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I filed a ticket. Please review at your convenience. Thank you. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 03:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
In this 2020 edit, the Shortdesc helper allowed the insertion of an invalid invisible non-breaking space character. I fixed it with this edit, replacing the character with a normal space.
If this bug is still present, it would be helpful for the gadget to replace invalid white-space characters with spaces when a short description is saved. Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing invalid space characters is tracking these invalid characters in short descriptions. The report's population does not appear to be increasing, so maybe this problem has been fixed already. I'll look for a recent instance. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:54, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
The Grey Owl article was changed by Shortdesc helper today, whereby an occurrence of the snd template delimiting the year range was changed to hyphen ( diff). This change left the end year stranded, which I had to fix by hand ( diff). I had just gone to the trouble of changing all hyphens in ranges to snds after having been lectured that the MOS requires this.
Dsiedler ( talk) 20:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Each short description should: be written in plain text – without HTML tags, wiki markup, .... The
{{
snd}}
tag is wiki markup; the – character is not. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
In 2020 Singaporean general election, I added in my own short description (YY) through Shortdesc helper, but my edit summary says I changed the short description from XX to YY, even though XX was never present in the article in the first place (originally it was set to "none"). Where does the XX short description come from? Wikidata? JaventheAldericky ( talk) 19:31, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
With this gadget enabled, whenever I load a page, its content jumps downward a few seconds later. This is because the shortdesc is inserted into the page when the shortdesc itself has loaded, which requires making space for it. This is extremely annoying. Is anyone else having this issue? Does it seem like it would be easy to fix? jlwoodwa ( talk) 02:31, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
I couldn't find anything on the topic, so I figured I'd ask: Is there a reason for the comma in the comment? Currently shortdesc helper creates a comment like this (sorry for the german language example, but you should get the idea):
Beschreibung für [de] hinzugefügt: Gebäude in St. Gallen, (Shortdesc helper)
With a comma right after the new description. Which to me seems more confusing (Did I accidently place a comma?) then helpfull. And - at least in German, I assume English is the same - in front of brackets it's even wrong. Is there a case I miss when they are needed? Windharp ( talk) 08:45, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
I opened an issue on github, but I am assuming that the github is not very active since there haven't been any new changes in six months, so here's a very minor technical issue that stumped me for a while. In policy w/ WP:SDNONE, many articles do not qualify to have proper short descriptions. However, adding { {short description|none} } to a template does not register on the editor, making it seem as if it has no short description instead of a "none" short description. Article that looks like it has no short description, [1] except it has an infobox that does, [2] and search results show it has a short description. [3] -1ctinus📝 🗨 00:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
It would help if the SD helper could detect that the page would have the SD set (to none or otherwise) by a template, but that would involve an additional API call to check the evaluated output of the page as well as a check of the page source
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This page has archives. Sections older than 180 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 5 sections are present. |
I filed a ticket. Please review at your convenience. Thank you. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 03:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
In this 2020 edit, the Shortdesc helper allowed the insertion of an invalid invisible non-breaking space character. I fixed it with this edit, replacing the character with a normal space.
If this bug is still present, it would be helpful for the gadget to replace invalid white-space characters with spaces when a short description is saved. Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing invalid space characters is tracking these invalid characters in short descriptions. The report's population does not appear to be increasing, so maybe this problem has been fixed already. I'll look for a recent instance. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 18:54, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
The Grey Owl article was changed by Shortdesc helper today, whereby an occurrence of the snd template delimiting the year range was changed to hyphen ( diff). This change left the end year stranded, which I had to fix by hand ( diff). I had just gone to the trouble of changing all hyphens in ranges to snds after having been lectured that the MOS requires this.
Dsiedler ( talk) 20:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Each short description should: be written in plain text – without HTML tags, wiki markup, .... The
{{
snd}}
tag is wiki markup; the – character is not. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
In 2020 Singaporean general election, I added in my own short description (YY) through Shortdesc helper, but my edit summary says I changed the short description from XX to YY, even though XX was never present in the article in the first place (originally it was set to "none"). Where does the XX short description come from? Wikidata? JaventheAldericky ( talk) 19:31, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
With this gadget enabled, whenever I load a page, its content jumps downward a few seconds later. This is because the shortdesc is inserted into the page when the shortdesc itself has loaded, which requires making space for it. This is extremely annoying. Is anyone else having this issue? Does it seem like it would be easy to fix? jlwoodwa ( talk) 02:31, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
I couldn't find anything on the topic, so I figured I'd ask: Is there a reason for the comma in the comment? Currently shortdesc helper creates a comment like this (sorry for the german language example, but you should get the idea):
Beschreibung für [de] hinzugefügt: Gebäude in St. Gallen, (Shortdesc helper)
With a comma right after the new description. Which to me seems more confusing (Did I accidently place a comma?) then helpfull. And - at least in German, I assume English is the same - in front of brackets it's even wrong. Is there a case I miss when they are needed? Windharp ( talk) 08:45, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
I opened an issue on github, but I am assuming that the github is not very active since there haven't been any new changes in six months, so here's a very minor technical issue that stumped me for a while. In policy w/ WP:SDNONE, many articles do not qualify to have proper short descriptions. However, adding { {short description|none} } to a template does not register on the editor, making it seem as if it has no short description instead of a "none" short description. Article that looks like it has no short description, [1] except it has an infobox that does, [2] and search results show it has a short description. [3] -1ctinus📝 🗨 00:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
It would help if the SD helper could detect that the page would have the SD set (to none or otherwise) by a template, but that would involve an additional API call to check the evaluated output of the page as well as a check of the page source