted? Anyone have an idea why the image in question isn't viewable for at least two of us users? Deor ( talk) 18:02, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Ive already asked this at the computing ref desk, but got no reply: [17]. I've read WP:Syndication and the pages about rss and atom, but basically don't understand the topic and I dont have the experience to tell what's going on. Here's my question:
"I am (attempting) to watch someone's Special:Contributions with atom. I have the appropriate feed in Google reader. I am having a few problems with it, and I don't know if it's me, the feed, the reader, or just how Wikipedia works. First, it takes hours to update, which kind of misses the point of a "feed" in my opinion. Six hours until another update seems like an excruciatingly long time to wait, but maybe this delay is normal. Second, it sometimes won't update at all: I once waited 3 days for a single entry to show up but another is still missing in action. Third, it bizarrely keeps trying to show me the same contributions over and over and over and over again. Sometimes an edit from last month will randomly pop up as a new entry, or a recent edit will just come up as new, repeatedly, for days. With all of these things combined, I'm finding the whole thing rather useless. I don't use atom for anything else so I don't know if this is typical of web feeds in general. Can someone more knowledgeable please tell me what's going on? Differentially (talk) 06:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"
I would have left it at that, but I saw a few more comments about how syndication is "easier" for watching things. sorry, I don't see how something that doesn't work can be easier than have a favourite to someone's contributions (or your own watchlist, or an article, or whatever). Id really appreciate someone filling me on whether this is how WP does it, how google reader does it, how i've set it up, etc. Thanks, Differentially ( talk) 09:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
When a user hovers their mouse on a wiki link, the first 255 or so characters of the link's summary paragraph can display in a small box. The box disappears when the mouse is removed from the link. It would then be easier to read an article without following every wiki link that one is unsure of.-- Brylie ( talk) 06:19, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for my stupid question, I'm a complete technical idiot. Suddenly, my browser Mozilla - I don't know what version - displays strange things: the bolded (top) at the top edited pages in my contributions is not bolded anymore, the yellow highlight at unpatrolled new pages is not yellow anymore, the displaying of articles is unusual - the [edit] button is placed on the left side instead of usual right, the link for edit summaries is moved to the right side... etc. It all happened out of the blue, just now. What's wrong here? Could anybody help/explain please, I want my comfortable editing back. Thanks in advance. -- Vejvančický ( talk | contribs) 07:41, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to download a few wikipedia pages for a research project, but have found some of them are clipped. I am most interested in Featured Articles and Good Articles, since they have been through the full gauntlet of wikipedia review, but they often have long histories. Special:Export cuts these off after 1000 to 1500 entries (it says 1000, but i get more for some articles). I haven't been able to get cURL to work (never used it before) and don't even know what "ruby script" is, so I was hoping there was some way to get the more recent history through Special:Export or something similar (user friendly for noobs like me). I asked over at the helpdesk and someone there kindly told be about this page. If it isn't the right place, please let me know. Thanks in advance. -- Nobboddoddy ( talk) 09:17, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
For a couple of days now, the wrong image appears in the thumbnail for File:Southern Star Complete.jpg - but clicking on the thumbnail takes you to the correct image. Any suggestions? 92.11.238.139 ( talk) 12:22, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Every time I go to edit a page, when I start typing the screen automatically sends me to the bottom of the box so that I cannot see any lines below where I am typing. This just happened with the latest "update" to Wikipedia. Is there a way to turn this off, because often I am looking at things said that are in the box. In addition, it seems that if I click off the screen (e.g., if I'm looking at a source in another tab) and come back it will shoot me to the top of the edit box and I'll have to scroll down and find where I left off. It's just very frustrating when I'm trying to edit. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 13:57, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
The template {{ Unbulleted list}} is now available for use in infoboxes; it takes up to nine items. For example, see these changes Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:51, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Before adding something to a disambiguation page, I made sure that the link I intended to add would actually go where I wanted, typing in the search box exactly the way the link would appear on the disambiguation page. It did. Then I put the link on the disambiguation page and it was red, so I had to create a new redirect. If it wasn't going to go, it should have just not gone, but even though one letter was capitalized differently, it went, as it often does when I type in search terms without doing any capitalizing. It wasn't that hard to create a redirect, but why would it do that? Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:37, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I think I tried to fix this but wasn't successful. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:54, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if its just me, but the cattrees are not working anymore -->
....This is currently affecting hundreds of our Portals like --> Portal:Music of Australia and Portal:History of Canada..and let alone the Categories.. Moxy ( talk) 20:11, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Basically, a MediaWiki API client that will look something like the Wordpress Dashboard. If Wikipedia were to become an OpenID provider, then users could authenticate without ever supplying private info. If not web-based, I'd make this as a Mac OS X app. It'd be hosted at GitHub. Dogweather ( talk) 22:34, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a transclusion limit?
See List of Biblical names - where after a while, transcludes become regular wikilinks, and no longer displays templates.
Would this be a bug or a "feature" ?
76.66.193.224 ( talk) 22:43, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand why there's security applied here (for reading one's watchlist rss feed). The watchlist doesn't seem to contain any private information. All the info in it is redundant, actually: It can be duplicated from a user's contributions page. (?) Dogweather ( talk) 02:08, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
The animated GIF at square wheel doesn't animate in the thumbnail within the article. Is this a bug or by design? (Firefox 3.6.3, Windows XP.) Comet Tuttle ( talk) 17:27, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
This thread appears to be the reason why scaling was turned on it was just before the one cited by Ost which I participated, as a latecomer in the original discussion. In short an editor complained that static gifs weren't resizing properly, so a developer turned scaling on.
Since the only gifs here are supposed to be animations, could a developer please turn GIF scaling off again? It was turned on to improve static gif viewing based on a user complaint and now has the unintended cost of disabling high resolution gifs. (I'm guessing this is why it was turned off in the first place, to facilitate larger gifs.) From what I see above this has affected more than one user. (PS for documents, the only static gif I could kinda sorta understand, why don't we encourage folks to upload 2 color tifs? Anything else could be converted to a svg or at worst a png.) Anynobody( ?) 00:08, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I could do with some CSS help at Template talk:Br separated entries#LI markup, please - to use CSS to display a list without bullets. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
See {{ categorytree}} and e.g. Category:Music. The extension also seems to be broken at mw:Extension:CategoryTree. Bencherlite Talk 11:55, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
(indent) The 2nd post at mediazilla:23682 says "this feature has been disabled today". — AlexSm 15:03, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikimedia Commons views pages that have been changed since last visited in bold in the watchlist. Could Wikipedia do the same? ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐) 00:29, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Gary King/mark unviewed watchlist items.js'); // Mark Unviewed Watchlist Items
importScript('User:Gary King/mark edits after my own.js'); // Mark Edits After My Own
The toolserver checklinks functionality is unable to check all the links on Loggerhead sea turtle page. I can't work out if there is some issue with the article or if the checklinks is the issue. Could someone find out and advise how all the links on the article could be checked. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 01:13, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
{{reflist|refs=...}}
part as though it was a single citation template, this was done so you could include templates like {{lang|es|Foreign Title}}
. I've now implemented a workaround so sub-templates cannot contain a URL which fixes this problem. —
Dispenser 15:50, 28 May 2010 (UTC)Currently at WP:DERM we have a small section providing links to various data, but I wanted to know if someone would help us expand that section to provide more types of interesting data that people can use? Any help creating regularly and automatically generated types of project data would be great. Overall, I would love to provide readers with data that be be used to track the project growth/development. I am not sure if automatically generated and updated graphs are possible on wikipedia, but, if so, trending data with charts would be very cool. Perhaps someone could help create a "Dermatology task force bot" to perform tasks like this? Regardless, thank you all for your work on Wikipedia. --- kilbad ( talk) 17:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
How do I turn this off? I can understand that it's helpful for newbie editors, but it gets in my way far, far more frequently than it saves me trouble. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:01, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
There is extra space at Serpent Mound. What's wrong? Could someone fix it please or teach me. 174.3.121.27 ( talk) 03:39, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Further to Template talk:Hat#Search problem with hatting. – xeno talk 12:57, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay done. What this script does is it adds a link to the toolbox in the left-hand panel called "Expand templates". When clicked on, it expands all hidden templates, including {{ hidden}}, {{ hidden archive top}}, and their derivatives. After expanding the templates, the link in the toolbox can then be used to collapse all hidden templates again. Gary King ( talk) 15:49, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
While the site redesign looks cool and all, it doesn't work properly and obviously hasn't been tested very well. Whenever I use the citation tool in the editing window (click on the 'cite' button at the top), I can add one citation, and it works fine. But if I go to another page and try and use that citation tool again to add another citation, the little 'templates' drop-down appears BEHIND the text box where you make your edits! So I can't select a template! The ONLY way to fix this is to close the browser entirely and open it again and relogin. It does the exact same thing in Firefox and Chrome (don't ask me to even think about using IE). WTF? ( talk) 04:23, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
I have just created an AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Juan Antonio Rodriguez but something has gone wrong in the set-up. Can someone correct it and tell me what I've done wrong. Thanks Eldumpo ( talk) 09:15, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Japan_Self-Defense_Forces#Other_references
Why is there extra space at the end of the section? 174.3.121.27 ( talk) 09:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Article redirects are commonly used to enable article name variations to point towards the correct place. Is there an equivalent facility for categories? Folks at 137 ( talk) 09:40, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
{{
Category redirect}}
instead, and a bot will come along and move the articles into the target category.
