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If you go to ?action=info
for any page, you will see a table with various statistics, including two lines about how many people are watching the page, e.g.:
Number of page watchers | 375 |
Number of page watchers who visited recent edits | 12 |
For example, /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)?action=info for this page.
I am finding that the ratio shown here is not at all unusual for older articles, but the first line gets more attention from editors. They think "hundreds of editors are watching this page", when they should be thinking "almost nobody is watching this page". Is there a way we could remove/hide the irrelevant number from this info page? Or should we just change MediaWiki:Pageinfo-watchers to something like "Total number of watchlists (includes inactive editors)"? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:53, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
#mw-pageinfo-watchers { display: none; }
in one of the .css files. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 22:43, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Is there a way we could remove/hide the irrelevant number from this info page?I would not support removing this. Presenting both numbers, and letting the user decide which they want or need, seems like an acceptable status quo here. The less than 30 thing for non admins is for security reasons. Admins can see both numbers at all times. The linked phab ticket mentions changing the second message to mention 30 days explicitly. I could get behind a change like that. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 02:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Am i missing something, or is it impossible to automatically cite urls from the talk page visual editor? Yes, you can use the source editor, but is there a specfic reason why this is? Is there any way to get a more featured editor on the talk page visual editor? MarkiPoli ( talk) 12:14, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
ctrl/cmd + ?
to see all the options here. Or type \
if you're in visual mode for a nifty command-palette...)
DLynch (WMF) (
talk) 16:04, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
AFD Stats not updating on the individual grid templates — Maile ( talk) 18:23, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
resolve[d] once and for al[l]. There will be spurts of replag lasting a few hours to a day from time to time, for the foreseeable future. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:10, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Replication lag
The database on which this query was executed has a synchronization delay with the wiki. This can be caused by maintenance or incident on database, and should be resolved soon. The modifications that was made in last 20 hours on the wiki are not taken into account in results bellow.
Just bellowing here to make sure that someone in charge is aware of this, and working to resolve it. Every time I've checked in for the past several hours, the lag has grown longer; there is no sign as yet that it's started to get shorter again. I searched for a Phabricator, and couldn't find any. Would like to have some idea of the meaning of "soon" in this case. wbm1058 ( talk) 14:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
FWIW, this is a data corruption issue. Last time it happened on sanitarium hosts the whole system went down for a week. I'm trying to figure out if I can avoid re-cloning the whole host (which would take a lot of time, potentially weeks) and only reclone the corrupted table but there is no easy way to do this AFAICS." wbm1058 ( talk) 10:51, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Does anyone know what "reviewed an image suggestion" means and its use? See this user's log for an example. S0091 ( talk) 20:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Your answers improve future suggestions.but for all I would know, that just means I'm training an AI or something. There was no indication that by clicking "Submit", this log entry would be created, and my name would be publicly recorded. This feature needs to be disabled. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 23:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
that I've seen pop up recently, like the following:
They don't quite make sense to me and don't seem to be telling me anything useful about the edit. Anyone care to explain? Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 19:38, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
It has been 1 year since Graphs were disabled due to security vulnerabilities in the extension. The update plan as of now is to completely replace the Graph extension, because the other solutions to upgrade it were found to not be feasible. This process has only just started to gather the members necessary and will not start in earnest until July, per the update posted. This extension will then obviously take time to develop. In the meantime, there's 18k articles, per Category:Pages with disabled graphs, with data that is completely inaccessible unless you view the page source. We could either put the data in a table so at least the data is there, in an expando if there are many rows. We could even have a link to an external graphing service that graphs it visually on a separate page (Quickchart.io being an example that works simply, simply putting the data in JSON format in the URL.). Thoughts? MarkiPoli ( talk) 15:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
6 weeks ago I did a deep dive for 1-2 days helping to debug, reproduce, identify the root case and help formulate a fix for the following issue. [1] This issue affects any user using webauthn aka 2FA security tokens across wikimedia. @ Reedy (WMF) was very responsive and back-ported a fix from another repository. The fix was committed March 5.
