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<section>
tags around each section, which may require a separate set of updates in some scripts).$( '#bodyContent h2:first' ).text()
as a backup if $( '#bodyContent h2:first span.mw-headline' )
doesn't exist (
line 291). —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
13:09, 22 May 2024 (UTC)I've been testing my fork of Enterprisey's script – User:Andrybak/Archiver. Example edits: 1226884323, 1227442551, 1227443165, 1227444165. So far, the script doesn't seem to be affected. — andrybak ( talk) 19:21, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Vector classic typography is a gadget that forces all text to use sans-serif fonts, but even with the gadget enabled h2 headings on articles use a serif font. Incorrect behavior seen on both Firefox and Edge. TomatoFriesLAN ( talk) 18:51, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
I usually spend part of the day closing AFD discussions but none of the XFDcloser options are showing up. Not even the ability to relist. I've uninstalled every installation, unchecked the XFDcloser gadget, returned everything to normal but nothing works. Do I have to reboot my computer or something? Log out and log back in? This rarely happens so I'm not sure what happened today. I've posted a message on the XFDCloser talk page but it doesn't get much activity there. Liz Read! Talk! 23:26, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
What's the user script or gadget that puts a ¶ symbol next to headings, and when you click on it, it opens a modal with links to that section that you can copy/paste? It broke for me today and I want to fix it, but can't remember what it's called. Thanks. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 03:35, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
showCommentLinks()
(starting on
line 73) adds the links. The section of code starting at
line 84 finds headings in the HTML document structure previously generated by MediaWiki (which I believe is the same across skins). The section of code starting at
line 93 finds headings in the currently generated HTML document structure.
isaacl (
talk)
15:27, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
<h2>
). —
andrybak (
talk)
10:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
<h3>
, <h4>
, <h5>
, and <h6>
no longer get CSS class .mw-heading
. Hmm 🤔, is that intentional or a bug?target.append
instead of target.after
to handle pages with non-conventional ways of adding headings, like
Wikipedia:Community portal and
Main Pagefont-size: initial
to counteract font-size: small
of class .mw-editsection
, which we now have to deal with because of #2.I just noticed that section headers in articles are now using a serif typeface on both Vector and Vector legacy. Sorry I couldn't find information about this elsewhere but when and why was this change made? I do not like that it uses Oldstyle figures and would like to change it in my settings or .css page to be the same sans serif font used in other headers. Thanks! Reywas92 Talk 17:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
h1, h2, .mw-heading1, .mw-heading2 {
font-family: inherit !important;
}
I have been using User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver for some time, but I noticed the other day that the archiving links are no longer appearing for me. Anyone know why that might be? Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:06, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Very handy gadget for manual-archiving - User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver.js - but it isn't showing up today on any talk pages for me. Don't know why, the script is still sitting on my common.js page. Has it been disabled/usurped by a better gadget? Why isn't it showing up?... Help please & thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 14:48, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
For anyone who is as much of a non-adept at code & tech stuff around here and has Evad37's one-click oneclick one click archive script installed, and wants the same functionality, do the following:
It would appear that these recent changes have broken Evad37's WP:Highlight duplicate links script in Vector 2010, which now no longer distinguishes between repeated links in the lead section and repeated links in the article body. ‑‑ Neveselbert ( talk · contribs · email) 18:20, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
if (this.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'h2') {
if ( $(this).is('h2, .mw-heading2') ) {
Real life has kept me away for the better part of a fortnight; I really shouldn't be taking the time to write this...
I have a script User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js that is a tweaked copy of User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js. Some of those tweaks were my own to turn down the glare of the red error messages that Ucucha's script produced. At some point someone asked me for further tweaks. What I know about javascript can be put in a thimble so I had to rely on the expertise of other more javascript fluent editors.
My script may have become broken because of the
mw:Heading HTML changes. I suspect that the broken code is at
lines 46–48. The code is supposed to make three separate lists of references found in each of an article's §External links, §Further reading, and §Publications sections. The purpose of that is to suppress the error messaging that would occur if any reference in those sections duplicates or can be linked from a short-form reference ({{
sfn}}
and the like).
With my script installed for example, this version of Rudolf Roessler ( permalink) shows Harv error: linked from CITEREF... for every reference in ( §Bibliography (permalink)). Those were 'fixed' by renaming §Publications to §Works ( diff).
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to show me how to fix the issue? Because I'm not really here for the time being, a post on my talk page will find me via an email notification from MediaWiki.