Splash -
tk 10:34, 30 May 2010 (UTC)It appears that some CSS styles (such as the text containers on my userpage) ceased working this morning. Does anyone know what happened? — C M B J 19:58, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Re. help request, User_talk:Muslim_Editor#I_cant_see_preview
I've given some generic advice there, asking for more details and to try reset/other browser, and asking for more info.
Posting here in case someone recognizes the problem and can help at all. Best, Chzz ► 12:34, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
According to the SUL utility, my home wiki is "???", although it says it's enwiki_p at the bottom. However, if I check Download's stats, it says that his home wiki is enwiki. Is this a problem with my accounts, or is this the utility's problem? — MC10 ( T• C• GB• L) 01:19, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
<- Reply to Merlissimo: Does that mean I have to delete my username "MC10", or just the fact that the global account exists? If it's the latter, then I'm fine with that.
Reply to Duplode: enwiki should be your home wiki, as "Editor" isn't really a user right. (If it is, and does take precedence over edit count, correct me.) "Sysop" status does take priority over edit count, so if you were sysop on a wiki, that would be your home wiki. — MC10 ( T• C• GB• L) 17:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Consider the following scenario: I have a set of long and complex tables to create for a group of articles, which require very delicate and fragile formatting. The complications are large enough to make me want to abuse meta-templating for handling intricate tag and link patterns in order to preserve my sanity. Meta-templating, however, incurs in a number of annoyances, the one which concerns me most being the sheer ugliness of the multiple curly brackets syntax, which can easily cause pages to become unreadable and unmaintainable. Such difficulties led me to wonder if a bot could help by allowing me to sidestep templates and Wiki markup. The strategy I'm thinking about goes more or less like this:
I would like to ask for comments on whether this strategy or variations of it are feasible, as well as advice and recommendations on the best course of action to make it work. Additional considerations:
Thanks in advance, Duplode ( talk) 05:47, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. The new layout of the WP makes some of the css-based tools not work anymore. Especially, I miss the tools for fast closing of AfDs. As this has probably been discussed before, could someone please direct me to the instructions how to get them back working without switching back to the old layout every time? Thanks a lot. -- Tone 16:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Tone/monobook.js');
The ability to customize the cite link labels has been added to the Cite extension; this version is not yet installed. For more info on this feature, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (footnotes)/Cite link labels. And no, I have no idea if or when this will be installed. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:14, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I am an older and fairly skilled programmer but not very well skilled on systems administration. I would like to experiment with creating (non-editing) bots that could do statistical analysis of Wikipedia articles but so as to be respectful and non-disruptive to the project I would like to work off-line. Is there any sort of a Wikipedia turnkey setup (some might call this "Wikipedia-In-A-Box" in good humor) which contains (A) a running version of Wikipedia software and (B) a decent sampling (maybe a few thousand articles complete with talk pages and histories et cetera) of the Wikipedia database? My LINUX skills are minimal but I could install this on my webhost's server if such a package is available. Failing all that is there any kind of online sandbox (a dummy/duplicate Wikipedia) for the same purpose? 66.102.198.179 ( talk) 16:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
In light of the recent Grawp attacks, I was wondering... wouldn't it be easier to make it so that only the user who the userspace belongs to, admins, and bots can only move pages in one's userspaces across the user/user talk namespace? Unless I'm missing something, I see no good reason for anyone but those users I mentioned to move those pages. The Thing That Should Not Be ( talk) 18:15, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
At WikiProject Usability and Willage pump (proposals) I'm proposing the following sentence be added to the tagline of articles that are not protected or semiprotected: "You can edit this article." Followed by a button marked "EDIT". Is this technically doable? Anthony ( talk) 19:30, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I was thinking whatever process adds the "protected" or "semi-protected" text to an article page could hide the "You can edit this article" sentence and button. Anthony ( talk) 21:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Prior to revision delete if one pressed "enter" on the history talk page, the default action would be to compare the revisions selected - now the default action is to try and delete them. Can this be swapped? – xeno talk 18:33, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
I notice that retired users (even retired for years) still get messages about possible deletion. They're most likely not going to respond to it, so there should be a way to keep it away from the talk page (perhaps e-mail would be a better solution). mechamind 9 0 00:02, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
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There are a few help pages which needs to be updated after the changes, Help:Searching for example. Cenarium ( talk) 13:21, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
See my gripe at the feedback page for the Usability Team. Tee hee. -- œ ™ 01:32, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm working on depopulating Category:Requests to move a userspace draft. When I update the page, I note that someone else is as well. (Removing the {{move draft}} template accomplishes this). Is there a way to find out who else may be working on this list?-- SPhilbrick T 15:44, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
So you need a special status to move something from the user space into the article space? Where can I read about that? Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
The front page of the website royalcliff.com appears to have been hacked, and tries to install malware for the reader. We have a few links to this website at Special:LinkSearch/www.royalcliff.com. Commons has more commons:Special:LinkSearch/www.royalcliff.com. Do we normally remove links to protect our readers? John Vandenberg ( chat) 02:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I've commented them out, and someone did the same on commons anonymously. John Vandenberg ( chat) 03:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay, so I got auto switched to Vector when the site wide change was implemented. I tried it out and didn't like a few things about it and changed back to MonoBook. Well, today I noticed that whenever I edit a page, the font in the edit box is like point 20+ and in bold. How do I get back to the normal font? RedWolf ( talk) 20:11, 15 May 2010 (UTC). I am using FF 3.6.3 on OS X. If I use Safari 4.0.5, the edit font is fine. RedWolf ( talk) 20:32, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed Wikipedia "log in" related technical trouble. When I try to search for a topic after logging in or navigate to different pages, it is showing my status as signed out. I have noticed this problem from the time appearance and navigation related new features are added to Wikipedia. Hope this problem will be resolved soon. My User name is Kandula Venkateswara Reddy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.195.140.105 ( talk) 05:52, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Since the the layout changes when I try and insert the 'reflist' shortcut from the Wiki markup drop-down (when editing) a box comes up asking if I want to navigate away from this page, and thus I need to type it in instead. Anyone else having this problem? Eldumpo ( talk) 08:51, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I just opened today user on another Wikipedia, when then after I came to log in here (i.e., English Wikipedia)it automaticaly loged me with the user from the other Wikipedia (although I didn't open any new account here), in fact, I didn't even have to log in...I don't want to edit with the same account here and there. As far as I can tell, once if one had account in E wikipedia and in G wikipedia, these were two different accounts. Have it changed? Does it mean that now if I'm blocked in one wiki then I'm blocked also in another? Just for instance, I'm sure it doesn't tell that if one is admin there he's also admin here.-- Gilisa ( talk) 14:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
In the edit mode that just magically appeared, when you click on cite templates several are missing that used to be there, such as journal. Currently only web, book, and news appear. Can I somehow go to the old display - which is much better - and get all the templates back? So yes, I don't like the new interface. I also hate the new vector skin and immediately went back to monobook. — Rlevse • Talk • 15:40, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
My usual, handy-dandy, always-use-it password for Wikipedia has tanked. No idea why, maybe because I haven't logged in in over a year.
I want to use my account to add more information to some articles I've authored.
I try having Wikipedia send the email to my account (to reset the password) and no email comes through -- not in the spam folder, not anything. It's the email account I've always used. Not sure if it's been the one I signed up to Wikipedia with, but it's a very high probability it is.
What do I do?
I have ways of proving this is 'me'. :)
Formerly (still?) Theoriste on Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.109.75.187 ( talk) 18:03, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Initially, when I entered a topic in the search box, at the top, it would list articles but then, in dark blue, gave me the option for searching for text. That latter option doesn't now happen and the magnifying glass just takes me to the first page. How do I do a full text search, please? Bridgeplayer ( talk) 18:06, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
According to SecurePoll, I must have 150 mainspace edits to vote on the May 2010 CheckUser & Oversight Elections. I have 202 (see here), but I still can't vote. Why?
A p3rson ‽ 18:21, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there any log kept as to when e-mail was enabled or disabled for a particular user? Who can access it?— Kww( talk) 18:59, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Are you talking about a user preventing other users from contacting them ( Special:Preferences), or about an admin disabling an editor's ability to email others? Because the latter is only possible via blocking... ╟─ Treasury Tag► assemblyman─╢ 19:03, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Was browsing around while logged in, clicked on my watchlist, and got told I had to log in. DuncanHill ( talk) 19:18, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I enter a word in what should be the search box, and I should be offered a choice: "go to" or "search". But only "go to" seems to be there after the recent changes. Is this yet another thing that I have to accidentally find? Michael Hardy ( talk) 20:57, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm worried because I am finding it impossible to fully log out of Wikipedia (or Wikimedia Commons) in my usual browser, Safari (version 4). The first evidence of a problem – a few hours ago – was when my edits in Safari wouldn't save, and instead I got a message referring to loss of session data and suggesting I log out. I logged out, but when I then went to the log in page, I was already logged in. This happened every time, so in addition to just refreshing the page, I emptied the Safari cache, cleared the history, shut down Safari and relaunched, cleared Wikipedia-related autofill forms in my browser, even restarted my computer, and yet every time I go to any Wikipedia page it shows me logged in. As I mentioned, when I then click "log out" it appears as though I've logged out, but then when I click on "Log in/Create new account", it takes me to the login page but with my user name already (again) showing at the top of the page, already logged in. When I click on "E-mail new password" there I get a message, "Login error - There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please hit "back" and reload the page you came from, then try again." When I follow those instructions, I continue to get pages showing me as already logged in. The only other browser on my computer is Firefox, and I checked it and I am logged out of Wikipedia there. No matter what I try, I cannot log out of Wikipedia in Safari now. (In more than a year of editing, I've never experienced this problem before.) I just tried posting this in Safari and got the same message, as with my attempted edits earlier today, "We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data," so I've now opened Firefox and logged in there, and will try to post this message via that browser. What do you suggest? SJ Morg ( talk) 03:14, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I am using Firefox 3.6.3 and none of the collapsible menus on the left side ("interaction", "toolbox", etc.) work. It works like magic in Internet Explorer. Ideas? Renata ( talk) 04:34, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I just made Template:Missouri county elected officials. This is designed to have a uniform template for all Missouri county articles. I would like it to have a spot to list the political party of the incumbent along with the incumbent's name - and for it also to automatically shade the appropriate color (blue for Democrats, red for Republicans, gray for independents). See the table at Washington County, Missouri#Local.