Could I ask your help getting more detail on what the next steps are to integrate and deploy the fix? Tonymetz 💬 20:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
cc: @ Novem Linguae Tonymetz 💬 20:35, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Agreed this is the wrong venue, but the fact that patches are as usual not getting reviewed in a timely fashion is ridiculous. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Patches are primarily deployed by volunteer developers not "the WMF".It might be more accurate to say that patches are auto-deployed by the weekly train for most repos. And a combination of volunteers and wmf do both the patch writing and the patch approvals. What's needed here is a patch approval (+2). Which can be a lot of brain power, because it involves wrapping your head around the ticket and the code, reviewing the patch code, and loading up the patch code in a localhost environment and testing it. But sadly, many repos are backlogged or do not have active maintainers or do not have any wmf team currently assigned to them. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 22:58, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Is there any way to make the cursor stop teleporting to the beginning of the line or paragraph if I press shift? Shadow311 ( talk) 00:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
i keep getting a Lua error everytime I try to put a picture, is there a way to solve this issue? thanks Cassopeia ...talk?... 18:37, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Portal image banner|Zinnia elegans with Bombus 01.JPG|...}}
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PrimeHunter (
talk) 19:24, 20 April 2024 (UTC) as a help in verification if needed
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WP:VERIFY states "..Readers must be able to check that any of the information within Wikipedia articles is not just made up. .."
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Idk if this is the right place to seek help in this respect, if not then please guide me where to make this request.
Bookku ( talk) 13:26, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
When I click on an IP address's contributions and click on the IP information window, it shows The IP information could not be retrieved.
even though it works on other wikis, such as the Simple English Wikipedia.
This issue can only affect users who use iPhones and not on computers, so is anybody who uses this beta feature experiencing this issue when using it on their iPhone (including me)? Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 03:34, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The IP information could not be retrieved.error on any kind of "generic" error, which doesn't have a defined message. This could suggest that the request has not been getting through to the servers. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 10:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The screenshot is here. About the IP addresses, this do not matter since the error applies to every IP addresses' contribution pages, and for safemode, the issue still persists. Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 22:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I've been using the standard tool for edit summary search, https://sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py but unfortunately it's not working correctly. For example this search ("timesofindia.indiatimes") returns zero results, even though I made 2,344 edits (eg. Special:Diff/1220101115/1220148337). Are there other similar tools? -- Green C 13:52, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I hope I'm posting this in the right place, I'm happy to repost elsewhere if it would be better. I want to integrate template:Party name with color into template:STV Election box candidate2. This has arisen in, for example, South (European Parliament constituency), where there's a microparty called The Irish People contesting. It's a non-notable organisation, but is registered, so has an entry on Module:Political party/T. It has a disambiguation to distinguish it from various newspapers collected under The Irish People. In tables that use template:Party name with color, its shortname is invoked. See, e.g., List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland#Parties with no elected representation. However, in the election results table at South (European Parliament constituency) or 2024 Kerry County Council election#Kenmare, the disambiguation is visible, because the STV candidate template only uses the shortname if the page actually exists. I think the best solution would be to invoke Party name with color itself in template:STV Election box candidate2, but I'm not sure how best to do that without breaking the code. Thanks for any insights! Iveagh Gardens ( talk) 17:32, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The minor edit button is very small and not very mobile or laptop trackpad friendly. Its too bothersome for me to actually use it. I do mark these edits as minor in the edit summary with the letter "m". Leaving "m" in the edit summary should tag the edit as a minor edit. This would encourage use of the minor edit button for minor edits and help declutter the watchlist (for those that filter minor edits from their watchlists). How easy would this be to from a technical standpoint? Schierbecker ( talk) 18:33, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
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I know I could iterate over the second array and append the values at the end of the first array, but I thought "hang on, there must be a closed function/method like Python's list.extend defined somewhere"... Am I right? Alexis Coutinho ( talk) ping me 20:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
table.concat
...
Alexis Coutinho (
talk)
ping me 22:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
table.insert
ing into table 1, or 2) doing it with indices.
Izno (
talk) 23:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
This isn't really a problem, per se, but I'm just curious if anyone has a similar thing going on. When I go to Template talk:Did you know (and only there; I've tried this on other talk pages of templates as well and all of the other namespaces work fine), my toolbox on the left side of my screen (I use vector legacy dark mode) turns white. I tried switching to light mode, and nothing happens. Is anyone experiencing something similar?