Thank you.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 17:05, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
.mw-heading2
to the selectors in those 3 lines, like this: var further_reading = $content.find('#Further_reading').parent().nextUntil('h2, .mw-heading2').find('.citation').get(); // get all cites inside a Further reading section
var external_links = $content.find('#External_links').parent().nextUntil('h2, .mw-heading2').find('.citation').get(); // get all cites inside a External links section
var publications = $content.find('#Publications').parent().nextUntil('h2, .mw-heading2').find('.citation').get(); // get all cites inside a Publications section
Each day I download my watchlist page, filter it for the "mw-changeslist-watchedunseen" tag, open the histories for the unseen pages; I have scripts for these steps. But then, on each of these history pages, I have to click by hand to get the diffs from the last "seen" version to the current version. Is there a more automatic way to get those diffs? (The links I want are in the mail notices, if I choose to receive them, but again that's a couple of clicks for each.) —Tamfang ( talk) 21:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
curl
the history pages and then examine these for the last unseen version; but I'd rather use an existing script native to WP, if possible!Here's an idea: a toggle in Preferences to allow Watchlist to link diffs from last seen in place of last diff. —Tamfang ( talk) 05:12, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Is there a prohibition for newer users from being able to email another user? I'm trying to assist a newer wiki user (autoconfirmed, but not yet extended confirmed) who can email some users but not someone who is blocked. I can email blocked users, though. There is nothing in WP:Emailing users describing restrictions. So I'm wondering if the newer user is [undocumented] unable to email a temporarily blocked user. Any insights? ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 21:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
(If this is a known feature, not a bug, can someone please add it to the documentation?) ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 21:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
FYI, I don't think it is the same user story, but phab:T361481 appears to be at least closely related. — xaosflux Talk 15:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
xaosflux: In that report the user wasn't yet autoconfirmed (they only had one edit), and it's not the same user as I'm working with. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 17:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
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This started a few days ago I think. My browser (Opera on iPhone, latest version as far as I know) is telling me (I think) that the signed certificates for Wikipedia pages are invalid? The 'https' in the URL is red with a line through it and a red warning sign. When this started I got redirected to a different page, telling me that the URL wasn't safe or something, and I had to click 'proceed anyway' a few times. I'm in the UK, in case that makes a difference. Thecolonpagesaretoocomplicated ( talk) 18:23, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
In Big Duck, I've got a mapframe in the infobox. There's a building icon on the map, but sometimes it shows up as a home icon. I've been noticing this for at least a few days and a few cycles of going back and forth, but now I've finally captured screen shots in both states. It's quasi-stable, but I can't pin down exactly what's going on. Right now, Special:Permalink/1231017752 has the home and Special:Permalink/1231002261 has the building. Viewing the pages in an incognito window makes no difference. Viewing them in a different browser (Firefox vs Chrome) makes no difference. Special:Purge doesn't change anything. Force reloading the browser window doesn't change anything. Clearing my browser cache doesn't change anything. I'm into serious WTF territory here, but it smells like some kind of cache botch at a lower level than what Special:Purge touches. Anybody have any ideas? RoySmith (talk) 00:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
mapframe-marker = building
to mapframe-marker = home
in
Big Duck then I get a different home icon
mapframe-marker
then I get a pin with no icon.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Good morning! I need a little assistance. Currently I created the page User:ToadetteEdit/styles.css for use in my userpage; however the content model is CSS and not sanitized CSS which is somewhat required to use TemplateStyles. Can someone change the content model to "sanitized-css"? Thank you! Toadette Edit! 09:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
If I do "What links here" for 2025 Formula One World Championship, the resulting list includes the redirect 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. However, if I select "Hide links", 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix is not listed. Does anyone know why? Is it because of the RfD template? DH85868993 ( talk) 10:04, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
#REDIRECT
must appear at the start of the first non-blank line. Even a HTML comment <!--...-->
on that blank line will break it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
15:47, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Hello, ran into an issue at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Help creating a redirect where when viewing Muñoa’s Pampas cat and Draft:Muñoa’s Pampas cat I do not see MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-curly-quote. This occurs both logged in and logged out, so I thought it worth raising here. Best, CMD ( talk) 11:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
action=edit&redlink=1
. I thought that's only supposed to happen if the page exists but I may be wrong.
Draft:Bingus cat exists so it produces the link
/info/en/?search=Draft:Bingus_cat as expected. If it had been a red link then it would have produced
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft:Bingus_cat&action=edit&redlink=1 which as expected redirects to
/info/en/?search=Draft:Bingus_cat.
Draft:Muñoa's Pampas cat has an allowed straight quote instead of a curly quote and produces
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft:Mu%C3%B1oa%27s_Pampas_cat&action=edit&redlink=1 which doesn't redirect. So it appears the system is: redlink=1
on an edit link to a blacklisted title you cannot create will cause a redirect to a non-edit page. I don't know whether this is intentional or a bug. It also happens for more normal entries at
MediaWiki:Titleblacklist like
Draft:Epic fail which isn't coded to display a custom MediaWiki message.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)action=edit
but no redlink=1
, and this displays
MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-curly-quote without redirecting.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Hi everyone, for the past year, the Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on dark mode. This work is part of the Accessibility for Reading initiative that introduces changes to the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins. It improves readability, and allows everyone, both logged-out and logged-in users, to customize reading-focused settings.
Since early this year, dark mode has been available as a beta feature on both the mobile and the desktop website. We have been collaborating with template editors and other technical contributors to prepare wikis for this feature. This work included fixing templates and ensuring that many pages can appear with dark mode without any accessibility issues. We would like to express immense gratitude to everyone involved in this. Because so much has been done, over the next three weeks, we will be releasing the feature to all Wikipedias!
Deployment configuration and timeline
How to turn on dark mode
The feature will appear in the Appearance menu alongside the options for text and width. Depending on compatibility and technical architecture, some pages might not be available in dark mode. For these pages, a notice will appear in the menu providing more information.
How to make dark mode even better!
If you would like to help to make more pages dark-mode friendly, go to our previous message and see the section "What we would like you to do (template editors, interface admins, technical editors)".
Thank you everyone. We're looking forward to your questions, opinions, and comments! SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 12:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Just a note that there will still be LOTS of pages and templates etc that will still have some sort of problem in dark mode. We simply have a lot of content that never assumed something like dark mode would exist (and even though multiple gadgets for dark mode have existed over the years, many of these problems were never solved in those years either). While those who can make these fixes will likely be happy to help, I expect a bit of a torrent of requests on this page in the first days, so some patience might be required to fix all issues that people will find — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 14:22, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
class="mw-no-invert"
inside the offending tag like <span class="mw-no-invert">
. Apologies if this is widely known and feels condescending.
Folly Mox (
talk)
10:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC) edited 14:49, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
On Talk:Said Nursî something has gone wrong with the archiving bot: only two archives exist for the page, Archive 1 and Archive 7. No archives between them exist, which means the list of archives at the top of the page does not show the most recent archive. Meluiel ( talk) 18:32, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
An LTA seems to have discovered a loophole to WP:SALTING as in the following example:
Am I missing something or this indeed a way to overcome salting? And is there a way to counter it?