Can anyone lend a hand? Been trying to work on a solution but have been encountering difficulty. Neutrality talk 01:12, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Pertinent related discussion:
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The logo in the top left seems to have been replaced with this new one, which is smaller and less well defined than previously (at least in Classic skin). Is there any reason for this? — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 08:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
#p-logo a {background-image:url(
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/b/bc/20100513062230!Wiki.png) !important;}
I also found the new logo to be rather blah, so I've attempted to create a bolder version, shown above. Dragons flight ( talk) 11:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to comment that I really don't like the new logo, especially because it's significantly smaller than the old logo. To me, shrinking the logo communicates that Wikipedia itself is shrinking. I would strongly support any redesign that got the logo back up to its original size. – Grondemar 11:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
When I looked at Wikipedia today, I almost took my contacts out - the logo can't be that blurry! Maybe if the new logo were the size of the old one, and the characters were darker, the fuzziness would go away. -- Magnus Manske ( talk) 12:09, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I think that the new logo looks sort of irregular. I can't quite put my finger on the problem, but I think that bringing the "W" and "Ω" back into alignment helps. My gut feeling about the "bolder" version above is positive, too. Paul ( Stansifer) 12:28, 13 May 2010 (UTC) (edited to add a boldenated version, too)
I too found the logo to be a bit disappointing, particularly that it lacked contrast/definition. The improvement above is a good step, but more can probably be done. I understand that it's now a render from a complete 3d model. Anyone know where the 3d models are of the new logo? The definitions of the puzzle edges can probably be improved with a bump map. -- Gmaxwell ( talk) 13:24, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Agree with all of the above. Fixing the errors in the logo is important, and these changes should be kept, but there was no reason to make it so tiny and unremarkable.-- Danaman5 ( talk) 14:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
We seem to have unanimous consensus... File:Wiki.png can simply be reverted to an earlier version if needed. – Juliancolton | Talk 15:48, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Here's my take on things: User:DragonHawk/2010 logo. Briefly: I think there are objective reasons why some people are reacting negatively to the new logo. (1) ball is slightly smaller compared to the text, (2) puzzle edges less distinct, (3) lower contrast between symbols and background. These may or may not be "problems" if one is not comparing to the old logo. If they are considered to be worth "correcting", I think that can be done on the 3D model, not just by touching up the image (PNG/SVG). — DragonHawk ( talk| hist) 17:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I think it's important that The Powers That Be on this logo issue are aware of how disappointed folks are about the new logo. You can register your support for the old Wikipedia logo on Facebook. nohat ( talk) 16:23, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
This new logo is awful. It's smaller, poorly defined, and lacks the old italicized typface. The new logo is a punified version of the old logo. I also don't recall any consensus as to changing to this logo.
There is a glitch in which switching back to the old view will still leave you with the new distasteful logo.
To add the old logo back, add this line to your
Monobook skin
#p-logo a {background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Wiki.PNG) !important;}
Anybody else think this new logo is just bad? Smallman12q ( talk) 17:55, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I just want to chime in on the new logo. The previous logo, which I created, was certainly not without its flaws, but the new logo suffers greatly on an aesthetic level: it is too small, the anti-aliasing is very low quality, and most importantly, the sense of texture created by the edges of the pieces is completely lost. Finally, I am rather disappointed I was not included in the process to revamp the logo. No attempt was made to reach out to me to let me know this process was even being undertaken. Very poor job on all accounts. nohat ( talk) 18:05, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I've posted a blog entry expanding on my objections to the new logo. Please read it if you care to know more of my thoughts. nohat ( talk) 18:30, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia's success to date is entirely a function of our open community.
-Jimbo
Any changes to the software must be gradual and reversible. We need to make sure that any changes contribute positively to the community, as ultimately determined by everybody in Wikipedia, in full consultation with the community consensus.
-Jimbo
The rendering
The 3D work is admirable, and I'm glad we finally fixed the language problems. But the rendering is awful. I don't know who approved this, but I'm going to guess he's never met a graphic designer in his entire life. It's 1990s-style work. The contrast is absolutely too low for a logo. Logos should have clear high-contrast objects and subtle gradients. This is the opposite: it has low contrast between objects but a very extreme gradient. Any gradients should be subtle, not consume the entire object. The globe should be much lighter, it's too dark and so you have dark gray letters on a dark gray ball. And the texture of the letters and cracks is completely gone. Dragon flight's "bolder" version above is a tremendous improvement, but we can still do better.
Here's the other problem with this logo: It looks blatantly like an SVG image. Vector format is great for normal logos (one- or two-color vector images), but our project's logo isn't a normal logo, it's a photographic-style image. SVG doesn't work for it, and shoehorning a photographic-style image into a vector format will never look right. Why does the logo even need to be a server-side SVG if you can't click on it? Use the 3D software to render an actual PNG that looks right, with actual cracks between the pieces and actual gloss on the letters. The site's logo should look good: it should look like
this sign.
I understand there's always a need for a vector version for professional publishing, etc. That's totally fine, but keep it internal. Don't use it as the site's header if there's no vector functionality in the header itself.
Here's a question: Who made the logo decision and how do we make absolutely sure they get in touch with this discussion? Step 1 is to replace it with a brighter, higher-contrast image. Step 2 is to render it properly. —
Noisalt (
talk) 22:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I think the problems are these:
N4m3 ( talk) 14:33, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
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I miss the "cite" button in the editor toolbar, which in the monobook skin used to pop up a {{citation}}-template-family-editor for quick adding of reference information. Can this feature be made available in the vector skin?
We need to encourage editors to add references, and we need gadgets which make it easy doing so. The new "reference wizard" does nothing to enhance adding of proper references, neither for regular content contributors (bad) nor for "drive-by"-contributors (very bad!) and should be modified to include the buttons you got when you clicked "cite" in the monobook skin toolbar.
Related questions to think about, though less important to me:
Skäpperöd ( talk) 09:39, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
It might be that there is an issue with IE and refToolbar. IE requires a special mode of the script, and that wasn't really tested I think. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 12:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The new UI for the edit box seems to have been a mess:
I'm thinking of setting up an RFC about getting refTools reinstated. Any comments? -- Philcha ( talk) 13:30, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Apoc2400/refToolbar.js');
from you monobook.js and move importScript('User:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js');
to your vector.js. —
TheDJ (
talk •
contribs) 13:36, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay, I think I've fixed the refToolbar gadget. I've confirmed my fix in IE8 and FF 3.6.3. The problem was that Gadgets and user scripts are loaded in different places in the <head>, gadgets are loaded before some of the UsabilityInitiative scripts that refToolbar depends on. It also appears that the dialogs have been re-enabled in IE (IE 8 at least), so anyone using the new toolbar with the dialogs enabled in preferences should be using the new script - User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar 2.0. Users using the new toolbar with dialogs disabled will be using a modified version of the old script and users using the old toolbar will be using an updated version of the old script - Wikipedia:refToolPlus. Mr. Z-man 19:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I've tried all of the above, but I still don't get a Cite button. Using Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows 7. There are plenty of messages in the error console, how do I tell what is relevant? Most are warnings; one error "mw.usability is undefined"; expanding this, the following is highlighted: mw.usability.addMessages( { "cite-section-label" : "Cite", RolandR ( talk) 22:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I've lost the Cite button (it was there yesterday under vector - see above). This my setup: Firefox3.6.3 on Win7; new toolbar with dialogs enabled in preferences; refTools in gadgets disabled; importScript('User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar 2.0.js'); in my vector.js file; there are some css java console warnings, but nothing relating to refToolbar that I can see. I hope this helps. -- Bruce1ee talk 06:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I had the same problem, but followed the instructions above and now it's working. I have a new problem though: I had recently started using refToolPlus, which has some really cool new features. I guess there's no way to incorporate this into the enhanced editing toolbox? Lampman ( talk) 14:54, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
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...is too small. Seriously, this impacts usability in a big way. / wangi ( talk) 10:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Ok; compare:
I'm not aware of anything out of the ordinary in my browser setup (FF 3.6.4, Windows). Thanks/ wangi ( talk) 11:21, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Dodoïste - as mentioned above the screen shots are from Firefox 3.6.4 running on Windows XP - let me know if there is any further detail required. Thanks/ wangi ( talk) 09:48, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
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Posting this in case anyone wants to know how: User:PleaseStand/vector.css. PleaseStand (talk) 11:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
A friendly Keegan Peterzell from the Wikipedia Information Team on email told me to try posting this idea here. I hope that's okay!
It was just to mention creating a URL shortener for others to use when linking to wikipedia.org or another relevant page, when posting messages for their friends and followers on social networking sites. I notice other organistation cleverly shortening their domains for this purpose e.g. foursquare http://4sq.com, Yahoo http://y.ahoo & Youtube http://youtu.be.
