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== New article creator counter ==

The new [http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/index.php?name=GiantSnowman&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects&getall=1 article creator counter tool thing] no longer seems to work for me... [[User:GiantSnowman|Giant]][[User talk:GiantSnowman|Snowman]] 15:05, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
:Confirming. Wondering if it's an issue of the tool (somebody needs to contact the author) or with Labs in general (#wikimedia-labs on IRC or the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l mailing list]). --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 01:24, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
::{{ping|TParis}}{{ping|Cyberpower678}} - any insight please? [[User:GiantSnowman|Giant]][[User talk:GiantSnowman|Snowman]] 17:30, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:::Tool works for me, just takes very long.  That's something that needs fixing soon.—[[User:C678|<span style="color:green;font-family:Neuropol">cyberpower</span>]] [[User talk:C678|<sup style="color:olive;font-family:arnprior">Chat</sup>]]<sub style="margin-left:-4.4ex;color:olive;font-family:arnprior">Online</sub> 18:11, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::::Every time I try to use it I get a 502 error message. [[User:GiantSnowman|Giant]][[User talk:GiantSnowman|Snowman]] 18:17, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

== How to find articles that cite a specific work? ==

Hi!

Is there a tool or similar to allow finding wikipedia articles in which a specific work is ref'ed?

Thanks
[[User:Saintrain|Saintrain]] ([[User talk:Saintrain|talk]]) 19:05, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
:I don't think there's one specific way to do this. One way would be to run a search for a specific string by enclosing the search term in quotation marks (i.e. <tt>"The Chicago Tribune"</tt>). [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 19:10, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks. Oh well. [[User:Saintrain|Saintrain]] ([[User talk:Saintrain|talk]]) 17:58, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

== Unable to delete image ==
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I'm trying to delete [[:File:Paovardasfclogo.jpg]] but I'm getting an error that reads "Error deleting file: The file "mwstore://local-multiwrite/local-public/e/e1/Paovardasfclogo.jpg" is in an inconsistent state within the internal storage backends". [[User:Mark Arsten|Mark Arsten]] ([[User talk:Mark Arsten|talk]]) 03:58, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:Looks like a problem in the infrastructure of the media backends. Reported on bugzilla —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 10:58, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks! [[User:Mark Arsten|Mark Arsten]] ([[User talk:Mark Arsten|talk]]) 04:28, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

== Too many templates ==
: '''RESOLVED:''' Fix in {{tl|Featured topic box/sandbox}}; split page long-term. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 19:20, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
[[Wikipedia:Good topics]] is currently broken, with so many templates that a few won't even show up - and that includes the categorization ones! Wonder if a solution can be found. [[User:Igordebraga|igordebraga]] [[User_talk:Igordebraga|≠]] 04:37, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
* It's our old friend [[:Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded]].  I'm looking into it. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 04:46, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
** I thought if moving the sections to separate pages which would then be transcluded in the page ([[Template:Syrian civil war infobox|example]]) it could be fixed, but didn't try because was afraid it wouldn't work (specially as the page is so damn big that it takes long to load). <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Igordebraga|Igordebraga]] ([[User talk:Igordebraga|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Igordebraga|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> 13:54, 29 December 2013 (UTC)~
::: Sorry about that... Fell asleep last night working on it. To answer your question, moving stuff to separate pages actually makes it worse because there is more content that needs to be transcluded.  What I was going to do is [[mw:Manual:Substitution|subst:]] a bunch of the static stuff in the header that should never change to reduce the transclusions... Other than that, I'm going to have to dig a lot deeper and probably dig out the bot to fix it.  That being said, template size can be fairly easily reduced through substitution, and you have a larger issue lurking in the near future of being extremely close to exceeding the [[mw:Manual:$wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit|expensive parser function limit]] of 500.  I'll see what we can do about that as well. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 14:51, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:::: This could be alleviated somewhat by converting [[Template:Featured topic box]] to [[WP:Lua|Lua]]. However, we might need to rethink the use of the PAGESINCATEGORY magic word, as its use risks bringing [[Wikipedia:Good topics]] over the expensive parser function limit, as Technical 13 says. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 16:44, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::::: {{U|Mr. Stradivarius}}, I'm thinking that if you could grant the edit request on [[Template talk:Icon]] then all of the icons could be subst: taking care of the immediate issue... This will give a little time to figure out how to deal with the expensive issue.  Thanks. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 17:22, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:[[WP:Good topics]] is quite a large page. Perhaps split it into sub-pages by topic, with the main page just containing the header and footer boxes and an index of the topics covered by each sub-page? –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 18:17, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::{{u|Igordebraga}} and {{u|PartTimeGnome}} are thinking along the right lines here. As an example of a page where the template limits have been overcome by the use of multiple subpages, [[WP:AFD]] hasn't transcluded the discussions all the way through to the main page for a long time now; instead they're transcluded to daily pages, and those daily pages are linked from the main page. I would be ''very'' wary of converting anything to Lua - this is not the magic panacea that it's often made out to be, and restricts the maintenance of the template to the Lua-savvy, since it is ''totally'' unlike Wiki markup. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 00:15, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::Looking at this in more detail, I see that it is going to be hard to do away with PAGESINCATEGORY. It is an integral part of [[Template:FeaturedTopicSum]], which calculates whether a topic is Good or Featured. No amount of conversion to Lua can reduce the expensive parser function limit, so I am inclined to agree that the best way to deal with this is to split the pages up into subtopics. This will be necessary at some point in the future anyway, as the number of Good Topics is only going to increase, and even with the most optimised and streamlined template setup the page will become too long to navigate comfortably anyway. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 16:05, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
* '''Main culprit is {classicon} with blanks and #iferror:''' Some people put a lot of blank spaces in span-tags inside protected mega-template {{tl|Class/icon}}, with "Pages transcluded on 5,252,562" and those blanks in image-links count repeatedly into "post-expand include size" along with #iferror adding another 100 bytes to each GA/FA icon. Also passing all the page titles into {{tl|Featured topic box}} just doubles the impact of icons+titles, compared to listing a 3-column wikitable. Perhaps step 1 is to switch to a short {{tl|GAsym}} template for most of the page titles, then also split each group of titles into a separate wikitable, under each {Featured_topic_box} to reduce double-counting the icons+titles as post-expand data. For example, [[wp:Featured_topics/James_Bond_films]] could be 3x smaller using an image-link icon (omit {classicon} data) or 6x smaller by listing Bond films as 3-column wikitable under the {Featured_topic_box}, or 7x smaller with group image as 4th column; see sample: [[wp:Featured_topics/James_Bond_films/sandbox]]. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 18:30/20:52, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:* I've made some edits to the /sandbox and /testcases page for that template too (same idea as {{Tl|Icon}}) and will put in an edit request because although it is TE protected, it also seems to be cascade protected... :( [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 20:03, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Wikid and Technical 13 for pointing out that it is {{tl|classicon}} and {{tl|icon}} that are the main resource-hoggers here. After Technical 13's [[Template talk:Icon#Protected edit request on 29 December 2013|edit request at Template talk:Icon]], I made an experimental Lua module to see if Lua sped things up appreciably for these kinds of templates. It does make things faster - down from 25.595 seconds to 17.185 seconds on my sandbox page of ~2400 {{tl|icon}} transclusions. (See [[Template talk:Icon#Protected edit request on 29 December 2013|Template talk:Icon]] for the numbers.) However, more surprising is that in the Lua version, only 1.940 seconds is spent inside Lua - most of the rest of the time is spent processing the images themselves. I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised, as when I think about it, resizing 2400 images is not a trivial task. So the next question is, how can we reduce the time that MediaWiki spends generating these images? Does MediaWiki usually cache images in the event that they are used multiple times on a page? — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 15:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:: Excellent analysis, and wrapping a template inside another "parameter-less" template does, indeed, cache all processing, reducing a 2,500-icon formatting to 6 seconds, as 2x times faster than Lua {icon/sandbox|ga} when run outside of the wrapper template. Note that the internal templates are also cached, to repeatedly run {icon/sandbox|ga} 2,500 times, as fast as directly #invoke'ing the Lua module with "|main|1=ga". Hence, a parameter-less template, repeated in the hundreds, would run equally as fast, with either Lua or markup internals, but outrun a Lua-based template with parameters by 2x faster, as proven by logical deduction. The main concern is not speed, but rather, the post-expand size. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 18:30, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:mediawiki caches images ("thumbs") when they are used. if you use a thumb with a new size (i.e., size which are not used on any wikimedia site), the image server will generate a new version of this image, with the appropriate size. this image will be shared among all wikimedia sites who want to display this image at this size. in case of multiple use of the same image on the same page, the browser will only pull the image once from the server, and will use the same image everywhere on the page (not so if you use different sizes - these are different files on the server). 

:some time ago i dug into a similar issue when trying to see why {{t|Chess diagram}} was so expensive: this template used to be made of 64 separate images, most of them were the same (an empty "white" square, and an empty "black" square comprise half the board on initial position, and more than half as the game progresses and there are less pieces left). what i found was that just sending the HTML for an image is expensive, and it became significantly more expensive some time ago, when [[User:Brion VIBBER]] added a "high-res" feature in order to support some super-displays on hand-held devices. you can see it if you look at the HTML for any image on enwiki: in addition to the old "src=<SOME URL>", there is now "srcset=<URL FOR x1.5 RESULUTION>, <URL FOR x2 RESOLUTION". this almost tripples the HTML code for each image, and inflates the page size considerably. i suggested at the time to add a new attribute to the wikicode for <nowiki>[[File:Some image name]]</nowiki> to eliminate this extra html in cases it's unneeded (empty chess squares do not gain much from the hi-res version). maybe it's time to float this request again... peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 18:04, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

:: {{re|קיפודנחש}} [[gzip]] compression which Wikipedia uses to serve you pages all but eliminates the transfer overhead of this. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 21:13, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
* The key thing here to think about is template expansion size and expensive function calls.  As far as your speed question goes, we could make a new set of icon images that are already 16px so they won't have to get resized and make the resolution as low as necessary to reduce image size and use the shortest logic filenames (cut back on transcluded characters).  I think this new set of icons would be a big improvement, however graphic design and manipulation is not a strong suite of mine and it would take me a great deal of time to get done. Any volunteer? [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 01:01, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:: For now, I have the temporary fix as a 330-byte reduction in {{tl|Featured topic box/sandbox}}, to install after New Year's so [[wp:Good_topics]] will fit within 1,950,000 post-expand bytes, and I have created {{tl|GAsym}} ([[File:Symbol support vote.svg|{{{caption|}}}|{{{size|16px}}}|alt={{{alt|}}}|link={{{link|}}}]]), as 49-byte versus 196-byte icon example. Plus, I have edited some featured-topic boxes to list 3-column page titles as 2nd wikitable to reduce each by 30% lower (1000-7500b lower) post-expand size. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 19:20, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

== Image failed to show up after uploading a copy to Commons ==
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It appears that after I did some [[WP:CSD#F8]], some images (see [[:File:Chrysosporium keratinophilum.jpg]] on [[Chrysosporium keratinophilum]] and [[:File:Aphanoascus fulvescens ascospores.jpg]] on [[Aphanoascus fulvescens]] as examples) failed to render. Yet other pages like [[Onychocola_canadensis]] done during the same time frame had no issues. In Firefox, the image was shown briefly (less than half a second) then disappear. In IE, the image area was replaced by some placeholder. Does anyone know what's happening? [[User:OhanaUnited|<b style="color:#0000FF;">OhanaUnited</b>]][[User talk:OhanaUnited|<b style="color:green;"><sup>Talk page</sup></b>]] 05:29, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:Shows fine on my end. Try purging the image on Commons. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 10:11, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:: Looks like purging solved it. Mark as resolved. [[User:OhanaUnited|<b style="color:#0000FF;">OhanaUnited</b>]][[User talk:OhanaUnited|<b style="color:green;"><sup>Talk page</sup></b>]] 03:30, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

== A bug in archiving ==

There is a bug in the archiving system which is polluting [[WP:WLH]] data.  It might be the code of [[user:ClueBot III]], or a change in some template somewhere.  See examples [[User talk:Jguard18]] and [[Template talk:PD-CAGov]].  I raised this at [[User_talk:Cobi#A_bug_in_archiving]] a few days, but it looks like [[user:Cobi]] is away during the festive period. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 06:39, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

:It has been going on for years. At [[User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2012/April#Strange archive index by ClueBot III]] I got no reply about [[User:ClueBot III/Indices/User talk:Pluma]] which is still edited weekly with the same problem, except in a few of the revisions. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 11:48, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

::Thanks for the pointer [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]].  I've done a bit of analysis of the two cases I see now, and I suspect there are a few corner cases which trigger this bug.  In any case, the code should have a very simple test before writing: does the first entry in the list of archives start with '!' and/or does the first entry not match the 'archiveprefix' parameter.  Either of those should trigger an exception: the bot doesnt understand the structure and should not write junk to the wiki - instead it should write the problematic page to an exception list on wiki for someone to investigate the cause.
::Regarding [[User_talk:Jguard18]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ClueBot_III/Indices/User_talk:Jguard18&action=history history] shows the first revision (2013-10-29) looks fine, but the second edit results in a dump of the first of allpages.  The user was renamed at [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jguard18&diff=578497267&oldid=578384679 2013-10-24], so maybe the bot becomes confused around user renames.  Also Jguard has switched formats a few times; see [[Special:PrefixIndex/User_talk:Jguard18]].
::[[Template_talk:PD-CAGov]] is different, as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ClueBot_III/Indices/Template_talk:PD-CAGov&dir=prev&action=history history of User:ClueBot_III/Indices/Template_talk:PD-CAGov] shows it was busted at the beginning(2012-04-14) after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:PD-CAGov&diff=487114400&oldid=326473586 archiving was requested].  But the bot archived to [[Template talk:PD-CAGov 1]], so [[user:Gogo Dodo]] moved the archive page to [[Template talk:PD-CAGov/Archive 1]], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:PD-CAGov&diff=488300687&oldid=487561152 'fixed'] the archiving template.  But then the bot archived to [[Template talk:PD-CAGov/ 1]], so I have moved that page to [[Template talk:PD-CAGov/Archive 2]], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk%3APD-CAGov&diff=588321235&oldid=583955018 'fiddled'] with the settings.  I'd be surprised if my fiddling fixes the problem, but we'll see how that goes when the bot comes around next time.
::Is the code public? <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 05:50, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::The bottom of [[User:ClueBot III]] says [[User:ClueBot III/Source|Bot source]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 11:10, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jguard18&diff=prev&oldid=588323585 turned off] indexing at [[User_talk:Jguard18]] more than a day ago, but today (HNY!) the bot has [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ClueBot_III/Master_Detailed_Indices/User_talk:Jguard18&action=history regenerated] the problematic index. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 00:24, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:If anyone wants to see clean case which triggered the bug, consider [[Module talk:Convert]]. That page was created on 19 February 2013; at 04:15, 5 October 2013 a "User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis" template was added ({{diff|Module talk:Convert|prev|575818286|diff}}); the next edit to the page was on 08:40, 6 October 2013 and was ClueBot doing the first archive ({{diff|Module talk:Convert|prev|575964679|diff}})—that had the bug (the but was reported but that was archived without comment). [[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 21:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

==Template not updating on main space pages==
I updated athe template [[Template:Analgesics]] as it was linking to [[cannabis]] and not the correct [[cannabis (drug)]] article. The template has updated but it isnt updating the pages which have the template. So if we go to [[Thiocolchicoside]] and show the analgesic template at the bottom of the article we see the template has not updated and is still linking to the wrong cannabis article. This is so with all the articles which have the analgesic template, as can be seen [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&limit=5000&target=Cannabis&namespace=0 here] (this is a large page). I thought it might be something to do with caching last night but the problem is still there. Please help. ♫ [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] [[User talk:SqueakBox|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/SqueakBox|contribs]] 15:02, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:The discussion [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Purging pages when updating template]] above may provide an explanation. => [[User:Spudgfsh|<span style="color:green">Spudgfsh</span>]] ([[User Talk:Spudgfsh|<span style="color:red">Text Me!</span>]]) 15:09, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::Thanks, there is no question you are correct. Unfortunately I have a great deal more than 21 pages to purge but it is a working solution. ♫ [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] [[User talk:SqueakBox|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/SqueakBox|contribs]] 15:22, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

===Pages that link here not updating===
Thanks to Spudgfsh and following the advice here [[#Purging pages when updating template]] I have for instance successfully updated the analgesic template on [[Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine]]. What has failed to update is the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere&limit=5000&target=Cannabis&namespace=0 special what links here page for cannabis] which still contains the link to Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine and other articles which I have purged, as these pages now have no link to [[cannabis]]. How can I purge the "pages that link here" page?♫ [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] [[User talk:SqueakBox|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/SqueakBox|contribs]] 15:39, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
: The best answer is to wait for the job queue to process it, instead of increasing the load further by forcing it. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 16:11, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::That would be the best answer if I didnt want to regularly use the page. Unfortunately, due to the unique titling of the [[Cannabis (drug)]] article there are literally thousands of articles that wrongly point to the botanical plant article when the context means they should point to the drug article and these need fixing as a matter of some priority. They cannot be done by a bot as each case needs a human judgement. Of course it is much easier to fix this issue without hundreds of drug articles that have the analgesic or other templates, as well as making it much easier to see which analgesic etc articles have been purged and which havent and this is my reason for wanting this page to be updating quickly and not several months down the line. If it wasnt for this work I am engaged in I would agree, Anomie♫ [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] [[User talk:SqueakBox|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/SqueakBox|contribs]] 16:29, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:::Well the analgesic template has now updated which is excellent news, hopefully the cannabis page will be a matter of hours too, rather than months♫ [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] [[User talk:SqueakBox|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/SqueakBox|contribs]] 16:57, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:As you've found, a purge does not update the "{{int:whatlinkshere}}" output; one would instead use a [[WP:NULL#WP:NULL|null edit]] to each page instead. If you've been using the API I mentioned in the [[#Purging pages when updating template|previous discussion]], you can force the API to update the link tables by adding <code>&forcelinkupdate=1</code> to the URL for the API request. Also note that there's a limit to the number of pages that can be purged at once using the API (I think it's 50 pages; it might be more). –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 19:24, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

== Javascript enabled, but can't be used on English Wikipedia ==

I am using Chrome 30.0.1599.101. I have Javascript enabled, and I can use VisualEditor on Simple English Wikipedia and French Wikipedia, but on the English Wikipedia I can use none of the Javascript functions. I have checked and my Javascript is enabled. Is this a problem on my end, or what? <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Thesixthstaff|Thesixthstaff]] ([[User talk:Thesixthstaff|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Thesixthstaff|contribs]]) 18:04, 29 December 2013</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

:Have you enabled VisualEditor at [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures]]? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 18:44, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

== RFC on Template protection ==

Hello,

There is an RFC at [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Template_Vandalism]] to protect templates inorder to deal with template vandalism. Please participate in the discussion.