PS: As this question raises obvious WP:BEANS concerns, any admin is welcome to revdel it and point me to a better venue to raise the issue. Abecedare ( talk) 23:02, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Hola mis amigos. I don't know if it is coded in User:Dr. Blofeld/monobook.js or another one but I have an A-Z article browser at the top of pages with arrows. The problem is it is inconsistent, I'll click a few pages and the alpha order navigation stops. Can somebody tell me how to fix it? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:43, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by RoySmith ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
In this edit at a WT:MOS discussion about section anchors, User:Gawaon asked:
is there some way to find all broken section anchors pointing to some article?
and I thought that this question might get better responses here.
To start with, Gawaon, could you please define what you mean by a broken section anchor, starting with anchor? The term anchor is overloaded and can mean either the starting point or the ending point of a link. Most typically at Wikipedia it means the endpoint, but given you said "pointing to some article" you must mean the starting point, better known as a section link; is that what we are talking about?
Secondly, what do you mean by broken—are we talking about syntax errors or other noncompliant link formats or characters, or do you mean a section link where the section identifier ( URI fragment) does not match the name of any section at the destination page; or something else? In the former case, it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with a regex that would match malformed anchors, and maybe after creating one you could then use AWB or possibly an advanced search to find them (if alternation is not required, which it probably is). If you mean the latter case (no matching section name), you might need a user script of some sort.
I assume you have seen something before that prompted your question, and it would be good to have some concrete examples that could be looked at. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 02:42, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
pagelinks
table. See
T18561 for the request for the feature.
Anomie
⚔
11:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
A bot is required for another language Wikipedia section to correct spelling in articles. Who can I contact? With respect. Smpad ( talk) 08:49, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
FYI to anyone editing any George Washington connected articles. This resource is probably one of the ultimate reference sources for Washington facts about dates etc. It has his papers plus various articles about the man.
I already posted about this at the GW main article because I ran into an URL warning when I tried to access a reference using the old URL. Don't know if a script for correcting the outdated URL is necessary or even possible, I just wanted people to know. Shearonink ( talk) 14:04, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
I was wondering, does there exist any way to quickly find pages with broken templates? This often happens with bracket imbalances, for example this edit, which was missing a closing bracket for the wikilink. This results in the template not being transcluded, with the raw template code being displayed on the page instead of the template. However, I don't know of any ways to find such instances without (a) using Google to search for the template name showing up on a mainspace article, or (b) using Wikipedia's search of the template name and comparing it with the list of articles transcluding a template. I was hoping there would be an easier way. Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 21:16, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
I uploaded this PDF to Commons to add to the Moyle v. United States page, but the file won't display when added to the page, like so:
File:Moyle v United States 603 2024 leaked draft.pdf|thumb|Moyle v United States 603 2024 leaked draft
Looking at the file's page on Wikipedia, it lists the dimensions as 0 x 0 (with no pages), while on Commons it says 1,275 × 1,650 (and 22 pages).
Any help would be appreciated! Brad ( talk) 21:41, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Harder to read than black.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink,
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink:visited,
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink:active {
color: #72777d;
}
#72777d
to any
valid colour specification. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
23:30, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
color: #72777d !important;
if your skin at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering is Vector legacy.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
14:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
}
earlier in the page after visibility: hidden;
.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
22:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
[a]fter discussing with Design Systems team membersbut if you ask me, Gray600 was a better choice. Compare 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC) (Gray600) and 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC) (Gray500) with 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC) (the non codex color originally used). Gray600 would still achieve the desired style consistency since it's a Codex color while being closer to the original color and more accessible. I wish we could get some insight as to why the Design Systems team made this choice. Nickps ( talk) 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink {
pointer-events: none;
}
color: #000;
inside that block to change the grey text back to black. (By the way, at least on Monobook, the color of the link is below WCAG standards. I don't know how best to bring this up, but it felt worth mentioning somewhere.) -
Purplewowies (
talk)
04:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink {
pointer-events: none;
color: #000;
}
pointer-events: none;
interferes with cursor: text;
.
Nardog (
talk)
01:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
text-decoration:none
too, if you use the underline-links preference. (
Like so.) —
Cryptic
05:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)talk page quotes). I would recommend
color: inherit;
instead. That said, try out the feature first, you might end up liking it :)
Matma Rex
talk
00:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)pointer-events
property defined? It's not in
CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 4. --
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talk)
09:31, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Editor's Drafts are works in progress inside a W3C Group and are not required to have the consensus of the Group participants. These drafts have not received formal review and are not endorsed W3C.In other words: don't rely on it. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 17:28, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
These drafts MUST NOT be cited as W3C standards and may or may not become W3C standards.
Software MAY implement these drafts at their own risk. Implementation is neither discouraged nor encouraged but can contribute to proposals for further action on a specification.
I have the "Change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time" gadget activated, and it's worked fine overall. However, I've lately noticed that if I click the timestamp on a comment on any talk page (such as WT:RFA), I'll end up with a small textbox appearing on the top of my screen. I'm running Google Chrome version 126.0.6478.127. As far as I know this is the first time this has happened, but I can't find any recent changes to the gadget's script that would cause it to act like this. EggRoll97 ( talk) 07:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I was trying to fix the archive bot. I eventually got it archiving again with this version, however, now it is archiving to Archive 2 without filling up Archive 1. Prior to that edit, I am pretty sure the code was the same as the 2023 season (besides the year change) and it was working fine there last I checked. ✶Qux yz ✶ 13:12, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Please make the new "Login Help" page not require you to be already logged in to use it, as the current page does.