I'm not sure how this would all come together with the purchasing of a Kiribati domain as an example, and unfortunately I'm not skilled enough yet to know or aid in the technicalities but I thought of the following URL which might work! http://wi.ki/
Here's a tweet that I directed at Jimbo and Wikipedia on Twitter a few days back. @Wikipedia @jimmy_wales it would be nice to see a http://wi.ki URL shortner -some links: http://to./437k http://to./3zyd http://www.nic.ki/
I'm more than happy to do any running around, basic web stuff or documentation as that's about my skill limit in helping with this should it be needed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassan Yate ( talk • contribs) 07:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I like the wi.ki idea (and the Foundation really ought to be involved in domain purchasing stuff); in the meantime, there's already http://enwp.org , which I believe is run by some Wikipedian or other. I've been using that on Twitter (as @wikinihiltres) already. {{ Nihiltres| talk| edits| ⚡}} 19:14, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I actually looked into buying wi.ki once. IIRC, they were charging completely unreasonable amounts for the .ki domain (at least for me to pay for it :p) ^ demon [omg plz] 12:58, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I had an idea for this that would make it work even better I think. It would cost money to have the shortening domain. Wi.ki is decidedly more expensive than wiki.to or wiki.us or whatever. However, Wikimedia is used on several sites. If other sites using it wanted to use the url shortener themselves, they'd pay maybe a few dollars a month for it. Together, collectively, those who wish to use it would help subsidize the cost of keeping it so Wiki themselves wont have to pay it. They use it too of course, but anyone using the platform would have access to it.
75.110.90.85 (
talk) 14:32, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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If you try to search for (not go to) something, you are automatically redirected to the page with such name if it exists. In Commons Vector there was a Go button, here it was displayed in the bottom row of suggestions, but now it's gone. The magnifying glass, despite its traditional meaning, does not lead to search page. It's pretty annoying to click on the magnifying glass, go to Special:Search and type a query there every time, is there any easier way to do it in Vector? — NickK ( talk) 19:40, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Actually, the new suggestions code was disabled because of a few bugs. However the old suggestions code doesn't have the "Search pages containing ..." entry, which the new code offers as a replacement for the "Search" button basically. So since 9 hours, the Search page is almost totally unreachable... This is being looked into now. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 20:30, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
As most here know <s>, <u>, <b>, etc. are deprecated in HTML. I read here that <s> is redundant to wiki markup. Doubt that these tags have anything to do with our markup and are just passed into HTML. Am I right? – droll [chat] 21:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
The very useful article alert bot has been
dead for over a month now, apparently over some login issues. This is quite absurd. FIX the problem now so that we can be aware of what's going on in our project, and not just come across things by chance when it's all too late.
The-Pope (
talk) 11:49, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
The very useful User:ArticleAlertbot has been dead since early April, apparently due to a change in the API login requirements. The original bot owner is no longer active, and others who have tried to get it running again, have had problems getting the appropriate logins. See User_talk:Legoktm/April_2010#AA_bot for some discussions. Can someone with the appropriate knowledge, access and power please re-enable the bot, either by doing it directly or by talking with the Legoktm or Headbomb or Tedder or someone listed on that talk page. Thank you. The-Pope ( talk) 15:49, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I failed to input the photo credit into my initial photo upload, File:Stafne's defect.JPG. I'd like to say that the photo was provided for any and all use by Richard Holiday, DMD. Thanks. DRosenbach ( Talk | Contribs) 20:59, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi all. I had a script running in my monobook.js file which added to the sidebar on the left some links to pages I commonly used. When I moved to Vector (and yes, moved my .js file to /vector.js), I find that the script no longer works. Is the script salvagable for use with the new skin? If not, are there any alternatives? The script in question is at the very bottom of User:AGK/vector.js. AGK 00:02, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
ReferenceError: Can't find variable: FriendlyConfig
prototype.wikimedia.org/s-2/js/mwEmbed/jsScriptLoader.php?class=mwEmbed,mw.EmbedPlayer,ctrlBuilder,$j.ui.slider,kskinConfig,mw.style.kskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText&uselang=en&urid=r121:136mwCheckForGadget
prototype.wikimedia.org/s-2/js/mwEmbed/jsScriptLoader.php?class=mwEmbed,mw.EmbedPlayer,ctrlBuilder,$j.ui.slider,kskinConfig,mw.style.kskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText&uselang=en&urid=r121:136gadget already installed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-mwEmbed.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&278z63
AGK 13:49, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Often, when I come back to edit a page having been off doing other things I find myself logged out. How long without editing before you get logged out, please? Bridgeplayer ( talk) 02:47, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Can someone fix the white space at the top? 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 09:17, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Veliky Novgorod has the same problem. 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 09:18, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
First, if this is the wrong place for this question, please tells me where I can get the information I need.
It's easiest to explain with an example, User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods, which has 3 lower-level sub-pages, User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/Sfn, User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/Harvard and User:Philcha/Sandbox/Reference_methods/List-defined references. If the whole structure is copied (not moved)to e.g. a Wikiproject Project, I'd like a facility that automatically update in the copied pages to that the "root" "User:Philcha" part of all these wikilinks now show the Wikiproject Project like [[Wikiproject/Sandbox/Reference_methods]], [[Wikiproject/Sandbox/Reference_methods/Sfn]], etc. -- Philcha ( talk) 09:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I might be asking this in the wrong place, but anyway... Since the latest Wikimedia blog post states that, "Over the next few weeks, the new interface will cascade to all language Wikipedias", I just wanted to clarify some things here:
Flagellvm·Dei 17:07, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Why doesn't Category:Roads opened in 1936 show up in Category:1936 in road transport? It's been more than two hours since the first one was created and half an hour since the latter. I have purged both category pages. __ meco ( talk) 22:22, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I've been having an intermittent fault with pop-ups. Sometimes instead of the preview coming up, a tiny little square box (in appearance similar to the normal box that pop-ups appear in) with no text in it appears. I am using the old-stylee Wikipedia & Chrome on Win-XP. As far as I can recall, this has only happened since the change to the new-style default skin (which obviously I discarded almost immediately). DuncanHill ( talk) 23:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
The only practical effect so far of the "improvements" in the way we view Wikipedia pages is that there's no "move" button. We can no longer change the title of Wikipedia articles, as far as I can tell. Did whoever thought of these changes know that that might matter? Can someone tell me how to do that? Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:20, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
What in Hell does the designer of such a thing use for brains?? How irresponsible can you get? Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:18, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Amalthea/VectorMenuToTabs.js');
to
your vector.js should do the trick.
Svick (
talk) 14:07, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Funandtrvl wrote: "The move button is hiding under the arrow where the purge button is if you have that turned on in your preferences." I never suspected there was such a thing as a "purge" button. I use the "move" button every day. How was I expected to find the "move" button? There wasn't anything to click on to seek such information, as far as I know. Michael Hardy ( talk) 10:31, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
The down arrow and dropdown menu are awful. Please give us a way to get rid of it and flatten them into tabs without having to import a JS script. — Lowellian ( reply) 17:04, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Apparently now the move button can be found without enabling a "purge" button. After someone above said you use an arrow where the "purge" button is, I looked and didn't find any arrow. Later I looked and an arrow was there. Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:58, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is the TOC not shown at either Talk:Franz Schubert or Talk:György Ligeti, even though they both have more than four headings? I've figured out that it has something to do with the presence of a "/Comments" subpage, but even using Special:ExpandTemplates doesn't help me figure out why the TOC doesn't show on those pages. Can the problem be rectified, and if so, how? Graham 87 10:12, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is the website http://rollyo.com/ blacklisted at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist when the article Rollyo has an external link to it under "External links"? [6] -- Wavelength ( talk) 18:28, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Why does Wikipedia not let me upload File:CCKLogo.gif over the Commons file? I am trying to do this because I know that because of copyright reasons it should be deleted at Commons and re-uploaded locally. Do I really have to wait until Commons deletes the file unless I use a different name? To make matters worse, the "Upload warning" cannot be ignored with the checkbox, and it seems to be broken, including the text "File:$1". PleaseStand (talk) 01:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Because it is against both toolserver and enwiki policy for bots to edit while logged out, a proposal to permanently soft-block the toolserver IPs has begun at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy. Pcap ping 08:44, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Anyone know why the bots aren't regularly cleaning the Tutorial sandboxes anymore? I reported this back in April but it seems nothing was done. See User_talk:ClueBot_Commons/Archives/2010/April#ClueBot_II_no_longer_clearing_tutorial_sandboxes for the full report.
I'm thinking this bot issue may have something to do with the "change in the API login requirements" mentioned in the post- #Dead Article Alert Bot above. -- œ ™ 09:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone please be so kind and explain what is going on with this page in my userspace? Notice where it's located. Now notice the title being shown. And what's all that UNIQ stuff? The page is still usable, but I've never seen a more weird bug (?). Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); May 18, 2010; 15:28 (UTC)
{{Title override}}
in the past, and it wasn't pretty). It's not a big deal for a page in my userspace, but the template being transcluded is also transcluded by
WP:RUSSIA, the title of which is also being overridden. That's a serious problem. Does anyone know why the title is being overridden in the first place?—
Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (
yo?); May 18, 2010; 18:59 (UTC)I ran What links here for redirects on WP:MOS. It is giving some weird results such as Private military company, User talk:Niki K, and Indian Posse. The page are indeed redirects, but not to the MoS. Can someone please explain this behavior? — Ost ( talk) 18:31, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
My test page at User:Grover cleveland/IPATest copies an example of #replace directly from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Parser_functions_in_templates but it doesn't seem to work. Am I doing something wrong, or is #replace not supported? And, if not, is there any way to do text substitution on a string within templates? Thanks! Grover cleveland ( talk) 22:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've fixed my main problems: User:Virgolette/vector.css
Advantages:
There is also a way to reduce the wasted space on top of the page (see User:Dragons flight/vector.css for example), but I suggest to wait until the 2 extra links "Take me back" and "New features" will disappear. Please, I need a feedback, especially from Safari and Chrome users. Thanks! -- Virgolette ( talk) 21:29, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Copied from Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change, which may soon be canceled.
