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I'm trying to wrap my head around that. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:42, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{cite MIAR |title=FEMS Microbiology Reviews |issn=0168-6445 |access-date={{subst:TODAY}}}}}}
will succeed. ―
cobaltcigs 22:13, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
I made an edit to {{ Infobox airline}} here so that a second image the infobox. It works correctly but when I check preview I get the warnings "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox airline with unknown parameter "caption2" (this message is shown only in preview).", "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox airline with unknown parameter "image2" (this message is shown only in preview)." and "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox airline with unknown parameter "image2-width" (this message is shown only in preview).". So what did I do wrong. There's an example here, Summit Air. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 21:55, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
If you search for, e.g. '"Bouncing Ball" +Wikipedia' on google, you get a ton of Wikipedia hits. Which is normally what most people would look like.
But what I want to know is where else on the internet Bouncing ball is mentioned. Does anyone know how to do that? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 02:51, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
-site:wikipedia.org
?
Eman
235/
talk 03:53, 24 August 2019 (UTC)Hi all
I know that this is probably possible but I don't know exactly how to make it happen. I'm talking to an organisation with a huge number of shapefile maps of species distribution which could be imported in to Commons if they change the license (fingers crossed). I'd like to know is what would be the process of adding them to the infobox, I guess my main questions would be:
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 09:07, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I have recently created the page of Tarık Biberovic however whoever I try to add my sources it says “error edit not saved”. How do I fix this? Thank you Wiki Facts fixer ( talk) 13:19, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
While common.js
/.css
will load when going to en.m.wikipedia.org on a desktop browser, on mobile these pages are not loaded. From my understanding, this was done because userscripts weren't written for mobile in mind, and has to do with the resourceLoader (related bugs:
[2]
[3]
[4]). What I want is to use my userscript on the mobile site.
I've tried creating User:<username>/minerva.js
and User:<username>/mobile.js
pages, but using Chrome Remote Debugging, neither works.
Opencooper (
talk) 19:12, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I submited a request for undeletion of File:1917.mp3. Obviously you see that there is nothing in the deletion log. It is reported that there is a deleted description page but no deleted file. It is assumed that it was deleted before July 2006 and Mediawiki 1.7.0 which allowed to keep the deleted files archived. Does anyone have a hint on how to recover the deleted file? (Yes, I checked in my own hard disk it is not there 😃) - geraki (talk) 16:58, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Geraki, where did you find this in the first place? Source? Anyway, you kind of lucked out that another editor made a copy at File:1917.ogg, which I've restored. As I also mentioned at refund, this assumed still under copyright, so please request that it be deleted again if you decide not to make use of it. Someguy1221 ( talk) 07:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
When I go to Simon I (High Priest) and look at the bottom left, there is a Hebrew link to the page for שמעון השני (which is incorrect). When I click "Edit links", however, the Hebrew link that appears is to a different page (the correct page) שמעון הראשון. Why the inconsistency, and how can we make it link to the correct page? Ar2332 ( talk) 08:23, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
[[he:שמעון השני]]
at the bottom. This overrides the Wikidata link.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 08:33, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Hey, eveyone.😊 I'm gonna copy this question verbatim from where I originally posted it. I've ran into something wrong in Wikipedia, but I have no idea how to edit it.
If you are interested in helping, please visit these three links:
In the pages that open, you should be able to spot a grey box titled "Sherlock Holmes at Wikipedia's sister projects". The box looks okay on the first link, but not on the other two.
I understand the HTML side of this problem: The text labels are given an arbitrary width of 182 pixels, but the Minerva and Timeless skins add a padding of 1em to the box. Because of insufficient space, the label are placed on the next line. But I don't know where I must fix this problem. So far, I know how to edit articles. I know about templates too. But do I edit a skin? Or, do I need to edit a skin in the first place? If not, where must I edit? flowing dreams ( talk page) 10:02, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
width
altogether?
flowing dreams (
talk page) 10:37, 27 August 2019 (UTC)When I try to use notifications on mobile Firefox (Firefox 68.0.2 mobile version running on Android 9). I use the "desktop version" of the Wikimedia sites as I can't stand the mobile ones. When I click the notification button, the page locks up and I have to back out or refresh to continue, and I can't click to view the changes or anything like that. They work fine on desktop Firefox. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:03, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
How would a bot retrieve a reference by its number, for example ref #7. The ref number is not in the wikitext. The number is in the HTML, but the source is HTML, not wikitext, so difficult to retrieve the original cite. Checking if there is something I am missing. -- Green C 03:13, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
They are numbered in order of first usage, which is not necessarily the order of definition. If you're sure you can avoid or exclude cases where footnote instance(s) from a template's wikitext are emitted to the article's reflist (which requires unusual syntax and is probably rare) you wouldn't actually have to run the parser. ― cobaltcigs 14:24, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Working on a solution involving w3m, conversion to plain text and approximate grep. Fun times. -- Green C 14:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
I opted into the new experimental mobile page. It seems to be missing a link to my watchlist: the old/standard mobile view had one. Thanks! Grover cleveland ( talk) 15:52, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
How can i change the editor font? i previously have tried putting these into common.css
#wpTextbox1 {
font-family: 'Consolas Regular';
}
.mw-editfont-monospace {
font-family:'Consolas Regular';
}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Erentar2002 ( talk • contribs) 11:28, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
textarea
. You can also save some space by having both selectors share a declaration-list: textarea#wpTextbox1,
textarea.mw-editfont-monospace {
font-family:'Consolas Regular';
}
Are we missing some early version histories? The oldest version of global warming I can find is from October 2001 but that's obviously not when the article was created. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 12:41, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
In List of countries by prevalence of genital cutting, there's two layout problems. One is the 2 x 2 table of maps, and the other is the large table of data below that. Both of these display poorly, especially on a mobile device. If anybody's a layout guru, could you take a look and see if you can do something better? Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:01, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
I've noticed when I open the right-hand "developer tools" sidebar in Chromium (web browser) and drag the panel separator too far to the left, the MediaWiki interface layout changes from normal to total shit when given fewer than 551px horizontal space (compare red-circled areas in screenshots). Naturally this is annoying when I'm trying to inspect portlet elements (in the course of debugging CSS/JS). Any ideas on how to disable whatever triggers this behavior? Yes, I'm on a small-screen laptop. Yes, the skin is monobook. ― cobaltcigs 10:19, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Done Hard refresh needed, but I had no idea it would be that simple. Thanks. ― cobaltcigs 10:51, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
I created a customized version of a script recently and added it my User:MB/common.js and everything was working fine. Yesterday, I edited the script and immediately after that I saw some unexpected behavior - in the edit window I seem to have an unexpected very colorful syntax highligter and some other scripts I use frequently no longer work.
I tried to start over by reverting back to the prior version of my common.js, but that did not help. Have also tried switching to a different browser. Not sure what to try next. MB 14:11, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Directly under my user page, a subtitle reads: Joined 12 months ago. This isn't technically correct, as I registered an account on September 16, 2018 (and it's still August). Clovermoss ( talk) 21:45, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
mobile.common.js.map.json
which uses rounding - I suspect it is rounding "up". If you would like to request a mediawiki developer change that you can submit a
bug report at phabricator. —
xaosflux
Talk 23:18, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
Lately I've noticed identical ref markup like <ref name=":0">
, originating from users who don't appear to be related or bots. This is actually less useful than the default numbering (e.g. cite_note-1
, which at least matches the visible footnote number, even when moved around) when no name is given. Any idea what tool might do this and where to provide the above feedback? ―
cobaltcigs 20:18, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Could this also be the source of excess newline patterns like [[Category:Foo]]\n\n\n{{foo-stub}}
? ―
cobaltcigs 07:07, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
.stub { margin-top:NNpx; }
CSS for
Template:Asbox if (for some reason) extra space is wanted. Rendering an empty paragraph (namely <p><br /></p>
) above it on each page is just sloppy HTML. ―
cobaltcigs 09:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Unrelated: what about infobox parameters all on the same line? Is that a visual editor shibboleth as well? I suppose I should try using it someday to find these things out (and just be careful not to save anything, lol). ― cobaltcigs 09:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
"format":"block"
name-value pair.
WhatamIdoing (
talk ·
contribs) can explain this better than me. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 09:52, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
See [6] It appears to turn all of Lake Huron into land. Where and how to get this fixed? Alanscottwalker ( talk) 20:45, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Most of the time when I save I get an edit conflict message although the edit has been saved - of course I have to check each time in case there really is an edit conflict. It happens with Firefox (where my wikEd) has died, and Chrome. Doug Weller talk 07:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Greetings,
is there a way to make a graph (similar to the one produced by Template:Line chart) which shows error margins? It's intended for the Coropuna#Recent area and retreat section which currently has a long bulleted list with various data points (not all of which should go into the final graph), plus error margins. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 08:07, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
I have a link in my menu to the long-gone grok page hit counter. I just tried to update my js page at User:Spinningspark/monobook.js to use the wmflabs version. My efforts have completely broken the js and I can't work out what the problem is. Anyone willing to take sympathy on me and help? This is the last version of the page that was working. Spinning Spark 09:22, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to add this to the da:wiktionary similar to the one on en:wiktionary but I have no idea how to do it. Any hints would be welcome.-- So9q ( talk) 15:18, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
There are 40+ userpages listed in this category. Most of them are not actually tagged with U1 or G7 and never have been. What gives? -- MelanieN ( talk) 23:50, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
, but it's hard to tell now when no example was given.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:13, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a script that allows users to highlight certain phrases in their Watchlist? I already have a script that highlights admin names and my name but I also want to highlight certain kinds of pages that I might otherwise forget, such as GA nominations and FAC reviews I watchlisted. I know I can use the custom watchlist script but I don't really want to have a separate watchlist, just have certain phrases highlighted. Regards So Why 07:21, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
.mw-changeslist-line-inner a.mw-changeslist-titlehref*="/Wikipedia_talk:" {
background-color: yellow;
}
/Wikipedia_talk:
somewhere (you could also change href
to title
to match against the article title). If you wanted to match subpages for good article reviews, you could just change "/Wikipedia_talk:"
to "/GA"
. (Well, technically you might get a false positive if you have
GABAA receptor on your watchlist. Though there are clever things you could do to avoid that if you really care.)
Colin M (
talk) 02:44, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
At least it does for [7] - trying to undo the edit of a sock. Doug Weller talk 08:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Does anyone know what needs to happen for https://tools.wmflabs.org/templatetransclusioncheck/index.php?lang=en&name=North-American+Interfraternity+Conference to work again? Naraht ( talk) 18:27, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello! How to move a draft to article? I am asking that for Draft:Terran Shield. -- Țuțulișcă Vodă ( talk) 19:28, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a simple way to check if a given page is watched, using the API, short of pulling the entire list of watched pages and checking if the given page in that list? SD0001 ( talk) 21:36, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
The code that creates the redirect at the old page location whan a page is moved (unless the mover has suffcient permissions and chooses to suppress such creation) adds the {{ R from move}} template to the newly created redirect. Could this be modified to include the {{ rcat shell}} "wrapper" around the {{ R from move}} template, so that the resulting code would be:
{{rcat shell |
{{R from move}}
}}
This would save editor steps if the redirect page subsequently needed additional rcats added to it. Let me know, and thanks, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 03:45, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
{{R from move}}
is added by
MediaWiki:Move-redirect-text. It was changed to {{redr|from move}}
for a month in 2015 but reverted on request.
[8] {{
redr}} and {{
rcat shell}} both redirect to {{
Redirect category shell}} today. There was no consensus at
MediaWiki talk:Move-redirect-text#Redr to use {{
This is a redirect}} which was similar to {{
Redirect category shell}} (created later) and currently redirects to it.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 08:38, 21 August 2019 (UTC)So I've just read the documentation of this template, but can't understand why the hell it exists. Or why "help newer contributors learn the redirect category system" would be a priority for anyone anywhere. ― cobaltcigs 14:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
I want to add a tracking category to {{ Grading scheme}} to track any uses where A-Class has been disabled.
The template displays A-Class by default or with |A=yes
(case sensitive); if any other value is used, or if |A=
is defined but left blank, A-Class is removed from the table.
I tried using the following code:
{{#ifeq:{{{A|}}}|yes||[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}
How do I get it to ignore the default usage (i.e. where |A=
is not used at all)?
PC78 (
talk) 12:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
|A=
might be used intentionally to disable A-Class.
PC78 (
talk) 12:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
{{{A|}}}
evaluates to empty both if A is set to empty and not set at all so you cannot use that alone. You need {{{A}}}
which evaluates to the value of A if it's set (empty if A is set to empty), but evaluates to the same seven characters {{{A}}}
if A is not set. You could nest if and ifeq, or combine the cases in a
switch: {{#switch:{{{A}}}||yes=|#default=[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}
. This code only uses that {{{A}}}
evaluates to something non-empty when A is not set. It says: If A is set to empty or yes then return empty, otherwise the category.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 13:26, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
|A=
is not set at all (it shouldn't be) but is not added if |A=
is set to empty (it should be). See test example at
User:PC78/grading scheme. Tried a few other things but still can't nail it.
PC78 (
talk) 14:29, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{{A}}}|{{{A|}}}|{{#ifeq:{{{A}}}|yes||[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}}}
. "If A is set but A is not set to yes then return the category."
PrimeHunter (
talk) 15:32, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{{A|yes}}}|yes||[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 10:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)This may be related to the above somehow. At David_M._Bennett and Dennis_Relojo-Howell I am seeing this error in place of every reference. Clicking on it gives: Backtrace:
Replacing {{ reflist}} with <references /> fixes it. SmartSE ( talk) 13:16, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
See:
Old revision of Wikipedia:Sandbox —this shows the result of omitting refs=
for named group reflist. whereas using the refs=
results in an error msg.
Decomposing the templates to: {{#tag:references||group=}}
and {{#tag:ref||group=|name=}}
—produces the same error msg. as "using the refs=
", as noted above. --
2db (
talk) 00:09, 3 September 2019 (UTC) && 13:56, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
(disclaimer: yeah, I'm a super experienced Wikipedian, but I have never taken the time to learn how to cite webpages the "new" way and still do it the way it was done over a decade ago, which is probably why this is happening) The page in question is Swan Lake fire. I recently added a reference to an article on TIME's website. It got tagged as a dead link only a day later, and sure enough when I click on it it goes to a 404. So, I searched the article title "About 2.5 Million Acres in Alaska Have Burned. The State's Wildfire Seasons Are Getting Worse, Experts Say" and found the article again. When I copied the URL it was...the same as the one that led to the 404 error. I don't get it. Lil help? Beeblebrox ( talk) 18:51, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
RFC notice: Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RFC: Block edits that contain a VisualEditor bug -- Green C 00:01, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I gnome a lot of foreign translated articles. The French leave a space before their colon : like that, often on every line in long lists. It's been so easy to fix until now, using the search–replace function at the top of the edit box: search for space+colon, replace with colon (spelled out here for clarity). But today I find the search function will not pick up space+colon. Any ideas? Tony (talk) 00:11, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Is somebody running this? This is how it looks like, seems useful to me. Apparently the author ran out of resources. He did try hosting it on Wikimedia Tool Labs but had some issues. The source is available at https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool-wikicheck (GNU LGPL) 2001:14BA:984A:F200:0:0:0:8EA ( talk) 12:41, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
seems to have stopped. Or perhaps all the admins have gone undergound. Anyone else got the same issue? —— SerialNumber 54129 16:12, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, Recently User:PrimeHunter helped me with titleclass = wraplinks to solve a template spilling beyond the right margins. A more complicated template is {{ Basque conflict}} where it looks like the two right-most columns should be stacked underneath the first "Participants in the Basque сonflict" column. The template is linked from article Marian Beitialarrangoitia. I tried several templates updates, and this is way beyond my ability. So I'm asking for expert help here. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 15:06, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
listclass = plainlist
to listclass = plainlist wraplinks
. A narrow window would get many wrapped links which doesn't look good so a more complicated redesign with fewer columns is also an option. I'm not doing that.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:55, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
This morning I noticed that many of my articles with thumbed-images have large amounts of whitespace in the text they are part of. As of the time I'm writing this, examples can be seen in AMES Type 80, and formerly in Dowding system. There appear to be no related edits to the articles that would have caused this. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:58, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
For some reason, when I click on "New editors' contribs" at Special:RecentChanges, I get a page with no contributions. Did something change on WP's end or am I out of the loop on something? shoy ( reactions) 14:23, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
The radio button for selecting new editor contribution mode is still present beside the User field. Can this be removed as well? -- Trialpears ( talk) 19:23, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
I am not even sure if this is where I should be posting this issue and though I did try to search for it, I couldn't find the conversation the last time this happened. I know that the problem has to do with the use of both left-right and right-left text, but have no idea how to solve it so that the original titles to articles in the references section (and her name variants) are in the proper order without doing weird flipping things. Can someone please wave a magic wand and fix this technical problem for this article or tell me where to go to get it fixed? It is highly unlikely that I will comprehend an explanation of coding. Thank you. SusunW ( talk) 20:33, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
|script-title=
in the cs1|2 templates. That will isolate the Arabic (?) script (rtl) from the Latin script (ltr). Read abot this parameter in the cs1|2 template documentation.I have a technical question related to the template code that generates WikiProject banners on talkpages. Any experienced editor knowledgeable in that area willing to spend some time helping me out? UnitedStatesian ( talk) 17:44, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
The citations at Ancestry.com can get very complex. For example:
Webpage name: "Joe Blow in the 1930 United States Federal Census".
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Buffalo, Erie, New York; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 0242; FHL microfilm: 2341165
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
I can't figure out how to fit all this information into a standard citation template, can anybody assist? Thanks, Gatoclass ( talk) 12:46, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Ivanvector, the user-submitted pages at Ancestry.com are unreliable, obviously, but the site incorporates scans of the original census pages and other government documents and there is nothing unreliable about those. RoySmith, thank you for the link, I will take a closer look at that, though I doubt it provides the ease of access to a host of government records that Ancestry does (though it would be preferable to use the government site where possible as the latter requires a subscription). Gatoclass ( talk) 16:50, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
@ Gatoclass:, remember that the <ref> tag is one thing, and the various {{ cite}} templates are another. You can embed between <ref> tags, whatever you need to properly establish verifiability, including more than one {{ cite}} tag. For something this complex, it might be advantageous to use two {{ cite}} templates, where the first one cites Ancestry, as Headbomb and others have pointed out, followed by some connecting text, such as, "citing:", or, "taken from:", or whatever makes sense, followed by a second {{ cite}} template for the source that Ancestry (or their editors) got it from. Even if there is a way to combine everything in one, huge, complex template, there's no need to knock yourself out. If you just keep your eyes on the prize ( WP:V), and do it whatever way makes sense to you, that's the main thing. Heck, if it's that complicated, just write the citation in plain text if you want, and embed the plain text between <ref> tags. That's a perfectly acceptable solution. Best of luck, Mathglot ( talk) 23:38, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Why is the article so hard to find? Is it the asterisks? There should be some check, e.g., before treating the asterisks as wild cards, try taking them literally and see if there's a match there.
Here's why I ask:
Lieutenant Kijé contains the
paragraph
After several diversions, I searched Wikipedia for [[M*A*S*H (TV series)]]. This is what I got:
Search results Results 1 – 20 of 11,140
(Each of these entries was followed by a paragraph of description and, I think, a line of datestamp.)
Results from sister projects
... (And finally)
Wikipedia has an article about: M*A*S*H (TV series)
...
Results 1 – 20 of 11,140
Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 17:02, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
@ PrimeHunter, Jonesey95, and Nardog: PrimeHunter, you have a good point, as emphasized by your last sentence. But I should have mentioned that I am using the mobile interface, on my smartphone. That can make a lot of difference; see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#serious format issue on this page.
-- Thnidu ( talk) 18:54, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
"M*A*S*H"
, which will prevent the * from being treated as wildcards.
the wub
"?!" 23:17, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Has something changed of late, as to editing from mobile skin? Whenever I intend to edit from my mobile, a top-bar (which used to be not there) displays 'Loading Editor' for an extraordinarily long time .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winged Blades of Godric ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Although I don't see a change in the history of {{
cite web}}, every article I checked that uses the template, is getting red
CS1 errors. See for example,
World War II#Citations, as well as the documentation in the Examples section of
Template:Cite web itself. This applies to params |website=
(now required, apparently), and |deadurl=
(now deprecated, apparently). What's going on?
Mathglot (
talk) 19:36, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Proposing we close this discussion, and/or add a {{ Discussion moved to}} template, targeting WP:AN. Mathglot ( talk) 20:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Parameter name changes should be widely advertized for discussion before being implemented. People should stop complaining about the red links. Some time ago most of these warnings were turned off by default because it was precieved to be better for readers of Wikipedia. That is a HUGE mistake. All the warnings should be displayed. They are all errors to be fixed and errors to fix is how Wikipedia attracts new editors. Yes they are "ugly" and it is exactly that that annoys some people enough to figure out how to fix it. Turning them off simply sweeps dirt under the rug but worse it helps exacerabate our low editorship rate. Jason Quinn ( talk) 08:25, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. Perhaps someone can help me out. 2-3 months ago, several of the tools I use in my gnomish activities stopped working. It has to do with signing in to WP on that tool, and the OATH script. I keep getting the message: "There was a script error --> --> A problem occurred in a Python script. /home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/tracebacks/connect_OAuthException_120_SjBvb1.html contains the description of this error." Anyone know I can fix this? Thanks in advance. Onel5969 TT me 17:40, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Is it allowable to use a hat note (see also, further, or other) in the lede of a political candidate's bio page to link to their separate 'political positions' page? Humanengr ( talk) 19:16, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Humanengr is talking about this
Special:Diff/914471844 I removed it because the template document says: "This template is used to create hatnotes to point to a small number of other related titlesat the top of article sections (excluding the lead)
. It also looks weird in a
BLP article. From what I know, see also template shouldn't be used in the lead. I think "see also" section does the job.--
SharabSalam (
talk) 19:27, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Whenever I contribute in Wikipedia articles, an icon called "Provelt" appears at the bottom-right of the window. What is this? —Yours sincerely, Soumyabrata ( talk • subpages) 06:11, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
I received a notice on top of my watchlist for an ongoing RfA. The thing is, it turns out that I have already participated in this RfA. Can the notification system be set up so that it passes on notifying people who have already participated in the discussion, and do not need to be notified? I ask because I have no way of knowing that this isn't an entirely new RfA without visiting the page, which is not the best use of time. The same might apply for any kind of noticed discussion. bd2412 T 02:37, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
For all those that are wondering, yes Wikimedia did go down and may still be down for some, Wikimedia Operations is aware and is working hard to fix that issue. There is a phabricator task, located here. Thank you!
(English Wikipedia Tech Ambassador) Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 20:32, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Problems logging in, also often just reading or trying to edit - last eight hours - no notices on Wikipedia or Wikimedia... how does one report such problems, how are they notified to the community? And how is progress in fixing them? Thanks 2A00:1370:8117:4B0D:C4ED:E9B:7451:EB70 ( talk) 07:06, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
I this the goto place for information on downtime? What links are there to downtime information? Could/should there be a link or info on Downtime (disambiguation)? Just asking, had some trouble finding here. Anyway, thanks for the info. Rakeroot ( talk) 22:26, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
There are some concerns. [19] Benjamin ( talk) 11:45, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
I mostly edit political and climate articles, both very contentious areas subject to DS. Sometimes upset editors tell me to stay off their user talk page. Is there a way to customize my watch list so their user names appear differently than those of other editors? I'm just looking for a way to help me remember so I can respect such wishes. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 20:43, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
/* make it easier to skip past edits by Example1 and Example2 */
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User:Example1"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User_talk:Example1"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Example1"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User:Example2"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User_talk:Example2"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Example2" {
background: red;
}
red
with any valid
web colour. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 21:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)This will prevent you from editing their user/user_talk pages (if that's the real problem) whilst still seeing what goes on:
var myEnemies = "Cobaltcigs", "Tom", "Dick", "Harry"];
var iAmEditingUserspace = (wgAction == "edit") && 2,3].includes(wgNamespaceNumber);
var thisGuyHatesMe = myEnemies.includes(wgRelevantUserName);
if(iAmEditingUserspace && thisGuyHatesMe) $("#editform :input").prop('disabled', true);
Configure the first line as appropriate but please keep my name on it. ― cobaltcigs 21:19, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
hi
I have forgotten the process for using emails to validate refs.
Can someone please remind me where to go to find the info to start the process of getting an email sent in to Wiki?
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:03, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Which is exactly what I wanted, to prove that the source of the information is who they say they are ... thanks, well, not really, but at least you gave me the OTRS info which got me there in the end ... Chaosdruid ( talk) 21:59, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Please fix:
Thank you!
2607:FEA8:1DE0:7B4:7811:3461:7039:276 ( talk) 21:40, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
preloadtitle=
In en.Wikipedia, some links creating a new report via section=new
don’t specify the heading in preloadtitle=
, pushing it into the body-text form instead. It usually leads to empty edit summary, which is despicable. Moreover, a proposed fix in
Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring/Example is ignored. Opinions?
Incnis Mrsi (
talk) 06:13, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
I think the specific template does not work right during the last weeks. Graphs do not show up and look like broken images. But when previewing in editing mode they do appear working actually. Examples can be found on the template itself or here. Any suggestions? -- Αρκάς ( talk) 20:21, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello all, I have been dealing with this visual error for a while now and find it quite annoying. Whenever I hover over the "show" boxes in my infobox on my userpage, it continually "drifts" downwards the more you hover over the "show" buttons. I have also experienced this problem on Chrome using my desktop, however, Chrome on my Mac appears to like it now. Does anyone have any ideas? ( Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 60#Template:Boxboxtop not working correctly in Firefox or Chrome might be related?) -- TheSandDoctor Talk 02:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
The Zhaofeng Li/reFill tool does not add Retrieved (date) data anymore. I can not get into contact with Zhaofeng Li as he seem to have left the project. But if someone could take a look at the tool I would appreciate it. [20] -- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:43, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
On the Usufruct article, the interlanguage link for Romanian links to ro:Drept de uz and, apparently, ought to link to ro:Drept de uzufruct; see talk:Usufruct#Incorrect link to Romanian Wikipedia article. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:50, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
I don’t know if this has been brought up as a topic previously, but if not, is there a tool that can locate/search for pages that have been removed from categories? If not, I feel like this kind of tool would be useful, as it’s very difficult to keep track of this type of thing. Dohvahkiin ( talk) 18:21, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
For the past few days, probably since after the Wikipedia outage that happened a few days ago, I have not been able to save edits while on and using the cellular network on my mobile device. I am able to save edits when my mobile device is connect to WiFi, but not on cellular. I’ve tried...