Thanks,
[[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]] ([[User talk:TheOriginalSoni|talk]]) 19:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

== Icon post-expand size ==
We need to create tiny templates for heavy-use icons, such as {&#123;GAsym&#125;} to directly show Good-Article symbol, {{tlx|classicon|GA}}: {{classicon|GA}}, as 34 bytes, rather than "367" or 11x times smaller. For years, we have been struggling with lists of icons and pagenames which exceed the post-expand include size (2,000&nbsp;KB<s>MB</s>). A tiny icon template should also use a short image-file name to reduce each byte of post-expand space used. For the Good-Article symbol, it could be:<br>{{nb5}}&middot; Template:GAsym contents: <nowiki>[[File:GAsym.svg|{{{size|16px}}}|alt={{{alt|}}}|link={{{link|}}}]]</nowiki><br>Using image name File:GAsym.svg, the post-expand size would be only 34 bytes, compared to longer "File:Symbol_support_vote.svg" with 48 bytes as post-expand size. '''''Impact:''''' Currently, to avoid massive icon templates, people have been hard-coding (or [[wp:subst]]'ing) the long, tedious icon-file names with options, "|16px|alt=|link=" while a tiny icon "{&#123;GAsym&#125;}" would add only 34 bytes of post-expand size in long lists of pagenames (11x smaller than {{tlx|classicon|GA}} with 367 bytes, or 496 bytes when passed by a nested template). Previously, there had been a push to kill all tiny icon templates in favor of pushing 100-parameter mega-templates into millions of pages, which cause all those millions of pages to reformat when a new icon parameter is added into the mega-template. By contrast, a change to each tiny icon template would reformat only a small subset of pages, where it was used for efficiency, while allowing the mega-template icons to remain where convenient. Also, as a parameter-less template, a dedicated icon template will be cached by the MediaWiki parser and process 2x faster when repeated on a page. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 21:38, 29 December, 12:21, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:I suspect you mean 2&#160;MB, not 2,000! (The exact post-include size limit is 2,048,000 bytes.) –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 00:07, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:: Well, "2,000 KB" because 2 MB is 2&times;1024&times;1024=2,097,152 bytes. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 12:21, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

== Display slow to update ==

For several days what is displayed seems very slow to update, e.g. after ten minutes deleted pages still show as bluelinks, items closed at MfD do not show as closed. This does not seem to be a local cache problem - I have cleared Firefox's cache, and indeed still see bluelink and open MfD when using another device. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 22:03, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
:I have been experiencing this same issue. Transclusions seem to be painfully slow to update as well... E.g. I will have a subpage I transcluded on my user page, and an update to the subpage won't reflect for 15 minutes or more. &mdash; [[User:MusikAnimal|<b style="color:black;"><i>MusikAnimal</i></b>]] [[User talk:MusikAnimal|<sup style="color:green;"><b>talk</b></sup>]] 23:57, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
::Same goes for {{tl|ping}} &mdash; [[User:MusikAnimal|<b style="color:black;"><i>MusikAnimal</i></b>]] [[User talk:MusikAnimal|<sup style="color:green;"><b>talk</b></sup>]] 01:13, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:The [[WP:JQ|job queue]] has been high for a long time. A set of complex templates to implement {{tl|convert}} was replaced by a call to [[Module:Convert]] at 02:15, 11 December 2013. After 29 days, most pages have been refreshed, but lot's haven't. For example, clicking edit at [[Skipton House]] shows several Template:Convert/xxx links in the list of transcluded pages at the bottom, and no Module:Convert. Previewing the unchanged contents of the article shows the current transclusions which omits the convert/xxx subtemplates and includes module:convert. In the last 50 hours, the articles linking to [[Template:Convert/track/disp/]] has reduced from 500 to 495.
:I don't think the change to use module:convert is responsible for the big job queue because looking at the graphs linked from [[WP:JQ]] did not show any surge around the switchover time, and in fact the global job queue steadily declined from 2013-12-10 22:48 to 2013-12-12 19:36. [[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 03:38, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::I recently added the draft namespace to [[Module:Pagetype]] (5,000,000 transclusions), which will have had a far bigger effect on the job queue than the switch to [[Module:Convert]]. And I noticed a big spike on Dec 19 when we switched over to the new version of MediaWiki, although I'm not sure if that was the direct cause. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius on tour|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius on tour</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius on tour|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 08:19, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
* '''Mega-template {class/icon} updated 27 December 2013 for 5 million pages:''' To add an icon for draft-status pages, the [[Template:Class/icon]] was edited at 18:39, 27 December 2013 (3 days ago) with "Pages transcluded on 5,252,562" and so the update hit the [[wp:Job_queue]](s) with 5.25 million pages to re-reformat (). Also remember, people have been creating millions of "empty" talk-pages to show wp:WikiProject banners+icons, and even if no one cares to discuss any issues on those millions of pages, the 5 million still must be reformatted when a new icon is needed for a hundred pages. If tiny talk-pages reformat @10-per-second, then 1 day can clear 864,000 pages (24&times;60x60x10) from the queues, or 2,592,000 in 3 days. However, eventually the talk-pages of major articles will surface in queues to tinker with {classicon}, and many talk-pages are much larger than the related article pages, where 554,000 of them took 17 days to quickly reformat for Lua {convert} with Lua {cite_web}, Lua {infobox}/{navbox}, but the talk-pages are not using Lua for the massive [[Template:WPBannerMeta]] subtemplates which run 1-2 seconds per talk-page. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 08:33, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
*The problem seems to be connected with Wikipedia's caches. After closing another MfD discussion I noticed that (a) the MfD page showed the deleted page as a bluelink; purging it turned the link red, but on [[WP:MFD]] this discussion still did not show as closed, (b) purging [[WP:MFD]] fixed that. Is there a reason why caches are not being updated automatically, or updated less frequently than before? [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 23:09, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

==The SELIBR id is not valid==
Can anyone tell me why at [[European Association for Animal Production]] the {{tl|Authority control}} template is throwing up the error message "The SELIBR id is not valid", and therefore adding it to the non-existent [[:Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control identifiers (SELIBR)]]? There's no SELIBR id in the template; deleting the SELIBR field entirely appears to make no difference. I've not been able to reproduce the error elsewhere. [[User:Justlettersandnumbers|Justlettersandnumbers]] ([[User talk:Justlettersandnumbers|talk]]) 00:51, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:[[Michael Gielen]] seems to be the only other example, but it ''is'' specifying a SELIBR. [[User:Chris857|Chris857]] ([[User talk:Chris857|talk]]) 01:05, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::PS I found that Gielen had an errant right-to-left mark messing it up. Still looking at EAAP. [[User:Chris857|Chris857]] ([[User talk:Chris857|talk]]) 01:19, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::When {{tl|Authority control}} is used on [[European Association for Animal Production]] it pulls data from the Wikidata page you reach by clicking "Data item" in the Tools menu: [[wikidata:Q15428859]]. That page recently added [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q15428859&diff=97104421&oldid=96630105] a SELIBR field which contains <code><nowiki><!--xxxxxx--></nowiki></code> and no number. I don't know how it works but I guess that's the problem. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 01:43, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::I fixed the problematic item by removing the very odd entry on Wikidata. The issue should fix itself so long as there is an ID specified in the article or another ID is specified at Wikidata. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 03:17, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::This odd entry was erroneously imported from en:WP to Wikidata: I had corrected the GND No. here and subsequently performed a reimport with the Authority Control gadget to get Wikidata in sync. Somehow the commented-out placeholders from the template here escaped my attention and "looping" them through wikidata turned the comment markup <nowiki><!-- ... --></nowiki> into visible text. -- [[User:Gymel|Gymel]] ([[User talk:Gymel|talk]]) 11:42, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::::Thanks for the explanation. I don't know the gadget but if it happens automatically unless the user specifically does something to prevent it then maybe it should be reported at [[:wikidata:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-AuthorityControl.js]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 11:53, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::::I [[:d:MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-AuthorityControl.js#HTML_comments|raised the issue there]]. My impression is that HTML comments in templates are always legal thus the gadget should understand them (i.e. eliminate them on import). -- [[User:Gymel|Gymel]] ([[User talk:Gymel|talk]]) 12:20, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::::Thanks to all who have helped with this, including {{u|Gymel}} who fixed it in the article and reported the problem. It is, superficially at least, entirely my fault - I made in my Regex editor a version of {{tl|Authority control}} with the various "xxxxx" placeholders of the template page commented-out so as not to have to delete them manually on each use. However, at a deeper level there is probably something wrong - the system should be proof against such user errors. Thanks again, [[User:Justlettersandnumbers|Justlettersandnumbers]] ([[User talk:Justlettersandnumbers|talk]]) 12:34, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

I regularly remove invisible characters from pages to avoid similar situations. -- [[User:Magioladitis|Magioladitis]] ([[User talk:Magioladitis|talk]]) 22:55, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/01|Tech News: 2014-01]] ==

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Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/01|Translations]] are available.

'''Recent software changes'''
* You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool ([[mw:Search|CirrusSearch]]). [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6421] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101252/]
* With the new version of the [[mw:Extension:Wikibase DataModel|Wikibase DataModel]] extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073721.html]

'''[[mw:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal|VisualEditor]] news'''
* Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as [[m:w:HTML5|HTML5]] <code><nowiki><figure /></nowiki></code> elements. [[mw:VisualEditor/Feedback|Comments]] are welcome. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53436]
* You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see [//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar?mobileaction=alpha this article] as an example.

'''Problems'''
* On December 23, [[mw:Wikimedia Labs|Wikimedia Labs]] was broken for 4 hours due to an [[m:w:Network File System|NFS]] problem. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58888]

'''Future software changes'''
* CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Beta Features options]].
* [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter|AbuseFilter]] log entries will be visible in [[mw:Extension:CheckUser|CheckUser]] tool reports. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29583] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92053/]
* It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54404] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85436/]
* It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23653] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103216/]

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== DBpedia now parsing infobox subtemplates ==

Colleagues may be interested to know that DBpedia recently added support for a number of infobox subtemplates, including:

* {{tl|Flatlist}}
* {{tl|Plainlist}}
* {{tl|Hlist}}
* {{tl|Unbulleted list}}
* {{tl|URL}}

see DBpedia live:

:http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Albert_Einstein

and note the "dbpedia-owl:citizenship" properties, for example, pulled from {{Para|citizenship}} in [[Albert Einstein]], which uses {{Tl|Plainlist}}. (Values in the dbpprop namespace are not split correctly, but this will be fixed in a forthcoming update). DBpedia static will be updated on the next release. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 11:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

== Tool for checking amount of watchers on a certain page ==

Where can I find the tool that tells you exactly how many users have a certain English Wikipedia page in their watchlist? [[User:Heymid|<span style="color:green;">Hey</span>]][[User talk:Heymid|<span style="color:red;">'''''mid'''''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Heymid|contribs]]) 13:55, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:If you click on the history tab of the article, there will another tab offered "number of watchers" which will tell you how many people have it watchlisted. Unfortunately that will only give you exact numbers for pages which have 30 people or more watching the page. Less than that and it will simply say "less than 30 watchers." [[User:Valenciano|Valenciano]] ([[User talk:Valenciano|talk]]) 14:01, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

::"Page information" in the Tools menu also leads to that page, although not directly to the watchers field. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 14:06, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

:::Thanks so much! That worked for me. :) However, I was looking for an off-wiki tool that only displays the amount of users watching a certain English Wikipedia page. I think it was a toolserver tool, but the "Page information" page is enough for me. [[User:Heymid|<span style="color:green;">Hey</span>]][[User talk:Heymid|<span style="color:red;">'''''mid'''''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Heymid|contribs]]) 16:24, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

::::The history page once linked to a now defunct tool at http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/, but it seems unneccessary now. "Page information" is efficient. It was MZMcBride who requested the change.[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&oldid=564839538#MediaWiki:Histlegend_and_the_watcher_tool] [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:52, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::You might also want to try [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/watcher.py?page=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine Dispenser's tool], since that tells you how many of the accounts that are allegedly "watching" the page are active.  On some old pages, the difference can literally be [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/watcher.py?page=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Contents 2,000 inactive accounts versus 50 current ones].  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 20:12, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

== Clickable link to diff for use in edit summaries? ==

Suppose, in an edit summary, I want to mention an earlier edit. So far the best I've come up with is
::''Fix spelling error introduced by enwp.org?diff=588220707''
which has the merit of brevity but, unfortunately, requires that the user paste the "link" into a browser window to actually view the diff.

I'm trying to find a syntax that, in the page revision history, will be clickable -- maybe something analogous to <code><nowiki>[[Special:Permalink/588220707]]</nowiki></code> (which ''is'' clickable, but which gives only that version of the article with no diff -- I've tried variations like <code><nowiki>[[Special:Diff/588220707]]</nowiki></code> with no luck). Unfortunately templates (such as {{t|diff}}) don't work in edit summaries.

I've looked everywhere for this. Any thoughts? [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 19:14, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
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:see [[Template:Diff]] and [[Template:Diff2]]. 
:if you include the following snippet in [[Special:MyPage/common.js]], it will prepare the template for you when you watch a "diff" page, and place it just under the page title when viewing a diff. you'll then be able to "mark" it with the mouse and copy it to the clipboard.
:peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 19:25, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
<syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>
	if ($('h1#firstHeading:contains(Difference between revisions)').length) {
		$('#contentSub').append( [ '{{diff', 
			mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ), 
			mw.util.getParamValue( 'diff' ), 
			mw.util.getParamValue( 'oldid' ), 
			'This diff}}' ].join( '|' ) );
	}
</syntaxhighlight>
:::ooopsie - i missed the fact you were talking about summaries. i think for a summary you have to include the link (copied from the address line of the browser... it still won't be clickable, but it will be useful. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 19:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
{{collapse bottom}}
:: {{re|EEng}} There is currently a patch pending that would add a Special:Diff page (or DiffLink, we're not quite sure about the best name) which would work exactly as you'd want it to: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63395/ – I would expect it to be merged and deployed within a few weeks, tops. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 21:16, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::BTW since the use case is edit summaries (where bytes are at a premium) I would counsel ''Special:Diff'' over ''Special:Difflink''. [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 02:30, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:::Wow -- it's like they looked into the future and read my mind. Thanks! [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 21:36, 30 December 2013 (UTC) P.S. I've never been able to figure out how to navigate the bugzilla machinery -- can you throw in the notion that such a feature should allow any two revids to be diffed? Also, I like the feature of {{t|diff}} that allows suppression of the rendered page -- just gives the source diff. I recognize it's likely too late to add such things to this round. [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 21:42, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::: Yeah, diffing any revids sounds like a good idea. Suppression of the page contents can be controlled in user's preferences ("Do not show page content below diffs" under "Appearance", I have it enabled myself), so I don't think it should be controllable via the link (and besides, it'd make the linking syntax silly). (I commented on the patch, too.) [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 22:53, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::::Of course a more powerful feature would be a syntax to allow any query string in any wikilink, but I don't know the implications and <code><nowiki>[[Special:Diff/xxx]]</nowiki></code> is probably the most missed. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:52, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::While they're at it you should be able to append an encoding of your financial information for the year, and it will file your income taxes. (A related feature would be checkoff box for $10 to be contributed to Wikimedia Foundation.) Would that delay deployment? [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 02:30, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

== Adding columns to existing wiki-tables ==

Can anyone suggest a tool, please, that will add a column to an existing table, between its current columns, like those on [[List of Lord Mayors of Birmingham]]? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 19:58, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:How easy it would be depends on which column, but find-and-replace in a text editor could add a column before the Terms column by searching for "|| 18" and replacing it with "||  || 18". I think. I didn't try it. Other columns might require some regex expertise. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 20:15, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

* Copy the table from the wiki page in read mode
* Paste it into a spreadsheet such as Excel
* Manipulate the table as desired
* Copy the cells
* Paste into http://excel2wiki.net/index.php and Submit query
* Copy output- I usually don't copy the header, as the original is usually better formatted
* Edit wiki page
* Paste
* Cleanup as needed 
--<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 22:05, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:Thank you. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 16:33, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

== Parser function bug ==

Just thought I'd drop a note here in case anyone else comes across it. The March calendar was recently being displayed on [[February]]. After some work I tracked it down to a parser function bug where <nowiki>{{#time:F|February}}</nowiki> was returning "March". I filed [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59137 59137] and applied a workaround to that page, but anything else that relies on that parser function to return February will likely also have problems. I suspect this has to do with the end of the year. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 20:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:It appears to be fundamentally rooted in this: <nowiki><? echo gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z", strtotime("February")); ?></nowiki> results in a time in March (due to "30 February" not existing, it gets rolled forward). This implies that {{tl|calendar}} needs to be adjusted to expect this behavior. I think I can fix that with relative ease. --[[User:Shirik|<span style="color:#005">Sh</span><span style="color:#007">i</span><span style="color:#009">r</span><span style="color:#00A">ik</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Shirik|<span style="color:#88C">Questions or Comments?</span>]])</small> 20:50, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

== Red link works ==

I had a problem which was solved by clearing the cache and I hope I haven't messed up my computer by doing it. I'm afraid to try this again even though it was just for the one site. I added a Wlink to [[King George]] which stays red no matter what I do. Yes, I know I should have created the redirect before doing anything else, but I didn't. Please make sure I'm not leaving a red link there because I have to rejoin the real world now.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 22:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:Simple purge fixed it. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 22:34, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::See [[Wikipedia:Purge]] for the procedure. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:30, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

== American English auto(in)correct. ==

When editing, my spellings are automatically changed to American English. Right-clicking over the word shows that the language preference is indeed set to English (United Kingdom) and the problem '''only''' occurs when editing Wikipedia. The issue is a relatively new one and does not occur when using MS Word on the same computer. Any ideas?--[[User:Ykraps|Ykraps]] ([[User talk:Ykraps|talk]]) 11:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:it could be a issue with your browser.  If I remember correctly Google Chrome has a separate spell check setting. => [[User:Spudgfsh|<span style="color:green">Spudgfsh</span>]] ([[User Talk:Spudgfsh|<span style="color:red">Text Me!</span>]]) 11:47, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
::I'm using Internet Explorer, although I also have Firefox. Using Firefox gave the same problems but there was an option to download a British English dictionary which fixed it. There doesn't seem to be a similar option for Internet Explorer (looking in tools, internet options). I have started adding English spellings to the dictionary but the American spell checker is obviously useful when editing articles written in American English.--[[User:Ykraps|Ykraps]] ([[User talk:Ykraps|talk]]) 14:15, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:::try [http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-built-in-spell-checker-feature-in-internet-explorer-10-ie10/ this] => [[User:Spudgfsh|<span style="color:green">Spudgfsh</span>]] ([[User Talk:Spudgfsh|<span style="color:red">Text Me!</span>]]) 14:22, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
::::Ah yes, I can see where the spellchecker options are now (tools, manage add-ons, spelling correction). It confirms that English (UK) is the default setting so I guess it isn't working properly. I have disabled the function which isn't ideal but better than the alternative. Thanks--[[User:Ykraps|Ykraps]] ([[User talk:Ykraps|talk]]) 14:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

==Timestamp problem==

For some reason over at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Deletion Archive/2013]] I can not list <nowiki>*{{afdl|1+2=Paradise||9 December 2013|31 December 2013|Keep}}</nowiki> the entry is for a complete AfD entry that gets archived manually once the AfDs are concluded. Looking at the other entries I do not have or not have ever had this problem. - [[User:Knowledgekid87|Knowledgekid87]] ([[User talk:Knowledgekid87|talk]]) 22:09, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

For the record what appears is this: <nowiki>[[]] at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/9 December 2013 (31 December 2013 – Error: Invalid time.)</nowiki> Rather than this (An example): 
<br>
*{{afdl|Eri Miyajima||15 December 2013|21 December 2013|Keep}}

- [[User:Knowledgekid87|Knowledgekid87]] ([[User talk:Knowledgekid87|talk]]) 22:11, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

{{fixed}} When including a link that includes the equals, the equals must be escaped, otherwise the text before the equals is parsed as a parameter. Here, you are trying to include [[1+2=Paradise]], so you need to encode it as <nowiki>1+2{{=}}Paradise</nowiki>. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 22:28, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

:Thanks! Happy new year! =) - [[User:Knowledgekid87|Knowledgekid87]] ([[User talk:Knowledgekid87|talk]]) 23:24, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
== [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] gives different page preview ==

Take a look at [[Special:Permalink/587032112|User:EEng/sandbox]]. Here's what you'll see -- displayed here using the <nowiki>{{:User:EEng/sandbox}}</nowiki>:

<!--{{:User:EEng/sandbox}}-->''[Template invocation removed since sandbox has changed, invalidating example -- 18:27, 14 April 2014 (UTC)]''

[End of display of User:EEng/sandbox]

Now go to [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] -- in the ''Input text:'' box enter <nowiki>{{:User:EEng/sandbox}}</nowiki> -- hit OK.

Look at the Preview -- it's not the same as you see here above -- there's only one instance of
:1. ^ Ref text
instead of two. (At least that's what ''I'' get -- something about my preferences or something?)