It would be nice if it did not require cookies. 108.194.49.226 ( talk) 18:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
If you're using the Script Installer gadget, i.e. you have this checkbox enabled:
please join the discussion at User talk:Enterprisey/script-installer § Should script-installer add userscript pages to the watchlist? — andrybak ( talk) 20:31, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Im trying to make the Wikipedia Media Viewer arrows bigger do you the code for it Flasherme7 ( talk) 03:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Hello! I usually log in at Commons and then, if I've understood correctly, I am supposed to be logged in to all Wikipedia projects automatically. If I then go to French Wikipedia, for example, I am indeed automatically logged in, the same goes for 5-6 other lanugaes, except, recently, here at English Wikipedia, where I now an asked to log in especially, and keep getting "wrong passoword" messages over are over. I can sneak in, though, like I did just now to be able to write this, by using my Watchlist at French Wikipedia, going to a few other language watchlists and then Engish, where I get in like in the good old days, no problem, provided I use that tedious method. Seems to me this should be technically impossible. Any suggestions? SergeWoodzing ( talk) 13:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed that the
CAT:UNB page is several days out of date. Normally users that use any of the {{
unblock}}
templates on their talk page have their request listed here, but as of today, the newest one is dated 25 June 2024. It also shows who last updated the user's talk page; I know of one where I was the last user who edited the page, but it displays as the last edit being from the user themselves (the edit prior to mine). It's not a cache issue either, already cleared mine and refreshed the page. Was a change implemented that might have caused something to break? --
Drm310 🍁 (
talk)
15:23, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
In
Tennis at the 1900 Summer Olympics#Events, {{flagIOCteam|GBR|1900 Summer}}<br>[[Laurence Doherty]]<br>[[Reginald Doherty]]
prompts me to create an already existing page
Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Help?
Qwerty284651 (
talk)
22:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
I have stumbled upon a weird issue with getting the red outline to appear around the mapped object in infoboxes. It apparently make a difference whether one uses "|coords=" or "|coordinates=". For example, see this edit that I just made to Scottish Parliament Building. This is also the case with other infobox templates, such as infobox park (and might well be the case for all such infoboxes). Note that the red outline appears with the field or parameter "coords", but not with "coordinates", which is, or course, what the vast majority of infoboxes currently use. Is there any way to get this error fixed at its source? Abductive ( reasoning) 05:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
|coordinates=
while |coords=
is an unknown parameter and ignored. If there is no or empty |coordinates=
then the infobox automatically pulls data from the Wikidata item
Scottish Parliament Building (Q2746031). That works on
Scottish Parliament Building where you get a map with a red outline even with {{Infobox building}}
without any parameters. If you set |coordinates=
to something non-empty then you override the Wikidata pull and may get a different result.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
|coordinates=
should always work in any infobox that would reasonably accept latitude and longitude data, per the massive project we did at
Wikipedia:Coordinates in infoboxes in 2016–2017 following a 2016 RFC to standardize on that parameter name. |coords=
will work if it was retained, but most other coordinate-related parameters in infoboxes were deprecated, converted, and removed. It was a fun project. If you find an infobox that does not support |coordinates=
, feel free to ping me or drop a note on my talk page, and I will fix it. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
17:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Whenever I attempt to save my settings (both on mobile and laptop) it instantly resets as soon as I leave the settings page, regardless of whether I have clicked save. Has anyone else experienced this? The main issue for me is the email settings and I am considering just removing my email address so I am not constantly receiving emails, however it does mean that if I forgot my password I will be locked out of my account. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Longhorncowfish ( talk) 20:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I don't know what happened. If I knew how to fix the template I would. I copied it from somewhere else.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
|}
characters, as they close the table.
isaacl (
talk)
22:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
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I'm not the most familiar with how the search on Wikipedia works, but I had a question with a recent query. This search (at the time of posting) says there should be 3,381 results, however it appears that only 3,380 pages show up in the results. I was wondering what might be causing this discrepancy (and which page is missing), I'm not sure if it has anything to do with how pages are indexed, if it's the result of page moves/deletions or something to do with cross-namespace redirects. I decided to sort the pages by creation date and return the results in increments of 5, with this page highlighting where the discrepancy occurs. I would be appreciative of any insight into this. Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 05:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Today's "there's always some template-autogenerated mess, every damn time" story at Special:WantedCategories is Category:Language articles with Linguasphere code. It's currently populated by sandbox content, not real stuff that would actually have to be filed in any maintenance queues, but once again it's being smuggled in by a module rather than being directly stated on the pages itself — so I can't just remove it, but I can't create it either as I can't determine whether it's actually needed for any real mainspace content or not.
So could somebody with more expertise in the language-codes domain than I've got either create it if it's desired, or make it go away if it's not? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 13:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
This is probably an existing problem, but nothing seems to be happening... Sangwe cooperative is an example. In desktop view it looks fine, but in mobile view I see:
I think this is something to do with a difference in the way special characters like é are handled. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:55, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
That did it.All that that 'did' was remove the error checking code so it did not 'fix' anything. Nearly a month later (12:14, 21 December 2023), you added my script ( this edit).