What happens is when I click the "save" button after creating an edit, the next page doesn’t load, and I get an error that says the server is not responding. In the past 5–6 years I have been editing primarily from a cellular network, this has never happened, and it's a bit alarming. Either way, I hope there is a fix for this issue since I really enjoy volunteering on Wikipedia, but may now have long periods of not editing due to these issues (since I primarily edit using a cellular network connection.) Steel1943 ( talk) 20:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello everyone, has anyone else had an issue where the "Publish changes" button saves your edit but then the editing interface says that there was an edit conflict? I have had it happen rather frequently as of late, yet when I check the page history my edit was saved correctly. It appears to quite literally be either an error in the interface or for some reason trying to publish the same edit twice (consecutively) and causing me to self-conflict. It doesn't happen every time, but does occur a lot. It is rather annoying.... -- TheSandDoctor Talk 15:16, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Slab_pull?action=edit
On that page, attempting to save edits, I get "Something went wrong" "HTTP 404". I cleared all caches as documented in WP but did not help. BrucePL ( talk) 19:43, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
There's something going on. I saw something like this twice, a couple of days ago. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:45, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Yeah, getting this again. I edited Draft:Morse Robb using visual editor, and when I went to save it, got the 404 error. I'm now at a point where if I try to switch to source editing, I get, "Error loading data from server: apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http." If I select "Visual editing" from the drop-down menu (even though I'm already in visual), I get in the javascript console:
Extended content
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I'm not sure, but I think a common theme is that the page I'm editing was recently moved. It certainly was in this case, and in one of the previous ones that I saw a few days ago. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:32, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
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(manually posting due to problems with MassMessage this week.) 19:22, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Were there any recent changes in class="sortkey"
area?
Template:Track_gauge#List_of_defined_track_gauges now shows (in 1st row for example):
Expected, as it was until ~some weeks ago:
What shows extra is the sortkey, with source code being (unchanged):
<span class="sortkey">00003 mm</span>0.118 in
Any ideas? - DePiep ( talk) 12:45, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
<span class="sortkey">00003 mm</span>0.118 in
<span data-sort-value="00003 mm">0.118 in
Solved. - DePiep ( talk) 14:23, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
I have noticed that on Win10 using Chrome that upon loading a page history that the page is reformatted after a couple of seconds, I guess because of CSS or script mods. When this happens the rollback button moved exactly to where the thanks button was. Not, in itself a big problem but, embarrassingly, if I click thanks before this change occurs (from ~0.5 to ~3 seconds) the interface reads it as a rollback. Anyone have any ideas? I use the script that should hide rollback on my watchlist - sometimes it does some times not - but it is useful from page history. As an aside, is there a way to add a thanks button to the watchlist? Jbh Talk 14:37, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
.mw-changeslist-edit .mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:84px;}
.mw-changeslist-edit .mw-changeslist-separator~.mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:0px;}
#pagehistory .mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:84px;}
#pagehistory .mw-changeslist-separator~.mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:0px;}
In Module:JCW, I have in this version, the following,
function p.pattern (frame)
local n = mArguments.getArgs(frame, {parentOnly = true})
local length = TableTools.length(n)
local text = string.format ('*%s', n1 or '')
n1 = nil --make next loop only target arguments >=2
for i, j in ipairs(TableTools.compressSparseArray(n)) do
text = text..string.format("\n** {{replace|%s|.*|<code>.*</code>}}", j)
end
return text
The line text = text..string.format("\n** %s", j)
is apparently shorthand for 'dumbass that can't code LUA', because if if you have a string like '*Bibcode*', you don't get, as I'd expect
.*
Bibcode.*
but rather an un-parsed
.*
}}If someone could de-dumbassify my code, that would be peachy. The goal is if the substring '.*
' is present in a string like '.*Bibcode.*
', I want those to become wrapped in code tags, like so <code>.*</code>Bibcode<code>.*</code>
.
@ Galobtter: maybe? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 13:59, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
text = text .. "\n** " .. mw.ustring.gsub(j, "%.%*", "<code>.*</code>")
mw.ustring.gsub
is just the unicode-compatible version of
string.gsub
. --
Ahecht (
TALKHow do I display an external link that contains "[" and "]"? Here is an example: The first result of this Google Scholar search takes you to a bioone.org page. But its url has "[" and "]" in it. I tried to paste that link into this Resource Request, but the "[" and "]" garble the result. Is there an escape character that can be used to "hide" the "[" and "]"? Thanks. — Bruce1ee talk 13:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
So I found Pullman Square entirely by accident when trying to find GA-class WP:MALLS articles. But for some reason, it was only assessed as a C-class Shopping Malls article despite being GA-class in every other Wikiproject. Is there an easy way to find articles that have contradictory assessments of this sort? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:54, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
page_assessments
database:
quarry:query/38930. There are a lot of false positives though, for instance if the article belongs to inactive WikiProjects. I don't think I can check for those. Same query but for FA:
quarry:query/38931. I think category intersections such as with Petscan is going to work better. —
MusikAnimal
talk 22:42, 12 September 2019 (UTC)When I edit my common.js and save it by clicking the "Publish changes" button, there is no edit saved. I don't get the timed "Your edit was saved" popup afterwards either. It doesn't matter whether I'm trying to insert new code (e.g. to load another script) or add or edit an existing comment – none of them get saved. The history of the page shows the last edit was in May and my contribs don't show the edit either. I am able to edit User:AlanM1/sandbox as well as WP:Teahouse. Any ideas? —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 09:50, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Something about this particular username (maybe the asterisk at the beginning?) seems to be breaking a couple of the links at {{
Sp-contributions-footer}}
, but I'm afraid I don't know much about the features being used, so I'm not sure where the problem is exactly. Just thought it would be worth bringing up here. Thanks, –
Deacon Vorbis (
carbon •
videos) 03:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
{{encodefirst|{{urlencode:{{{1|Example}}}|WIKI}}}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 10:51, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
In case this is affecting anybody else: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232698. The problem is under investigation. ↠Pine (✉) 05:31, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
The skin preference doesn't affect mobile sites (*.m.wiki*edia.org). I can not change mobile skin no matter how hard I try. So we were chatting on #wikimedia-tech about this. Isarra told me there was a phab task about this problem, and Jon Robson commented there that there is a mobile skin preference but it is hidden. I asked Isarra and other people on #wikimedia-tech, but they didn't seem to know too. Some of them tried to enable it via api, but that ended in failure. Anyway, he told me to find some gadget maker nerds and ask them as "they might know". So I am asking here. How to change skins on mobile? Masum Reza 📞 05:39, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
How can I reformat {{
Anthony}}
so that it is a tad wider and so that multiple links may appear on a line?-
TonyTheTiger (
T /
C /
WP:FOUR /
WP:CHICAGO /
WP:WAWARD) 02:26, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
|contentclass=plainlist
to |contentclass=hlist
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 09:36, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
-- qedk ( t 桜 c) 10:29, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
Recently, whenever I try to follow a link to a .pdf, such as for instance this, I only get a blank page, while other people seem able to access it without trouble. Admittedly, I am in the EU, and so I get shut off from various US media because GDPR, but the .pdf thing seems different. There's no message at all, just a blank page. Bishonen | talk 09:24, 15 September 2019 (UTC).
Anyone else noticing that Wikipedia emails seem to take a while to arrive lately (e.g. notice of one in the interface long before it shows in your inbox), or is that just me & my provider having issues? Received one that took around 20 minutes (from what I recall) to arrive in my inbox earlier this week (just had time/remembered to ask now). -- TheSandDoctor Talk 20:44, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm in Australia (GMT +10) and edited Wikipedia up until about 05:00 today. When I went to edit at about 14:35 today I updated my watchlist but it only shows edits from 07:53. I've changed nothing so I don't understand why it's only showing some edits from today. My prefs are set for 500 edits and the last 5 days but I'm showing nowhere near that. Is this an issue affecting anyone else? -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 06:36, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
This is kind of amusing. In the process of reviewing Draft:Manoir du Clap, I did a google search for "manoir du clap" and was surprised to discover we already had such an article on enwiki, at least according to Google. Problem is, I couldn't find it. My first guess was maybe this draft was once in mainspace and got draftified, but no evidence of that either. Lots of head scratching ensued. Turns out, the article really is on frwiki (and indeed, if you click on the link, it takes you to frwiki), and Chrome's auto-translation not only translated the text, but "helpfully" translated the hostname too. Mentioning it here in case anybody else has been tripped up by this silliness. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:00, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
In the mobile version, the diffs always says "No change in size" even if there is change in size. See for example [24].-- SharabSalam ( talk) 19:52, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
I don't know if this is an appropriate place to put my feedback but I have to say that I am not impressed by the very new update to the mobile version, I hope Wikimedia doesn't go forward with this, for example what's the point of having the number of contributions bigger in diffs? I think it should actually be removed from diffs because there is prejudice against those who have few edits in Wikipedia community and therefore they usually get reverted often. Instead Wikimedia made the contribution number bigger! Also my phone screen is small and the numbers make the interface looks weird like the word "edits" disappear when the user has so many rights. Also what's the point of using these icons? to differentiate between anonymous and logged-in users? They are pointless. Anyone can differentiate between the IPs and the logged-in users. I feel like the new update didn't offer any improvement. If this update was the old version and the old version was the update I would actually count the old version as an improvement.- SharabSalam ( talk) 00:12, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
AWB (version 5.10.1.0, running on Windows 7 64-bit) is failing to connect, reporting:
Error connecting to wiki
An error occured while connecting to the server or loading project information from it. Please make sure that your internet connection works and such combination of project/language exist.
Enter the URL in the format "en.wikipedia.org/w/" (including path where index.php and api.php reside).
Error description: StartIndex cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: startIndex
and then:
User check problem
Check page failed to load.
Check your Internet is working and that the Wiki is online.
So far as I can tell, my configuration files have not changed since I last successfully used AWB two days ago. Obviously my internet connection is currently working, and Wikipedia appears to be functioning for normal editing.
Is there a problem with the server? Mitch Ames ( talk) 11:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
[25]. "Error querying Pageviews API - Not found." Help? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 13:08, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
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I have numbers in various 'sizes' in a table (see demo right). I want to have them aligned as decimal number, i.e., all decimal signs (=periods) below each other. What are today's best practices available? Any smart template I have not found yet? - DePiep ( talk) 14:42, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Good afternoon Wikipedians!
I have a rather fundamental question.
When you send a search to Wikipedia using the:
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=George Washington
URL, it seems like this function returns 3 different manifestations of Wikipedia search:
1) An actual article 2) A disambiguation page 3) A list of articles, like a Google search
3 examples would be:
If you search for “George Washington”:
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=George Washington
Would return the George Washington Wikipedia article.
If you search for “tom jones”:
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=tom jones
This search returns the disambiguation page for “tom jones”
If you search for “akbur”
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=akbur
This returns a listing of articles, much like a Google search does.
My question is, when the pages are returned. How do I determine what type of page was returned, just by analyzing the HTML that is present? What keywords or phrases can my program look for in the HTML to definitively determine that I have come upon a Wikipedia article, disambiguation page or a search listing?
This is made more difficult by the seeming inconsistency of the search results. For instance, when searching and a disambiguation page is returned, some of these pages contain the phrase “may refer to:” and some may contain the phrase “may also refer to:”. And some of these key phases may, seemingly have 1, 2 or even 3 spaces, between these words, in these key phrases, which makes using key phrases, to figure out the type of page returned, that much more difficult.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Jroehl ( talk) 18:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
&fulltext=1
to the url if you always want search results. The API can be asked directly whether a page exists and what type of page it is. For example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=disambiguation&titles=Tom%20Jones%7CGeorge%20Washington%7CAkbur shows that
Tom Jones is a disambiguation page,
George Washington is not, and
Akbur doesn't exist.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 18:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Thankyou very much Redrose64. It is always important to remember this! Jroehl ( talk) 15:59, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I am sorry to bother you here on English Wikipedia but we do not have technical users on our one, so after wrongly using Phabricator for the first time, I hope this could be a place where I will find somebody that will be able to help.
What I need to help with: Our Community portal looks good when accessing it on desktop. This, however, does not apply for the mobile view. So I basically need help with making the page responsive so that it displays correctly on all kinds of displays.
Here is the detailed request (on Phabricator): phabricator:T231949
It was recommended to me to get inspired by this responsive template, so I hope that can help.
If you want to help, feel free to contact me on wiki (here, Meta, Slovak one, ...) or via e-mail and we can discuss further. If there is going to be a need to create a css or js file, I can request interface admin's rights and put it there, meanwhile, it can be tested on Testwiki.
Thanks a lot for reading this!
-- Luky001 ( talk) 16:02, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Looking at the source, I think this is meant to be an ambox, but it does not actually render for some reason. I found this issue when I proceeded to add the tag to Patchwork religion, currently linked only from this page and a 2010 RfD, to find that it had already been tagged in 2015. However, someone else may have noted that this tag is invisible. I cannot try to fix it myself because the page is template-protected. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 02:40, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Is the mw.user.options object in the JavaScript interface a reliable area to store data through scripts (for later access from the scripts)? If so, I am guessing that it can be for setting up scripts for creating private to-do lists and custom watchlists, etc. SD0001 ( talk) 06:43, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
localStorage
to save stuff, and unlike localStorage will follow the person around if they log in on a different computer. See also
mw:API:Options
Bawolff (
talk) 05:23, 20 September 2019 (UTC)There has been a change to how the maximum template expansion depth is handled. The maximum is still 40 but the change has increased the expansion depth calculated for the page so that some deeply nested templates are now broken. This happens with a number of cladograms constructed using the {{ clade}}, as can be seen in Afrophidia. Pages generating the error can be found at Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded. Strangely, some of the cladogram still look OK on the saved page but fail in edit preview. I think this is due to caching, but cannot explain why these pages look OK but already appear in the error tracking category.
The following code used to be able to expand 40 nested templates, but now fails at 21.
* Nest 21 templates: {{1x|1 {{1x|2 {{1x|3 {{1x|4 {{1x|5 {{1x|6 {{1x|7 {{1x|8 {{1x|9 {{1x |10 {{1x|11 {{1x|12 {{1x|13 {{1x|14 {{1x|15 {{1x|16 {{1x|17 {{1x|18 {{1x|19 {{1x|20 {{1x |'''21'''}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}}
You can see similar examples at
Checking the current expansion limit and
[27]
:mw:Help:Expansion_depth#Nesting depth on the page itself. These still appear to allow transclusion to a depth of 40, but if you test in edit preview they fail at 21. Again, I think that this is because cached pages are being displayed.
Jts1882 |
talk 16:13, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Gadget, I'm attempting to start a discussion here about the likelihood of User:Evad37/XFDcloser (commonly referred to as "XFDcloser") being eligible to be promoted to "Gadget" status. For those who do not know what this script is used for, it is used to automatically close a majority of types of WP:XFD discussions. There are quite a few editors who use this script, including myself. However, if it can be, I think it is time for this script to become a gadget (provided that it meets all criteria in Wikipedia:Gadget#General criteria for gadgets.) The main reason I'm proposing this script become a gadget is not only because of several editors using it, but also since its creator/maintainer, Evad37, hasn't edited in almost a month and a half, and if it were promoted to a gadget, other editors could respond to update requests to the script. So ... does this look like a good candidate for "Gadget"-ification? Steel1943 ( talk) 16:58, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
My recent addition of a Popular culture section to the article appears to be alternately installed, and the uninstalled in the article. It seems to sometimes appear there, and then not to appear a few minutes later when someone else edits another part of the article. I do not know if when you link to the film if you will see the Popular culture section or not. It does appear as having been made in my edit history [28], but it does not appear in the article consistently after the edit is made and confirmed. It just seems to disappear 5 minutes later and then reappear again later without anyone editing it. Any thoughts? CodexJustin ( talk) 17:59, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
I discovered today that I've got a bunch of edits on dewiki. To the best of my knowledge, I've made exactly one edit there. The rest seem to be some random assortment of edits I've made on en that were mirrored to de. What's the deal here? Is there some bot or something that's doing this? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:39, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
So, it turns out, there's more to this story. The only reason I noticed my de edits was that I was looking for a recent edit that I thought I had made on https://www.mediawiki.org, but couldn't find it. Then I realized it might not have been on that wiki, so I checked global. Turns out, when Global user contributions says, Show user contributions from all Wikimedia wikis, they mean that for very small values of all. Specifically, it doesn't include wikitech.wikimedia.org. But, I guess all really means, all external-facing, or something like that. Anyway, I eventually found what I was looking for in my browser history, and learned something about inter-wiki imports, so a positive experience. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:43, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello colleagues. When a citation looks like this:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc Howard, Greg (2014-02-06). "The Big Book Of Black Quarterbacks". Deadspin. Archived from the original on 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
Is there a better way? This is as a result of the source being used a lot in the article, and especially because it is used to source some, but not all, rows in a large table. Can those little letter backlinks (what are they called?) be suppressed, hidden, grouped, or something? It seems to me that it not only looks bad, but is entirely useless to a reader. Is there a doc that covers this? Thanks in advance! – Leviv ich 17:04, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
span.mw-cite-backlink {
display: none;
}
|group=groupname
used to control which refs are grouped in which list. See
WP:REFGROUP for details. Consider putting each table ref in a group using <ref group=table>Content</ref>
, and putting {{reflist|group=table}}
in a footer of the table. That may be enough to make the main reflist manageable. If the resulting table reflist still offends you, you don't have to use <ref></ref>
markup in the table, you can roll your own link from each row to the source in the footer, with no backlink. --
Worldbruce (
talk) 01:35, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Our preferences pages have a timezone setting, is it used anywhere? — Pelagic ( talk) 07:41, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to post, but WikiHiero doesn't seem to work in the mobile version. This is a problem at decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs#Champollion's breakthroughs, where tables of WikiHiero glyphs display neatly on desktop (or at least on mine) but aren't visible at all on mobile. There are possible substitutes—images or the Unicode Egyptian hieroglyphs block—but both would be awkward to implement in the table, and the hieroglyphs block doesn't seem to be widely supported yet. Should I make a bug request? Does anyone have other suggestions? A. Parrot ( talk) 23:46, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
prefix=
in the url. Did you actually get mainspace results or do you just think it searches mainspace because the url ends with ns0=1
and the interface says "Search in: (Article)". If I search hieroglyph then I get
/info/en/?search=Special:Search?search=hieroglyph&prefix=Wikipedia%3AVillage+pump&fulltext=Search+all+village+pumps+%26+archives&fulltext=Search&ns0=1. prefix=Wikipedia%3AVillage+pump
means I only get results with that prefix, and the top of the page says: Only searching in pages whose title starts with "Wikipedia:Village pump".
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)I missed any notice of the fact that my watchlist now (in the last few hours) shows every addition to a category that I'm watching, and every removal. This is not a complaint but it's strange that, unlike edits to watched articles (which show only the most recent edit), it appears that every category membership change is listed. Here is a rough representation of what appears in my current watchlist for one category.
22 September 2019
Category:Age error; 06:53 CASSIOPEIA
List of current UFC fighters added to category,
this page is included within other pages
Category:Age error; 04:58 2607:fea8:4c60:957:bc51:95d0:f84e:6988
Luther Reigns added to category, this page is included within other pages
Category:Age error; 02:15 Yankees10
Walker Buehler removed from category, this page is included within other pages
Johnuniq ( talk) 07:13, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
( diff | hist ) m Amir al-Mu'minin; 22:01 -52 Mohanad Kh (talk | contribs) (- Category:Politics of Morocco; - Category:Jihad using HotCat un-related) [ rollback ]
Category:Age error; 02:15 Yankees10 Walker Buehler removed from category, this page is included within other pages
14 September 2019
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13:26, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
There appears to be a problem with Navigation popups in showing previous versions of a page, in some cases showing vandalism. At 19:16, 20 September 2019 the Great Stink article was vandalised; it was reverted within a minute, but the pop up still shows the vandalised version. Any thoughts? – SchroCat ( talk) 07:22, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Something is breaking the formatting on Woolworth Building. For some reason there is nearly a full page of blank space after the sentence "The ornate lobby contains various sculptures, mosaics, and architectural touches." I've tried a couple things but nothing worked. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 06:36, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
FWIW, I appear to be having this same issue at #Darryl Jones below. Home Lander ( talk) 00:46, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
There is a large blank area in the middle of Darryl Jones. I've tried to resolve it in preview; removing the image from the infobox removes some of the blank lines, but not all of them. Can someone figure out what is causing this? Thanks. Home Lander ( talk) 21:38, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
See #Woolworth Building above. Not resolved. Johnuniq ( talk) 23:33, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
I have two column edit-conflict enabled as a Beta feature and it seems that VE is unable to process any edit-conflicts. I was frequently conflicting with an IP over Rupi Kaur and every single time (thrice), the publish button returned a 404 error. I needed to relaunch the edit-page and re-write it, pending which it was possible to publish. ∯WBG converse 15:28, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
{{ping|
waddie96}} {
talk}
15:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC)I'm using the timeless wikipedia skin, and is there a way to remove the right-hand column, either in the settings or with JS? If it does involve JS, could you show me the code which does it? Thanks! Aven 12:50, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
#mw-related-navigation { display: none; }
to your
Special:MyPage/timeless.css page. --
AntiCompositeNumber (
talk) 14:55, 22 September 2019 (UTC)I've noticed the toollabs viewcount tool we use for DYK is down. When you click on the link, it buffers for a few seconds then shows you no results and no name in the search bar as usual. You also cannot manually enter the name as the system doesn't appear to recognise you have typed in the box. Could this be looked at please? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 07:03, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
I've discovered a few issues with Template:Graph:Chart. I made my first comment at the talk page a few days ago but it hasn't received any replies, so I'm hoping a message here will spark some interest. The sections are Template_talk:Graph:Chart#Problem_with_<nowiki>_and_this_template and Template_talk:Graph:Chart#showSymbols_doesn't_respect_opacity_values. 202.159.169.45 ( talk) 23:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Makes sense that I’d see notices posted on watched editor’s talk pages, but why see that another editor “has opted-out of message delivery”? Hyperbolick ( talk) 14:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Feels like not my business to see somebody else’s opt-outs or preferences.You're watching their talkpage, that is why you're notified of actions that happen on it. So you really have business with the page —and any other page you watch. – Ammarpad ( talk) 14:50, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a way to disable the scrolling arrow buttons in the bottom right? Appear to be added to WP:ITNC recently and displayed by default. Brandmeister talk 10:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
.skip-to-top-button .skip-to-bottom-button {
display: none !important;
}
!important
annotation. This should work: #skip-to-top-button,
#skip-to-bottom-button {
display: none;
}
!important
annotations at it, but check the selectors and, if necessary, increase their specificity: div#skip-to-top-button,
div#skip-to-bottom-button {
display: none;
}
!important
annotation is necessary - usually, it's a cop-out. The thing is, once it has been used, it becomes much harder to override. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 13:48, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
In Template talk:Update § "This template"? I wrote
Having read the documentation more carefully since writing that, I see that the message says "template" there because it's being included in a template. In an article or section it would say "article" or "section" instead:
I've been editing Wikipedia for 14 years and I have never encounteredv this kind of confusion before, where the example text of a template displayed at the top of its page appears to say (falsely) that the template is to be used only in templates. That part of the documentation needs a warning, an assurance that the template is not just for use in templates, but happens to say "template" there because it's being used in a template-doc page. And that explanation should include a link to § Example; I didn't twig to the explanation till I got to that section. Adding such a warning adjacent to the example text of a template doc would probably be very non-standard, but this is a non-standard situation. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 02:12, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
This template can be used to mark articles or sections with old or out-of-date information. Actually, you're only confused because you're releasing this for the first time. – Ammarpad ( talk) 03:51, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
| demospace = {{{demospace|<noinclude>main</noinclude>}}}
to display "article" on the template page.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 04:15, 29 September 2019 (UTC)I already have code on my vector.css page that recolors redirects green, which I find very helpful. I was wondering if I could do something similar for wikilinks that go directly to a page without using a redirect; I find the dark blue and black difficult to distinguish between when text is not in bold and my screen is not at full brightness, and I would really rather keep my screen at the minimum brightness setting. IF possible, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's not, I would also like to know how to turn the background black and the regular text white; that would obviate any need to recolor direct wikilinks. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 19:24, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
a:not(.mw-redirect) { style: here; }
should work. The second request is possible but much more difficult to do given the number of stylings to be made if you want the colors consistent; someone has a user script for it hanging around but I don't have that to hand. --
Izno (
talk) 19:51, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
a:not(.mw-redirect) { color: green; }
in your vector.css. I don't know why Izno decided to give you extra work. And for your second question, you can use
this script being developed by WMF. –
Ammarpad (
talk) 22:09, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
a:not(.mw-redirect) { color: green; }
then many links in the preview become green. Some things cannot be tested this way because they don't appear on the css or js page you are editing. Browsers usually have a feature to view a page with added css or js you can enter somewhere in the browser.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:12, 29 September 2019 (UTC)( edit conflict) Okay, I installed the script you suggested, but I can't find the switch to turn it on. Would it be located somewhere in the "Vector (default | Preview | Custom CSS | Custom JavaScript)" bunch? Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 22:26, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
Wait, nevermind, I found it. It's up at the top of the screen. Thanks for all the help everyone, I'll be glad to help test this script! 22:30, 28 September 2019 (UTC) Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 22:31, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
When Template:Anchor is placed after the section title, the browser may scroll the page, so that the section title is just out of view. When the anchor is placed before the section title, then the anchor belongs to the preceding section, and it is not visible in a section edit. So the proper place for an anchor is the section title. However, then the template code will appear in the edit summary of a section edit. It is therefore suggested to use direct HTML (by substituting the template). In the German Wikipedia, a solution to this issue was implemented in August 2012, and it is strongly recommended to use the anchor in a section title ( de:Hilfe:Überschrift#anchor). So, please, implement the German solution.-- 77.6.73.196 ( talk) 13:28, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
<span>
directly as you mention, but there are a lot of unsubstituted template invocations. Perhaps a bot could be tasked to tidy these up? --
Mirokado (
talk) 13:46, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
anchor}}
already mentions this. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 13:54, 29 September 2019 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
As many are aware Wikipedia books has not worked in a few years and there's no light down the tunnel of any fixes coming... Reading/Web/PDF Functionality (no update on WikiBooks in a year). I am proposing suppressing the rendering capability of Template:Wikipedia books ( related = Template:Book bar & Template:Books-inline) and removal of the Book Creator in the sidebar. This is for our readers so they don't keep going to books that don't work and haven't worked in a few years..plus these types of lists exist in outlines already. I'm thinking suppression of the template(s) is better than outright deletion in case the WMF finally does come up with something...then poof...they can all appear when transclusion is implemented again. Currently PDF rendering per page has been implemented so the link seen at Wikipedia:Books about an external program is no longer needed as our in-house PDF system is running.-- Moxy 🍁 22:57, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
Note: Votes below have been cast since the initial close was reverted — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 07:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
This discussion has been notified at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 10:32, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
since I got quite some anarchistic thoughts, I kind of enjoy business models explode in huge fireballs. People make money off these books, but they do not serve our readers well. Time to explode in huge fireballs, or at least hide the template. – Leviv ich 04:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Note: This discussion has been notified at mw:Extension talk:Collection. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 08:49, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Due to severe issues with our existing system, the Book Creator will no longer support saving a book as a PDF for a short period of time. We are working hard to replace our system and re-enable PDFs within the Book Creator.Put that together with the info found on the "Learn more" page, plus the next notice about single-page downloading, and it all adds up to a distinct possibility that somebody forgot to update those warnings. P. I. Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 06:52, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Reverted close: WP:SNOW close with consensus for proposal. I am fully aware that RfC's usually should run for 30 days and willing to re-open if there are any concerns. ( non-admin closure) -- Trialpears ( talk) 23:26, 31 August 2019 (UTC)}}
#coll-create_a_book { display: none; }
to
Mediawiki:Common.css. --
Yair rand (
talk) 18:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)Note: the following two-part post was made before the initial close was reverted — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 07:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
YIKES! STOP EVERYBODY! The Book Creator tool remains an essential feature in order to create and edit Wikipedia books for external services such as PediaPress print-on-demand and the MediaWiki2LaTex independent PDF rendering service. It is only our in-house rendering that has gone (and may yet come back, as PediaPress have undertaken to provide a replacement). Please roll back all these stakes through its heart! — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 19:08, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Specifically, the OP's rationale that "Currently PDF rendering per page has been implemented so the link seen at Wikipedia:Books about an external program is no longer needed as our in-house PDF system is running," is wholly wrong-headed. Yes we have a new article renderer, but it is a totally unrelated function from book rendering. That needs entirely different software in two parts - the book creator/designer which lists articles for inclusion and the book renderer which pulls all the articles together. We have only lost the book rendering, the old book creator/editor is still functional and still in use. The linked external book rendering service is still also operational. It has absolutely not been withdrawn or overtaken by the new article renderer. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 20:16, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
I am the maintainer of mediawiki2latex. Maybe it is a bit off topic, but I got two views on this point. Firstly mediawiki2latex currently provides a way to get PDFs from books hosted on Wikipedia and keeping this possibility might be an advantage for some users of the content, particularly those with small financial resources, which is a good thing as such. The resources on the web interface to mediawiki2atex (which is hosted by wmf) are quite limited so that book may a most contain a few dozens of articles. mediawiki2latex is also provided as a binary package for Debian Linux without any limits on the number of articles per books.