How can this be? What's going on??? ''Please'' don't give me a lecture about how I shouldn't be doing whatever I'm doing. Just explain how the preview in the template expander can possibly be different from the live page. 
<br>[[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 00:41, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
<br>P.S. I'm guessing this is related to this [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Reflist&oldid=585901964#Wrong_error_message]
: This is (poorly) documented at [[Template:Reflist#Multiple uses]]. What's happening is that MediaWiki caches the expansion of templates with no parameters, so instead of re-processing the second invocation of {{tl|reflist}} it simply repeats the output from the first invocation. Adding any parameter, even a dummy parameter that has no effect on the template's output, will bypass this caching and so give the correct output. 
: [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] also gives the correct output here because it half-parses the wikitext to get new wikitext and then parses that half-parsed wikitext again to give the preview. To see something else fun, try passing <code><nowiki>{{#tag:ref|Ref A<ref>Ref B</ref>}}</nowiki></code> to it.
: Bugs [[bugzilla:46815|46815]] and [[bugzilla:31834|31834]] are related. Gerrit changes [[gerrit:99792|99792]] and [[gerrit:99793|99793]] would fix this issue for {{tl|reflist}}, but they're being held up because Parsoid (the thing that transforms between wikitext and HTML for VisualEditor) would probably need changes to keep up. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 03:10, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
::It all makes sense once you point out the caching. This leads to a new concern though. I knew about {{t|reflist}}'s "repeat" behavior and was experimenting with it as part of a crude hack I won't go into. But it's clear now it's not a feature, but an accident. I had interpreted [[Template:Reflist#Multiple uses]] this way: if you use reflist twice, the second invocation gives all the same refs as the first ''plus'' any new ones added by < ref> in the meantime; in other words I interpreted the difference between reflist with, or without, any parameter as being that reflist ''with'' a parm outputs the accumulated refs, then clears the list, while reflist ''without'' any parm just outputs, but doesn't clear. Though the presence/absence of a parm was a puzzling way to control this behavior, I imagined this was a feature provided for some case (though I couldn't think of what that case could be) in which we need to output a set of refs, then later output the same set augmented by new ones accumulated since.<p>But that's not how it works, and how it ''does'' work seems completely useless, so why is it even documented? Depending on how the caching is implemented, or implemented in the future, this "repeat" behavior could stop working, or only work sometimes/unpredictably -- in fact our discussion above is an example. So why make this a documented "feature" the implementers are stuck with? Shouldn't the documentation read something like</p>
:::<del>''If {{template|reflist}} is used multiple times on the same page, each invocation must have at least one parameter e.g. {{template|reflist|group="Notes"}} or <code><nowiki>{{reflist|group=}}</nowiki></code>; otherwise, unpredictable behavior, ''which may change with future implementations of Mediwiki'', will result.''</del>
::(That's not exactly what you'd say -- the technical details are slightly off -- but you get the idea.)<p>Of course, I'm assuming no one actually uses this "repeat" behavior for any valid reason -- does anyone know of an example? Even if so, the documentation could at least deprecate such use. I glanced at the bugs you linked and somewhere it's suggested forcing the engine to recognize that reflist can't be cached at all, and of course that assumes there's no legit use of this "feature" either. [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 21:11, 21 December 2013 (UTC)</p>
::: It's supposed to be documented as a known bug, with a workaround noted. Why it is misleading the way it is (or was), I have no idea. If anyone is actually using this as a feature... [http://xkcd.com/1172/ this] would be apropos. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 22:30, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
:::: If it helps, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=314911936 this edit] by [[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]] seems to have introduced the misleading wording and the strange idea of "closing" the references. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 22:51, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
::::Ref tags are part of en extension. There is an incomplete description of the behaviour at [[mw:Extension:Cite/Cite.php#.3Creferences_.2F.3E]]. Since 2009 [//www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:Cite/Cite.php&diff=286982&oldid=286964] it has said: "In the case of multiple references-tags on a page, each gives the references defined in the ref-tags from the previous references-tag. In the case that these references-tags are produced by templates, each gives the references defined in the ref-tags before the first references-tag, and there is an error message that there is a ref-tag but not a references-tag." It doesn't mention that you only get an error message if there are refs after the first references-tag, and it doesn't mention that the whole issue goes away if the templates have parameters. <nowiki>{{reflist|}}</nowiki> is enough. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:02, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
:::::There used to be a long and very confusing explanation. I tried to summarize it and include the existing practice of closing references. Yes, you can use a pipe alone, but it is liable to get deleted by follow on editors. Multiple reflists are mainly used where there are separate explanatory notes, and we have templates such as {{tl|notelist}}. You can also see them on talk pages. As for a legitimate use of caching and repeating references, I can't think of any.  --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 18:37, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

===Modifying reflist documentation===
My point is that what we have now is a ''short'' and confusing explanation. Any reason I shouldn't propose the following suggested text at [[Template talk:Reflist#Multiple uses]]?
::<del>If {{template|reflist}} is used multiple times on the same page, each invocation must explicitly specify <code>group=</code> e.g. <code><nowiki>{{reflist|group=""}}</nowiki></code> (which is otherwise equivalent to <code><nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki></code><code>) or <nowiki>{{reflist|group="Notes"}}</nowiki></code>; otherwise unpredictable behavior, ''which may change in the future'', will result.</del>
This slightly overspecifies the workaround (actually any parameter would do, and up to one invocation with no parameters can be tolerated) but complete accuracy would serve no purpose. I also thought about mentioning the earlier ''close=1'' advice, but that also seemed more confusing than helpful. [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 19:54, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
::::'close=1' is already in use, and removal from the documentation will cause confusion for follow on editors who will investigate it, find no documentation and remove it. I had been considering adding 'close' to the template, so the '=1' would not be needed. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 20:06, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
:You don't need to complicate it by mentioning specific parameters, let alone unnecessary parameters that will only confuse. Try one of these:
:*If {{tlx|reflist}} is used more than once on the same page, there should be no more than one that has no parameters.
:*If {{tlx|reflist}} is used more than once on the same page, only one of them may be used without parameters.
:*If {{tlx|reflist}} is used more than once on the same page, only one of them may lack parameters.
:Keep It Short and Sweet. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:49, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
::We disagree about what constitutes simplicity. Your text turns the directions into a logical puzzle ("at most one should have none") just to add flexibility that's of no value ("Oh good! We can leave out the parameters on one of them!" -- big deal!).
::You confuse simpler with shorter (KISS stands for ''Keep It Simple, Stupid,'' not ''Keep It Short and Sweet,'' as I've always heard it): a definite thing to do (you can always specify "group=") is better than giving the user a choice of which parameter to use -- few editors know even what "group=" is, much less the more obscure parameters.
::Your text also doesn't explain why the rule must be followed. Without that, people may decide by experiment that some other approach seems to work, setting the stage for trouble under a later implementation.
::And finally, your text doesn't address Gadget's point about people removing "close=" if they don't see it documented. I do think now that "close=" should be mentioned. 
::So try this:
:::<del>If {{template|reflist}} is used multiple times on the same page, each invocation must specify <code>group=</code>; i.e. use <code><nowiki>{{reflist|group=""}}</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki></code>. Otherwise unpredictable behavior, ''which may change in the future'', will result. (An earlier technique involving a ''close=1'' parameter is now deprecated.)</del>
:: <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/EEng|contribs]]) 22:40, 22 December 2013 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
:::Again, my concern is that follow on editors will remove a blank 'group' parameter since it is not obvious what it does. Why do we need to change an established practice? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 09:45, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
::::Hmmm. I see your point. Christ, what a mess. More thought is needed. [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 11:02, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
{{od|4}}
Gadget's right. Using ''group'' to suppress caching risks its being unknowingly removed when it's <code><nowiki>group=""</nowiki></code>. So how about this:
:<del>'''If {{template|reflist}} is used multiple times on the same page, each invocation must specify <code><nowiki>|close=1</nowiki></code> e.g.'''</del>
:'''*<del><code><nowiki>{{reflist|close=1}}</nowiki></code></del>'''
:'''*<del><code><nowiki>{{reflist|close=1|group=Note}}</nowiki></code></del>'''
:'''*<del><code><nowiki>{{reflist|close=1|35em}}</nowiki></code></del>'''
:'''<del>Otherwise unpredictable behavior, which may change in the future, will result.</del>'''
[[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 19:02, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
::You don't need 'close' for the second and third examples. To reset the reflist cache, you just need any parameter. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 13:51, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
::::: <small>To avoid further confusion on this topic, I offer this correction: it's not "reset the reflist cache", it's "avoid the template cache". [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 16:08, 25 December 2013 (UTC)</small>
{{od|2}}
Gadget, obviously I understand that -- I said way back, "This slightly overspecifies the workaround (actually any parameter would do, and up to one invocation with no parameters can be tolerated) but complete accuracy would serve no purpose."  What do you want to say? This?...
::A reflist must have at least one parameter if there is more than one reflist on the page. Exception: There can be ONE reflist with no parameter, in which case all the other reflists must have at least one parameter. The parameter can be one of the normal parameters e.g. group=Note, columns=2, etc. but if none of the normal parameters is desired you can use, group="", which doesn't do anything but is still a parameter and so satisfies the need for a parameter to be present, but if you don't like that or think that maybe someone will remove the group="" because (as we just said) it doesn't do anything, except it really does do something in the sense that it's a parameter whose presence solves the problem with multiple reflists one one page -- in that case you might wnat to use close=1, which is not really a parameter but will fool the...
It's silly. By telling the user that, on any page with multiple reflists, he should ''always'' use close=1 (even when we know it's not necessary) you're giving a simple, easy-to-remember rule and no harm is done. Further, if we encourage editors to rely on regular parameters to force no caching, it's easy to see how things will mysteriously go wrong when someone unknowingly removes the only parameter e.g. col=2 -- in fact, that was ''your'' point a few posts back.

Of course, if we ''really'' want a super-simple rule, we could just say that reflist should ''always'' have close=1, period, all the time, on all pages. But next thing you know some gnome will set up a bot to add close=1 to the 3.000,000 pages with exactly one reflist, and then angry villagers will be at the gates brandishing their implements of husbandry threatening to set fire to the castle. 

Per Anomie's comment, I suppose we could say to use ''nocache=1'' or ''cache=0'' or something, but then we'd have to explain why we're not using ''close=1'' anymore.

So, further thoughts please on the current proposal (in bold above). [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 21:59, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

:<small>''[Proposed text by Gadget]:''</small>
::If {{tl|Reflist}} is used multiple times without a parameter, each subsequent use will repeat the output of the first instance due to template caching. This may also result in a misleading error message:
:::{{red|{{MediaWiki:Cite error refs without references|nocat=true}}}}
::Where a page include multiple uses of {{tl|Reflist}}, each subsequent use should include at least one parameter, such as '''refs''' or '''group'''. If these parameters are not appropriate, then the practice is to use {{tlx|Reflist|2=close=1}}. Do not use '''close''' without the '''=1''', as it will be parsed into the '''column-width'''.
:--<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 14:14, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

::::Again, here's my proposed wording from a few posts back, slightly modified:
:::::'''If {{template|reflist}} is used multiple times on the same page, each invocation must specify <code><nowiki>|close=1</nowiki></code> e.g.'''
::::::'''*<code><nowiki>{{reflist|close=1}}</nowiki></code>'''
::::::'''*<code><nowiki>{{reflist|close=1|group=Note}}</nowiki></code>'''
::::::'''*<code><nowiki>{{reflist|close=1|35em}}</nowiki></code>'''
:::::'''Otherwise unpredictable behavior, which may change in the future, will result. (Symptom of not doing this are sometimes the message {{red|MediaWiki:Cite error refs without references}}, or the same list of references output twice.)'''
::::Gadget, what in the world is the point of all that complex explanation? Why tell the user about caching, ''and document the repetition of the reflist contents as if it's a feature to be supported in future???'' If we're gonna warn them "do not use ''close'' without the ''=1''", then why not warn them "do not use the German ''Schließen'' instead of ''close''", or "do not misspell ''Reflist''"?  I'm serious. What's all that stuff get us? Please explain. (I suppose we could put a footnote -- no kidding -- giving a technical explanation for those interested.) [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 20:35, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
:::::I have no better wording. And I don't know why the Mediawiki page isn't rendering for you, but the way you modified it certainly breaks it. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 02:02, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::You have no better wording than ''what???'' Which wording are you talking about -- yours or mine? Are you saying mine is OK, or you prefer yours? And if the latter, why? Can you please give a straight answer so we can be done with this? [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 14:26, 27 December 2013 (UTC) P.S. Not that it's a big deal, but the errmsg as you had coded it didn't show up at all on both IE and Chrome (whether I was logged in or not).
:::::::<bump> [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 15:38, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
{{od}}
Discussion continued at [[Template_talk:Reflist#Proposed_change_to_.22Multiple_uses.22_doc]]. [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 16:35, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

== Odd floating text at the top of a number of pages ==

On a number of pages ([[Redneck]], [[Lil Wayne discography]], [[Indian Removal Act]], [[West Side Story]] are a few examples) the following text is floating against the top edge of the browser window (in both Firefox and Safari): <nowiki>[[Image:Svetlana font example.png|List of mass shootings in the United States]]</nowiki>. The only common denominator between all these pages is an error that shows up in red in the References section: "Wikilink embedded in URL title (help)". The error also apparently adds the hidden category [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_citations_having_wikilinks_embedded_in_URL_titles Category:Pages with citations having wikilinks embedded in URL titles], yet none of the pages are to be found in that category. WP search doesn't return any instance of the floating text anywhere, but I did find a number of the pages using Google. I'm sure correcting the reference error would solve the problem on a page-by-page basis, but there is apparently a deeper problem that may need to be looked at. --<span style="outline:1px dotted #d1bfa4;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#124;</span> [[User:Uncle Milty|<span style="color:#000051;">'''Uncle Milty'''</span>]] &#124; [[User talk:Uncle Milty|<span style="color:#005c00;">talk</span>]] <span style="color:#ffffff;">&#124;</span></span> 16:34, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:The [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Redneck|"Related changes"]] for [[Redneck]] highlights recent vandalism to [[Template:Single+space]]. Although the template has been repaired, the job queue hasn't got round to processing all the affected articles. The text at Redneck disappeared when I [[Help:purge|purge]]d the page. I guess the vandalised "single+space" was being added somewhere in the article where the parser won't process an image request. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 16:56, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::Ok, the RecentChangesLinked search is a nice tool. I'll try that in the future. Thanks. And thank you for your help. --<span style="outline:1px dotted #d1bfa4;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#124;</span> [[User:Uncle Milty|<span style="color:#000051;">'''Uncle Milty'''</span>]] &#124; [[User talk:Uncle Milty|<span style="color:#005c00;">talk</span>]] <span style="color:#ffffff;">&#124;</span></span> 17:09, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

=== Radiohead ===
When viewing the [[Radiohead]] article, the text "Image:Svetlana font example.png|link=List of mass shootings in the United States" appears at the top of the page and then scrolls down as I view the page obscuring the article text. Same in various browsers. [[User:danno uk|<span style="color:#339900;">'''da'''</span><span style="color:#009900;">'''nn'''</span><span style="color:#006600;">'''o'''</span>]]_[[User talk:Danno_uk|<span style="color:#336633;">'''u'''</span><span style="color:#003300;">'''k'''</span>]] 02:57, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:A template was vandalized on the 29th. Purging the article got rid of it for me; do you still see it? [[User:Chris857|Chris857]] ([[User talk:Chris857|talk]]) 03:16, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::Nope, clear for me too. Thanks. How could I have seen that/fixed it myself? [[User:danno uk|<span style="color:#339900;">'''da'''</span><span style="color:#009900;">'''nn'''</span><span style="color:#006600;">'''o'''</span>]]_[[User talk:Danno_uk|<span style="color:#336633;">'''u'''</span><span style="color:#003300;">'''k'''</span>]] 03:25, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:::I guess there are maybe three relevant points. 1) This is related to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)&oldid=588562289#Template_Vandalism a series of edits] adding fake "ads" to articles, so knowing about that helped. 2) If the content isn't directly in the article, it is probably in a transcluded template. [[Special:RecentChangesLinked]] is helpful, since you can enter an article, restrict to templates, and see what's changed recently (such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=10&tagfilter=&target=Radiohead&title=Special%3ARecentChangesLinked]). 3) If nothing is obvious, [[Wikipedia:Purge|purging]] is often a good idea/sanity check. [[User:Chris857|Chris857]] ([[User talk:Chris857|talk]]) 03:37, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Many thanks, I'll bear those tips in mind. And a happy incoming new year to you. [[User:danno uk|<span style="color:#339900;">'''da'''</span><span style="color:#009900;">'''nn'''</span><span style="color:#006600;">'''o'''</span>]]_[[User talk:Danno_uk|<span style="color:#336633;">'''u'''</span><span style="color:#003300;">'''k'''</span>]] 03:58, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Problem in page ===
Hi, someone could correct the error in the page [[Doctor Who (series 1)]]?
there is :
<nowiki><div style="position:fixed; center:0; top:0;">[[Image:Svetlana font example.png|link=List of mass shootings in the United States]]</div></nowiki> in the source page. I don't know where it commes.
Thanks in advance. [[User:Hunsu|Hunsu]] ([[User talk:Hunsu|talk]]) 18:34, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:Template vandalism that has been fixed.  [[WP:Purge|Purge]] the page and it'll go away. [[User:Nthep|NtheP]] ([[User talk:Nthep|talk]]) 18:43, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thanks. which template was vandalised? [[User:Hunsu|Hunsu]] ([[User talk:Hunsu|talk]]) 18:47, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{tl|Single+space}} [[User:Nthep|NtheP]] ([[User talk:Nthep|talk]]) 19:07, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

== Post request ==

Is there a relatively simple way to do a post request in Java? (this is for a Wikipedia bot) --[[User:King jakob c 2|Jakob]] ([[user talk:King jakob c 2|talk]]) 20:34, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3324717/sending-http-post-request-in-java], [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4205980/java-sending-http-parameters-via-post-method-easily]. Some Java MW bot frameworks: [http://code.google.com/p/wiki-java/], [http://jwbf.sourceforge.net/]. Also try the docs. [[User:PiRSquared17|<b style="color:#f90;font-family:Arial">πr<sup>2</sup></b>]] ([[User talk:PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#0f3;font-family:Arial">'''t'''</i>]] • [[Special:Contributions/PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#03f;font-family:Arial">'''c'''</i>]]) 22:13, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

==Problem with image formatting==

I have run into a problem with the layout of certain entries that involved images. It was suggested that I should post this question here, so here it goes. One thing first, please, please, please, even though this is the "technical" discussion board, I absolutely loathe all of the jargon that gets bandied about on Wiki pages. I would love to have an answer to this, but not if it requires a bunch of crazy links and references to bot and projects and blah-blah-blah. I truly don't mean to be unappreciative of those with lots of knowledge, but in my humble opinion, the jargon one encounters on Wikimedia is its #1 shortcoming. With that disclaimer, here is my best summary of the problem I've run into:

So, I've been playing around with this, and the true nature of the problem has struck me. It seems that WP "protects" photos from being overlaid by text, but that doesn't seem to apply to the corresponding footnote numbers - just the unique text. When there is a photo on the left of a short entry, and if the list of references starts before the text has wrapped up a point under the bottom of the photo, the numbers of the footnotes overlap the photo even though the text of the footnotes remains to the right of the photo. Using the CLEAR option works pretty well, but even using clear|left or clear|right still results in a white space and pushes the first footnote down to the first line of text that clears the bottom of the photo. It might just be me, but the appearance of that is not great. 