In the new Vector skin, the special characters and wiki markup listed under the edit box can be inserted into the edit box by simply left-clicking on them in Firefox 3.6.3. However, this procedure will not work using IE8 in Vector. But a much more laborious procedure using the clipboard will work in IE8/Vector. Move the cursor to a position immediately to the right of the special character where the "hand" changes to a vertical bar, left-click and hold while dragging the cursor over the special character to highlight it, then use ctrl-C and ctrl-V to transfer it to and from the clipboard to the position of the cursor in the edit box. Clicking worked fine in both browsers under Monobook. Also, the warning message that you may lose unsaved edits appears even while left-clicking on a special character in both browsers, which seems counter-intuitive because this is part of the editing process. — Joe Kress ( talk) 08:45, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
See also WP:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change/Bug reports#Edittools do not work in Internet Explorer. Amalthea 21:43, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is that my svg at File:ISS_components.svg doesn't seem to be thumbnailed correctly, but when I click on it, firefox 3.6 correctly renders it? Smallman12q ( talk) 02:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
x
attribute of the tspan
elements having a list of values for each label character, instead of a single value, causing RSVG to treat the value as zero. Perhaps deleting the extra values would fix this. For example: <tspan style="..." x="186.25751 191.67688 195.73938 197.54312 202.06062 206.57813 210.64063" y="318.52719" sodipodi:role="line" id="tspan4358">Science</tspan>
—
Richardguk (
talk) 07:43, 17 May 2010 (UTC)I'd like to add it to Assembly of the International Space Station but it doesn't seem to thumbnail correctly... Smallman12q ( talk) 21:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
The Wikimedia SVG renderer frequently has this resizing problem with fonts like Times and Helvetica. Try replacing them with Liberation Serif and Liberation Sans (fonts that are present by default on the renderer and have the same metrics as Times and Helvetica respectively) and it should work much better. Your image doesn't use Times but it does use Helvetica; I'm pretty sure that's the problem. You don't even have to do any redrawing: just substitute the string "Liberation Sans" for "Helvetica" wherever it appears in your file. — David Eppstein ( talk) 01:14, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
The text is very blocky...compare how the png version would scale down to the svg... Smallman12q ( talk) 14:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. There has recently been some debate over maps in infoboxes and a lot of people who think maps in infoboxes bloat the table. There is also often a disgreement in which scale map is better, e.g Mobile, Alabama some people would find simply the local census map too localised, two maps with the state locator too bloated and others way even wish to see Mobile on a US map. Given this I was wondering if a technical genius on here could look into the mapping feature presented in the infobox at here (click where it says Voir situation) (a little understanding of French might also help) and draw up some coding which can be added to Template:Infobox settlement or any other infobox with a pushpin map option. This would be of enormous benefit to wikipedia given the diversity of preferences and demands and would seemingly solve a long-term argument over which map to use when the choice can be there for whatever scale the reader wishes to see. This will become increasingly needed into the future too as more localised maps of places are made and may often be at the expense of wider maps and may confuse a lot of people. If we could import this feature then there will be no arguments over bloated infoboxes and which map is more appropriate. The reader can choose his preference by clicking it.
It has something to do with Modèle:Géolocalisation on french wiki. I wonder if a genius also with a little understanding of French could look into this. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:15, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there no way at all to send an email to amazon.com? I had trouble ordering something and wanted to ask for assistance. I went through their contact interface and was told I couldn't contact them because I didn't have an order number. That seems really really rude. Michael Hardy ( talk) 03:02, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
No, it's not optional. You can't contact them at all without a valid order number. The page you're pointing to is the same one I tried before posting here. It is precisely because of my experience with the particular page you're linking to that I posted here.
I actually intended this for the computing reference desk and posted here by mistake, and then there. Michael Hardy ( talk) 05:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Sigh.......
Yes. I was logged in. I could not contact amazon because I didn't have a valid order number. The reason why I wanted to contact them was that I didn't have a valid order number because I was unable to buy something because my billing address is in the USA. Michael Hardy ( talk) 06:02, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Have there been any changes in the past eight hours that might have affected the script User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib.js? (It's a very useful script that hides pages in your "Contributions" list for which you are the most recent editor.) I know for a fact that it was working when I was previously on, but when I try to use it today it removes all edits, not just the "top" ones. The script itself was last changed over two weeks ago, and has been working for me since then. Anyone have any ideas on this? -- Ckatz chat spy 16:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, yes, there's an extra link that it isn't expecting that now exists. Of course, this link probably doesn't exist for non-admins, so the script will now have to adjust based on whether the person has sysop rights. I can fix it, or someone else can... Ale_Jrb talk 17:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I didn't think that this script was working last week; I had posted on the talk page about it when I was having trouble with other Special:Contributions scripts and I hadn't seen this one get updated so I didn't uncomment it in my skin. Was it just me having problems with it until today? — Ost ( talk) 17:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Heh, I didn't know that this script existed, and coded my own. It's interesting to see the differences: the approach is similar, but the style is slightly different and my version fades to opacity 0.25 instead of setting display:none;
. But in either case, I think that the obvious problems are the following: history entries, log entries, and contribution entries ("HLC" entries, let's shorten it to) are a) not quite a consistent standard b) HLC entries are mostly contextually opaque to JavaScript (e.g. try picking a random log entry and trying to extract the page it refers to, in a way that would still work reliably if the log entry were rearranged), c) we keep duplicating the effort of parsing them for our scripts and d) we don't clearly identify for scripts what assumptions they make about the content (my inner logician talking :P). I think we ought to take a look at some of these problems and how they might be solved. {{
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edits|
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File:Google notebook.png doesn't render even if I re-render the image in GIMP and re-upload it. What's wrong? -- Bea o 19:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
There is a red link that doesn't work on the special page for book ISBN searches. For example, Special:BookSources/082121750X. It's under the link for "Learn how to bypass this page and go to the same book source every time." Jason Quinn ( talk) 23:49, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
What's the "researcher" userright all about? Stifle ( talk) 10:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
My watchlist isn't showing anything More than 1 day of edits, even if I select "show last 3/7/all days". Any solution? Thx, ManishEarth Talk • Stalk 15:15, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia users,
I propose that, on the main page (en.wikipedia.org), as soon as a visitor enters, the search bar is automatically selected (i.e. he/she does not have to click on it to insert text.
Furthermore, seeing as the search is the most important part of the site, I propose that the search bar be lengthened to fit the entire horizontal width of the website, or at least a larger length than it currently is. The bar can retain its original length when the user navigates away from the main page, e.g. to an article.
The search bar on www.wikipedia.org has the right idea. However I prefer to enter en.wikipedia.org as I enjoy reading the articles and headlines on the front page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.159.96 ( talk) 18:34, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Is this a bug or a feature:
In this diff ( [10]) various userbox-like symbols are visible above the diff made by the IP. But it is actually the user's talk page that contains the edit notice. The reasons why this bothers me are:
However it doesn't seem to be present on historical versions of a page. Wnt ( talk) 23:08, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
{{/Talk header}}
which transcludes
User talk:DIREKTOR/Talk header which transcludes
User:DIREKTOR/Icons which uses absolute position to render outside the normal area.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:24, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
&diffonly=1
to a diff url like
[11] will omit rendering the page.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 23:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
What allows suggestions to show up in searches in the search bar? Is it an extension or a change to LocalSettings.php? — MC10 ( T• C• GB• L) 01:28, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Over the past couple of months I've been blocking Tor exit nodes, and I don't think I'm the only one who's been seeing them around again. The latest example today is 89.248.169.109 ( talk · contribs). Is the Tor extension working OK? Does anyone have a link to the cached list of blocked IPs? -- zzuuzz (talk) 14:06, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I was following the afd page’s instructions on how to add a page to the afd log, but when I tried to save, the spam filter stopped me, saying I was trying to insert a blacklisted link: I believe it was examiner.com, examiner.org, or somesuch. However, I did not insert any link of this sort. I was trying to add the afd for Twilight: The Musical Help! Bramble claw x 01:47, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I brought this up on Template talk:Importance and Wikipedia talk:Oversight, but nobody watching had an efficient idea, so I'll run this by everyone here. There are 118 deleted edits in Template:Importance's history that would be much better placed, undeleted, in the history of Template:Cleanup-importance, since the template was re-purposed. The change itself should not be controversial, but the poor man's process to get them there sounds pretty disruptive to me because the templates are transcluded in millions of articles. Is it still safe to do that? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 07:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to permanently expand the toolbox ? Surely we shouldn't have to expand it every time we check what links here or user contributions. Cenarium ( talk) 14:43, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I've proposed another way of displaying the TFA editnotice using the editnotice loader and TFA title. I'd like to make sure that it's technically ok. Cenarium ( talk) 18:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Discussion about the recent interface changes is at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. |
Section renamed from "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!" — Martin ( MSGJ · talk)
Everything's changed! Unofficial kvetching thread. 86.41.61.203 ( talk) 06:39, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Just to buck the trend, I think the new interface is pretty cool actually. You'll get used to it. (Though there still doesn't seem to be a direct link to the article history from the discussion page, etc. And I would move the "current-page-related" links like What Links Here from the toolbox to the drop-down list at the top with Move and Purge, now we have such a list.)-- Kotniski ( talk) 07:29, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
The links on the left don't show on Konqueror -- where do I report that? Niels E ( talk) 08:00, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Agreed that this new skin is hideous. The most annoying thing about it for me is the large gap of whitespace between the top two rows, which was never there in the old skin (see next topic below, where I ask for a solution; I would prefer for them to kill it entirely in the base skin, but for now I'll settle for someone helping me find a way to reduce it via my user CSS). This whitespace is not only ugly in and of itself but also shoves down the layout of the entire page, significantly reducing the amount of text seen onscreen on small resolutions. — Lowellian ( reply) 08:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Just switched back to the old skin after putting up with the new one for about an hour today. Old skin looks much better. Whitespace at top of page gone. Search returned to left side. From a visual and usability point of view the new skin has no advantages for me. Is there any agreement to force the new skin on passing visitors? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 23:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi all,
So I remembered that I intended to activate single-revision deletion a few weeks ago. I (finally) got around to it this evening. Enjoy it, and as always, if there are any problems, please mail wikitech-l, file a bug, throw rocks at me or something.