Removing the books from Wikipedia would not cause any financial consequences to me since I am only doing this as an unpayed hobby project in me spare time. Still pediapress financially relies on the book feature on wikipedia. So closing the book feature might cause pediapress to stop all business activities in this field, which causes me to have a monopoly, which is the greatest thing you can get in capitalism. So the choice is yours. Dirk Hünniger ( talk) 14:37, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
I think it's high time we invited the WMF over to participate in this discussion. I am not sure of the best way to do that, but I have tried what I can. If anybody knows the correct place to post an advisory over there, please do so. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 12:13, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Well, the majority seems to have a clear opinion. Many contributors have brought forward their arguments, currently there seem to be no new arguments. I am really looking forward to a decision being taken. In my impish mind I will be really pleased to see these fireworks go off. Especially when imagining that these relaxed well paid, socially secured people, well assured that there is never any problem, will suddenly have to work quite a lot. My systems will keep running. But possibly I should better change my telephone number. Good Luck Dirk Hünniger ( talk) 14:36, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Since the usability of mediawiki2latex is discussed. I provide to examples of the output of the large document server http://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org/
I choose these two examples since I think to remeber to have seen them in this discussion. So everyone can now look at them and find his / her own opinion. Everyone is also wellcome to add examples and of you to send me bug reports on what he / she wants changed. Dirk Hünniger ( talk) 12:34, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
As one of the founders and current CEO of PediaPress, I'd like to express my point of view. The book creator / collection extension was created more than 10 years ago and is still in active use today. Check the original press release from 2007. PediaPress donates 10% of its gross revenue from Wikipedia books to the WMF every year (more than €70,000 total over the last ten years). After a couple of failed attempts to create print products from Wikipedia, the partnership with PediaPress was established to allow for a consistently available, self-service, and good quality print export of Wiki content. The relevance of this use case has declined over the years but it is still relevant for a small group of avid users (I can share full revenue data if desired). The collection extension has been vital in enabling this feature. Without an easy to use interface, most Wikipedia users will never be able to explore this. Even though I had only limited time to work on the new book renderer in the past few months, I/PediaPress is committed to delivering high quality PDF and print export for Wikipedia and other wikis in the future. We agreed to release the new HTML renderer as open source and to sponsor the PDF book rendering going forward. I would hope that this feature would not be shut down and I am very open for talking about how to make book export better and more relevant. Ckepper ( talk) 13:31, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
While it's possible to download or reading a book it's not very convenient. Rendering a book with MediaWiki2LaTex often takes many hours and some setup if someone else is using the online resources and the pediapress preview doesn't show the entire book. Would it be possible to upload a pre-rendered book from MediaWiki2LaTex on the book pages ready to be downloaded or read. If that was the case this would be even better than when there was an inhouse pdf renderer. -- Trialpears ( talk) 21:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello- at the top of the Raid on Taipei article, there are two semicolons ("; ;") that are generated as part of Template:cjkv. I don't know how to fix this, but I think someone should fix this at some point. Thanks for any help. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 04:24, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
|t=臺北大空襲
to the {{
cjkv}} template. This removed the extra semi-colon in the article. It's not clear to me what the intent is when a parameter is missing. In this example, in the absence of |t=
or |c=
the template seems to assume that the Japanese is the same as tradition chinese and changes the text accordingly (but leaves the extra semi-colon). I assume this is correct as that was what was in the article. Ideally the template could be modified to avoid adding the extra semi-colon without the duplication, but that template code is convoluted.
Jts1882 |
talk 06:34, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{cjkv|j=臺北大空襲|r=Taihoku Daikūshū|t=臺北大空襲|p=Táiběi Dà Kōngxí}}
{{cjkv|j=臺北大空襲|r=Taihoku Daikūshū|t=臺北大空襲|p=Táiběi Dà Kōngxí}}
|t=臺北大空襲
parameter now occurs twice. Also, the extra semicolon is still there. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:33, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
|c=臺北大空襲
which removed the semi-colon.
|c=
with |t=
, which restored "traditional chinese", but didn't notice the semi-colon came back.; 
pair. This is produced by the last of three complex tests thus: {{ #ifexpr: {{ #if: {{{p|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{tp|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{cy|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{w|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{r|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{k|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{rr|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{v|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{l|}}} | 1 | 0 }} | ;  }}
It appears that tens of thousands of articles have appeared in Category:Pages with script errors recently. It may be conincidence, but many of them appear to call the newly created Module:String/i18n. Do any Module-savvy / i18n-savvy technical folks care to take a look? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 19:20, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
[pings omitted] Wouldn't it be easier to just revert the edit by Ans, instead of protecting lots of /i18n subpages which will never be needed? I find it unlikely that some random module is going to have an /i18n subpage which needs to supersede the i18n table of Module:Wikidata (which is apparently what the change is supposed to allow for). Jc86035 ( talk) 21:38, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
next(res)
and then references res.i18n
. So if the table has at least one key, but no key named i18n
, then an error will be thrown. Instead,
Module:I18n should check if that key exists.
Thayts
••• 07:26, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
At
Hideaki Yamada, replacing all content with {{cite sports-reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/hideaki-yamada-1.html}}
and previewing shows the three i18n modules being called (
Module:I18n +
Module:String/i18n +
Module:Wikidata/i18n). Repeating that after adding |check-wikidata=no
shows that no i18n modules are called (wikitext {{cite sports-reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/hideaki-yamada-1.html|check-wikidata=no}}
). {{
cite sports-reference}} calls various string templates such as {{
str find}} and somehow one of them must lead to Module:String/i18n being tested for existence. If anyone has some time to pursue this, please let us know how Module:String/i18n ends up being called.
Johnuniq (
talk) 11:02, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{#invoke:String|match|{{#invoke:Wikidata|getPropertyIDs|P31|FETCH_WIKIDATA}},|Q5,|1|1|true|}}
(code taken from {{
cite sports-reference}}) results in a call to
Module:String/i18n. There is probably a more concise case that would call it, but the only templates or modules trancluded by that code are
Module:I18n,
Module:No globals,
Module:String,
Module:String/i18n, and
Module:Wikidata. Poking through
Module:Wikidata, I see this code that might be relevant:--require("Module:i18n").loadI18n("Module:Wikidata/i18n", i18n) -- got idea from [[:w:Module:Wd]] local module_title; if ... == nil then module_title = mw.getCurrentFrame():getTitle() else module_title = ... end require('Module:i18n').loadI18n(module_title..'/i18n', i18n)
I believe I understand how Module:String/i18n is being called, although the explanation depends on several obscure features and what may be a bug in how Lua is implemented. First of all, to answer some of the comments above, this is related to Module:Wikidata, specifically the block of code Jonesey95 quoted above.
In detail: arguments to Lua modules are
evaluated lazily, meaning that in the simplified example {{#invoke:String|match|{{#invoke:Wikidata|getPropertyIDs|P31|FETCH_WIKIDATA}},|Q5,|1|1|true|}}
,
Module:Wikidata isn't actually called until
Module:String attempts to access the value of its first argument. When that happens and
Module:Wikidata runs and, since ...
is not defined, calls mw.getCurrentFrame()
. Due to what I think is a bug, that function returns the frame for the toplevel
Module:String call, not the inner
Module:Wikidata call, meaning that its getTitle
method returns "Module:String", resulting in
Module:i18n attempting to load
Module:String/i18n.
The actual content of
Module:String is mostly irrelevant here; all that matters is that it uses arguments; I could create a call of
Module:BananasArgs/i18n via {{#invoke:BananasArgs|hello|{{
#invoke:wikidata|pageId}}}}
( Hello, Q111847620!), as you can see via the pages transcluded on this page.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 15:10, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
is bugged; it's supposed to return the toplevel frame. I've copied all relevant modules into sandboxes and played around with them, and I've found that if you use the frame that is passed to the called function of
Module:Wikidata instead (e.g. p.getPropertyIDs = function(frame)
, see
[36]), then the correct module_title
is retrieved. So this can be solved by changing
Module:Wikidata to load i18n differently, in a similar way as
Module:Wd.next(res)
should be replaced with a check to see if res.i18n
exists and if that is a table.
Thayts
••• 20:36, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
still needs fixing, of course. --
RexxS (
talk) 21:26, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
fails to get the current frame (i.e. the frame invoked with the current code), we're permanently chasing our own tails. --
RexxS (
talk) 23:15, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
is called at the module level (not inside a function) in the inner #invoke it picks up the frame from the outer #invoke rather than getting its own frame created for the module-level processing. You should file a task in
Phabricator about it.
Anomie
⚔ 20:52, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
, it should return the frame object from the most recent #invoke
. The laziness explains that mw.getCurrentFrame()
is even able to get
Module:String's frame object, but the most recent invoke is then indeed that of
Module:Wikidata.
Thayts
••• 21:17, 30 September 2019 (UTC)Hello, sorry for asking here, but I got no response elsewhere. On cswiki WikiMiniAtlas gadget does not work anymore, could you help? We suspect this is due to changes in our Coord template. What should Coord template fulfill to make WikiMiniAltas work there again? Or do we have got some error in our gadget definition? ( w:cs:MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition and w:cs:MediaWiki:Gadget-WikiMiniAtlas.js) -- Dvorapa ( talk) 10:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
I noticed a problem about two weeks ago and wrote the following to describe it. However, by the time I got around to posting it a day later, the problem had gone away. It has returned and FWIW here it is.
Previewing the following (extracted from {{ Infobox road}} in Heartland Expressway) in a sandbox gives "The time allocated for running scripts has expired" with a result similar to "Lua time usage: 12.751/10.000 seconds" in the NewPP report in the page's HTML source.
{{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=290|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Heartland Expressway}}}}
The same problem can be seen at Interstate 84 in Oregon and possible other articles. Any thoughts? Johnuniq ( talk) 07:53, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I played around with {{maplink|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Heartland Expressway}}}}
from
Heartland Expressway. The NewPP report for the article shows Lua time usage: 12.047/10.000 seconds. The pages used are
Template:Maplink +
Module:Mapframe +
Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Heartland Expressway. The module finishes with a call to display a large (87,101 bytes) <mapframe> file which apparently uses
mw:Extension:Kartographer. Previewing an edit to the module which does everything except call Kartographer requires 0.34 seconds of Lua time. Conclusion: Kartographer is taking nearly 12 seconds and that fails because the time is counted against Lua which has a 10-second limit (more than enough for anything reasonable using pure Lua). I was thinking about investigating the module which has a dozen unintended globals and might need tweaking. However, the basic problem might be Kartographer, or the fact that Kartographer's time is debited to Lua.
Johnuniq (
talk) 07:59, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Really like the sandbox and use it a lot. I cleared out an article I had posted and started a new one. Started a fresh page and new infox box using a template cut and pasted directly from the help pages. When I previewed it, just a straight line of all the text I had entered displayed but no actual inbox. Tried with different templates, still no real infobox, just a line of of the text I had entered. Cleaned my caches, ran anti-malware. Then went through all the how to fix it steps listed in the infobox help article, it still would not display correctly. Then cleaned my computer caches, registries etc, even reloaded the browser. Then purged the sandbox as per help page. Put up a test template in, saved it, it still will not display, nada, not even the line of text entered in the test infobox, which it did before. The editing area is there but when I preview it there is nothing but a box to the right that says "my name/sandbox." I use the firefox browser. Help pages said ad blocker could be the cause. I use ublock origin and have it turned off on Wiki. Have never had a problem with the same setup before. Just reloaded both. Still have the issue with same configuration that I had no problem with until now.
Would appreciate some help with this. Have spent a lot of time on it and do not understand why it is not working. Thank you. Ogmany ( talk) 13:10, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
<!-- -->
. Those indicate source comments for editors viewing the source. Anything inside them are ignored when the page is rendered. See more at
Help:Wikitext#Invisible text (comments). If a page displays your template code like it looks in the source then it's usually due to unclosed tags. Maybe a starting {{
is missing the ending }}
, or a [[
is missing a ]]
in one of the parameters.
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talk) 13:56, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I've been putting it off for quite a while, but I feel I need to find a way to do this soon. Here's what I'd like to do:
Currently, there are a few different ranking lists for pool players, such as the WPA and Eurotour rankings. There is a similar list for snooker players such as at Snooker world rankings 2019/2020.
What I'd like is to be able to have a way to update infoboxes (such as Template:Infobox pool player/rankings, similar to how Template:Infobox snooker player/rankings works. However, these are updated with a quick copy/paste for the snooker version, which doesn't seem possible with the above ranking lists. I'd also like to be able to update a potential article for each ranking list for the rankings after each event. The main issue (other than importing), seems to be the sheer amount of article names that are different from the name given. They tend to use lastname, firstname, rather than how our articles work.
I'd really like a reasonably quick and clean way to update the lists. Is there a way to go about doing this, or should I work around an existing solution? Please let me know if I need to provide more information. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
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When checking whether this recent change was an improvement or vandalism (it looks to be an improvement), I came across List of the busiest airports in France, which starts of with two graphs, which are Wikidata-fueled. Ignoring whether this is wanted or not for now, my problem is that they simply don't seem to work. Firefox 69.0.2 on Windows, all I get is a small placeholder image. Other articles like List of the busiest airports in Germany also use this kind of graph, but through a template: in this case I don't even get the placeholder image but solely an empty section.
Is this a problem on my side, or a general problem with these graphs? Fram ( talk) 12:44, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
I use the MonoBook skin. Yesterday, when editing, I started to see a large pink box with an orange border:
This is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved! → Go to editing area
I think the warning was there before, but it was not so jarring. Any ideas on how to tone it down? Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:45, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
This is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved! → Go to editing area
.previewnote .warningbox {border: none; background-color: white;}
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.previewnote .warningbox {border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; background-color: white;}
My personal choice here would be { display:none}, as usual.
Unfortunately, all these {display:none}'s don't bring back the lost performance, especially with this case that turned my 1Ghz CPU into a toaster. It's a real pity that MW becomes a bloatware, and worse yet, that the devs just won't listen. — Mike Novikoff 21:21, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation recently announced two major changes to this year's Community Wishlist Survey. I haven't seen it spread widely on-wiki, so I'm posting it here. The Community Tech team will only work on the 5 most popular requests, not the top 10. They will also not consider any proposals from Wikipedia projects. The announcement was on wikitech-l and other mailing lists. You can find more information at meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2020 and discuss the changes at meta:Talk:Community Wishlist Survey 2020. -- AntiCompositeNumber ( talk) 02:30, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Based on this post at wp:AN, the cursor position on Special:Search is weird. To reproduce, type some text in the box, then try to click in the box, and see the cursor is several characters to the right of where you clicked. I am using Chrome, Windows 10. User:Nixinova reported IE and Edge working as expected. Chris857 ( talk) 04:48, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
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I have uploaded a file, that is not fit for the intended use, and I want to delete it, but I don't know how. (Man, that was a long sentence – and please understand, that English isn't my first language.)
Anyways, I'd like to ask, if someone could help me deleting the file. /info/en/?search=File:Logo_for_the_2019_snooker_Champion_of_Champions.png
Cheers, Mrloop ( talk) 17:40, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Webcitation is one of the main recommended in the Help:Archiving a source for archiving links. But now a lot (all?) of pages with non-Latin text are shown with a Specials (Unicode block)#Replacement character. For example [42] . Is the site is finally dying аnd no longer reliable? Can someone contact them to fix it? -- Sunpriat ( talk) 00:43, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
In
Draft:Jaime Macías Alarcón, there's some very strange markup with every paragraph wrapped in <span data-segmentid="..." class="cx-segment">
. My two guesses are some weird Visual Editor bug, or (more likely) somebody copy-pasted this from somewhere and the HTML markup came along for the ride. Earwig doesn't show any copyvio matches, and googling for bits of text from the draft draws a blank as well. Anybody seen this before? --
RoySmith
(talk) 22:09, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
OK, thanks everybody. I think I'm going to copy the source to my unix box and clean it up with some emacs magic. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:25, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a problem with page categorisations as I have had no entries on my watchlist for the last couple of days yet there are new/removed entries in the category Category:CS1 errors: dates that should have appeared? Keith D ( talk) 10:17, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm sure it's been asked before, but I can't find it: is there an easier way to count the transclusions of a template than using the "what links here" page and counting how many pages? Circéus ( talk) 02:05, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/?title=MediaWiki:Linkscount.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
which lets you count without leaving "what links here" page and is more flexible with namespaces, etc.
SD0001 (
talk) 05:14, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Without the line feed the citation is messed up.
AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 23:22, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
'}}
renders as this:
<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>
<ref>''30 Rock'''s.</ref>
[5] gives the same result. Here is the html from this page:
<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">'<i><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a><b></b></i></span><i><b> <span class="reference-text"></span></b></i><b>30 Rock</b>s.</li>
'
<ref>''30 Rock'''s.</ref>
[6] and its html:
<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>30 Rock</i>'s.</span></li>
'''foo''' ''bar'''s
that happens to be interpreted in an unexpected manner. Including the newline puts a newline in that wikitext, and since apostrophe markup only works within a single line there's no ambiguity. Fixes might include replacing the '''
in
MediaWiki:Cite references link one with <b>...</b>
or <strong>...</strong>
or formatting the citation with <i>...</i>
to avoid the misinterpretation of apostrophe-wikitext. In the former case
MediaWiki:Cite references link many format might also want a similar edit.
Anomie
⚔ 12:32, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
References
Please see the idea discussed at Template talk:CodeBox#External links. I *think* it's about code, and then giving an external link to show what it does, but I'm not entirely sure. This might be good, or there might be an even better way to accomplish the desired goal. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:01, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
doesn't see to be working. Is this affecting anyone else? —— SerialNumber 54129 11:57, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Is this the same issue that messes up the ref numbering in VE? When I test-edit articles in VE, almost all of them have the refs in the ref section with a higher number than in the article, making it hard to see which ref belongs with which number of course... Here the refs in the ref section are numbered 17 to 27, here 4 to 10, here 4 to 15, here 5 to 89; here the only reference is numbered "6"! Fram ( talk) 12:45, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
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Take a look at the top of any old revision - think this was a WP:THURSDAY interface improvement - anyone else think the pink in yellow is tacky looking though? — xaosflux Talk 23:46, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
.warningbox
while the red is because we use {{
fmbox}} at
MediaWiki:Revision-info. ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 00:09, 5 October 2019 (UTC)Is this explained anywhere? — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:44, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
This may be a known problem or a non-problem but, having noticed it, I thought I would mention it here.
Compare this Google Maps location with the 5°08′33″N 125°58′35″E / 5.1424303°N 125.9764215°E location from {{ coord}} and GeoHack->Google Maps. Maybe it's a rounding error or a cockpit problem on my part. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:23, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
href="..."
attribute of an <a>
tag, any unencoded quotes will terminate that value. Try
percent-encoding it,
like this, where %C2%B0
→°, %27
→' and %22
→". --
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talk) 20:43, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
I see some recent changes to Special:Contributions which make it much less useful for me. The search form is now hidden under a "Search for contributions" toggle, which means an extra click for me to change search settings, but I can live with that. However, when I use a CIDR range (needs to be enabled in Preferences/Gadgets), which I do many times a day to find edits by related IPs after I encounter anon vandalism (e.g. I search for 1.2.0.0/16), the list of IP addresses with edits loads above the list of recent edits. The list of addresses is often very large, and takes many seconds to load, and during this time if I scroll down to the list of recent edits (limited only to the most 50 recent edits by default), the loading list above keeps jumping the screen so I can't do anything useful. Until a couple of days ago, the list of recent edits was above the list of IP addresses, so I could ignore the loading of the latter. Is there a way to toggle off the list of IP addresses? There is a "toggle all" option, but that's not what I want; it shows edits sorted by IP address, but I want edits for the range of IP addresses sorted by date, as already appears at the bottom of the window. Alternatively, can I force the list of IP addresses to be a fixed size, rather than expanding as new addresses are found.- gadfium 20:53, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
No per-IP sorting or date headings, or any bells and whistles.note on the top of that task description says it isn't really a full-replacement. — xaosflux Talk 22:23, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
/* Quick hack to force the Search tab on [[Special:Contribs]] open. Credit: Volker E. (WMF) & Stwalkerster - [[m:Special:Permalink/19434096#Reverting the new "collapsed search interface" on Special:Contribs|Tech]] */
.mw-special-Contributions .oo-ui-fieldsetLayout-group.mw-collapsible-content { display: block !important; }
.mw-special-Contributions .oo-ui-fieldsetLayout-header { display: none !important; }
&safemode=1
I get the short box again.
Ivanvector (
Talk/
Edits) 18:59, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
mw.loader.load( 'mediawiki.ui.input')
, specifically the input
. ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 10:44, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
.mw-ui-input-inline { display: inline-block; }
added by
User:Enterprisey/mw-ui-input.css (being used in cv-revdel and unblock-review scripts) is the culprit.
SD0001 (
talk) 11:12, 5 October 2019 (UTC)mw.loader.load('mediawiki.ui.input')
is also causing the same issue. Bizarre, since this one is WMF-sponsored. Ping
Volker E. (WMF).
SD0001 (
talk) 11:25, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
body.mw-special-Contributions .mw-ui-input-inline { display: block; }
in
your common.css should work.
Enterprisey (
talk!) 01:44, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
.mw-ui-input-inline
class from this specific input. Rolling out this week, should be live on enwiki by Thursday.