The same problem happens when you have a list of bullet points (say, within a subsection of an article) and the same section containing the list of bullet points also includes a left-justified photo. The text of the bullet point automatically bumps to the right, just clear of the photo. But, the bullet point itself stays stuck on the left margin. Especially when the bullet list section of the article is in the middle, it can look really bad to force a big white space section using the CLEAR option. The bottom line just seems to be that WP automatically prevents overlaps of images by forcing user-entered text to the right to clear the image, BUT auto-created materials like footnote numbers and bullet points remain stuck on the left margin even if that space is already occupied by a photo. Isn't there any way to automatically position the WP-generate characters (e.g., footnote numbers and bullet points) to the right of photos along with the accompanying text?[[User:ProfReader|ProfReader]] ([[User talk:ProfReader|talk]]) 22:10, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

I just typed up a little blurb in my personal page ([[User:ProfReader/sandbox]]) to show what I'm talking about. I know that there are workaround solutions for this, but just assume that the photo MUST remain on the left and that I simply want BOTH the text of the footnote AND the footnote number itself to appear to the left of the photo, is there a way to do that? [[User:ProfReader|ProfReader]] ([[User talk:ProfReader|talk]]) 22:19, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:What browser are you using?  In your sandbox, I can see the "1." in FireFox 26.0, but not in Internet Explorer 11.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 22:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

:This is a known issue, which is the result of a design choice in the wiki software that involves how lists are rendered. That choice was to place the bullets (or numbers) outside the space occupied by the list item itself. Normally a browser accounts for this, but when a list is placed to the right of any left-floating (left-aligned) block element such as an image or table, browsers no longer takes the space for these bullets into account. This is a flaw in CSS, the system responsible for how pages are laid out, and there is no 'fix'. but there is a workaround by using the {{tl|flowlist}} template; it will contain the list, and its bullets, in it's own space. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 22:49, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
::The reference list is already inside a {{tag|div|o}}. I'll have to look and see how that interacts. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 23:01, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
:::The {{tag|div|o}} will need something like <code>style="overflow-x: hidden"</code> to get behaviour similar to the {{tl|flowlist}} template. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 00:04, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

::::Thanks for the feedback. I've been using Internet Explorer. I just tried a different browser, and the issue was resolved! Lesson learned: Stop using Internet Explorer. Until a universal fix for all browsers is achieved, I'll just use something else when I use WP. <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:ProfReader|ProfReader]] ([[User talk:ProfReader|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/ProfReader|contribs]]) 00:19, 31 December 2013 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
:::::{{abbr|FWIW|For what it's worth}}, I also see the same issue in [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] 12.16. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 20:52, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::I added the <code>flowlist</code> class to {{tl|reflist/sandbox}} and applied it to [[User:ProfReader/sandbox]]. The reference number now appears in IE11. Further discussion at [[Template talk:Reflist#Flowlist]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 12:29, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::And Edokter pointed out the problem with that. Looking at [[User:ProfReader/sandbox]] again, it wasn't quite correct in Firefox- the reference list was still too far to the left as compared to the References heading. Wrapping {{tl|reflist}} in {{tl|flowlist}} resolved that. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 13:56, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::The fix turned out to be simple. Documented at [[Template:Reflist#Image flow issues]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 16:12, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

== Action-createpage ==
{{tracked|59200}}

Does anyone know what system messages [[MediaWiki:Action-createpage]] is used in, besides [[MediaWiki:Permissionserrorstext-withaction]]? I ask because if a registered non-admin tries to create a create-protected page (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Create_a_page&action=edit]), then permissionserrortext-withaction gives them the message "You do not have permission to create pages, for the following reasons:". This isn't true, as they ''do'' have permission to create pages, they just don't have permission to create create-protected pages. I'm thinking that we could change action-createpage to "create this page" instead of just "create pages", but that isn't going to work if other system messages use it in a different way. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:47, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:I've filed a bug about this: [[bugzilla:59200]]. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:54, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

== Failing to type ==

Sometimes when I'm writing in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Teahouse]], the edit page sometimes doesn't register me pressing the letter keys. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 01:33, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:Does the problem occur on other Wikipedia pages? On other websites or programs? What browser/OS are you using?&#32;~[[User:HueSatLum|Hue]][[User talk:HueSatLum#top|Sat]][[Special:Contributions/HueSatLum|Lum]] 01:36, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::No, the problem is only in the teahouse. I'm using Internet Explorer 9. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 04:23, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::Try refreshing the page. Clear the cookies and cache if needeed using your browser's settings. [[User:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:cyan;">'''///Euro'''</span><span style="color:grey;">'''Car'''</span>]][[User talk:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:orange;">'''GT'''</span>]] 04:43, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Is it the edit-notice with WP_teahouse_logo.png?''' I think it's all the dotted lines at [[wp:Teahouse]]; just kidding. When editing a section in [[wp:Teahouse/Questions]], there is a large, in-your-face edit-notice which displays a tedious tree-house logo image ([[:File:WP_teahouse_logo.png]]) in cumbersome PNG format, rather than rapid [[JPEG]] format, and I wonder if other processing is involved, to delay the browser when first trying to enter text into the window. It might be good to click the section to edit, then wait 15 seconds for the browser to process the edit-notice (or related JavaScript?), and then begin typing text into the window. Otherwise, when clicking a section, and immediately typing text, the browser might have delayed the echoing of characters. Thanks for noting the problem, as there are often techniques to make Wikipedia run 3x to 500x times faster, once the bottleneck is pinpointed. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 16:44, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

== Moving a file from one wikipedia to another without moving to commons ==

Hi, please could someone help me - i would like to move [https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/קובץ:כתובת_מקיר_מואב.jpg] this file to english wikipedia (from hebrew wikipedia). It has fair use rationale on the [[El-Kerak Inscription]] page, but would not qualify for commons. Is there an easy way to do this? [[User:Oncenawhile|Oncenawhile]] ([[User talk:Oncenawhile|talk]]) 16:29, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:Normally, one would use the [[Special:Import|import]] function, but I don't know if that is possible in this case. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 16:33, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::Try adding a Copy to Wikimedia Commons template in the Hebrew Wikipedia and once it has been copied, it is ready to be linked here. [[User:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:cyan;">'''///Euro'''</span><span style="color:grey;">'''Car'''</span>]][[User talk:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:orange;">'''GT'''</span>]] 17:03, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
:::He said the image does not qualify for Commons, as it is a fair use image. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 17:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
::::True, ill find another option to find. [[User:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:cyan;">'''///Euro'''</span><span style="color:grey;">'''Car'''</span>]][[User talk:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:orange;">'''GT'''</span>]] 17:23, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Why not just download it from hewiki and upload it here? [[User:PiRSquared17|<b style="color:#f90;font-family:Arial">πr<sup>2</sup></b>]] ([[User talk:PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#0f3;font-family:Arial">'''t'''</i>]] • [[Special:Contributions/PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#03f;font-family:Arial">'''c'''</i>]]) 22:10, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

== How do I upload a logo for a sports event? ==

Hello.

How do I upload a logo for a sports event, and under which conditions is it allowed (for copyright reasons)? I'd like to upload the logo for the [[2014 European Allround Speed Skating Championships]], just like the one present in the [[2012 European Allround Speed Skating Championships|2012 article]].

The 2014 logo is available [http://www.isu.org/en/speed-skating/events/2014/01/essent-isu-european-speed-skating-championships-2014 here].

(Unfortunately that website, belonging to the [[International Skating Union]] has recently gone through a makeover, and the result is ... mediocre in my view. For instance, I'm getting "Done, but with errors on the page.")

Maybe someone could help out with the upload?

Thanks in advance.

[[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 17:08, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:Go to [http://static.isu.org/media/79175/ess-2014-hamar.jpg?mode=pad&width=240&height=240 this page] (direct link to their logo), download it, and then upload it under whatever filename you want.  For the description page, you should basically start with the rationale from the [[:File:2012 ISU ESSC logo.png|2012 logo]] and just replace "2012" with "2014" where applicable, along with giving the correct source URL instead of "The logo may be obtained from the official website of the event (http://www.essc2012.hu/)."  This should be sufficient; logos are almost always fair use when used to identify the owner of the logo, since that's the whole point of a logo.  Two other things: (1) Copyright questions can be sent to [[WP:MCQ]], which is dedicated to image copyright.  (2) To get the URL of the logo, visit the page, rightclick the image, get the image properties and copy the URL into your browser, and cut everything off the end of the URL after the height=360 bit.  Sorry if you already knew this, but your comments made me think you were confused.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 19:48, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

::Thanks for the help. I have uploaded the logo now, and added it to [[2014 European Allround Speed Skating Championships|the article]]. I moved the pic of the venue (Vikingskipet) further down, but now the caption for that pic does not show. Why is that?
::[[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 13:46, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:::The caption only shows if you include <code>|thumb</code> in the image link. The venue picture in the article has already been {{diff|2014 European Allround Speed Skating Championships|prev|589013366|fixed}} by [[User:Ukexpat|Ukexpat]]. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:22, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

== Commons down ==
{{tracked|59221}}
{{serif|1=MediaWiki internal error.<br>
Exception caught inside exception handler.<br>
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.}}

Eh? <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 18:40, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

:I get the same at [[:commons:]]. If click the Commons icon at a file page like [[:File:Raupe des Buchsbaumzünsler, Cydalima perspectalis 24.JPG]] then I get [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raupe_des_Buchsbaumz%C3%BCnsler,_Cydalima_perspectalis_24.JPG] which currently says "[45465c86] 2014-01-02 18:41:28: Fatal exception of type MWException". [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 18:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::I got the same. Came here to see if it was just me but obvious not. Is there a page on Meta where this should (hopefully) have been reported? [[User:Agne27 |Agne]][[Special:Contributions/Agne27|<sup>Cheese</sup>]]/[[User Talk:Agne27|<sup>Wine</sup>]] 18:48, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:::I had the same issue.  Weird. --[[User:Coemgenus|Coemgenus]] ([[User talk:Coemgenus|talk]]) 18:55, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:::[[mw:Bugzilla|Bugzilla]] is the place to report it. I found bug [[bugzilla:59221]], which appears to be about the same problem happening at Wikivoyage (same error message, bug logged at 18:53). I've noted that it's affecting Commons too on that bug. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 18:59, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Same here, I can't get anything to load, not even the main page. What's going on?--[[User:Underlying lk|eh bien mon prince]] ([[User talk:Underlying lk|talk]]) 19:04, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:Further, this issue is only affecting web access to Commons; the API works fine. Looking at [//commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=recentchanges&prop=info|revisions&rvprop=user|comment recent changes] via the API, I see a few non-bot users successfully making edits, including IP address users. I can't read the pages they are editing with the usual web interface, even logged out. Since some people are making edits, it would appear not everyone is affected by this. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 19:25, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Back up right now for the first time in an hour. [[User:Marcus Qwertyus|Marcus Qwertyus]] ([[User talk:Marcus Qwertyus|talk]]) 19:29, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:I'm getting a comparable problem, running IE11 in Windows 8.1, and I use Monobook both here and there.  I've been getting HTTP 500 errors all day.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 19:40, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Here in Brazil, the access to Wikimedia Commons was normalized after the site has been unavailable for a few minutes. (Tested in Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63, Mozilla Firefox 26.0 and Windows Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.16476.) [[User:Fúlvio|Fúlvio]] ([[User talk:Fúlvio|talk]]) 19:47, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::This is handled in [[bugzilla:59221]], as written before. Issue should be fixed now, thanks to Reedy. Sorry for the inconvenience & thanks for reporting it here. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 21:09, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

== Talk page reorganization tool ==

Long ago I made a silly decision to organize my user talk archives by month. Is there a tool to refactor them into a yearly format? <small>[[User talk:NE Ent|NE Ent]]</small> 21:19, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Edit each year and wp:Subst 12 months:''' The merge will be quick enough by using top-level [[wp:subst]]'ing in each year's archive:
::::: {&#123;subst:NE Ent/Archive/2009/January&#125;} - for each 12 per year
:Once all 12 months are listed, then copy before saving and just change the year number in the next year's page. However, since the old archive pages will still exist, consider naming with a year-prefix "yr" as in "/Archive/yr2009" or such. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 12:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

== not getting email confirmation ==

I have changed my email in settings and have requested an email confirmation be sent.  WP says it has been sent, but it's over 30 min and I am getting nothing.  I confirmed the email address was correct.  I am getting email to the new address from other locations.  Can anyone either fix, explain, or offer alternative way to confirm?  Thanks. [[User:Medeis|μηδείς]] ([[User talk:Medeis|talk]]) 22:37, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

:Emails in general can be delayed, blocked or disappear for different reasons. It's hard to know wether you are getting all the mails you should. See [[Wikipedia:Email confirmation#Known issues]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 23:27, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

== Restore vs Restart -- Technical Question ==

Here is a common scenario ''as I understand things'':
# an article stub is created by an editor.
# other editors may or may not work on the stub.
# at some point the article/stub and related talk and history pages are deleted for insufficiency (WP:N, CSD:A7, whatever).   
# later an editor finds the needed sources and decides to resurrect the article.
At this point there are four options: 
* (A) restore the deleted article pages into the mainspace and add in the new material.
* (B) restore and [[WP:INCUBATE]] the article pages.
* (C) restore and [[WP:USERFY]] the article pages.
* (D) restart the deleted article as a new (same name) article written from scratch.
QUESTION: What happens to the related pages (especially the edit history) of the deleted first version of the page if the page is restarted (option D above)? Are they overwritten or can they be accessed somehow (by an admin or higher I assume) if needed?
[[User:Formerly6697|<big>'''F6697'''</big>]]<sup>[[Special:Contributions/66.97.209.215|  <i><span style="color:green">FORMERLY</span></i>  ]][[Special:Contributions/Formerly6697|''' 66.97.209.215 ''']]</sup><sub>[[User talk:Formerly6697|TALK]]</sub> 10:06, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:Everything is still there and can be recovered and even reintegrated into the the new article. This is called a history merge and detailed by [[Wikipedia:How_to_fix_cut-and-paste_moves]]. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 11:17, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:You can ask for restoration of the history in such a case at [[Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion]] or by contacting any admin in [[:Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles]]. I'm in that category and would be happy to consider any requests like the scenario described above. '''[[User:Graham87|Graham]]'''[[User talk:Graham87|<span style="color:green;">87</span>]] 04:28, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

== Image disappearing ==

For some reason, [[:File:Paulette Carlson.jpg]] is redlinked on [[Paulette Carlson]]. I ''know'' there was a valid image in the article just yesterday. And neither the local nor Commons shows the image as being deleted. Where did it go? <span style="color:green">'''Ten Pound Hammer'''</span> • <sup>([[User talk:TenPoundHammer|What did I screw up now?]])</sup> 08:13, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:I see it in the [//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&page=File:Paulette_Carlson.jpg commons deletion log]. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 08:24, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
==New classic edit toolbar buttons no longer appear to work in new version on mediawiki?==
[[File:Toolbar.PNG|right]]
New [[Help:Edit_toolbar|classic edit toolbar buttons]],   which I created myself, no longer appear in the new version on mediawiki 1.22 monobook skin.

I created this page: [[User:Igottheconch/common.js]] with several edit toolbar buttons, and nothing appears, even after I refreshed the page.  I have tried this on three other wikis, mediawiki.org and two personal wikis, and these new edit toolbar buttons do not appear.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

[[User:Igottheconch|Igottheconch]] ([[User talk:Igottheconch|talk]]) 18:54, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
: {{re|Igottheconch}} <code>mwCustomEditButtons</code> is no longer supported, you can achieve the exact same functionality using <code>mw.toolbar.addButton()</code>: basically, replace structures like <code>mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] = { ... }</code> with <code>mw.toolbar.addButton({ ... })</code>. This change has been discussed at {{phab|49872}} and was announced via Tech News a few months ago. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 20:55, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Sigh, i still can't get it to work.

How would I change the below to something that would work?  Thank you.

<pre>
 if (mwCustomEditButtons) {
 
   mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] = {
     "imageFile": "http://images.wikia.com/central/images/7/74/Button_comment.png",
     "speedTip": "Comment visible only for editors",
     "tagOpen": "<!-- ",
     "tagClose": " -->",
     "sampleText": "Insert comment here"}
  }
</pre>

[[User:Igottheconch|Igottheconch]] ([[User talk:Igottheconch|talk]]) 22:07, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
*Can anyone please help?  Thank you. [[User:Igottheconch|Igottheconch]] ([[User talk:Igottheconch|talk]]) 09:36, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

{{re|Igottheconch}} You have one '}' too many, that should never have worked :). The following is okay. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 11:17, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

<pre>
  mw.toolbar.addButton({
     "imageFile": "http://images.wikia.com/central/images/7/74/Button_comment.png",
     "speedTip": "Comment visible only for editors",
     "tagOpen": "<!-- ",
     "tagClose": " -->",
     "sampleText": "Insert comment here"
  });
</pre>

== A template purge bot or manual purge assistant might be handy  ==

(originally posted at [[WP:Help desk]])

There have been a rash of template vandalisms lately. Even after a vandalized template is fixed, pages may continue to show the vandalism until they have been purged. This is a rather tedious process to perform manually, especially since the vandals target highly used templates. The community is having a discussion about what if anything could/should be done: [[Wikipedia:VPP#Template_Vandalism]]. 

Is there a project page where 'bot and/or tools authors get together to exchange ideas? I was thinking that a nice 'bot and/or manual tool to have would be one that can seek out all pages that transclude a recently modified template and apply a purge to those pages. 

A manual tool would probably put less load on the servers, since I can easily imagine templates being edited in stages.

I was originally considering submitting a feature request to Bugzilla, but this doesn't exactly count as a bug or even a MediaWiki enhancement. [[User:Stigmatella aurantiaca|Stigmatella aurantiaca]] ([[User talk:Stigmatella aurantiaca|talk]]) 16:24, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:: To refresh pages after template changed, add "?action=purge". -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 08:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Wait 2 days or edit from transclusion-info page:''' The null-editing of pages has been updating the "''page was last modified"'' date at bottom, so for templates with fewer than 1,000 related pages, the automatic reformat should complete within 2 days. However, when major articles are affected, then they can be directly null-edited from the related transclusion-info page, such as:
::* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Convert/lb&action=info#mw-pageinfo-transclusions
: There is an edit-tab for each page listed, and high-visibility pages can be selected sooner (if known) from the list. Edit perhaps 40 pages, and then refresh the transclusion-info list (the page-count lags behind for days). Meanwhile, people have been discussing reduced editing of the mega-templates which flood the [[wp:job_queue]](s) with millions of pages to reformat. Otherwise, "Do not Panic" as there are numerous problems in thousands of pages, and the major readership has come to expect occasional vandalism to slip past, along with out-dated facts, or partial data. Also, some vandalism can be a ''good thing'', if it spurs idle users to fix the page, then copy-edit for clarity, and perhaps update other pages. We are too accustomed to seeing vandalism as an isolated, ''negative'' event, rather than an incentive for many users to actively help update thousands of other pages. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 18:51/20:43, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:: '''Example:''' A template changed at 21:28, 3 January 2013, triggered reformatting of 217 small pages (to hide a space in [[mixed numbers]]), which completed by early 5 January (within 40 hours), while the [[wp:Job_queue]](s) held over 500,000 jobs in processing. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 08:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

:In answer to the question about where to ask about bot ideas, I think you want [[WP:Bot requests]]. A manual tool would probably be better, since most template edits don't need the pages using the template to be updated immediately. It's only urgent cases such as vandalism where it's necessary.
:Regarding a Bugzilla request, MediaWiki already has a feature to update all pages that transclude a template: just edit the template. For templates with less than 500 transclusions, the updates happen almost immediately. If a template has more than 500 transclusions, the page updates are added to the [[Help:job queue|job queue]]. Unfortunately, MediaWiki is often slow to process the job queue, normally taking days. Since updates are processed in a queue, edits to well-used templates will slow down updates for other less well-used templates. Ideas to improve this should be submitted to Bugzilla, as I'm sure the developers would love to hear about them. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:11, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
:: The statement that "For templates with less than 500 transclusions, the updates happen almost immediately" is inconsistent with experience.  Over 24 hours ago (specifically at 20:48 UTC, 1 January 2014) I edited [[Template:Brian Grazer]] to remove a link to [[The Inside]] and replace it with a link to [[The Inside (TV series)]].  That template has 88 transclusions, far fewer than 500.  However, approximately 25 hours after making this edit, [[Special:WhatLinksHere/The Inside]] still shows about 80 incoming links, of which the vast majority are due solely to template transclusions.  (The discrepancy in numbers is probably because a few of the 88 articles transcluding the template happen to have been edited within the intervening time for other reasons.)  Incidentally, last month I did a similar template edit and watched the "what links here" count for the link I fixed for over 14 days, and there was no indication that the job queue had done anything at all in that time.  --[[User:R'n'B|R'n'B]] ([[User talk:R'n'B|call me]] Russ) 21:52, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Sorry, when I said "updates", I was simplifying slightly. By "update", I meant that the parser cache for those pages is invalidated, to be regenerated next time the page is viewed. (The parser cache stores the HTML sent to browsers when a page is viewed.) The updates to the link tables used by [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] happen separately. These updates always go through the job queue {{abbr|AFAIK|as far as I know}}, so might lag behind the pages themselves being re-rendered. Up to now this thread was only about what readers saw in articles, so I didn't mention the link table updates in my earlier post (it's confusing enough as it is!). –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:56, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: Well, the parser-cache version of pages can still lag behind for at least 2 days, after changing a template with only 217 transclusions. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 08:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