The image on the left is my screen in light mode, and the image on the right is my screen in dark mode. Rela tivity ⚡️ 00:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
importScript('User:Shubinator/DYKcheck.js')
in
User:Relativity/common.js. I haven't examined exactly why
User:Shubinator/DYKcheck.js has this effect but it only affects users with both that script and dark mode so it's not important when the sidebar is still readable.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 01:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
I got a revdel request for removal from page history of some relatively innocuous adolescent pranks from a couple of years ago. The requester is concerned that it could be found by search engines. I haven't been able to replicate it, and I seriously doubt that search engines care about history like that. In order to reassure the requester that they can quit worrying about it, can somebody clarify whether and to what extent article histories are or aren't indexed or considered by search engines? Acroterion (talk) 13:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi everyone, as announced in November, the Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on dark (sometimes also called night) mode. Now, we have released the feature for logged-in users of advanced mobile mode across all wikis for testing purposes. But don't worry, the new feature is not disruptive! (See the "known limitations" section below.) It's just important for us to work together with you before we release this feature to a wider audience. Our goals for the early rollout are to:
Go to the project page and the FAQ page to see more information about the basics of this project.
Known limitations of the initial release
What we would like you to do (the broad community)
If you have questions - ask us! Also, where appropriate, consider linking to the Recommendations for dark mode compatibility on Wikimedia wikis. We would like to emphasize that the recommendations may evolve. For this reason, we are not suggesting to create your local wiki copies of recommendations. At some point, the copy could become different from the original version.
What we would like you to do (template editors, interface admins, technical editors)
When most bugs are solved, we'll be able to make the dark mode available for readers on both desktop and mobile. To make this happen, we need to work together with you on reporting and solving the problems.
Thank you. We're looking forward to your opinions and comments! SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 15:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
USS Triton (SSRN-586) is currently showing as cascade-protected, claiming that it is transcluded on the main page and various related pages. While it is linked from Wikipedia:Main Page/Tomorrow, it does not appear to be transcluded anywhere (and pages that are just linked shouldn't be cascade-protected). Is this a known bug of some sort? :Jay8g [ V• T• E 00:25, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
What causes or is the source of URLs like these? (left side of diff)
192 pages. Looks like a conspiracy of Google and VE but cdn.ampproject.org is involved somehow also. -- Green C 02:21, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
I was fixing a few issues on Narendra Modi and noticed that under "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page" it has Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabha (what links here from the target shows the same thing [6]). But I can't find any mention of it in the source text. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested « @» ° ∆t° 17:16, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Infobox officeholder
| office2 = [[Leader of the House in Lok Sabha|Leader of the House, Lok Sabha]]
| deputy2 = anything
}}
{{
Linkless exists}}
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Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 20:09, 24 April 2024 (UTC)The
blocking IP addresses essay was linked from WP:AN recently (for reasons unrelated) and it had me thinking:
How will temporary accounts affect the potential blocking of sensitive IP addresses (i.e. IPs assigned to major government organizations and also 'may be a good idea to notify the committee' IPs like major corporations or ones with technical implications like WMF/WEduF IPs)? To quote that essay, it currently says "If you block an IP address in any of the following ranges, you are required to immediately notify the
Wikimedia Foundation Communications Committee."
Is the procedure here going to be that every admin is supposed to check the IP address of temporary accounts to see if it's sensitive when blocking? Or does it not matter too much?