I can't quite figure out why it's not working. I thought I had corrected some coding issues on June 30th (and these issues dated back to January of 2023 - see Talk:Trail of Tears#Archiving issues for this talk page) but the bot still hasn't run on the page today and it's July 2nd... I must have overlooked something but can't figure out *what*. Please help and thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 16:59, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Please see MediaWiki_talk:Searchmenu-new#Remove_link_to_the_article_wizard. – Joe ( talk) 21:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
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tags around each section, which may require a separate set of updates in some scripts).$( '#bodyContent h2:first' ).text()
as a backup if $( '#bodyContent h2:first span.mw-headline' )
doesn't exist (
line 291). —
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13:09, 22 May 2024 (UTC)I've been testing my fork of Enterprisey's script – User:Andrybak/Archiver. Example edits: 1226884323, 1227442551, 1227443165, 1227444165. So far, the script doesn't seem to be affected. — andrybak ( talk) 19:21, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Vector classic typography is a gadget that forces all text to use sans-serif fonts, but even with the gadget enabled h2 headings on articles use a serif font. Incorrect behavior seen on both Firefox and Edge. TomatoFriesLAN ( talk) 18:51, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
I usually spend part of the day closing AFD discussions but none of the XFDcloser options are showing up. Not even the ability to relist. I've uninstalled every installation, unchecked the XFDcloser gadget, returned everything to normal but nothing works. Do I have to reboot my computer or something? Log out and log back in? This rarely happens so I'm not sure what happened today. I've posted a message on the XFDCloser talk page but it doesn't get much activity there. Liz Read! Talk! 23:26, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
What's the user script or gadget that puts a ¶ symbol next to headings, and when you click on it, it opens a modal with links to that section that you can copy/paste? It broke for me today and I want to fix it, but can't remember what it's called. Thanks. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 03:35, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
showCommentLinks()
(starting on
line 73) adds the links. The section of code starting at
line 84 finds headings in the HTML document structure previously generated by MediaWiki (which I believe is the same across skins). The section of code starting at
line 93 finds headings in the currently generated HTML document structure.
isaacl (
talk)
15:27, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
<h2>
). —
andrybak (
talk)
10:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
<h3>
, <h4>
, <h5>
, and <h6>
no longer get CSS class .mw-heading
. Hmm 🤔, is that intentional or a bug?target.append
instead of target.after
to handle pages with non-conventional ways of adding headings, like
Wikipedia:Community portal and
Main Pagefont-size: initial
to counteract font-size: small
of class .mw-editsection
, which we now have to deal with because of #2.I just noticed that section headers in articles are now using a serif typeface on both Vector and Vector legacy. Sorry I couldn't find information about this elsewhere but when and why was this change made? I do not like that it uses Oldstyle figures and would like to change it in my settings or .css page to be the same sans serif font used in other headers. Thanks! Reywas92 Talk 17:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
h1, h2, .mw-heading1, .mw-heading2 {
font-family: inherit !important;
}
I have been using User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver for some time, but I noticed the other day that the archiving links are no longer appearing for me. Anyone know why that might be? Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 18:06, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Very handy gadget for manual-archiving - User:Evad37/OneClickArchiver.js - but it isn't showing up today on any talk pages for me. Don't know why, the script is still sitting on my common.js page. Has it been disabled/usurped by a better gadget? Why isn't it showing up?... Help please & thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 14:48, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
For anyone who is as much of a non-adept at code & tech stuff around here and has Evad37's one-click oneclick one click archive script installed, and wants the same functionality, do the following:
It would appear that these recent changes have broken Evad37's WP:Highlight duplicate links script in Vector 2010, which now no longer distinguishes between repeated links in the lead section and repeated links in the article body. ‑‑ Neveselbert ( talk · contribs · email) 18:20, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
if (this.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'h2') {
if ( $(this).is('h2, .mw-heading2') ) {
Real life has kept me away for the better part of a fortnight; I really shouldn't be taking the time to write this...
I have a script User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js that is a tweaked copy of User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js. Some of those tweaks were my own to turn down the glare of the red error messages that Ucucha's script produced. At some point someone asked me for further tweaks. What I know about javascript can be put in a thimble so I had to rely on the expertise of other more javascript fluent editors.
My script may have become broken because of the
mw:Heading HTML changes. I suspect that the broken code is at
lines 46–48. The code is supposed to make three separate lists of references found in each of an article's §External links, §Further reading, and §Publications sections. The purpose of that is to suppress the error messaging that would occur if any reference in those sections duplicates or can be linked from a short-form reference ({{
sfn}}
and the like).
With my script installed for example, this version of Rudolf Roessler ( permalink) shows Harv error: linked from CITEREF... for every reference in ( §Bibliography (permalink)). Those were 'fixed' by renaming §Publications to §Works ( diff).
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to show me how to fix the issue? Because I'm not really here for the time being, a post on my talk page will find me via an email notification from MediaWiki.