== Searching in contributions ==

How to search quickly in my contributions - only actions where i renamed pages? Is possible to obtain this result via query, or tag filter or something else? Thanks. [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 11:57, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:[[Special:Log/move/XXN]] should do it. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 12:07, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:You can also get to the same page by looking at the top of your Contributions page.  You will see a link to "Logs" and then pick "Move log" from the first drop down box.  [[User:GB fan|GB]]&nbsp;[[User talk:GB fan|fan]] 12:10, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thank you guys.<br />
Other challenge: someone, sometimes uses AWB; and his edits has summary edit description ”using AWB”. It's possible somehow to show only those contributions throught many other - to view not all contributions, but only those done with AWB? :) [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 13:35, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:Here is a link that does that for your edits, http://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/summary.py?name=XXN&search=AWB&server=enwiki&max=500&ns=  [[User:GB fan|GB]]&nbsp;[[User talk:GB fan|fan]] 14:00, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:: For rowiki not working http://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/summary.py?name=XXN&search=AWB&max=500&server=rowiki&ns= :)) [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 21:04, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

== "Disclaimers" not showing in mobile view ==
{{anchor|Disclaimers not showing in mobile view}}
The tiny little link to our disclaimers that appears among a cluster of tiny little links at the bottom of articles in "desktop view" doesn't appear in "mobile view" - at least when I use Dolphin browser on my Samsung Note (Android/Ice Cream Sandwich). Not sure who to tell. --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  13:13, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:Didn't appear on my Blackberry's default browser either, although IIRC it never appeared on the bottom section of articles on mobile view either. [[User:HMSSolent|<span style="color:blue;">'''hmssolent'''</span>]]\<sup>[[User talk:HMSSolent|<span style="color:brown;">''You rang?''</span>]]</sup> <sub>[[Special:Contributions/HMSSolent|<span style="color:green;">ship's log</span>]]</sub> 15:43, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:You could file a [[bugzilla:|bug]] under the mobile extension, or maybe someone from the WMF (ping {{U|Ironholds}}) can comment. [[User:PiRSquared17|<b style="color:#f90;font-family:Arial">πr<sup>2</sup></b>]] ([[User talk:PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#0f3;font-family:Arial">'''t'''</i>]] • [[Special:Contributions/PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#03f;font-family:Arial">'''c'''</i>]]) 15:58, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::I'll go see if any of the mobile devs are in the office and file a bug either way. [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 18:09, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Answer is "it's in the sidebar menu" (accessed by hitting the button in the top left that looks like a set of horizontal lines). Does that work? [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 18:14, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Thanks[[User:Ironholds|.]] Can you possibly arrange to have the disclaimer link appear on the same page as the articles? --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  15:34, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Same page? Both tabs can be visible simultaneously (at least on my device). [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 19:59, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::Sorry[[User:Ironholds|,]] I didn't understand your response. I'm wondering if you can arrange things so that when a reader opens an article in mobile view the disclaimer link appears on the same page as the article text. --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  11:27, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::[[User:Anthonyhcole]]: Well, I can't, but it seems like a reasonable request; wanna throw in a Bugzilla entry about it? [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 21:57, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::I don't know how to do that. I went to [[bugzilla:|the page linked above]], and I'm still no wiser. Could you pass it on for me please, [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]]? --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  22:22, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
{{outdent}}[[bugzilla:59743|done]]. [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 23:42, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:Merci beaucoup. --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  04:36, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:Actually, the problem with the current arrangement is readers don't see the link to "disclaimer" when reading the article, because (at least on my device and I think some others above) its hidden behind a link consisting of 3 horizontal bars in the top left of the screen. Most readers will never click that link, so most won't even see the <small>"disclaimers"</small> link. It needs to be added to the little cluster of links at the bottom of the article, among <blockquote>Wikipedia ® Mobile | Desktop<br>Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted.<br>Terms of use | Privacy</blockquote>I'd add that as a comment to your request but I haven't received my account confirmation email yet. Would you mind making that clarification please, [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]]? --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  05:57, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

== Common.css ==

Hello! I've added a code '''#p-lang div.pBody ul li { font-family: sans-serif; }''' to my common.css (I dislike previous appearance of font of interwiki) and I've been reported that «''Code that you insert on this page could contain malicious content capable of compromising your account. If you are unsure whether code you are adding to this page is safe, you can ask at the appropriate village pump. The code will be executed when previewing this page.''» What does it mean? I think, this code is absolutely normal. In Russian Wikipedia it works without problems. Thanks. --[[User:VAP+VYK|VAP+VYK]] ([[User talk:VAP+VYK|talk]]) 17:05, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:It's a standard message that is shown at the top of all User .css and .js pages, regardless of what's actually on the page. It even shows for empty pages. Your CSS contains absolutely nothing that might be compromising your account. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 17:14, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thank you very much for answer, you've set my mind at rest. :) --[[User:VAP+VYK|VAP+VYK]] ([[User talk:VAP+VYK|talk]]) 17:32, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:::You could also try {{myprefs|11|Typography refresh}}. I quite like the new look. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 17:44, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

== Pronouns ==

At [[Special:Preferences]], under "Internationalisation" we're given the option of being identified as "he", "she", or neither. Many people however, including [[genderqueer]] and [[intersex]] people, prefer to be referred to using the [[singular they]]. Can this be fixed? &ndash;&nbsp;[[User:Arms &amp; Hearts|Arms &amp; Hearts]] ([[User talk:Arms &amp; Hearts|talk]]) 06:22, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:We could, but it wouldn't make much difference right now, as the translations system only knows about male, female and generic. You'd have to fix all the translation systems for it to take any effect. But such a request would go into [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=Translate&bug_severity=enhancement bugzilla] with the translate/language team as a feature request. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 09:41, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
::For the records, some related discussion has taken place in [[bugzilla:53834]]. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 10:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:::As far as I know, MediaWiki doesn't use it to say he or she anywhere, but in some foreign languages it's used for a gender-specific variant of the word "user". Wikipedia editors can choose to say "they" if the gender is not specified. {{tl|They}} does exactly that. Are there English words which vary between not knowing anything about a person and knowing the person doesn't want to be described as either male or female? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 12:58, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: {{re|PrimeHunter}} It's used for more than that; for example, in [[Polish language|Polish]], in a sentence like "PrimeHunter said something", "said" would be a different word depending on your grammatical gender ("powiedział" for male, "powiedziała" for female). It's pretty much not used in English localization of MediaWiki, but it could be (in, say, Echo's notifications like "PrimeHunter mentioned you on his/her talk page" – this is currently not done). [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 13:30, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:::* I'm still wondering why the system changed from asking if a user was male, female, or unspecified.  This asking if they want to be referred to as he or she implies that the system has some kind of AI that will automatically change any reference to any user to what they preferred to be called, and this is simply not the case.  [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 13:38, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:::*: There was some long boring discussion somewhere about some people with complicated sexuality apparently being offended or something. And changing this *does* consistently change the entire interface in languages where this distinction matters more than in English, even the "User" namespace name is changes (like PrimeHunter mentioned), so this also makes it easy for other people to refer to one with correct grammatical gender. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 13:42, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
{{od}} In case one wishes to manually addr4ess another user as that user prefers, is there a way on en.wikipedia to see that user's prefernce choice on this item? [[User:DESiegel|DES]] [[User talk:DESiegel|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 16:12, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:I use [[User:PleaseStand/userinfo]].  This script adds userrights and the date of the last edit, which is very helpful if you're trying to find someone who's actually active. 
:There are more direct methods (that presumably work on all wikis, not just en.wp), but I don't know how to use them.  Perhaps someone else could post them? [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 18:51, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::There are templates too:
::*{{tlx|he or she|DESiegel}} → {{he or she|DESiegel}}; {{tlx|his or her|DESiegel}} → {{his or her|DESiegel}} 
::*{{tlx|he or she|WhatamIdoing}} → {{he or she|WhatamIdoing}}; {{tlx|his or her|WhatamIdoing}} → {{his or her|WhatamIdoing}} 
::and just in case you're wondering, {{tlx|he or she|Redrose64}} → {{he or she|Redrose64}}; {{tlx|his or her|Redrose64}} → {{his or her|Redrose64}} (I'm not saying). --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

::The magic word GENDER works on all wikis. It is described at [[:mw:Help:Magic words#Localisation]] and [[:translatewiki:Gender]]. All the gender-dependent templates use GENDER. If you just want to see the gender then you can also use the API like this (there may be a shorter way): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&usprop=gender&ususers=WhatamIdoing. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:02, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

This all seems a bit ridiculous and political to me. The logic in the claim that "He edits wiki pages" is the top choice which implies the default gender can also be applied to the new format that "They edit their wiki sandbox (They/Their)" then "they" becomes the implied default gender. I don't really understand all this, but how often have you addressed someone else using a gendered pronoun rather than using the standard wikicoded {{tl|reply to}} template or the <nowiki>[[User:...]]</nowiki> syntax? Why don't we just take the easiest route and have everyone declare their gender on their userpage instead? [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|TeleComNasSprVen]] ([[User talk:TeleComNasSprVen|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/TeleComNasSprVen|contribs]]) 20:18, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:In fact, now that we have the <nowiki>{{#babel...}}</nowiki> extension syntax and categories in place, we can just ask people to put <nowiki>{{#gender:...}}</nowiki> onto their userpage, put them into the relevant categories like the babel templates do, and ask people to address them this way. We could have all kinds of ways of addressing then, based on their inclusion in <nowiki>[[:Category:User male]], [[:Category:User female]], [[:Category:User intersex]], [[:Category:User bisexual]]</nowiki> etc, etc [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|TeleComNasSprVen]] ([[User talk:TeleComNasSprVen|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/TeleComNasSprVen|contribs]]) 20:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::I rarely '''address''' people by genderd terms, but i frequently would '''refer''' to them by such terms. "I agree with [[User:Example]] when he says that we ought to..." or "I think [[User:Sample]] is making a big mistake when she asserts that..." If I don't know the gender I will usually use "s/he" on talk pages (not in articles) -- I strongly dislike singular they. [[User:DESiegel|DES]] [[User talk:DESiegel|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 21:58, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::Your proposal makes the data less structured, making it harder for software to choose the correct language. Though MediaWiki doesn't make much use of the preference in English, it is very important for other languages where terms such as "user" have masculine and feminine forms. Your proposal could work in addition to the preference to supply extra information for humans, though.
::The example categories you gave aren't much use for making language decisions, though&#160;– if someone is in [[:Category:User bisexual]], I am none the wiser as to whether I should use "he", "she", "it", "they", etc. Better examples would be [[:Category:User refer to as masculine]] (he/him/his), [[:Category:User refer to as feminine]] (she/her/hers), [[:Category:User refer to as neutral singular]] (it/its) and [[:Category:User refer to as plural]] (they/them/their).
::Personally I would find it too much effort to check a user page just to pick a pronoun. It's so much easier just to use <nowiki>{{subst:gender:UserName|his|her|their}}</nowiki> or similar. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 00:43, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{replyto|DESiegel}} Well, if you dislike singular they, you can still refer to everyone else who doesn't fit into the gender binary (genderqueer/intersex/neutral/unspecified) as "s/he", I suppose, so that doesn't add much as to why we need to include this feature at all. The alternative to that is using "it", and so far, I've never met anyone who wanted to be addressed/referred to as "it".
:::{{replyto|PartTimeGnome}} You have a good point, but I don't understand why using a magic word like <nowiki>{{#gender...}}</nowiki> would make data less structured, you'll have to explain that a little more in depth with me. Your second point, that in other languages the MediaWiki software uses this to create different inflections for the word "user", leads me to ask, what pronouns if any can other languages use to address/refer to people outside of the gender binary? And if so, what would be the inflection for the word "user"? In English this seems a pretty trivial matter to agonize over if someone or some software got your gender wrong when referring to you. 
:::I think the root of the problem is more to do with the fact that the English language (and most other languages) have no pronouns at all to refer to genderqueer/intersex or genderless people (singular they is simply a pronoun to be used broadly, I use this when referring to anybody, gendered or not, and I don't really like having to use a template to refer to someone). [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|TeleComNasSprVen]] ([[User talk:TeleComNasSprVen|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/TeleComNasSprVen|contribs]]) 01:32, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Yes, you've got that exactly right. Some of the agonising over this preference is because people see it as a statement of their identity, and dislike being constrained to the "standard choices" imposed by our language.
::::It isn't the use of a magic word that makes the data less structured, but the notion that users would not be restrained in the what they could set using the magic word. The software needs some way to translate whatever the user placed in the page to language for referring to that user. If the idea is to allow users a way to express their wishes in more detail just for humans (i.e. still keep a separate preference for the software to use), we already have a [[User:ISD/Userboxes/Sexuality|large range of userboxes]]. I'm not sure there's any point categorising&#160;– I don't think there's a good use for a list of Wikipedians that prefer to be referred to in a certain way.
::::You ask a good question about what options other languages have. Some cultures have the concept of a [[third gender]] (or more), though this does not seem so common in languages. [[Sanskrit]] does have a third gender. I don't know how MediaWiki handles such languages (does it?).
::::If your concern about using a template is how others might perceive this, use [[Help:Substitution|subst:]]. By substituting the template, just the word "he", "she", etc. is saved in the wiki source, so no one will see that you used a template to discover the word to use. If your concern is usability, I agree it isn't great&#160;– it would be good if the software disclosed this preference in a less technical manner. (I could say the same about the <nowiki>{{#gender...}}</nowiki> idea. A preference setting is a lot less technical than adding a parser function to a user page.) –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 02:37, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

== Wikiproject cleanup and popularity statistics ==

Some wikiprojects have this available:
* Cleanup listing, documenting by type all tagged pages under a projects' purview (eg [http://toolserver.org/~svick/CleanupListing/CleanupListingByCat.php?project=Medicine])
* Popularity listing, listing the top 500 pages by viewcount (eg [[Wikipedia:MED1500]] from [https://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/]).

I'd like to enable this for [[WP:ANATOMY]], as it would prove invaluable in determining which articles receive attention. However I haven't been able to contact the developers of either of the tools, or have tried and not had a response, and am beginning to worry that "Available in November" is not referring to November, 2013. I am wondering: (1) if there are alternate tools that we could use, or (2) if there are any users with privileges that could add our project to the listings above. This would prove invaluable to the project, and we'd be very grateful if it could be enabled. --[[User:LT910001|LT910001]] ([[User talk:LT910001|talk]]) 00:11, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:Hi, I'm the author of the popularity stats tool. I was hoping to have it ready by November, but problems with the move from the Toolserver to WMF Labs combined with a total rewrite of the program itself  have slowed things down a bit. Assuming nothing goes horribly wrong in the next couple of weeks, it should be ready for new projects by the end of this month. Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page sometime in the last week of January. <span style="font-family:Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</span> 04:13, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
：：Great! Thanks a lot for creating the tool, {{u|Mr.Z-man}} I'll contact you later this month. Do you know how we might get the cleanup listings? I'm particularly interested in finding a list of all proposed merges under our scope. --[[User:LT910001|LT910001]] ([[User talk:LT910001|talk]]) 00:15, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
:::See [[User:Svick/WikiProject cleanup listing]].  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 18:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

== How do I get [[OpenDyslexic]] working? ==

I just read [[User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 153#More WMF Bright Line violations]]. I'm not very technical. Am I right in thinking I can get that font working on the Wikipedia pages I read? --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  15:32, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:You can, although it's not in a very obvious place. Click the cogwheel next to "Languages" in the sidebar, choose "Fonts" and then select OpenDyslexic from the list. [[User:the wub|the wub]] [[User_talk:The wub|<span style="color: #008000">"?!"</span>]] 15:37, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
::Cool. Thanks [[User:the wub|the wub]]. Wow. It's like someone turned the light on. Thanks [[User:Laurence Francis Harrison|Lawrence]]. --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  17:19, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:::You know, if that information isn't already there, then maybe we should add it to [[WP:ACCESS]] and [[WP:WikiProject Dyslexia]]'s pages.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 18:56, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Maybe [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]], who seems knowledgeable and committed regarding accessibility issues, has some thoughts on how best to present this option to readers with reading difficulties. --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  22:28, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

== PrettyLog.js issue ==

[[MediaWiki:Gadget-PrettyLog.js]] doesn't work on [[Special:Log]] for me. Can someone fix it? --[[User:Rezonansowy|Rezonansowy]] <small>([[User talk:Rezonansowy|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/Rezonansowy|contribs]])</small> 19:26, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:What do you mean with "doesn't work" ? You mean you don't get the same styling that you see as you don on Commons ? That seems logical, because search results on en.wp don't have the same styling either. Did this gadget ever work ? —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 13:25, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::OK, could add these styles to this script? --[[User:Rezonansowy|Rezonansowy]] <small>([[User talk:Rezonansowy|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/Rezonansowy|contribs]])</small> 11:30, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{done}} —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 16:41, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::{{thank you}} --[[User:Rezonansowy|Rezonansowy]] <small>([[User talk:Rezonansowy|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/Rezonansowy|contribs]])</small> 23:14, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

== Failed section redirect ==

I added the link [[Sea cave#Factors influencing size|Factors influencing size]] to [[Talk:Sea cave]] and when ever I open that link in a new tab, it takes me to the section [[Sea cave#Factors influencing size]] but when ever I click the link directly, it instead takes me to the beginning of the whole article. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 01:09, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
:That problem is not happening anymore. It only happened immediately after I created that section on the talk page. That problem isn't happening in this section of Village pump either. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 01:12, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

==Infobox problems==
Hi all, thanks in advance, I am trying to post multiple images (including one map) to the infobox on this article [[Pittsburgh metropolitan area]].  Yet only one image is showing.  Can someone provide me the correct code for this I've already compared it to code in such articles as Atlanta metro area and all seems correct to my untrained eye.[[User:Marketdiamond|<span style="color:green;"><sup style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> Market St.⧏ </sup><sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> ⧐ Diamond Way</sub></span>]] 11:28, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

:In the case of the skyline, you included "File:" where it was not needed, and in the case of image_map1, you added a line for it without removing the one that was already there, which defined it as null. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 11:35, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::Many thanks, and thank you even more for going ahead and fixing the code![[User:Marketdiamond|<span style="color:green;"><sup style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> Market St.⧏ </sup><sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;"> ⧐ Diamond Way</sub></span>]] 12:08, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

== Links to Commons ==

If I try to look at the Commons page for an image used on English WP, I am sent to a non-existent page called "File:File:(whatever).JPG". I think this link needs to be sorted out. [[User:LynwoodF|LynwoodF]] ([[User talk:LynwoodF|talk]]) 12:49, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

:Incidentally, I am solving the problem in the short term by copying and pasting the file name with just one "File:". [[User:LynwoodF|LynwoodF]] ([[User talk:LynwoodF|talk]]) 12:56, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::That is a bug in the MultimediaViewer beta. There is a notice about it on the [[mw:Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer|feedback page]] of the MultimediaViewer beta. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 13:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

:::Thanks. I see someone is working on it. [[User:LynwoodF|LynwoodF]] ([[User talk:LynwoodF|talk]]) 14:31, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

== Minor problem with [[Template:Infobox international hockey competition]] ==

If the "winners" parameter is not defined, it causes a line break between "Second place" and the silver medal image (if the "second" parameter is defined), as well as a line break between "Third place" and the bronze medal image (if the "third" parameter is defined). If the "fourth" parameter is defined, there will be a line break between "Fourth" and "place". An example can be seen in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2014_World_Junior_Ice_Hockey_Championships&oldid=589308215 this article revision] (see the infobox to the right). I've been able to reproduce this problem in the latest versions of Safari and Chrome on the latest version of Mac OS X, but the latest version of Firefox does not have this problem. What causes this? [[User:Heymid|<span style="color:green;">Hey</span>]][[User talk:Heymid|<span style="color:red;">'''''mid'''''</span>]] ([[Special:Contributions/Heymid|contribs]]) 16:59, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

== Page moves in own userspace for users with non-Latin user names ==

Apparently the [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] prevents pages from being moved to mixed-script names. Is there any way to override this for page moves in one's own userspace? This is a constant nuisance for me. (If I create a subpage with an English name (say, a draft) in my own userspace, and I don't like the name I first chose, I can't move it because of this restriction, as my Hebrew username and the Latin target subpage name form a mixed-script title; instead, I have to copy-paste and request a {{tl|db-userreq}} for the original page.)