... also, should I have made this in
WP:VPP? –
2804:F1...7D:5C91 (
talk) 22:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Someone please with more mental bandwidth than I have right now, take a look at Talk:Lucille Ball and fix it? Why isn't the bot creating and then archiving to a Page 2? (and when I try to use the archive code-thingy I have installed, Archive 1 instead of 2 comes up...) Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 22:04, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
I normally log in to toolforge using PuTTY and WinSCP, and a year or two ago I set it up (I don't remember how, except that it was a pain to do) to use a passphrase that checks a local key file on my PC. This has been working fine ever since. Today I got a message from WinSCP on connecting saying that the host key had changed (I forget the exact message). After a bit of research I trusted the host and connected successfully, using the passphrase as usual; I can see the usual directory structure for the tool I run. I then tried PuTTY and got the same message, said yes, and now the host won't let me connect. When I use the saved session I get "No supported authentication methods available" and then "Server refused our key". This surprised me because WinSCP is perfectly happy with the connection. Any help on how to get connected again would be much appreciated. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 01:02, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Diffs: <archive>, <ANI>. The bot claims it archived 5 sections, and it did do that, but it removed 6 sections (one that had just been created). The post was recreated by the author, so there's no active problem - but is that a problem that happens with bots, or just this one? Or is this just a 'once in a blue moon' event? – 2804:F14:8092:9F01:61D4:EA42:137D:5C91 ( talk) 02:58, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
baserevid
or basetimestamp
, see
the API documentation. But if a bot only takes a fraction of a second between loading the base revision and making the edit, they can probably "get away" with not doing this before anyone notices a problem; what are the chances of an edit slipping in the gap? That edit was nine seconds after the previous one, so perhaps something was slowing down the bot.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 03:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
I just added William Whitehead Watts to Category:Presidents of the Geological Society of London using Wikipedia:HotCat. In the past when I have done this sort of thing the new category appears last in the list of categories at the bottom of the page. For some reason it is displaying as the first on this one. Why is this and how can I stop this unwonted and unwanted behaviour? Browser = Edge on Win 11, skin = Monobook. Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 13:44, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Suppress categories|{{GLS Presidents}}}}
and manually place the category where you want it.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:50, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Suppress categories|{{GLS Presidents}}}}
is code which can be placed in an article using a template which automatically adds categories. Then the template wouldn't have to be edited, but the code would be needed in all articles where the category is unwanted.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:12, 25 April 2024 (UTC)Earlier today, I went to look up the article on Sonia Sotomayor, a current justice of the US Supreme Court. But to my surprise, as I started typing her name into the search bar, the search algorithm didn't seem to recognize her as a possible destination. By the time I had "Sonia So" typed in, the first suggestion was Sonia Soto (a two-sentence stub about a translator), followed by imperfect matches for the search term; once I'd typed in "Sonia Soto", it only suggested the translator; I didn't get pointed toward Sotomayor's article until I'd typed in her entire name. My first assumption was that the article title had a diacritic or something that would cause Sonia Sotomayor to be a redirect rather than the article title, but that turned out not to be the case.
I was curious whether this was a more widespread problem, so next I searched for Antonin Scalia, and had similar issues (when I typed "Antonin Sca", the first suggestion was Antonio Scarfoglio). Trying again, I searched for Joe Biden; when I typed "Joe Bi", the first suggestion was instead Joe Biden Supreme Court candidates. At this point, my suspicion was that the search algorithm was choosing to suppress the articles of political BLPs specifically - but then I found two counterexamples soon afterward. Bill Clinton showed up successfully as the first suggestion for "Bill C", whereas Reese Witherspoon was nowhere to be found when I typed "Reese With" into the search bar. Searching some other topics shows that it's not limited to biographical articles either: I had similar problems trying to search the articles for All Eyez on Me, Chemistry, and Norway, as well as for more niche topics like alkaline noodles. The search problem isn't universal, but it's affected the majority of the titles I've checked, across various obscurity levels and topic areas.
I've tested this on the desktop site and on the app, and found the same issue occurring on both platforms. I haven't been able to identify any clear commonalities between articles that are affected by this search issue. Does anyone know what might be going on? ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 15:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
The latest run of Special:WantedCategories features a nonsense Category:+, generated by the use of [[Category:+]] text in User:HovigTheEditor/common.js — but since I don't have "editing other users' js pages" privileges I can't fix it. And while I don't particularly understand what the code is there for, it might very well be there for a perfectly valid purpose, but would still have to be coded in a way that it isn't causing the js page to become directly filed in a redlinked category itself since the text is obviously not intended to actually categorize things as plus-sign per se. So could somebody with the necessary privileges look into fixing this? Bearcat ( talk) 18:00, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Policy | Technical | Proposals | Idea lab | WMF | Miscellaneous |
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If you go to ?action=info
for any page, you will see a table with various statistics, including two lines about how many people are watching the page, e.g.:
Number of page watchers | 375 |
Number of page watchers who visited recent edits | 12 |
For example, /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)?action=info for this page.