Thank you.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 17:05, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
.mw-heading2
to the selectors in those 3 lines, like this: var further_reading = $content.find('#Further_reading').parent().nextUntil('h2, .mw-heading2').find('.citation').get(); // get all cites inside a Further reading section
var external_links = $content.find('#External_links').parent().nextUntil('h2, .mw-heading2').find('.citation').get(); // get all cites inside a External links section
var publications = $content.find('#Publications').parent().nextUntil('h2, .mw-heading2').find('.citation').get(); // get all cites inside a Publications section
Each day I download my watchlist page, filter it for the "mw-changeslist-watchedunseen" tag, open the histories for the unseen pages; I have scripts for these steps. But then, on each of these history pages, I have to click by hand to get the diffs from the last "seen" version to the current version. Is there a more automatic way to get those diffs? (The links I want are in the mail notices, if I choose to receive them, but again that's a couple of clicks for each.) —Tamfang ( talk) 21:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
curl
the history pages and then examine these for the last unseen version; but I'd rather use an existing script native to WP, if possible!Here's an idea: a toggle in Preferences to allow Watchlist to link diffs from last seen in place of last diff. —Tamfang ( talk) 05:12, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Is there a prohibition for newer users from being able to email another user? I'm trying to assist a newer wiki user (autoconfirmed, but not yet extended confirmed) who can email some users but not someone who is blocked. I can email blocked users, though. There is nothing in WP:Emailing users describing restrictions. So I'm wondering if the newer user is [undocumented] unable to email a temporarily blocked user. Any insights? ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 21:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
(If this is a known feature, not a bug, can someone please add it to the documentation?) ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 21:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
FYI, I don't think it is the same user story, but phab:T361481 appears to be at least closely related. — xaosflux Talk 15:54, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
xaosflux: In that report the user wasn't yet autoconfirmed (they only had one edit), and it's not the same user as I'm working with. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 17:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
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This started a few days ago I think. My browser (Opera on iPhone, latest version as far as I know) is telling me (I think) that the signed certificates for Wikipedia pages are invalid? The 'https' in the URL is red with a line through it and a red warning sign. When this started I got redirected to a different page, telling me that the URL wasn't safe or something, and I had to click 'proceed anyway' a few times. I'm in the UK, in case that makes a difference. Thecolonpagesaretoocomplicated ( talk) 18:23, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
In Big Duck, I've got a mapframe in the infobox. There's a building icon on the map, but sometimes it shows up as a home icon. I've been noticing this for at least a few days and a few cycles of going back and forth, but now I've finally captured screen shots in both states. It's quasi-stable, but I can't pin down exactly what's going on. Right now, Special:Permalink/1231017752 has the home and Special:Permalink/1231002261 has the building. Viewing the pages in an incognito window makes no difference. Viewing them in a different browser (Firefox vs Chrome) makes no difference. Special:Purge doesn't change anything. Force reloading the browser window doesn't change anything. Clearing my browser cache doesn't change anything. I'm into serious WTF territory here, but it smells like some kind of cache botch at a lower level than what Special:Purge touches. Anybody have any ideas? RoySmith (talk) 00:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
mapframe-marker = building
to mapframe-marker = home
in
Big Duck then I get a different home icon
mapframe-marker
then I get a pin with no icon.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Good morning! I need a little assistance. Currently I created the page User:ToadetteEdit/styles.css for use in my userpage; however the content model is CSS and not sanitized CSS which is somewhat required to use TemplateStyles. Can someone change the content model to "sanitized-css"? Thank you! Toadette Edit! 09:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
If I do "What links here" for 2025 Formula One World Championship, the resulting list includes the redirect 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. However, if I select "Hide links", 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix is not listed. Does anyone know why? Is it because of the RfD template? DH85868993 ( talk) 10:04, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
#REDIRECT
must appear at the start of the first non-blank line. Even a HTML comment <!--...-->
on that blank line will break it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
15:47, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Hello, ran into an issue at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Help creating a redirect where when viewing Muñoa’s Pampas cat and Draft:Muñoa’s Pampas cat I do not see MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-curly-quote. This occurs both logged in and logged out, so I thought it worth raising here. Best, CMD ( talk) 11:27, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
action=edit&redlink=1
. I thought that's only supposed to happen if the page exists but I may be wrong.
Draft:Bingus cat exists so it produces the link
/info/en/?search=Draft:Bingus_cat as expected. If it had been a red link then it would have produced
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft:Bingus_cat&action=edit&redlink=1 which as expected redirects to
/info/en/?search=Draft:Bingus_cat.
Draft:Muñoa's Pampas cat has an allowed straight quote instead of a curly quote and produces
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Draft:Mu%C3%B1oa%27s_Pampas_cat&action=edit&redlink=1 which doesn't redirect. So it appears the system is: redlink=1
on an edit link to a blacklisted title you cannot create will cause a redirect to a non-edit page. I don't know whether this is intentional or a bug. It also happens for more normal entries at
MediaWiki:Titleblacklist like
Draft:Epic fail which isn't coded to display a custom MediaWiki message.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:24, 26 June 2024 (UTC)action=edit
but no redlink=1
, and this displays
MediaWiki:Titleblacklist-custom-curly-quote without redirecting.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
12:42, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Hi everyone, for the past year, the Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on dark mode. This work is part of the Accessibility for Reading initiative that introduces changes to the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins. It improves readability, and allows everyone, both logged-out and logged-in users, to customize reading-focused settings.
Since early this year, dark mode has been available as a beta feature on both the mobile and the desktop website. We have been collaborating with template editors and other technical contributors to prepare wikis for this feature. This work included fixing templates and ensuring that many pages can appear with dark mode without any accessibility issues. We would like to express immense gratitude to everyone involved in this. Because so much has been done, over the next three weeks, we will be releasing the feature to all Wikipedias!
Deployment configuration and timeline
How to turn on dark mode
The feature will appear in the Appearance menu alongside the options for text and width. Depending on compatibility and technical architecture, some pages might not be available in dark mode. For these pages, a notice will appear in the menu providing more information.
How to make dark mode even better!
If you would like to help to make more pages dark-mode friendly, go to our previous message and see the section "What we would like you to do (template editors, interface admins, technical editors)".
Thank you everyone. We're looking forward to your questions, opinions, and comments! SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 12:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Just a note that there will still be LOTS of pages and templates etc that will still have some sort of problem in dark mode. We simply have a lot of content that never assumed something like dark mode would exist (and even though multiple gadgets for dark mode have existed over the years, many of these problems were never solved in those years either). While those who can make these fixes will likely be happy to help, I expect a bit of a torrent of requests on this page in the first days, so some patience might be required to fix all issues that people will find — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 14:22, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
class="mw-no-invert"
inside the offending tag like <span class="mw-no-invert">
. Apologies if this is widely known and feels condescending.