Thanks, [[User:הסרפד|<big><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'" dir="rtl">הסרפד</span></big>]] ([[User talk:הסרפד|call me '''''Hasirpad''''']]) 19:21, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{ping|הסרפד}} One workaround could be to create the draft in the new [[Wikipedia:Drafts|Draft namespace]], where your username would not be part of the title.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 19:45, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{ping|GoingBatty}} True, but this only applies to the example I gave (there may be other reasons for wanting to move a page in one's userspace) and, in any case, I prefer to have my drafts in my userspace. [[User:הסרפד|<big><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'" dir="rtl">הסרפד</span></big>]] ([[User talk:הסרפד|call me '''''Hasirpad''''']]) 19:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
: I don't think you're hitting the mixed script rules; instead, it appears you are hitting a rule that is intended to block letter-lookalikes in article titles (apparently "פ" is considered a lookalike). I've added a [[MediaWiki:Titlewhitelist|whitelist]] entry for your userspace. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 20:34, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{ping|Anomie}} Thanks! I just tested it and it works. (Why was I ''not'' hitting the mixed-script rules though? Does the software <small>(forgive my terminological ignorance)</small> recognize subpages as non-mixed? [[User:הסרפד|<big><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'" dir="rtl">הסרפד</span></big>]] ([[User talk:הסרפד|call me '''''Hasirpad''''']]) 21:35, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::: The mixed-script rules exclude the User and User talk namespaces (and various others). [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 21:42, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

== Problems with WikiProject Physics Portal ==

There is a problem with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics WikiProject Physics Portal]. In general, I think the instructions that tell each segment of the portal where to hold an article or picture for the que to the Physics Portal are no longer correct. More specifically, when I post an article to the Monthly Selected Articles it is there but hidden (Please see February. 2014 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics/2014_Selected_articles here] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/Selected_article/February2014&diff=589357445&oldid=588943930 here]); the monthly selected pictures should probably also be checked, and finally, the monthly anniversaries should probably also be checked. 

Although the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/Anniversaries/January&diff=next&oldid=589081312 January 2014 monthly anniversary reflects my most recent editing] , it was not functioning correctly by hiding the edited content, although it is there now.

Addtionally, it would be much appreciated if a person could look at the Selected Articles and Selected pictures for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Perhaps reviewing these pages could show how these are intended to be set up as well as errors that have occurred between 2009-2013. Below, in the next section, I have provided the last edit diffs for each page which I am requesting a review so this post can at least appear to be brief. Thanks in advance. --- [[User:Steve Quinn|Steve Quinn]] ([[User talk:Steve Quinn|talk]]) 23:10, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

===Requested review pages===
Hopefully, a section like this doesn't cause confusion. If it does just go ahead and remove the section head and this content to the original post above. Here are the last edit diffs for each of the requested pages:

'''Selected article:'''
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2009_Selected_articles&diff=336770128&oldid=336769294 2009]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2010_Selected_articles&diff=467271542&oldid=336769129 2010]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2011_Selected_articles&diff=prev&oldid=441458832 2011]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2012_Selected_articles&diff=588746552&oldid=530059651 2012]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2013_Selected_articles&diff=587935013&oldid=570766734 2013]

'''Selected pictures'''
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2009_Selected_pictures&diff=336773041&oldid=336771927 2009]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2010_Selected_pictures&diff=588938561&oldid=336772487 2010]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2011_Selected_pictures&diff=468003790&oldid=409879389 2011]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2012_Selected_pictures&diff=prev&oldid=530412342 2012]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2013_Selected_pictures&action=history 2013]

- [[User:Steve Quinn|Steve Quinn]] ([[User talk:Steve Quinn|talk]]) 23:19, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
:I've [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Physics/2014_Selected_articles&diff=589414767&oldid=588944289 fixed an error] in the "Edit" links at [[Portal:Physics/2014 Selected articles]] and repaired the February page. The 2009-2013 pages look OK to me. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 08:18, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

== WP DB ==

How can i browse wikipedia database? [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 01:27, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:You can [[Wikipedia:Database download|download a database dump]] and browse it on your own computer. [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Labs|Wikimedia Labs]] and the [[Wikipedia:Toolserver|Toolserver]] also hold live replicas of the databases; anyone with an account on either system could query the database for you. Also see [[Wikipedia:Database queries]]. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 00:57, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

== Can't display a page in a frame ==

Wondering what [[:de:Denkmal]] was talking about, I went to Google Translate and told it to translate http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denkmal, but I got a message (apparently from my browser, IE11) saying "This content cannot be displayed in a frame" and a little explanatory note for non-techie types like me.  A link to open the content in a new window was provided, but something went wrong, because clicking the link caused new windows to proliferate like [[Lernaean Hydra|Hydra heads]].  The same happens when I try to translate an English article into German.  This is seemingly rather new, because it's not been that long of a time since last I got an entire page in another language (German?) translated into English this way.  Three questions: (1) Is this no-frame thing just a problem with some of the Wikipedias, or is it something that affects all WMF sites?  (2) Is there anything we can do about it?  (3) Could it be a browser thing?  I was using IE8 until my previous computer died several weeks ago, and I don't remember encountering this kind of problem with it.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 02:27, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:I tried going to http://translate.google.com using IE11 and Firefox 26.  When I typed "http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denkmal" in the box, it then provided a link I could click to see the translated page.  (It also provided a "Drag and drop link here to translate the page" box that did not work.)  However, I couldn't reproduce your issue with frames.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 03:20, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::Did you click the link to see the translated page?  Problems arise only when I click the link.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 03:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Sorry for not saying so before: When I clicked on the link to see the translated page, everything looked fine.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 03:58, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Nyttend}} Do you get the same issue in other scenarios?  (e.g. logged in or logged out, other de.wikipedia pages, other foreign wikipedia pages, other foreign non-WP pages)  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 04:09, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Hadn't thought to try other languages (I assumed all was the same, since en: and de: were throwing a fit), but that helps: [[:fr:Paris]] translates (although gibberish, since I accidentally told it to translate English into German on this French page...:-), and I'm getting an English translation of [[:de:Paris]] as well.  Didn't try to log out; since I've not yet set up an email client on this computer, I've been leaving myself logged into Google so that emails will immediately be visible.  [[:de:Denkmal]] is now working fine; I don't know what the difference is, since I've not changed anything.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 04:16, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:I got a similar message looking at a Google map embedded on another website a little while back (using Opera 12). I went back later and it worked fine. I think Google have been fiddling with something related to frames. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 01:21, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/02|Tech News: 2014-02]] ==

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Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/02|Translations]] are available.

'''Recent software changes'''
* The latest version of MediaWiki ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/wmf9|1.23wmf9]]) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* The [//etherpad-old.wikimedia.org old note-taking site] ([[m:en:Etherpad|Etherpad]]) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on [//etherpad.wikimedia.org the new site]. [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073755.html]

'''Problems'''
* On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
* On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

'''Future software changes'''
* The new search tool ([[mw:Search|CirrusSearch]]) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073846.html]
* Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Beta Features options]]. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073846.html]
* Plural form rules for some languages [//translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Portal_talk:Ru/Plural_changes_in_many_languages will be changed]. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56931] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105148/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104795/]
* You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35485] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/65162/]
* You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of [[Special:ProtectedPages|protected pages]]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19233] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104395/]
* You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the [[mw:Extension:Translate|Translate]] tool, by pressing <span style="white-space:nowrap"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border:1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">Alt</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">1</kbd></span> and similar key groups. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103072/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104934/]
* E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their <code>From:</code> line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the <code>MediaWiki:Emailsender</code> page. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32770] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104707/]
* Images viewed in the [[mw:Extension:MultimediaViewer|Beta Features media viewer]] will load faster. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56695] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95282/]

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== wiki: ==

Is there a reason, why [[:wiki:]] redirects to [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki]? [[User:Armbrust|Armbrust]] <sup>[[User talk:Armbrust|<span style="color:#E3A857;">The</span> <span style="color:#008000;">Homunculus</span>]]</sup> 11:10, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
: {{re|Armbrust}} Yes, because that is the ''original'' wiki: [[WikiWikiWeb]]. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 11:12, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::There has been discussion for some time about removing this misleading interwiki prefix. In fact, it is slated to be removed with the next interwiki map synchronisation. See [[m:Talk:Interwiki map#Wiki]]. — <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:1px 0 0 1px">[[User:This, that and the other|This, that]]</span> and <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:0 1px 1px 0">[[User talk:This, that and the other|the other<small> (talk)</small>]]</span> 11:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:Also, [[WP:DAW]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 17:53, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
== "New messages" from 2011 ==

I just happened to view a page while logged out, and when I did this, I saw the trusty old Orange Bar of Doom telling me I had new messages. However, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:124.170.40.95&action=history as you can see], the last edit to my IP's talk page was in June 2011. I find it difficult to believe that no-one who has been assigned that IP since then had bothered to click the "new messages" link... but there you go.

More to the point, I was under the impression that the Orange Bar of Doom "expired" after a given period of time (say, a couple of weeks), since talk page messages for IPs generally become irrelevant after a while. Clearly this is not the case. I wonder if we should get such an expiry implemented...? — <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:1px 0 0 1px">[[User:This, that and the other|This, that]]</span> and <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:0 1px 1px 0">[[User talk:This, that and the other|the other<small> (talk)</small>]]</span> 10:23, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

:Sounds like a sensible idea to me. I'm not sure whether the OBOD had an expiry set in the past, but if it did, then I suppose it's possible that the behaviour may have been changed when notifications were introduced. In either case, this should probably go in Bugzilla so that the right people are notified and can work out what actually happens in the code. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 08:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

::As one who has taken some fairly long wiki-breaks in the past, I can tell you that the old orange bar still signaled for new messages for logged-in users when the newest msg was more than a year old. I don't think it included any expiry. I don't see why it should have included one only for IP users, but I've never really tested that. Many msgs are time-sensitive and make now sense months later, but some do. I'm not sure an expiration is actually a good idea. [[User:DESiegel|DES]] [[User talk:DESiegel|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 14:28, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

:::However, the wording might be changed away from "You have new messages" if they are actually quite old. Many IP's have complained at the help desk that they got a warning about edits they didn't make. Some are worried that their computer or Internet connection was hacked, but mostly they just blame Wikipedia. After seeing the prominent OBOD they apparently don't notice the usually old date of the signed message, or [[MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext]] which is displayed at the bottom of IP talk pages. Would it be possible to pass the age or time of the latest message so a wiki can adapt the text in [[MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessages]] and other system messages? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 15:26, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Not just the help desk: sometimes they send complaints to the person who left the original message. I'm sure that I've seen these complaints over a long period, certainly from before the introduction of Notifications, and investigating, I find that they concern messages left more than two years earlier. {{diff|User talk:Redrose64a|prev|519777906|this edit}} pre-dates Notifications, and if I log in as {{user|Redrose64a}}, I used to get the full OBOD but now I get the orange-background "you have new messages" talk page link. [[User:Redrose64a]] has never visited [[User talk:Redrose64a]], so that I can see how long the orange bar persists; it's over 14 months so far. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:52, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

== Problem when using Chrome ==

When using Firefox, I see the tabs at the head of the article in two groups: the ''Article'' and ''Talk'' tabs on the left and ''Read'', ''Edit'', ''New section'' and ''View history'' on the right. The tabs I see using Chrome are different (''Read'', ''Edit'', ''View history'', star, down-arrow, and ''TW''+down-arrow), but used to be positioned similarly. For the past week or so, the second groups of tabs is positioned below the first group and overlapping the article title, with the ''Read'' tab partially underneath the ''Talk'' tab. Besides the weird appearance, this interferes with click-drag selection of the article title. I'm using Chrome version 31.0.1650.63 m. Does anyone know if this is an resolvable by changing some Chrome setting, or perhaps a CSS issue, or what? [[Special:Contributions/203.177.166.122|203.177.166.122]] ([[User talk:203.177.166.122|talk]]) 10:48, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

:The problem is only superficially your browser. The problem is that you are logged out when using firefox, but logged into an account when using chrome. That is the only way the last three tabs would even show up. So something is probably wonky with your .js or .css or gadgets on your account. If you edit from your account again so we can see those pages, we may be able to tell you more. [[User:Someguy1221|Someguy1221]] ([[User talk:Someguy1221|talk]]) 10:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
::If the row of buttons is overlapping the title, then that means that your browser window is not wide enough to fit them on the other line. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 12:46, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

::Thanks. I just realized about the logged in vs. not situation myself, checked that, and saw that logging in with firefox resolved the tab differences. The placement differences remain, though. I'm making this edit while logged in, and I'd appreciate anything you can tell me to help. I'm not a css or js jock and haven't looked at my userpage css or js files in quite a while. If it's a problem there, though, I can probably figure it out myself by the process of elimination -- I'll give that a try tomorrow if I don't see anything further here. Thanks again & Cheers, [[User:Wtmitchell|Wtmitchell]]  [[User talk:Wtmitchell|(talk)]] <small>(earlier ''Boracay Bill'')</small> 12:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

::I have blanked my vector.js and vector.css pages, logged out, shut down and restarted chrome, and logged back in. I'm still seeing weirdness, as follows:
::*Right now I am viewing this page in tab 1 of a chrome window, editing this section in tab 2, and viewing (not editing) [[User:Wtmitchell/vector.css]] (which is currently empty) in tab 3.
::*Chrome tab 1 displays WPtabs in expected positions, but sometimes will misposition them briefly (sometimes multiple times) during a page reload.
::*Chrome tab 2 has the WPtabs mispositioned. Reloading the page does not fix this.
::*Chrome tab 3 has the WPtabs mispositioned. Reloading the page does not fix this.
::*Clearing the chrome's cache using chrome's settings->tools->clear browsing data->empty the cache and then reloading pages with mispositioned WPtabs doesn't get the WPtabs back to their expected positions.
::I'm not sure where to go from here in troubleshooting this. [[User:Wtmitchell|Wtmitchell]]  [[User talk:Wtmitchell|(talk)]] <small>(earlier ''Boracay Bill'')</small> 19:47, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

:::Please provide a screenshot; it's easier to see what's wrong. ALso, do you by any chance have the ''Allow toggling between menus and tabs'' gadget enabled? <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 11:36, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

::::See image here. Apologies if my description above was unclear. 
[[File:Screenshot requested in VPT discussion.png|500px]]
::::I don't think I have ''Allow toggling between menus and tabs'' enabled, but I don't see that on my ''Preferences'' page. Where would I check that? [[User:Wtmitchell|Wtmitchell]]  [[User talk:Wtmitchell|(talk)]] <small>(earlier ''Boracay Bill'')</small> 01:26, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::The option is called "Enable toggling between tabs and dropdown menus in the Vector skin". You can find it under {{myprefs|Gadgets|Appearance}}. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 02:46, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::I checked that, and it is not enabled. Making this edit, I see that the tabs are still mispositioned when I'm editing this article but not when I'm viewing. I see that they are mispositioned when I'm editing some other articles but not all of them. They seem to be not mispositioned when I edit articles I haven't previously edited, or perhaps not edited in a very long time. I'm wondering whether this might be somehow related to caching somewhere between me (on [[Boracay]] island in the Philippines) and WP (in Florida, as I remember). I haven't tried editing using Chrome and logged in from a different machine here -- I'll try it give that a whirl tomorrow and will report my results here after doing that. [[User:Wtmitchell|Wtmitchell]]  [[User talk:Wtmitchell|(talk)]] <small>(earlier ''Boracay Bill'')</small> 12:20, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::There is too little space in the screenshot. WHat is noticable, is the large search box. Check your preferences again to see if {{xt|Widen the search box in the Vector skin}} under Gadgets is enabled. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 12:46, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::: I checked, and found "Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only)" was enabled. I disabled that, and found on trying to edit this section that the tabs were not mispositioned. I re-enabled it and found on trying to edit this section that the tabs were still not not mispositioned. I had neglected to check before fiddling with that, so I don't know whether tabs were still mispositioned when editing this section before I fiddled with that vector preferences option. I restored the vector.css and .js files I had blanked and the tabs were still not mispositioned. It seems to be OK now. Thanks for your help. [[User:Wtmitchell|Wtmitchell]]  [[User talk:Wtmitchell|(talk)]] <small>(earlier ''Boracay Bill'')</small> 15:43, 7 January 2014 (UTC).