Volker E. (WMF) (
talk) 01:40, 8 October 2019 (UTC)I am working on a research project related to the traffic of Wikipedia platform. Could you please help me to find the page views data of the early days of Wikipedia? Ideally, I would like to find 2001-February 2008. I understand that the metrics were different from the current metrics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vika-Wiki ( talk • contribs) 03:59, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm concerned that some of the tags added to edits (presumably for debugging reasons) are violating the privacy of editors by disclosing the type or software characteristics of devices they are using to contribute. Please see Wikipedia talk:Tags#Editor privacy. – xeno talk 13:35, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
I am having problems with Enterprisey's reply link script. Please see Wikipedia:Help_desk#Reply_link_script and User talk:Þjarkur/sandbox for more info about the problem. I tried reaching to Enterprisey, but he didn't get back to me. It doesn't seem to work on some Wikipedia forums such as the WP:HD and WP:ANI and also my talk page. I get the error message "There was an error while replying! Please leave a note at the script's talk page with any errors in the browser console, if possible.". I tried replying at this page and I have no issues replying there. I am currently using a modified script at User:Þjarkur/reply-link.js Can you figure out what is going on there and how to fix these errors so that the script works on every Wikipedia page? Interstellarity ( talk) 18:02, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Note: see prior discussion for additional context, about an url recently added to the WP:BLACKLIST.
Note: a parallel discussion is taking place at Help talk:Citation Style 1 about aspects relating more to the citation template aspects of this. Mathglot ( talk) 02:48, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
JzG, I'm going through them, fixing them up. The fixes to the ones in citations are going smoothly. However, I triggered the filter, attempting to change the External link in
Juliet Escoria from its current value, to the following value:
Maybe the filter could be adjusted to excuse examples where it's embedded in a web archive url? Or should I code this valid archive link differently, so it can be saved? Mathglot ( talk) 03:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
|url-status=usurped
have blocked display of this url, irrespective whether it is a spammy url or not?Discussion moved here from prior location because it possibly affects more than one area. Mathglot ( talk) 04:24, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
|url-status=
and its predecessor |dead-url=
both require |archive-url=
. It is a misuse of a template to set one and not the other. --
Izno (
talk) 15:09, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
|url-status=
when |archive-url=
is omitted or empty, that is not the same as a requirement; were it a requirement, then we'd have to invent a new error message for that case. As it is, a stand-alone |url-status=
is just clutter which is a different kind of problem ...|archive-url=
is documented, shouldn't it?Can we back up and take a 40,000 foot view for a second, to get some perspective about the locus of the problem? I think this may help inform the discussion. I see what's going on here, as a conflict between two desirable features:
I think the statement of the issue we are facing here is, how do we do both of these at the same time, when an url used to support the article (and maybe still does, in an archived version) but has been usurped by malware? A couple of corollary questions to consider:
Are there other functional aspects we haven't considered? Airing out what ought to happen, and getting agreement here first, will help keep the discussion about how to find a solution more on track. When discussing functionality, are there other stakeholders who ought to be looped in, here? Adding xaosflux. Mathglot ( talk) 23:10, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
A solution is remove the offending URL but retain a {{
citation}}
. Blacklists don't prevent citing only linking. However if something is blacklisted it would be advisable to find an alternative source. --
Green
C 00:33, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
If a citation provides other means to verify the material, the simplest approach is not to include the url. The problem appears when online verification is the only available option. Again, the simpler approach would be for the editor to find a non-blacklisted mirror. If there no such mirrors, and the editor believes that the material can not be verified otherwise, then the pre-infected archive copy could be used, after some procedure as below:
|url-status=whitelisted
should be inserted in the template to inform other editors that the particular archived url has been vetted, even if the current version is unsuitable.It is a cumbersome approach, but I believe it is viable. 72.43.99.138 ( talk) 13:19, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that there is a parallel discussion taking place at Help talk:Citation Style 1 about aspects relating primarily to the citation template aspects of this, which may overlap in part some of the discussion above. Mathglot ( talk) 02:52, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
— Through the Looking-Glass|url-status
are not well-defined; at least, not everyone appears to agree what they mean. As part of settling how to handle the part of the problem related to the spam blacklist as raised here, it seems to me that the definitions of usurped, unfit, and possibly other values need to be agreed upon as a prerequisite. If we're not all talking about the same thing, then discussions of edge cases like this one concerning the blacklist will get hopelessly tangled.url-status
that says it is usurped, what do you think that means? What should the citation do with that? Please jump in at that discussion, if you feel you can help. Thanks,
Mathglot (
talk) 23:55, 9 October 2019 (UTC)Please remove the Merger notice on {{ Infobox Company}}. It is irritating to see it appearing on top of articles. If it cannot be removed, then please put a noinclude around it. Users need to read the caution notice before slapping notices on highly visible templates.
180.151.92.126 ( talk) 10:07, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
So |deadurl=
and |dead-url=
have been deprecated in {{
cite web}} and its variants, in favor of |url-status=
. However, I notice reFill 2, and probably regular reFill, are still generating |dead-url=
, which in turn now generates an error message and adds the page to the maintenance category
Category:CS1_errors: deprecated parameters. The operators of
InternetArchiveBot and
GreenC bot have made the fix there, is there anyone who can update reFill accordingly?. The particulars of the cite template update that applies here are listed at the maintenance category page (and also at
Template:Cite_web#What's_new), but note that the "yes" or "no" values also need to be changed to "live", "dead", "unfit", or "usurped", as necessary. Thanks.—
TAnthony
Talk 19:56, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
|deadurl=
is mentioned, looks like an easy fix, but can't modify it due to file permissions. For the record it is Toolforge: /data/project/refill/versions/stable/src/Reflinks/CitationGenerators/CiteTemplateGenerator.php
--
Green
C 23:46, 9 October 2019 (UTC)I'm using YouTube and Google no problems in Taipei, Taiwan. But when I try to load Wikimedia project pages, the page loads partially and then stops. If I refresh the page five to fifteen times, I can eventually make the full page load up. What is happening here? I can't get Phabricator to send a confirmation email to my email inbox, otherwise I wouldn't be asking here. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 00:15, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Why do we have distinct Alerts and Notices menus on the top line? They're both just, "things that need your attention", with no logical distinction that I can see of which things go in which menu. I'd rather save the screen real-estate and have them in a single menu. Perhaps there's a way to configure that which I haven't found yet?
Other minor point: is it just me, or does the Notices icon look more like a USB-B connector than a mailbox? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:33, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
does the Notices icon look more like a USB-B connector than a mailbox?lol, was that ever intended to look like a mailbox? SD0001 ( talk) 18:19, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-October/092653.html. ↠Pine (✉) 22:43, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
User:Jackmcbarn/advancedtemplatesandbox.js is a useful userscript used to extend Extension:TemplateSandbox to all spaces. However, it does not look like it is still maintained and Jackmcbarn appears to be inactive. For one, I had trouble using the userscript installer on it. I did get it to work finally. My question: is there an alternative? Is anyone willing to copy it and maintain it? I don't have the technical skills. --- Coffeeand crumbs 01:11, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
The User:Enterprisey/script-installer provides one-click installation and management of user scripts without editing common.js. I just moved it out of the "testing and development" gadget section, so it's ready for broader use. You can find it at the bottom of the "Editing" section at Preferences → Gadgets. This is exciting because common.js (and telling non-technical people to write javascript) can now be completely avoided. (I've had it as a gadget since March, but only in the testing and development section, and completely unannounced - 482 people managed to find and install it anyway.) Enterprisey ( talk!) 00:29, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
mw.loader.using( 'user.options', 'mediawiki.api' ).then( {
if ( !mw.user.options.get( 'gadget-script-installer' ) ) {
new mw.Api().saveOption( 'gadget-script-installer', '1' );
}
} );
So when I refresh or enter any Wikipedia page. The page appears then suddenly everything disappear for few seconds and then it appears. Anyone having the same issue? I am using mobile version.-- SharabSalam ( talk) 19:48, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
When a page fully loads on the mobile Wikipedia, the top bar temporarily (~<1sec) becomes the height of the screen and the Wikipedia logo goes down to the bottom of the screen (see image). Nixinova T C 00:43, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
I'd like to set up a gallery where the gallery itself shows fifteen images randomly drawn from a pool of perhaps fifty or sixty images, and each time the page is refreshed or purged, the gallery resets with a new set of fifteen images from that pool. Is that possible? bd2412 T 02:30, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Could you have a look at Lou Andreas-Salomé#Death? The image on the right creates a strange blank space. Thank you very much, -- Epì dosis 12:05, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
In Milutin Babović-Telegraph, the references are rendering as blobs of hex escape junk. If I copy-paste reference #3 into my sandbox, it renders properly in cyrillic characters. What's the issue here? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:34, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
This is a comedy of errors. First, I was trying to use reFill to expand those bare references, and it wasn't doing anything with them. But, now I just tried that again, and it successfully converted the references. And, in the process of debugging why reFill wasn't doing anything, I managed to accidentally copy the wrong reference into my sandbox for testing, and failed to notice that. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:27, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
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23:32, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
The dBase article has a hat stating there is HTML markup that should be removed. It's a long article, is there an easy way to find it all? Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:55, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
The Edit watchlist used to be organized in groups with their own titles in MonoBook. Now they are all in one group. I noticed 'Hide categorization of pages' in preferences, but unchecking that did nothing. I would like them to be separate again. Smarkflea ( talk) 15:59, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
This is the problem edit. It is a copy and paste merge. I thought in order to make the move happen, the title of my article would change in order to preserve the history. I probably wrote the entire article so if that's the case it's not a real problem.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:29, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi all,
Recently, I wanted to see the Special Log of a fellow administrator (I'm deliberately not naming them). And when I clicked on their name in the "Performer" field, the search suggestions that sprung up were abusive. How does one get that removed? Thanks, Lourdes 10:59, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
I don't know whether someone might be able to take a look at Talk:Marathon_world_record_progression#Sections_are_displaying_in_the_wrong_order? The article seems somehow corrupted, but I don't know whether the issue will get any attention there. 2A00:23C5:4B91:AB00:6CCD:D471:9CF7:2B7F ( talk) 22:14, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
|}
is missing. I have added it.
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PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:43, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
It has been proposed that a new gadget be installed that allows editors to revert edits from mobile diffs ( Special:MobileDiff). See the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Gadget#proposal_for_undo_gadget. Thanks, SD0001 ( talk) 08:15, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a tool that graphs the change to a page's file size over time? ― Mandruss ☎ 21:35, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
AddGraphLink();
function after pageload.action=history
pages.<svg>
element defined within the html document. I don't have a list of these, but I'm guessing that means not Internet Explorer.&offset=&limit=20&action=history
. Alter the value following limit=
to any positive integer between 1 and 5000 inclusive and then press ↵ Enter. When doing this, make sure that you don't remove any ampersands by mistake; and don't use a comma in values 1000 up. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 20:58, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
So I'm re-learning how to use the API, which would allow getting the entire history through several incremental requests (to wit, 500 per). Above assumption is correct and the timestamps are not currently even looked at. Parsing these and converting to a floating point number is trivial. The hard part is deciding how to handle the inherent problem of scaling by time, which is that the ratio of revisions to amount of time represented by a pixel of screen width (let's call that, roughly, "edits per day") will vary drastically from one page to the next, or even between different eras of the same page. Depending on density, the graph's general appearance could vary from sand dunes, to a liar's polygraph, to calligraphy. So some sampling/averaging strategy might be needed to reduce noise (i.e. avoid trying to show several size values at the same x position). An onscreen interface to tweak the settings of same might also be helpful. ― cobaltcigs 13:11, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
action
.― cobaltcigs 10:27, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
importScript('User:Cobaltcigs/HistoryGraph.js');
, then see a "graph" tab, right after the history tab of any page that has an edit history (i.e. neither a "Special:" page nor a red link). See red arrow in
same-as-above screenshot (which uses "monobook" skin).&action=graph
, the content area should begin populating with a list of timestamps to show API loading progress. This may take a few minutes on very old pages. After loading these, the fully rendered graph should appear in the same place. You may then have to scroll to the right to see the whole thing.rsvg
on the server side to produce a PNG thumbnail from an arbitrary string of SVG/XML text (or from anything not uploaded in the File: namespace). Also (at least in my browser) right-clicking on the graph (an embedded SVG element) does not offer a "Save as..." option to download the SVG. So if that's what you actually want to do, it may require adding a "download" button using
one of these techniques (which doesn't seem very difficult).mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', `/?title=${wgPageName}&action=graph`, 'Graph', 'ca-graph')
to place the menu button. Apart from being a one-liner rather than 10 lines, this will also correctly place the menu across all skins (which is inside the "more" dropdown for vector - i think that's ok as vector users are used to seeing custom script buttons in the more dropdown).addPortletLink
function which I was unaware of.sz[`${yyyy}-${mm}`] = parseInt(ms[1]);
(which I know how to do), then convert this object into an array of sizes sorted by said YYYY-MM
keys (which I also how to do), but only do this after determining that the last response is complete (which I really don't know how to do in a parallel-thread situation).setInterval()
?I've added the download button. SVG file should appear in your browser's download folder with a title like HistoryGraph-${wgPageName}.svg
. Converting to other formats is left as an exercise.
GIMP is recommendable. ―
cobaltcigs 10:14, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Why don't I see any section edit links at Template:Talk archive navigation/doc? As a control case, page Template:Talk header/doc appears with section edit links as expected. Possibly relevant:
Looking at the page source for section Usage in each case, I see this:
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Usage">Usage</span></h3>
and
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Usage">Usage</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Talk_header/doc&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Usage">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
respectively. Is this because someone went straight to H3, skipping level 2 headers in the doc? Why should that suppress edit links, even if it is an unrecommended habit per MOS:SECTIONS? Mathglot ( talk) 22:38, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
, presumably to discourage inexperienced editors from replying to archived messages.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 22:44, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
, it usually comes down to bad Wikimarkup - such as a pair of opening braces that are not followed by a valid template name, and are also not balanced until much later in the page. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 23:24, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
be enclosed inside <includeonly>...</includeonly>
?
Mathglot (
talk) 23:58, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
. There are other ways to avoid activating __NOEDITSECTION__
but it's hardly worth it for a single doc page.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:06, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Final thought: kind of unrelated—I think—but since we're all here: shouldn't all those H3 headings at Template:Talk archive navigation/doc be H2's instead? Mathglot ( talk) 20:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
from the output with {{
replace}}.
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PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:25, 17 October 2019 (UTC)I have been using Wiki-Map to locate articles to add to categories but after I click "Show Map" and it starts showing the places I get "This page didn't load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details.". This appeared to be something that started happening in 2016 when Google reduced its free maps or something but with Wiki-Map this didn't happen until a few weeks ago (although I've only been using it a few months). Crouch, Swale ( talk) 16:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
{{ see also}} is mostly the Lua code at Module:Labelled list hatnote. Where and how does it change wikilinks to specific sections like Article#Section into Article § Section? EllenCT ( talk) 00:46, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Ewwww. More importantly, why does it do this and how do you make it not? ― cobaltcigs 16:42, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
#
isn't understood as an indicator of a section IRL. §, the
section sign, is. We even have
a template for that.
Nardog (
talk) 16:52, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
'§'
(a) an
illegal title character, and (b) interchangeable with '#'
—in exactly the same way all space characters exist as aesthetically favorable alternatives to '_'
in links. This way linking to [[List of Foo§Bar]]
would produce <a href="/info/en/?search=List_of_Foo#Bar" title="List of Foo">List of Foo§Bar</a>
and pasting a title with '§'
into the address bar would behave exactly like that title existed as a section redirect. Then we'd all be happy. But pretending on such a broad scale that this equivalence exists when it doesn't is a
WP:PLA violation. ―
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{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review|pages}}
is showing a higher count (8) than the actual number of pages in the
category. Is there a way to force a purge of this counter to get it synched with the actual count again?
wbm1058 (
talk) 18:56, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
Why does Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons reviewed by a human show image file thumbnails if I edit and preview it, but not if I just access it normally? -- Begoon 02:58, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOGALLERY__
directive, which is ignored on category preview, which has been known about
since the feature was first added in 2006. ―
cobaltcigs 03:11, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
|showthumbs=
to {{
file category}}
to allow overriding that default, and it works now. Cheers. --
Begoon 03:28, 18 October 2019 (UTC)It looks like that template is supposed to infer whether to show/hide galleries based on the {{{free}}}
parameter, so you'll want to be mindful of image copyright status when overriding. But in this particular case (where humans have deemed the files suitable to copy to commons), free=yes
seems like a reasonable presumption. Simply using that would have the same effect. ―
cobaltcigs 04:27, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
I have a question about how best to preserve my anonymity when not logged in. I have one solution in mind that would require IA help. But before I try WP:IANB, I thought I'd air the issue here first, to see if there may be a better/easier solution.
My goal is to avoid inavertently making changes when when not logged in, so I don't out my IP if I save something with a recognizable pattern. I imagine that one approach, is to somehow warn myself before hitting "Publish". I've taken a sort of mirror-image approach to this, via a change to my common.css, which turns my "Publish" button green when logged in, as suggested at the Help Desk in 2012. This doesn't warn me when I'm not logged in, but it (hopefully) will get me used to a green Publish button, so that when I'm not logged in and don't see it, my spidey sense will tingle. Only, I have a crappy spidey sense, so I don't think that will work. (At that same discussion, someone pointed to a "MediaWiki: Prevent anon editing script" that apparently works with Firefox—not my habitual browser—but in any case, that link is now dead.)
The idea I had for the solution, is to copy the code I have in my common.css, to [[User:<my-actual-ip-address>/common.css]], and change the color of the Publish button to red (and maybe also add a CSS ::before selector to generate added text "Are you sure?" right before the button as well). So, I was going to request an IA to add the common.css for me (after passing the IP via email, and checking with a CU, if necessary, to verify it's me). But that's rather costly in limited human resources, and it occurs to me that there might be an easier or better way. Is there? Mathglot ( talk) 01:16, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
mirror-image approachis the "right" way to do this. It's what I do and while it might take a little bit, once you adjust, seeing a different color will be quite jarring. There are other things you can tweak too, for an even greater difference, and that's not even counting using a different skin or noticing your gadgets aren't loading. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 09:56, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
The only good thing about them changing the default skin from monobook to vector is that I immediately notice when I'm not logged in. ― cobaltcigs 06:56, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Template:Who's Who has stopped generating the correct links, at least when the type = was is selected, returning a 404 error. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:25, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
type = was
.
[53] I couldn't make any save of the template, not even a null edit, until I removed transclusion of the documentation. All attempts failed with "Syntax error in JSON (
help)". I never learned TemplateData syntax so I'm not trying to fix
Template:Who's Who/doc.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:22, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
{ ... }
these indicate an object, which is a comma-separated list of zero or more name:value pairs; there should not be a comma after the last pair.
This edit by
Snaevar (
talk ·
contribs) fixed it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:49, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
\n
.
PrimeHunter's search now turns up zero results, and I expect in the future it will be practically impossible to make new mistakes, given almost everyone is probably being moved over to the new editors/parsers.
rchard2scout (
talk) 10:07, 11 October 2019 (UTC)There is a problem using json data with <mapframe>
, which now generates the error "<mapframe>: Couldn't parse JSON: Control character error, possibly incorrectly encoded
". It seems to be a change in how control characters are handled. I fixed the map at
List of state highways in Kerala by replacing linefeeds with "\n" (this
). This is unsatisfactory as it makes it very difficult to understand the query. Any ideas what changed and how to fix it or where to report it?
Jts1882 |
talk 09:21, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
<mapframe>
or will all the pages have to be fixed individually? I'm thinking it will have to be the latter.
Jts1882 |
talk 13:17, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Side note: There's some explanation about JSON in templates at mw:Topic:V6u2mpy11qiu9705, if anyone wants background information. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:59, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a tool that would help with removing redirects in templates? For example Template:Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory still has over a dozen. Naraht ( talk) 07:08, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
.mw-redirect {
background: url(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Insert_redirect.png/12px-Insert_redirect.png) center right no-repeat;
padding-right: 13px;
}
.navbox .mw-redirect, .vertical-navbox .mw-redirect { font-style: italic; color: red; }
, which makes redirects stand out as italic and red. --
Izno (
talk) 23:45, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
background-color
works better. Seems like italic red would be barely distinguishable from an actual red link (referring, perhaps, to a film title) which may appear elsewhere in the same navbox. Another option would be keeping the link text blue but adding a differently colored underline like .mw-redirect { border-bottom: 1px solid red; }
. ―
cobaltcigs 08:25, 17 October 2019 (UTC)I think by "removing redirects" the OP probably means:
#
, which would suggest the redirect may someday become a separate article)You'd need javascript with some API calls to determine these things. The suggested CSS would only alert you, prior to editing, that redirects are present (which the OP already realizes). ― cobaltcigs 06:12, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Try this: User:Cobaltcigs/NavboxStuff.js
#redirect [[ Like_this _ _ shit__]]
.[[Jalapeno]]
becomes [[Jalapeño]]
, never [[Jalapeño|Jalapeno]]
(the latter pattern is a common problem).Feedback is welcome. ― cobaltcigs 12:41, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Did anybody get a 503 backend Fetch error upon trying to access any Wikimedia site, in the past few minutes? ∯WBG converse 17:32, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Current draft exists here and template should be called {{ uw publicoversight}}. Please approve. Monniasza talk 16:42, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm getting 404 when clicking the Find edits by user link on the History page of articles. I.e., usersearch.py. Mathglot ( talk) 10:57, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Is anyone else having issues with the site. Some of the wikipedia pages I search for lead to getting a "wikimedia is having a problem at the moment" page.
The problem tracker sites are giving slight bumps up in the last hour for problems with the site.
Anyone experiencing similar or has some knowledge? Nosebagbear ( talk) 21:47, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
It seems that Template:Cite web is expanding too much, so is hitting the mediawiki expansion limit and template include size limit. This (at least for me) is causing the documentation template not to render. Were there any changes to the module which caused this or was/is the global loading issue for sites to blame? Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 22:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Back up. -- qedk ( t 桜 c) 07:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
Editor Interaction Analyzer🔖-- Moxy 🍁 04:47, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
For a template that is transcluded in File: namespace pages, is there a way to apply conditional template code—e.g., placing the file in one category versus another—based on the file's extension (e.g., ".jpg" versus ".ogg")? Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 20:37, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME}}
gets the name including a file extension. {{lc:{{#invoke:String|match|{{PAGENAME}}|%.(%w*)$||||}}}}
retrieves the file extension as lowercase (empty if none is found). Then you can e.g. use switch:{{#switch:{{lc:{{#invoke:String|match|{{PAGENAME}}|%.(%w*)$||||}}}} |jpg = ... |png = ... |gif = ... |ogg = ... }}
Created {{ file extension}} based on above. ― cobaltcigs 14:24, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
I added several scripts using the install feature, but it prompted me to okay the import each time. I then clicked the box to not show this again and now I can't install with one click. Any help is appreciated. Than you. Demetrius Tremens ( talk) 15:45, 20 October 2019 (UTC) Nevermind. Seems to have fixed itself. Demetrius Tremens ( talk) 15:55, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion going on at Wikidata that folks here may be interested in commenting on. In brief: a vandal's change to the "description" field at the Wikidata Gay (Q592) item showed up immediately as the " short description" at the top of Wikipedia's Gay article.
Although it affects Wikipedia, the locus of the problem appears to be Wikidata, so the discussion is being hosted there. Your feedback would be appreciated at WD:CHAT. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 01:15, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
All articles must strive for verifiable accuracy, citing reliable, authoritative sources." Nobody here asked the WMF to force the contents of Wikidata description fields into English Wikipedia's articles, and despite a strong consensus against them, the WMF team refused to turn them off. The compromise that was hashed out was that we were given a new "magic word" that allowed us to use local descriptions instead of those drawn from Wikidata; and that the Wikidata feed would be turned off when 2,000,000 articles had local short descriptions. That's why we have the WikiProject. We are actually creating descriptions for articles that are locally editable, subject to our anti-vandalism patrols, and governed by the English Wikipedia's sourcing policies, in particular BLP. Those descriptions could be exported to Wikidata, of course, but I'm not sure of their value there, since each language has its own description and (unlike most other parts of Wikidata) they are not intrinsically useful to other projects.
"if our trust level of Wikidata is such that we are overriding its data through great effort at Wikipedia, that means the problem resides with Wikidata"That's an incorrect inference. The problem resides with a WMF development team who unilaterally decided that it was okay to import unsourceable information into the English Wikipedia against the advice of enwiki editors. A better analogy for us fixing the problem locally would be the situation where we are importing faulty car parts from an otherwise good supplier; we say we don't want any more faulty ones; but the importer keeps sending them and we are forced to keep using them until we can make them ourselves locally. Whose side is the problem on now?
Actually, one other thought, RexxS, inspired by your comment,
I've been wrestling with this problem since it was first proposed, and I've explained what will go wrong a hundred times... please read at least some of the discussions linked from <link>...
A situation like this is tailor-made for exposition in an essay. Have you considered writing one? Make a distillation of all your best arguments from your hundred explanations, and lay it all out in one place. Those past discussions about the topic that aren't already wikilinked in the essay body, you can throw into the See also section. Then, when the 101st person (me?) comments or asks about it, point them at the essay. Sounds like you'd have plenty of company to help write it. Willing to start one? Sure seems like there's a need, and that others would find it useful to enlist in their discussions, as well. Mathglot ( talk) 21:54, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Pinging DannyH (WMF), as the one took the lead on the Foundation side when there was there was a clear consensus to roll back deployment of this (mis)feature. Danny, please turn off the Wikidata descriptions already. Alsee ( talk) 17:00, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
I have recently been editing a lot from mobile, and the main thing I'm missing is the ability to mark edits as minor. Would it be possible to add that feature? Sdkb ( talk) 22:02, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
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I'm trying to wrap my head around that. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:42, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
{{subst:#tag:ref|{{cite MIAR |title=FEMS Microbiology Reviews |issn=0168-6445 |access-date={{subst:TODAY}}}}}}
will succeed. ―
cobaltcigs 22:13, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
I made an edit to {{ Infobox airline}} here so that a second image the infobox. It works correctly but when I check preview I get the warnings "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox airline with unknown parameter "caption2" (this message is shown only in preview).", "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox airline with unknown parameter "image2" (this message is shown only in preview)." and "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox airline with unknown parameter "image2-width" (this message is shown only in preview).". So what did I do wrong. There's an example here, Summit Air. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 21:55, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
If you search for, e.g. '"Bouncing Ball" +Wikipedia' on google, you get a ton of Wikipedia hits. Which is normally what most people would look like.