— Andrew Garrett • talk 14:19, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I can't comment on any bugs without knowing which bugs you're talking about. — Andrew Garrett • talk 14:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Looks fantastic, really very smooth. I wonder if the link at the end of a log item couldn't be changed to something more descriptive. The deletion log has "view/restore," blocking has "unblock|change block," whereas "more..." seems to imply a set of other options, not "change." ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 14:58, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I had no idea this was going to be implemented, and it made me panic for a second and think I had gotten oversight access accidentally. Steven Walling 04:37, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed some user pages appearing on important categories, e.g. User:Cr2pr/cybrarian on Category:India (now removed). One only needs to edit their own user page for this to happen. There needs to be a way to prevent such listing of user pages on categories of articles. Geeteshgadkari ( talk) 13:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Are the two de links here showing up for anyone? OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 21:02, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
When I switched from monobook to vector, I got an unpleasant side effect: The coloring defined in my .css (the content of monobook.css is identical to vector.css) file now also effects the top right links (id: pt-userpage, pt-mytalk, pt-mycontris). How can that be disabled? -- Leyo 19:10, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I typed sox vlc in the RD search field at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing and the first line of output was:
The line seems to occur on every search. Could it be removed please? Comet Tuttle ( talk) 22:30, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
[12] Sad face. – xeno talk 23:13, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
(P.S. How hard would it be to css or otherwise tweak the page view link to default (or provide an additional link) to last month? – xeno talk 23:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC))
Page view statistics [http://stats.grok.se/en/{{#time:Ym}}/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} this month] '''·''' [http://stats.grok.se/en/{{#ifeq:{{#time:n}}|1|{{#expr:{{#time:Y}}-1}}12|{{#time:Y}}{{padleft:{{#expr:{{#time:n}}-1}}|2}}}}/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} last month]
The page view stats button is missing on the history page... Will it be back? And if not why not??-- Oracleofottawa ( talk) 02:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
When I go to preview an article I'm editing I sometimes click on the minor help box by mistake, and when you click on it your edit is lost. Is there any way it could be re-positioned or else a way for the preview edit to remain? Eldumpo ( talk) 08:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
#minoredit_helplink { display: none; }
This is an idea about checking the references during editing the article. You find reference to existing article (if the referenced notion does not need new article), and insert its, mistakes expelled. uk:Вікіпедія:Кнайпа_(технічні_питання)#Виправлення посилань в процесі редагування -- W.M.drossel ( talk) 08:44, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
If you go to the article AOL, the title is MediaWiki talk:AOL? What's up with that? I got a feeling that one of the transcluded templates has messed up its use of {{DISLPAYTITLE:}} Gary King ( talk) 17:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I am working on a template that I would like to behave differently based on the current user's language preferences. E.g. if it's "en" do A; but if it's "en-GB" do B. Is there any way to do this? Thanks! Grover cleveland ( talk) 19:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
{{gender:username | return text if user is male | return text if user is female | return text if user hasn't defined their gender}}
{{int:message name}}
, which is related to what you originally requested. But instead of returning the user's language tag itself, this returns the contents of
MediaWiki:message name/language-tag.{{MediaWiki:exif-colorspace}}
=
Color space{{MediaWiki:exif-colorspace/en-gb}}
= Colour space{{int:exif-colorspace}}
=
Color space (this is determined by your user preference language).{{#switch:{{int:exif-colorspace}}|{{:MediaWiki:exif-colorspace/en-gb}}=matches British English|does not match British English}}
The novel, Lad: A Dog, is properly written in that fashion, however because Lad: is the prefix for the Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish), Wikipedia, an article here can't have the name of Lad: A Dog. You can't even write it without prefixing it with a colon. So the article was created at Lad, A Dog instead, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions). In its current FAC, an article has questioned whether there is not some way to "fix" it so the article is at the correct title. Reading over the technical restrictions guideline again, it seemed like there was not, but I added {{ Namespace conflict}} template to help clarify it. However, the same editor felt a definitive answer was needed one way or another, so this seemed to be the best place to ask the question. Is it possible to make the article have the title Lad: A Dog without it going over to the non-existent "A Dog" article at lad.wikipedia.org? -- AnmaFinotera ( talk · contribs) 03:33, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Lad, A Dog is the best we can do, and it does show up in the search box's list of choices (although clicking on the suggestion is required to get to the article). For a similar example, see Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, in which q: is the interwiki prefix for Wikiquote. For a while, there was a soft redirect called Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! on Wikiquote, but it got deleted several times in 2008 and 2009. If the Ladino Wikipedia would create a soft redirect called A Dog... PleaseStand (talk) 05:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Another user has generated a list of untagged derm-related redirects. I wanted to know if someone could help tag these redirect talk pages with
{{WPMED|class=redirect|importance=|dermatology=yes}}
? Perhaps there is an automated way to do this? Thanks in advance for your help! --- kilbad ( talk) 17:27, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I added quotes to one word and this is what the diff looks like. __ meco ( talk) 08:49, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Neither sulutil:PleaseStand nor the Wikipedia edit counter work for me. I can, however, connect to the Commons edit counter. PleaseStand (talk) 06:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I have created a request for comment on the flagged revisions trial, motivated by an unexpected, unannounced and publicly undiscussed change of configuration removing the reviewer usergroup. Please weigh in there. Cenarium ( talk) 12:58, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry to post a question that with some searching or digging into code I would probably answer but I imagine it would be simpler and quicker to ask it here. (And the result of the question will be put to a Wikipedia-related purpose so it's not totally off-topic.)
Can namespace 14 be reliably trusted to always be the Category namespace (not only on Wikipedia or WikiMedia installations but across all MediaWiki installations)? I suppose there are two answers that for my purposes would be sufficient for a 'yes': an absolute 'always yes' or 'no, but in practice always yes'.
Is it the same for all the default namespaces?
Many thanks, --RA ( talk) 18:20, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
NS_CATEGORY
constant, and if its JavaScript, there is a wgCanonicalNamespace
variable that will always be the default English namespace name (assuming there is one).
Mr.
Z-man 18:32, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
meta=siteinfo
the
number and canonical name of each namespace can be gotten at. Presumably that is reliable (in theory as much as in practice). Do you think that's right? --RA (
talk) 18:41, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a good reason why a search such as
comma incategory:"Wikipedia Manual of Style"
doesn't traverse subcategories? If not, I'm going to report that at BugZilla.
A. di M. (
talk) 19:15, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
ArticleAlertbot has been down since early April. It appears that there have been API issues or something to do with logins, or somesuch. (I am not very fluent in all this tech-y stuff). Anyways, it appears that other users who have tried to repair the bot have had problems as well (such as User:Tedder not having a toolserver account or something like that). The bot's programmer, user:B. Wolterding has been fairly inactive lately, popping in occasionally. Is there anyone here that could please try to repair the bot? Bramble claw x 15:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm trying to find or build a template, a thumbnail, or ? I want to display both wiki and commons pic of the day, but control the size and float, can this be done. It would be nice to be able to add or work with the captions and/or text. but if this requires something like java or any kind of script then that would be beyond my knowledge. Mlpearc pull my chain Trib's 16:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, does anyone know how, or could help me with, getting a plain text list of a particular user's Commons uploads which still exist (as in, are not red links)? It should ideally look like:
...etcetera. Thanks! ╟─ Treasury Tag► directorate─╢ 17:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Excellent—thanks so much! ╟─ Treasury Tag► constablewick─╢ 21:02, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Someone should take a look at the external link detection code. On a number of occasions I've had a Captcha thrown up with the statement "Your edit contains external links", despite the fact that there were no external links added in the edit (Example edit where this happened [15] - I've seen it primarily on the Reference Desk, and primarily when the "edit section" link is used to initiate editing). I'm guessing that there is an external link somewhere else in the section that the detection code isn't smart enough to realize is pre-existing, despite the fact that the diff generation code has no problem figuring out what is and is not new. -- 174.24.200.38 ( talk) 17:56, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone check out the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Add class="rellink" to MediaWiki:Print.css? Thanks, -- The Evil IP address ( talk) 19:32, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to collapse sections on my talk and user pages - if so, what is the code for it?