== Red link that isn't ==

The wikilink to a recently created article, [[Den Chai Railway Station]] on the page [[State Railway of Thailand#Network]] is being displayed in red as a dead link, despite the article being there. I've had a quick look in various browsers, cleared my cache and tried from a different computers and the link remained red. I created a link from my own sandbox and it didn't have a problem, so it seems to only be a problem with the State Railway article. There are lots of [[Wikipedia:Route diagram template|route diagram templates]] on the page so it could be that one of them has a bit of incomplete syntax or wikimarkup that's affected the material on the page - though I can't see anything obvious and it seems unlikely to just affect one link. Could it be that something just isn't updating properly and it'll fix itself soon? Altogether I'm a bit clueless as to what could be causing it so I'd appreciate it someone could take a look. Here's a [[User talk:Bahndosi|link]] to the user who created the station article's talkpage (he spotted the problem). Thanks in advance for any help! [[User:Jr8825|<span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS; color:#8B0000;">Jr8825</span>]] • [[User Talk:Jr8825|<span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS; color:#4682B4;">Talk</span>]] 12:15, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:It was red for me, too, and I turned it blue (for me) by purging Wikipedia's cache. I don't know whether that purges it for all readers or only those fed by a particular server. If it is still a redlink for you, click "edit source" for the page, and in the address bar replace "action=edit" with "action=purge". Something seems to be wrong which make purging necessary much more often than usual - see discussion under "Display slow to update" above. It's a pain, and I wish it could be fixed. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 12:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::This has been happening for all red-links I've turned blue over the last week or so. Doing a false edit, or refreshing the page clears it, but it's something that needs to be fixed. '''[[User:Lugnuts|<span style="color:#002bb8;">Lugnuts</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:Lugnuts|Dick Laurent is dead]]</sup> 19:14, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:A purge should work for all readers. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 01:28, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Wikilink squirrels are tired of running to update redlinks:''' We need to get a head-count of the current group of treadmill squirrels who have been running to reformat page-cache files and relink categories. They seem to be very tired in recent months, and people are beginning to see through the illusion of so-called "computer-based typesetting" to reveal the [[Animal Farm]] underneath. That's why Wikipedia is written in so many other languages: very few of the squirrels can read English. Anyway, perhaps we can get some human volunteers to run beside the squirrels, if they swear an oath not to reveal there are "no computers" in the WMF&nbsp;– it's been all ornery treadmill squirrels for some years now.... ;‑) [[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 21:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
*:Maybe we should switch to using pigeons instead. [http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html It seems to work for Google.] {{-)}} –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 01:28, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
*:[[IP over Avian Carriers]] --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 19:50, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::The simpler way to purge is to enable either {{myprefs|8|Add a clock in the personal toolbar that displays the current time in UTC (which also provides a link to purge the current page)}} or {{myprefs|8|Add a "Purge" tab to the top of the page, which purges the page's cache when followed}}. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 19:50, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

== Year in other calendars!<nowiki/>! ==

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:M1_year_in_topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:M1_year_in_topic]
: 
Please look at the link above.  It's an internal link but I've formatted it as an external link.  Within it I see hyphens used where minus signs belong.  I cannot edit those.  Wikipedia is supposed to be editable.  How can I edit this?  And who is so rude? [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] ([[User talk:Michael Hardy|talk]]) 05:51, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{ping|Michael Hardy}} It's not rudeness - it's just templates embedded in templates.  Try [[Template:M1YearInTopic (no calendar)]] and [[Module:Year in other calendars]], and try posting on the associated talk pages if you need assistance.  Happy editing!  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 05:59, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:: I find this:
::: -1344 – -1343
:: There you see two hyphens where minus signs belong.  Journalists are stupid and one expects nothing better of them, but one certainly does expect better than that from people who edit Wikipedia articles.  Nothing in the links you cite gives me any way to edit these. [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] ([[User talk:Michael Hardy|talk]]) 06:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::[[Template:Year in other calendars]] uses mathematical functions in [[Module:Year in other calendars]] to compute the years. It wouldn't be practical to manually edit the numbers for thousands of years. [[Module talk:Year in other calendars]] redirects to [[Template talk:Year in other calendars]], so that's where to post a request that hyphens in negative numbers are automatically converted to minus signs. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 07:27, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:Hi Michael - I'm the rude one who wrote [[Module:Year in other calendars]]. :) You can indeed edit that, but it might get a bit technical as all the years are calculated automatically. I probably should have coded in proper minus sign support when I first wrote it - that was an oversight. Still, it's an improvement on the old wikitext template which displayed negative year ranges as e.g. "-100–-99". In any case, there should be a fix coming along fairly soon to add proper minus signs, as you can see from the conversation below. Best — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 16:52, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Fix ready for minus-sign years in sandbox:''' For [[Template:M1_year_in_topic]], I have tested a fix, in [[Module:Year in other calendars/sandbox]], to show "&amp;minus;" ("&minus;") for negative years numbers or year ranges (as "&minus;1344 – &minus;1343") in the Lua-generated calendar box. However, we should consider adding any other changes before release into the 2,816 related pages. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 16:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
*: I should probably update it to use [[Module:Arguments]] before we go live. Also, your fix isn't working for the Chinese calendar - see [[Template:Year in other calendars/testcases#3001 BC]]. This will also be the case for any new calendars which do the year formatting themselves, rather than leaving it to the calendar object. Why don't we simply replace all the hyphens with minus signs using string.gsub? That would be the simplest way of doing things. For more complex wikitext that might actually need to use hyphens in wikilinks etc. we could disable automatic hyphen replacement using a parameter or a new calendar method. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 16:47, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::It would be safer to only replace hyphens before a digit. There could also be a common function to format a potentially negative number, similar to {{tl|Exprsign}}. If a calendar forgets to use the function then an occasional hyphen may be better than risking unwanted minus signs. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:11, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

::* I would prefer each calendar to format the negative numbers, and add spaces around dashes, rather than gsub the entire text to filter the hyphens. Start with the most-likely negative calendars, and others could wait until a later update. Retro-formatting of text almost always turns the "[[creeping featurism]]" into "featured creepyism". -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 17:23, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

:::* Fair enough, and now done. Only numerical year input and year ranges are automatically formatted; years input as strings must now do the formatting themselves. The formatting is done by a new function "formatNegative" which only changes hyphens to minus signs if they appear immediately before a number. [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]], is that looking better? (If you don't see an update you might need to [[WP:PURGE|purge the page cache]].) — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 05:21, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
::::* Looks good; thank you for your attention to this. [[User:Michael Hardy|Michael Hardy]] ([[User talk:Michael Hardy|talk]]) 23:24, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

== Unable to click Discuss and go to the discussion ==

In the article [[Halite]], I proposed that that article be merged into [[Sodium chloride]] and indicated where the discussion should take place by writing 'Discuss=Talk:Sodium chloride#Merge Halite into this article' and clicking Discuss still brings me to the beginning of the entire talk page instead of the section that the edit page indicated. I'm wondoering if it's anything to do with the fact that I changed [[halite]] to [[Halite]] in the section title before I proposed the merger. The Discuss link in the article [[Sodium chloride]] only takes me to about a section and a half before where it's supposed to take me. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 19:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:I've fixed [[Halite]] - the parameter should be named "discuss" not "Discuss". The link at [[Sodium chloride]] is working for me. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 19:51, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

::Now they both redirect to a few lines above the title of the discussion section. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 21:53, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

:::The heading at [[Talk:Sodium chloride#Merge Halite into this article]] is near the end of the page. I guess your browser window simply doesn't have room to scroll further down. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

==New template not really taking effect==

I recently changed the navbox [[:Template:Jasper Fforde]], replacing one of the horizontal lines with a navbox subgroup template, following closely the [[:Template:Navbox subgroup#Example]] of Protected Areas in Colorado.  The new Template looks fine on its Template page, it looks fine when transcluded on the [[Jasper Fforde]] page, but on all the other pages where the Template is invoked, it shows up as the old Template, as if the old Template had been substituted back in the day.  Of course, it hasn't been substituted.  I changed the one on [[The Eyre Affair]] to explicit state=autocollapse, and that works, showing the new Template.  I toyed around with the state line in the Template itself, even changing the state to match the actual [[:Template:Protected Areas of Colorado]], to no effect.  I'm stumped. [[User:Choor monster|Choor monster]] ([[User talk:Choor monster|talk]]) 20:06, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:When a template is changed, the software makes a note that other pages need to change, but doesn't do it immediately - the "[[Help:job queue|job queue]]". You can force a page to display the latest template by [[Help:purge|purging]] it. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 20:14, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

== Link to a nonexistent article ==

The last section of my talk page says the page [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Google Feedback]] doesn't exist but it does exist. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 21:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

:You mean the link was red. I have [[WP:PURGE|purged]] your talk page so it updates and registers the page exists now. The poster used Twinkle which makes edits so quickly that MediaWiki doesn't always register the page was created a moment before. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:59, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::A similar glitch is happening with the [[Reportum]] link in [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reportum]] after I added a redirect from [[Reportum]] to [[Adverse Event Reporting System]]. There's no need for you to go an fix it if it's going to fix on it's own later. My real purpose in mentioning this technical issue is so that Wikipedia will change it's system to avoid that glitch on future links to Wikipedia pages. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 01:44, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Whenever you see a redlink that should be blue (or a bluelink that should be red), the first thing to try is a [[WP:PURGE]]. If that doesn't fix it, try a [[WP:NULLEDIT]], and if ''that'' doesn't work, [[WP:BYPASS]]. There's no need to being them to VPT. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:36, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

== Typography refresh beta feature ==

Hi everyone, 

This an update regarding the "[[:mw:Typography refresh|typography refresh]]" beta feature, which is live on all wikis that have Beta Features available. The following changes I describe will be '''live on Thursday''', January 9th.  

The first version of the typography update certainly wasn't perfect, but the UX design team wanted to get it out there and see what people thought about some of the ideas included. Well, we've recevied a ''ton'' of feedback on the Talk page. 

=== Changes made based on your feedback ===
Almost all of the feedback was constructive, and some showed a really keen understanding of the issues with typography on Wikipedia. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and left a message. Based on the feedback we got, we made the following changes: 

# Reverted the size of the personal toolbar menu and lefthand sidebar back its previous size (.8em)
# Reverted the black/grey links in the sidebar and personal toolbar back to blue
# Reverted the width of the left-hand back to its previous width, to avoid line breaks in those links 
# Increased the body content size to 1.1em. While we did not originally increase the body content size, we saw that many people brought up this idea, and we think it's a good strategy for improving readability. This also allows us to emphasize the main content more without decreasing the size of toolbar or sidebar links, etc. 
# Increased the size of page titles and their line height
# Tweaked the whitespace between section/subsection headings and around blockquotes. We hope this version provides better balance. 
# Reprioritized the font family CSS for headings, placing the free and open source variant "DejaVu Serif" first

=== Additional ideas we're trying out in this release ===

# Placing a maximum width on page contents of 715px. It is widely accepted that [[Column (typography)|text columns]] with a [[Line length|line length]] which spans the entire width of a (desktop or laptop) screen are not ideal for reading/scanning.[http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability ], [http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizontal_Motion/2.1.2/ ], [https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-width-for-paragraphs-online ],[https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/text-typography/length-column-width ] The max width will not apply to Special pages (like Prefences) or to actions on an article, like viewing history. 
# Removing the border around thumbs, increasing the whitespace around them, and changing the text styling on thumbcaptions. Vector and Monobook styles are both overly reliant on border styles to demarcate page elements. Numerous borders, especially with right angles, increases cognitive load when scanning a page. 
# Changing disambiguation and row links to have the same type as thumb captions.  

Other things we have retained in the beta. For example, serif headings were a source of complaints, but were retained since one of the goals is consistency with the mobile skin for Wikimedia projects. 

On behalf of the design team, <span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;">[[User:Steven (WMF)|Steven Walling (WMF)]]&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;[[User talk:Steven (WMF)|<span style="color: #8080b0">talk</span>]]</span>  23:16, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

'''P.S.''' Best place to leave feedback is [[:mw:Talk:Typography refresh|this discussion page]], linked to from within the Beta preferences.

== Can [[:File:Lido EP.jpg]] be moved to English Wikipedia ==

I have tried everything that I can think of, but the "Upload" button for pictures on English Wikipedia file upload remains greyed out after I fill out every row of information. --[[User:Jax 0677|Jax 0677]] ([[User talk:Jax 0677|talk]]) 16:36, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:this has often annoyed me too.  When the commons image exists with the name it will not let you load over the top of it.  I believe you have to use the old upload form [[special:upload]]. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 22:25, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
::Or you could ask for it to be deleted off commons, as the image there is almost certainly out of policy as it would be used under fair use only. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 22:29, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:::''' Reply ''' - I tried to upload the file when there wasn't such a file on Wikipedia, but the Upload button remained greyed out.  I therefore used the old English Wikipedia photo upload form. --[[User:Jax 0677|Jax 0677]] ([[User talk:Jax 0677|talk]]) 22:39, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Jax 0677|p=}} and {{ping|Graeme Bartlett}} Uploading a file to enwiki with the same name as a Commons file requires the <tt>reupload-shared</tt> permission, which is [[Special:ListGroupRights#sysop|only given to administrators]]. [[User:Jcgoble3|jcgoble3]] ([[User talk:Jcgoble3|talk]]) 01:12, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::''' Resolved ''' - The issue has now been resolved. --[[User:Jax 0677|Jax 0677]] ([[User talk:Jax 0677|talk]]) 01:14, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
=="Image" display anomaly==
I'm having a "file" problem that must be unique to me. I can't view:

[[Image:Thomas Isaac Log Cabin, Ellicott City, Maryland.jpg|left|thumb|300px|log cabin]]

<nowiki>[[Image:Cjd P7160326.JPG|left|thumb|300px|log cabin]]</nowiki>
{{clear}}
But I can view:

[[Image:Thomas Isaac Log Cabin, Ellicott City, Maryland.jpg|left|thumb|log cabin]]

(Dropped one parameter, 300 px). Both images are viewable by another editor. (We each thought the other was crazy and tried to get the other blocked for insanity!  :) I'm using Mozilla Firefox. Don't know what the other editor is using.

Any ideas? Thanks. [[User:Student7|Student7]] ([[User talk:Student7|talk]]) 18:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:Sounds like a purge did not arrive at one of the caching centers. This happens at times and can be troublesome to recover from. A normal purge usually does not suffice. I have now, purged, regenerated the 300px image and purged the page again, which should bust the cache of the server in the caching center. If you [[WP:BYPASS|bypass your browser cache]] is is visible for you now ? If it still isn't visible, please let us know, there might be a problem with all purges failing to reach one of the caching centers in that case. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 19:12, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::Using IE8 I can see both log cabins.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 20:01, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

{{-}}
:::Thanks TheDJ. "Windows F5" worked perfectly. So I don't contend with another valid edit, what should I do permanently?
:::(And thanks GoingBatty. I have reservations about IE). [[User:Student7|Student7]] ([[User talk:Student7|talk]]) 00:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

== Give Users Support ==

How could it be, that an user does not use preview, give no edit summary and does not sign '''for more than six years''' contributing to wikipedia. Compare [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bruvensky Newest contributions '''2014'''] >><< [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Bruvensky&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2010&month=-1 Oldest contributions '''2007'''] Is it possible to create a tool to detect / filtersuch editors and give them a some help? > <nowiki>{{subst:uw-preview}}</nowiki> <nowiki>{{subst:uw-editsummary}}</nowiki>--[[User:Frze|<tt>Frze</tt>]] <sup><small> [[User talk:Frze|<tt>> talk </tt>]] </small></sup>  07:06, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:Huh? There's no requirement to use edit summaries or preview. The editor has signed their edits on a few occasions just at a quick glance (first two I clicked on): [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests&diff=prev&oldid=349457650], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Charlie_Parker&diff=prev&oldid=393288518]. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 07:10, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

::Hah? Use template <nowiki>{{subst:uw-editsummary}}</nowiki> --[[User:Frze|<tt>Frze</tt>]] <sup><small> [[User talk:Frze|<tt>> talk </tt>]] </small></sup>  13:56, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Edit summary needed === 
[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Thank you for your contributions to [[Wikipedia:About|Wikipedia]]. <small><strong class="error">Please make sure to include an [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]] with every edit.</strong></small> Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history.

The edit summary appears in:
* [[Help:User contributions|User contributions]]
* [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]
* [[Help:Watching pages|Watchlists]]
* [[Help:diff|Revision differences]]
* [[WP:IRC|IRC channels]]
* [[Help:Related changes|Related changes]]
* [[Special:NewPages|New pages list]] and
* [[Help:Page history|Article editing history]]

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes.
Thanks! [[User:Frze|<tt>Frze</tt>]] <sup><small> [[User talk:Frze|<tt>> talk </tt>]] </small></sup>  13:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)<!-- Template:uw-editsummary -->

:We have templates for all kinds of things.  Edit summaries are encouraged but ''not required''.  Leaving them out has the side effect of making RecentChanges patrollers assume that you're up to no good.  If you don't mind people being even more suspicious of your work, then you, too, may omit them.  I don't ''recommend'' it, but you are ''permitted'' to make that choice. [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 16:59, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
::Every now and then, there's a suggestion to make edit summaries mandatory. [[Help talk:Edit summary#Initiative for mandatory Edit summary|Here's the latest]]. Personally, I've opted-in by setting "{{int:tog-forceeditsummary}}" at {{myprefs|Editing}}. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 18:20, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
::::[[Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 18:24, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::I used to be this way, until it became apparent to me that no one cares about the 90% or so edits that I do, when the section link is all that's really necessary, and sufficient to get the point across, more so than a short "reply". [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|TeleComNasSprVen]] ([[User talk:TeleComNasSprVen|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/TeleComNasSprVen|contribs]]) 16:20, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

== Login problem ==

OTRS received a request {{OTRS ticket|7331727|2014010510006699 }} Is there someone comfortable with login problems who could help?. The person has asked for password reset, but it hasn't worked. She is now asking for a password reset to a new email address. This isn't my area of knowledge, but I thought such a thing would not work doesn't the password reset have to go to the address used to setup the name?--[[User:Sphilbrick|<span style="color:#002868;padding:0 4px;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">S Philbrick</span>]][[User talk:Sphilbrick|<span style=";padding:0 4px;color:# 000;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">(Talk)</span>]] 14:33, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:If she doesn't remember the email address associated with her account, or can no longer receive email at that address, I think that she is out of luck. There is no way for us to change the email address on her account, and for security reasons, that wouldn't be prudent, anyway. —[[User:DoRD|DoRD]] ([[User talk:DoRD|talk]]) 15:09, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::OK, thanks, I feared that was the case. I am writing to the user with other options.--[[User:Sphilbrick|<span style="color:#002868;padding:0 4px;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">S Philbrick</span>]][[User talk:Sphilbrick|<span style=";padding:0 4px;color:# 000;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">(Talk)</span>]] 16:19, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

:::[[:wmf:Privacy policy]] says: "Users whose accounts do not have a valid email address will not be able to reset their password if it is lost. In such a situation, however, users may be able to contact one of the Wikimedia server administrators to enter a new e-mail address." I don't know anything about if and when this is done in practice. Presumably it would at least require good evidence of the user's identity. If "valid email address" is interpreted as one which originally worked then I don't know whether users who lost access to the address can get help. At the English Wikipedia we usually just tell users they have to create a new account if they cannot remember the password or retrieve mail at a stored address. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:59, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::::In practice this is rarely done anymore, because proving your identity is thoroughly difficult and doing it for many people is a very resource intensive task. So basically for this procedure, you need to have a lot of edits to make it worth everyone's time and then either a {{tl|User committed identity}} or subject yourself to a voluntary [[WP:CHECK|checkuser investigation]] and have some good proof of email identities and an acceptable story on why you lost your password that will pass sysadmin's criteria (those criteria are likely extremely high). Translated this means for 99.5% of users, no email means not recoverable by sysadmins. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 17:20, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Thanks for the information. I will continue to tell users to create a new account and not mention server administrators unless there are special circumstances like thousands of edits or a user right admins cannot grant (but then they probably have thousands of edits). [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 18:05, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

== A Multimedia Vision for 2016 ==

Happy new year!

Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to making some good progress together this year. 

To kick off the new year, here is a proposed [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/ multimedia vision for 2016], which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from community members.

This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of the goals we are considering. 

The best way to view this vision is to [[:File:Multimedia vision 2016.webm|watch this video]]:

<br>
[[File:Multimedia vision 2016.webm|thumb|640px|center|thumbtime=42|Multimedia Vision 2016, presented by Fabrice Florin at a Wikimedia Meetup in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 2013.]]

<br>
You can also view this five-minute video in other file formats on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2RKZnrOXmw YouTube] and [https://vimeo.com/83668821 Vimeo] -- or browse through [[:File:Multimedia_Vision_2016.pdf|these annotated slides]], at your leisure.

[[File:Multimedia_Vision_2016.pdf|Multimedia Vision Slides|thumb]]

This vision explores ways to integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki projects, to help you contribute more easily to our free media repository -- wherever you are. 

After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could [[commons:Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016|share your feedback in this discussion]]. We would like to hear from all Wikipedians who benefit from Commons, even if your work takes place on other sites.

In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those conversations and keep up with our work, we invite you to [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia subscribe to our multimedia mailing list].

We look forward to hearing from you -- and to more great collaborations in the new year!  [[User:Fabrice Florin (WMF)|Fabrice Florin (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Fabrice Florin (WMF)|talk]]) 01:01, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
== Script for interactive chess board ==

Hello,

At [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chess#Interactive_chess_board]], I had suggested that we try and develop an interactive chessboard for usage on EnWiki, similar to how the [https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%98_2013 Hebrew wiki articles] have.

[[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (kipod)]], who had worked on the board on the Hebrew wiki, replied and has suggested a possible way to do this. But we would like more thoughts on how other editors think this should behave and whether it will be a good idea to have it as the default in mainspace in the future. (I think that is a very strong yes given how so many chess articles are dependant on the positions displayed in static diagrams instead of a board like this which would have take our articles' quality up a huge notch)

So what do other editors think of this and are there any changes we can do to make it better?