But what I want to know is where else on the internet Bouncing ball is mentioned. Does anyone know how to do that? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 02:51, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
-site:wikipedia.org
?
Eman
235/
talk 03:53, 24 August 2019 (UTC)Hi all
I know that this is probably possible but I don't know exactly how to make it happen. I'm talking to an organisation with a huge number of shapefile maps of species distribution which could be imported in to Commons if they change the license (fingers crossed). I'd like to know is what would be the process of adding them to the infobox, I guess my main questions would be:
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 09:07, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I have recently created the page of Tarık Biberovic however whoever I try to add my sources it says “error edit not saved”. How do I fix this? Thank you Wiki Facts fixer ( talk) 13:19, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
While common.js
/.css
will load when going to en.m.wikipedia.org on a desktop browser, on mobile these pages are not loaded. From my understanding, this was done because userscripts weren't written for mobile in mind, and has to do with the resourceLoader (related bugs:
[2]
[3]
[4]). What I want is to use my userscript on the mobile site.
I've tried creating User:<username>/minerva.js
and User:<username>/mobile.js
pages, but using Chrome Remote Debugging, neither works.
Opencooper (
talk) 19:12, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I submited a request for undeletion of File:1917.mp3. Obviously you see that there is nothing in the deletion log. It is reported that there is a deleted description page but no deleted file. It is assumed that it was deleted before July 2006 and Mediawiki 1.7.0 which allowed to keep the deleted files archived. Does anyone have a hint on how to recover the deleted file? (Yes, I checked in my own hard disk it is not there 😃) - geraki (talk) 16:58, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Geraki, where did you find this in the first place? Source? Anyway, you kind of lucked out that another editor made a copy at File:1917.ogg, which I've restored. As I also mentioned at refund, this assumed still under copyright, so please request that it be deleted again if you decide not to make use of it. Someguy1221 ( talk) 07:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
When I go to Simon I (High Priest) and look at the bottom left, there is a Hebrew link to the page for שמעון השני (which is incorrect). When I click "Edit links", however, the Hebrew link that appears is to a different page (the correct page) שמעון הראשון. Why the inconsistency, and how can we make it link to the correct page? Ar2332 ( talk) 08:23, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
[[he:שמעון השני]]
at the bottom. This overrides the Wikidata link.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 08:33, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Hey, eveyone.😊 I'm gonna copy this question verbatim from where I originally posted it. I've ran into something wrong in Wikipedia, but I have no idea how to edit it.
If you are interested in helping, please visit these three links:
In the pages that open, you should be able to spot a grey box titled "Sherlock Holmes at Wikipedia's sister projects". The box looks okay on the first link, but not on the other two.
I understand the HTML side of this problem: The text labels are given an arbitrary width of 182 pixels, but the Minerva and Timeless skins add a padding of 1em to the box. Because of insufficient space, the label are placed on the next line. But I don't know where I must fix this problem. So far, I know how to edit articles. I know about templates too. But do I edit a skin? Or, do I need to edit a skin in the first place? If not, where must I edit? flowing dreams ( talk page) 10:02, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
width
altogether?
flowing dreams (
talk page) 10:37, 27 August 2019 (UTC)When I try to use notifications on mobile Firefox (Firefox 68.0.2 mobile version running on Android 9). I use the "desktop version" of the Wikimedia sites as I can't stand the mobile ones. When I click the notification button, the page locks up and I have to back out or refresh to continue, and I can't click to view the changes or anything like that. They work fine on desktop Firefox. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:03, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
How would a bot retrieve a reference by its number, for example ref #7. The ref number is not in the wikitext. The number is in the HTML, but the source is HTML, not wikitext, so difficult to retrieve the original cite. Checking if there is something I am missing. -- Green C 03:13, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
They are numbered in order of first usage, which is not necessarily the order of definition. If you're sure you can avoid or exclude cases where footnote instance(s) from a template's wikitext are emitted to the article's reflist (which requires unusual syntax and is probably rare) you wouldn't actually have to run the parser. ― cobaltcigs 14:24, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Working on a solution involving w3m, conversion to plain text and approximate grep. Fun times. -- Green C 14:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
I opted into the new experimental mobile page. It seems to be missing a link to my watchlist: the old/standard mobile view had one. Thanks! Grover cleveland ( talk) 15:52, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
How can i change the editor font? i previously have tried putting these into common.css
#wpTextbox1 {
font-family: 'Consolas Regular';
}
.mw-editfont-monospace {
font-family:'Consolas Regular';
}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Erentar2002 ( talk • contribs) 11:28, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
textarea
. You can also save some space by having both selectors share a declaration-list: textarea#wpTextbox1,
textarea.mw-editfont-monospace {
font-family:'Consolas Regular';
}
Are we missing some early version histories? The oldest version of global warming I can find is from October 2001 but that's obviously not when the article was created. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 12:41, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
In List of countries by prevalence of genital cutting, there's two layout problems. One is the 2 x 2 table of maps, and the other is the large table of data below that. Both of these display poorly, especially on a mobile device. If anybody's a layout guru, could you take a look and see if you can do something better? Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:01, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
I've noticed when I open the right-hand "developer tools" sidebar in Chromium (web browser) and drag the panel separator too far to the left, the MediaWiki interface layout changes from normal to total shit when given fewer than 551px horizontal space (compare red-circled areas in screenshots). Naturally this is annoying when I'm trying to inspect portlet elements (in the course of debugging CSS/JS). Any ideas on how to disable whatever triggers this behavior? Yes, I'm on a small-screen laptop. Yes, the skin is monobook. ― cobaltcigs 10:19, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Done Hard refresh needed, but I had no idea it would be that simple. Thanks. ― cobaltcigs 10:51, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
I created a customized version of a script recently and added it my User:MB/common.js and everything was working fine. Yesterday, I edited the script and immediately after that I saw some unexpected behavior - in the edit window I seem to have an unexpected very colorful syntax highligter and some other scripts I use frequently no longer work.
I tried to start over by reverting back to the prior version of my common.js, but that did not help. Have also tried switching to a different browser. Not sure what to try next. MB 14:11, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Directly under my user page, a subtitle reads: Joined 12 months ago. This isn't technically correct, as I registered an account on September 16, 2018 (and it's still August). Clovermoss ( talk) 21:45, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
mobile.common.js.map.json
which uses rounding - I suspect it is rounding "up". If you would like to request a mediawiki developer change that you can submit a
bug report at phabricator. —
xaosflux
Talk 23:18, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
Lately I've noticed identical ref markup like <ref name=":0">
, originating from users who don't appear to be related or bots. This is actually less useful than the default numbering (e.g. cite_note-1
, which at least matches the visible footnote number, even when moved around) when no name is given. Any idea what tool might do this and where to provide the above feedback? ―
cobaltcigs 20:18, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Could this also be the source of excess newline patterns like [[Category:Foo]]\n\n\n{{foo-stub}}
? ―
cobaltcigs 07:07, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
.stub { margin-top:NNpx; }
CSS for
Template:Asbox if (for some reason) extra space is wanted. Rendering an empty paragraph (namely <p><br /></p>
) above it on each page is just sloppy HTML. ―
cobaltcigs 09:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Unrelated: what about infobox parameters all on the same line? Is that a visual editor shibboleth as well? I suppose I should try using it someday to find these things out (and just be careful not to save anything, lol). ― cobaltcigs 09:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
"format":"block"
name-value pair.
WhatamIdoing (
talk ·
contribs) can explain this better than me. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 09:52, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
See [6] It appears to turn all of Lake Huron into land. Where and how to get this fixed? Alanscottwalker ( talk) 20:45, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Most of the time when I save I get an edit conflict message although the edit has been saved - of course I have to check each time in case there really is an edit conflict. It happens with Firefox (where my wikEd) has died, and Chrome. Doug Weller talk 07:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Greetings,
is there a way to make a graph (similar to the one produced by Template:Line chart) which shows error margins? It's intended for the Coropuna#Recent area and retreat section which currently has a long bulleted list with various data points (not all of which should go into the final graph), plus error margins. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 08:07, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
I have a link in my menu to the long-gone grok page hit counter. I just tried to update my js page at User:Spinningspark/monobook.js to use the wmflabs version. My efforts have completely broken the js and I can't work out what the problem is. Anyone willing to take sympathy on me and help? This is the last version of the page that was working. Spinning Spark 09:22, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to add this to the da:wiktionary similar to the one on en:wiktionary but I have no idea how to do it. Any hints would be welcome.-- So9q ( talk) 15:18, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
There are 40+ userpages listed in this category. Most of them are not actually tagged with U1 or G7 and never have been. What gives? -- MelanieN ( talk) 23:50, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
, but it's hard to tell now when no example was given.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:13, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a script that allows users to highlight certain phrases in their Watchlist? I already have a script that highlights admin names and my name but I also want to highlight certain kinds of pages that I might otherwise forget, such as GA nominations and FAC reviews I watchlisted. I know I can use the custom watchlist script but I don't really want to have a separate watchlist, just have certain phrases highlighted. Regards So Why 07:21, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
.mw-changeslist-line-inner a.mw-changeslist-titlehref*="/Wikipedia_talk:" {
background-color: yellow;
}
/Wikipedia_talk:
somewhere (you could also change href
to title
to match against the article title). If you wanted to match subpages for good article reviews, you could just change "/Wikipedia_talk:"
to "/GA"
. (Well, technically you might get a false positive if you have
GABAA receptor on your watchlist. Though there are clever things you could do to avoid that if you really care.)
Colin M (
talk) 02:44, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
At least it does for [7] - trying to undo the edit of a sock. Doug Weller talk 08:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Does anyone know what needs to happen for https://tools.wmflabs.org/templatetransclusioncheck/index.php?lang=en&name=North-American+Interfraternity+Conference to work again? Naraht ( talk) 18:27, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello! How to move a draft to article? I am asking that for Draft:Terran Shield. -- Țuțulișcă Vodă ( talk) 19:28, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a simple way to check if a given page is watched, using the API, short of pulling the entire list of watched pages and checking if the given page in that list? SD0001 ( talk) 21:36, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
The code that creates the redirect at the old page location whan a page is moved (unless the mover has suffcient permissions and chooses to suppress such creation) adds the {{ R from move}} template to the newly created redirect. Could this be modified to include the {{ rcat shell}} "wrapper" around the {{ R from move}} template, so that the resulting code would be:
{{rcat shell |
{{R from move}}
}}
This would save editor steps if the redirect page subsequently needed additional rcats added to it. Let me know, and thanks, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 03:45, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
{{R from move}}
is added by
MediaWiki:Move-redirect-text. It was changed to {{redr|from move}}
for a month in 2015 but reverted on request.
[8] {{
redr}} and {{
rcat shell}} both redirect to {{
Redirect category shell}} today. There was no consensus at
MediaWiki talk:Move-redirect-text#Redr to use {{
This is a redirect}} which was similar to {{
Redirect category shell}} (created later) and currently redirects to it.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 08:38, 21 August 2019 (UTC)So I've just read the documentation of this template, but can't understand why the hell it exists. Or why "help newer contributors learn the redirect category system" would be a priority for anyone anywhere. ― cobaltcigs 14:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
I want to add a tracking category to {{ Grading scheme}} to track any uses where A-Class has been disabled.
The template displays A-Class by default or with |A=yes
(case sensitive); if any other value is used, or if |A=
is defined but left blank, A-Class is removed from the table.
I tried using the following code:
{{#ifeq:{{{A|}}}|yes||[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}
How do I get it to ignore the default usage (i.e. where |A=
is not used at all)?
PC78 (
talk) 12:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
|A=
might be used intentionally to disable A-Class.
PC78 (
talk) 12:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
{{{A|}}}
evaluates to empty both if A is set to empty and not set at all so you cannot use that alone. You need {{{A}}}
which evaluates to the value of A if it's set (empty if A is set to empty), but evaluates to the same seven characters {{{A}}}
if A is not set. You could nest if and ifeq, or combine the cases in a
switch: {{#switch:{{{A}}}||yes=|#default=[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}
. This code only uses that {{{A}}}
evaluates to something non-empty when A is not set. It says: If A is set to empty or yes then return empty, otherwise the category.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 13:26, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
|A=
is not set at all (it shouldn't be) but is not added if |A=
is set to empty (it should be). See test example at
User:PC78/grading scheme. Tried a few other things but still can't nail it.
PC78 (
talk) 14:29, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{{A}}}|{{{A|}}}|{{#ifeq:{{{A}}}|yes||[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}}}
. "If A is set but A is not set to yes then return the category."
PrimeHunter (
talk) 15:32, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{{A|yes}}}|yes||[[Category:Grading schemes without A-Class]]}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 10:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)This may be related to the above somehow. At David_M._Bennett and Dennis_Relojo-Howell I am seeing this error in place of every reference. Clicking on it gives: Backtrace:
Replacing {{ reflist}} with <references /> fixes it. SmartSE ( talk) 13:16, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
See:
Old revision of Wikipedia:Sandbox —this shows the result of omitting refs=
for named group reflist. whereas using the refs=
results in an error msg.
Decomposing the templates to: {{#tag:references||group=}}
and {{#tag:ref||group=|name=}}
—produces the same error msg. as "using the refs=
", as noted above. --
2db (
talk) 00:09, 3 September 2019 (UTC) && 13:56, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
(disclaimer: yeah, I'm a super experienced Wikipedian, but I have never taken the time to learn how to cite webpages the "new" way and still do it the way it was done over a decade ago, which is probably why this is happening) The page in question is Swan Lake fire. I recently added a reference to an article on TIME's website. It got tagged as a dead link only a day later, and sure enough when I click on it it goes to a 404. So, I searched the article title "About 2.5 Million Acres in Alaska Have Burned. The State's Wildfire Seasons Are Getting Worse, Experts Say" and found the article again. When I copied the URL it was...the same as the one that led to the 404 error. I don't get it. Lil help? Beeblebrox ( talk) 18:51, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
RFC notice: Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RFC: Block edits that contain a VisualEditor bug -- Green C 00:01, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I gnome a lot of foreign translated articles. The French leave a space before their colon : like that, often on every line in long lists. It's been so easy to fix until now, using the search–replace function at the top of the edit box: search for space+colon, replace with colon (spelled out here for clarity). But today I find the search function will not pick up space+colon. Any ideas? Tony (talk) 00:11, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Is somebody running this? This is how it looks like, seems useful to me. Apparently the author ran out of resources. He did try hosting it on Wikimedia Tool Labs but had some issues. The source is available at https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool-wikicheck (GNU LGPL) 2001:14BA:984A:F200:0:0:0:8EA ( talk) 12:41, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
seems to have stopped. Or perhaps all the admins have gone undergound. Anyone else got the same issue? —— SerialNumber 54129 16:12, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, Recently User:PrimeHunter helped me with titleclass = wraplinks to solve a template spilling beyond the right margins. A more complicated template is {{ Basque conflict}} where it looks like the two right-most columns should be stacked underneath the first "Participants in the Basque сonflict" column. The template is linked from article Marian Beitialarrangoitia. I tried several templates updates, and this is way beyond my ability. So I'm asking for expert help here. Regards, JoeHebda ( talk) 15:06, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
listclass = plainlist
to listclass = plainlist wraplinks
. A narrow window would get many wrapped links which doesn't look good so a more complicated redesign with fewer columns is also an option. I'm not doing that.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 16:55, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
This morning I noticed that many of my articles with thumbed-images have large amounts of whitespace in the text they are part of. As of the time I'm writing this, examples can be seen in AMES Type 80, and formerly in Dowding system. There appear to be no related edits to the articles that would have caused this. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:58, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
For some reason, when I click on "New editors' contribs" at Special:RecentChanges, I get a page with no contributions. Did something change on WP's end or am I out of the loop on something? shoy ( reactions) 14:23, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
The radio button for selecting new editor contribution mode is still present beside the User field. Can this be removed as well? -- Trialpears ( talk) 19:23, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
I am not even sure if this is where I should be posting this issue and though I did try to search for it, I couldn't find the conversation the last time this happened. I know that the problem has to do with the use of both left-right and right-left text, but have no idea how to solve it so that the original titles to articles in the references section (and her name variants) are in the proper order without doing weird flipping things. Can someone please wave a magic wand and fix this technical problem for this article or tell me where to go to get it fixed? It is highly unlikely that I will comprehend an explanation of coding. Thank you. SusunW ( talk) 20:33, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
|script-title=
in the cs1|2 templates. That will isolate the Arabic (?) script (rtl) from the Latin script (ltr). Read abot this parameter in the cs1|2 template documentation.I have a technical question related to the template code that generates WikiProject banners on talkpages. Any experienced editor knowledgeable in that area willing to spend some time helping me out? UnitedStatesian ( talk) 17:44, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
The citations at Ancestry.com can get very complex. For example:
Webpage name: "Joe Blow in the 1930 United States Federal Census".
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Buffalo, Erie, New York; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 0242; FHL microfilm: 2341165
Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
I can't figure out how to fit all this information into a standard citation template, can anybody assist? Thanks, Gatoclass ( talk) 12:46, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Ivanvector, the user-submitted pages at Ancestry.com are unreliable, obviously, but the site incorporates scans of the original census pages and other government documents and there is nothing unreliable about those. RoySmith, thank you for the link, I will take a closer look at that, though I doubt it provides the ease of access to a host of government records that Ancestry does (though it would be preferable to use the government site where possible as the latter requires a subscription). Gatoclass ( talk) 16:50, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
@ Gatoclass:, remember that the <ref> tag is one thing, and the various {{ cite}} templates are another. You can embed between <ref> tags, whatever you need to properly establish verifiability, including more than one {{ cite}} tag. For something this complex, it might be advantageous to use two {{ cite}} templates, where the first one cites Ancestry, as Headbomb and others have pointed out, followed by some connecting text, such as, "citing:", or, "taken from:", or whatever makes sense, followed by a second {{ cite}} template for the source that Ancestry (or their editors) got it from. Even if there is a way to combine everything in one, huge, complex template, there's no need to knock yourself out. If you just keep your eyes on the prize ( WP:V), and do it whatever way makes sense to you, that's the main thing. Heck, if it's that complicated, just write the citation in plain text if you want, and embed the plain text between <ref> tags. That's a perfectly acceptable solution. Best of luck, Mathglot ( talk) 23:38, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Why is the article so hard to find? Is it the asterisks? There should be some check, e.g., before treating the asterisks as wild cards, try taking them literally and see if there's a match there.
Here's why I ask:
Lieutenant Kijé contains the
paragraph
After several diversions, I searched Wikipedia for [[M*A*S*H (TV series)]]. This is what I got:
Search results Results 1 – 20 of 11,140
(Each of these entries was followed by a paragraph of description and, I think, a line of datestamp.)
Results from sister projects
... (And finally)
Wikipedia has an article about: M*A*S*H (TV series)
...
Results 1 – 20 of 11,140
Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 17:02, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
@ PrimeHunter, Jonesey95, and Nardog: PrimeHunter, you have a good point, as emphasized by your last sentence. But I should have mentioned that I am using the mobile interface, on my smartphone. That can make a lot of difference; see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#serious format issue on this page.
-- Thnidu ( talk) 18:54, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
"M*A*S*H"
, which will prevent the * from being treated as wildcards.
the wub
"?!" 23:17, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Has something changed of late, as to editing from mobile skin? Whenever I intend to edit from my mobile, a top-bar (which used to be not there) displays 'Loading Editor' for an extraordinarily long time .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winged Blades of Godric ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Although I don't see a change in the history of {{
cite web}}, every article I checked that uses the template, is getting red
CS1 errors. See for example,
World War II#Citations, as well as the documentation in the Examples section of
Template:Cite web itself. This applies to params |website=
(now required, apparently), and |deadurl=
(now deprecated, apparently). What's going on?
Mathglot (
talk) 19:36, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Proposing we close this discussion, and/or add a {{ Discussion moved to}} template, targeting WP:AN. Mathglot ( talk) 20:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Parameter name changes should be widely advertized for discussion before being implemented. People should stop complaining about the red links. Some time ago most of these warnings were turned off by default because it was precieved to be better for readers of Wikipedia. That is a HUGE mistake. All the warnings should be displayed. They are all errors to be fixed and errors to fix is how Wikipedia attracts new editors. Yes they are "ugly" and it is exactly that that annoys some people enough to figure out how to fix it. Turning them off simply sweeps dirt under the rug but worse it helps exacerabate our low editorship rate. Jason Quinn ( talk) 08:25, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi all. Perhaps someone can help me out. 2-3 months ago, several of the tools I use in my gnomish activities stopped working. It has to do with signing in to WP on that tool, and the OATH script. I keep getting the message: "There was a script error --> --> A problem occurred in a Python script. /home/dispenser/public_html/cgi-bin/tracebacks/connect_OAuthException_120_SjBvb1.html contains the description of this error." Anyone know I can fix this? Thanks in advance. Onel5969 TT me 17:40, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Is it allowable to use a hat note (see also, further, or other) in the lede of a political candidate's bio page to link to their separate 'political positions' page? Humanengr ( talk) 19:16, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Humanengr is talking about this
Special:Diff/914471844 I removed it because the template document says: "This template is used to create hatnotes to point to a small number of other related titlesat the top of article sections (excluding the lead)
. It also looks weird in a
BLP article. From what I know, see also template shouldn't be used in the lead. I think "see also" section does the job.--
SharabSalam (
talk) 19:27, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
Whenever I contribute in Wikipedia articles, an icon called "Provelt" appears at the bottom-right of the window. What is this? —Yours sincerely, Soumyabrata ( talk • subpages) 06:11, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
I received a notice on top of my watchlist for an ongoing RfA. The thing is, it turns out that I have already participated in this RfA. Can the notification system be set up so that it passes on notifying people who have already participated in the discussion, and do not need to be notified? I ask because I have no way of knowing that this isn't an entirely new RfA without visiting the page, which is not the best use of time. The same might apply for any kind of noticed discussion. bd2412 T 02:37, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
For all those that are wondering, yes Wikimedia did go down and may still be down for some, Wikimedia Operations is aware and is working hard to fix that issue. There is a phabricator task, located here. Thank you!
(English Wikipedia Tech Ambassador) Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 20:32, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Problems logging in, also often just reading or trying to edit - last eight hours - no notices on Wikipedia or Wikimedia... how does one report such problems, how are they notified to the community? And how is progress in fixing them? Thanks 2A00:1370:8117:4B0D:C4ED:E9B:7451:EB70 ( talk) 07:06, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
I this the goto place for information on downtime? What links are there to downtime information? Could/should there be a link or info on Downtime (disambiguation)? Just asking, had some trouble finding here. Anyway, thanks for the info. Rakeroot ( talk) 22:26, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
There are some concerns. [19] Benjamin ( talk) 11:45, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
I mostly edit political and climate articles, both very contentious areas subject to DS. Sometimes upset editors tell me to stay off their user talk page. Is there a way to customize my watch list so their user names appear differently than those of other editors? I'm just looking for a way to help me remember so I can respect such wishes. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 20:43, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
/* make it easier to skip past edits by Example1 and Example2 */
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User:Example1"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User_talk:Example1"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Example1"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User:Example2"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/User_talk:Example2"],
li.mw-changeslist-line ahref="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Example2" {
background: red;
}
red
with any valid
web colour. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 21:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)This will prevent you from editing their user/user_talk pages (if that's the real problem) whilst still seeing what goes on:
var myEnemies = "Cobaltcigs", "Tom", "Dick", "Harry"];
var iAmEditingUserspace = (wgAction == "edit") && 2,3].includes(wgNamespaceNumber);
var thisGuyHatesMe = myEnemies.includes(wgRelevantUserName);
if(iAmEditingUserspace && thisGuyHatesMe) $("#editform :input").prop('disabled', true);
Configure the first line as appropriate but please keep my name on it. ― cobaltcigs 21:19, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
hi
I have forgotten the process for using emails to validate refs.
Can someone please remind me where to go to find the info to start the process of getting an email sent in to Wiki?
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 19:03, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
Which is exactly what I wanted, to prove that the source of the information is who they say they are ... thanks, well, not really, but at least you gave me the OTRS info which got me there in the end ... Chaosdruid ( talk) 21:59, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Please fix:
Thank you!
2607:FEA8:1DE0:7B4:7811:3461:7039:276 ( talk) 21:40, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
preloadtitle=
In en.Wikipedia, some links creating a new report via section=new
don’t specify the heading in preloadtitle=
, pushing it into the body-text form instead. It usually leads to empty edit summary, which is despicable. Moreover, a proposed fix in
Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring/Example is ignored. Opinions?
Incnis Mrsi (
talk) 06:13, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
I think the specific template does not work right during the last weeks. Graphs do not show up and look like broken images. But when previewing in editing mode they do appear working actually. Examples can be found on the template itself or here. Any suggestions? -- Αρκάς ( talk) 20:21, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello all, I have been dealing with this visual error for a while now and find it quite annoying. Whenever I hover over the "show" boxes in my infobox on my userpage, it continually "drifts" downwards the more you hover over the "show" buttons. I have also experienced this problem on Chrome using my desktop, however, Chrome on my Mac appears to like it now. Does anyone have any ideas? ( Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 60#Template:Boxboxtop not working correctly in Firefox or Chrome might be related?) -- TheSandDoctor Talk 02:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
The Zhaofeng Li/reFill tool does not add Retrieved (date) data anymore. I can not get into contact with Zhaofeng Li as he seem to have left the project. But if someone could take a look at the tool I would appreciate it. [20] -- BabbaQ ( talk) 21:43, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
On the Usufruct article, the interlanguage link for Romanian links to ro:Drept de uz and, apparently, ought to link to ro:Drept de uzufruct; see talk:Usufruct#Incorrect link to Romanian Wikipedia article. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:50, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
I don’t know if this has been brought up as a topic previously, but if not, is there a tool that can locate/search for pages that have been removed from categories? If not, I feel like this kind of tool would be useful, as it’s very difficult to keep track of this type of thing. Dohvahkiin ( talk) 18:21, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
For the past few days, probably since after the Wikipedia outage that happened a few days ago, I have not been able to save edits while on and using the cellular network on my mobile device. I am able to save edits when my mobile device is connect to WiFi, but not on cellular. I’ve tried...
