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I just noticed that when viewing Wikipedia on the desktop using my mobile iOS (Safari), when I rotate my phone from vertical to horizontal, Wikipedia updates the resolution from a longer vertical dimension to a longer horizontal dimension without changing the page zoom, meaning lines that may be subject to word wrap when having a shorter horizontal dimension now show their full line when changing to a longer horizontal dimension (rotation mobile from vertical to horizontal). I think this is awesome! I ... just want to know what Phabricator request this is so I can see how/why it happened, and thank whoever suggested and/or implemented it! Steel1943 ( talk) 21:13, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
In every page I have become accustomed to the "[ edit | edit source ]" link provided at the upper-right of each section; when I click it, the editor goes into section edit mode. So far, so good. Lately after one or two WP:ITSTHURSDAYs, the edit links have been visually cut off halfway. I can only see the bottom of the text and the upper part is blanked out. See screenshot for a visual.
Elizium23 ( talk) 03:25, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
line-height: 1
—
Qwerfjkl
talk 09:43, 15 December 2022 (UTC)line-height: 1
has fixed it just as Qwerfjkl promised.
Elizium23 (
talk) 05:28, 18 December 2022 (UTC)It's been suggested that this (rather than Miscellaneous) is the place I need to ask about this. How much disk space is needed to hold a decompressed (and by what method?) download of what is available? Must the download complete without interruption or need to be restarted from scratch if something crops up? 71.105.190.154 ( talk) 08:55, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
Per this discussion, it seems three rows need to be added to Module:Good article topics/data. I have the template editor right and could make the edit, but I know nothing of Lua or what the possible impact of adding subtopics might be, so wanted to check here first. The rows to be added would be "culture, society, and psychology", "culture, sociology and psychology", and "culture, sociology, and psychology", all to match "soc". Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 14:17, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
I am trying to find places that a template was recently added to articles. "Related changes" for the template ( Special:RecentChangesLinked/Template:whatever) doesn't do it. What tool should I use? DMacks ( talk) 01:16, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
&sort=last_edit_desc
to the url of the search results page.
User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js adds 10 links to search pages to repeat the search with
sorting by different criteria.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:05, 19 December 2022 (UTC)Hi everyone,
Once again, we want to thank all of you who have participated in discussing the new Vector 2022 skin so far, through the years of development as well as during our recent RfC. All your comments, questions, and concerns have helped us to make the skin better for readers and communities. We have a couple of updates on the skin and our plans for deployment.
Limited (fixed) width
As per the RfC closure, the "only clear blocker" to the deployment of the skin was the issue of fixed width. It was deemed insufficient to only control the width with an editor-maintained gadget. The team was tasked with building a WMF-maintained toggle, which is clearly visible and available to both logged-out and logged-in users. As a results of this, the team has:
In addition, the team has also worked on improving the following areas of discussion and concern from the RfC:
?vectorpagetools=1
to the URL (if you're using Vector 2022 already) or ?useskin=vector-2022&vectorpagetools=1
(if you're not using Vector 2022).We have added an edit button to the sticky header to make access to editing the full page easier (without requiring scrolling to the top of the page). After testing across a number of wikis, we concluded the following:
Next steps
Now we are ready to begin scheduling a date for the deployment of the new skin as the default on English Wikipedia. The team is currently considering January 18th as a date that will allow us enough time to sufficiently discuss the latest changes and address questions by those who have not been involved in the process so far.
As a reminder, logged-in users can opt out at any time. Those of you using a non-default skin (Timeless, Monobook, etc) will not see any changes.
As we get closer to deployment, we will be reaching out with more detailed information on deployment time and any other considerations. What other considerations should we make as we get closer to deployment? We're particularly interested in ideas that will help us spread the word across logged-in users. We will certainly run banners informing logged-out and logged-in users about the change.
Comment here or meet with us this Thursday at 19:30 UTC on Discord. In the first week of January, we will also have office hours on Zoom.
Thank you all one more time for your continued time, attention, and participation! Your input has been vital to improving the new experience. OVasileva (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 20:34, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
For logged-out users the toggle sets the width on a per-page basis, since preferences are not available for logged-out users. This means that after refreshing the page or opening a different page the width returns to the default state.I don't believe this meets the requirement of the RfC. If technical limitations prevent logged out users from setting the preference for all pages, then the default should be full width. BilledMammal ( talk) 00:26, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
It should be possible to achieve a full-width experience using a WMF-maintained toggle, which is clearly visible and available to both logged-out and logged-in users.
By requiring logged out users to click a button every single time? I don't think that complies.My plain reading of both this implementation and their statement is that the implementation complies. If you would like clarification from the closers over a month away from the close, that's your prerogative. I do not think they will support your opinion.
We can open another RfC on this single questionSure, if you want. I think that's a waste of time, since I think you're going to still end up with what was said in the RFC we already had, with 50% down on the ship it side with a (for some, despite a) fixed width that most of that 50% supported and 50% don't ship it side because they opposed any fixed width anywhere for any reason. The fixed width was polarizing, and you clearly have a strong opinion on the matter, but it turns out the group did not support that specific suggestion in any great plurality else we would have a closer statement saying "the fixed width must be supported on every page once selected". Izno ( talk) 01:10, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Should Vector 2022 allow logged out users to toggle the page width without requiring them to toggle it on every page?BilledMammal ( talk) 01:16, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Discussion at MediaWiki talk:Linkshere#Protected edit request on 19 December 2022: add "Sorted list" external tool. Thank you! SDunlap-WMF ( talk) 19:27, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm attempting to see if I can modify {{ considering retirement}} to make the word "strongly" optional since you can be considering retirement but not be strongly considering it. You can see in the sandbox I've messed around a little bit to see if I can get it to do this, but I have absolutely no clue if I"m doing it right. If I'm not could I please be informed on how to do it correctly? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:02, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
is{{#if:{{{strongly|}}}| strongly}} considering
. When someone puts |strongly=[any string here]
, the word "strongly" shows up, otherwise it won't. Bold text is already supplied by font-weight: bold
inside the <div> container, so no need to supply it again. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
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When I click through a talk page's section link in a revision history, the viewport no longer lands directly on that section in the talk page. It overshoots or undershoots and leaves me viewing some random section of the talk page; I need to reclick the section title in the TOC on the LHS in order to finally navigate there. Elizium23 ( talk) 02:45, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
This is a problem with English Wikipedia's customization that extends the handling of collapsible content provided by MediaWiki.
MediaWiki supports basically two CSS classes: mw-collapsible
to make something collapsible (but shown by default), and mw-collapsed
to also make it hidden by default. (There are some other weird options that no one uses.)
mw:Manual:Collapsible elements
English Wikipedia has custom JS code that adds some other options, notably innercollapse
and outercollapse
, which allow content with the first class to be hidden by default only if it is also wrapped in the second class.
Help:Collapsing#"innercollapse" and "outercollapse"
This mechanism is used by the templates generating the talk page banners: Template:WPBannerMeta/core and Template:Banner holder. This way, each WikiProject banner is made collapsible if they're wrapped in the banner holder (e.g. on Talk:Paris), but not if they aren't (e.g. Talk:Azincourt).
Generally, collapsible content in MediaWiki causes issues like this, because it is only collapsed after the page loads and JavaScript executes (to remain accessible for no-JS users), which can be after the browser has already jumped to the target section. But the mw-collapsed
class has some extremely clever styles to hide content using just CSS (
T42812), which prevent the problem most of the time. innercollapse
/outercollapse
do not (the help page I linked above actually document this: "Using this technique causes the page to reflow/jump around and should generally be avoided.").
I don't really understand why this problem would pop up now. It seems that the templates and the custom JS code hasn't been changed in a while.
This could be fixed with CSS like this:
/* Avoid FOUC/reflows on collapsed elements. */
/* This copies MediaWiki's solution for T42812 to apply to innercollapse/outercollapse (T325115). */
/* Reference: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ecda06cb2aef55b77c4b4d7ecda492d634419ead/resources/src/jquery/jquery.makeCollapsible.styles.less#75 */
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > p,
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > table,
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > thead + tbody,
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) tr:not( :first-child ),
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) .mw-collapsible-content {
display: none;
}
This could go either in MediaWiki:Common.css (maybe around here: MediaWiki:Common.css#L-40), or somewhere in TemplateStyles of the relevant templates.
I hope someone more familiar with your customizations can pick the best place for it, but if no one responds, I could apply the changes myself (I'm a global interface editor). CC @ Izno: (who touched the banner templates recently) and @ TheDJ: ( maintainer of the innercollapse/outercollapse code). Matma Rex talk 00:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
:is()
might be ok to put in Common.css given how this depends on JavaScript and the rule shouldn't impact old systems, then it looks like:.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > :is(p, table, thead + tbody, tr:not( :first-child ), .mw-collapsible-content) { display: none; }
:is()
would be okay, but the rule you posted isn't exactly equivalent (in my version some items had the >
combinator and some didn't), and as a result doesn't actually resolve the issue (testing on
Talk:Paris). It probably could be tweaked, but I'd rather not mess with it.body.client-js
instead of just .client-js
to work with the auto-prefixing. (You probably know this, but saying just in case.)
Matma Rex
talk 01:24, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Since folks seem to be fine with my proposal but no one actually applied the fix, I applied it myself now: [2]. The issue with section links on those pages should be resolved. Matma Rex talk 19:39, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
On Template:Did you know, the image File:OneLove armband (transparent).png is displaying in Firefox (107.0.1, Windows 10) with a black background, rendering the text unreadable. I cannot replicate this in Chrome or Edge. Same on Firefox for mobile. Black Kite (talk) 11:41, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
I looked at some minor edit warring at Fusil Gras mle 1874 and found these different IPs:
Is there any logic behind the last four words (40b8:788f:357a:8571) being the same, but the last half of the first four words varying? Johnuniq ( talk) 06:09, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi, two questions, apologies they if should be separate:
|url-status=usurped
in this edit
[3], which I think was the right thing to do. Could someone please explain the purpose of |url-status=
and the correct course of action when you find these messages?|url-status=usurped
changes how a citation renders; cf:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=//example.com |archive-url=//archive.org |archive-date=2022-12-20}}
{{cite book |title=Title |url=//example.com |url-status=usurped |archive-url=//archive.org |archive-date=2022-12-20}}
fix ref: rm |url-status=usurped as per CS1: maintsuggests that somewhere you found some instruction or advice that told you to remove
|url-status=usurped
. Where did you find that instruction or advice? It is wrong and should be fixed.|url-status=
and the correct course of action when you find these particular messages? Some
CS1 maintenance messages I can and do fix when I randomly come across them, eg
CS1 maint: uses authors parameter,
CS1 maint: date and year : is there anything I can do with
unfit URL? Thanks,
MinorProphet (
talk) 16:34, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Pursuant to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_201#Template-generated_categories_that_don't_exist,_redux, {{ Infobox NRHP}} is now autogenerating the equally invalid Category:Historic district contributing properties in United States New Orleans East due to the recent addition of "nrhp_type=cp" to various infoboxes. As usual, however, nonexistent categories can't stay on pages, so it has to be either created or removed, but it can't be created as "X in United States [City]" is not an appropriate naming format for a category of this type -- and, as usual, WP:TEMPLATECAT explicitly deprecates using templates to autogenerate nonexistent categories. So, again, this category-generating function has to be stripped from the infobox. Bearcat ( talk) 02:13, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
|nocat=yes
. There is an old discussion at
Template talk:Infobox NRHP/Archive 4#Categorisation.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 03:15, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
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Attempting to delete File:KKNO logo.jpg (after having exported the file to Commons with Commons Helper) returns: Error deleting file: An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-multiwrite".
Any thoughts on how to solve this? BD2412 T 20:47, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
As a heads up, I've removed plainlist from Common.css to TemplateStyles. See MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Plainlist removed for more info. Izno ( talk) 18:02, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
Why I see in my watchlist few entries like:
Removed [pl] alias: Główny teatr działań wojennych is related to theater of war (Q718893) so why is this messed with items above? Eurohunter ( talk) 10:25, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
{{
label|Q718893}}
, so changes to that item are listed in your watchlist if you're watching the pages.
Matma Rex
talk 19:51, 24 December 2022 (UTC)Hello, I am unable to to use visual editor for creating or editing article, i have done the preference setting and all what i know to make it work but its not working out and the source editor is hard for me.
Kindly help me out please QDJ22 ( talk) 02:39, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Recently I noticed when switching to another language on Wiki that I get automatically logged out, which is tedious when editing an article for an international subject and checking translations. This happens across browsers, and I believe my account should be unified. Wiki also seems to think my IP is hundreds of miles away when logged out (it shows an IP ban message), but I'm not using a VPN. Anyone else noticing this or know what is happening? Thanks. - Indefensible ( talk) 19:06, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
Logged outto my question
When you return to the Wiki that you started out from - presumably English Wikipedia - are you logged in or not?is significant. In my experience I often appear to be logged out when I go to Commons:, Meta: etc. but upon retuen to English Wikipedia, I'm still logged in. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:47, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
These three edits by one user [11] [12] [13] were reverted by another user (in reverse order) [14] [15] [16]. This should have resulted in all three edits being reverted but it didn't. Each revert in addition restored the previous revert. So only the final revert had any lasting effect. Spinning Spark 20:56, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello! Is there a way to see which articles were the most read during this year? Maybe a method to compile a list of the 10 most read articles or so? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 10:27, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
Stop nagging Me for Money! Wikkipedia is now a very annoying site begging for money several times on each page. I could see once per session but every f-ing page and several times on each page? Give me a f**king break! I bet my posts will be in violation of something or other on Wikkipedia but i don't care! At this point I don't care if I can never use Wikkipedia again as long as they know these nags are driving users away! Buggeroff22 ( talk) 19:23, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
I am among the many millions of Babyboomers whose once excellent vision has declined with age. I have been using Wiki and making modest cash contributions since it began because I think Wiki is a fabulous idea.
I have accessed Wiki with many different devices and browsers over the years, but for many years now, I found it absolutely necessary to magnify the text.
If I just need a small amount of information, I can enlarge the entire screen's content and read the left side of a sentence, shift the screen to the right, then read the right side of the sentence, then shift the screen to the left and read the left side of the next sentence, then the right, etc..
If I want to do the deeper research that Wiki so skillfully enables then I have to remember where I left my reading glasses.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could simply select the font size as a preference and allow a word wrap function to automattically adjust text to my visual capacity when I log in? Boomerspop ( talk) 12:52, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
In css, .
is for element class, #
is for element id. What is @
for? —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
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@media
. See
here, these can apply different rules depending on what the client (the browser) says it is using or is capable of. We don't use a lot of these, but you can see ones such as @media screen
in use at
MediaWiki:Common.css. —
xaosflux
Talk 12:22, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
@media ... { ... }
construct does much more than check the size of a viewport. Basically, it is used to test the characteristics of the user agent (browser, etc.) and only apply the enclosed CSS rules when the test is satisfied. These tests are primarily the type of device - screen, print, etc. but may also be more complex tests, such as the available display width - see
Media Queries Level 3 for a full description.@media print { ... }
so that two rules (one to hide an infobox and certain other boxes, the other to set a font for the text) are only applied when I print a page, they are ignored when viewing the page on screen, and would also be ignored if I used screen-reader software to speak the page to me.
MediaWiki:Common.css has two instances of @media screen { ,,, }
and the enclosed rules primarily relate to the backgrounds of galleries, to be displayed on screen but ignored when printed.@media
at-rules - the first one, @media (min-width: 500px) { ... }
applies two rules only when the display width is 500px or more; the second one, @media (min-width: 720px) { ... }
applies three rules only when the display width is 720px or more (in addition to the two rules applied by the first at-rule). See
min-width
. --
Redrose64 🦌 (
talk) 18:08, 25 December 2022 (UTC)For at least a year (if my memory serves me right), I've noticed that if I leave a page "untouched" in my browser for a few minutes or so, then type another article's title in the search box, it wouldn't go directly to that article, but instead to the search results page with a big banner reading "There is a page called xxx". It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, backing to the previous page and re-searching would fix it, although sometimes I have to reload the previous page in order for it to work. It happens both on my Mac running High Sierra and my iPad running iOS 10. 2001:4453:5C6:CB00:FD89:3263:7361:56DF ( talk) 10:29, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to print (not render) a parser function result after publishing the change? For example, just an example, I want to insert {{#ifeq:{{Title year|page={{PAGENAME}}}}|2024|Yes|No}}
into
Brazil at the 2024 Summer Olympics and after publishing and revisiting the content page, I just see "Yes" as plain text, which is the result, instead of the whole code I provided above. If you still need more explanation, I will do it. Thanks! ⇒
Aram
Talk 21:33, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
{{subst:#ifeq:{{Title year|page={{PAGENAME}}}}|2024|Yes|No}}
. Notice the addition of subst:
before #ifeq:
. This will hardcode yes
into the page and the parser function will be gone. See
Help:Substitution for details. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
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{{subst:#ifexpr:{{subst:Title year}} < 2022 |was|is}}
would be an easier code. Works only if the title has some year, or else returns error. <
will be for "less than" and <=
will be for "less than or equal to" depending on your requirement. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
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{{subst:#ifexpr:{{subst:formatnum:{{subst:Title year}}|R}} < {{subst:formatnum:2022|R}} | true | false }}
, but I don't know why it produces Expression error: Unknown character "{" on
ckbwiki. I tried it on
Persian Wikipedia and it produced what I expected. Is there a problem with the ckbwiki system? ⇒
Aram
Talk 18:13, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
{{{|safesubst:}}}
right after every {{
which isn't part of a triple {{{
, and see if it works.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 18:44, 25 December 2022 (UTC){{
str number|1234abc}}
which renders as 4.
Special:ExpandTemplates shows the recursive expansion is simply the string "4". Can you do something in wikitext which saves the string "4"? {{subst:expand wikitext|{{str number|1234abc}}}}
saves {{#invoke:Expand wikitext|main|{{str number|1234abc}}|unstrip=}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:46, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
{{subst:#invoke:Expand wikitext|main|{{str number|1234abc}}|unstrip=}}
produces 4.This just started a week ago. Doug Weller talk 14:44, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
Category:Political movements in the Maldives has a redlinked Category:Politics of Maldives on it, autogenerated by the {{ Category header political movements in}} template. We do already have a category for Category:Politics of the Maldives, but I don't know how to get the template to replace the redlink with the correct category since the coding necessary to add a "the" (clearly possible, since the same template is also used by Category:Political movements in the United Kingdom and Category:Political movements in the United States without generating redlinked categories there) isn't contained in that template itself.
Technically, since the category is also manually filed in Category:Political history of the Maldives in addition to the template-transcluded categories, its direct inclusion in Category:Politics of the Maldives would really be duplicate categorization that isn't necessary at all, but I can't make the template suppress that one category while including the others either -- but whether it's done by getting the template to add a "the" or by getting the template to suppress the category entirely, the redlink has to go away. Bearcat ( talk) 17:26, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Three years ago I created {{
Depicted logo}}
. I would like to add additional parameters for from and to date.
So I appended {{
date range}}
to the end, but this doesn't exactly achieve the desired result
{{
depicted logo|Q1|from=500|to=2000}}
produces this awkward phrasing
The logo of universe – all of space and time and their contents reachable from the Earth in principle, possibly being part of a multiverse, distinct from parallel universes if they exist from 500 until 2000
when really what I want is
The logo of universe (from 500 until 2000) – all of space and time and their contents reachable from the Earth in principle, possibly being part of a multiverse, distinct from parallel universes if they exist
I was rather good with templates back in the day, but I'm afraid I'm lost with autotranslate and Lua.
Could someone assist me with this? Magog the Ogre ( t • c) 15:23, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm attempting to create a signature for a user and I'm wanting to do a color gradient. Only issue is, I don't know how to create a color gradient without a crap ton of color tags which would quickly eat up the 255 character limit. Anyone know how? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 03:53, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
[[User:Mandarax|<span style="color:white;background:linear-gradient(90deg,blue,red)">M<small>ANdARAX</small></span>]]
MANdARAX •
XAЯAbИAM 04:13, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
[[User:Mandarax|<span style="color:white;background:linear-gradient(90deg,red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple)">M<small>ANdARAX</small></span>]]
.
MANdARAX 04:36, 21 December 2022 (UTC)I'm thinking of adopting this one as my new signature, tell me what you think:
BD2412🌈🌠🚀 B.D.2412 BD2412 BD2412B | D | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ! | ! |
15:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
~~~~~
? If the former, I think it’s a bug that the software allowed you to do so. (By the way, the reply tool is not the only issue with this signature – it also hides text above and below, which should be forbidden.) —
Tacsipacsi (
talk) 12:04, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in creating a tool which displays user edits according to WikiProject (for example, "you've made 10 edits to WikiProject Plants, 5 edits to WikiProject Spiders, etc."). FacetsOfNonStickPans ( talk) 09:40, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
We can transclude
Special:PrefixIndex on a page using the code {{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Village pump}}
, but it has a maximum limit of pages that are shown. We can remove redirects by |hideredirects=1
& strip prefixes by |stripprefix=1
but how do we transclude all the pages and not just the first few? Thanks! —
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{{Special:PrefixIndex/S}}
and it tried to list the 1.4 million matching titles.
Anomie
⚔ 12:00, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
|startfrom=101
resulting in listing of pages 101-200 and so on? —
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let's talk • {
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X}) 12:26, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
|from=Village pump (policy)/Archive 117
. I don't know whether you can start from a specified page number or specified number of times to click "Next page" at
Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Village pump. The first "Next page" currently produces
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:PrefixIndex&from=Village_pump_%28policy%29%2FArchive_117&prefix=Village+pump&namespace=4. In that url, from=pagename
is the only indication of where to start so I doubt it's possible.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 15:48, 25 December 2022 (UTC){{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/|hideredirects=1|stripprefix=1}} Starting from H (may repeat or miss some entries from above): {{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/|hideredirects=1|stripprefix=1|from=Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/H}} Starting from S (may repeat or miss some entries from above): {{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/|hideredirects=1|stripprefix=1|from=Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/S}} (may miss some entries at the end)
I just edited {{ Los Angeles Sparks current roster}} with a quick fix so it didn't display a glaring error, but I'm not competent to fix the actual problem. If someone can, that would be nice. ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 10:51, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
Do we have a template we can place in any section, that when clicked on would return the user to the top of a page? {{ Back to top}} returns to the top of a page, but no matter where the template is placed on a page, it appears at the very bottom. — Maile ( talk) 00:48, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
|abs=no
as documented on the template's documentation page? I have placed it at the top of this section as an example. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 01:17, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
@ Xaosflux: Works fine for me after removing the "nomobile" attribute ( User:Kusma/sandbox/s). No idea about other skins than Monobook, of course. — Kusma ( talk) 14:07, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
When I see an external link or reference link containing an Accelerated Mobile Pages link (i.e., an AMP link, one of those ",amp" components that routes you through a Google-controlled shell URL to get to the linked webpage), I am always tempted to replace it with a link directly to the source article URL. Should we have a policy of preferring direct links over AMP links, and if so can we have a bot switch out the thousands of AMP links currently on found in articles for those direct links? BD2412 T 02:50, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
utm
and the like. Ultimately, that's what they are, even though their reason for existence was the seemingly noble one of getting websites to stop being so slow.