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Are you trying to do something like this? |
Tisane ( talk) 21:15, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I added a link to several maintenance categories, (e.g. Category:Uncategorized pages), that goes to a random page in that category. It uses the tool "Random page in category". I found it very helpful, allowing me to get pages to categorize without always starting at the beginning of the alphabet or scrolling through endless lists. Bu yesterday it stopped working. I now get a message that says "Fatal Error: Sorry, this tool has been disabled for the English Wikipedia." Anyone know why or where to complain?-- agr ( talk) 22:01, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
The romanisation of the Bulgarian word for "search" has been mistaken at wikipedia.org. Where can I report that? (And what is really the point of romanising all non-Latin alphabet words?) -- Магьосник ( talk) 01:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
IPad mobile safari handles section anchors poorly. If I navigate to a page (not a hash marked subsection) I can scroll up or down the page at will, but if I navigate to a specific section and scroll up or down the browser will lurch back to the anchored link. I don't know why this happens or whose fault it is, so I'm coming here for some feedback or comments. Does anyone see this behavior on the iPhone? On their iPad? Do they see the behavior on other sites which use the same page anchoring techniques? Protonk ( talk) 00:08, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Please see this edit history. My db tag was placed at the same time as the previous one, but mine overrode the other. I got no edit conflict warning. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 22:13, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Go to the Alaskan Klee Kai article, please. Then click on the image in the infobox. Notice how the dog in the image is reversed between the article and the file page? Why does that happen? Dismas| (talk) 14:08, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone remove Wikipedia:Template messages/Translation from Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation please. I know its down to {{ Source need translation}} and {{ Inline need translation}} but I can't figure out how to stop it appearing in the category. Thanks-- Jac16888 Talk 17:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes when I go to my watchlist, the skin changes from vector to monobook without me doing anything to make it appear in monobook. Is there anything wrong? ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐) 23:42, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
I made a new edit notice Here and when I edit my user talk space the notice is shown twice Here what's wrong ? Mlpearc pull my chain Trib's 02:37, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanx that was it. but I guess I'm going to have to put up with it, editing without it sucks. But thanx that was it. Mlpearc pull my chain Trib's 09:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Add this to Special:Mypage/skin.js and purge:
var wikEdDoCloneWarnings = false;
---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
I've got the extended edit bar (with the buttons for easy redirects, ref, cite, etc), but have noticed that when I go to edit it doesn't shew up first time, I have to reload the edit screen. I use the old default skin, with Chrome on WinXP. DuncanHill ( talk) 14:56, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
{{ Start infobox page}} is used in {{ Infobox tennis biography}} and the page becomes too wide. The content in <pre> of /doc may cause the problem. style="overflow: auto" should fix it but it doesn't. Please help me. -- Quest for Truth ( talk) 17:09, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
overflow: auto
didn't work there (it showed up correctly on the /doc page), but white-space: pre-wrap
works – it allows line breaks. Besides, I think it's better this way.
Svick (
talk) 19:25, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
After hitting the site tonight, I just noticed that I'm somewhere halfway between the vector and monobook skins. The main layout is vector, but my toolbar on the edit page just reverted to the old monobook style. I've done several full refreshes, edited my preferences, and still nothing. For what it's worth, I'm not using wikEd. Anyone else having this issue tonight? Maybe it's a sitewide thing... — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:19, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Just to update, this issue appears to be resolved for me (for now, at least). Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 18:22, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there some way to have the random article link so it is not quite so random?
Do not show me any pages...
DMahalko ( talk) 04:28, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I got this error:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "Revision::insertOn". Database returned error "1290: The MySQL server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement (10.0.6.26)".
Anyone else experiencing this? It doesn't seem like very friendly behavior; when I hit "Back," I had lost my edit. Should I submit this to Bugzilla? Tisane ( talk) 06:04, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I’m wondering if the indexing routine is “stuck”. Last evening, pages created before 23:00 19 May were indexed, and those after were not. This morning, the same is true, suggesting that not a single page has been indexed in the last 12 hours. I do realize it takes some time to index new pages, but the process is rarely this far behind, and it looks to me like it is not progressing. SPhilbrick T 12:11, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that there are two different templates for US officer ranks: Template:US officer ranks and Template:US Officer ranks collapsed. The only difference between them is supposed to be that the one is collapsed and the other is not. (See the talk page.) Because of code duplication the templates have diverged. Is there a way to have Template:US officer ranks passed a parameter that collapses it? By default it should be open. This would allow us to delete the other template. I will take care of the other changes to sync the templates again. I just need help with the collapsible navbox part. Jason Quinn ( talk) 15:23, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. This probably has been asked already, but ever since the switch to the new Beta Wikipedia version, my Popups function no longer works. Now when I mouse over a link or diff that would normally provide a popup, no such popup appears. To fix this problem, do I need to go to my monobook script or is it something in my preferences? Thanks. ~ A H 1( T C U) 02:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:AstroHurricane001/monobook.js');
Is it possible? Kind of a pain to have to go to the page logs. – xeno talk 12:24, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Accessibility to Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (accessibility)/ Where did the former's archives go? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
We have a vast number of templates, such as {{ Areas of Birmingham}} which have a list, rendered as text, separated by in-line bullet characters. These would be better rendered as HTML lists, styled horizontally and with the bullets hidden or rendered as CSS background images. A template, {{ flatlist}}, exists for this purpose, but is disliked by some editors for its use of a CSS border as as separating character. Please can anyone suggest improvements, which might result in its uptake? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
See WP:Help desk#Image corrupted? Anyone have an idea why the image in question isn't viewable for at least two of us users? Deor ( talk) 18:02, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Ive already asked this at the computing ref desk, but got no reply: [17]. I've read WP:Syndication and the pages about rss and atom, but basically don't understand the topic and I dont have the experience to tell what's going on. Here's my question:
"I am (attempting) to watch someone's Special:Contributions with atom. I have the appropriate feed in Google reader. I am having a few problems with it, and I don't know if it's me, the feed, the reader, or just how Wikipedia works. First, it takes hours to update, which kind of misses the point of a "feed" in my opinion. Six hours until another update seems like an excruciatingly long time to wait, but maybe this delay is normal. Second, it sometimes won't update at all: I once waited 3 days for a single entry to show up but another is still missing in action. Third, it bizarrely keeps trying to show me the same contributions over and over and over and over again. Sometimes an edit from last month will randomly pop up as a new entry, or a recent edit will just come up as new, repeatedly, for days. With all of these things combined, I'm finding the whole thing rather useless. I don't use atom for anything else so I don't know if this is typical of web feeds in general. Can someone more knowledgeable please tell me what's going on? Differentially (talk) 06:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)"
I would have left it at that, but I saw a few more comments about how syndication is "easier" for watching things. sorry, I don't see how something that doesn't work can be easier than have a favourite to someone's contributions (or your own watchlist, or an article, or whatever). Id really appreciate someone filling me on whether this is how WP does it, how google reader does it, how i've set it up, etc. Thanks, Differentially ( talk) 09:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
When a user hovers their mouse on a wiki link, the first 255 or so characters of the link's summary paragraph can display in a small box. The box disappears when the mouse is removed from the link. It would then be easier to read an article without following every wiki link that one is unsure of.-- Brylie ( talk) 06:19, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for my stupid question, I'm a complete technical idiot. Suddenly, my browser Mozilla - I don't know what version - displays strange things: the bolded (top) at the top edited pages in my contributions is not bolded anymore, the yellow highlight at unpatrolled new pages is not yellow anymore, the displaying of articles is unusual - the [edit] button is placed on the left side instead of usual right, the link for edit summaries is moved to the right side... etc. It all happened out of the blue, just now. What's wrong here? Could anybody help/explain please, I want my comfortable editing back. Thanks in advance. -- Vejvančický ( talk | contribs) 07:41, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to download a few wikipedia pages for a research project, but have found some of them are clipped. I am most interested in Featured Articles and Good Articles, since they have been through the full gauntlet of wikipedia review, but they often have long histories. Special:Export cuts these off after 1000 to 1500 entries (it says 1000, but i get more for some articles). I haven't been able to get cURL to work (never used it before) and don't even know what "ruby script" is, so I was hoping there was some way to get the more recent history through Special:Export or something similar (user friendly for noobs like me). I asked over at the helpdesk and someone there kindly told be about this page. If it isn't the right place, please let me know. Thanks in advance. -- Nobboddoddy ( talk) 09:17, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
For a couple of days now, the wrong image appears in the thumbnail for File:Southern Star Complete.jpg - but clicking on the thumbnail takes you to the correct image. Any suggestions? 92.11.238.139 ( talk) 12:22, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Every time I go to edit a page, when I start typing the screen automatically sends me to the bottom of the box so that I cannot see any lines below where I am typing. This just happened with the latest "update" to Wikipedia. Is there a way to turn this off, because often I am looking at things said that are in the box. In addition, it seems that if I click off the screen (e.g., if I'm looking at a source in another tab) and come back it will shoot me to the top of the edit box and I'll have to scroll down and find where I left off. It's just very frustrating when I'm trying to edit. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 13:57, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
The template {{ Unbulleted list}} is now available for use in infoboxes; it takes up to nine items. For example, see these changes Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:51, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Before adding something to a disambiguation page, I made sure that the link I intended to add would actually go where I wanted, typing in the search box exactly the way the link would appear on the disambiguation page. It did. Then I put the link on the disambiguation page and it was red, so I had to create a new redirect. If it wasn't going to go, it should have just not gone, but even though one letter was capitalized differently, it went, as it often does when I type in search terms without doing any capitalizing. It wasn't that hard to create a redirect, but why would it do that? Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:37, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I think I tried to fix this but wasn't successful. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:54, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if its just me, but the cattrees are not working anymore -->
....This is currently affecting hundreds of our Portals like --> Portal:Music of Australia and Portal:History of Canada..and let alone the Categories.. Moxy ( talk) 20:11, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Basically, a MediaWiki API client that will look something like the Wordpress Dashboard. If Wikipedia were to become an OpenID provider, then users could authenticate without ever supplying private info. If not web-based, I'd make this as a Mac OS X app. It'd be hosted at GitHub. Dogweather ( talk) 22:34, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there a transclusion limit?