What happens is when I click the "save" button after creating an edit, the next page doesn’t load, and I get an error that says the server is not responding. In the past 5–6 years I have been editing primarily from a cellular network, this has never happened, and it's a bit alarming. Either way, I hope there is a fix for this issue since I really enjoy volunteering on Wikipedia, but may now have long periods of not editing due to these issues (since I primarily edit using a cellular network connection.) Steel1943 ( talk) 20:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello everyone, has anyone else had an issue where the "Publish changes" button saves your edit but then the editing interface says that there was an edit conflict? I have had it happen rather frequently as of late, yet when I check the page history my edit was saved correctly. It appears to quite literally be either an error in the interface or for some reason trying to publish the same edit twice (consecutively) and causing me to self-conflict. It doesn't happen every time, but does occur a lot. It is rather annoying.... -- TheSandDoctor Talk 15:16, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Slab_pull?action=edit
On that page, attempting to save edits, I get "Something went wrong" "HTTP 404". I cleared all caches as documented in WP but did not help. BrucePL ( talk) 19:43, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
There's something going on. I saw something like this twice, a couple of days ago. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:45, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Yeah, getting this again. I edited Draft:Morse Robb using visual editor, and when I went to save it, got the 404 error. I'm now at a point where if I try to switch to source editing, I get, "Error loading data from server: apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http." If I select "Visual editing" from the drop-down menu (even though I'm already in visual), I get in the javascript console:
Extended content
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I'm not sure, but I think a common theme is that the page I'm editing was recently moved. It certainly was in this case, and in one of the previous ones that I saw a few days ago. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:32, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
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(manually posting due to problems with MassMessage this week.) 19:22, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Were there any recent changes in class="sortkey"
area?
Template:Track_gauge#List_of_defined_track_gauges now shows (in 1st row for example):
Expected, as it was until ~some weeks ago:
What shows extra is the sortkey, with source code being (unchanged):
<span class="sortkey">00003 mm</span>0.118 in
Any ideas? - DePiep ( talk) 12:45, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
<span class="sortkey">00003 mm</span>0.118 in
<span data-sort-value="00003 mm">0.118 in
Solved. - DePiep ( talk) 14:23, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
I have noticed that on Win10 using Chrome that upon loading a page history that the page is reformatted after a couple of seconds, I guess because of CSS or script mods. When this happens the rollback button moved exactly to where the thanks button was. Not, in itself a big problem but, embarrassingly, if I click thanks before this change occurs (from ~0.5 to ~3 seconds) the interface reads it as a rollback. Anyone have any ideas? I use the script that should hide rollback on my watchlist - sometimes it does some times not - but it is useful from page history. As an aside, is there a way to add a thanks button to the watchlist? Jbh Talk 14:37, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
.mw-changeslist-edit .mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:84px;}
.mw-changeslist-edit .mw-changeslist-separator~.mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:0px;}
#pagehistory .mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:84px;}
#pagehistory .mw-changeslist-separator~.mw-changeslist-separator {padding-right:0px;}
In Module:JCW, I have in this version, the following,
function p.pattern (frame)
local n = mArguments.getArgs(frame, {parentOnly = true})
local length = TableTools.length(n)
local text = string.format ('*%s', n1 or '')
n1 = nil --make next loop only target arguments >=2
for i, j in ipairs(TableTools.compressSparseArray(n)) do
text = text..string.format("\n** {{replace|%s|.*|<code>.*</code>}}", j)
end
return text
The line text = text..string.format("\n** %s", j)
is apparently shorthand for 'dumbass that can't code LUA', because if if you have a string like '*Bibcode*', you don't get, as I'd expect
.*
Bibcode.*
but rather an un-parsed
.*
}}If someone could de-dumbassify my code, that would be peachy. The goal is if the substring '.*
' is present in a string like '.*Bibcode.*
', I want those to become wrapped in code tags, like so <code>.*</code>Bibcode<code>.*</code>
.
@ Galobtter: maybe? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 13:59, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
text = text .. "\n** " .. mw.ustring.gsub(j, "%.%*", "<code>.*</code>")
mw.ustring.gsub
is just the unicode-compatible version of
string.gsub
. --
Ahecht (
TALKHow do I display an external link that contains "[" and "]"? Here is an example: The first result of this Google Scholar search takes you to a bioone.org page. But its url has "[" and "]" in it. I tried to paste that link into this Resource Request, but the "[" and "]" garble the result. Is there an escape character that can be used to "hide" the "[" and "]"? Thanks. — Bruce1ee talk 13:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
So I found Pullman Square entirely by accident when trying to find GA-class WP:MALLS articles. But for some reason, it was only assessed as a C-class Shopping Malls article despite being GA-class in every other Wikiproject. Is there an easy way to find articles that have contradictory assessments of this sort? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:54, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
page_assessments
database:
quarry:query/38930. There are a lot of false positives though, for instance if the article belongs to inactive WikiProjects. I don't think I can check for those. Same query but for FA:
quarry:query/38931. I think category intersections such as with Petscan is going to work better. —
MusikAnimal
talk 22:42, 12 September 2019 (UTC)When I edit my common.js and save it by clicking the "Publish changes" button, there is no edit saved. I don't get the timed "Your edit was saved" popup afterwards either. It doesn't matter whether I'm trying to insert new code (e.g. to load another script) or add or edit an existing comment – none of them get saved. The history of the page shows the last edit was in May and my contribs don't show the edit either. I am able to edit User:AlanM1/sandbox as well as WP:Teahouse. Any ideas? —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 09:50, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Something about this particular username (maybe the asterisk at the beginning?) seems to be breaking a couple of the links at {{
Sp-contributions-footer}}
, but I'm afraid I don't know much about the features being used, so I'm not sure where the problem is exactly. Just thought it would be worth bringing up here. Thanks, –
Deacon Vorbis (
carbon •
videos) 03:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
{{encodefirst|{{urlencode:{{{1|Example}}}|WIKI}}}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 10:51, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
In case this is affecting anybody else: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232698. The problem is under investigation. ↠Pine (✉) 05:31, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
The skin preference doesn't affect mobile sites (*.m.wiki*edia.org). I can not change mobile skin no matter how hard I try. So we were chatting on #wikimedia-tech about this. Isarra told me there was a phab task about this problem, and Jon Robson commented there that there is a mobile skin preference but it is hidden. I asked Isarra and other people on #wikimedia-tech, but they didn't seem to know too. Some of them tried to enable it via api, but that ended in failure. Anyway, he told me to find some gadget maker nerds and ask them as "they might know". So I am asking here. How to change skins on mobile? Masum Reza 📞 05:39, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
How can I reformat {{
Anthony}}
so that it is a tad wider and so that multiple links may appear on a line?-
TonyTheTiger (
T /
C /
WP:FOUR /
WP:CHICAGO /
WP:WAWARD) 02:26, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
|contentclass=plainlist
to |contentclass=hlist
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 09:36, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
-- qedk ( t 桜 c) 10:29, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
Recently, whenever I try to follow a link to a .pdf, such as for instance this, I only get a blank page, while other people seem able to access it without trouble. Admittedly, I am in the EU, and so I get shut off from various US media because GDPR, but the .pdf thing seems different. There's no message at all, just a blank page. Bishonen | talk 09:24, 15 September 2019 (UTC).
Anyone else noticing that Wikipedia emails seem to take a while to arrive lately (e.g. notice of one in the interface long before it shows in your inbox), or is that just me & my provider having issues? Received one that took around 20 minutes (from what I recall) to arrive in my inbox earlier this week (just had time/remembered to ask now). -- TheSandDoctor Talk 20:44, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm in Australia (GMT +10) and edited Wikipedia up until about 05:00 today. When I went to edit at about 14:35 today I updated my watchlist but it only shows edits from 07:53. I've changed nothing so I don't understand why it's only showing some edits from today. My prefs are set for 500 edits and the last 5 days but I'm showing nowhere near that. Is this an issue affecting anyone else? -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 06:36, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
This is kind of amusing. In the process of reviewing Draft:Manoir du Clap, I did a google search for "manoir du clap" and was surprised to discover we already had such an article on enwiki, at least according to Google. Problem is, I couldn't find it. My first guess was maybe this draft was once in mainspace and got draftified, but no evidence of that either. Lots of head scratching ensued. Turns out, the article really is on frwiki (and indeed, if you click on the link, it takes you to frwiki), and Chrome's auto-translation not only translated the text, but "helpfully" translated the hostname too. Mentioning it here in case anybody else has been tripped up by this silliness. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:00, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
In the mobile version, the diffs always says "No change in size" even if there is change in size. See for example [24].-- SharabSalam ( talk) 19:52, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
I don't know if this is an appropriate place to put my feedback but I have to say that I am not impressed by the very new update to the mobile version, I hope Wikimedia doesn't go forward with this, for example what's the point of having the number of contributions bigger in diffs? I think it should actually be removed from diffs because there is prejudice against those who have few edits in Wikipedia community and therefore they usually get reverted often. Instead Wikimedia made the contribution number bigger! Also my phone screen is small and the numbers make the interface looks weird like the word "edits" disappear when the user has so many rights. Also what's the point of using these icons? to differentiate between anonymous and logged-in users? They are pointless. Anyone can differentiate between the IPs and the logged-in users. I feel like the new update didn't offer any improvement. If this update was the old version and the old version was the update I would actually count the old version as an improvement.- SharabSalam ( talk) 00:12, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
AWB (version 5.10.1.0, running on Windows 7 64-bit) is failing to connect, reporting:
Error connecting to wiki
An error occured while connecting to the server or loading project information from it. Please make sure that your internet connection works and such combination of project/language exist.
Enter the URL in the format "en.wikipedia.org/w/" (including path where index.php and api.php reside).
Error description: StartIndex cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: startIndex
and then:
User check problem
Check page failed to load.
Check your Internet is working and that the Wiki is online.
So far as I can tell, my configuration files have not changed since I last successfully used AWB two days ago. Obviously my internet connection is currently working, and Wikipedia appears to be functioning for normal editing.
Is there a problem with the server? Mitch Ames ( talk) 11:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
[25]. "Error querying Pageviews API - Not found." Help? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 13:08, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
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I have numbers in various 'sizes' in a table (see demo right). I want to have them aligned as decimal number, i.e., all decimal signs (=periods) below each other. What are today's best practices available? Any smart template I have not found yet? - DePiep ( talk) 14:42, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Good afternoon Wikipedians!
I have a rather fundamental question.
When you send a search to Wikipedia using the:
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=George Washington
URL, it seems like this function returns 3 different manifestations of Wikipedia search:
1) An actual article 2) A disambiguation page 3) A list of articles, like a Google search
3 examples would be:
If you search for “George Washington”:
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=George Washington
Would return the George Washington Wikipedia article.
If you search for “tom jones”:
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=tom jones
This search returns the disambiguation page for “tom jones”
If you search for “akbur”
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=akbur
This returns a listing of articles, much like a Google search does.
My question is, when the pages are returned. How do I determine what type of page was returned, just by analyzing the HTML that is present? What keywords or phrases can my program look for in the HTML to definitively determine that I have come upon a Wikipedia article, disambiguation page or a search listing?
This is made more difficult by the seeming inconsistency of the search results. For instance, when searching and a disambiguation page is returned, some of these pages contain the phrase “may refer to:” and some may contain the phrase “may also refer to:”. And some of these key phases may, seemingly have 1, 2 or even 3 spaces, between these words, in these key phrases, which makes using key phrases, to figure out the type of page returned, that much more difficult.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Jroehl ( talk) 18:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
&fulltext=1
to the url if you always want search results. The API can be asked directly whether a page exists and what type of page it is. For example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=disambiguation&titles=Tom%20Jones%7CGeorge%20Washington%7CAkbur shows that
Tom Jones is a disambiguation page,
George Washington is not, and
Akbur doesn't exist.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 18:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Thankyou very much Redrose64. It is always important to remember this! Jroehl ( talk) 15:59, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I am sorry to bother you here on English Wikipedia but we do not have technical users on our one, so after wrongly using Phabricator for the first time, I hope this could be a place where I will find somebody that will be able to help.
What I need to help with: Our Community portal looks good when accessing it on desktop. This, however, does not apply for the mobile view. So I basically need help with making the page responsive so that it displays correctly on all kinds of displays.
Here is the detailed request (on Phabricator): phabricator:T231949
It was recommended to me to get inspired by this responsive template, so I hope that can help.
If you want to help, feel free to contact me on wiki (here, Meta, Slovak one, ...) or via e-mail and we can discuss further. If there is going to be a need to create a css or js file, I can request interface admin's rights and put it there, meanwhile, it can be tested on Testwiki.
Thanks a lot for reading this!
-- Luky001 ( talk) 16:02, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Looking at the source, I think this is meant to be an ambox, but it does not actually render for some reason. I found this issue when I proceeded to add the tag to Patchwork religion, currently linked only from this page and a 2010 RfD, to find that it had already been tagged in 2015. However, someone else may have noted that this tag is invisible. I cannot try to fix it myself because the page is template-protected. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 02:40, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Is the mw.user.options object in the JavaScript interface a reliable area to store data through scripts (for later access from the scripts)? If so, I am guessing that it can be for setting up scripts for creating private to-do lists and custom watchlists, etc. SD0001 ( talk) 06:43, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
localStorage
to save stuff, and unlike localStorage will follow the person around if they log in on a different computer. See also
mw:API:Options
Bawolff (
talk) 05:23, 20 September 2019 (UTC)There has been a change to how the maximum template expansion depth is handled. The maximum is still 40 but the change has increased the expansion depth calculated for the page so that some deeply nested templates are now broken. This happens with a number of cladograms constructed using the {{ clade}}, as can be seen in Afrophidia. Pages generating the error can be found at Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded. Strangely, some of the cladogram still look OK on the saved page but fail in edit preview. I think this is due to caching, but cannot explain why these pages look OK but already appear in the error tracking category.
The following code used to be able to expand 40 nested templates, but now fails at 21.
* Nest 21 templates: {{1x|1 {{1x|2 {{1x|3 {{1x|4 {{1x|5 {{1x|6 {{1x|7 {{1x|8 {{1x|9 {{1x |10 {{1x|11 {{1x|12 {{1x|13 {{1x|14 {{1x|15 {{1x|16 {{1x|17 {{1x|18 {{1x|19 {{1x|20 {{1x |'''21'''}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}} }}}}
You can see similar examples at
Checking the current expansion limit and
[27]
:mw:Help:Expansion_depth#Nesting depth on the page itself. These still appear to allow transclusion to a depth of 40, but if you test in edit preview they fail at 21. Again, I think that this is because cached pages are being displayed.
Jts1882 |
talk 16:13, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Gadget, I'm attempting to start a discussion here about the likelihood of User:Evad37/XFDcloser (commonly referred to as "XFDcloser") being eligible to be promoted to "Gadget" status. For those who do not know what this script is used for, it is used to automatically close a majority of types of WP:XFD discussions. There are quite a few editors who use this script, including myself. However, if it can be, I think it is time for this script to become a gadget (provided that it meets all criteria in Wikipedia:Gadget#General criteria for gadgets.) The main reason I'm proposing this script become a gadget is not only because of several editors using it, but also since its creator/maintainer, Evad37, hasn't edited in almost a month and a half, and if it were promoted to a gadget, other editors could respond to update requests to the script. So ... does this look like a good candidate for "Gadget"-ification? Steel1943 ( talk) 16:58, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
My recent addition of a Popular culture section to the article appears to be alternately installed, and the uninstalled in the article. It seems to sometimes appear there, and then not to appear a few minutes later when someone else edits another part of the article. I do not know if when you link to the film if you will see the Popular culture section or not. It does appear as having been made in my edit history [28], but it does not appear in the article consistently after the edit is made and confirmed. It just seems to disappear 5 minutes later and then reappear again later without anyone editing it. Any thoughts? CodexJustin ( talk) 17:59, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
I discovered today that I've got a bunch of edits on dewiki. To the best of my knowledge, I've made exactly one edit there. The rest seem to be some random assortment of edits I've made on en that were mirrored to de. What's the deal here? Is there some bot or something that's doing this? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:39, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
So, it turns out, there's more to this story. The only reason I noticed my de edits was that I was looking for a recent edit that I thought I had made on https://www.mediawiki.org, but couldn't find it. Then I realized it might not have been on that wiki, so I checked global. Turns out, when Global user contributions says, Show user contributions from all Wikimedia wikis, they mean that for very small values of all. Specifically, it doesn't include wikitech.wikimedia.org. But, I guess all really means, all external-facing, or something like that. Anyway, I eventually found what I was looking for in my browser history, and learned something about inter-wiki imports, so a positive experience. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:43, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello colleagues. When a citation looks like this:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc Howard, Greg (2014-02-06). "The Big Book Of Black Quarterbacks". Deadspin. Archived from the original on 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
Is there a better way? This is as a result of the source being used a lot in the article, and especially because it is used to source some, but not all, rows in a large table. Can those little letter backlinks (what are they called?) be suppressed, hidden, grouped, or something? It seems to me that it not only looks bad, but is entirely useless to a reader. Is there a doc that covers this? Thanks in advance! – Leviv ich 17:04, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
span.mw-cite-backlink {
display: none;
}
|group=groupname
used to control which refs are grouped in which list. See
WP:REFGROUP for details. Consider putting each table ref in a group using <ref group=table>Content</ref>
, and putting {{reflist|group=table}}
in a footer of the table. That may be enough to make the main reflist manageable. If the resulting table reflist still offends you, you don't have to use <ref></ref>
markup in the table, you can roll your own link from each row to the source in the footer, with no backlink. --
Worldbruce (
talk) 01:35, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Our preferences pages have a timezone setting, is it used anywhere? — Pelagic ( talk) 07:41, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to post, but WikiHiero doesn't seem to work in the mobile version. This is a problem at decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs#Champollion's breakthroughs, where tables of WikiHiero glyphs display neatly on desktop (or at least on mine) but aren't visible at all on mobile. There are possible substitutes—images or the Unicode Egyptian hieroglyphs block—but both would be awkward to implement in the table, and the hieroglyphs block doesn't seem to be widely supported yet. Should I make a bug request? Does anyone have other suggestions? A. Parrot ( talk) 23:46, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
prefix=
in the url. Did you actually get mainspace results or do you just think it searches mainspace because the url ends with ns0=1
and the interface says "Search in: (Article)". If I search hieroglyph then I get
/info/en/?search=Special:Search?search=hieroglyph&prefix=Wikipedia%3AVillage+pump&fulltext=Search+all+village+pumps+%26+archives&fulltext=Search&ns0=1. prefix=Wikipedia%3AVillage+pump
means I only get results with that prefix, and the top of the page says: Only searching in pages whose title starts with "Wikipedia:Village pump".
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)I missed any notice of the fact that my watchlist now (in the last few hours) shows every addition to a category that I'm watching, and every removal. This is not a complaint but it's strange that, unlike edits to watched articles (which show only the most recent edit), it appears that every category membership change is listed. Here is a rough representation of what appears in my current watchlist for one category.
22 September 2019
Category:Age error; 06:53 CASSIOPEIA
List of current UFC fighters added to category,
this page is included within other pages
Category:Age error; 04:58 2607:fea8:4c60:957:bc51:95d0:f84e:6988
Luther Reigns added to category, this page is included within other pages
Category:Age error; 02:15 Yankees10
Walker Buehler removed from category, this page is included within other pages
Johnuniq ( talk) 07:13, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
( diff | hist ) m Amir al-Mu'minin; 22:01 -52 Mohanad Kh (talk | contribs) (- Category:Politics of Morocco; - Category:Jihad using HotCat un-related) [ rollback ]
Category:Age error; 02:15 Yankees10 Walker Buehler removed from category, this page is included within other pages
14 September 2019
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13:26, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
There appears to be a problem with Navigation popups in showing previous versions of a page, in some cases showing vandalism. At 19:16, 20 September 2019 the Great Stink article was vandalised; it was reverted within a minute, but the pop up still shows the vandalised version. Any thoughts? – SchroCat ( talk) 07:22, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Something is breaking the formatting on Woolworth Building. For some reason there is nearly a full page of blank space after the sentence "The ornate lobby contains various sculptures, mosaics, and architectural touches." I've tried a couple things but nothing worked. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 06:36, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
FWIW, I appear to be having this same issue at #Darryl Jones below. Home Lander ( talk) 00:46, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
There is a large blank area in the middle of Darryl Jones. I've tried to resolve it in preview; removing the image from the infobox removes some of the blank lines, but not all of them. Can someone figure out what is causing this? Thanks. Home Lander ( talk) 21:38, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
See #Woolworth Building above. Not resolved. Johnuniq ( talk) 23:33, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
I have two column edit-conflict enabled as a Beta feature and it seems that VE is unable to process any edit-conflicts. I was frequently conflicting with an IP over Rupi Kaur and every single time (thrice), the publish button returned a 404 error. I needed to relaunch the edit-page and re-write it, pending which it was possible to publish. ∯WBG converse 15:28, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
{{ping|
waddie96}} {
talk}
15:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC)I'm using the timeless wikipedia skin, and is there a way to remove the right-hand column, either in the settings or with JS? If it does involve JS, could you show me the code which does it? Thanks! Aven 12:50, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
#mw-related-navigation { display: none; }
to your
Special:MyPage/timeless.css page. --
AntiCompositeNumber (
talk) 14:55, 22 September 2019 (UTC)I've noticed the toollabs viewcount tool we use for DYK is down. When you click on the link, it buffers for a few seconds then shows you no results and no name in the search bar as usual. You also cannot manually enter the name as the system doesn't appear to recognise you have typed in the box. Could this be looked at please? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 07:03, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
I've discovered a few issues with Template:Graph:Chart. I made my first comment at the talk page a few days ago but it hasn't received any replies, so I'm hoping a message here will spark some interest. The sections are Template_talk:Graph:Chart#Problem_with_<nowiki>_and_this_template and Template_talk:Graph:Chart#showSymbols_doesn't_respect_opacity_values. 202.159.169.45 ( talk) 23:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Makes sense that I’d see notices posted on watched editor’s talk pages, but why see that another editor “has opted-out of message delivery”? Hyperbolick ( talk) 14:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Feels like not my business to see somebody else’s opt-outs or preferences.You're watching their talkpage, that is why you're notified of actions that happen on it. So you really have business with the page —and any other page you watch. – Ammarpad ( talk) 14:50, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Is there a way to disable the scrolling arrow buttons in the bottom right? Appear to be added to WP:ITNC recently and displayed by default. Brandmeister talk 10:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
.skip-to-top-button .skip-to-bottom-button {
display: none !important;
}
!important
annotation. This should work: #skip-to-top-button,
#skip-to-bottom-button {
display: none;
}
!important
annotations at it, but check the selectors and, if necessary, increase their specificity: div#skip-to-top-button,
div#skip-to-bottom-button {
display: none;
}
!important
annotation is necessary - usually, it's a cop-out. The thing is, once it has been used, it becomes much harder to override. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 13:48, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
In Template talk:Update § "This template"? I wrote
Having read the documentation more carefully since writing that, I see that the message says "template" there because it's being included in a template. In an article or section it would say "article" or "section" instead:
I've been editing Wikipedia for 14 years and I have never encounteredv this kind of confusion before, where the example text of a template displayed at the top of its page appears to say (falsely) that the template is to be used only in templates. That part of the documentation needs a warning, an assurance that the template is not just for use in templates, but happens to say "template" there because it's being used in a template-doc page. And that explanation should include a link to § Example; I didn't twig to the explanation till I got to that section. Adding such a warning adjacent to the example text of a template doc would probably be very non-standard, but this is a non-standard situation. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 02:12, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
This template can be used to mark articles or sections with old or out-of-date information. Actually, you're only confused because you're releasing this for the first time. – Ammarpad ( talk) 03:51, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
| demospace = {{{demospace|<noinclude>main</noinclude>}}}
to display "article" on the template page.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 04:15, 29 September 2019 (UTC)I already have code on my vector.css page that recolors redirects green, which I find very helpful. I was wondering if I could do something similar for wikilinks that go directly to a page without using a redirect; I find the dark blue and black difficult to distinguish between when text is not in bold and my screen is not at full brightness, and I would really rather keep my screen at the minimum brightness setting. IF possible, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's not, I would also like to know how to turn the background black and the regular text white; that would obviate any need to recolor direct wikilinks. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 19:24, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
a:not(.mw-redirect) { style: here; }
should work. The second request is possible but much more difficult to do given the number of stylings to be made if you want the colors consistent; someone has a user script for it hanging around but I don't have that to hand. --
Izno (
talk) 19:51, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
a:not(.mw-redirect) { color: green; }
in your vector.css. I don't know why Izno decided to give you extra work. And for your second question, you can use
this script being developed by WMF. –
Ammarpad (
talk) 22:09, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
a:not(.mw-redirect) { color: green; }
then many links in the preview become green. Some things cannot be tested this way because they don't appear on the css or js page you are editing. Browsers usually have a feature to view a page with added css or js you can enter somewhere in the browser.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:12, 29 September 2019 (UTC)( edit conflict) Okay, I installed the script you suggested, but I can't find the switch to turn it on. Would it be located somewhere in the "Vector (default | Preview | Custom CSS | Custom JavaScript)" bunch? Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 22:26, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
Wait, nevermind, I found it. It's up at the top of the screen. Thanks for all the help everyone, I'll be glad to help test this script! 22:30, 28 September 2019 (UTC) Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 22:31, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
When Template:Anchor is placed after the section title, the browser may scroll the page, so that the section title is just out of view. When the anchor is placed before the section title, then the anchor belongs to the preceding section, and it is not visible in a section edit. So the proper place for an anchor is the section title. However, then the template code will appear in the edit summary of a section edit. It is therefore suggested to use direct HTML (by substituting the template). In the German Wikipedia, a solution to this issue was implemented in August 2012, and it is strongly recommended to use the anchor in a section title ( de:Hilfe:Überschrift#anchor). So, please, implement the German solution.-- 77.6.73.196 ( talk) 13:28, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
<span>
directly as you mention, but there are a lot of unsubstituted template invocations. Perhaps a bot could be tasked to tidy these up? --
Mirokado (
talk) 13:46, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
anchor}}
already mentions this. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 13:54, 29 September 2019 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
As many are aware Wikipedia books has not worked in a few years and there's no light down the tunnel of any fixes coming... Reading/Web/PDF Functionality (no update on WikiBooks in a year). I am proposing suppressing the rendering capability of Template:Wikipedia books ( related = Template:Book bar & Template:Books-inline) and removal of the Book Creator in the sidebar. This is for our readers so they don't keep going to books that don't work and haven't worked in a few years..plus these types of lists exist in outlines already. I'm thinking suppression of the template(s) is better than outright deletion in case the WMF finally does come up with something...then poof...they can all appear when transclusion is implemented again. Currently PDF rendering per page has been implemented so the link seen at Wikipedia:Books about an external program is no longer needed as our in-house PDF system is running.-- Moxy 🍁 22:57, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
Note: Votes below have been cast since the initial close was reverted — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 07:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
This discussion has been notified at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 10:32, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
since I got quite some anarchistic thoughts, I kind of enjoy business models explode in huge fireballs. People make money off these books, but they do not serve our readers well. Time to explode in huge fireballs, or at least hide the template. – Leviv ich 04:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Note: This discussion has been notified at mw:Extension talk:Collection. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 08:49, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Due to severe issues with our existing system, the Book Creator will no longer support saving a book as a PDF for a short period of time. We are working hard to replace our system and re-enable PDFs within the Book Creator.Put that together with the info found on the "Learn more" page, plus the next notice about single-page downloading, and it all adds up to a distinct possibility that somebody forgot to update those warnings. P. I. Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 06:52, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Reverted close: WP:SNOW close with consensus for proposal. I am fully aware that RfC's usually should run for 30 days and willing to re-open if there are any concerns. ( non-admin closure) -- Trialpears ( talk) 23:26, 31 August 2019 (UTC)}}
#coll-create_a_book { display: none; }
to
Mediawiki:Common.css. --
Yair rand (
talk) 18:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)Note: the following two-part post was made before the initial close was reverted — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 07:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
YIKES! STOP EVERYBODY! The Book Creator tool remains an essential feature in order to create and edit Wikipedia books for external services such as PediaPress print-on-demand and the MediaWiki2LaTex independent PDF rendering service. It is only our in-house rendering that has gone (and may yet come back, as PediaPress have undertaken to provide a replacement). Please roll back all these stakes through its heart! — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 19:08, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Specifically, the OP's rationale that "Currently PDF rendering per page has been implemented so the link seen at Wikipedia:Books about an external program is no longer needed as our in-house PDF system is running," is wholly wrong-headed. Yes we have a new article renderer, but it is a totally unrelated function from book rendering. That needs entirely different software in two parts - the book creator/designer which lists articles for inclusion and the book renderer which pulls all the articles together. We have only lost the book rendering, the old book creator/editor is still functional and still in use. The linked external book rendering service is still also operational. It has absolutely not been withdrawn or overtaken by the new article renderer. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 20:16, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
I am the maintainer of mediawiki2latex. Maybe it is a bit off topic, but I got two views on this point. Firstly mediawiki2latex currently provides a way to get PDFs from books hosted on Wikipedia and keeping this possibility might be an advantage for some users of the content, particularly those with small financial resources, which is a good thing as such. The resources on the web interface to mediawiki2atex (which is hosted by wmf) are quite limited so that book may a most contain a few dozens of articles. mediawiki2latex is also provided as a binary package for Debian Linux without any limits on the number of articles per books.