Folly Mox (
talk)
10:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC) edited 14:49, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
On Talk:Said Nursî something has gone wrong with the archiving bot: only two archives exist for the page, Archive 1 and Archive 7. No archives between them exist, which means the list of archives at the top of the page does not show the most recent archive. Meluiel ( talk) 18:32, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
An LTA seems to have discovered a loophole to WP:SALTING as in the following example:
Am I missing something or this indeed a way to overcome salting? And is there a way to counter it?
PS: As this question raises obvious WP:BEANS concerns, any admin is welcome to revdel it and point me to a better venue to raise the issue. Abecedare ( talk) 23:02, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Hola mis amigos. I don't know if it is coded in User:Dr. Blofeld/monobook.js or another one but I have an A-Z article browser at the top of pages with arrows. The problem is it is inconsistent, I'll click a few pages and the alpha order navigation stops. Can somebody tell me how to fix it? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:43, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by RoySmith ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
In this edit at a WT:MOS discussion about section anchors, User:Gawaon asked:
is there some way to find all broken section anchors pointing to some article?
and I thought that this question might get better responses here.
To start with, Gawaon, could you please define what you mean by a broken section anchor, starting with anchor? The term anchor is overloaded and can mean either the starting point or the ending point of a link. Most typically at Wikipedia it means the endpoint, but given you said "pointing to some article" you must mean the starting point, better known as a section link; is that what we are talking about?
Secondly, what do you mean by broken—are we talking about syntax errors or other noncompliant link formats or characters, or do you mean a section link where the section identifier ( URI fragment) does not match the name of any section at the destination page; or something else? In the former case, it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with a regex that would match malformed anchors, and maybe after creating one you could then use AWB or possibly an advanced search to find them (if alternation is not required, which it probably is). If you mean the latter case (no matching section name), you might need a user script of some sort.
I assume you have seen something before that prompted your question, and it would be good to have some concrete examples that could be looked at. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 02:42, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
pagelinks
table. See
T18561 for the request for the feature.
Anomie
⚔
11:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
A bot is required for another language Wikipedia section to correct spelling in articles. Who can I contact? With respect. Smpad ( talk) 08:49, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
FYI to anyone editing any George Washington connected articles. This resource is probably one of the ultimate reference sources for Washington facts about dates etc. It has his papers plus various articles about the man.
I already posted about this at the GW main article because I ran into an URL warning when I tried to access a reference using the old URL. Don't know if a script for correcting the outdated URL is necessary or even possible, I just wanted people to know. Shearonink ( talk) 14:04, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
I was wondering, does there exist any way to quickly find pages with broken templates? This often happens with bracket imbalances, for example this edit, which was missing a closing bracket for the wikilink. This results in the template not being transcluded, with the raw template code being displayed on the page instead of the template. However, I don't know of any ways to find such instances without (a) using Google to search for the template name showing up on a mainspace article, or (b) using Wikipedia's search of the template name and comparing it with the list of articles transcluding a template. I was hoping there would be an easier way. Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 21:16, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
I uploaded this PDF to Commons to add to the Moyle v. United States page, but the file won't display when added to the page, like so:
File:Moyle v United States 603 2024 leaked draft.pdf|thumb|Moyle v United States 603 2024 leaked draft
Looking at the file's page on Wikipedia, it lists the dimensions as 0 x 0 (with no pages), while on Commons it says 1,275 × 1,650 (and 22 pages).
Any help would be appreciated! Brad ( talk) 21:41, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Harder to read than black.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink,
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink:visited,
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink:active {
color: #72777d;
}
#72777d
to any
valid colour specification. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
23:30, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
color: #72777d !important;
if your skin at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering is Vector legacy.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
14:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
}
earlier in the page after visibility: hidden;
.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
22:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
[a]fter discussing with Design Systems team membersbut if you ask me, Gray600 was a better choice. Compare 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC) (Gray600) and 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC) (Gray500) with 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC) (the non codex color originally used). Gray600 would still achieve the desired style consistency since it's a Codex color while being closer to the original color and more accessible. I wish we could get some insight as to why the Design Systems team made this choice. Nickps ( talk) 18:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink {
pointer-events: none;
}
color: #000;
inside that block to change the grey text back to black. (By the way, at least on Monobook, the color of the link is below WCAG standards. I don't know how best to bring this up, but it felt worth mentioning somewhere.) -
Purplewowies (
talk)
04:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
.ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink {
pointer-events: none;
color: #000;
}
pointer-events: none;
interferes with cursor: text;
.
Nardog (
talk)
01:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
text-decoration:none
too, if you use the underline-links preference. (
Like so.) —
Cryptic
05:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)talk page quotes). I would recommend
color: inherit;
instead. That said, try out the feature first, you might end up liking it :)
Matma Rex
talk
00:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)pointer-events
property defined? It's not in
CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 4. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
09:31, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Editor's Drafts are works in progress inside a W3C Group and are not required to have the consensus of the Group participants. These drafts have not received formal review and are not endorsed W3C.In other words: don't rely on it. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 17:28, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
These drafts MUST NOT be cited as W3C standards and may or may not become W3C standards.
Software MAY implement these drafts at their own risk. Implementation is neither discouraged nor encouraged but can contribute to proposals for further action on a specification.
I have the "Change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time" gadget activated, and it's worked fine overall. However, I've lately noticed that if I click the timestamp on a comment on any talk page (such as WT:RFA), I'll end up with a small textbox appearing on the top of my screen. I'm running Google Chrome version 126.0.6478.127. As far as I know this is the first time this has happened, but I can't find any recent changes to the gadget's script that would cause it to act like this. EggRoll97 ( talk) 07:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I was trying to fix the archive bot. I eventually got it archiving again with this version, however, now it is archiving to Archive 2 without filling up Archive 1. Prior to that edit, I am pretty sure the code was the same as the 2023 season (besides the year change) and it was working fine there last I checked. ✶Qux yz ✶ 13:12, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Please make the new "Login Help" page not require you to be already logged in to use it, as the current page does.