I am finding that the ratio shown here is not at all unusual for older articles, but the first line gets more attention from editors. They think "hundreds of editors are watching this page", when they should be thinking "almost nobody is watching this page". Is there a way we could remove/hide the irrelevant number from this info page? Or should we just change MediaWiki:Pageinfo-watchers to something like "Total number of watchlists (includes inactive editors)"? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:53, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
#mw-pageinfo-watchers { display: none; }
in one of the .css files. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 22:43, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Is there a way we could remove/hide the irrelevant number from this info page?I would not support removing this. Presenting both numbers, and letting the user decide which they want or need, seems like an acceptable status quo here. The less than 30 thing for non admins is for security reasons. Admins can see both numbers at all times. The linked phab ticket mentions changing the second message to mention 30 days explicitly. I could get behind a change like that. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 02:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Am i missing something, or is it impossible to automatically cite urls from the talk page visual editor? Yes, you can use the source editor, but is there a specfic reason why this is? Is there any way to get a more featured editor on the talk page visual editor? MarkiPoli ( talk) 12:14, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
ctrl/cmd + ?
to see all the options here. Or type \
if you're in visual mode for a nifty command-palette...)
DLynch (WMF) (
talk) 16:04, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
AFD Stats not updating on the individual grid templates — Maile ( talk) 18:23, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
resolve[d] once and for al[l]. There will be spurts of replag lasting a few hours to a day from time to time, for the foreseeable future. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:10, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Replication lag
The database on which this query was executed has a synchronization delay with the wiki. This can be caused by maintenance or incident on database, and should be resolved soon. The modifications that was made in last 20 hours on the wiki are not taken into account in results bellow.
Just bellowing here to make sure that someone in charge is aware of this, and working to resolve it. Every time I've checked in for the past several hours, the lag has grown longer; there is no sign as yet that it's started to get shorter again. I searched for a Phabricator, and couldn't find any. Would like to have some idea of the meaning of "soon" in this case. wbm1058 ( talk) 14:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
FWIW, this is a data corruption issue. Last time it happened on sanitarium hosts the whole system went down for a week. I'm trying to figure out if I can avoid re-cloning the whole host (which would take a lot of time, potentially weeks) and only reclone the corrupted table but there is no easy way to do this AFAICS." wbm1058 ( talk) 10:51, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Does anyone know what "reviewed an image suggestion" means and its use? See this user's log for an example. S0091 ( talk) 20:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Your answers improve future suggestions.but for all I would know, that just means I'm training an AI or something. There was no indication that by clicking "Submit", this log entry would be created, and my name would be publicly recorded. This feature needs to be disabled. Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 23:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
that I've seen pop up recently, like the following:
They don't quite make sense to me and don't seem to be telling me anything useful about the edit. Anyone care to explain? Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 19:38, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
It has been 1 year since Graphs were disabled due to security vulnerabilities in the extension. The update plan as of now is to completely replace the Graph extension, because the other solutions to upgrade it were found to not be feasible. This process has only just started to gather the members necessary and will not start in earnest until July, per the update posted. This extension will then obviously take time to develop. In the meantime, there's 18k articles, per Category:Pages with disabled graphs, with data that is completely inaccessible unless you view the page source. We could either put the data in a table so at least the data is there, in an expando if there are many rows. We could even have a link to an external graphing service that graphs it visually on a separate page (Quickchart.io being an example that works simply, simply putting the data in JSON format in the URL.). Thoughts? MarkiPoli ( talk) 15:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
6 weeks ago I did a deep dive for 1-2 days helping to debug, reproduce, identify the root case and help formulate a fix for the following issue. [1] This issue affects any user using webauthn aka 2FA security tokens across wikimedia. @ Reedy (WMF) was very responsive and back-ported a fix from another repository. The fix was committed March 5.