Izno (
talk) 17:10, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
About Talk:Emily St. John Mandel. According to the "Top editors" table here [18], @ Nil Einne has added 340 bytes to that page (it sure looks like more bytes on the talkpage). But that doesn't rhyme at all with this page: [19]. Is this a bug or actually right and proper, somehow? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 13:43, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
In Google Chrome, the non-ASCII hyphen character (‐, U+2010) displays as a box in page titles; I could not reproduce this issue in Safari or in Firefox. I recently moved the article Dichloro(1,5‐cyclooctadiene)palladium with a hyphen to Dichloro(1,5-cyclooctadiene)palladium with a hyphen-minus (-, U+002D) due to this issue. The use of the non-ASCII hyphen instead of hyphen-minus is also against the MOS:HYPHEN guideline. Is there a way to locate all article titles that use a hyphen instead of a hyphen-minus, so they can be moved by hand or with an AWB-like script? – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 08:08, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
The article J. M. Robertson has acquired a couple of bright red error messages saying "TemplateStyles' src attribute must not be empty". I haven't got the faintest idea what this means, or how to fix it. Any help would be gratefully received. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:45, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
I have just updated my wiki from version 1.35.8 (LTS) to 1.39.1 (LTS). One of my efforts is to migrate the CSS in MediaWiki:Common.css to TemplateStyles. I use Wikipedia as my guide and was having some difficulty to follow the revision history comments.
The MediaWiki talk:Common.css page provides some insight, but what helped me the best is discovering the "to do" checklist subpage MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do. The Description of work section is exactly what I was looking for, as it provides a clear explanation of the rationale behind this effort. I now understand completely and have a good incentive to complete the migration.
The checklist itself is very helpful, as it shows me where to look for changes.
Can the to do page be linked from Wikipedia:TemplateStyles, perhaps as an option for those with a technical background to understand why TemplateStyles should be used (and what should be changed if they're using Wikipedia as a guide)?
In any case, thanks to Izno for the clear documentation. It's much appreciated. Lady G2016 ( talk) 01:59, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
If I search for a multi-word article title that doesn't exist in quotes , such as "Bar and foobar", the server tells me The pages " Bar and foobar" and ' "Bar and foobar"' do not exist. Apparently, this is covering the possibility that I might have meant the quote marks literally. Is this new? I don't remember getting this response before. It seems a bit unnecessary and I was quite confused at first (I mean, more than I normally am!). Spinning Spark 10:41, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
"
except for a redirect to
Quotation mark. It seems unlikely that we will ever have any.
Spinning
Spark 10:46, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Can someone take a look at World championships in WWE? One of the tables ( #Most total reigns) appears to have an unused additional column, and I'm not sure how to remove it. Additionally some of the images appear to be too big, and I'm not sure what the default should be. — Czello 18:37, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Following up from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 201#Wikipedia still hangs UI, my Wikipedia sessions become like molasses over time. Each UI response could take 1-3 seconds to complete. (Down to routine and lightweight things such as mouseovers.) Restarting Chrome has returned it to a normal speed, but it's bogging down again after a few days' runtime. The CPU fan often engages, and the feel of it does seem CPU-bound, though Task Manager does not indicate a real stress on the cores.
I did keep the Watchlist in "safe mode" for a while, but I am unsure of how this would aid in troubleshooting. Since my workflow always involves opening new tabs and doing edits outside the watchlist, that is not going to happen in safe mode. Elizium23 ( talk) 04:57, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
chrome://extensions/
and disable extensions. —
xaosflux
Talk 14:44, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Tech geniuses,
Some problem happened with today's AFD log pages when the UTC time clock went from Dec. 31 2022 to Jan. 1 2023. There is no problem with the individual AFD pages but today's log pages have had some strange effects happening. For example, I closed two discussions that appeared on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 December 25 ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of kanji by stroke count and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of kanji by concept) and although the AFDs are listed on the page's table of contents, they don't appear at the bottom of the page any longer. It's like they disappeared from view as soon as the discussions were closed. Also, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1994 NECBL season is listed on the page index as the first AFD discussion, it doesn't appear on the page any more. I've tried purging the page cache several times and the AFD discussions appear for a second but then disappear as the page loads. I checked the page history and there are no recent edits to the page. It's almost as if once the discussions hit the end of the 7 day listing period, they are hidden from view. The individual AFD pages are fine, it's just the daily log page that has this strange glitch.
My apologies if this is some problem with my browser. I've never run into this issue before. Thanks for any solution you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 01:07, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
importScript('User:Evad37/XFDcloser.js')
in
User:Liz/common.js and only enable XFDcloser at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets.
Wikipedia:XFDcloser#Hide/Show closed sections shows a box. Do you see the box with "Hide closed discussions", "Show closed discussions", or no box at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 December 25? If you see the box then does it help to toggle it? The box is displayed for me and works as expected.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 05:52, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
importScript('User:Evad37/XFDcloser.js')
on
User:Liz/common.js but I uninstalled it at
Wikipedia:XFDcloser. I had already had the gadget checked off in my Preferences. I also found I had
User:Liz/closexfd.js, should I just delete this page? But the main problem seems to be that I don't see the box in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen on deletion daily log pages as described in
Wikipedia:XFDcloser#Hide/Show closed sections. I think this is might be the problem...I don't remember unchecking a box but if it is close to the scroll bar, I could have easily accidentally unchecked it. I'm not sure how to get it back as it is not visible any longer on any daily log pages that I've checked. Thank you again for the practical suggestions. It's not the worst problem to have but lately I do a lot of work at AFD and it helps to have all of the discussions visible.
Liz
Read!
Talk! 22:34, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
If you scroll down to the bottom of Template talk:Did you know/Approved (Articles created/expanded on December 30, or anything beyond that) transclusions are failing. I'm assuming we're hitting some kind of transclusion count limit? Hmm, I see it's in Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded; I'm guessing that's the problem? What's the size limit that we're up against? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:18, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
I have some wikitext, for the sake of example, {{Redirect category shell}}
. Is there any way to produce the wikitext which would be the result of substituting everything once, i.e. {{Subst:Redirect category shell}}
, i.e. __NONEWSECTIONLINK__{{Mbox
| name = Redirect category shell
| type = move
| image = none
| style = margin-top: 1.1em; border: solid 1px darkblue; border-left-width: 0.5em;
| textstyle = padding-top: 0.9em; padding-bottom: 0.9em;
| text = '''This {{Talk other|talk page|page}} is a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]]. <small>The following [[Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects|categories]] are used to track and monitor this redirect:</small>'''{{#if:
|:: ''{{{h}}}''
}}<!--
Automatically detect protected redirects:
-->{{#switch: {{PROTECTIONLEVEL:move}}
|sysop|templateeditor|extendedconfirmed={{pp-move|small=yes}}
}}{{#switch: {{PROTECTIONLEVEL:edit}}
|sysop={{R protected|embed=yes}}
|templateeditor={{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{R template protected|embed=yes}}
|extendedconfirmed={{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{R extended-protected|embed=yes}}
|autoconfirmed={{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{R semi-protected|embed=yes}}
| <!--Not protected, or only semi-move-protected-->
}}{{#if: ||
* {{red|'''Important – Please Read! {{maroon|This template should {{em|not}} be applied without parameters by bot nor by any automated or semi-automated process. It should {{em|not}} be used without parameters {{em|unless you want to learn how to categorize redirects}}. For editors who want to learn how to categorize redirects, this template is a {{em|learning tool}}. {{em|Only}} those editors who intend to return to the redirect to learn which rcats to use should apply this template without parameters, or with an empty first parameter!}}'''}}
* '''Manifold sort''': If help is needed to determine appropriate categories, then this redirect populates '''{{Cat|Miscellaneous redirects}}'''. Monitors of that category will check this redirect and add or remove [[Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects|rcats]] as needed.{{#ifeq: {{lc:false}} | false |[[Category:Miscellaneous redirects]]}}
}}
{{#if: |{{{2}}}|}}{{#if: ||{{#ifeq: {{ROOTPAGENAME}}|Redirect category shell||[[Category:Redirect category shell without parameters]]}}}}
''<small>When appropriate, [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|protection levels]] are automatically sensed, described and categorized.</small>''
}}
—
Qwerfjkl
talk 07:56, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
{{onlypst|{{Redirect category shell}}}}
, or more accurately, {{onlypst|{{#invoke:Page|getContent|as=raw}}}}
. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 20:12, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
frame:expandTemplate
expands recursively, and there's no PST function because it's generally not needed in the contexts where Lua runs. You might be able to get close enough by fetching the content of the template and then manually stripping <noinclude>...</noinclude>
and such.
Anomie
⚔ 00:27, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
I was editing my own user page when it seemed to be slow when using the source editor and visual editor. Is it a problem on my end or are Wikimedia servers acting up again? I already uploaded an image, purged cache, and nothing worked. So can someone take a look at what is going on on my page since it's problematic when I am trying to change userboxes, the misc stuff such as GoldenEye, Missile Launcher, and other pranks? Thanks! Wesoree ( Talk) 23:03, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
I want to move the article Martha's Vineyard migrant crisis, to the more neutral title "Martha's Vineyard migrant airlift".
There was a discussion at Talk:Martha's Vineyard migrant crisis#Article title, though input was modest.
I know page moves can be messy. Can I get input about whether this is likely to cause more problems that it solves? Thank you. Magnolia677 ( talk) 08:32, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Today I was editing wikipedia then a dialog box opened automatically in which there was about a new feature so I thought to use that feature but now I don't want to use that new feature and I don't know the name of that new feature so can anyone please tell the name of that feature and tell the procedure to disable it. Thanks 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝟕𝟐𝟖🧙♂️ Let's Talk ! 15:10, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
User:Xaosflux: Yes, It enabled a new discussion tool. I saw that, in my talk page the reply is written at bottom and the editor's name is written at top left. 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝟕𝟐𝟖🧙♂️ Let's Talk ! 16:24, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
When zooming in the interactive maps (which I think has something to do with Kartographer) the blue pin invariably moves upwards. This is on all platforms and browsers that I have tried. Naturally, one would expect the maps to zoom in on the pin. Has this been mentioned before? Abductive ( reasoning) 02:55, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Is it just me or did the styling for the TW dropdown menu just randomly go away? When I click on it I just see the test for the options with the links I can click on to get the menu I need. Asking here first before I mention this on WT:TWINKLE to see if it's just me or if it's a WP:THURSDAY issue. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:15, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
If I type into the infobox "List of Alpha Pi Omega ch" , there is only *one* match on English language wikipedia the redirect List of Alpha Pi Omega chapters, however the suggestions for pages below it only include List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters. Why is the redirect *not* included in the suggestions? (Note, these links are for chapters of completely unrelated organizations, Alpha Pi Omega and Alpha Phi Omega. Naraht ( talk) 15:03, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
My watchlist had managed to get to over 13,000 pages, mostly due to semi-automated edits at WP:SPI. I finally decided it was time to clean things out. It turns out that's not so easy. Special:EditWatchlist doesn't have any hard-wired size limit (that I'm aware of), but it's really not happy working with that much data. Javascript timeouts, database timeouts, all sorts of fun. I didn't want to just delete my entire watchlist, so it was a pain to get it back down to manageable size.
I've since gone into preferences and unclicked most of the options that add things to my watchlist automatically. No, I really don't need to be watching 5000 user talk pages of socks I've blocked. Anyway, just a heads up to folks with big watchlists that you might want to start doing something about the bloat before it gets too big to handle.
Eagerly awaiting the comments from people who think 13k isn't that big :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 15:11, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed in the infobox in K-Lite_Codec_Pack that the "Stable release" date reads "... (December 28, 2022; 3 days ago)", which is not quite right.
Tried to chase it down to tell the whom-it-may-concern about it but got lost.
Could someone tell them? Saintrain ( talk) 22:25, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
I know it is not the usual practice to list TFM discussions here, but this one may have technical consequences. See this discussion. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 23:33, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
The wording of Q1 at Talk:Graham Hancock/FAQ was changed to "Why does the article say that Hancock's ideas are pseudoscientific?" but Talk:Graham Hancock is still showing the old wording "Why does the article say that Hancock is a pseudoscientist?". I can't find a way to fix this, please help. ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:03, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if this is happening to anyone else, but the search preview (the list of articles that pop up under the search bar as you type) is not coming up. I've purged the cache and the same thing continues. Odd. -- Veggies ( talk) 21:07, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
For one, I had to manually create this section using the section above since the "new section" option kept returning 503 errors. In addition, the "Search Wikipedia" bar is not auto-populating with recommendations while typing. And also probably related, some gadgets like Twinkle are not working correctly right now: At the present time, the ability to use Twinkle to post XfD discussions is not working due to "API failures". Any idea what's going on? Steel1943 ( talk) 21:11, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
I am working on archiving an article's talk page that has posts on it from 2005... Anyway, a picture in this article was a POTD a year or two ago...is there a parameter within the Article history/Talk page header stuff to put in a notice about the POTD? I can't seem to find it, not even sure that a POTD notice is supposed to be there *but* it is part of the article history so...I come here to ask all you smart people what to do. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 04:32, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
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Does anyone know if someone might already be looking into this one? The bot has not been working for a few months now. It was a very useful tool to archive links in the past. Greatly appreciate any leads. Thanks. Ktin ( talk) 00:47, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, in the new Vector 2022, the space between left sidebar (also contains table of contents) and main article is unreasonably large. In the old vector this margin is much less, which in my opinion is enough and correct. So please modify related CSS style sheets to reduce this margin. Here are some screenshots that illustrate this problem:
Thanks, Hooman Mallahzadeh ( talk) 12:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
mw.util.createDropDownMenu()
and mw.util.createDropDownMenuItem()
and add it to core. The upside is that this would be make user scripts and gadgets implementing a custom drop down menu next to the p-cactions menu a breeze. The downside is that the code for this would need to be added to a bunch of skins. Would be nice to get
this kind of code out of Twinkle and MoreMenu though. And to reduce code duplication. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 01:56, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! This is just a general notice that thanks to some fine work (tracked at Phabricator T321740), the Internet Archive Bot is now functional again and can be accessed here. It had been broken/working highly inconsistently since at least October. However, it may still have some performance issues, so be aware. —Ganesha811 ( talk) 11:02, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Why does every wiki page's revision history statistics page, that uses
H:LST or regular section transclusion, cite #if
as a bug (
example)?
Qwerty284651 (
talk) 23:14, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
#if
before you removed it.
[27] I still see it reported at your link so maybe the tool uses caching. I have tested many other pages which use section transclusion. None of them contain #if
and none of them cite #if
as a bug so I don't know where you got "every" from. Do you mean that you only tested pages which do contain #if
and you wonder why it's called a bug? Parser functions like that are usually intended for templates and not articles. It's a hint that something may be wrong or "ugly" but it doesn't have to be an error.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:16, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm trying to make a new template in en.wikipedia based on this fr.wikipedia template. When I try to paste the code into Module:Color specification table, I get "Lua error at line 1: unexpected symbol near '<'." I assume it's the same coding language as French wikipedia, so why wouldn't it work? This is the first template I have worked with so my coding is not good. Not A Witty Fish 01:34, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Module:
namespace is for
Lua, which is an actual programming language and not wikitext.
Izno (
talk) 01:45, 10 January 2023 (UTC){{Lien vers modèle|lien=Modèle:Tableau spécifications des couleurs}}
which renders a small blue "i" with a link to the template. Do we have an en.wikipedia equivalent or should I just delete it? (See
French template reference)Category:Articles with WORLDCATID identifiers has been renamed to Category:Articles with WorldCat identifiers at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 2#Category:Articles with WORLDCATID identifiers but it's not clear what needs changing to implement this. Please can someone with the knowledge and permissions make the switch. Thanks in advance. Timrollpickering ( talk) 19:00, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
On the
Requests for Unblock page, under the Timestamp
header of the block table, when clicking the sort button, it will sort Jan (2023) timestamps earlier than Dec (2022) timestamps. I suspect this issue is also present on any other page that uses a similar Timestamp
format as opposed to the
ISO time format in the other columns.
Rob3512 (
Talk ·
C) 13:24, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
data-sort-value="ISO time"
.
Izno (
talk) 18:15, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
[I hope this is the right area, I can't think where else.]
I thought I'd done same or similar some years ago, but I can't remember, maybe I hadn't really done it.
What I want is a way of returning from a junior template to a senior. (I try not to use the direction up or down.) What I would say if caller and callee.
What I want to do is like this: {{callee| a=85| b=38| c=41}}
What I'd do inside callee is split up a, b, c to get a1, a2, a3, b1, b2, b3, c1, c2, c3
Then I'd get them to Y1= a1, b1, c1 - Y2= a2, b2, c2 - Y3= a3, b3, c3.
Then in the caller Y1, Y2, Y3 could be used as parameters to a different template.
Is this easy or what?
This is a simple breakdown of a more complicated, but still simple:
there would be seven or more sets of numbers, a1 ... g7, and five (quintiles) Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5
Auntie Kathleen (
talk) 13:06, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
moved to}}
to that thread, and included a link to it at the top of this one. Please see
WP:MULTI. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 13:21, 9 January 2023 (UTC){{helper template|parm1={{parm1 template|some_parm={{{some parameter from the main template}}} }} | ... }}
The main template uses the helper template, passing its parameter values through to the helper template as needed.{{str sub old|85|0|1}}{{str sub old|38|0|1}}{{str sub old|41|0|1}}; {{str sub old|85|1|1}}{{str sub old|38|1|1}}{{str sub old|41|1|1}}
→ 834; 581 (insert template parameters instead of the actual two-digit numbers, of course). If the OP is not asking for digit parsing, then they need to communicate better about what they want their template to do. Maybe mock up a simulated set of inputs and outputs on your sandbox page. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 23:26, 9 January 2023 (UTC)I can make the 35 (7 × 5) (7 years × 5 quintiles, could later become 10 years) parts OK but I didn't know what to do when I have got them. I think I'll try to change so that the target will become further‑in nesting. Eg {{
Graph:Chart}}
– for a stackedrect there would be Y1 … Y5 parameters each with (here) seven parts each (X coordinate) so Y1 = a1, b1, c1, d1, e1, f1, g1 … Y5 = a5, b5, c5, d5, e5, f5, g5
It would be easier if each element could be addresses directly: Y1a=a1 Y1b=b1 Y1c=c1 Y1d=d1 Y1e=e1 Y1f=f1 Y1g=g1 … Y5g=g5
Auntie Kathleen (
talk) 00:33, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
Y}}
35 times. So for your Y1 values, you'd have {{parent template|a={{y|a|1}}|b={{y|b|1}}|c={{y|c|1}}|d={{y|d|1}}|e={{y|e|1}}|f={{y|f|1}}|g={{y|g|1}}}}
, and then for the Y2 values, {{parent template|a={{y|a|2}}|b={{y|b|2}}|c={{y|c|2}}|d={{y|d|2}}|e={{y|e|2}}|f={{y|f|2}}|g={{y|g|2}}}}
, and up to Y5, with template Y returning the 5th values for a, b, c, d, e, f, and g.
Van
Isaac, GHTV
cont
WpWS 00:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
I know that there is a tool external to Wikipedia that list all my edit I made. I cant remember the name of this tool, is there someone that can kindly help me to remember? Many thanks in advance!!! 2001:B07:6442:8903:E1B1:AFF6:84F5:F5F4 ( talk) 17:48, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
How do I disable the new "other edits" buttons appearing on my watchlist, contributions page, etc. courtesy of T301063? I confess I don't see the purpose of scores of links to not-so-helpful pages like this one. Thanks in advance. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 21:05, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
.mw-tag-other-edits {
display:none;
}
I am also not a fan. Unlike some cosmetic changes that just take some getting used to, I see this being an issue persistently, potentially in subtle ways we can't track—namely, the consequences of editors being less able to parse diff metadata at a glance. What if we changed MediaWiki:Tag-link-other-edits to something like "Δs"? It would be a bit opaque, but people would learn the symbology pretty quickly. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 22:43, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
.mw-tag-other-edits
so you can't completely hide it in CSS.I was discussing this on Discord earlier: I find this link to be unnecessary clutter. I can see how some people might find it useful, but I can't imagine how this should be the default setting. How many new users are going to need (or want) to search for all recent edits with a particular tag? Ideally, this setting should be toggleable in user preferences, instead of requiring custom CSS to hide. — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 03:14, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
+
? —
xaosflux
Talk 23:53, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
$("span.mw-tag-other-edits > a").text("⇒")
(
JQuery) in Firefox Developer Tools Console for the Recent Changes page.
Ponor (
talk) 13:10, 7 January 2023 (UTC)⇒
if this has to exist. —
xaosflux
Talk 18:39, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm on board with removing these altogether. It really makes no sense to have all these links to the same place on the same page just because some edits are tagged, some edits even have multiple tags, and what's more, the link itself is not useful at all (it's literally right there just off to the left in the menu headed "Contribute", and it's not even relevant to the tags themselves). I know some of these points may have been raised, but I thought I'd help in forming a consensus. I am seeing suggestions for alternative, less intrusive labels, and to that I say no, all the other problems remain — it's not just an aesthetic issue, I assure you. It's functionally useless. I would rather the WMF turn their attention to actual pressing issues and not dream up things that aren't really problems that they'd rather solve instead. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 05:41, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
The changes will be reverted soon: phab:T326399#8517542. — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 19:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
When I create a new section on a talk page, especially when I create new headings, it automatically adds my signature when it is not really necessary. I would like to disable it so that I would like to manually sign when I create a new section. If you could help me with that, that would be great. Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 20:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, on my wiki, I wanted to change ","
in this line with "٬", but a question mark will appeared instead. For testing, please use {{wikidata|property|normal+|Q55|P1082}}
which produces "17,590,672". According to
Specials (Unicode block), U+FFFD � REPLACEMENT CHARACTER used to replace an unknown, unrecognized, or unrepresentable character". I think if it was a variable, I could handle it, but it is not. Thank you in advance! ⇒
Aram
Talk 13:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
string.reverse()
. The problem is that '٬' is a two-byte unicode character and string.reverse()
operates on bytes so the two bytes that make up that character get byte-wise swapped which results in an unknown character. Unfortunately (and surprisingly) there isn't an mw.ustring.reverse() function. Perhaps as a workaround you might replace ',' with '٬' after the string has been reversed. This, I think, will require a rewrite of some or all of the reversing code. The author couldn't be bothered to document that code so why it was written as it was written is unclear. Shame, that... return left .. (num:reverse():gsub("(%d%d%d)", "%1" .. p['numeric']['delimiter']:reverse()):reverse()) .. right
The default setup for JWB always adds new text to the end of the page. I mainly use it for short descriptions, so this sometimes results in unknowingly adding a duplicate short description. Is there any way to add text to the beginning instead? Partofthemachine ( talk) 00:57, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
(.*)
with {{Short description|Write your short description here}}$1
, check the "Regular Expression" box, and put m
in the "flags" box. --
Ahecht (
TALK^
with whatever you want to add to the beginning (^ is an anchor character meaning the start of a string). I.e. ^
→ {{Short description|Write your short description here}}\n
—
Qwerfjkl
talk 07:12, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Not sure whether to make Phab ticket or report here. I am using the 2022 Modern Vector skin on Firefox browser. When Zoomed in at 110%, 130% the Search icon works, but right at 120% it is not working properly. Perhaps doesn't matter, but I Zoomed in to reduce eyestrain. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 14:09, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
In the past, when I have gone onto pages with complicated highlighting, the highlighting has often gone something like "Can't do highlighting in X ms, stopped trying". However now, I think I have been running into problems where it just doesn't stop. I can edit some articles, but ones like Chi Upsilon Sigma that would require compliated highlighting have frozen and in many cases crashed by browser. I turned off the replacement highlighting in preferences, but that doesn't appear to make a difference. Is there any way to either restore the limit for how long it will work on highlighting or turn it completely off? I'm working on chrome, but I've seen the same effects on other browsers, but Firefox seems just fine. Any suggestions on getting things working other than changing browsers to FF? Naraht ( talk) 21:00, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
{}
. —
xaosflux
Talk 16:26, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
I've just removed hlist from global styles as a part of converting to TemplateStyles. If you see an issue, please leave a comment at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Removal of .hlist. Izno ( talk) 21:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, My one-lined menu at User talk:Davey2010/TPMenu is broken, this is what it used to look like and now it shows as a bulleted list, Are there any fixes for this ?, Many thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 21:38, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
hlist
has been removed from
MediaWiki:Common.css. You can use {{
hlist}}.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:44, 13 January 2023 (UTC)I was away for a week and now I notice that gallery mode="slideshow" is broken. See, for example, 117th United States Congress#Party summary. Same issue for 118th Congress page as well. The gallery syntax of the articles has never been changed, so it must be happening due to something else in the background. Does anyone know what went wrong, and what can be done to fix it? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 21:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
slideshow
and caption
are used. Simplified example: <gallery mode="slideshow" caption="Example">
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.png
</gallery>
caption
as a workaround for now.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:39, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, If I got to a category page (e.g. : Category:Contents), I cannot find links to the same category in other languages (e.g. fr:Catégorie:Accueil while the Wikidate item (e.g. wikidata:Q1281) lists them well ! Could someone explains me what is happening ? Thank you, Jona ( talk) 16:44, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
There are 3 other language equivalent templates linked with Template:Diplomatic missions of Norway on Wikidata, but from en Wikipedia I get an error when selecting the language menu on top right (Vector skin 2020) Page contents not supported in other languages.. Any idea why? ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 02:52, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Maybe you want to take a look at quarry:query/70555 and maybe you do not like those invisible spaces in titles. Cheers from german wikipedia (we too have ~20 of them). -- Wurgl ( talk) 21:21, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Projectspace categories like Category:Lists based on Wikidata, Category:CSS image crop using invalid parameters or Category:Chem-molar-mass both hardcoded and calculated are automatically generated by maintenance templates, meaning that they're impossible to empty of draft or userspace pages that are using those maintenance templates -- so to avoid the database reports for categories with draft or userspace pages in them becoming cluttered up with permanent kludge that was impossible to resolve, Wikipedia has long had the {{ polluted category}} template to flag certain categories as not of concern to category cleanup projects so that they would not get detected or listed by the cleanup reports.