See List of Biblical names - where after a while, transcludes become regular wikilinks, and no longer displays templates.
Would this be a bug or a "feature" ?
76.66.193.224 ( talk) 22:43, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand why there's security applied here (for reading one's watchlist rss feed). The watchlist doesn't seem to contain any private information. All the info in it is redundant, actually: It can be duplicated from a user's contributions page. (?) Dogweather ( talk) 02:08, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
The animated GIF at square wheel doesn't animate in the thumbnail within the article. Is this a bug or by design? (Firefox 3.6.3, Windows XP.) Comet Tuttle ( talk) 17:27, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
This thread appears to be the reason why scaling was turned on it was just before the one cited by Ost which I participated, as a latecomer in the original discussion. In short an editor complained that static gifs weren't resizing properly, so a developer turned scaling on.
Since the only gifs here are supposed to be animations, could a developer please turn GIF scaling off again? It was turned on to improve static gif viewing based on a user complaint and now has the unintended cost of disabling high resolution gifs. (I'm guessing this is why it was turned off in the first place, to facilitate larger gifs.) From what I see above this has affected more than one user. (PS for documents, the only static gif I could kinda sorta understand, why don't we encourage folks to upload 2 color tifs? Anything else could be converted to a svg or at worst a png.) Anynobody( ?) 00:08, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I could do with some CSS help at Template talk:Br separated entries#LI markup, please - to use CSS to display a list without bullets. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
See {{ categorytree}} and e.g. Category:Music. The extension also seems to be broken at mw:Extension:CategoryTree. Bencherlite Talk 11:55, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
(indent) The 2nd post at mediazilla:23682 says "this feature has been disabled today". — AlexSm 15:03, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Wikimedia Commons views pages that have been changed since last visited in bold in the watchlist. Could Wikipedia do the same? ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐) 00:29, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Gary King/mark unviewed watchlist items.js'); // Mark Unviewed Watchlist Items
importScript('User:Gary King/mark edits after my own.js'); // Mark Edits After My Own
The toolserver checklinks functionality is unable to check all the links on Loggerhead sea turtle page. I can't work out if there is some issue with the article or if the checklinks is the issue. Could someone find out and advise how all the links on the article could be checked. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 01:13, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
{{reflist|refs=...}}
part as though it was a single citation template, this was done so you could include templates like {{lang|es|Foreign Title}}
. I've now implemented a workaround so sub-templates cannot contain a URL which fixes this problem. —
Dispenser 15:50, 28 May 2010 (UTC)Currently at WP:DERM we have a small section providing links to various data, but I wanted to know if someone would help us expand that section to provide more types of interesting data that people can use? Any help creating regularly and automatically generated types of project data would be great. Overall, I would love to provide readers with data that be be used to track the project growth/development. I am not sure if automatically generated and updated graphs are possible on wikipedia, but, if so, trending data with charts would be very cool. Perhaps someone could help create a "Dermatology task force bot" to perform tasks like this? Regardless, thank you all for your work on Wikipedia. --- kilbad ( talk) 17:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
How do I turn this off? I can understand that it's helpful for newbie editors, but it gets in my way far, far more frequently than it saves me trouble. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:01, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
There is extra space at Serpent Mound. What's wrong? Could someone fix it please or teach me. 174.3.121.27 ( talk) 03:39, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Further to Template talk:Hat#Search problem with hatting. – xeno talk 12:57, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay done. What this script does is it adds a link to the toolbox in the left-hand panel called "Expand templates". When clicked on, it expands all hidden templates, including {{ hidden}}, {{ hidden archive top}}, and their derivatives. After expanding the templates, the link in the toolbox can then be used to collapse all hidden templates again. Gary King ( talk) 15:49, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
While the site redesign looks cool and all, it doesn't work properly and obviously hasn't been tested very well. Whenever I use the citation tool in the editing window (click on the 'cite' button at the top), I can add one citation, and it works fine. But if I go to another page and try and use that citation tool again to add another citation, the little 'templates' drop-down appears BEHIND the text box where you make your edits! So I can't select a template! The ONLY way to fix this is to close the browser entirely and open it again and relogin. It does the exact same thing in Firefox and Chrome (don't ask me to even think about using IE). WTF? ( talk) 04:23, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
I have just created an AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Juan Antonio Rodriguez but something has gone wrong in the set-up. Can someone correct it and tell me what I've done wrong. Thanks Eldumpo ( talk) 09:15, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Japan_Self-Defense_Forces#Other_references
Why is there extra space at the end of the section? 174.3.121.27 ( talk) 09:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Article redirects are commonly used to enable article name variations to point towards the correct place. Is there an equivalent facility for categories? Folks at 137 ( talk) 09:40, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
{{
Category redirect}}
instead, and a bot will come along and move the articles into the target category.
Splash -
tk 10:34, 30 May 2010 (UTC)It appears that some CSS styles (such as the text containers on my userpage) ceased working this morning. Does anyone know what happened? — C M B J 19:58, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Re. help request, User_talk:Muslim_Editor#I_cant_see_preview
I've given some generic advice there, asking for more details and to try reset/other browser, and asking for more info.
Posting here in case someone recognizes the problem and can help at all. Best, Chzz ► 12:34, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
According to the SUL utility, my home wiki is "???", although it says it's enwiki_p at the bottom. However, if I check Download's stats, it says that his home wiki is enwiki. Is this a problem with my accounts, or is this the utility's problem? — MC10 ( T• C• GB• L) 01:19, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
<- Reply to Merlissimo: Does that mean I have to delete my username "MC10", or just the fact that the global account exists? If it's the latter, then I'm fine with that.
Reply to Duplode: enwiki should be your home wiki, as "Editor" isn't really a user right. (If it is, and does take precedence over edit count, correct me.) "Sysop" status does take priority over edit count, so if you were sysop on a wiki, that would be your home wiki. — MC10 ( T• C• GB• L) 17:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Consider the following scenario: I have a set of long and complex tables to create for a group of articles, which require very delicate and fragile formatting. The complications are large enough to make me want to abuse meta-templating for handling intricate tag and link patterns in order to preserve my sanity. Meta-templating, however, incurs in a number of annoyances, the one which concerns me most being the sheer ugliness of the multiple curly brackets syntax, which can easily cause pages to become unreadable and unmaintainable. Such difficulties led me to wonder if a bot could help by allowing me to sidestep templates and Wiki markup. The strategy I'm thinking about goes more or less like this:
I would like to ask for comments on whether this strategy or variations of it are feasible, as well as advice and recommendations on the best course of action to make it work. Additional considerations:
Thanks in advance, Duplode ( talk) 05:47, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. The new layout of the WP makes some of the css-based tools not work anymore. Especially, I miss the tools for fast closing of AfDs. As this has probably been discussed before, could someone please direct me to the instructions how to get them back working without switching back to the old layout every time? Thanks a lot. -- Tone 16:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Tone/monobook.js');
The ability to customize the cite link labels has been added to the Cite extension; this version is not yet installed. For more info on this feature, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (footnotes)/Cite link labels. And no, I have no idea if or when this will be installed. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:14, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I am an older and fairly skilled programmer but not very well skilled on systems administration. I would like to experiment with creating (non-editing) bots that could do statistical analysis of Wikipedia articles but so as to be respectful and non-disruptive to the project I would like to work off-line. Is there any sort of a Wikipedia turnkey setup (some might call this "Wikipedia-In-A-Box" in good humor) which contains (A) a running version of Wikipedia software and (B) a decent sampling (maybe a few thousand articles complete with talk pages and histories et cetera) of the Wikipedia database? My LINUX skills are minimal but I could install this on my webhost's server if such a package is available. Failing all that is there any kind of online sandbox (a dummy/duplicate Wikipedia) for the same purpose? 66.102.198.179 ( talk) 16:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
In light of the recent Grawp attacks, I was wondering... wouldn't it be easier to make it so that only the user who the userspace belongs to, admins, and bots can only move pages in one's userspaces across the user/user talk namespace? Unless I'm missing something, I see no good reason for anyone but those users I mentioned to move those pages. The Thing That Should Not Be ( talk) 18:15, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
At WikiProject Usability and Willage pump (proposals) I'm proposing the following sentence be added to the tagline of articles that are not protected or semiprotected: "You can edit this article." Followed by a button marked "EDIT". Is this technically doable? Anthony ( talk) 19:30, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I was thinking whatever process adds the "protected" or "semi-protected" text to an article page could hide the "You can edit this article" sentence and button. Anthony ( talk) 21:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Prior to revision delete if one pressed "enter" on the history talk page, the default action would be to compare the revisions selected - now the default action is to try and delete them. Can this be swapped? – xeno talk 18:33, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
I notice that retired users (even retired for years) still get messages about possible deletion. They're most likely not going to respond to it, so there should be a way to keep it away from the talk page (perhaps e-mail would be a better solution). mechamind 9 0 00:02, 30 May 2010 (UTC)