Could I ask your help getting more detail on what the next steps are to integrate and deploy the fix? Tonymetz 💬 20:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
cc: @ Novem Linguae Tonymetz 💬 20:35, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Agreed this is the wrong venue, but the fact that patches are as usual not getting reviewed in a timely fashion is ridiculous. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Patches are primarily deployed by volunteer developers not "the WMF".It might be more accurate to say that patches are auto-deployed by the weekly train for most repos. And a combination of volunteers and wmf do both the patch writing and the patch approvals. What's needed here is a patch approval (+2). Which can be a lot of brain power, because it involves wrapping your head around the ticket and the code, reviewing the patch code, and loading up the patch code in a localhost environment and testing it. But sadly, many repos are backlogged or do not have active maintainers or do not have any wmf team currently assigned to them. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 22:58, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Is there any way to make the cursor stop teleporting to the beginning of the line or paragraph if I press shift? Shadow311 ( talk) 00:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
i keep getting a Lua error everytime I try to put a picture, is there a way to solve this issue? thanks Cassopeia ...talk?... 18:37, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Portal image banner|Zinnia elegans with Bombus 01.JPG|...}}
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PrimeHunter (
talk) 19:24, 20 April 2024 (UTC) as a help in verification if needed
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WP:VERIFY states "..Readers must be able to check that any of the information within Wikipedia articles is not just made up. .."
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Idk if this is the right place to seek help in this respect, if not then please guide me where to make this request.
Bookku ( talk) 13:26, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
When I click on an IP address's contributions and click on the IP information window, it shows The IP information could not be retrieved.
even though it works on other wikis, such as the Simple English Wikipedia.
This issue can only affect users who use iPhones and not on computers, so is anybody who uses this beta feature experiencing this issue when using it on their iPhone (including me)? Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 03:34, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The IP information could not be retrieved.error on any kind of "generic" error, which doesn't have a defined message. This could suggest that the request has not been getting through to the servers. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 10:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The screenshot is here. About the IP addresses, this do not matter since the error applies to every IP addresses' contribution pages, and for safemode, the issue still persists. Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 22:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I've been using the standard tool for edit summary search, https://sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py but unfortunately it's not working correctly. For example this search ("timesofindia.indiatimes") returns zero results, even though I made 2,344 edits (eg. Special:Diff/1220101115/1220148337). Are there other similar tools? -- Green C 13:52, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
I hope I'm posting this in the right place, I'm happy to repost elsewhere if it would be better. I want to integrate template:Party name with color into template:STV Election box candidate2. This has arisen in, for example, South (European Parliament constituency), where there's a microparty called The Irish People contesting. It's a non-notable organisation, but is registered, so has an entry on Module:Political party/T. It has a disambiguation to distinguish it from various newspapers collected under The Irish People. In tables that use template:Party name with color, its shortname is invoked. See, e.g., List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland#Parties with no elected representation. However, in the election results table at South (European Parliament constituency) or 2024 Kerry County Council election#Kenmare, the disambiguation is visible, because the STV candidate template only uses the shortname if the page actually exists. I think the best solution would be to invoke Party name with color itself in template:STV Election box candidate2, but I'm not sure how best to do that without breaking the code. Thanks for any insights! Iveagh Gardens ( talk) 17:32, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The minor edit button is very small and not very mobile or laptop trackpad friendly. Its too bothersome for me to actually use it. I do mark these edits as minor in the edit summary with the letter "m". Leaving "m" in the edit summary should tag the edit as a minor edit. This would encourage use of the minor edit button for minor edits and help declutter the watchlist (for those that filter minor edits from their watchlists). How easy would this be to from a technical standpoint? Schierbecker ( talk) 18:33, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
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I know I could iterate over the second array and append the values at the end of the first array, but I thought "hang on, there must be a closed function/method like Python's list.extend defined somewhere"... Am I right? Alexis Coutinho ( talk) ping me 20:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
table.concat
...
Alexis Coutinho (
talk)
ping me 22:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
table.insert
ing into table 1, or 2) doing it with indices.
Izno (
talk) 23:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
This isn't really a problem, per se, but I'm just curious if anyone has a similar thing going on. When I go to Template talk:Did you know (and only there; I've tried this on other talk pages of templates as well and all of the other namespaces work fine), my toolbox on the left side of my screen (I use vector legacy dark mode) turns white. I tried switching to light mode, and nothing happens. Is anyone experiencing something similar?