However, something seems to have happened, and some categories that are tagged as "polluted category" are getting detected and listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (2) despite the tag. All three of the categories I listed above, for example, are tagged as "polluted" categories, yet are listed in the current run. Could somebody investigate why this is happening, and apply whatever fixes are necessary to get these categories out of the way? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 03:25, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Since yesterday, section edit links in mobile web has disappeared from File namespace. Issue exists even when logged out and tried in Opera and Chrome browser Android 10 OS smartphone. I did not find this problem in other namespaces and in desktop view. The only edit button visible is the one at the top of page, which for most part is useless since it only opens the "lead section" which will be empty for most files. This has made editing file pages impossible in mobile web. The button is visible in commons and other language Wikipedias, so this seems to be something specific to English Wikipedia. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ ( talk) 06:47, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
#/editor/0
. Change that to #/editor/all
. This will open the entire page in editing views. A long process for a much smaller task, but until fixed, this is the workaround. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
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C•
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The above screenshots are taken from page Talk:Sharad Yadav in mobile web view, Opera browser, Android 10 OS. There are two WikiProject banners between {{ Talk header}} and {{ ITN talk}}. They are broken when viewing it as a normal wiki page and appear as two thick lines. However they render fine in the preview window. It is strange that we have software that works fine in preview but is broken in the actual page. I know there was some work on talk page banners recently before which they were completely hidden in mobile web, can something be done to fix this? ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ ( talk) 04:39, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
What's good y'all.
I've noticed that since my article on Émile Reutlinger, some of the article's I have created have not been showing up in seach results (unless you type in its exact name). This also applies to the articles for Johann Eustach von Westernach, Johann Kaspar von Stadion, and Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI. All of them are articles that I have made that fail to appear in search results even when linking to them in other articles. There doesn't seem to be an corelary between any of them, besides that I made them and all of them, with the exception of the article on Johann Eustach von Westernach, had the under construction template on them. Is this a known issue and what can I do to combat this? Knightoftheswords281 ( talk) 00:26, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Here's a trivial, but mysterious problem. Yesterday, with no warning, my desktop computer and 34-inch monitor decreased the size of the print on the display of all wikipedia pages from approximately 14 point print to 10 point. All other webpages remained unchanged. On my second computer, the size of the print displayed also remained unchanged. So, given that this sudden change occurred on only one computer and only on wikipedia, what do you think the problem is? My old and tired eyes don't like small print. How do I increase the size of the display of print for wikipedia pages? Smallchief ( talk) 13:35, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, is there a way to reset my preferences to factory defaults across all projects without having to go into every project manually? Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 12:33, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! So I helped out User:Moops by adding the archive bot to their talk page, however for whatever reason the archive box isn't appearing on their talk apge. Any idea what coudl be causing this? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 16:31, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
This is what I see on Safari, making it impossible to edit. Chrome doesn't have the problem. Doug Weller talk 12:03, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Doug Weller talk 12:03, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
The references section of Mediterranean climate appeared wrongly. It appeared in one column with each row containing one character but some rows have more. There hasn't been a problem on the article until the Vector 2022 became the default. IntegerSequences ( talk | contribs) 06:47, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't know what I changed, but suddenly all my searches are case-sensitive. (See: WP:Case sensitivity: they shouldn't be, and they also weren't earlier). This also happens to me while I'm signed out. BhamBoi ( talk) 23:52, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that User:UBX has interlanguage links. Is there a way to add these on other users such as me? I couldn't find wikidata entries for users Aaron Liu ( talk) 02:33, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
[[zh:User:Aaron Liu]]
to
User:Aaron Liu, and also adding [[en:User:Aaron Liu]]
to
zh:User:Aaron Liu if you want a link the other way. If you want n wikis to link eachother then all n must add n−1 links to the others. Wikidata isn't always popular but it was good to get rid of that system for articles.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 03:47, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit a copy of {{Bilateral relations}} to make a box that shows the context for international agreements. I'd like to make the table include previous and subsequent treaties, year of establishment of relations, and etc., but I'm having trouble with my code. Would someone be able to look at it and tell me where I went wrong?
Jmjosh90 20:28, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Somehow I got signed out (on private browsing) but when I click on "Talk" it has a "Welcome to this talk page" message. I never saw that before. I don't even remember what happened when I was signed out when I went to that page, but with any other talk page that has not been created, when signed in, I am told to create it.
And this is probably for one of the above topics: I got to the talk page from an article I already saw in private browsing when signed out. When I went to a new article, I didn't even get a link to "Talk".— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 00:15, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to this talk pageis a result of the talk page improvements that have been worked the past few years. Izno ( talk) 02:41, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I have the article assessment class displayed at the top of articles. The class is now being preceded by "undefinedA" (actually "undefined" with "A" appended to it). Has someone had an accident with a template, module or some other bit of code? Nurg ( talk) 01:16, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Not sure if i am the only person having this problem every article begins with Undefined. Shyamal ( talk) 02:56, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
I've been patrolling through some recent changes lately, and one trend I have noticed is that more often than not, there are constructive (or rather, good faith looking) edits that seem to add some random empty <ref> tag somewhere in the article.
The addition of empty reg tags causes the "extraneous markup" edit filter to be tripped.
I feel like this is an issue that only recently has started occurring a lot. I don't think I've seen it happen a week ago before.
I'm seeing it from a wide variety of IP and account user editors.
AP 499D25 (
talk) 08:53, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Scripts like User:DannyS712/errors.js, which adds an "Errors" button alongside "Talk" and "Main Page" at the top of Main Page, don't seem to render properly with Vector 2022. Currently, "Errors" just becomes a normal hyperlink wedged underneath the native buttons but above the black line that indicates the top of the article. Anarchyte ( talk) 08:03, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
In Vector22, at the top of the watchlist, you now have four menu items, with the rightmost one being "clear the watchlist". I presume this simply removes all entries from your watchlist? This option isn't mentioned at Help:Watchlist. Please, please, can someone confirm that there is some "are you very very sure" intermediate screen when one clicks this? It seems like a terrible thing to have so prominent anyway, but it would be rather disastrous if it worked instantaneously. (Oh, and I get a timeout when I try "View and edit watchlist", not good...). By the way, the "help" button at the right of Watchlist doesn't take you to "Help:Watchlist", a bit weird that, but that's the same in the good Vector. Fram ( talk) 09:51, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Guys is it just me? After the recent changes on how WP appears, I feel that letters at see also section appear a little blur. I dont know why. Do you get the same feeling? Thanks, (pls ping). Cinadon 36 16:01, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
What's this? A post on this page that's not about Vector 2022? Sorry to break up the party, but I'd like to propose that the edit filter log should be able to show log entries for an IP range. Currently it seems to only work on individual IPs, which hinders abuse investigations involving an IPv6 /64 range (which is normally one end-user but could be something like 18 quintillion individual addresses). Maybe this is already possible and I'm just missing it? Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 18:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Anyone know why the {{ Archive box}} at the very bottom of Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/guidelines is adding an unexpected line break before the last item, #68? If so feel free to fix it. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 17:54, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
...it is doing that on the last element regardless of the size of the list.
Apparently there's a new tag for "Mass pronoun changes" which I saw on this edit. I'm curious, when was this tag implemented (or has it been aroudn for a while and I"ve just never seen it until now) ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:50, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! On Prince Mateen of Brunei at the top of the article there's a string of text that reads "Sports career" and I have no clue why it's there. Going into the visual editor tells me it's being created by the infobox, however I'm not seeing anything in the infobox that should be creating this. Anyone know what's going on here? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:51, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Right now, if you happen to click "log out", it does just that. It was also like that quite some time ago (not sure when), when I came here (I believe) to ask about a delay of some sort. I was given a solution that made it so when you clicked on "log out", a small pop-up would appear asking: "confirm you want to log out" (or something like that). It was just what I was looking for and it worked well. But I noticed today that it no longer seems to be working. I inadvertantly clicked "log out" and was immediatetly booted out. Did something change? Is it possible to still have this... fix, in place? If so, pleaae let me know what I need to do. Thank you - wolf 07:07, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:00, 14 January 2023 (UTC)I can confirm (no pun intended) that my script is working as expected with both the Vector legacy and 2022 skins. Mine works by literally replacing the html element containing the "log out" link rather than trying to change the original's behaviour and that's what it's doing. Clicking the default link should take the user to
a confirmation page anyway (something that didn't happen when I built the script back in the dark ages), so users should never get booted out by an accidental click even if they're not using one of these scripts. All that previously striked-through is rubbish.
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:19, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:32, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
16:09, 14 January 2023 (UTC)User:Fred Gandt/confirmLogout.js
is not functioning as described in my previous comment on non Special:Preferences pages. Cheers
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
16:27, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
17:00, 14 January 2023 (UTC)#p-personal li#pt-logout {display: none;}
to
your common.css). Then, if you want to logout, you can go to
your preferences and use the link there. (What I actually do is add a logout link to my toolbox. I used to frequently accidentally logout when the link was in the default location, but in many years, I've never done so from my toolbox link. And there's a confirmation dialog if I ever do misclick.)
MANdARAX •
XAЯAbИAM 17:14, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
mw.util.addPortletLink(
'p-tb',
mw.config.get('wgScript')+'?title=Special:UserLogout&returnto='+mw.config.get('wgPageName'),
'Logout' // text to display in toolbox
);
I guess I'm a little late to this conversation. Do I understand that, currently, a 2-click logout is a feature, not a bug? I don't recall experiencing this on any other website I've ever been to. Strongly recommend 1-click logout as default, and, if there is a demand for it, 2-click logout as a preferences option. Cheers. Phil wink ( talk) 19:40, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
So, problem solved... until the new skin vector was released, causing issues with these scripts. Then, (eg; in my case) people found themselves again being accidentally logged out with no confirmation pop-up to prevent it. This issue has, (at least in my case), been resolved as the script is now working again. To my understanding, the default remains the same as you recommend, but many users don't like or want it that way. - wolf 20:04, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Within the last hour, both of the browsers on which I'm logged in (as User:Naraht) (Chrome & FF) are giving errors that look like
MediaWiki internal error.
Original exception: [bde13a11-c59e-4e46-8642-640488f9c898] 2023-01-17 18:35:14: Fatal exception of type "ConfigException"
Exception caught inside exception handler.
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.
.
It isn't doing it on my Edge browser, but I'm not logged in there. I can't even get to the button on Chrome and FF to log out, so I'm guessing it is logged in vs. logged out, but I'm not sure. 161.107.18.136 ( talk) 18:44, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Just for documentation.
MediaWiki internal error.
Original exception: [cb36079c-11b5-48cf-bf81-ee8db28eeb85] 2023-01-17 18:43:31: Fatal exception of type "ConfigException"
Exception caught inside exception handler.
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.
— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:51, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Does this new skin fix the issue with Wikipedia crashing Chromium based browsers, by eating up all memory and crashing the browser, or even the OS? -- 64.229.90.199 ( talk) 06:00, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I've raised a question about using Labeled section transclusion in Draft space at the Transclusion Talk page. Your feedback would be appreciated at Help talk:Transclusion#Help with lst in Draft space. Thanks! Mathglot ( talk) 01:13, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Since three days ago, the pages become bigger than before – I guess it's the font-text is bigger. This makes the infobox is wider than before, so the text gets longer. Even longer, the pics inside a section no longer fit where they are supposed to fit. How can I get it smaller, like before. Also sections, before they were in a special place (?? TOC), then they became just another section after the lede. Now they have disappeared.
I worked 35 years as a computer programmer and systems analyst. Always we tried out changes before making then live. Maybe they should doing again like before.
BTW I see that familysearch.org is setting out a new way of showing items. They do everything without asking, because they are adults and we are only children. It would be OK except the underlying data was set up badly 15 or so years ago. For instance approximately half have women with the husbands' name, not their own. And dates are wrong - for instance United Kingdom started in 1801, so before that, dates are wrong. Ditto USA with states joining in USA in different dates depending which state. Ditto Canada from about 1850. Much better to fix the underlying data rather changing the colour.
Seems like Wikidata, where "proper" data managers were overthrown by proudboys. Auntie Kathleen ( talk) 03:16, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Technically this is more of a question aimed for the Mediawiki software, but I figured I should ask here first as there's more traffic on this page.
Now that I've subscribed to the Vector 2022 RfC, my is blowing up with unread notifications, even amassing over 99 at one point. When I clicked on it it showed me an item stating that there were 25 unread notifications on the RfC. After clicking on it my unread count was reduced by 25, but bringing up the dropdown list from displays another batch of 25 from the RfC. I can get rid of all of them by clicking Mark all as read
, but is this a limitation of the software, or is there a way to alter this seemingly arbitrary number? —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 ) 02:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Is there a way to search edit summaries for a specific phrase? I don't mean only the summaries of one editor (which can be done via Wikipedia:Edit summary search), but summaries by anyone and everyone. Thanks, DuncanHill ( talk) 19:32, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Just a quick note so y'all can apportion blame properly:
The Editing team is planning some changes. These will only be visible to people who have enabled the "DiscussionTools" Beta Feature. If you see them, and don't like them, they can all be turned off in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion (last item, "Show discussion activity").
The upcoming changes that you should blame on the Editing team, rather than on the Web team, are:
Pretty much all the other visible changes this month should be blamed on my teammate Szymon. ;-)
What might be useful for Editing to hear from this group in particular is:
Thanks, all. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 05:39, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't have an issue with it but don't recall there being any notification that they might be doing this. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 21:07, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Does anyone know why some thumbnails sizes for some images, like File:Weekday Color.svg at 375px ( direct link), are not updating? No amount of purging or reloading seems to help. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 16:18, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Hmm. This appears to have since been resolve somehow. Still don't know what was going on. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 08:21, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
There are two talk pages being filed in the nonexistent Category:Sia-Class Myanmar articles by a WikiProject template; the problem here is that there's already a correctly-capitalized version of the same category at Category:SIA-Class Myanmar articles, but it's empty and I can't figure out where to apply any corrections to get the pages moved from "Sia" to "SIA" -- applying what I thought would be the correct edit, changing sia=yes to SIA=yes in {{ WikiProject Myanmar/class}}, turned the category into the entirely nonsensical Category:Yes-Class Myanmar articles instead of correcting the capitalization.
So can somebody with more knowledge about WikiProject class rating templates than I have figure out how to get these two pages moved to the correct category? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 17:56, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
SIA=SIA
? This is what {{
WikiProject Film/class}} does. As for the others, the first one I think can just be undeleted (it was deleted as empty per
WP:CSD#C1) and the second I fixed. Not sure about the third. -
BRAINULATOR9 (
TALK) 20:00, 20 January 2023 (UTC)I've been developing several film articles up to FA status, and recently the last two I worked on, Starship Troopers and Saving Private Ryan, different editors, IPs and sockpuppets so potentially the same person, have come in as I've finished my drafts and copied it into the main article. It's not a huge deal but if they actually managed to do so without screwing it up, it robs me of my credit and work. Darkwarriorblake / Vote for something that matters 20:30, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm giving the new skin a college try but one thing that's non-negotiable is removing the direct link to My Contributions in the top-right corner. I used that as a quick way to reach my active/recent discussions so hiding it in the sub-menu is an extra click for no reason. Is there any way to customize which buttons appear directly (currently, it's Userpage, alerts, notices, watchlist) and which ones get hidden in the sub-menu? Slightly less important but still annoying is that I have the UTCLiveClock gadget active (Preferences > Gadgets > Appearance, 2nd one in the list) and that's getting hidden in the sub-menu as well. Is there any way to change this? I don't mind having extra buttons on the top-right of my screen. Axem Titanium ( talk) 01:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
$("#pt-mycontris").insertAfter("#pt-watchlist-2");
(added to your skin.js file). It doesn't work with the magical mystical appearing/disappearing toolbar, but that seems pretty useless anyway. As such, it restores the contribs link to the top of the page and is at least no worse than the old style. --
zzuuzz
(talk) 21:17, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
$("#pt-mycontris").clone().insertAfter("#pt-watchlist-2");
to create a clone. To change IDs, you probably need 3 lines - a first draft looks like this: var contrib_clone = $("#pt-mycontris").clone(); contrib_clone.attr("id", "pt-mycontris-copy"); $("#pt-watchlist-2").after(contrib_clone);
--
zzuuzz
(talk) 02:09, 21 January 2023 (UTC)/*Add contributions link to the top of the page */
$("#pt-mycontris").insertAfter("#pt-watchlist-2");
/* Hide menu icon from Contributions link that has been moved in my vector-2022.js file */
.mw-ui-icon-userContributions
{display:none;}
The 'move' idea works, but just creating a new object seems to be better for this. Perhaps we can put up a gadget demo to add the popular "(MY) Contributions" and (MY Usertalk)" links back to the top. It won't be future proof if the skin people keep moving things, but shouldn't be too hard. Started messing around in Special:PermaLink/1134871225. — xaosflux Talk 15:37, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
When I go into the edit screen, there is an icon labeled "Preview" at the top right corner of the screen ( [34]). It's for Realtime Preview. Each day when I first log in and start editing, there is a blue dot hovering over the icon, as a sort-of new function notification. If I click on the preview, and click the box that acknowledges that I'm aware of it, the blue dot goes away for the rest of the day, but it comes back the next day, over and over. (I'm using Firefox on desktop and it happens in both Vector 2022 and Vector Legacy.) Is there a way I can turn off the blue dot for good? -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
.mw-pulsating-dot.ext-WikiEditor-realtimepreview-onboarding-dot { display:none !important; }
in your common.css.
Wutsje 06:36, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to report a bug with interlanguage links in Vector 2022. In the new skin, each of the links includes a 'lang' attribute indicating the language of the link's destination (e.g. the HTML for a link to Chinese Wikipedia looks like this: <a class="autonym" dir="ltr" href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/..." title="... – 中文" lang="zh">Chinese</a>
).
This is incorrect use of the 'lang' attribute. The 'lang' attribute is for indicating the language of the element's contents (i.e. the link text), not for indicating the language of a link target. Because the link text is written in English (e.g. the links are labeled "Spanish" and "Chinese", not "español" and "中文"), the 'lang' attribute should not be present. There is sadly no standardized way to indicate the language of a link target (although this W3C post suggests the 'hreflang' attribute as a possibility).
This incorrect use causes display issues, as some browsers use the 'lang' attribute to decide which font to use. I've included a screenshot showing how the words "Chinese" and "Korean" are in a different font to the rest of the page. This is because my browser (Firefox 109.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.1) uses a different font to render Chinese and Korean text, and the 'lang' attribute is causing my browser to incorrectly believe those words are written in Chinese and Korean respectively.
I recommend removing these 'lang' attributes, or perhaps changing them to be 'hreflang' attributes. Thanks, IagoQnsi ( talk) 23:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
hreflang=
attribute is documented with
the a
alement. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:16, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
hreflang
for its target links is halfway to a bug given the component of interest.
Izno (
talk) 00:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)I attempted to resolve Template talk:Section sizes#Section headers with embedded anchors, by editing Module:Section sizes. To do that, I tested the code ( Special:Diff/1135136755):
local function remove_container (str)
return (str:gsub( "%<([^%>]*)%>", function(l)
return l:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "");
end));
end
and it appears to resolve the issue as raised. However, it fails to recognise cases where <xyz> is actually intended to be added, so I tried the code:
local function remove_container (str)
return (str:gsub( "%<([^%>]*)%>(.*)%<%/([^%>]*)%>", function(l)
return l:gsub("%>(.*)$%<%/", "%2");
end));
end
but this does not work, as %2 returns the contents between first instances of < & > instead of what is between > & </
What am I doing wrong here? —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 21:15, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
local function strip_html_like_tags (str)
local stripped_string = str:gsub ("%b<>", ""); -- so we don't return gsub() replacement count
return stripped_string;
end
A long time ago I installed User:Alex Smotrov/histcomb.js in vector.js. Several days ago, an important part of it stopped working properly. Unfortunately, the author hasn't edited since 2012, so I can't discuss the problem with them.
I'll first describe the way it's supposed to work when reviewing the contribution history of a page. If there are consecutive edits by the same user, instead of showing each entry, it collapses them and shows the number of consecutive edits in brackets to the left, e.g., [3]. If you click on Prev when collapsed, it shows the changes made by all 3 edits; if you uncollapse the 3 edits, you can see each diff separately. Now the display is the same, but if you click on Prev when collapsed, it shows the diff of the first edit in the series.
Although I don't think it has anything to do with vector (2022), I am using the legacy vector skin, not the new one.