It would be nice if it did not require cookies. 108.194.49.226 ( talk) 18:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
If you're using the Script Installer gadget, i.e. you have this checkbox enabled:
please join the discussion at User talk:Enterprisey/script-installer § Should script-installer add userscript pages to the watchlist? — andrybak ( talk) 20:31, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Im trying to make the Wikipedia Media Viewer arrows bigger do you the code for it Flasherme7 ( talk) 03:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Hello! I usually log in at Commons and then, if I've understood correctly, I am supposed to be logged in to all Wikipedia projects automatically. If I then go to French Wikipedia, for example, I am indeed automatically logged in, the same goes for 5-6 other lanugaes, except, recently, here at English Wikipedia, where I now an asked to log in especially, and keep getting "wrong passoword" messages over are over. I can sneak in, though, like I did just now to be able to write this, by using my Watchlist at French Wikipedia, going to a few other language watchlists and then Engish, where I get in like in the good old days, no problem, provided I use that tedious method. Seems to me this should be technically impossible. Any suggestions? SergeWoodzing ( talk) 13:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed that the
CAT:UNB page is several days out of date. Normally users that use any of the {{
unblock}}
templates on their talk page have their request listed here, but as of today, the newest one is dated 25 June 2024. It also shows who last updated the user's talk page; I know of one where I was the last user who edited the page, but it displays as the last edit being from the user themselves (the edit prior to mine). It's not a cache issue either, already cleared mine and refreshed the page. Was a change implemented that might have caused something to break? --
Drm310 🍁 (
talk)
15:23, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
In
Tennis at the 1900 Summer Olympics#Events, {{flagIOCteam|GBR|1900 Summer}}<br>[[Laurence Doherty]]<br>[[Reginald Doherty]]
prompts me to create an already existing page
Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Help?
Qwerty284651 (
talk)
22:37, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
I have stumbled upon a weird issue with getting the red outline to appear around the mapped object in infoboxes. It apparently make a difference whether one uses "|coords=" or "|coordinates=". For example, see this edit that I just made to Scottish Parliament Building. This is also the case with other infobox templates, such as infobox park (and might well be the case for all such infoboxes). Note that the red outline appears with the field or parameter "coords", but not with "coordinates", which is, or course, what the vast majority of infoboxes currently use. Is there any way to get this error fixed at its source? Abductive ( reasoning) 05:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
|coordinates=
while |coords=
is an unknown parameter and ignored. If there is no or empty |coordinates=
then the infobox automatically pulls data from the Wikidata item
Scottish Parliament Building (Q2746031). That works on
Scottish Parliament Building where you get a map with a red outline even with {{Infobox building}}
without any parameters. If you set |coordinates=
to something non-empty then you override the Wikidata pull and may get a different result.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
|coordinates=
should always work in any infobox that would reasonably accept latitude and longitude data, per the massive project we did at
Wikipedia:Coordinates in infoboxes in 2016–2017 following a 2016 RFC to standardize on that parameter name. |coords=
will work if it was retained, but most other coordinate-related parameters in infoboxes were deprecated, converted, and removed. It was a fun project. If you find an infobox that does not support |coordinates=
, feel free to ping me or drop a note on my talk page, and I will fix it. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
17:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Whenever I attempt to save my settings (both on mobile and laptop) it instantly resets as soon as I leave the settings page, regardless of whether I have clicked save. Has anyone else experienced this? The main issue for me is the email settings and I am considering just removing my email address so I am not constantly receiving emails, however it does mean that if I forgot my password I will be locked out of my account. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Longhorncowfish ( talk) 20:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I don't know what happened. If I knew how to fix the template I would. I copied it from somewhere else.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:26, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
|}
characters, as they close the table.
isaacl (
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22:40, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:56, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I'm not the most familiar with how the search on Wikipedia works, but I had a question with a recent query. This search (at the time of posting) says there should be 3,381 results, however it appears that only 3,380 pages show up in the results. I was wondering what might be causing this discrepancy (and which page is missing), I'm not sure if it has anything to do with how pages are indexed, if it's the result of page moves/deletions or something to do with cross-namespace redirects. I decided to sort the pages by creation date and return the results in increments of 5, with this page highlighting where the discrepancy occurs. I would be appreciative of any insight into this. Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 05:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Today's "there's always some template-autogenerated mess, every damn time" story at Special:WantedCategories is Category:Language articles with Linguasphere code. It's currently populated by sandbox content, not real stuff that would actually have to be filed in any maintenance queues, but once again it's being smuggled in by a module rather than being directly stated on the pages itself — so I can't just remove it, but I can't create it either as I can't determine whether it's actually needed for any real mainspace content or not.
So could somebody with more expertise in the language-codes domain than I've got either create it if it's desired, or make it go away if it's not? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 13:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
This is probably an existing problem, but nothing seems to be happening... Sangwe cooperative is an example. In desktop view it looks fine, but in mobile view I see:
I think this is something to do with a difference in the way special characters like é are handled. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:55, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
That did it.All that that 'did' was remove the error checking code so it did not 'fix' anything. Nearly a month later (12:14, 21 December 2023), you added my script ( this edit).
I can't quite figure out why it's not working. I thought I had corrected some coding issues on June 30th (and these issues dated back to January of 2023 - see Talk:Trail of Tears#Archiving issues for this talk page) but the bot still hasn't run on the page today and it's July 2nd... I must have overlooked something but can't figure out *what*. Please help and thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 16:59, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Please see MediaWiki_talk:Searchmenu-new#Remove_link_to_the_article_wizard. – Joe ( talk) 21:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)