Removing the books from Wikipedia would not cause any financial consequences to me since I am only doing this as an unpayed hobby project in me spare time. Still pediapress financially relies on the book feature on wikipedia. So closing the book feature might cause pediapress to stop all business activities in this field, which causes me to have a monopoly, which is the greatest thing you can get in capitalism. So the choice is yours. Dirk Hünniger ( talk) 14:37, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
I think it's high time we invited the WMF over to participate in this discussion. I am not sure of the best way to do that, but I have tried what I can. If anybody knows the correct place to post an advisory over there, please do so. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 12:13, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Well, the majority seems to have a clear opinion. Many contributors have brought forward their arguments, currently there seem to be no new arguments. I am really looking forward to a decision being taken. In my impish mind I will be really pleased to see these fireworks go off. Especially when imagining that these relaxed well paid, socially secured people, well assured that there is never any problem, will suddenly have to work quite a lot. My systems will keep running. But possibly I should better change my telephone number. Good Luck Dirk Hünniger ( talk) 14:36, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Since the usability of mediawiki2latex is discussed. I provide to examples of the output of the large document server http://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org/
I choose these two examples since I think to remeber to have seen them in this discussion. So everyone can now look at them and find his / her own opinion. Everyone is also wellcome to add examples and of you to send me bug reports on what he / she wants changed. Dirk Hünniger ( talk) 12:34, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
As one of the founders and current CEO of PediaPress, I'd like to express my point of view. The book creator / collection extension was created more than 10 years ago and is still in active use today. Check the original press release from 2007. PediaPress donates 10% of its gross revenue from Wikipedia books to the WMF every year (more than €70,000 total over the last ten years). After a couple of failed attempts to create print products from Wikipedia, the partnership with PediaPress was established to allow for a consistently available, self-service, and good quality print export of Wiki content. The relevance of this use case has declined over the years but it is still relevant for a small group of avid users (I can share full revenue data if desired). The collection extension has been vital in enabling this feature. Without an easy to use interface, most Wikipedia users will never be able to explore this. Even though I had only limited time to work on the new book renderer in the past few months, I/PediaPress is committed to delivering high quality PDF and print export for Wikipedia and other wikis in the future. We agreed to release the new HTML renderer as open source and to sponsor the PDF book rendering going forward. I would hope that this feature would not be shut down and I am very open for talking about how to make book export better and more relevant. Ckepper ( talk) 13:31, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
While it's possible to download or reading a book it's not very convenient. Rendering a book with MediaWiki2LaTex often takes many hours and some setup if someone else is using the online resources and the pediapress preview doesn't show the entire book. Would it be possible to upload a pre-rendered book from MediaWiki2LaTex on the book pages ready to be downloaded or read. If that was the case this would be even better than when there was an inhouse pdf renderer. -- Trialpears ( talk) 21:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello- at the top of the Raid on Taipei article, there are two semicolons ("; ;") that are generated as part of Template:cjkv. I don't know how to fix this, but I think someone should fix this at some point. Thanks for any help. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 04:24, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
|t=臺北大空襲
to the {{
cjkv}} template. This removed the extra semi-colon in the article. It's not clear to me what the intent is when a parameter is missing. In this example, in the absence of |t=
or |c=
the template seems to assume that the Japanese is the same as tradition chinese and changes the text accordingly (but leaves the extra semi-colon). I assume this is correct as that was what was in the article. Ideally the template could be modified to avoid adding the extra semi-colon without the duplication, but that template code is convoluted.
Jts1882 |
talk 06:34, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{cjkv|j=臺北大空襲|r=Taihoku Daikūshū|t=臺北大空襲|p=Táiběi Dà Kōngxí}}
{{cjkv|j=臺北大空襲|r=Taihoku Daikūshū|t=臺北大空襲|p=Táiběi Dà Kōngxí}}
|t=臺北大空襲
parameter now occurs twice. Also, the extra semicolon is still there. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:33, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
|c=臺北大空襲
which removed the semi-colon.
|c=
with |t=
, which restored "traditional chinese", but didn't notice the semi-colon came back.; 
pair. This is produced by the last of three complex tests thus: {{ #ifexpr: {{ #if: {{{p|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{tp|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{cy|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{w|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{r|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{k|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{rr|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{v|}}} | 1 | 0 }} or {{ #if: {{{l|}}} | 1 | 0 }} | ;  }}
It appears that tens of thousands of articles have appeared in Category:Pages with script errors recently. It may be conincidence, but many of them appear to call the newly created Module:String/i18n. Do any Module-savvy / i18n-savvy technical folks care to take a look? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 19:20, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
[pings omitted] Wouldn't it be easier to just revert the edit by Ans, instead of protecting lots of /i18n subpages which will never be needed? I find it unlikely that some random module is going to have an /i18n subpage which needs to supersede the i18n table of Module:Wikidata (which is apparently what the change is supposed to allow for). Jc86035 ( talk) 21:38, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
next(res)
and then references res.i18n
. So if the table has at least one key, but no key named i18n
, then an error will be thrown. Instead,
Module:I18n should check if that key exists.
Thayts
••• 07:26, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
At
Hideaki Yamada, replacing all content with {{cite sports-reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/hideaki-yamada-1.html}}
and previewing shows the three i18n modules being called (
Module:I18n +
Module:String/i18n +
Module:Wikidata/i18n). Repeating that after adding |check-wikidata=no
shows that no i18n modules are called (wikitext {{cite sports-reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/hideaki-yamada-1.html|check-wikidata=no}}
). {{
cite sports-reference}} calls various string templates such as {{
str find}} and somehow one of them must lead to Module:String/i18n being tested for existence. If anyone has some time to pursue this, please let us know how Module:String/i18n ends up being called.
Johnuniq (
talk) 11:02, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{#invoke:String|match|{{#invoke:Wikidata|getPropertyIDs|P31|FETCH_WIKIDATA}},|Q5,|1|1|true|}}
(code taken from {{
cite sports-reference}}) results in a call to
Module:String/i18n. There is probably a more concise case that would call it, but the only templates or modules trancluded by that code are
Module:I18n,
Module:No globals,
Module:String,
Module:String/i18n, and
Module:Wikidata. Poking through
Module:Wikidata, I see this code that might be relevant:--require("Module:i18n").loadI18n("Module:Wikidata/i18n", i18n) -- got idea from [[:w:Module:Wd]] local module_title; if ... == nil then module_title = mw.getCurrentFrame():getTitle() else module_title = ... end require('Module:i18n').loadI18n(module_title..'/i18n', i18n)
I believe I understand how Module:String/i18n is being called, although the explanation depends on several obscure features and what may be a bug in how Lua is implemented. First of all, to answer some of the comments above, this is related to Module:Wikidata, specifically the block of code Jonesey95 quoted above.
In detail: arguments to Lua modules are
evaluated lazily, meaning that in the simplified example {{#invoke:String|match|{{#invoke:Wikidata|getPropertyIDs|P31|FETCH_WIKIDATA}},|Q5,|1|1|true|}}
,
Module:Wikidata isn't actually called until
Module:String attempts to access the value of its first argument. When that happens and
Module:Wikidata runs and, since ...
is not defined, calls mw.getCurrentFrame()
. Due to what I think is a bug, that function returns the frame for the toplevel
Module:String call, not the inner
Module:Wikidata call, meaning that its getTitle
method returns "Module:String", resulting in
Module:i18n attempting to load
Module:String/i18n.
The actual content of
Module:String is mostly irrelevant here; all that matters is that it uses arguments; I could create a call of
Module:BananasArgs/i18n via {{#invoke:BananasArgs|hello|{{
#invoke:wikidata|pageId}}}}
( Hello, Q111847620!), as you can see via the pages transcluded on this page.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 15:10, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
is bugged; it's supposed to return the toplevel frame. I've copied all relevant modules into sandboxes and played around with them, and I've found that if you use the frame that is passed to the called function of
Module:Wikidata instead (e.g. p.getPropertyIDs = function(frame)
, see
[36]), then the correct module_title
is retrieved. So this can be solved by changing
Module:Wikidata to load i18n differently, in a similar way as
Module:Wd.next(res)
should be replaced with a check to see if res.i18n
exists and if that is a table.
Thayts
••• 20:36, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
still needs fixing, of course. --
RexxS (
talk) 21:26, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
fails to get the current frame (i.e. the frame invoked with the current code), we're permanently chasing our own tails. --
RexxS (
talk) 23:15, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
is called at the module level (not inside a function) in the inner #invoke it picks up the frame from the outer #invoke rather than getting its own frame created for the module-level processing. You should file a task in
Phabricator about it.
Anomie
⚔ 20:52, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
mw.getCurrentFrame()
, it should return the frame object from the most recent #invoke
. The laziness explains that mw.getCurrentFrame()
is even able to get
Module:String's frame object, but the most recent invoke is then indeed that of
Module:Wikidata.
Thayts
••• 21:17, 30 September 2019 (UTC)Hello, sorry for asking here, but I got no response elsewhere. On cswiki WikiMiniAtlas gadget does not work anymore, could you help? We suspect this is due to changes in our Coord template. What should Coord template fulfill to make WikiMiniAltas work there again? Or do we have got some error in our gadget definition? ( w:cs:MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition and w:cs:MediaWiki:Gadget-WikiMiniAtlas.js) -- Dvorapa ( talk) 10:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
I noticed a problem about two weeks ago and wrote the following to describe it. However, by the time I got around to posting it a day later, the problem had gone away. It has returned and FWIW here it is.
Previewing the following (extracted from {{ Infobox road}} in Heartland Expressway) in a sandbox gives "The time allocated for running scripts has expired" with a result similar to "Lua time usage: 12.751/10.000 seconds" in the NewPP report in the page's HTML source.
{{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=290|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Heartland Expressway}}}}
The same problem can be seen at Interstate 84 in Oregon and possible other articles. Any thoughts? Johnuniq ( talk) 07:53, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
I played around with {{maplink|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Heartland Expressway}}}}
from
Heartland Expressway. The NewPP report for the article shows Lua time usage: 12.047/10.000 seconds. The pages used are
Template:Maplink +
Module:Mapframe +
Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Heartland Expressway. The module finishes with a call to display a large (87,101 bytes) <mapframe> file which apparently uses
mw:Extension:Kartographer. Previewing an edit to the module which does everything except call Kartographer requires 0.34 seconds of Lua time. Conclusion: Kartographer is taking nearly 12 seconds and that fails because the time is counted against Lua which has a 10-second limit (more than enough for anything reasonable using pure Lua). I was thinking about investigating the module which has a dozen unintended globals and might need tweaking. However, the basic problem might be Kartographer, or the fact that Kartographer's time is debited to Lua.
Johnuniq (
talk) 07:59, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Really like the sandbox and use it a lot. I cleared out an article I had posted and started a new one. Started a fresh page and new infox box using a template cut and pasted directly from the help pages. When I previewed it, just a straight line of all the text I had entered displayed but no actual inbox. Tried with different templates, still no real infobox, just a line of of the text I had entered. Cleaned my caches, ran anti-malware. Then went through all the how to fix it steps listed in the infobox help article, it still would not display correctly. Then cleaned my computer caches, registries etc, even reloaded the browser. Then purged the sandbox as per help page. Put up a test template in, saved it, it still will not display, nada, not even the line of text entered in the test infobox, which it did before. The editing area is there but when I preview it there is nothing but a box to the right that says "my name/sandbox." I use the firefox browser. Help pages said ad blocker could be the cause. I use ublock origin and have it turned off on Wiki. Have never had a problem with the same setup before. Just reloaded both. Still have the issue with same configuration that I had no problem with until now.
Would appreciate some help with this. Have spent a lot of time on it and do not understand why it is not working. Thank you. Ogmany ( talk) 13:10, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
<!-- -->
. Those indicate source comments for editors viewing the source. Anything inside them are ignored when the page is rendered. See more at
Help:Wikitext#Invisible text (comments). If a page displays your template code like it looks in the source then it's usually due to unclosed tags. Maybe a starting {{
is missing the ending }}
, or a [[
is missing a ]]
in one of the parameters.
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talk) 13:56, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I've been putting it off for quite a while, but I feel I need to find a way to do this soon. Here's what I'd like to do:
Currently, there are a few different ranking lists for pool players, such as the WPA and Eurotour rankings. There is a similar list for snooker players such as at Snooker world rankings 2019/2020.
What I'd like is to be able to have a way to update infoboxes (such as Template:Infobox pool player/rankings, similar to how Template:Infobox snooker player/rankings works. However, these are updated with a quick copy/paste for the snooker version, which doesn't seem possible with the above ranking lists. I'd also like to be able to update a potential article for each ranking list for the rankings after each event. The main issue (other than importing), seems to be the sheer amount of article names that are different from the name given. They tend to use lastname, firstname, rather than how our articles work.
I'd really like a reasonably quick and clean way to update the lists. Is there a way to go about doing this, or should I work around an existing solution? Please let me know if I need to provide more information. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 16:13, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
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When checking whether this recent change was an improvement or vandalism (it looks to be an improvement), I came across List of the busiest airports in France, which starts of with two graphs, which are Wikidata-fueled. Ignoring whether this is wanted or not for now, my problem is that they simply don't seem to work. Firefox 69.0.2 on Windows, all I get is a small placeholder image. Other articles like List of the busiest airports in Germany also use this kind of graph, but through a template: in this case I don't even get the placeholder image but solely an empty section.
Is this a problem on my side, or a general problem with these graphs? Fram ( talk) 12:44, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
I use the MonoBook skin. Yesterday, when editing, I started to see a large pink box with an orange border:
This is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved! → Go to editing area
I think the warning was there before, but it was not so jarring. Any ideas on how to tone it down? Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:45, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
This is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved! → Go to editing area
.previewnote .warningbox {border: none; background-color: white;}
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.previewnote .warningbox {border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; background-color: white;}
My personal choice here would be { display:none}, as usual.
Unfortunately, all these {display:none}'s don't bring back the lost performance, especially with this case that turned my 1Ghz CPU into a toaster. It's a real pity that MW becomes a bloatware, and worse yet, that the devs just won't listen. — Mike Novikoff 21:21, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation recently announced two major changes to this year's Community Wishlist Survey. I haven't seen it spread widely on-wiki, so I'm posting it here. The Community Tech team will only work on the 5 most popular requests, not the top 10. They will also not consider any proposals from Wikipedia projects. The announcement was on wikitech-l and other mailing lists. You can find more information at meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2020 and discuss the changes at meta:Talk:Community Wishlist Survey 2020. -- AntiCompositeNumber ( talk) 02:30, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Based on this post at wp:AN, the cursor position on Special:Search is weird. To reproduce, type some text in the box, then try to click in the box, and see the cursor is several characters to the right of where you clicked. I am using Chrome, Windows 10. User:Nixinova reported IE and Edge working as expected. Chris857 ( talk) 04:48, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
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I have uploaded a file, that is not fit for the intended use, and I want to delete it, but I don't know how. (Man, that was a long sentence – and please understand, that English isn't my first language.)
Anyways, I'd like to ask, if someone could help me deleting the file. /info/en/?search=File:Logo_for_the_2019_snooker_Champion_of_Champions.png
Cheers, Mrloop ( talk) 17:40, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Webcitation is one of the main recommended in the Help:Archiving a source for archiving links. But now a lot (all?) of pages with non-Latin text are shown with a Specials (Unicode block)#Replacement character. For example [42] . Is the site is finally dying аnd no longer reliable? Can someone contact them to fix it? -- Sunpriat ( talk) 00:43, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
In
Draft:Jaime Macías Alarcón, there's some very strange markup with every paragraph wrapped in <span data-segmentid="..." class="cx-segment">
. My two guesses are some weird Visual Editor bug, or (more likely) somebody copy-pasted this from somewhere and the HTML markup came along for the ride. Earwig doesn't show any copyvio matches, and googling for bits of text from the draft draws a blank as well. Anybody seen this before? --
RoySmith
(talk) 22:09, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
OK, thanks everybody. I think I'm going to copy the source to my unix box and clean it up with some emacs magic. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:25, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a problem with page categorisations as I have had no entries on my watchlist for the last couple of days yet there are new/removed entries in the category Category:CS1 errors: dates that should have appeared? Keith D ( talk) 10:17, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm sure it's been asked before, but I can't find it: is there an easier way to count the transclusions of a template than using the "what links here" page and counting how many pages? Circéus ( talk) 02:05, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/?title=MediaWiki:Linkscount.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
which lets you count without leaving "what links here" page and is more flexible with namespaces, etc.
SD0001 (
talk) 05:14, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Without the line feed the citation is messed up.
AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 23:22, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
'}}
renders as this:
<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>
<ref>''30 Rock'''s.</ref>
[5] gives the same result. Here is the html from this page:
<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">'<i><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a><b></b></i></span><i><b> <span class="reference-text"></span></b></i><b>30 Rock</b>s.</li>
'
<ref>''30 Rock'''s.</ref>
[6] and its html:
<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>30 Rock</i>'s.</span></li>
'''foo''' ''bar'''s
that happens to be interpreted in an unexpected manner. Including the newline puts a newline in that wikitext, and since apostrophe markup only works within a single line there's no ambiguity. Fixes might include replacing the '''
in
MediaWiki:Cite references link one with <b>...</b>
or <strong>...</strong>
or formatting the citation with <i>...</i>
to avoid the misinterpretation of apostrophe-wikitext. In the former case
MediaWiki:Cite references link many format might also want a similar edit.
Anomie
⚔ 12:32, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
References
Please see the idea discussed at Template talk:CodeBox#External links. I *think* it's about code, and then giving an external link to show what it does, but I'm not entirely sure. This might be good, or there might be an even better way to accomplish the desired goal. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 00:01, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
doesn't see to be working. Is this affecting anyone else? —— SerialNumber 54129 11:57, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Is this the same issue that messes up the ref numbering in VE? When I test-edit articles in VE, almost all of them have the refs in the ref section with a higher number than in the article, making it hard to see which ref belongs with which number of course... Here the refs in the ref section are numbered 17 to 27, here 4 to 10, here 4 to 15, here 5 to 89; here the only reference is numbered "6"! Fram ( talk) 12:45, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
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Take a look at the top of any old revision - think this was a WP:THURSDAY interface improvement - anyone else think the pink in yellow is tacky looking though? — xaosflux Talk 23:46, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
.warningbox
while the red is because we use {{
fmbox}} at
MediaWiki:Revision-info. ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 00:09, 5 October 2019 (UTC)Is this explained anywhere? — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:44, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
This may be a known problem or a non-problem but, having noticed it, I thought I would mention it here.
Compare this Google Maps location with the 5°08′33″N 125°58′35″E / 5.1424303°N 125.9764215°E location from {{ coord}} and GeoHack->Google Maps. Maybe it's a rounding error or a cockpit problem on my part. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:23, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
href="..."
attribute of an <a>
tag, any unencoded quotes will terminate that value. Try
percent-encoding it,
like this, where %C2%B0
→°, %27
→' and %22
→". --
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talk) 20:43, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
I see some recent changes to Special:Contributions which make it much less useful for me. The search form is now hidden under a "Search for contributions" toggle, which means an extra click for me to change search settings, but I can live with that. However, when I use a CIDR range (needs to be enabled in Preferences/Gadgets), which I do many times a day to find edits by related IPs after I encounter anon vandalism (e.g. I search for 1.2.0.0/16), the list of IP addresses with edits loads above the list of recent edits. The list of addresses is often very large, and takes many seconds to load, and during this time if I scroll down to the list of recent edits (limited only to the most 50 recent edits by default), the loading list above keeps jumping the screen so I can't do anything useful. Until a couple of days ago, the list of recent edits was above the list of IP addresses, so I could ignore the loading of the latter. Is there a way to toggle off the list of IP addresses? There is a "toggle all" option, but that's not what I want; it shows edits sorted by IP address, but I want edits for the range of IP addresses sorted by date, as already appears at the bottom of the window. Alternatively, can I force the list of IP addresses to be a fixed size, rather than expanding as new addresses are found.- gadfium 20:53, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
No per-IP sorting or date headings, or any bells and whistles.note on the top of that task description says it isn't really a full-replacement. — xaosflux Talk 22:23, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
/* Quick hack to force the Search tab on [[Special:Contribs]] open. Credit: Volker E. (WMF) & Stwalkerster - [[m:Special:Permalink/19434096#Reverting the new "collapsed search interface" on Special:Contribs|Tech]] */
.mw-special-Contributions .oo-ui-fieldsetLayout-group.mw-collapsible-content { display: block !important; }
.mw-special-Contributions .oo-ui-fieldsetLayout-header { display: none !important; }
&safemode=1
I get the short box again.
Ivanvector (
Talk/
Edits) 18:59, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
mw.loader.load( 'mediawiki.ui.input')
, specifically the input
. ~ Amory (
u •
t •
c) 10:44, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
.mw-ui-input-inline { display: inline-block; }
added by
User:Enterprisey/mw-ui-input.css (being used in cv-revdel and unblock-review scripts) is the culprit.
SD0001 (
talk) 11:12, 5 October 2019 (UTC)mw.loader.load('mediawiki.ui.input')
is also causing the same issue. Bizarre, since this one is WMF-sponsored. Ping
Volker E. (WMF).
SD0001 (
talk) 11:25, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
body.mw-special-Contributions .mw-ui-input-inline { display: block; }
in
your common.css should work.
Enterprisey (
talk!) 01:44, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
.mw-ui-input-inline
class from this specific input. Rolling out this week, should be live on enwiki by Thursday.