Thanks for any help.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:04, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
perhaps someone should fork that if they want to maintain it...I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that someone else would grab the code and create their own script? If that's what you mean, how would I, uh, inspire someone to do that?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:29, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
You can now submit proposals for this years Community Wishlist. Entries are open for a week. You can see current proposals at m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Tracking. m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist Survey 2023 for more details. — Qwerfjkl talk 18:24, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
At Special:PermaLink/1135137654#User:EchidnaLives I granted indefinite PGM rights to EchidnaLives. I thought I had put a typo in the diff so I went to check their UserRights page and saw that the granting had not gone through. Curious if the script borked somewhere, I checked their talk page and found this discussion where Salvio giuliano also indicated issues with granting. I couldn't even manually change the expiry from the stated date to "does not expire", so I ended up having to cancel the PERM and re-add it to their account. I am too tired (this was literally the last thing I was planning on doing before bed) to figure out why this is going wrong, but clearly something is weird. Does this need a phab? (please do not ping on reply) Primefac ( talk) 21:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Log extract
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2023-01-22T21:35:54 Primefac changed group membership for EchidnaLives from IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker to IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer, rollbacker and page mover (requested at WP:PERM/PM, Special:PermaLink/1135137654#User:EchidnaLives) (thank) 2023-01-22T21:35:33 Primefac changed group membership for EchidnaLives from page mover (temporary, until 2023-01-28T00:00:00), IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker to IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker (rmv to see about glitch) |
I'm not sure what to do with the history section at Ingleside, Texas. It is completely unsourced, and is nearly identical to the history on the city website. The section was added by an IP back in 2010, and the original edit included a promo for a book. I'm not sure if the section needs to be removed and nuked. Thanks! Magnolia677 ( talk) 12:44, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
hi there everyone. I did a bit of tweaking to my user page recently. I managed to use collapsible boxes to fix up a few things, moved some user boxes, and got it looking relatively nice. what's the relevance here, you ask? well.... and then I happened to view my own user page again.... using my phone. in a word.... auuugggh!!
can anyone here please offer possible methods, on some ways to configure some of the formatting items mentioned above, to look at least passable on a phone? I realize that yes, some things are not meant for display on phones, but there should be some result other than taking a perfectly good formatted item, and displaying it e.g. as an unreadably narrow column of text, or else items getting garbled and being displayed on top of other items, etc etc
I decided to ask this here, rather than at the Help Desk, since this item seems to have some relevance as a larger technical question, for some general consideration. I appreciate any help. thanks! Sm8900 ( talk) 16:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
nomobile
class. —
xaosflux
Talk 16:09, 23 January 2023 (UTC)For comparison, see the "Climate change impacts on the environment" table on Vector legacy versus Vector 2022. ‑‑ Neveselbert ( talk · contribs · email) 05:12, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
wikitable
for the general use, or TemplateStyles for template use. But let's move any detailed Commons consultation to my talk page.)
Izno (
talk) 06:45, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
but it will not be the same as the old version regardless. Izno ( talk) 19:08, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
display
property could be used? ‑‑
Neveselbert (
talk ·
contribs ·
email) 19:29, 23 January 2023 (UTC)Another assistance, I needed was to call templates from module. In one case, I need to call a distinct template from within the module. I tried concatenation like
return "{{foo|1="..a.."}}"
but the resultant is always nowikied, i.e., the intended result does not show. How do I fix this? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 10:08, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hey y'all. I'm attempting to export the file below to Wikimedia Commons since it doesn't meat the
threshold of originality. However, since it was marked in what I presume to be the hidden category of
Category:All non-free media, Commons is rejecting the attempt to export. Is there a way to combat this?
Knightoftheswords281 (
talk) 05:26, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Is it me or is actions done using Reply tool (replying using it, adding topic using it) not showing immediately without page refresh using F5/browser's reload button? A few days ago, actions done using Reply tool would show immediately once published without the need to refresh the page manually. — Paper9oll ( 🔔 • 📝) 05:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Trying to login to my account but it keeps saying “There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form. You may receive this message if you are blocking cookies.” It keeps showing that message every time I try to login. Have I been banned? :( 2A02:C7F:601A:5800:1C48:CB39:4648:C63F ( talk) 21:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
"There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form. You may receive this message if you are blocking cookies") appeared every time I tried to log in.-- Æo ( talk) 21:23, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
I've made no changes in anything, but in the last 24 hours I started to see this. Doug Weller talk 17:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
I tried to connect Posterior_vitreous_detachment to the Swedish article Glaskroppsavlossning, but failed. There seem to be two incompatible ways of linking languages, leading to two different lists of articles. Just posting this here, in case anyone cares to connect the two. Star Lord - 星爵 ( talk) 21:44, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
There's a user sandbox page, User:Newklear007/Barbora Piešová, that's somehow appearing in Category:Living people without actually being categorized. What happened was that the creator did add categories to it slightly prematurely, but then moved it into mainspace literally one minute later so that the title now exists only as a redirect to the mainspace article.
But the userspace redirect itself doesn't have inappropriate categories on it anymore, and yet it won't clear from an incategory search of the Living people category no matter how many times I try to null it -- and I've even tried temporarily deleting and then restoring the redirect, only to find that it left the category while deleted but then came back as soon as it was restored, and even while it was deleted the incategory search did not give me the "There were no results matching the query." response that I'm supposed to get if there are no user or draft pages in the category, but instead just gave me a blank list. And even the redirect itself, if you look at it, features a strange amount of whitespace between the page headers and the "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" line that's supposed to be directly under the page headers, despite there being no obvious coding error in the page itself.
So something's clearly wrong with this page, but I can't figure out what the problem is. Can somebody look into this and resolve it so that the page isn't inappropriately displaying in a category it isn't actually in? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:13, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
incategory
. The search result says "8 KB (578 words) - 14:13, 24 January 2023". That's
this version which was at
User:Newklear007/Barbora Piešová at the time and contains the category. A search
[41] on random text from the page without incategory
returns both
User:Newklear007/Barbora Piešová at 14:13, 24 January 2023 (the cached version) and
Barbora Piešová at 20:32, 24 January 2023 (the current version). I don't know how to force search to stop using the cached version.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:38, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
In light of what's been said above about a cached version, I just tried another way to fix this by moving the page back to the original sandbox title, wrapping the categories in the draft categories template, and then waiting to see if the page dropped from the incategory search results after a couple of refreshes. It did, so I then restored the page back to articlespace again and so far the redirect has not returned. So for the moment it looks like this has now been resolved, but since I do that search at least once or twice a day to clean out any DRAFTNOCAT and USERNOCAT violations it'll be monitored if it does come back on a later search. Bearcat ( talk) 15:29, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
See MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice#RFC notice. ©Geni ( talk) 17:11, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
As I have no white space in the margins anymore. I hope it isn't just me! Doug Weller talk 12:27, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! Can someone explain me why the table in this template is rendered like it does? Why the space between columns is not the same and why is there so extra padding on the right side? Is there any way whatsoever how I can make all the entries in there appear equally spaced with the same padding on both sides? Maybe by utilizing CSS somehow?
I'm sorry for asking a question related to a foreign project but I have no one to ask at my homewiki. I generally despise table editing because of how clunky the whole process feels. Maybe that's a wish for the tech-wishlist... - Klein Muçi ( talk) 21:36, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
style="width: 33%;" |
in a cell in each of the columns (widths are usually specified in the first row). You have protected the template so I cannot do it for you. There are also three image columns so the text columns cannot actually use 33% of the table width but it should work if you just give the same number.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:06, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
<div class="sister-projects mw-content-{{dir|{{{lang|}}}}}" lang="{{{lang|}}}" dir="{{dir|{{{lang|}}}}}">
. You have
sq:Template:Dir but you should ensure that it is up-to-date with wherever you prefer. Since this case came from Commons.... Or you can just remove the relevant template values to something like <div class="sister-projects">
since you do not operate on a multilingual wiki like Commons is, so those have no local value for you. That's up to you.
Izno (
talk) 03:01, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Any insight on obtaining the following information would greatly help with discussions currently happening on other village pumps:
Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:55, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
The latest run of Special:WantedCategories is somehow cluttered with over 100 redlinked categories of the "User [code]" variety. These all stem from the use of {{ User iso15924}}, because they're coming entirely from just four pages — {{ User iso15924/testcases}}, {{ User Tibt-3}}, User talk:Le Deluge/Archive 15 and User:Spc10K/UBX/lists — that are using the codes in question inside invocations of that template. The thing is that none of these redlinks ever turned up at WantedCategories in any other recent runs, but none of the pages that they're coming from have been edited anytime recently to add any new usages that hadn't already been on the pages for months or years, which means that somehow the User iso15924 template is suddenly generating a bunch of redlinked categories it never generated before this week.
And furthermore, most of the usages seem to include "nocat=true" or "nocat=yes" code in them, which certainly seems like it should mean "don't generate a category here", but that flag isn't documented in the template documentation for me to be sure whether I'm correct in interpreting it that way. And the only one that doesn't contain that flag, the one on Le Deluge's talk archive, is specifically in an almost-three-year-old discussion about getting a page moved from the nonexistent Category:User cyrl-1 (which is itself one of the new redlinks) to the actually-existing but differently capitalized Category:User Cyrl-1 — but since that discussion is almost three years old, and the issue at that time related to a user typo rather than to an error in this template per se, this reinforces my suspicion that the template is suddenly behaving differently this week than it has for the past three years.
And given the nature of what the contents are, being test cases and archived talk page discussions rather than true userpages actually using these codes in infoboxes to facilitate collaboration, it really doesn't seem like actually creating all of these new categories would be of any benefit to Wikipedia at this time.
Obviously we can't just leave 115 categories sitting on WantedCategories as permanent kludge, so could somebody look into what happened here and figure out how to fix it? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:40, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Very odd, very strange thing: Yesterday, perhaps in the early afternoon, I visited Avicii Arena on my iPad, and left the tab open, then did other things (including opening and closing at least 30 more different Wikipedia articles). Now, the next morning, like 5 minutes ago, i reopened Safari, which was in another tab by now, and looked at my open tabs. One of them said "(Wikipedia Favicon) NHL Global ..." which startled me a tiny bit, as I don't know what that is, so I tapped on the tab. It instantly reloaded and the tab name changed to "(Wikipedia Favicon) Avicii Arena". - I checked the article, it doesn't mention "NHL" at all (tho the arena used to be called "Globe"), I searched Wikipedia, there is no article starting with "NHL Global", I have zero idea how this could have happened (and am a bit annoyed at myself I didn't screenshot it).
Can someone even start to explain or have a wild guess what happened here? I have some knowledge of and experience with HTML, but I am flabbergasted in the truest sense of the word. -- Lommes ( talk) 10:10, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
This one has nothing to do with individual scripts, it's being discussed on the Evernote discussion forum. When you try to use it on a Chrome based browser it just won't load, no problem in Opera. Deleting Wikipedia cookies works, but of course who wants to have to login after every time you use Evernote? I use it to grab useful pages with templates. So who do I talk to try to get them to talk to Evernote about this Doug Weller talk 15:31, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
commons.js:2 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '_count__containers')
at i.getContent__findInPage (commons.js:2:185917)
at commons.js:2:188303
at new Promise (<anonymous>)
at i.start (commons.js:2:188238)
at p._executeGetArticle (commons.js:2:96879)
at p._getArticle (commons.js:2:96776)
at p.detectArticle (commons.js:2:95593)
at K.detectArticle (commons.js:2:1154921)
at K.updateArticle (commons.js:2:1156206)
at ce (commons.js:2:2469197)
For example, alpha beta and release candidate version are all subclasses of prerelease version. I would like to select all values that have the version type qualifier set to one of the subclasses of prerelease version. How do I do this? Take Template:Latest preview software release/Material Design for an example Aaron Liu ( talk) 17:31, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
A number of users, both here and at WP:HD, have reported that the rumoured toggle button in the bottom right hand corner for article width is not visible, but there still doesn't seem to be a coherent explanation for this absence. Some replies have suggested that it's dependent on zoom level, but I've tried up to 500% and down to 25% and still no sign of the elusive toggle. At WP:HD I said "I too don't see such a button at the bottom right. Perhaps someone in the know can explain what settings you and I may have which disables the visibility of that button? Something which may or may not be connected is that the edit button for each section is only half-visible. I see only the bottom half of each [edit] link. The [subscribe] link to the right of (and half a line below) each edit link is completely visible." - David Biddulph ( talk) 08:52, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
?safemode=1
to the end of the URL, like
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)?safemode=1 ? For what it's worth, I never see it while logged in, even at a zoom of 50% and using safemode with "limited width" disabled. If I log out and zoom out, I can see it. This says to me that one of my preferences is causing it, but it could be something else. Many of us have asked for the limited width to be disabled by default, or for the toggle to be visible at all times, due to the many problems with it, but we haven't gotten any traction thus far. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:52, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm trying to hide the thanks link on my watchlist and other editor's contributions pages.
.mw-thanks-thank-link { display: none; }
works to hide the link but I can't work out how to hide the pipe symbol that appears before the link or the empty brackets in those cases where there isn't a rollback link. Nthep ( talk) 21:28, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
span:has(.mw-thanks-thank-link)::before { content: normal !important; }
. :has()
is very new. Most evergreen browsers support it since the past 6ish months, but Firefox still requires that you turn on a preference on your machine. See
MDN. Otherwise, this needs to be done in JavaScript.
Izno (
talk) 23:06, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
:has()
was new one to me. It sort of works but as .mw-thanks-thank-link
is contained within the span .mw-changeslist-links.mw-pager-tools
the command removes both instances of ::before
in the span as there's one preceding .mw-rollback-link
as well. Not that his bothers me, I added a line to remove the ::after
bracket from the span and I have a solution that suits me.
Nthep (
talk) 12:20, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
:has(...)
pseudo-class was introduced to CSS Selectors Level 4 on
1 February 2018 (slightly less than five years ago), the document has been through several revisions since (current rev is dated
11 November 2022) but it has never moved out of the
W3C Working Draft stage, so don't rely on it being present in future revisions - even if it is present, it might not have the same behaviour. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 21:44, 26 January 2023 (UTC).mw-thanks-thank-link { display: none; }
is not enough to hide the thank button in mobile web. Since a recent change, it is more obtrusive as a large button and is easy to accidentally thank vandals in mobile watchlist and Recent changes. To hide it everywhere in both desktop and mobile along with empty brackets, use a.mw-thanks-thank-link { /* Hide thank button in watchlist, RC, page history. Overqualify for hiding in mobile as well */
display:none;
}
span:has(.mw-thanks-thank-link)::before { /* Hide open bracket, slash before hidden thank button */
content: normal !important;
}
span:has(.mw-thanks-thank-link)::after { /* Hide open bracket, slash after hidden thank button */
content: normal !important;
}
.mw-diff-tool { /* Remove empty brackets around hidden thank button in diff window */
display:none;
}
.mw-ui-button.mw-ui-progressive.mw-mf-action-button { /* Hide thank button in mobile diff */
display:none;
}
:has()
for Firefox, go to about:config
, accept the risk if asked, search for layout.css.has-selector.enabled
, then toggle from false
to true
.If your watchlist still has ()
on entries where a "thank" wouldn't be present (edits by IPs, bots, and yourself), it's presumably from hidden rollback links. To hide those too, add span:has(.mw-rollback-link)::before,
span:has(.mw-rollback-link)::after {content: normal !important;}
@ JJMC89 @ TheDJ A few months ago I opened T318568, which described "NULL" showing up in search autocompletions. It was just closed as "invalid" with the comment "this is intentional", and cited Special:Diff/1060688496 as evidence. What's the full story here? One way or another, we shouldn't be putting "NULL" in search autocompletions. I don't know if the bug is in Vector 2022, or in the usage of {{ SHORTDESC:NULL}}, or somewhere else, but somewhere along the line we're doing it wrong and it should be fixed. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:58, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
{{short description|none}}
. Because {{
user page}} sets |2=noreplace
, a local (lack of) description should override that template. Unfortunately, this does not work, because a short description of "none" produces a nowiki tag instead of an actual empty short description. See
this discussion and
this previous discussion. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 22:40, 26 January 2023 (UTC)I'm trying to affix the evolution of the Arabic digit for 9 image to the left. However, when I try to do this on the new skin V2022, it bugs and the image is transported to the section below in the middle of text. How can I solve this? I had to remove one image (of the seven-segment display of 9) since it was disorienting. Thank you for your help! Radlrb ( talk) 08:22, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
I largely wrote the article Kaktovik_numerals, and had to use graphic workarounds for the characters. There is one font available, but it doesn't appear to work with browsers. Can you tell if it's incomplete?
At Kaktovik_numerals#External_links, there is a "free Kaktovik font". However, installing it does not allow my browser (FF) to display the characters. In Kaktovik_numerals#In Unicode, there are two tables, raw Unicode at top and graphics at bottom. I see only boxes with numbers in the top table.
This is the only Unicode Kaktovik font there currently is. Is it badly designed? It works fine in a word-processor, but does it need some additional code to allow a browser to recognize that it can be used for this code range? If so, please advise and I can fix it and submit it to the external site. If users have an option for a functional font, we could remove the bulk of the graphics in this article -- currently the characters are not searchable unless you go into the edit window or paste the text somewhere else. — kwami ( talk) 19:40, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
I find that many Wikipedia tables are useless, because as I scroll down, I cannot see how the data in a table relates to the heading. This issue was discussed 13 years ago, but nothing was ever done. Since then times have changed, and freezing of headings has become common at many websites. Wikipedia tables have also become larger and more complicated, such as Comparison_of_accounting_software#Free_and_open_source_software. I would have to copy the data into a spreadsheet in order to understand it. Why do I have to use external tools to view Wikipedia tables? Comfr ( talk) 09:31, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Table example
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a | b |
a | b |
a | b |
a | b |
What does this module error mean? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 13:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Double-clicking on a word should (and usually does) select a whole word, regardless of where that word is. But here's the odd case. Double-clicking on the first word of body-text after a first-level (==) header selects the word and the whole text of that header. No problem for double-clicking on the last (or any other) word of the header, or any other word of the body. And no problem for lower-level headers. Good (I guess) news, this is true on both Vector2022 and Vector2010, and logged out, using Firefox/Mac. Using Chrome, it doesn't happen (double-clicking behaves normally) even on V2022. DMacks ( talk) 22:40, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Has anyone here hacked up a Javascript to make the Vector 2022 sticky header appear on pages in all namespaces? I keep expecting it to appear on pages that I am visiting, but it just doesn't. It's frustrating. According to
this MW page about it, At time of writing it is only enabled on namespaces: Main, Main talk, User, User talk, Wikipedia, Template, Help, Category, Portal, Module but not old revisions, diffs, history or edit pages.
An example of a specific page where I was looking for the sticky header but did not find it was
Template talk:Infobox election. Thanks in advance for any tips! –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 01:34, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
transform: translateY(0);
opacity: 1;
If you pass a parameter through a template containing another template, e.g. {{
foo|
, and {{
bar}}
}}{{
foo}}
calls {{
#invoke:foo|main}}, then when you access the argument in Module:Foo, it will contain the expanded version of {{
bar}}
. How would you get the string {{bar}}
without it being expanded, short of calling {{
foo|<nowiki>
and then calling {{
bar}}
</nowiki>}}mw.text.UnstripNoWiki()
in the module? —
Qwerfjkl
talk 13:44, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
If ruwiki community want to run a certain voting through SecurePoll (it isn't admin/bur/arbcom election), what should we do? How to send request to stewards (or who manages it) to create a voting? MBH ( talk) 10:54, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
On Wikispecies, there are issues because species:Module:Documentation (and a submodule) was overwritten by an import which included Module:Documentation from this project. It seems that meta:Module:Documentation, from which Wikispecies originally imported the module(s), is different again.
Is there any reason they cannot be standardised, and kept in sync, in a manner which meets the needs of all three (and other) projects?
Hopefully, in the long term, mw:Global templates (in which User:Amire80 has been involved) will solve this issue, but in the meantime it would be good if we could collaboratively work around it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:40, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Stewards will not use their technical access when there are local users who can use that access, except in emergenciesper m:Stewards * Pppery * it has begun... 23:57, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
@ Sophivorus: Please note the above, and the original discussion on Wikispecies, both of which I think will be of interest to you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
On Special:BotPasswords, the content of MediaWiki:Botpasswords-summary shows up twice. I'm using Vector 2022, but it shows up in other skins as well, and I'm on Brave (Chromium). ~ Eejit43 ( talk) 05:58, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Since the switch to Vector 22 (which I generally like) I have been having some problems with the search box.
I have been in the habit of going to pages I frequent (such as
WP:TH,
WP:HD and
WP:RDH by typing ctr-alt-F WP:TH (return)
all in one go, and it usually got me there. (Occasionally, for reasons I've never quite worked out, it would put me on the Search page, but whatever I was going for was always the first choice).
Since Vector 22, I end up on all sorts of pages. What seems to be happening is that the generation of suggested matches is interfering with what I've typed, in an unpredictable way. When I try to go to WP:TH I end up on all sorts of pages in the WP space, usually starting with Th. I've now learnt to wait until it's generated its search suggestions before typing Return; but I'm not 100% sure that it always gets it right even then.
I admit that I'm on a fairly slow machine. ColinFine ( talk) 17:29, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Why does https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Brahmic_scripts&diff=1135922907&oldid=1132384454&diffmode=source look so much stretched for no reason? I do not find anything that can cause this, and this is (so far) the only page this stretched at 100% zoom at all default settings. It persists even on refreshing. Can somebody point out what's going on here? I'm on Windows 11, MS Edge. Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 11:26, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
This problem is quite bad on some pages, including
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes. Disabling Enabling the "limited width mode" in Preferences -> Appearance resolves this problem for me until this bug can be fixed. I checked to ensure that it is not happening when I am logged out, even if I click the limited-width toggle. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC) [Edited to add: Enabling the limited width mode made this problem go away for almost all pages, but I'm still seeing it on about one out of 50 pages instead of 1 out of 10. Is it really a good idea for developers to roll out software changes on Friday and then take two days off? When I worked in IT, we never changed anything on Friday. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 22:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)]
On some - but not all articles - word wrapping is broken for some reason? [ https://imgur.com/a/0dKrKFJ] an example from British Rail Class 373. Others include British Rail Class 800. Anyone else? Just me? MacOS 13.1, Safari 16.2 - using Vesper 2022 with the "Enable responsive mode" ticked and "Enable limited width mode" unticked. Turini2 ( talk) 21:37, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
As the title describes, the button that says "next-to-last editor" doesn't work if the editor is an IPv6 IP, instead it simply just states that there are no differences between revisions as if it is basically comparing the current revision to itself. It works just fine on IPv4 so it's an IPv6 exclusive issue. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:11, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
For some reason when I changed the Military history project class from Start to C at Talk:German declaration of war on the Soviet Union, I'm still seeing the Start class, although the syntax appears correct after comparing with other C class articles. Why is that? Brandmeister talk 20:55, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
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I just noticed that when viewing Wikipedia on the desktop using my mobile iOS (Safari), when I rotate my phone from vertical to horizontal, Wikipedia updates the resolution from a longer vertical dimension to a longer horizontal dimension without changing the page zoom, meaning lines that may be subject to word wrap when having a shorter horizontal dimension now show their full line when changing to a longer horizontal dimension (rotation mobile from vertical to horizontal). I think this is awesome! I ... just want to know what Phabricator request this is so I can see how/why it happened, and thank whoever suggested and/or implemented it! Steel1943 ( talk) 21:13, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
In every page I have become accustomed to the "[ edit | edit source ]" link provided at the upper-right of each section; when I click it, the editor goes into section edit mode. So far, so good. Lately after one or two WP:ITSTHURSDAYs, the edit links have been visually cut off halfway. I can only see the bottom of the text and the upper part is blanked out. See screenshot for a visual.