The image on the left is my screen in light mode, and the image on the right is my screen in dark mode. Rela tivity ⚡️ 00:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
importScript('User:Shubinator/DYKcheck.js')
in
User:Relativity/common.js. I haven't examined exactly why
User:Shubinator/DYKcheck.js has this effect but it only affects users with both that script and dark mode so it's not important when the sidebar is still readable.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 01:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
I got a revdel request for removal from page history of some relatively innocuous adolescent pranks from a couple of years ago. The requester is concerned that it could be found by search engines. I haven't been able to replicate it, and I seriously doubt that search engines care about history like that. In order to reassure the requester that they can quit worrying about it, can somebody clarify whether and to what extent article histories are or aren't indexed or considered by search engines? Acroterion (talk) 13:49, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi everyone, as announced in November, the Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on dark (sometimes also called night) mode. Now, we have released the feature for logged-in users of advanced mobile mode across all wikis for testing purposes. But don't worry, the new feature is not disruptive! (See the "known limitations" section below.) It's just important for us to work together with you before we release this feature to a wider audience. Our goals for the early rollout are to:
Go to the project page and the FAQ page to see more information about the basics of this project.
Known limitations of the initial release
What we would like you to do (the broad community)
If you have questions - ask us! Also, where appropriate, consider linking to the Recommendations for dark mode compatibility on Wikimedia wikis. We would like to emphasize that the recommendations may evolve. For this reason, we are not suggesting to create your local wiki copies of recommendations. At some point, the copy could become different from the original version.
What we would like you to do (template editors, interface admins, technical editors)
When most bugs are solved, we'll be able to make the dark mode available for readers on both desktop and mobile. To make this happen, we need to work together with you on reporting and solving the problems.
Thank you. We're looking forward to your opinions and comments! SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 15:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
USS Triton (SSRN-586) is currently showing as cascade-protected, claiming that it is transcluded on the main page and various related pages. While it is linked from Wikipedia:Main Page/Tomorrow, it does not appear to be transcluded anywhere (and pages that are just linked shouldn't be cascade-protected). Is this a known bug of some sort? :Jay8g [ V• T• E 00:25, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
What causes or is the source of URLs like these? (left side of diff)
192 pages. Looks like a conspiracy of Google and VE but cdn.ampproject.org is involved somehow also. -- Green C 02:21, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
I was fixing a few issues on Narendra Modi and noticed that under "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page" it has Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabha (what links here from the target shows the same thing [6]). But I can't find any mention of it in the source text. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested « @» ° ∆t° 17:16, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Infobox officeholder
| office2 = [[Leader of the House in Lok Sabha|Leader of the House, Lok Sabha]]
| deputy2 = anything
}}
{{
Linkless exists}}
.--
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 20:09, 24 April 2024 (UTC)The
blocking IP addresses essay was linked from WP:AN recently (for reasons unrelated) and it had me thinking:
How will temporary accounts affect the potential blocking of sensitive IP addresses (i.e. IPs assigned to major government organizations and also 'may be a good idea to notify the committee' IPs like major corporations or ones with technical implications like WMF/WEduF IPs)? To quote that essay, it currently says "If you block an IP address in any of the following ranges, you are required to immediately notify the
Wikimedia Foundation Communications Committee."
Is the procedure here going to be that every admin is supposed to check the IP address of temporary accounts to see if it's sensitive when blocking? Or does it not matter too much?