Volker E. (WMF) (
talk) 01:40, 8 October 2019 (UTC)I am working on a research project related to the traffic of Wikipedia platform. Could you please help me to find the page views data of the early days of Wikipedia? Ideally, I would like to find 2001-February 2008. I understand that the metrics were different from the current metrics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vika-Wiki ( talk • contribs) 03:59, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm concerned that some of the tags added to edits (presumably for debugging reasons) are violating the privacy of editors by disclosing the type or software characteristics of devices they are using to contribute. Please see Wikipedia talk:Tags#Editor privacy. – xeno talk 13:35, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
I am having problems with Enterprisey's reply link script. Please see Wikipedia:Help_desk#Reply_link_script and User talk:Þjarkur/sandbox for more info about the problem. I tried reaching to Enterprisey, but he didn't get back to me. It doesn't seem to work on some Wikipedia forums such as the WP:HD and WP:ANI and also my talk page. I get the error message "There was an error while replying! Please leave a note at the script's talk page with any errors in the browser console, if possible.". I tried replying at this page and I have no issues replying there. I am currently using a modified script at User:Þjarkur/reply-link.js Can you figure out what is going on there and how to fix these errors so that the script works on every Wikipedia page? Interstellarity ( talk) 18:02, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Note: see prior discussion for additional context, about an url recently added to the WP:BLACKLIST.
Note: a parallel discussion is taking place at Help talk:Citation Style 1 about aspects relating more to the citation template aspects of this. Mathglot ( talk) 02:48, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
JzG, I'm going through them, fixing them up. The fixes to the ones in citations are going smoothly. However, I triggered the filter, attempting to change the External link in
Juliet Escoria from its current value, to the following value:
Maybe the filter could be adjusted to excuse examples where it's embedded in a web archive url? Or should I code this valid archive link differently, so it can be saved? Mathglot ( talk) 03:16, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
|url-status=usurped
have blocked display of this url, irrespective whether it is a spammy url or not?Discussion moved here from prior location because it possibly affects more than one area. Mathglot ( talk) 04:24, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
|url-status=
and its predecessor |dead-url=
both require |archive-url=
. It is a misuse of a template to set one and not the other. --
Izno (
talk) 15:09, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
|url-status=
when |archive-url=
is omitted or empty, that is not the same as a requirement; were it a requirement, then we'd have to invent a new error message for that case. As it is, a stand-alone |url-status=
is just clutter which is a different kind of problem ...|archive-url=
is documented, shouldn't it?Can we back up and take a 40,000 foot view for a second, to get some perspective about the locus of the problem? I think this may help inform the discussion. I see what's going on here, as a conflict between two desirable features:
I think the statement of the issue we are facing here is, how do we do both of these at the same time, when an url used to support the article (and maybe still does, in an archived version) but has been usurped by malware? A couple of corollary questions to consider:
Are there other functional aspects we haven't considered? Airing out what ought to happen, and getting agreement here first, will help keep the discussion about how to find a solution more on track. When discussing functionality, are there other stakeholders who ought to be looped in, here? Adding xaosflux. Mathglot ( talk) 23:10, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
A solution is remove the offending URL but retain a {{
citation}}
. Blacklists don't prevent citing only linking. However if something is blacklisted it would be advisable to find an alternative source. --
Green
C 00:33, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
If a citation provides other means to verify the material, the simplest approach is not to include the url. The problem appears when online verification is the only available option. Again, the simpler approach would be for the editor to find a non-blacklisted mirror. If there no such mirrors, and the editor believes that the material can not be verified otherwise, then the pre-infected archive copy could be used, after some procedure as below:
|url-status=whitelisted
should be inserted in the template to inform other editors that the particular archived url has been vetted, even if the current version is unsuitable.It is a cumbersome approach, but I believe it is viable. 72.43.99.138 ( talk) 13:19, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that there is a parallel discussion taking place at Help talk:Citation Style 1 about aspects relating primarily to the citation template aspects of this, which may overlap in part some of the discussion above. Mathglot ( talk) 02:52, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
— Through the Looking-Glass|url-status
are not well-defined; at least, not everyone appears to agree what they mean. As part of settling how to handle the part of the problem related to the spam blacklist as raised here, it seems to me that the definitions of usurped, unfit, and possibly other values need to be agreed upon as a prerequisite. If we're not all talking about the same thing, then discussions of edge cases like this one concerning the blacklist will get hopelessly tangled.url-status
that says it is usurped, what do you think that means? What should the citation do with that? Please jump in at that discussion, if you feel you can help. Thanks,
Mathglot (
talk) 23:55, 9 October 2019 (UTC)Please remove the Merger notice on {{ Infobox Company}}. It is irritating to see it appearing on top of articles. If it cannot be removed, then please put a noinclude around it. Users need to read the caution notice before slapping notices on highly visible templates.
180.151.92.126 ( talk) 10:07, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
So |deadurl=
and |dead-url=
have been deprecated in {{
cite web}} and its variants, in favor of |url-status=
. However, I notice reFill 2, and probably regular reFill, are still generating |dead-url=
, which in turn now generates an error message and adds the page to the maintenance category
Category:CS1_errors: deprecated parameters. The operators of
InternetArchiveBot and
GreenC bot have made the fix there, is there anyone who can update reFill accordingly?. The particulars of the cite template update that applies here are listed at the maintenance category page (and also at
Template:Cite_web#What's_new), but note that the "yes" or "no" values also need to be changed to "live", "dead", "unfit", or "usurped", as necessary. Thanks.—
TAnthony
Talk 19:56, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
|deadurl=
is mentioned, looks like an easy fix, but can't modify it due to file permissions. For the record it is Toolforge: /data/project/refill/versions/stable/src/Reflinks/CitationGenerators/CiteTemplateGenerator.php
--
Green
C 23:46, 9 October 2019 (UTC)I'm using YouTube and Google no problems in Taipei, Taiwan. But when I try to load Wikimedia project pages, the page loads partially and then stops. If I refresh the page five to fifteen times, I can eventually make the full page load up. What is happening here? I can't get Phabricator to send a confirmation email to my email inbox, otherwise I wouldn't be asking here. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 00:15, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Why do we have distinct Alerts and Notices menus on the top line? They're both just, "things that need your attention", with no logical distinction that I can see of which things go in which menu. I'd rather save the screen real-estate and have them in a single menu. Perhaps there's a way to configure that which I haven't found yet?
Other minor point: is it just me, or does the Notices icon look more like a USB-B connector than a mailbox? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:33, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
does the Notices icon look more like a USB-B connector than a mailbox?lol, was that ever intended to look like a mailbox? SD0001 ( talk) 18:19, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-October/092653.html. ↠Pine (✉) 22:43, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
User:Jackmcbarn/advancedtemplatesandbox.js is a useful userscript used to extend Extension:TemplateSandbox to all spaces. However, it does not look like it is still maintained and Jackmcbarn appears to be inactive. For one, I had trouble using the userscript installer on it. I did get it to work finally. My question: is there an alternative? Is anyone willing to copy it and maintain it? I don't have the technical skills. --- Coffeeand crumbs 01:11, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
The User:Enterprisey/script-installer provides one-click installation and management of user scripts without editing common.js. I just moved it out of the "testing and development" gadget section, so it's ready for broader use. You can find it at the bottom of the "Editing" section at Preferences → Gadgets. This is exciting because common.js (and telling non-technical people to write javascript) can now be completely avoided. (I've had it as a gadget since March, but only in the testing and development section, and completely unannounced - 482 people managed to find and install it anyway.) Enterprisey ( talk!) 00:29, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
mw.loader.using( 'user.options', 'mediawiki.api' ).then( {
if ( !mw.user.options.get( 'gadget-script-installer' ) ) {
new mw.Api().saveOption( 'gadget-script-installer', '1' );
}
} );
So when I refresh or enter any Wikipedia page. The page appears then suddenly everything disappear for few seconds and then it appears. Anyone having the same issue? I am using mobile version.-- SharabSalam ( talk) 19:48, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
When a page fully loads on the mobile Wikipedia, the top bar temporarily (~<1sec) becomes the height of the screen and the Wikipedia logo goes down to the bottom of the screen (see image). Nixinova T C 00:43, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
I'd like to set up a gallery where the gallery itself shows fifteen images randomly drawn from a pool of perhaps fifty or sixty images, and each time the page is refreshed or purged, the gallery resets with a new set of fifteen images from that pool. Is that possible? bd2412 T 02:30, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Could you have a look at Lou Andreas-Salomé#Death? The image on the right creates a strange blank space. Thank you very much, -- Epì dosis 12:05, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
In Milutin Babović-Telegraph, the references are rendering as blobs of hex escape junk. If I copy-paste reference #3 into my sandbox, it renders properly in cyrillic characters. What's the issue here? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:34, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
This is a comedy of errors. First, I was trying to use reFill to expand those bare references, and it wasn't doing anything with them. But, now I just tried that again, and it successfully converted the references. And, in the process of debugging why reFill wasn't doing anything, I managed to accidentally copy the wrong reference into my sandbox for testing, and failed to notice that. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:27, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
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23:32, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
The dBase article has a hat stating there is HTML markup that should be removed. It's a long article, is there an easy way to find it all? Maury Markowitz ( talk) 13:55, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
The Edit watchlist used to be organized in groups with their own titles in MonoBook. Now they are all in one group. I noticed 'Hide categorization of pages' in preferences, but unchecking that did nothing. I would like them to be separate again. Smarkflea ( talk) 15:59, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
This is the problem edit. It is a copy and paste merge. I thought in order to make the move happen, the title of my article would change in order to preserve the history. I probably wrote the entire article so if that's the case it's not a real problem.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:29, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi all,
Recently, I wanted to see the Special Log of a fellow administrator (I'm deliberately not naming them). And when I clicked on their name in the "Performer" field, the search suggestions that sprung up were abusive. How does one get that removed? Thanks, Lourdes 10:59, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
I don't know whether someone might be able to take a look at Talk:Marathon_world_record_progression#Sections_are_displaying_in_the_wrong_order? The article seems somehow corrupted, but I don't know whether the issue will get any attention there. 2A00:23C5:4B91:AB00:6CCD:D471:9CF7:2B7F ( talk) 22:14, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
|}
is missing. I have added it.
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PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:43, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
It has been proposed that a new gadget be installed that allows editors to revert edits from mobile diffs ( Special:MobileDiff). See the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Gadget#proposal_for_undo_gadget. Thanks, SD0001 ( talk) 08:15, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a tool that graphs the change to a page's file size over time? ― Mandruss ☎ 21:35, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
AddGraphLink();
function after pageload.action=history
pages.<svg>
element defined within the html document. I don't have a list of these, but I'm guessing that means not Internet Explorer.&offset=&limit=20&action=history
. Alter the value following limit=
to any positive integer between 1 and 5000 inclusive and then press ↵ Enter. When doing this, make sure that you don't remove any ampersands by mistake; and don't use a comma in values 1000 up. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 20:58, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
So I'm re-learning how to use the API, which would allow getting the entire history through several incremental requests (to wit, 500 per). Above assumption is correct and the timestamps are not currently even looked at. Parsing these and converting to a floating point number is trivial. The hard part is deciding how to handle the inherent problem of scaling by time, which is that the ratio of revisions to amount of time represented by a pixel of screen width (let's call that, roughly, "edits per day") will vary drastically from one page to the next, or even between different eras of the same page. Depending on density, the graph's general appearance could vary from sand dunes, to a liar's polygraph, to calligraphy. So some sampling/averaging strategy might be needed to reduce noise (i.e. avoid trying to show several size values at the same x position). An onscreen interface to tweak the settings of same might also be helpful. ― cobaltcigs 13:11, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
action
.― cobaltcigs 10:27, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
importScript('User:Cobaltcigs/HistoryGraph.js');
, then see a "graph" tab, right after the history tab of any page that has an edit history (i.e. neither a "Special:" page nor a red link). See red arrow in
same-as-above screenshot (which uses "monobook" skin).&action=graph
, the content area should begin populating with a list of timestamps to show API loading progress. This may take a few minutes on very old pages. After loading these, the fully rendered graph should appear in the same place. You may then have to scroll to the right to see the whole thing.rsvg
on the server side to produce a PNG thumbnail from an arbitrary string of SVG/XML text (or from anything not uploaded in the File: namespace). Also (at least in my browser) right-clicking on the graph (an embedded SVG element) does not offer a "Save as..." option to download the SVG. So if that's what you actually want to do, it may require adding a "download" button using
one of these techniques (which doesn't seem very difficult).mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', `/?title=${wgPageName}&action=graph`, 'Graph', 'ca-graph')
to place the menu button. Apart from being a one-liner rather than 10 lines, this will also correctly place the menu across all skins (which is inside the "more" dropdown for vector - i think that's ok as vector users are used to seeing custom script buttons in the more dropdown).addPortletLink
function which I was unaware of.sz[`${yyyy}-${mm}`] = parseInt(ms[1]);
(which I know how to do), then convert this object into an array of sizes sorted by said YYYY-MM
keys (which I also how to do), but only do this after determining that the last response is complete (which I really don't know how to do in a parallel-thread situation).setInterval()
?I've added the download button. SVG file should appear in your browser's download folder with a title like HistoryGraph-${wgPageName}.svg
. Converting to other formats is left as an exercise.
GIMP is recommendable. ―
cobaltcigs 10:14, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Why don't I see any section edit links at Template:Talk archive navigation/doc? As a control case, page Template:Talk header/doc appears with section edit links as expected. Possibly relevant:
Looking at the page source for section Usage in each case, I see this:
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Usage">Usage</span></h3>
and
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Usage">Usage</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Talk_header/doc&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Usage">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
respectively. Is this because someone went straight to H3, skipping level 2 headers in the doc? Why should that suppress edit links, even if it is an unrecommended habit per MOS:SECTIONS? Mathglot ( talk) 22:38, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
, presumably to discourage inexperienced editors from replying to archived messages.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 22:44, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
, it usually comes down to bad Wikimarkup - such as a pair of opening braces that are not followed by a valid template name, and are also not balanced until much later in the page. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 23:24, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
be enclosed inside <includeonly>...</includeonly>
?
Mathglot (
talk) 23:58, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
. There are other ways to avoid activating __NOEDITSECTION__
but it's hardly worth it for a single doc page.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:06, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Final thought: kind of unrelated—I think—but since we're all here: shouldn't all those H3 headings at Template:Talk archive navigation/doc be H2's instead? Mathglot ( talk) 20:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOEDITSECTION__
from the output with {{
replace}}.
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PrimeHunter (
talk) 11:25, 17 October 2019 (UTC)I have been using Wiki-Map to locate articles to add to categories but after I click "Show Map" and it starts showing the places I get "This page didn't load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details.". This appeared to be something that started happening in 2016 when Google reduced its free maps or something but with Wiki-Map this didn't happen until a few weeks ago (although I've only been using it a few months). Crouch, Swale ( talk) 16:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
{{ see also}} is mostly the Lua code at Module:Labelled list hatnote. Where and how does it change wikilinks to specific sections like Article#Section into Article § Section? EllenCT ( talk) 00:46, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Ewwww. More importantly, why does it do this and how do you make it not? ― cobaltcigs 16:42, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
#
isn't understood as an indicator of a section IRL. §, the
section sign, is. We even have
a template for that.
Nardog (
talk) 16:52, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
'§'
(a) an
illegal title character, and (b) interchangeable with '#'
—in exactly the same way all space characters exist as aesthetically favorable alternatives to '_'
in links. This way linking to [[List of Foo§Bar]]
would produce <a href="/info/en/?search=List_of_Foo#Bar" title="List of Foo">List of Foo§Bar</a>
and pasting a title with '§'
into the address bar would behave exactly like that title existed as a section redirect. Then we'd all be happy. But pretending on such a broad scale that this equivalence exists when it doesn't is a
WP:PLA violation. ―
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{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review|pages}}
is showing a higher count (8) than the actual number of pages in the
category. Is there a way to force a purge of this counter to get it synched with the actual count again?
wbm1058 (
talk) 18:56, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
Why does Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons reviewed by a human show image file thumbnails if I edit and preview it, but not if I just access it normally? -- Begoon 02:58, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
__NOGALLERY__
directive, which is ignored on category preview, which has been known about
since the feature was first added in 2006. ―
cobaltcigs 03:11, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
|showthumbs=
to {{
file category}}
to allow overriding that default, and it works now. Cheers. --
Begoon 03:28, 18 October 2019 (UTC)It looks like that template is supposed to infer whether to show/hide galleries based on the {{{free}}}
parameter, so you'll want to be mindful of image copyright status when overriding. But in this particular case (where humans have deemed the files suitable to copy to commons), free=yes
seems like a reasonable presumption. Simply using that would have the same effect. ―
cobaltcigs 04:27, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
I have a question about how best to preserve my anonymity when not logged in. I have one solution in mind that would require IA help. But before I try WP:IANB, I thought I'd air the issue here first, to see if there may be a better/easier solution.
My goal is to avoid inavertently making changes when when not logged in, so I don't out my IP if I save something with a recognizable pattern. I imagine that one approach, is to somehow warn myself before hitting "Publish". I've taken a sort of mirror-image approach to this, via a change to my common.css, which turns my "Publish" button green when logged in, as suggested at the Help Desk in 2012. This doesn't warn me when I'm not logged in, but it (hopefully) will get me used to a green Publish button, so that when I'm not logged in and don't see it, my spidey sense will tingle. Only, I have a crappy spidey sense, so I don't think that will work. (At that same discussion, someone pointed to a "MediaWiki: Prevent anon editing script" that apparently works with Firefox—not my habitual browser—but in any case, that link is now dead.)
The idea I had for the solution, is to copy the code I have in my common.css, to [[User:<my-actual-ip-address>/common.css]], and change the color of the Publish button to red (and maybe also add a CSS ::before selector to generate added text "Are you sure?" right before the button as well). So, I was going to request an IA to add the common.css for me (after passing the IP via email, and checking with a CU, if necessary, to verify it's me). But that's rather costly in limited human resources, and it occurs to me that there might be an easier or better way. Is there? Mathglot ( talk) 01:16, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
mirror-image approachis the "right" way to do this. It's what I do and while it might take a little bit, once you adjust, seeing a different color will be quite jarring. There are other things you can tweak too, for an even greater difference, and that's not even counting using a different skin or noticing your gadgets aren't loading. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 09:56, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
The only good thing about them changing the default skin from monobook to vector is that I immediately notice when I'm not logged in. ― cobaltcigs 06:56, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Template:Who's Who has stopped generating the correct links, at least when the type = was is selected, returning a 404 error. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:25, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
type = was
.
[53] I couldn't make any save of the template, not even a null edit, until I removed transclusion of the documentation. All attempts failed with "Syntax error in JSON (
help)". I never learned TemplateData syntax so I'm not trying to fix
Template:Who's Who/doc.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:22, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
{ ... }
these indicate an object, which is a comma-separated list of zero or more name:value pairs; there should not be a comma after the last pair.
This edit by
Snaevar (
talk ·
contribs) fixed it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:49, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
\n
.
PrimeHunter's search now turns up zero results, and I expect in the future it will be practically impossible to make new mistakes, given almost everyone is probably being moved over to the new editors/parsers.
rchard2scout (
talk) 10:07, 11 October 2019 (UTC)There is a problem using json data with <mapframe>
, which now generates the error "<mapframe>: Couldn't parse JSON: Control character error, possibly incorrectly encoded
". It seems to be a change in how control characters are handled. I fixed the map at
List of state highways in Kerala by replacing linefeeds with "\n" (this
). This is unsatisfactory as it makes it very difficult to understand the query. Any ideas what changed and how to fix it or where to report it?
Jts1882 |
talk 09:21, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
<mapframe>
or will all the pages have to be fixed individually? I'm thinking it will have to be the latter.
Jts1882 |
talk 13:17, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Side note: There's some explanation about JSON in templates at mw:Topic:V6u2mpy11qiu9705, if anyone wants background information. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:59, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Is there a tool that would help with removing redirects in templates? For example Template:Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory still has over a dozen. Naraht ( talk) 07:08, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
.mw-redirect {
background: url(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Insert_redirect.png/12px-Insert_redirect.png) center right no-repeat;
padding-right: 13px;
}
.navbox .mw-redirect, .vertical-navbox .mw-redirect { font-style: italic; color: red; }
, which makes redirects stand out as italic and red. --
Izno (
talk) 23:45, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
background-color
works better. Seems like italic red would be barely distinguishable from an actual red link (referring, perhaps, to a film title) which may appear elsewhere in the same navbox. Another option would be keeping the link text blue but adding a differently colored underline like .mw-redirect { border-bottom: 1px solid red; }
. ―
cobaltcigs 08:25, 17 October 2019 (UTC)I think by "removing redirects" the OP probably means:
#
, which would suggest the redirect may someday become a separate article)You'd need javascript with some API calls to determine these things. The suggested CSS would only alert you, prior to editing, that redirects are present (which the OP already realizes). ― cobaltcigs 06:12, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Try this: User:Cobaltcigs/NavboxStuff.js
#redirect [[ Like_this _ _ shit__]]
.[[Jalapeno]]
becomes [[Jalapeño]]
, never [[Jalapeño|Jalapeno]]
(the latter pattern is a common problem).Feedback is welcome. ― cobaltcigs 12:41, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Did anybody get a 503 backend Fetch error upon trying to access any Wikimedia site, in the past few minutes? ∯WBG converse 17:32, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Current draft exists here and template should be called {{ uw publicoversight}}. Please approve. Monniasza talk 16:42, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
I'm getting 404 when clicking the Find edits by user link on the History page of articles. I.e., usersearch.py. Mathglot ( talk) 10:57, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Is anyone else having issues with the site. Some of the wikipedia pages I search for lead to getting a "wikimedia is having a problem at the moment" page.
The problem tracker sites are giving slight bumps up in the last hour for problems with the site.
Anyone experiencing similar or has some knowledge? Nosebagbear ( talk) 21:47, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
It seems that Template:Cite web is expanding too much, so is hitting the mediawiki expansion limit and template include size limit. This (at least for me) is causing the documentation template not to render. Were there any changes to the module which caused this or was/is the global loading issue for sites to blame? Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 22:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Back up. -- qedk ( t 桜 c) 07:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
Editor Interaction Analyzer🔖-- Moxy 🍁 04:47, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
For a template that is transcluded in File: namespace pages, is there a way to apply conditional template code—e.g., placing the file in one category versus another—based on the file's extension (e.g., ".jpg" versus ".ogg")? Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 20:37, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME}}
gets the name including a file extension. {{lc:{{#invoke:String|match|{{PAGENAME}}|%.(%w*)$||||}}}}
retrieves the file extension as lowercase (empty if none is found). Then you can e.g. use switch:{{#switch:{{lc:{{#invoke:String|match|{{PAGENAME}}|%.(%w*)$||||}}}} |jpg = ... |png = ... |gif = ... |ogg = ... }}
Created {{ file extension}} based on above. ― cobaltcigs 14:24, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
I added several scripts using the install feature, but it prompted me to okay the import each time. I then clicked the box to not show this again and now I can't install with one click. Any help is appreciated. Than you. Demetrius Tremens ( talk) 15:45, 20 October 2019 (UTC) Nevermind. Seems to have fixed itself. Demetrius Tremens ( talk) 15:55, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion going on at Wikidata that folks here may be interested in commenting on. In brief: a vandal's change to the "description" field at the Wikidata Gay (Q592) item showed up immediately as the " short description" at the top of Wikipedia's Gay article.
Although it affects Wikipedia, the locus of the problem appears to be Wikidata, so the discussion is being hosted there. Your feedback would be appreciated at WD:CHAT. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 01:15, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
All articles must strive for verifiable accuracy, citing reliable, authoritative sources." Nobody here asked the WMF to force the contents of Wikidata description fields into English Wikipedia's articles, and despite a strong consensus against them, the WMF team refused to turn them off. The compromise that was hashed out was that we were given a new "magic word" that allowed us to use local descriptions instead of those drawn from Wikidata; and that the Wikidata feed would be turned off when 2,000,000 articles had local short descriptions. That's why we have the WikiProject. We are actually creating descriptions for articles that are locally editable, subject to our anti-vandalism patrols, and governed by the English Wikipedia's sourcing policies, in particular BLP. Those descriptions could be exported to Wikidata, of course, but I'm not sure of their value there, since each language has its own description and (unlike most other parts of Wikidata) they are not intrinsically useful to other projects.
"if our trust level of Wikidata is such that we are overriding its data through great effort at Wikipedia, that means the problem resides with Wikidata"That's an incorrect inference. The problem resides with a WMF development team who unilaterally decided that it was okay to import unsourceable information into the English Wikipedia against the advice of enwiki editors. A better analogy for us fixing the problem locally would be the situation where we are importing faulty car parts from an otherwise good supplier; we say we don't want any more faulty ones; but the importer keeps sending them and we are forced to keep using them until we can make them ourselves locally. Whose side is the problem on now?
Actually, one other thought, RexxS, inspired by your comment,
I've been wrestling with this problem since it was first proposed, and I've explained what will go wrong a hundred times... please read at least some of the discussions linked from <link>...
A situation like this is tailor-made for exposition in an essay. Have you considered writing one? Make a distillation of all your best arguments from your hundred explanations, and lay it all out in one place. Those past discussions about the topic that aren't already wikilinked in the essay body, you can throw into the See also section. Then, when the 101st person (me?) comments or asks about it, point them at the essay. Sounds like you'd have plenty of company to help write it. Willing to start one? Sure seems like there's a need, and that others would find it useful to enlist in their discussions, as well. Mathglot ( talk) 21:54, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Pinging DannyH (WMF), as the one took the lead on the Foundation side when there was there was a clear consensus to roll back deployment of this (mis)feature. Danny, please turn off the Wikidata descriptions already. Alsee ( talk) 17:00, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
I have recently been editing a lot from mobile, and the main thing I'm missing is the ability to mark edits as minor. Would it be possible to add that feature? Sdkb ( talk) 22:02, 20 October 2019 (UTC)