Elizium23 ( talk) 03:25, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
line-height: 1
—
Qwerfjkl
talk 09:43, 15 December 2022 (UTC)line-height: 1
has fixed it just as Qwerfjkl promised.
Elizium23 (
talk) 05:28, 18 December 2022 (UTC)It's been suggested that this (rather than Miscellaneous) is the place I need to ask about this. How much disk space is needed to hold a decompressed (and by what method?) download of what is available? Must the download complete without interruption or need to be restarted from scratch if something crops up? 71.105.190.154 ( talk) 08:55, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
Per this discussion, it seems three rows need to be added to Module:Good article topics/data. I have the template editor right and could make the edit, but I know nothing of Lua or what the possible impact of adding subtopics might be, so wanted to check here first. The rows to be added would be "culture, society, and psychology", "culture, sociology and psychology", and "culture, sociology, and psychology", all to match "soc". Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 14:17, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
I am trying to find places that a template was recently added to articles. "Related changes" for the template ( Special:RecentChangesLinked/Template:whatever) doesn't do it. What tool should I use? DMacks ( talk) 01:16, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
&sort=last_edit_desc
to the url of the search results page.
User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js adds 10 links to search pages to repeat the search with
sorting by different criteria.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 14:05, 19 December 2022 (UTC)Hi everyone,
Once again, we want to thank all of you who have participated in discussing the new Vector 2022 skin so far, through the years of development as well as during our recent RfC. All your comments, questions, and concerns have helped us to make the skin better for readers and communities. We have a couple of updates on the skin and our plans for deployment.
Limited (fixed) width
As per the RfC closure, the "only clear blocker" to the deployment of the skin was the issue of fixed width. It was deemed insufficient to only control the width with an editor-maintained gadget. The team was tasked with building a WMF-maintained toggle, which is clearly visible and available to both logged-out and logged-in users. As a results of this, the team has:
In addition, the team has also worked on improving the following areas of discussion and concern from the RfC:
?vectorpagetools=1
to the URL (if you're using Vector 2022 already) or ?useskin=vector-2022&vectorpagetools=1
(if you're not using Vector 2022).We have added an edit button to the sticky header to make access to editing the full page easier (without requiring scrolling to the top of the page). After testing across a number of wikis, we concluded the following:
Next steps
Now we are ready to begin scheduling a date for the deployment of the new skin as the default on English Wikipedia. The team is currently considering January 18th as a date that will allow us enough time to sufficiently discuss the latest changes and address questions by those who have not been involved in the process so far.
As a reminder, logged-in users can opt out at any time. Those of you using a non-default skin (Timeless, Monobook, etc) will not see any changes.
As we get closer to deployment, we will be reaching out with more detailed information on deployment time and any other considerations. What other considerations should we make as we get closer to deployment? We're particularly interested in ideas that will help us spread the word across logged-in users. We will certainly run banners informing logged-out and logged-in users about the change.
Comment here or meet with us this Thursday at 19:30 UTC on Discord. In the first week of January, we will also have office hours on Zoom.
Thank you all one more time for your continued time, attention, and participation! Your input has been vital to improving the new experience. OVasileva (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 20:34, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
For logged-out users the toggle sets the width on a per-page basis, since preferences are not available for logged-out users. This means that after refreshing the page or opening a different page the width returns to the default state.I don't believe this meets the requirement of the RfC. If technical limitations prevent logged out users from setting the preference for all pages, then the default should be full width. BilledMammal ( talk) 00:26, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
It should be possible to achieve a full-width experience using a WMF-maintained toggle, which is clearly visible and available to both logged-out and logged-in users.
By requiring logged out users to click a button every single time? I don't think that complies.My plain reading of both this implementation and their statement is that the implementation complies. If you would like clarification from the closers over a month away from the close, that's your prerogative. I do not think they will support your opinion.
We can open another RfC on this single questionSure, if you want. I think that's a waste of time, since I think you're going to still end up with what was said in the RFC we already had, with 50% down on the ship it side with a (for some, despite a) fixed width that most of that 50% supported and 50% don't ship it side because they opposed any fixed width anywhere for any reason. The fixed width was polarizing, and you clearly have a strong opinion on the matter, but it turns out the group did not support that specific suggestion in any great plurality else we would have a closer statement saying "the fixed width must be supported on every page once selected". Izno ( talk) 01:10, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Should Vector 2022 allow logged out users to toggle the page width without requiring them to toggle it on every page?BilledMammal ( talk) 01:16, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Discussion at MediaWiki talk:Linkshere#Protected edit request on 19 December 2022: add "Sorted list" external tool. Thank you! SDunlap-WMF ( talk) 19:27, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm attempting to see if I can modify {{ considering retirement}} to make the word "strongly" optional since you can be considering retirement but not be strongly considering it. You can see in the sandbox I've messed around a little bit to see if I can get it to do this, but I have absolutely no clue if I"m doing it right. If I'm not could I please be informed on how to do it correctly? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:02, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
is{{#if:{{{strongly|}}}| strongly}} considering
. When someone puts |strongly=[any string here]
, the word "strongly" shows up, otherwise it won't. Bold text is already supplied by font-weight: bold
inside the <div> container, so no need to supply it again. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 19:11, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
When I click through a talk page's section link in a revision history, the viewport no longer lands directly on that section in the talk page. It overshoots or undershoots and leaves me viewing some random section of the talk page; I need to reclick the section title in the TOC on the LHS in order to finally navigate there. Elizium23 ( talk) 02:45, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
This is a problem with English Wikipedia's customization that extends the handling of collapsible content provided by MediaWiki.
MediaWiki supports basically two CSS classes: mw-collapsible
to make something collapsible (but shown by default), and mw-collapsed
to also make it hidden by default. (There are some other weird options that no one uses.)
mw:Manual:Collapsible elements
English Wikipedia has custom JS code that adds some other options, notably innercollapse
and outercollapse
, which allow content with the first class to be hidden by default only if it is also wrapped in the second class.
Help:Collapsing#"innercollapse" and "outercollapse"
This mechanism is used by the templates generating the talk page banners: Template:WPBannerMeta/core and Template:Banner holder. This way, each WikiProject banner is made collapsible if they're wrapped in the banner holder (e.g. on Talk:Paris), but not if they aren't (e.g. Talk:Azincourt).
Generally, collapsible content in MediaWiki causes issues like this, because it is only collapsed after the page loads and JavaScript executes (to remain accessible for no-JS users), which can be after the browser has already jumped to the target section. But the mw-collapsed
class has some extremely clever styles to hide content using just CSS (
T42812), which prevent the problem most of the time. innercollapse
/outercollapse
do not (the help page I linked above actually document this: "Using this technique causes the page to reflow/jump around and should generally be avoided.").
I don't really understand why this problem would pop up now. It seems that the templates and the custom JS code hasn't been changed in a while.
This could be fixed with CSS like this:
/* Avoid FOUC/reflows on collapsed elements. */
/* This copies MediaWiki's solution for T42812 to apply to innercollapse/outercollapse (T325115). */
/* Reference: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/ecda06cb2aef55b77c4b4d7ecda492d634419ead/resources/src/jquery/jquery.makeCollapsible.styles.less#75 */
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > p,
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > table,
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > thead + tbody,
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) tr:not( :first-child ),
.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) .mw-collapsible-content {
display: none;
}
This could go either in MediaWiki:Common.css (maybe around here: MediaWiki:Common.css#L-40), or somewhere in TemplateStyles of the relevant templates.
I hope someone more familiar with your customizations can pick the best place for it, but if no one responds, I could apply the changes myself (I'm a global interface editor). CC @ Izno: (who touched the banner templates recently) and @ TheDJ: ( maintainer of the innercollapse/outercollapse code). Matma Rex talk 00:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
:is()
might be ok to put in Common.css given how this depends on JavaScript and the rule shouldn't impact old systems, then it looks like:.client-js .outercollapse .innercollapse.mw-collapsible:not( .mw-made-collapsible ) > :is(p, table, thead + tbody, tr:not( :first-child ), .mw-collapsible-content) { display: none; }
:is()
would be okay, but the rule you posted isn't exactly equivalent (in my version some items had the >
combinator and some didn't), and as a result doesn't actually resolve the issue (testing on
Talk:Paris). It probably could be tweaked, but I'd rather not mess with it.body.client-js
instead of just .client-js
to work with the auto-prefixing. (You probably know this, but saying just in case.)
Matma Rex
talk 01:24, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Since folks seem to be fine with my proposal but no one actually applied the fix, I applied it myself now: [2]. The issue with section links on those pages should be resolved. Matma Rex talk 19:39, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
On Template:Did you know, the image File:OneLove armband (transparent).png is displaying in Firefox (107.0.1, Windows 10) with a black background, rendering the text unreadable. I cannot replicate this in Chrome or Edge. Same on Firefox for mobile. Black Kite (talk) 11:41, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
I looked at some minor edit warring at Fusil Gras mle 1874 and found these different IPs:
Is there any logic behind the last four words (40b8:788f:357a:8571) being the same, but the last half of the first four words varying? Johnuniq ( talk) 06:09, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi, two questions, apologies they if should be separate:
|url-status=usurped
in this edit
[3], which I think was the right thing to do. Could someone please explain the purpose of |url-status=
and the correct course of action when you find these messages?|url-status=usurped
changes how a citation renders; cf:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=//example.com |archive-url=//archive.org |archive-date=2022-12-20}}
{{cite book |title=Title |url=//example.com |url-status=usurped |archive-url=//archive.org |archive-date=2022-12-20}}
fix ref: rm |url-status=usurped as per CS1: maintsuggests that somewhere you found some instruction or advice that told you to remove
|url-status=usurped
. Where did you find that instruction or advice? It is wrong and should be fixed.|url-status=
and the correct course of action when you find these particular messages? Some
CS1 maintenance messages I can and do fix when I randomly come across them, eg
CS1 maint: uses authors parameter,
CS1 maint: date and year : is there anything I can do with
unfit URL? Thanks,
MinorProphet (
talk) 16:34, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Pursuant to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_201#Template-generated_categories_that_don't_exist,_redux, {{ Infobox NRHP}} is now autogenerating the equally invalid Category:Historic district contributing properties in United States New Orleans East due to the recent addition of "nrhp_type=cp" to various infoboxes. As usual, however, nonexistent categories can't stay on pages, so it has to be either created or removed, but it can't be created as "X in United States [City]" is not an appropriate naming format for a category of this type -- and, as usual, WP:TEMPLATECAT explicitly deprecates using templates to autogenerate nonexistent categories. So, again, this category-generating function has to be stripped from the infobox. Bearcat ( talk) 02:13, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
|nocat=yes
. There is an old discussion at
Template talk:Infobox NRHP/Archive 4#Categorisation.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 03:15, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
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Attempting to delete File:KKNO logo.jpg (after having exported the file to Commons with Commons Helper) returns: Error deleting file: An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-multiwrite".
Any thoughts on how to solve this? BD2412 T 20:47, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
As a heads up, I've removed plainlist from Common.css to TemplateStyles. See MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Plainlist removed for more info. Izno ( talk) 18:02, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
Why I see in my watchlist few entries like:
Removed [pl] alias: Główny teatr działań wojennych is related to theater of war (Q718893) so why is this messed with items above? Eurohunter ( talk) 10:25, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
{{
label|Q718893}}
, so changes to that item are listed in your watchlist if you're watching the pages.
Matma Rex
talk 19:51, 24 December 2022 (UTC)Hello, I am unable to to use visual editor for creating or editing article, i have done the preference setting and all what i know to make it work but its not working out and the source editor is hard for me.
Kindly help me out please QDJ22 ( talk) 02:39, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Recently I noticed when switching to another language on Wiki that I get automatically logged out, which is tedious when editing an article for an international subject and checking translations. This happens across browsers, and I believe my account should be unified. Wiki also seems to think my IP is hundreds of miles away when logged out (it shows an IP ban message), but I'm not using a VPN. Anyone else noticing this or know what is happening? Thanks. - Indefensible ( talk) 19:06, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
Logged outto my question
When you return to the Wiki that you started out from - presumably English Wikipedia - are you logged in or not?is significant. In my experience I often appear to be logged out when I go to Commons:, Meta: etc. but upon retuen to English Wikipedia, I'm still logged in. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 22:47, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
These three edits by one user [11] [12] [13] were reverted by another user (in reverse order) [14] [15] [16]. This should have resulted in all three edits being reverted but it didn't. Each revert in addition restored the previous revert. So only the final revert had any lasting effect. Spinning Spark 20:56, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello! Is there a way to see which articles were the most read during this year? Maybe a method to compile a list of the 10 most read articles or so? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 10:27, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
Stop nagging Me for Money! Wikkipedia is now a very annoying site begging for money several times on each page. I could see once per session but every f-ing page and several times on each page? Give me a f**king break! I bet my posts will be in violation of something or other on Wikkipedia but i don't care! At this point I don't care if I can never use Wikkipedia again as long as they know these nags are driving users away! Buggeroff22 ( talk) 19:23, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
I am among the many millions of Babyboomers whose once excellent vision has declined with age. I have been using Wiki and making modest cash contributions since it began because I think Wiki is a fabulous idea.
I have accessed Wiki with many different devices and browsers over the years, but for many years now, I found it absolutely necessary to magnify the text.
If I just need a small amount of information, I can enlarge the entire screen's content and read the left side of a sentence, shift the screen to the right, then read the right side of the sentence, then shift the screen to the left and read the left side of the next sentence, then the right, etc..
If I want to do the deeper research that Wiki so skillfully enables then I have to remember where I left my reading glasses.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could simply select the font size as a preference and allow a word wrap function to automattically adjust text to my visual capacity when I log in? Boomerspop ( talk) 12:52, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
In css, .
is for element class, #
is for element id. What is @
for? —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 09:00, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
@media
. See
here, these can apply different rules depending on what the client (the browser) says it is using or is capable of. We don't use a lot of these, but you can see ones such as @media screen
in use at
MediaWiki:Common.css. —
xaosflux
Talk 12:22, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
@media ... { ... }
construct does much more than check the size of a viewport. Basically, it is used to test the characteristics of the user agent (browser, etc.) and only apply the enclosed CSS rules when the test is satisfied. These tests are primarily the type of device - screen, print, etc. but may also be more complex tests, such as the available display width - see
Media Queries Level 3 for a full description.@media print { ... }
so that two rules (one to hide an infobox and certain other boxes, the other to set a font for the text) are only applied when I print a page, they are ignored when viewing the page on screen, and would also be ignored if I used screen-reader software to speak the page to me.
MediaWiki:Common.css has two instances of @media screen { ,,, }
and the enclosed rules primarily relate to the backgrounds of galleries, to be displayed on screen but ignored when printed.@media
at-rules - the first one, @media (min-width: 500px) { ... }
applies two rules only when the display width is 500px or more; the second one, @media (min-width: 720px) { ... }
applies three rules only when the display width is 720px or more (in addition to the two rules applied by the first at-rule). See
min-width
. --
Redrose64 🦌 (
talk) 18:08, 25 December 2022 (UTC)For at least a year (if my memory serves me right), I've noticed that if I leave a page "untouched" in my browser for a few minutes or so, then type another article's title in the search box, it wouldn't go directly to that article, but instead to the search results page with a big banner reading "There is a page called xxx". It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, backing to the previous page and re-searching would fix it, although sometimes I have to reload the previous page in order for it to work. It happens both on my Mac running High Sierra and my iPad running iOS 10. 2001:4453:5C6:CB00:FD89:3263:7361:56DF ( talk) 10:29, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to print (not render) a parser function result after publishing the change? For example, just an example, I want to insert {{#ifeq:{{Title year|page={{PAGENAME}}}}|2024|Yes|No}}
into
Brazil at the 2024 Summer Olympics and after publishing and revisiting the content page, I just see "Yes" as plain text, which is the result, instead of the whole code I provided above. If you still need more explanation, I will do it. Thanks! ⇒
Aram
Talk 21:33, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
{{subst:#ifeq:{{Title year|page={{PAGENAME}}}}|2024|Yes|No}}
. Notice the addition of subst:
before #ifeq:
. This will hardcode yes
into the page and the parser function will be gone. See
Help:Substitution for details. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 22:15, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
{{subst:#ifexpr:{{subst:Title year}} < 2022 |was|is}}
would be an easier code. Works only if the title has some year, or else returns error. <
will be for "less than" and <=
will be for "less than or equal to" depending on your requirement. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 15:20, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
{{subst:#ifexpr:{{subst:formatnum:{{subst:Title year}}|R}} < {{subst:formatnum:2022|R}} | true | false }}
, but I don't know why it produces Expression error: Unknown character "{" on
ckbwiki. I tried it on
Persian Wikipedia and it produced what I expected. Is there a problem with the ckbwiki system? ⇒
Aram
Talk 18:13, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
{{{|safesubst:}}}
right after every {{
which isn't part of a triple {{{
, and see if it works.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 18:44, 25 December 2022 (UTC){{
str number|1234abc}}
which renders as 4.
Special:ExpandTemplates shows the recursive expansion is simply the string "4". Can you do something in wikitext which saves the string "4"? {{subst:expand wikitext|{{str number|1234abc}}}}
saves {{#invoke:Expand wikitext|main|{{str number|1234abc}}|unstrip=}}
.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:46, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
{{subst:#invoke:Expand wikitext|main|{{str number|1234abc}}|unstrip=}}
produces 4.This just started a week ago. Doug Weller talk 14:44, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
Category:Political movements in the Maldives has a redlinked Category:Politics of Maldives on it, autogenerated by the {{ Category header political movements in}} template. We do already have a category for Category:Politics of the Maldives, but I don't know how to get the template to replace the redlink with the correct category since the coding necessary to add a "the" (clearly possible, since the same template is also used by Category:Political movements in the United Kingdom and Category:Political movements in the United States without generating redlinked categories there) isn't contained in that template itself.
Technically, since the category is also manually filed in Category:Political history of the Maldives in addition to the template-transcluded categories, its direct inclusion in Category:Politics of the Maldives would really be duplicate categorization that isn't necessary at all, but I can't make the template suppress that one category while including the others either -- but whether it's done by getting the template to add a "the" or by getting the template to suppress the category entirely, the redlink has to go away. Bearcat ( talk) 17:26, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Three years ago I created {{
Depicted logo}}
. I would like to add additional parameters for from and to date.
So I appended {{
date range}}
to the end, but this doesn't exactly achieve the desired result
{{
depicted logo|Q1|from=500|to=2000}}
produces this awkward phrasing
The logo of universe – all of space and time and their contents reachable from the Earth in principle, possibly being part of a multiverse, distinct from parallel universes if they exist from 500 until 2000
when really what I want is
The logo of universe (from 500 until 2000) – all of space and time and their contents reachable from the Earth in principle, possibly being part of a multiverse, distinct from parallel universes if they exist
I was rather good with templates back in the day, but I'm afraid I'm lost with autotranslate and Lua.
Could someone assist me with this? Magog the Ogre ( t • c) 15:23, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm attempting to create a signature for a user and I'm wanting to do a color gradient. Only issue is, I don't know how to create a color gradient without a crap ton of color tags which would quickly eat up the 255 character limit. Anyone know how? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 03:53, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
[[User:Mandarax|<span style="color:white;background:linear-gradient(90deg,blue,red)">M<small>ANdARAX</small></span>]]
MANdARAX •
XAЯAbИAM 04:13, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
[[User:Mandarax|<span style="color:white;background:linear-gradient(90deg,red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple)">M<small>ANdARAX</small></span>]]
.
MANdARAX 04:36, 21 December 2022 (UTC)I'm thinking of adopting this one as my new signature, tell me what you think:
BD2412🌈🌠🚀 B.D.2412 BD2412 BD2412B | D | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ! | ! |
15:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
~~~~~
? If the former, I think it’s a bug that the software allowed you to do so. (By the way, the reply tool is not the only issue with this signature – it also hides text above and below, which should be forbidden.) —
Tacsipacsi (
talk) 12:04, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in creating a tool which displays user edits according to WikiProject (for example, "you've made 10 edits to WikiProject Plants, 5 edits to WikiProject Spiders, etc."). FacetsOfNonStickPans ( talk) 09:40, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
We can transclude
Special:PrefixIndex on a page using the code {{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Village pump}}
, but it has a maximum limit of pages that are shown. We can remove redirects by |hideredirects=1
& strip prefixes by |stripprefix=1
but how do we transclude all the pages and not just the first few? Thanks! —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 09:18, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
{{Special:PrefixIndex/S}}
and it tried to list the 1.4 million matching titles.
Anomie
⚔ 12:00, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
|startfrom=101
resulting in listing of pages 101-200 and so on? —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 12:26, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
|from=Village pump (policy)/Archive 117
. I don't know whether you can start from a specified page number or specified number of times to click "Next page" at
Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Village pump. The first "Next page" currently produces
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:PrefixIndex&from=Village_pump_%28policy%29%2FArchive_117&prefix=Village+pump&namespace=4. In that url, from=pagename
is the only indication of where to start so I doubt it's possible.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 15:48, 25 December 2022 (UTC){{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/|hideredirects=1|stripprefix=1}} Starting from H (may repeat or miss some entries from above): {{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/|hideredirects=1|stripprefix=1|from=Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/H}} Starting from S (may repeat or miss some entries from above): {{Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/|hideredirects=1|stripprefix=1|from=Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/S}} (may miss some entries at the end)
I just edited {{ Los Angeles Sparks current roster}} with a quick fix so it didn't display a glaring error, but I'm not competent to fix the actual problem. If someone can, that would be nice. ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 10:51, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
Do we have a template we can place in any section, that when clicked on would return the user to the top of a page? {{ Back to top}} returns to the top of a page, but no matter where the template is placed on a page, it appears at the very bottom. — Maile ( talk) 00:48, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
|abs=no
as documented on the template's documentation page? I have placed it at the top of this section as an example. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 01:17, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
@ Xaosflux: Works fine for me after removing the "nomobile" attribute ( User:Kusma/sandbox/s). No idea about other skins than Monobook, of course. — Kusma ( talk) 14:07, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
When I see an external link or reference link containing an Accelerated Mobile Pages link (i.e., an AMP link, one of those ",amp" components that routes you through a Google-controlled shell URL to get to the linked webpage), I am always tempted to replace it with a link directly to the source article URL. Should we have a policy of preferring direct links over AMP links, and if so can we have a bot switch out the thousands of AMP links currently on found in articles for those direct links? BD2412 T 02:50, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
utm
and the like. Ultimately, that's what they are, even though their reason for existence was the seemingly noble one of getting websites to stop being so slow.