... also, should I have made this in
WP:VPP? –
2804:F1...7D:5C91 (
talk) 22:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Someone please with more mental bandwidth than I have right now, take a look at Talk:Lucille Ball and fix it? Why isn't the bot creating and then archiving to a Page 2? (and when I try to use the archive code-thingy I have installed, Archive 1 instead of 2 comes up...) Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 22:04, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
I normally log in to toolforge using PuTTY and WinSCP, and a year or two ago I set it up (I don't remember how, except that it was a pain to do) to use a passphrase that checks a local key file on my PC. This has been working fine ever since. Today I got a message from WinSCP on connecting saying that the host key had changed (I forget the exact message). After a bit of research I trusted the host and connected successfully, using the passphrase as usual; I can see the usual directory structure for the tool I run. I then tried PuTTY and got the same message, said yes, and now the host won't let me connect. When I use the saved session I get "No supported authentication methods available" and then "Server refused our key". This surprised me because WinSCP is perfectly happy with the connection. Any help on how to get connected again would be much appreciated. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 01:02, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Diffs: <archive>, <ANI>. The bot claims it archived 5 sections, and it did do that, but it removed 6 sections (one that had just been created). The post was recreated by the author, so there's no active problem - but is that a problem that happens with bots, or just this one? Or is this just a 'once in a blue moon' event? – 2804:F14:8092:9F01:61D4:EA42:137D:5C91 ( talk) 02:58, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
baserevid
or basetimestamp
, see
the API documentation. But if a bot only takes a fraction of a second between loading the base revision and making the edit, they can probably "get away" with not doing this before anyone notices a problem; what are the chances of an edit slipping in the gap? That edit was nine seconds after the previous one, so perhaps something was slowing down the bot.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 03:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
I just added William Whitehead Watts to Category:Presidents of the Geological Society of London using Wikipedia:HotCat. In the past when I have done this sort of thing the new category appears last in the list of categories at the bottom of the page. For some reason it is displaying as the first on this one. Why is this and how can I stop this unwonted and unwanted behaviour? Browser = Edge on Win 11, skin = Monobook. Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 13:44, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Suppress categories|{{GLS Presidents}}}}
and manually place the category where you want it.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:50, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
{{Suppress categories|{{GLS Presidents}}}}
is code which can be placed in an article using a template which automatically adds categories. Then the template wouldn't have to be edited, but the code would be needed in all articles where the category is unwanted.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:12, 25 April 2024 (UTC)Earlier today, I went to look up the article on Sonia Sotomayor, a current justice of the US Supreme Court. But to my surprise, as I started typing her name into the search bar, the search algorithm didn't seem to recognize her as a possible destination. By the time I had "Sonia So" typed in, the first suggestion was Sonia Soto (a two-sentence stub about a translator), followed by imperfect matches for the search term; once I'd typed in "Sonia Soto", it only suggested the translator; I didn't get pointed toward Sotomayor's article until I'd typed in her entire name. My first assumption was that the article title had a diacritic or something that would cause Sonia Sotomayor to be a redirect rather than the article title, but that turned out not to be the case.
I was curious whether this was a more widespread problem, so next I searched for Antonin Scalia, and had similar issues (when I typed "Antonin Sca", the first suggestion was Antonio Scarfoglio). Trying again, I searched for Joe Biden; when I typed "Joe Bi", the first suggestion was instead Joe Biden Supreme Court candidates. At this point, my suspicion was that the search algorithm was choosing to suppress the articles of political BLPs specifically - but then I found two counterexamples soon afterward. Bill Clinton showed up successfully as the first suggestion for "Bill C", whereas Reese Witherspoon was nowhere to be found when I typed "Reese With" into the search bar. Searching some other topics shows that it's not limited to biographical articles either: I had similar problems trying to search the articles for All Eyez on Me, Chemistry, and Norway, as well as for more niche topics like alkaline noodles. The search problem isn't universal, but it's affected the majority of the titles I've checked, across various obscurity levels and topic areas.
I've tested this on the desktop site and on the app, and found the same issue occurring on both platforms. I haven't been able to identify any clear commonalities between articles that are affected by this search issue. Does anyone know what might be going on? ModernDayTrilobite ( talk • contribs) 15:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
The latest run of Special:WantedCategories features a nonsense Category:+, generated by the use of [[Category:+]] text in User:HovigTheEditor/common.js — but since I don't have "editing other users' js pages" privileges I can't fix it. And while I don't particularly understand what the code is there for, it might very well be there for a perfectly valid purpose, but would still have to be coded in a way that it isn't causing the js page to become directly filed in a redlinked category itself since the text is obviously not intended to actually categorize things as plus-sign per se. So could somebody with the necessary privileges look into fixing this? Bearcat ( talk) 18:00, 25 April 2024 (UTC)