Izno (
talk) 17:10, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
About Talk:Emily St. John Mandel. According to the "Top editors" table here [18], @ Nil Einne has added 340 bytes to that page (it sure looks like more bytes on the talkpage). But that doesn't rhyme at all with this page: [19]. Is this a bug or actually right and proper, somehow? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 13:43, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
In Google Chrome, the non-ASCII hyphen character (‐, U+2010) displays as a box in page titles; I could not reproduce this issue in Safari or in Firefox. I recently moved the article Dichloro(1,5‐cyclooctadiene)palladium with a hyphen to Dichloro(1,5-cyclooctadiene)palladium with a hyphen-minus (-, U+002D) due to this issue. The use of the non-ASCII hyphen instead of hyphen-minus is also against the MOS:HYPHEN guideline. Is there a way to locate all article titles that use a hyphen instead of a hyphen-minus, so they can be moved by hand or with an AWB-like script? – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 08:08, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
The article J. M. Robertson has acquired a couple of bright red error messages saying "TemplateStyles' src attribute must not be empty". I haven't got the faintest idea what this means, or how to fix it. Any help would be gratefully received. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:45, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
I have just updated my wiki from version 1.35.8 (LTS) to 1.39.1 (LTS). One of my efforts is to migrate the CSS in MediaWiki:Common.css to TemplateStyles. I use Wikipedia as my guide and was having some difficulty to follow the revision history comments.
The MediaWiki talk:Common.css page provides some insight, but what helped me the best is discovering the "to do" checklist subpage MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do. The Description of work section is exactly what I was looking for, as it provides a clear explanation of the rationale behind this effort. I now understand completely and have a good incentive to complete the migration.
The checklist itself is very helpful, as it shows me where to look for changes.
Can the to do page be linked from Wikipedia:TemplateStyles, perhaps as an option for those with a technical background to understand why TemplateStyles should be used (and what should be changed if they're using Wikipedia as a guide)?
In any case, thanks to Izno for the clear documentation. It's much appreciated. Lady G2016 ( talk) 01:59, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
If I search for a multi-word article title that doesn't exist in quotes , such as "Bar and foobar", the server tells me The pages " Bar and foobar" and ' "Bar and foobar"' do not exist. Apparently, this is covering the possibility that I might have meant the quote marks literally. Is this new? I don't remember getting this response before. It seems a bit unnecessary and I was quite confused at first (I mean, more than I normally am!). Spinning Spark 10:41, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
"
except for a redirect to
Quotation mark. It seems unlikely that we will ever have any.
Spinning
Spark 10:46, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Can someone take a look at World championships in WWE? One of the tables ( #Most total reigns) appears to have an unused additional column, and I'm not sure how to remove it. Additionally some of the images appear to be too big, and I'm not sure what the default should be. — Czello 18:37, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Following up from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 201#Wikipedia still hangs UI, my Wikipedia sessions become like molasses over time. Each UI response could take 1-3 seconds to complete. (Down to routine and lightweight things such as mouseovers.) Restarting Chrome has returned it to a normal speed, but it's bogging down again after a few days' runtime. The CPU fan often engages, and the feel of it does seem CPU-bound, though Task Manager does not indicate a real stress on the cores.
I did keep the Watchlist in "safe mode" for a while, but I am unsure of how this would aid in troubleshooting. Since my workflow always involves opening new tabs and doing edits outside the watchlist, that is not going to happen in safe mode. Elizium23 ( talk) 04:57, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
chrome://extensions/
and disable extensions. —
xaosflux
Talk 14:44, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Tech geniuses,
Some problem happened with today's AFD log pages when the UTC time clock went from Dec. 31 2022 to Jan. 1 2023. There is no problem with the individual AFD pages but today's log pages have had some strange effects happening. For example, I closed two discussions that appeared on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 December 25 ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of kanji by stroke count and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of kanji by concept) and although the AFDs are listed on the page's table of contents, they don't appear at the bottom of the page any longer. It's like they disappeared from view as soon as the discussions were closed. Also, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1994 NECBL season is listed on the page index as the first AFD discussion, it doesn't appear on the page any more. I've tried purging the page cache several times and the AFD discussions appear for a second but then disappear as the page loads. I checked the page history and there are no recent edits to the page. It's almost as if once the discussions hit the end of the 7 day listing period, they are hidden from view. The individual AFD pages are fine, it's just the daily log page that has this strange glitch.
My apologies if this is some problem with my browser. I've never run into this issue before. Thanks for any solution you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 01:07, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
importScript('User:Evad37/XFDcloser.js')
in
User:Liz/common.js and only enable XFDcloser at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets.
Wikipedia:XFDcloser#Hide/Show closed sections shows a box. Do you see the box with "Hide closed discussions", "Show closed discussions", or no box at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 December 25? If you see the box then does it help to toggle it? The box is displayed for me and works as expected.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 05:52, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
importScript('User:Evad37/XFDcloser.js')
on
User:Liz/common.js but I uninstalled it at
Wikipedia:XFDcloser. I had already had the gadget checked off in my Preferences. I also found I had
User:Liz/closexfd.js, should I just delete this page? But the main problem seems to be that I don't see the box in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen on deletion daily log pages as described in
Wikipedia:XFDcloser#Hide/Show closed sections. I think this is might be the problem...I don't remember unchecking a box but if it is close to the scroll bar, I could have easily accidentally unchecked it. I'm not sure how to get it back as it is not visible any longer on any daily log pages that I've checked. Thank you again for the practical suggestions. It's not the worst problem to have but lately I do a lot of work at AFD and it helps to have all of the discussions visible.
Liz
Read!
Talk! 22:34, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
If you scroll down to the bottom of Template talk:Did you know/Approved (Articles created/expanded on December 30, or anything beyond that) transclusions are failing. I'm assuming we're hitting some kind of transclusion count limit? Hmm, I see it's in Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded; I'm guessing that's the problem? What's the size limit that we're up against? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:18, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
I have some wikitext, for the sake of example, {{Redirect category shell}}
. Is there any way to produce the wikitext which would be the result of substituting everything once, i.e. {{Subst:Redirect category shell}}
, i.e. __NONEWSECTIONLINK__{{Mbox
| name = Redirect category shell
| type = move
| image = none
| style = margin-top: 1.1em; border: solid 1px darkblue; border-left-width: 0.5em;
| textstyle = padding-top: 0.9em; padding-bottom: 0.9em;
| text = '''This {{Talk other|talk page|page}} is a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]]. <small>The following [[Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects|categories]] are used to track and monitor this redirect:</small>'''{{#if:
|:: ''{{{h}}}''
}}<!--
Automatically detect protected redirects:
-->{{#switch: {{PROTECTIONLEVEL:move}}
|sysop|templateeditor|extendedconfirmed={{pp-move|small=yes}}
}}{{#switch: {{PROTECTIONLEVEL:edit}}
|sysop={{R protected|embed=yes}}
|templateeditor={{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{R template protected|embed=yes}}
|extendedconfirmed={{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{R extended-protected|embed=yes}}
|autoconfirmed={{pp-protected|small=yes}}{{R semi-protected|embed=yes}}
| <!--Not protected, or only semi-move-protected-->
}}{{#if: ||
* {{red|'''Important – Please Read! {{maroon|This template should {{em|not}} be applied without parameters by bot nor by any automated or semi-automated process. It should {{em|not}} be used without parameters {{em|unless you want to learn how to categorize redirects}}. For editors who want to learn how to categorize redirects, this template is a {{em|learning tool}}. {{em|Only}} those editors who intend to return to the redirect to learn which rcats to use should apply this template without parameters, or with an empty first parameter!}}'''}}
* '''Manifold sort''': If help is needed to determine appropriate categories, then this redirect populates '''{{Cat|Miscellaneous redirects}}'''. Monitors of that category will check this redirect and add or remove [[Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects|rcats]] as needed.{{#ifeq: {{lc:false}} | false |[[Category:Miscellaneous redirects]]}}
}}
{{#if: |{{{2}}}|}}{{#if: ||{{#ifeq: {{ROOTPAGENAME}}|Redirect category shell||[[Category:Redirect category shell without parameters]]}}}}
''<small>When appropriate, [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|protection levels]] are automatically sensed, described and categorized.</small>''
}}
—
Qwerfjkl
talk 07:56, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
{{onlypst|{{Redirect category shell}}}}
, or more accurately, {{onlypst|{{#invoke:Page|getContent|as=raw}}}}
. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 20:12, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
frame:expandTemplate
expands recursively, and there's no PST function because it's generally not needed in the contexts where Lua runs. You might be able to get close enough by fetching the content of the template and then manually stripping <noinclude>...</noinclude>
and such.
Anomie
⚔ 00:27, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
I was editing my own user page when it seemed to be slow when using the source editor and visual editor. Is it a problem on my end or are Wikimedia servers acting up again? I already uploaded an image, purged cache, and nothing worked. So can someone take a look at what is going on on my page since it's problematic when I am trying to change userboxes, the misc stuff such as GoldenEye, Missile Launcher, and other pranks? Thanks! Wesoree ( Talk) 23:03, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
I want to move the article Martha's Vineyard migrant crisis, to the more neutral title "Martha's Vineyard migrant airlift".
There was a discussion at Talk:Martha's Vineyard migrant crisis#Article title, though input was modest.
I know page moves can be messy. Can I get input about whether this is likely to cause more problems that it solves? Thank you. Magnolia677 ( talk) 08:32, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Today I was editing wikipedia then a dialog box opened automatically in which there was about a new feature so I thought to use that feature but now I don't want to use that new feature and I don't know the name of that new feature so can anyone please tell the name of that feature and tell the procedure to disable it. Thanks 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝟕𝟐𝟖🧙♂️ Let's Talk ! 15:10, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
User:Xaosflux: Yes, It enabled a new discussion tool. I saw that, in my talk page the reply is written at bottom and the editor's name is written at top left. 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝟕𝟐𝟖🧙♂️ Let's Talk ! 16:24, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
When zooming in the interactive maps (which I think has something to do with Kartographer) the blue pin invariably moves upwards. This is on all platforms and browsers that I have tried. Naturally, one would expect the maps to zoom in on the pin. Has this been mentioned before? Abductive ( reasoning) 02:55, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Is it just me or did the styling for the TW dropdown menu just randomly go away? When I click on it I just see the test for the options with the links I can click on to get the menu I need. Asking here first before I mention this on WT:TWINKLE to see if it's just me or if it's a WP:THURSDAY issue. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:15, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
If I type into the infobox "List of Alpha Pi Omega ch" , there is only *one* match on English language wikipedia the redirect List of Alpha Pi Omega chapters, however the suggestions for pages below it only include List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters. Why is the redirect *not* included in the suggestions? (Note, these links are for chapters of completely unrelated organizations, Alpha Pi Omega and Alpha Phi Omega. Naraht ( talk) 15:03, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
My watchlist had managed to get to over 13,000 pages, mostly due to semi-automated edits at WP:SPI. I finally decided it was time to clean things out. It turns out that's not so easy. Special:EditWatchlist doesn't have any hard-wired size limit (that I'm aware of), but it's really not happy working with that much data. Javascript timeouts, database timeouts, all sorts of fun. I didn't want to just delete my entire watchlist, so it was a pain to get it back down to manageable size.
I've since gone into preferences and unclicked most of the options that add things to my watchlist automatically. No, I really don't need to be watching 5000 user talk pages of socks I've blocked. Anyway, just a heads up to folks with big watchlists that you might want to start doing something about the bloat before it gets too big to handle.
Eagerly awaiting the comments from people who think 13k isn't that big :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 15:11, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed in the infobox in K-Lite_Codec_Pack that the "Stable release" date reads "... (December 28, 2022; 3 days ago)", which is not quite right.
Tried to chase it down to tell the whom-it-may-concern about it but got lost.
Could someone tell them? Saintrain ( talk) 22:25, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
I know it is not the usual practice to list TFM discussions here, but this one may have technical consequences. See this discussion. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 23:33, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
The wording of Q1 at Talk:Graham Hancock/FAQ was changed to "Why does the article say that Hancock's ideas are pseudoscientific?" but Talk:Graham Hancock is still showing the old wording "Why does the article say that Hancock is a pseudoscientist?". I can't find a way to fix this, please help. ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:03, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if this is happening to anyone else, but the search preview (the list of articles that pop up under the search bar as you type) is not coming up. I've purged the cache and the same thing continues. Odd. -- Veggies ( talk) 21:07, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
For one, I had to manually create this section using the section above since the "new section" option kept returning 503 errors. In addition, the "Search Wikipedia" bar is not auto-populating with recommendations while typing. And also probably related, some gadgets like Twinkle are not working correctly right now: At the present time, the ability to use Twinkle to post XfD discussions is not working due to "API failures". Any idea what's going on? Steel1943 ( talk) 21:11, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
I am working on archiving an article's talk page that has posts on it from 2005... Anyway, a picture in this article was a POTD a year or two ago...is there a parameter within the Article history/Talk page header stuff to put in a notice about the POTD? I can't seem to find it, not even sure that a POTD notice is supposed to be there *but* it is part of the article history so...I come here to ask all you smart people what to do. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 04:32, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
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Does anyone know if someone might already be looking into this one? The bot has not been working for a few months now. It was a very useful tool to archive links in the past. Greatly appreciate any leads. Thanks. Ktin ( talk) 00:47, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, in the new Vector 2022, the space between left sidebar (also contains table of contents) and main article is unreasonably large. In the old vector this margin is much less, which in my opinion is enough and correct. So please modify related CSS style sheets to reduce this margin. Here are some screenshots that illustrate this problem:
Thanks, Hooman Mallahzadeh ( talk) 12:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
mw.util.createDropDownMenu()
and mw.util.createDropDownMenuItem()
and add it to core. The upside is that this would be make user scripts and gadgets implementing a custom drop down menu next to the p-cactions menu a breeze. The downside is that the code for this would need to be added to a bunch of skins. Would be nice to get
this kind of code out of Twinkle and MoreMenu though. And to reduce code duplication. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 01:56, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! This is just a general notice that thanks to some fine work (tracked at Phabricator T321740), the Internet Archive Bot is now functional again and can be accessed here. It had been broken/working highly inconsistently since at least October. However, it may still have some performance issues, so be aware. —Ganesha811 ( talk) 11:02, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Why does every wiki page's revision history statistics page, that uses
H:LST or regular section transclusion, cite #if
as a bug (
example)?
Qwerty284651 (
talk) 23:14, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
#if
before you removed it.
[27] I still see it reported at your link so maybe the tool uses caching. I have tested many other pages which use section transclusion. None of them contain #if
and none of them cite #if
as a bug so I don't know where you got "every" from. Do you mean that you only tested pages which do contain #if
and you wonder why it's called a bug? Parser functions like that are usually intended for templates and not articles. It's a hint that something may be wrong or "ugly" but it doesn't have to be an error.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:16, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm trying to make a new template in en.wikipedia based on this fr.wikipedia template. When I try to paste the code into Module:Color specification table, I get "Lua error at line 1: unexpected symbol near '<'." I assume it's the same coding language as French wikipedia, so why wouldn't it work? This is the first template I have worked with so my coding is not good. Not A Witty Fish 01:34, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
Module:
namespace is for
Lua, which is an actual programming language and not wikitext.
Izno (
talk) 01:45, 10 January 2023 (UTC){{Lien vers modèle|lien=Modèle:Tableau spécifications des couleurs}}
which renders a small blue "i" with a link to the template. Do we have an en.wikipedia equivalent or should I just delete it? (See
French template reference)Category:Articles with WORLDCATID identifiers has been renamed to Category:Articles with WorldCat identifiers at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 2#Category:Articles with WORLDCATID identifiers but it's not clear what needs changing to implement this. Please can someone with the knowledge and permissions make the switch. Thanks in advance. Timrollpickering ( talk) 19:00, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
On the
Requests for Unblock page, under the Timestamp
header of the block table, when clicking the sort button, it will sort Jan (2023) timestamps earlier than Dec (2022) timestamps. I suspect this issue is also present on any other page that uses a similar Timestamp
format as opposed to the
ISO time format in the other columns.
Rob3512 (
Talk ·
C) 13:24, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
data-sort-value="ISO time"
.
Izno (
talk) 18:15, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
[I hope this is the right area, I can't think where else.]
I thought I'd done same or similar some years ago, but I can't remember, maybe I hadn't really done it.
What I want is a way of returning from a junior template to a senior. (I try not to use the direction up or down.) What I would say if caller and callee.
What I want to do is like this: {{callee| a=85| b=38| c=41}}
What I'd do inside callee is split up a, b, c to get a1, a2, a3, b1, b2, b3, c1, c2, c3
Then I'd get them to Y1= a1, b1, c1 - Y2= a2, b2, c2 - Y3= a3, b3, c3.
Then in the caller Y1, Y2, Y3 could be used as parameters to a different template.
Is this easy or what?
This is a simple breakdown of a more complicated, but still simple:
there would be seven or more sets of numbers, a1 ... g7, and five (quintiles) Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5
Auntie Kathleen (
talk) 13:06, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
moved to}}
to that thread, and included a link to it at the top of this one. Please see
WP:MULTI. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 13:21, 9 January 2023 (UTC){{helper template|parm1={{parm1 template|some_parm={{{some parameter from the main template}}} }} | ... }}
The main template uses the helper template, passing its parameter values through to the helper template as needed.{{str sub old|85|0|1}}{{str sub old|38|0|1}}{{str sub old|41|0|1}}; {{str sub old|85|1|1}}{{str sub old|38|1|1}}{{str sub old|41|1|1}}
→ 834; 581 (insert template parameters instead of the actual two-digit numbers, of course). If the OP is not asking for digit parsing, then they need to communicate better about what they want their template to do. Maybe mock up a simulated set of inputs and outputs on your sandbox page. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 23:26, 9 January 2023 (UTC)I can make the 35 (7 × 5) (7 years × 5 quintiles, could later become 10 years) parts OK but I didn't know what to do when I have got them. I think I'll try to change so that the target will become further‑in nesting. Eg {{
Graph:Chart}}
– for a stackedrect there would be Y1 … Y5 parameters each with (here) seven parts each (X coordinate) so Y1 = a1, b1, c1, d1, e1, f1, g1 … Y5 = a5, b5, c5, d5, e5, f5, g5
It would be easier if each element could be addresses directly: Y1a=a1 Y1b=b1 Y1c=c1 Y1d=d1 Y1e=e1 Y1f=f1 Y1g=g1 … Y5g=g5
Auntie Kathleen (
talk) 00:33, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
{{
Y}}
35 times. So for your Y1 values, you'd have {{parent template|a={{y|a|1}}|b={{y|b|1}}|c={{y|c|1}}|d={{y|d|1}}|e={{y|e|1}}|f={{y|f|1}}|g={{y|g|1}}}}
, and then for the Y2 values, {{parent template|a={{y|a|2}}|b={{y|b|2}}|c={{y|c|2}}|d={{y|d|2}}|e={{y|e|2}}|f={{y|f|2}}|g={{y|g|2}}}}
, and up to Y5, with template Y returning the 5th values for a, b, c, d, e, f, and g.
Van
Isaac, GHTV
cont
WpWS 00:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
I know that there is a tool external to Wikipedia that list all my edit I made. I cant remember the name of this tool, is there someone that can kindly help me to remember? Many thanks in advance!!! 2001:B07:6442:8903:E1B1:AFF6:84F5:F5F4 ( talk) 17:48, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
How do I disable the new "other edits" buttons appearing on my watchlist, contributions page, etc. courtesy of T301063? I confess I don't see the purpose of scores of links to not-so-helpful pages like this one. Thanks in advance. Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 21:05, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
.mw-tag-other-edits {
display:none;
}
I am also not a fan. Unlike some cosmetic changes that just take some getting used to, I see this being an issue persistently, potentially in subtle ways we can't track—namely, the consequences of editors being less able to parse diff metadata at a glance. What if we changed MediaWiki:Tag-link-other-edits to something like "Δs"? It would be a bit opaque, but people would learn the symbology pretty quickly. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 22:43, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
.mw-tag-other-edits
so you can't completely hide it in CSS.I was discussing this on Discord earlier: I find this link to be unnecessary clutter. I can see how some people might find it useful, but I can't imagine how this should be the default setting. How many new users are going to need (or want) to search for all recent edits with a particular tag? Ideally, this setting should be toggleable in user preferences, instead of requiring custom CSS to hide. — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 03:14, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
+
? —
xaosflux
Talk 23:53, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
$("span.mw-tag-other-edits > a").text("⇒")
(
JQuery) in Firefox Developer Tools Console for the Recent Changes page.
Ponor (
talk) 13:10, 7 January 2023 (UTC)⇒
if this has to exist. —
xaosflux
Talk 18:39, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm on board with removing these altogether. It really makes no sense to have all these links to the same place on the same page just because some edits are tagged, some edits even have multiple tags, and what's more, the link itself is not useful at all (it's literally right there just off to the left in the menu headed "Contribute", and it's not even relevant to the tags themselves). I know some of these points may have been raised, but I thought I'd help in forming a consensus. I am seeing suggestions for alternative, less intrusive labels, and to that I say no, all the other problems remain — it's not just an aesthetic issue, I assure you. It's functionally useless. I would rather the WMF turn their attention to actual pressing issues and not dream up things that aren't really problems that they'd rather solve instead. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 05:41, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
The changes will be reverted soon: phab:T326399#8517542. — k6ka 🍁 ( Talk · Contributions) 19:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
When I create a new section on a talk page, especially when I create new headings, it automatically adds my signature when it is not really necessary. I would like to disable it so that I would like to manually sign when I create a new section. If you could help me with that, that would be great. Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 20:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, on my wiki, I wanted to change ","
in this line with "٬", but a question mark will appeared instead. For testing, please use {{wikidata|property|normal+|Q55|P1082}}
which produces "17,590,672". According to
Specials (Unicode block), U+FFFD � REPLACEMENT CHARACTER used to replace an unknown, unrecognized, or unrepresentable character". I think if it was a variable, I could handle it, but it is not. Thank you in advance! ⇒
Aram
Talk 13:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
string.reverse()
. The problem is that '٬' is a two-byte unicode character and string.reverse()
operates on bytes so the two bytes that make up that character get byte-wise swapped which results in an unknown character. Unfortunately (and surprisingly) there isn't an mw.ustring.reverse() function. Perhaps as a workaround you might replace ',' with '٬' after the string has been reversed. This, I think, will require a rewrite of some or all of the reversing code. The author couldn't be bothered to document that code so why it was written as it was written is unclear. Shame, that... return left .. (num:reverse():gsub("(%d%d%d)", "%1" .. p['numeric']['delimiter']:reverse()):reverse()) .. right
The default setup for JWB always adds new text to the end of the page. I mainly use it for short descriptions, so this sometimes results in unknowingly adding a duplicate short description. Is there any way to add text to the beginning instead? Partofthemachine ( talk) 00:57, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
(.*)
with {{Short description|Write your short description here}}$1
, check the "Regular Expression" box, and put m
in the "flags" box. --
Ahecht (
TALK^
with whatever you want to add to the beginning (^ is an anchor character meaning the start of a string). I.e. ^
→ {{Short description|Write your short description here}}\n
—
Qwerfjkl
talk 07:12, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Not sure whether to make Phab ticket or report here. I am using the 2022 Modern Vector skin on Firefox browser. When Zoomed in at 110%, 130% the Search icon works, but right at 120% it is not working properly. Perhaps doesn't matter, but I Zoomed in to reduce eyestrain. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 14:09, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
In the past, when I have gone onto pages with complicated highlighting, the highlighting has often gone something like "Can't do highlighting in X ms, stopped trying". However now, I think I have been running into problems where it just doesn't stop. I can edit some articles, but ones like Chi Upsilon Sigma that would require compliated highlighting have frozen and in many cases crashed by browser. I turned off the replacement highlighting in preferences, but that doesn't appear to make a difference. Is there any way to either restore the limit for how long it will work on highlighting or turn it completely off? I'm working on chrome, but I've seen the same effects on other browsers, but Firefox seems just fine. Any suggestions on getting things working other than changing browsers to FF? Naraht ( talk) 21:00, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
{}
. —
xaosflux
Talk 16:26, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
I've just removed hlist from global styles as a part of converting to TemplateStyles. If you see an issue, please leave a comment at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Removal of .hlist. Izno ( talk) 21:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, My one-lined menu at User talk:Davey2010/TPMenu is broken, this is what it used to look like and now it shows as a bulleted list, Are there any fixes for this ?, Many thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 21:38, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
hlist
has been removed from
MediaWiki:Common.css. You can use {{
hlist}}.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:44, 13 January 2023 (UTC)I was away for a week and now I notice that gallery mode="slideshow" is broken. See, for example, 117th United States Congress#Party summary. Same issue for 118th Congress page as well. The gallery syntax of the articles has never been changed, so it must be happening due to something else in the background. Does anyone know what went wrong, and what can be done to fix it? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 21:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
slideshow
and caption
are used. Simplified example: <gallery mode="slideshow" caption="Example">
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.png
</gallery>
caption
as a workaround for now.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:39, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, If I got to a category page (e.g. : Category:Contents), I cannot find links to the same category in other languages (e.g. fr:Catégorie:Accueil while the Wikidate item (e.g. wikidata:Q1281) lists them well ! Could someone explains me what is happening ? Thank you, Jona ( talk) 16:44, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
There are 3 other language equivalent templates linked with Template:Diplomatic missions of Norway on Wikidata, but from en Wikipedia I get an error when selecting the language menu on top right (Vector skin 2020) Page contents not supported in other languages.. Any idea why? ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 02:52, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Maybe you want to take a look at quarry:query/70555 and maybe you do not like those invisible spaces in titles. Cheers from german wikipedia (we too have ~20 of them). -- Wurgl ( talk) 21:21, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Projectspace categories like Category:Lists based on Wikidata, Category:CSS image crop using invalid parameters or Category:Chem-molar-mass both hardcoded and calculated are automatically generated by maintenance templates, meaning that they're impossible to empty of draft or userspace pages that are using those maintenance templates -- so to avoid the database reports for categories with draft or userspace pages in them becoming cluttered up with permanent kludge that was impossible to resolve, Wikipedia has long had the {{ polluted category}} template to flag certain categories as not of concern to category cleanup projects so that they would not get detected or listed by the cleanup reports.
However, something seems to have happened, and some categories that are tagged as "polluted category" are getting detected and listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (2) despite the tag. All three of the categories I listed above, for example, are tagged as "polluted" categories, yet are listed in the current run. Could somebody investigate why this is happening, and apply whatever fixes are necessary to get these categories out of the way? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 03:25, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Since yesterday, section edit links in mobile web has disappeared from File namespace. Issue exists even when logged out and tried in Opera and Chrome browser Android 10 OS smartphone. I did not find this problem in other namespaces and in desktop view. The only edit button visible is the one at the top of page, which for most part is useless since it only opens the "lead section" which will be empty for most files. This has made editing file pages impossible in mobile web. The button is visible in commons and other language Wikipedias, so this seems to be something specific to English Wikipedia. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ ( talk) 06:47, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
#/editor/0
. Change that to #/editor/all
. This will open the entire page in editing views. A long process for a much smaller task, but until fixed, this is the workaround. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 08:22, 14 January 2023 (UTC)In all my years of editing Wikipedia, I am still not sure how to produce tables. I have been to the help pages for table construction, and that says that to produce a table, one needs to go to the Edit toolbar and select "Insert Table". This does say that this is available on Google Chrome, the search engine that got me here, but I am not sure where the Edit toolbar is. Would someone like to explain to me where one can find it? Many thanks in advance for any help. YTKJ ( talk) 18:13, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
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The above screenshots are taken from page Talk:Sharad Yadav in mobile web view, Opera browser, Android 10 OS. There are two WikiProject banners between {{ Talk header}} and {{ ITN talk}}. They are broken when viewing it as a normal wiki page and appear as two thick lines. However they render fine in the preview window. It is strange that we have software that works fine in preview but is broken in the actual page. I know there was some work on talk page banners recently before which they were completely hidden in mobile web, can something be done to fix this? ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ ( talk) 04:39, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
What's good y'all.
I've noticed that since my article on Émile Reutlinger, some of the article's I have created have not been showing up in seach results (unless you type in its exact name). This also applies to the articles for Johann Eustach von Westernach, Johann Kaspar von Stadion, and Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI. All of them are articles that I have made that fail to appear in search results even when linking to them in other articles. There doesn't seem to be an corelary between any of them, besides that I made them and all of them, with the exception of the article on Johann Eustach von Westernach, had the under construction template on them. Is this a known issue and what can I do to combat this? Knightoftheswords281 ( talk) 00:26, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Here's a trivial, but mysterious problem. Yesterday, with no warning, my desktop computer and 34-inch monitor decreased the size of the print on the display of all wikipedia pages from approximately 14 point print to 10 point. All other webpages remained unchanged. On my second computer, the size of the print displayed also remained unchanged. So, given that this sudden change occurred on only one computer and only on wikipedia, what do you think the problem is? My old and tired eyes don't like small print. How do I increase the size of the display of print for wikipedia pages? Smallchief ( talk) 13:35, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, is there a way to reset my preferences to factory defaults across all projects without having to go into every project manually? Thanks, Interstellarity ( talk) 12:33, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! So I helped out User:Moops by adding the archive bot to their talk page, however for whatever reason the archive box isn't appearing on their talk apge. Any idea what coudl be causing this? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 16:31, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
This is what I see on Safari, making it impossible to edit. Chrome doesn't have the problem. Doug Weller talk 12:03, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Doug Weller talk 12:03, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
The references section of Mediterranean climate appeared wrongly. It appeared in one column with each row containing one character but some rows have more. There hasn't been a problem on the article until the Vector 2022 became the default. IntegerSequences ( talk | contribs) 06:47, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't know what I changed, but suddenly all my searches are case-sensitive. (See: WP:Case sensitivity: they shouldn't be, and they also weren't earlier). This also happens to me while I'm signed out. BhamBoi ( talk) 23:52, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that User:UBX has interlanguage links. Is there a way to add these on other users such as me? I couldn't find wikidata entries for users Aaron Liu ( talk) 02:33, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
[[zh:User:Aaron Liu]]
to
User:Aaron Liu, and also adding [[en:User:Aaron Liu]]
to
zh:User:Aaron Liu if you want a link the other way. If you want n wikis to link eachother then all n must add n−1 links to the others. Wikidata isn't always popular but it was good to get rid of that system for articles.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 03:47, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit a copy of {{Bilateral relations}} to make a box that shows the context for international agreements. I'd like to make the table include previous and subsequent treaties, year of establishment of relations, and etc., but I'm having trouble with my code. Would someone be able to look at it and tell me where I went wrong?
Jmjosh90 20:28, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Somehow I got signed out (on private browsing) but when I click on "Talk" it has a "Welcome to this talk page" message. I never saw that before. I don't even remember what happened when I was signed out when I went to that page, but with any other talk page that has not been created, when signed in, I am told to create it.
And this is probably for one of the above topics: I got to the talk page from an article I already saw in private browsing when signed out. When I went to a new article, I didn't even get a link to "Talk".— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 00:15, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to this talk pageis a result of the talk page improvements that have been worked the past few years. Izno ( talk) 02:41, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I have the article assessment class displayed at the top of articles. The class is now being preceded by "undefinedA" (actually "undefined" with "A" appended to it). Has someone had an accident with a template, module or some other bit of code? Nurg ( talk) 01:16, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Not sure if i am the only person having this problem every article begins with Undefined. Shyamal ( talk) 02:56, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
I've been patrolling through some recent changes lately, and one trend I have noticed is that more often than not, there are constructive (or rather, good faith looking) edits that seem to add some random empty <ref> tag somewhere in the article.
The addition of empty reg tags causes the "extraneous markup" edit filter to be tripped.
I feel like this is an issue that only recently has started occurring a lot. I don't think I've seen it happen a week ago before.
I'm seeing it from a wide variety of IP and account user editors.
AP 499D25 (
talk) 08:53, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Scripts like User:DannyS712/errors.js, which adds an "Errors" button alongside "Talk" and "Main Page" at the top of Main Page, don't seem to render properly with Vector 2022. Currently, "Errors" just becomes a normal hyperlink wedged underneath the native buttons but above the black line that indicates the top of the article. Anarchyte ( talk) 08:03, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
In Vector22, at the top of the watchlist, you now have four menu items, with the rightmost one being "clear the watchlist". I presume this simply removes all entries from your watchlist? This option isn't mentioned at Help:Watchlist. Please, please, can someone confirm that there is some "are you very very sure" intermediate screen when one clicks this? It seems like a terrible thing to have so prominent anyway, but it would be rather disastrous if it worked instantaneously. (Oh, and I get a timeout when I try "View and edit watchlist", not good...). By the way, the "help" button at the right of Watchlist doesn't take you to "Help:Watchlist", a bit weird that, but that's the same in the good Vector. Fram ( talk) 09:51, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Guys is it just me? After the recent changes on how WP appears, I feel that letters at see also section appear a little blur. I dont know why. Do you get the same feeling? Thanks, (pls ping). Cinadon 36 16:01, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
What's this? A post on this page that's not about Vector 2022? Sorry to break up the party, but I'd like to propose that the edit filter log should be able to show log entries for an IP range. Currently it seems to only work on individual IPs, which hinders abuse investigations involving an IPv6 /64 range (which is normally one end-user but could be something like 18 quintillion individual addresses). Maybe this is already possible and I'm just missing it? Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 18:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Anyone know why the {{ Archive box}} at the very bottom of Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/guidelines is adding an unexpected line break before the last item, #68? If so feel free to fix it. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 17:54, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
...it is doing that on the last element regardless of the size of the list.
Apparently there's a new tag for "Mass pronoun changes" which I saw on this edit. I'm curious, when was this tag implemented (or has it been aroudn for a while and I"ve just never seen it until now) ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:50, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! On Prince Mateen of Brunei at the top of the article there's a string of text that reads "Sports career" and I have no clue why it's there. Going into the visual editor tells me it's being created by the infobox, however I'm not seeing anything in the infobox that should be creating this. Anyone know what's going on here? ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:51, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Right now, if you happen to click "log out", it does just that. It was also like that quite some time ago (not sure when), when I came here (I believe) to ask about a delay of some sort. I was given a solution that made it so when you clicked on "log out", a small pop-up would appear asking: "confirm you want to log out" (or something like that). It was just what I was looking for and it worked well. But I noticed today that it no longer seems to be working. I inadvertantly clicked "log out" and was immediatetly booted out. Did something change? Is it possible to still have this... fix, in place? If so, pleaae let me know what I need to do. Thank you - wolf 07:07, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:00, 14 January 2023 (UTC)I can confirm (no pun intended) that my script is working as expected with both the Vector legacy and 2022 skins. Mine works by literally replacing the html element containing the "log out" link rather than trying to change the original's behaviour and that's what it's doing. Clicking the default link should take the user to
a confirmation page anyway (something that didn't happen when I built the script back in the dark ages), so users should never get booted out by an accidental click even if they're not using one of these scripts. All that previously striked-through is rubbish.
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:19, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
15:32, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
16:09, 14 January 2023 (UTC)User:Fred Gandt/confirmLogout.js
is not functioning as described in my previous comment on non Special:Preferences pages. Cheers
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
16:27, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Fred Gandt ·
talk ·
contribs
17:00, 14 January 2023 (UTC)#p-personal li#pt-logout {display: none;}
to
your common.css). Then, if you want to logout, you can go to
your preferences and use the link there. (What I actually do is add a logout link to my toolbox. I used to frequently accidentally logout when the link was in the default location, but in many years, I've never done so from my toolbox link. And there's a confirmation dialog if I ever do misclick.)
MANdARAX •
XAЯAbИAM 17:14, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
mw.util.addPortletLink(
'p-tb',
mw.config.get('wgScript')+'?title=Special:UserLogout&returnto='+mw.config.get('wgPageName'),
'Logout' // text to display in toolbox
);
I guess I'm a little late to this conversation. Do I understand that, currently, a 2-click logout is a feature, not a bug? I don't recall experiencing this on any other website I've ever been to. Strongly recommend 1-click logout as default, and, if there is a demand for it, 2-click logout as a preferences option. Cheers. Phil wink ( talk) 19:40, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
So, problem solved... until the new skin vector was released, causing issues with these scripts. Then, (eg; in my case) people found themselves again being accidentally logged out with no confirmation pop-up to prevent it. This issue has, (at least in my case), been resolved as the script is now working again. To my understanding, the default remains the same as you recommend, but many users don't like or want it that way. - wolf 20:04, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Within the last hour, both of the browsers on which I'm logged in (as User:Naraht) (Chrome & FF) are giving errors that look like
MediaWiki internal error.
Original exception: [bde13a11-c59e-4e46-8642-640488f9c898] 2023-01-17 18:35:14: Fatal exception of type "ConfigException"
Exception caught inside exception handler.
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.
.
It isn't doing it on my Edge browser, but I'm not logged in there. I can't even get to the button on Chrome and FF to log out, so I'm guessing it is logged in vs. logged out, but I'm not sure. 161.107.18.136 ( talk) 18:44, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Just for documentation.
MediaWiki internal error.
Original exception: [cb36079c-11b5-48cf-bf81-ee8db28eeb85] 2023-01-17 18:43:31: Fatal exception of type "ConfigException"
Exception caught inside exception handler.
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.
— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:51, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Does this new skin fix the issue with Wikipedia crashing Chromium based browsers, by eating up all memory and crashing the browser, or even the OS? -- 64.229.90.199 ( talk) 06:00, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I've raised a question about using Labeled section transclusion in Draft space at the Transclusion Talk page. Your feedback would be appreciated at Help talk:Transclusion#Help with lst in Draft space. Thanks! Mathglot ( talk) 01:13, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Since three days ago, the pages become bigger than before – I guess it's the font-text is bigger. This makes the infobox is wider than before, so the text gets longer. Even longer, the pics inside a section no longer fit where they are supposed to fit. How can I get it smaller, like before. Also sections, before they were in a special place (?? TOC), then they became just another section after the lede. Now they have disappeared.
I worked 35 years as a computer programmer and systems analyst. Always we tried out changes before making then live. Maybe they should doing again like before.
BTW I see that familysearch.org is setting out a new way of showing items. They do everything without asking, because they are adults and we are only children. It would be OK except the underlying data was set up badly 15 or so years ago. For instance approximately half have women with the husbands' name, not their own. And dates are wrong - for instance United Kingdom started in 1801, so before that, dates are wrong. Ditto USA with states joining in USA in different dates depending which state. Ditto Canada from about 1850. Much better to fix the underlying data rather changing the colour.
Seems like Wikidata, where "proper" data managers were overthrown by proudboys. Auntie Kathleen ( talk) 03:16, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Technically this is more of a question aimed for the Mediawiki software, but I figured I should ask here first as there's more traffic on this page.
Now that I've subscribed to the Vector 2022 RfC, my is blowing up with unread notifications, even amassing over 99 at one point. When I clicked on it it showed me an item stating that there were 25 unread notifications on the RfC. After clicking on it my unread count was reduced by 25, but bringing up the dropdown list from displays another batch of 25 from the RfC. I can get rid of all of them by clicking Mark all as read
, but is this a limitation of the software, or is there a way to alter this seemingly arbitrary number? —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 ) 02:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Is there a way to search edit summaries for a specific phrase? I don't mean only the summaries of one editor (which can be done via Wikipedia:Edit summary search), but summaries by anyone and everyone. Thanks, DuncanHill ( talk) 19:32, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Just a quick note so y'all can apportion blame properly:
The Editing team is planning some changes. These will only be visible to people who have enabled the "DiscussionTools" Beta Feature. If you see them, and don't like them, they can all be turned off in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion (last item, "Show discussion activity").
The upcoming changes that you should blame on the Editing team, rather than on the Web team, are:
Pretty much all the other visible changes this month should be blamed on my teammate Szymon. ;-)
What might be useful for Editing to hear from this group in particular is:
Thanks, all. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 05:39, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
I don't have an issue with it but don't recall there being any notification that they might be doing this. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 21:07, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Does anyone know why some thumbnails sizes for some images, like File:Weekday Color.svg at 375px ( direct link), are not updating? No amount of purging or reloading seems to help. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 16:18, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Hmm. This appears to have since been resolve somehow. Still don't know what was going on. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 08:21, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
There are two talk pages being filed in the nonexistent Category:Sia-Class Myanmar articles by a WikiProject template; the problem here is that there's already a correctly-capitalized version of the same category at Category:SIA-Class Myanmar articles, but it's empty and I can't figure out where to apply any corrections to get the pages moved from "Sia" to "SIA" -- applying what I thought would be the correct edit, changing sia=yes to SIA=yes in {{ WikiProject Myanmar/class}}, turned the category into the entirely nonsensical Category:Yes-Class Myanmar articles instead of correcting the capitalization.
So can somebody with more knowledge about WikiProject class rating templates than I have figure out how to get these two pages moved to the correct category? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 17:56, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
SIA=SIA
? This is what {{
WikiProject Film/class}} does. As for the others, the first one I think can just be undeleted (it was deleted as empty per
WP:CSD#C1) and the second I fixed. Not sure about the third. -
BRAINULATOR9 (
TALK) 20:00, 20 January 2023 (UTC)I've been developing several film articles up to FA status, and recently the last two I worked on, Starship Troopers and Saving Private Ryan, different editors, IPs and sockpuppets so potentially the same person, have come in as I've finished my drafts and copied it into the main article. It's not a huge deal but if they actually managed to do so without screwing it up, it robs me of my credit and work. Darkwarriorblake / Vote for something that matters 20:30, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm giving the new skin a college try but one thing that's non-negotiable is removing the direct link to My Contributions in the top-right corner. I used that as a quick way to reach my active/recent discussions so hiding it in the sub-menu is an extra click for no reason. Is there any way to customize which buttons appear directly (currently, it's Userpage, alerts, notices, watchlist) and which ones get hidden in the sub-menu? Slightly less important but still annoying is that I have the UTCLiveClock gadget active (Preferences > Gadgets > Appearance, 2nd one in the list) and that's getting hidden in the sub-menu as well. Is there any way to change this? I don't mind having extra buttons on the top-right of my screen. Axem Titanium ( talk) 01:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
$("#pt-mycontris").insertAfter("#pt-watchlist-2");
(added to your skin.js file). It doesn't work with the magical mystical appearing/disappearing toolbar, but that seems pretty useless anyway. As such, it restores the contribs link to the top of the page and is at least no worse than the old style. --
zzuuzz
(talk) 21:17, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
$("#pt-mycontris").clone().insertAfter("#pt-watchlist-2");
to create a clone. To change IDs, you probably need 3 lines - a first draft looks like this: var contrib_clone = $("#pt-mycontris").clone(); contrib_clone.attr("id", "pt-mycontris-copy"); $("#pt-watchlist-2").after(contrib_clone);
--
zzuuzz
(talk) 02:09, 21 January 2023 (UTC)/*Add contributions link to the top of the page */
$("#pt-mycontris").insertAfter("#pt-watchlist-2");
/* Hide menu icon from Contributions link that has been moved in my vector-2022.js file */
.mw-ui-icon-userContributions
{display:none;}
The 'move' idea works, but just creating a new object seems to be better for this. Perhaps we can put up a gadget demo to add the popular "(MY) Contributions" and (MY Usertalk)" links back to the top. It won't be future proof if the skin people keep moving things, but shouldn't be too hard. Started messing around in Special:PermaLink/1134871225. — xaosflux Talk 15:37, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
When I go into the edit screen, there is an icon labeled "Preview" at the top right corner of the screen ( [34]). It's for Realtime Preview. Each day when I first log in and start editing, there is a blue dot hovering over the icon, as a sort-of new function notification. If I click on the preview, and click the box that acknowledges that I'm aware of it, the blue dot goes away for the rest of the day, but it comes back the next day, over and over. (I'm using Firefox on desktop and it happens in both Vector 2022 and Vector Legacy.) Is there a way I can turn off the blue dot for good? -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
.mw-pulsating-dot.ext-WikiEditor-realtimepreview-onboarding-dot { display:none !important; }
in your common.css.
Wutsje 06:36, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to report a bug with interlanguage links in Vector 2022. In the new skin, each of the links includes a 'lang' attribute indicating the language of the link's destination (e.g. the HTML for a link to Chinese Wikipedia looks like this: <a class="autonym" dir="ltr" href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/..." title="... – 中文" lang="zh">Chinese</a>
).
This is incorrect use of the 'lang' attribute. The 'lang' attribute is for indicating the language of the element's contents (i.e. the link text), not for indicating the language of a link target. Because the link text is written in English (e.g. the links are labeled "Spanish" and "Chinese", not "español" and "中文"), the 'lang' attribute should not be present. There is sadly no standardized way to indicate the language of a link target (although this W3C post suggests the 'hreflang' attribute as a possibility).
This incorrect use causes display issues, as some browsers use the 'lang' attribute to decide which font to use. I've included a screenshot showing how the words "Chinese" and "Korean" are in a different font to the rest of the page. This is because my browser (Firefox 109.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.1) uses a different font to render Chinese and Korean text, and the 'lang' attribute is causing my browser to incorrectly believe those words are written in Chinese and Korean respectively.
I recommend removing these 'lang' attributes, or perhaps changing them to be 'hreflang' attributes. Thanks, IagoQnsi ( talk) 23:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
hreflang=
attribute is documented with
the a
alement. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:16, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
hreflang
for its target links is halfway to a bug given the component of interest.
Izno (
talk) 00:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)I attempted to resolve Template talk:Section sizes#Section headers with embedded anchors, by editing Module:Section sizes. To do that, I tested the code ( Special:Diff/1135136755):
local function remove_container (str)
return (str:gsub( "%<([^%>]*)%>", function(l)
return l:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "");
end));
end
and it appears to resolve the issue as raised. However, it fails to recognise cases where <xyz> is actually intended to be added, so I tried the code:
local function remove_container (str)
return (str:gsub( "%<([^%>]*)%>(.*)%<%/([^%>]*)%>", function(l)
return l:gsub("%>(.*)$%<%/", "%2");
end));
end
but this does not work, as %2 returns the contents between first instances of < & > instead of what is between > & </
What am I doing wrong here? —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 21:15, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
local function strip_html_like_tags (str)
local stripped_string = str:gsub ("%b<>", ""); -- so we don't return gsub() replacement count
return stripped_string;
end
A long time ago I installed User:Alex Smotrov/histcomb.js in vector.js. Several days ago, an important part of it stopped working properly. Unfortunately, the author hasn't edited since 2012, so I can't discuss the problem with them.
I'll first describe the way it's supposed to work when reviewing the contribution history of a page. If there are consecutive edits by the same user, instead of showing each entry, it collapses them and shows the number of consecutive edits in brackets to the left, e.g., [3]. If you click on Prev when collapsed, it shows the changes made by all 3 edits; if you uncollapse the 3 edits, you can see each diff separately. Now the display is the same, but if you click on Prev when collapsed, it shows the diff of the first edit in the series.
Although I don't think it has anything to do with vector (2022), I am using the legacy vector skin, not the new one.
Thanks for any help.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:04, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
perhaps someone should fork that if they want to maintain it...I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that someone else would grab the code and create their own script? If that's what you mean, how would I, uh, inspire someone to do that?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 16:29, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
You can now submit proposals for this years Community Wishlist. Entries are open for a week. You can see current proposals at m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Tracking. m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist Survey 2023 for more details. — Qwerfjkl talk 18:24, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
At Special:PermaLink/1135137654#User:EchidnaLives I granted indefinite PGM rights to EchidnaLives. I thought I had put a typo in the diff so I went to check their UserRights page and saw that the granting had not gone through. Curious if the script borked somewhere, I checked their talk page and found this discussion where Salvio giuliano also indicated issues with granting. I couldn't even manually change the expiry from the stated date to "does not expire", so I ended up having to cancel the PERM and re-add it to their account. I am too tired (this was literally the last thing I was planning on doing before bed) to figure out why this is going wrong, but clearly something is weird. Does this need a phab? (please do not ping on reply) Primefac ( talk) 21:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Log extract
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2023-01-22T21:35:54 Primefac changed group membership for EchidnaLives from IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker to IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer, rollbacker and page mover (requested at WP:PERM/PM, Special:PermaLink/1135137654#User:EchidnaLives) (thank) 2023-01-22T21:35:33 Primefac changed group membership for EchidnaLives from page mover (temporary, until 2023-01-28T00:00:00), IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker to IP block exempt (temporary, until 2023-05-19T18:27:37), extended confirmed user, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer and rollbacker (rmv to see about glitch) |
I'm not sure what to do with the history section at Ingleside, Texas. It is completely unsourced, and is nearly identical to the history on the city website. The section was added by an IP back in 2010, and the original edit included a promo for a book. I'm not sure if the section needs to be removed and nuked. Thanks! Magnolia677 ( talk) 12:44, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
hi there everyone. I did a bit of tweaking to my user page recently. I managed to use collapsible boxes to fix up a few things, moved some user boxes, and got it looking relatively nice. what's the relevance here, you ask? well.... and then I happened to view my own user page again.... using my phone. in a word.... auuugggh!!
can anyone here please offer possible methods, on some ways to configure some of the formatting items mentioned above, to look at least passable on a phone? I realize that yes, some things are not meant for display on phones, but there should be some result other than taking a perfectly good formatted item, and displaying it e.g. as an unreadably narrow column of text, or else items getting garbled and being displayed on top of other items, etc etc
I decided to ask this here, rather than at the Help Desk, since this item seems to have some relevance as a larger technical question, for some general consideration. I appreciate any help. thanks! Sm8900 ( talk) 16:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
nomobile
class. —
xaosflux
Talk 16:09, 23 January 2023 (UTC)For comparison, see the "Climate change impacts on the environment" table on Vector legacy versus Vector 2022. ‑‑ Neveselbert ( talk · contribs · email) 05:12, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
wikitable
for the general use, or TemplateStyles for template use. But let's move any detailed Commons consultation to my talk page.)
Izno (
talk) 06:45, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
but it will not be the same as the old version regardless. Izno ( talk) 19:08, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
display
property could be used? ‑‑
Neveselbert (
talk ·
contribs ·
email) 19:29, 23 January 2023 (UTC)Another assistance, I needed was to call templates from module. In one case, I need to call a distinct template from within the module. I tried concatenation like
return "{{foo|1="..a.."}}"
but the resultant is always nowikied, i.e., the intended result does not show. How do I fix this? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 10:08, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hey y'all. I'm attempting to export the file below to Wikimedia Commons since it doesn't meat the
threshold of originality. However, since it was marked in what I presume to be the hidden category of
Category:All non-free media, Commons is rejecting the attempt to export. Is there a way to combat this?
Knightoftheswords281 (
talk) 05:26, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Is it me or is actions done using Reply tool (replying using it, adding topic using it) not showing immediately without page refresh using F5/browser's reload button? A few days ago, actions done using Reply tool would show immediately once published without the need to refresh the page manually. — Paper9oll ( 🔔 • 📝) 05:30, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Trying to login to my account but it keeps saying “There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form. You may receive this message if you are blocking cookies.” It keeps showing that message every time I try to login. Have I been banned? :( 2A02:C7F:601A:5800:1C48:CB39:4648:C63F ( talk) 21:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
"There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form. You may receive this message if you are blocking cookies") appeared every time I tried to log in.-- Æo ( talk) 21:23, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
I've made no changes in anything, but in the last 24 hours I started to see this. Doug Weller talk 17:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
I tried to connect Posterior_vitreous_detachment to the Swedish article Glaskroppsavlossning, but failed. There seem to be two incompatible ways of linking languages, leading to two different lists of articles. Just posting this here, in case anyone cares to connect the two. Star Lord - 星爵 ( talk) 21:44, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
There's a user sandbox page, User:Newklear007/Barbora Piešová, that's somehow appearing in Category:Living people without actually being categorized. What happened was that the creator did add categories to it slightly prematurely, but then moved it into mainspace literally one minute later so that the title now exists only as a redirect to the mainspace article.
But the userspace redirect itself doesn't have inappropriate categories on it anymore, and yet it won't clear from an incategory search of the Living people category no matter how many times I try to null it -- and I've even tried temporarily deleting and then restoring the redirect, only to find that it left the category while deleted but then came back as soon as it was restored, and even while it was deleted the incategory search did not give me the "There were no results matching the query." response that I'm supposed to get if there are no user or draft pages in the category, but instead just gave me a blank list. And even the redirect itself, if you look at it, features a strange amount of whitespace between the page headers and the "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" line that's supposed to be directly under the page headers, despite there being no obvious coding error in the page itself.
So something's clearly wrong with this page, but I can't figure out what the problem is. Can somebody look into this and resolve it so that the page isn't inappropriately displaying in a category it isn't actually in? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:13, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
incategory
. The search result says "8 KB (578 words) - 14:13, 24 January 2023". That's
this version which was at
User:Newklear007/Barbora Piešová at the time and contains the category. A search
[41] on random text from the page without incategory
returns both
User:Newklear007/Barbora Piešová at 14:13, 24 January 2023 (the cached version) and
Barbora Piešová at 20:32, 24 January 2023 (the current version). I don't know how to force search to stop using the cached version.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:38, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
In light of what's been said above about a cached version, I just tried another way to fix this by moving the page back to the original sandbox title, wrapping the categories in the draft categories template, and then waiting to see if the page dropped from the incategory search results after a couple of refreshes. It did, so I then restored the page back to articlespace again and so far the redirect has not returned. So for the moment it looks like this has now been resolved, but since I do that search at least once or twice a day to clean out any DRAFTNOCAT and USERNOCAT violations it'll be monitored if it does come back on a later search. Bearcat ( talk) 15:29, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
See MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice#RFC notice. ©Geni ( talk) 17:11, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
As I have no white space in the margins anymore. I hope it isn't just me! Doug Weller talk 12:27, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello! Can someone explain me why the table in this template is rendered like it does? Why the space between columns is not the same and why is there so extra padding on the right side? Is there any way whatsoever how I can make all the entries in there appear equally spaced with the same padding on both sides? Maybe by utilizing CSS somehow?
I'm sorry for asking a question related to a foreign project but I have no one to ask at my homewiki. I generally despise table editing because of how clunky the whole process feels. Maybe that's a wish for the tech-wishlist... - Klein Muçi ( talk) 21:36, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
style="width: 33%;" |
in a cell in each of the columns (widths are usually specified in the first row). You have protected the template so I cannot do it for you. There are also three image columns so the text columns cannot actually use 33% of the table width but it should work if you just give the same number.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 22:06, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
<div class="sister-projects mw-content-{{dir|{{{lang|}}}}}" lang="{{{lang|}}}" dir="{{dir|{{{lang|}}}}}">
. You have
sq:Template:Dir but you should ensure that it is up-to-date with wherever you prefer. Since this case came from Commons.... Or you can just remove the relevant template values to something like <div class="sister-projects">
since you do not operate on a multilingual wiki like Commons is, so those have no local value for you. That's up to you.
Izno (
talk) 03:01, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Any insight on obtaining the following information would greatly help with discussions currently happening on other village pumps:
Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:55, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
The latest run of Special:WantedCategories is somehow cluttered with over 100 redlinked categories of the "User [code]" variety. These all stem from the use of {{ User iso15924}}, because they're coming entirely from just four pages — {{ User iso15924/testcases}}, {{ User Tibt-3}}, User talk:Le Deluge/Archive 15 and User:Spc10K/UBX/lists — that are using the codes in question inside invocations of that template. The thing is that none of these redlinks ever turned up at WantedCategories in any other recent runs, but none of the pages that they're coming from have been edited anytime recently to add any new usages that hadn't already been on the pages for months or years, which means that somehow the User iso15924 template is suddenly generating a bunch of redlinked categories it never generated before this week.
And furthermore, most of the usages seem to include "nocat=true" or "nocat=yes" code in them, which certainly seems like it should mean "don't generate a category here", but that flag isn't documented in the template documentation for me to be sure whether I'm correct in interpreting it that way. And the only one that doesn't contain that flag, the one on Le Deluge's talk archive, is specifically in an almost-three-year-old discussion about getting a page moved from the nonexistent Category:User cyrl-1 (which is itself one of the new redlinks) to the actually-existing but differently capitalized Category:User Cyrl-1 — but since that discussion is almost three years old, and the issue at that time related to a user typo rather than to an error in this template per se, this reinforces my suspicion that the template is suddenly behaving differently this week than it has for the past three years.
And given the nature of what the contents are, being test cases and archived talk page discussions rather than true userpages actually using these codes in infoboxes to facilitate collaboration, it really doesn't seem like actually creating all of these new categories would be of any benefit to Wikipedia at this time.
Obviously we can't just leave 115 categories sitting on WantedCategories as permanent kludge, so could somebody look into what happened here and figure out how to fix it? Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 16:40, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Very odd, very strange thing: Yesterday, perhaps in the early afternoon, I visited Avicii Arena on my iPad, and left the tab open, then did other things (including opening and closing at least 30 more different Wikipedia articles). Now, the next morning, like 5 minutes ago, i reopened Safari, which was in another tab by now, and looked at my open tabs. One of them said "(Wikipedia Favicon) NHL Global ..." which startled me a tiny bit, as I don't know what that is, so I tapped on the tab. It instantly reloaded and the tab name changed to "(Wikipedia Favicon) Avicii Arena". - I checked the article, it doesn't mention "NHL" at all (tho the arena used to be called "Globe"), I searched Wikipedia, there is no article starting with "NHL Global", I have zero idea how this could have happened (and am a bit annoyed at myself I didn't screenshot it).
Can someone even start to explain or have a wild guess what happened here? I have some knowledge of and experience with HTML, but I am flabbergasted in the truest sense of the word. -- Lommes ( talk) 10:10, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
This one has nothing to do with individual scripts, it's being discussed on the Evernote discussion forum. When you try to use it on a Chrome based browser it just won't load, no problem in Opera. Deleting Wikipedia cookies works, but of course who wants to have to login after every time you use Evernote? I use it to grab useful pages with templates. So who do I talk to try to get them to talk to Evernote about this Doug Weller talk 15:31, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
commons.js:2 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '_count__containers')
at i.getContent__findInPage (commons.js:2:185917)
at commons.js:2:188303
at new Promise (<anonymous>)
at i.start (commons.js:2:188238)
at p._executeGetArticle (commons.js:2:96879)
at p._getArticle (commons.js:2:96776)
at p.detectArticle (commons.js:2:95593)
at K.detectArticle (commons.js:2:1154921)
at K.updateArticle (commons.js:2:1156206)
at ce (commons.js:2:2469197)
For example, alpha beta and release candidate version are all subclasses of prerelease version. I would like to select all values that have the version type qualifier set to one of the subclasses of prerelease version. How do I do this? Take Template:Latest preview software release/Material Design for an example Aaron Liu ( talk) 17:31, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
A number of users, both here and at WP:HD, have reported that the rumoured toggle button in the bottom right hand corner for article width is not visible, but there still doesn't seem to be a coherent explanation for this absence. Some replies have suggested that it's dependent on zoom level, but I've tried up to 500% and down to 25% and still no sign of the elusive toggle. At WP:HD I said "I too don't see such a button at the bottom right. Perhaps someone in the know can explain what settings you and I may have which disables the visibility of that button? Something which may or may not be connected is that the edit button for each section is only half-visible. I see only the bottom half of each [edit] link. The [subscribe] link to the right of (and half a line below) each edit link is completely visible." - David Biddulph ( talk) 08:52, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
?safemode=1
to the end of the URL, like
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)?safemode=1 ? For what it's worth, I never see it while logged in, even at a zoom of 50% and using safemode with "limited width" disabled. If I log out and zoom out, I can see it. This says to me that one of my preferences is causing it, but it could be something else. Many of us have asked for the limited width to be disabled by default, or for the toggle to be visible at all times, due to the many problems with it, but we haven't gotten any traction thus far. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:52, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm trying to hide the thanks link on my watchlist and other editor's contributions pages.
.mw-thanks-thank-link { display: none; }
works to hide the link but I can't work out how to hide the pipe symbol that appears before the link or the empty brackets in those cases where there isn't a rollback link. Nthep ( talk) 21:28, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
span:has(.mw-thanks-thank-link)::before { content: normal !important; }
. :has()
is very new. Most evergreen browsers support it since the past 6ish months, but Firefox still requires that you turn on a preference on your machine. See
MDN. Otherwise, this needs to be done in JavaScript.
Izno (
talk) 23:06, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
:has()
was new one to me. It sort of works but as .mw-thanks-thank-link
is contained within the span .mw-changeslist-links.mw-pager-tools
the command removes both instances of ::before
in the span as there's one preceding .mw-rollback-link
as well. Not that his bothers me, I added a line to remove the ::after
bracket from the span and I have a solution that suits me.
Nthep (
talk) 12:20, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
:has(...)
pseudo-class was introduced to CSS Selectors Level 4 on
1 February 2018 (slightly less than five years ago), the document has been through several revisions since (current rev is dated
11 November 2022) but it has never moved out of the
W3C Working Draft stage, so don't rely on it being present in future revisions - even if it is present, it might not have the same behaviour. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 21:44, 26 January 2023 (UTC).mw-thanks-thank-link { display: none; }
is not enough to hide the thank button in mobile web. Since a recent change, it is more obtrusive as a large button and is easy to accidentally thank vandals in mobile watchlist and Recent changes. To hide it everywhere in both desktop and mobile along with empty brackets, use a.mw-thanks-thank-link { /* Hide thank button in watchlist, RC, page history. Overqualify for hiding in mobile as well */
display:none;
}
span:has(.mw-thanks-thank-link)::before { /* Hide open bracket, slash before hidden thank button */
content: normal !important;
}
span:has(.mw-thanks-thank-link)::after { /* Hide open bracket, slash after hidden thank button */
content: normal !important;
}
.mw-diff-tool { /* Remove empty brackets around hidden thank button in diff window */
display:none;
}
.mw-ui-button.mw-ui-progressive.mw-mf-action-button { /* Hide thank button in mobile diff */
display:none;
}
:has()
for Firefox, go to about:config
, accept the risk if asked, search for layout.css.has-selector.enabled
, then toggle from false
to true
.If your watchlist still has ()
on entries where a "thank" wouldn't be present (edits by IPs, bots, and yourself), it's presumably from hidden rollback links. To hide those too, add span:has(.mw-rollback-link)::before,
span:has(.mw-rollback-link)::after {content: normal !important;}
@ JJMC89 @ TheDJ A few months ago I opened T318568, which described "NULL" showing up in search autocompletions. It was just closed as "invalid" with the comment "this is intentional", and cited Special:Diff/1060688496 as evidence. What's the full story here? One way or another, we shouldn't be putting "NULL" in search autocompletions. I don't know if the bug is in Vector 2022, or in the usage of {{ SHORTDESC:NULL}}, or somewhere else, but somewhere along the line we're doing it wrong and it should be fixed. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:58, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
{{short description|none}}
. Because {{
user page}} sets |2=noreplace
, a local (lack of) description should override that template. Unfortunately, this does not work, because a short description of "none" produces a nowiki tag instead of an actual empty short description. See
this discussion and
this previous discussion. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 22:40, 26 January 2023 (UTC)I'm trying to affix the evolution of the Arabic digit for 9 image to the left. However, when I try to do this on the new skin V2022, it bugs and the image is transported to the section below in the middle of text. How can I solve this? I had to remove one image (of the seven-segment display of 9) since it was disorienting. Thank you for your help! Radlrb ( talk) 08:22, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
I largely wrote the article Kaktovik_numerals, and had to use graphic workarounds for the characters. There is one font available, but it doesn't appear to work with browsers. Can you tell if it's incomplete?
At Kaktovik_numerals#External_links, there is a "free Kaktovik font". However, installing it does not allow my browser (FF) to display the characters. In Kaktovik_numerals#In Unicode, there are two tables, raw Unicode at top and graphics at bottom. I see only boxes with numbers in the top table.
This is the only Unicode Kaktovik font there currently is. Is it badly designed? It works fine in a word-processor, but does it need some additional code to allow a browser to recognize that it can be used for this code range? If so, please advise and I can fix it and submit it to the external site. If users have an option for a functional font, we could remove the bulk of the graphics in this article -- currently the characters are not searchable unless you go into the edit window or paste the text somewhere else. — kwami ( talk) 19:40, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
I find that many Wikipedia tables are useless, because as I scroll down, I cannot see how the data in a table relates to the heading. This issue was discussed 13 years ago, but nothing was ever done. Since then times have changed, and freezing of headings has become common at many websites. Wikipedia tables have also become larger and more complicated, such as Comparison_of_accounting_software#Free_and_open_source_software. I would have to copy the data into a spreadsheet in order to understand it. Why do I have to use external tools to view Wikipedia tables? Comfr ( talk) 09:31, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Table example
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What does this module error mean? Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 13:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Double-clicking on a word should (and usually does) select a whole word, regardless of where that word is. But here's the odd case. Double-clicking on the first word of body-text after a first-level (==) header selects the word and the whole text of that header. No problem for double-clicking on the last (or any other) word of the header, or any other word of the body. And no problem for lower-level headers. Good (I guess) news, this is true on both Vector2022 and Vector2010, and logged out, using Firefox/Mac. Using Chrome, it doesn't happen (double-clicking behaves normally) even on V2022. DMacks ( talk) 22:40, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
Has anyone here hacked up a Javascript to make the Vector 2022 sticky header appear on pages in all namespaces? I keep expecting it to appear on pages that I am visiting, but it just doesn't. It's frustrating. According to
this MW page about it, At time of writing it is only enabled on namespaces: Main, Main talk, User, User talk, Wikipedia, Template, Help, Category, Portal, Module but not old revisions, diffs, history or edit pages.
An example of a specific page where I was looking for the sticky header but did not find it was
Template talk:Infobox election. Thanks in advance for any tips! –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 01:34, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
transform: translateY(0);
opacity: 1;
If you pass a parameter through a template containing another template, e.g. {{
foo|
, and {{
bar}}
}}{{
foo}}
calls {{
#invoke:foo|main}}, then when you access the argument in Module:Foo, it will contain the expanded version of {{
bar}}
. How would you get the string {{bar}}
without it being expanded, short of calling {{
foo|<nowiki>
and then calling {{
bar}}
</nowiki>}}mw.text.UnstripNoWiki()
in the module? —
Qwerfjkl
talk 13:44, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
If ruwiki community want to run a certain voting through SecurePoll (it isn't admin/bur/arbcom election), what should we do? How to send request to stewards (or who manages it) to create a voting? MBH ( talk) 10:54, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
On Wikispecies, there are issues because species:Module:Documentation (and a submodule) was overwritten by an import which included Module:Documentation from this project. It seems that meta:Module:Documentation, from which Wikispecies originally imported the module(s), is different again.
Is there any reason they cannot be standardised, and kept in sync, in a manner which meets the needs of all three (and other) projects?
Hopefully, in the long term, mw:Global templates (in which User:Amire80 has been involved) will solve this issue, but in the meantime it would be good if we could collaboratively work around it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:40, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Stewards will not use their technical access when there are local users who can use that access, except in emergenciesper m:Stewards * Pppery * it has begun... 23:57, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
@ Sophivorus: Please note the above, and the original discussion on Wikispecies, both of which I think will be of interest to you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
On Special:BotPasswords, the content of MediaWiki:Botpasswords-summary shows up twice. I'm using Vector 2022, but it shows up in other skins as well, and I'm on Brave (Chromium). ~ Eejit43 ( talk) 05:58, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Since the switch to Vector 22 (which I generally like) I have been having some problems with the search box.
I have been in the habit of going to pages I frequent (such as
WP:TH,
WP:HD and
WP:RDH by typing ctr-alt-F WP:TH (return)
all in one go, and it usually got me there. (Occasionally, for reasons I've never quite worked out, it would put me on the Search page, but whatever I was going for was always the first choice).
Since Vector 22, I end up on all sorts of pages. What seems to be happening is that the generation of suggested matches is interfering with what I've typed, in an unpredictable way. When I try to go to WP:TH I end up on all sorts of pages in the WP space, usually starting with Th. I've now learnt to wait until it's generated its search suggestions before typing Return; but I'm not 100% sure that it always gets it right even then.
I admit that I'm on a fairly slow machine. ColinFine ( talk) 17:29, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Why does https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Brahmic_scripts&diff=1135922907&oldid=1132384454&diffmode=source look so much stretched for no reason? I do not find anything that can cause this, and this is (so far) the only page this stretched at 100% zoom at all default settings. It persists even on refreshing. Can somebody point out what's going on here? I'm on Windows 11, MS Edge. Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 11:26, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
This problem is quite bad on some pages, including
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes. Disabling Enabling the "limited width mode" in Preferences -> Appearance resolves this problem for me until this bug can be fixed. I checked to ensure that it is not happening when I am logged out, even if I click the limited-width toggle. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC) [Edited to add: Enabling the limited width mode made this problem go away for almost all pages, but I'm still seeing it on about one out of 50 pages instead of 1 out of 10. Is it really a good idea for developers to roll out software changes on Friday and then take two days off? When I worked in IT, we never changed anything on Friday. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 22:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)]
On some - but not all articles - word wrapping is broken for some reason? [ https://imgur.com/a/0dKrKFJ] an example from British Rail Class 373. Others include British Rail Class 800. Anyone else? Just me? MacOS 13.1, Safari 16.2 - using Vesper 2022 with the "Enable responsive mode" ticked and "Enable limited width mode" unticked. Turini2 ( talk) 21:37, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
As the title describes, the button that says "next-to-last editor" doesn't work if the editor is an IPv6 IP, instead it simply just states that there are no differences between revisions as if it is basically comparing the current revision to itself. It works just fine on IPv4 so it's an IPv6 exclusive issue. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:11, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
For some reason when I changed the Military history project class from Start to C at Talk:German declaration of war on the Soviet Union, I'm still seeing the Start class, although the syntax appears correct after comparing with other C class articles. Why is that? Brandmeister talk 20:55, 29 January 2023 (UTC)