Regards,
[[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]] ([[User talk:TheOriginalSoni|talk]]) 02:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:Sounds good. Will make chess-related articles more interactive and will be more hands-on informative. [[User:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:cyan;">'''///Euro'''</span><span style="color:grey;">'''Car'''</span>]][[User talk:EuroCarGT|<span style="color:orange;">'''GT'''</span>]] 05:22, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
::I'm saying the same thing as last time. Fine, but please just make it degrade nicely for people WITHOUT Javascript. And preferably in a way that doesn't make it look like a datadump. You could have a template include a reference to a page with pgn data and using Lua output a human readable 'simple' description of the game. Then the pgn viewer could detect this template with the hidden reference to the data page and load the pgn data for playback, partially or fully replacing the description. BTW. when it comes to these full games being included.. I find them as useless as episode listings without commentary. There should be a paragraph of text explaining the key moment of a game, the significance etc. Because Wikipedia is not a sport results site. So what i'm saying is, if I turn off Javascript on [[:he:אליפות_העולם_בשחמט_2013]] and it looks somewhat remotely like [[World_Chess_Championship_2013]] instead of [[User:קיפודנחש/pgnviewer_demo]], then it's a good solution. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 10:10, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:::this way of thinking is understood, but it shows some misunderstanding of the way chess games are regularly communicated: you say "human readable", but the whole point of pgn is that is *is* human readable. for example, please look at [[Pirc Defence#Sample games]]. (this is by no means unique - many chess articles contain similar sections). the idea here is that for people with no JS, the section(s) will continue to look more or less like this, and people with JS will see something like what you can see in [[User:קיפודנחש/pgnviewer demo]] when you activate the script [[User:קיפודנחש/pgnviewer.js]]. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 15:17, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

:::* [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (kipod)]], I think what [[User:TheDJ|TheDJ]] meant was that even for those without Javascript, there should be a particular chess position displayed rather than the full game. That way, the board still makes sense for those without JS. That was definitely one of the things I preferred [[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]] ([[User talk:TheOriginalSoni|talk]]) 20:27, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::[[User:TheDJ|TheDJ]], [[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]]: i do not think the right way to do it is to try and train some [[Artifical Intelligence]] to decide which position is the best one to show from each game. I think that this should be left to the editor. it is possible to create a template that will consume the PGN of the games, and some more stuff, and will display the "more stuff" to users without JS. this can be done by utilizing a mediawiki feature which is currently not used on enwiki: [[Mediawiki:Noscript.css]]. what one needs to do here is to create several new CSS classes: one which will have "display:none" in common.css and then "display:inherit" (and maybe another which will have "display:block" and a third which will have "display:inline") in noscript.css, and then another class that will have "display:none" in noscript.css. this way, template authors will be able to define parts of the tempalte which are visible to people without JS
:::::this may come in handy in other places: for instance, we use collapsible elements (i.e., elements with "show/hide" buttons) all over the place. these elements rely on JS to do their thing, and for user with no JS they are always in a "show" state. i can imagine some special cases, in which it would be better to completely hide an element in case the collapsing mechanism does not work.
:::::i can not do all this things in the script or in a template - it requires edit rights in the mediawiki namespace, IOW, "editinterface" permissions. in enwiki, only sysops/admins have this permission (some other wikis created a usergroup that have the "editinterface" permission without being sysop/administrator). someone with these permissions needs to create the classes, and then we can look at creating a template that will support JS-less viewers more gracefully.
:::::peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 15:38, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::* [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (kipod)]], would having admin userrights at the [https://test.wikipedia.org testwiki] be sufficient for allowing you to work on the script so it can show some elements only when the user does not use JS? [[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]] ([[User talk:TheOriginalSoni|talk]]) 13:04, 9 January 2014 (UTC) 
:::::::[[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]]: yes, though i can't guarantee to do this expeditiously - my wiki-budget is somewhat limited. also, if testwiki supports more restricted rights than "admin/sysop", which still contain "editinterface", this would suffice (some projects *do* have "editinterface" user group. i don't think enwiki is one of them. such a group makes a lot of sense for testwiki to have). peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 14:50, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::* [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (kipod)]], Contact [https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Technical_13] on his talk page, who agreed to give you admin rights on test-wiki until you can finish testing this script out. Peace 15:56, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::::[[User:TheOriginalSoni]]: did that. see the demo page on testwiki. [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 01:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Are we not talking about a playable board? I think that having a fully playable game integrated into the article would be an enormous bonus. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:gold;">'''''bd2412'''''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:48, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
* [[User:BD2412|bd2412]], What we currently have is similar to what is already present in the [https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%98_2013 Hebrew wiki articles]. Is this what you wanted, or did you have something else in mind when you said playable? [[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]] ([[User talk:TheOriginalSoni|talk]]) 13:38, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:::[[User:BD2412|BD2412]]: you can see for yourself exactly what we are talking about: you need to add to [[Special:Mypage/common.js]] the following line:
 importScript('User:קיפודנחש/pgnviewer.js');
:::and then, look at [[User:קיפודנחש/pgnviewer demo]]. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 15:38, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: I have seen the simulation on Hebrew Wikipedia. I'm talking about the ability to play an actual game of chess. [[User:BD2412|<span style="background:gold;">'''''bd2412'''''</span>]] [[User talk:BD2412|'''T''']] 20:41, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::if you are talking about the reader playing a game of chess against the website/computer, i doubt this can be achieved through wikipedia infrastructure. even if it _was_ possible, i don't believe this is "encyclopedic content", so i do not think it's something appropriate for wikipedia - see [[WP:NOTGAMEHOST]]. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 21:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::{{ec}} In which case, it's simple: [[WP:NOTGAMEHOST|we do not host games]], chess or otherwise. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:16, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

===Demo ready===
so [[User:Technical 13]] granted me admin rights on test wiki, and i created [https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pgnviewer_demo pgnviewer demo on testwiki]. for the demo, i created "Teplate:Chess pgn viewer", which has a "no script" parameter, that lets the editor to define what the people who have JS disable will see. in the demo, i only included 3 positions from 3 of the games, but, of course, the editor can place anything she choose under the "no script" parameter. whatever it is, it's completely hidden from viewers with JS. view this page with JS enabled and then with it disabled to see the difference.

please test it, and play with it (i.e., copy the page and edit the copy to see what can be done). peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 01:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

* [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (kipod)]], It looks pretty great. Could you hide the pgn for users without JS? Seeing all the PGN for all 9 games will probably not be preferable for non-JS users. [[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]] ([[User talk:TheOriginalSoni|talk]]) 15:19, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::[[User:TheOriginalSoni|TheOriginalSoni]]: the pgn _is_ hidden for users without JS, unless the editor chose to show it (i.e., the editor included some PGN in the "no script" parameter). sometimes, when enabling and disabling JS in the browser, it's possible that some stuff does not work as intended immediately. this is not a real problem: we want to solve the problem(s) for users with or without JS, and not necessarily for users who enable and disable JS rapidly. after either enabling or disabling JS, just execute "deep refresh" once to see how a reader with or without JS will see the page. i'll make a note about it on the demo page also. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 17:08, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

== hilite template is partly broken ==

Last night I discovered a bug in a template. I don't know much about how templates work at their back end, so I didn't even try to fix it . The Talk page hasn't been touched in a year, so I figured anything I wrote there would not be noticed, and came here. 

But the Village Pump page says this Technical section is "To discuss technical issues. For wiki software bug reports, use Bugzilla",  so I went to Bugzilla and filed a detailed report (below).

This morning I got an answer there (also below),  telling me to BE BOLD or go to the Talk page. Enough already. I'm done with it. --[[User:Thnidu|Thnidu]] ([[User talk:Thnidu|talk]]) 16:42, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

------------------------------------


Bug 59855 - some examples in [[Template:Hilite/doc]] are broken

The hilite template doc page on Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hilite/doc ,
has examples of five ways to parameterize the template (including null). The
third and fourth, which should have pink and yellow highlighting respectively,
have none. I am using a 13-inch, Mid 2011 MacBook Air with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
(11G63b). I discovered the bug in Firefox 26.0 and have replicated it in Chrome
31.0.1650.63 and Safari 6.1.1 (7537.73.11).

===Examples===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! code !! output !! notes
|-
| <nowiki>{{hilite | text }}</nowiki> || {{hilite | text }} ||
|-
| <nowiki>{{hilite | text | lightblue }}</nowiki> || {{hilite | text | lightblue }} ||
|-
| <nowiki>{{hilite | text | pink | 2011-01-01 }}</nowiki> || {{hilite | text | pink | 2011-01-01 }} ||
|-
| <nowiki>{{hilite | text || January 1, 2114 }}</nowiki> || {{hilite | text || January 1, 2114 }} || Note the color parameter, left blank, is still represented<br> with a pipe (followed by the expiration parameter pipe)
|-
| <nowiki>{{hilite | text | #00FF00 | 1 January 2015 }}</nowiki> || {{hilite | text | #00FF00 | 1 January 2015 }} ||
|}

<pre>Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2014-01-09 15:01:07 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to report this!
Has this been brought up on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Hilite/doc ? 
Sounds like the more appropriate page to reach its developers (or [[WP:BE
BOLD]] by fixing the docs if you have time and expertise), as Bugzilla's
"Template" component refers generally to loading templates and not to specific
ones on specific websites (so I'm closing this as INVALID but only because
Bugzilla isn't a good place for this, not because the issue you report does not
exist). This should be fixed on-wiki instead.
</pre>
:{{reply|Thnidu}} Please note how the documentation mentions an expiry functionality. Now guess how the date in your broken examples effect the color of the text :D I've reset the 4th example to a more distant date to show the effect. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 17:01, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

::I have tweaked the examples and notes further.[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Hilite/doc&diff=589949231&oldid=589945006] If you have problems using a template and have limited template knowledge then [[Wikipedia:Help desk]] is often a good place. Bugzilla is common for all Wikimedia projects and should rarely be used for problems with a template, since templates are edited locally at each wiki. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:51, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Thanks TheDJ and PrimeHunter! --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 22:06, 9 January 2014 (UTC) 
:::: YES, thanks! To TheDJ for the explanation, and to PrimeHunter for making it clear on the page. --[[User:Thnidu|Thnidu]] ([[User talk:Thnidu|talk]]) 22:32, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:Bugzilla is for drawing issues to the attention of the people who maintain the servers and write the wiki software (MediaWiki) that runs on them. Templates are written by Wikipedia editors, so problems with them should be dealt with by Wikipedia editors. If you don't know how to fix a template problem yourself, bring it here or to the [[WP:help desk|help desk]]. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 20:48, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::You can also raise a thread at [[WP:WPT]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

== Looks like Javascript is working sporadically ==

I just viewed one page, then went to another and found no javascript menus, no usual wikipedia menus on top.
I've cleared my cache (Using Chrome ) and came here, it also showed no menus on top, however, when I went in to edit the menu's (all of them )  re-appeared again.

Anyone else experiencing this ?  <span style="border:1px solid blue;padding:0.50x;">[[User:KoshVorlon|<span style="color:blue;background:white">&nbsp;'''K'''osh'''V'''orlon</span>]].<span style="color:white;background:blue;">&nbsp;'''W'''e '''a'''re '''a'''ll '''K'''osh &nbsp;</span></span> 19:16, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

The interface off looks like crap.  There's no skin or JS.  I've trying purging and clearing my cache but no luck.—[[User:C678|<span style="color:green;font-family:Neuropol">cyberpower</span>]] [[User talk:C678|<sup style="color:red;font-family:arnprior">Chat</sup>]]<sub style="margin-left:-4.4ex;color:red;font-family:arnprior">Offline</sub> 19:19, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:(Merged two sections about the same issue) Yep. bits.wikimedia.org is being slow and sometimes failing. My watchlist loaded with absolutely no JavaScript or CSS. Somebody should ping the devs on Bugzilla. [[User:Jcgoble3|jcgoble3]] ([[User talk:Jcgoble3|talk]]) 19:21, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::(seems to be) back to normal now. [[User:Jared Preston|Jared Preston]] ([[User talk:Jared Preston|talk]]) 19:25, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{ec}} sometimes happens after version upgrade (we are on wfm9 now). try deep purging of browser's cache (what works best for me is hitting {{Keypress|Ctrl|Shift|Delete}} (works on big-3 windoze browsers + big 2 on linux) and selecting "delete temporary files" or "clear cache" or whatever else your browser chooses to call deep cache-purging. for opera try "settings => delete private data") dunno how to do same on mac. after this, and a couple more {{Keypress|Shift|F5}}, everything should go back to normal. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 19:33, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

== Interface (Typography refresh problem) ==
{{Tracked|59815|Invalid}}
It's squashing content into the left 2/3rds of the screen for me, but not on Special: pages.--<span style="">[[User:Gilderien|Gilderien]] <span style="font-size:70%; vertical-align:sub;">[[User talk:Gilderien|Chat]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Gilderien|List of good deeds]]</span></span> 19:29, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Gilderien}} The "2/3rds of the screen" is part of the latest revision of the "Typography refresh". I've just disabled this beta feature in my preferences. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 19:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::Same for me. [https://plus.google.com/101164874255585734252/posts/UgLCDE7E2Ny Here's a screenshot.] [[User:Marcus Qwertyus|Marcus Qwertyus]] ([[User talk:Marcus Qwertyus|talk]]) 19:46, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::<s>i do not believe disabling "Typography refresh" is required. from what i see, if you perform aggressive refresh/purge cache, everything should go back to normal, even if you have "Typography refresh" enabled.</s> peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 19:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:Note that the content squashing is actually intentional, see [[mw:Talk:Typography_refresh#Additional_ideas_we.27re_trying_out_in_this_release]]. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 19:54, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
::Yes, I posted this above at [[#Typography refresh beta feature]]. It is not be related to any lack of skin CSS or JS though. <span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;">[[User:Steven (WMF)|Steven Walling (WMF)]]&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;[[User talk:Steven (WMF)|<span style="color: #8080b0">talk</span>]]</span>  21:41, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Site Resolution for Wikipedia Articles ===

Is anyone having issues with the resolution on articles?  (See image below)  I first noticed this issue this morning (about 12 hours ago). Any ideas on how to fix this?

<!--[[File:VP-Wikipedia-Display-Issues.png|thumb|center]]-->{{small|1=[Image {{ql|Special:Log/delete|qs=page=File:VP-Wikipedia-Display-Issues.png|deleted}} at uploader's request.]}}

Thanks, -- [[User:ТимофейЛееСуда|<span style="color:#336699;">'''Тимофей'''</span>]]<span style="color:#335599;">'''Лее'''</span>[[User_talk:ТимофейЛееСуда|'''<span style="color:#333399;">Суда</span>''']].  00:15, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

:See the section [[#Typography refresh beta feature]] above. They are testing out narrower articles (715px), as there is evidence this improve readability. I'm not so sure, personally. <span style="white-space:nowrap; text-shadow:gray 5px 3px 1px;">— [[User:Huntster|Huntster]] <small>([[User talk:Huntster|t]] [[Special:Emailuser/Huntster|@]] [[Special:Contributions/Huntster|c]])</small></span> 00:21, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::Oh dang.  This is terrible.  I don't know if I can still edit with the articles like this.  Is there a way I can disable this? -- [[User:ТимофейЛееСуда|<span style="color:#336699;">'''Тимофей'''</span>]]<span style="color:#335599;">'''Лее'''</span>[[User_talk:ТимофейЛееСуда|'''<span style="color:#333399;">Суда</span>''']].  00:23, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Nevermind. I figured it out.  Thats just yucky.  Sorry for opening a new discussion. -- [[User:ТимофейЛееСуда|<span style="color:#336699;">'''Тимофей'''</span>]]<span style="color:#335599;">'''Лее'''</span>[[User_talk:ТимофейЛееСуда|'''<span style="color:#333399;">Суда</span>''']].  00:26, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::It's good for mobile browser (using desktop view) but definitely bad for non-mobile device which has larger screen/resolution. -- [[User:Sameboat|Sameboat - 同舟]] ([[User talk:Sameboat|talk]]) 01:36, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::See [[#Article alignment]] below. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 16:03, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Article alignment ===

Hello, logging onto Wikipedia today it seems that the layout/skin has changed so that all the text is squashed to the left ([http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2rc2y51&s=5#.UtATiPRdV-E see this screenshot]). It doesn't happen when I log out, or when I change skin. I'm currently using the Vector skin with Google Chrome. Any help would be appreciated. —''[[User:JennKR|JennKR]]'' | [[User talk:JennKR|☎]] 15:37, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:You have {{myprefs|11|Typography refresh}} enabled. I like it, except for the screen width, which is supposed to make it match the mobile display. You can disable the max width by adding this to [[Special:MyPage/skin.css|your CSS]]:

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">.action-view #bodyContent {
  max-width: none !important;
}</syntaxhighlight>

:--<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 15:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

::That's done the trick! Thank you very much! —''[[User:JennKR|JennKR]]'' | [[User talk:JennKR|☎]] 15:46, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::See [[#Additional ideas we're trying out in this release]] for the reason for the 715px max width. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 16:04, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

== Collapsible navboxes broken ==

It looks like a recent change broke all of Wikipedia's collapsible navboxes. I'm seeing a lot of space to the right-hand-side of the boxes, but the outer border extends all the way to the end of the page. This happens whether the box is collapsed or not. Here are some screenshots: [http://i.imgur.com/cTX8Dp7.png collapsed], [http://i.imgur.com/AnN7Xyk.png uncollapsed]. This doesn't seem to be connected to the typography update discussed above, as it happens even after I turn that feature off in my preferences. Does anyone know what changed to cause this? — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:18, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:Update: This doesn't happen when I'm logged out or logged in to my alternate account, so it must be something in my settings. I'll have a go at tracking it down. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:31, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::It's the Nearby beta. It pulls in tablet.styles module, which has a rule to set navboxes to receive 'display:inherit'. This causes the effect you are witnessing. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 09:33, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Yep, I just found it. I can confirm that the issue goes away when I turn the "Near this page" feature off. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:37, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::It's also affecting {{tl|collapse top}}, which uses the navbox class for some reason. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:52, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
I reported this to the team btw. [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages&diff=881501&oldid=879697 here]. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 20:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

==Visual impairment==
I've heard that visually impaired editors commonly find blue on yellow easier to read than conventional display. Do we/could we have options that enabled this in people's monobook and vector css or better still preferences? ''[[User:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkGreen">Ϣere</span>]][[User talk:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkRed">Spiel</span>]]<span style="color:#CC5500">Chequers</span>'' 11:13, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:if you want to create a CSS definition that will work well, it's very easy to make a gadget, selectable from preferences, that will load it. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 23:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::Eg. we do already have [[MediaWiki:Gadget-Blackskin]] in [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets]], which uses [[MediaWiki:Gadget-Blackskin.css]] if you have Monobook active. –[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]] ([[User talk:Quiddity|talk]]) 23:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

:I think we could do a lot more to help visually impaired, and colour-blind editors (and readers). I left some collated links/notes on the latter, at [[mw:Talk:Accessibility#Colour-blindness links and notes]]. See also the thread/link directly above that. Beyond that - ie. what to do next, and what to prioritize, and how many options are wanted/needed - I'm not sure. –[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]] ([[User talk:Quiddity|talk]]) 23:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

==This link opens my printer.  Help?==

[http://wirtschaft-regional.de/includes/content/content.php?AID=426113&key=NjY3OQ==&herkunft=abstract&drucken=1&bezahlt=frei&rubrik=&copyright_druck=%26copy%3B+Wirtschaft+Regional&objekt=093 This link]
It's a nice page, but its opening my printer as if I pushed Ctrl-P.  Annoying!  Can other people check it with other browsers to see how common this is please?  I'm using Iceweasel on Linux.  Ideally, I'd like to reformat it so it stops doing that... [[user: Thesteve|<span style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span style="background:darkblue;">&nbsp;Th</span><span style="background:royalblue;">e S</span><span style="background:blue;">te</span><span style="background:#6666FF;">ve&nbsp;</span></span>]] 14:09, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:"drucken" means "print", so it's not surprising. When I googled for the first line, I found [http://www.wirtschaft-regional.de/index.php?AID=426113&herkunft=abstract&objekt=093&rubrik=&ressort=LOKAL&menue=1&submenue=1&ue_datum=2009-07-03&limit=1&bezahlt=frei&key=NjY3OQ== this link] which works better. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 14:27, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::Cool, thanks.  Guess I should have thought of that...[[user: Thesteve|<span style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span style="background:darkblue;">&nbsp;Th</span><span style="background:royalblue;">e S</span><span style="background:blue;">te</span><span style="background:#6666FF;">ve&nbsp;</span></span>]] 15:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

== Source code glitch ==

I saved a page with the exact same source code more than once and it didn't give the same result every time. See the file description for more details. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 19:51, 11 January 2014 (UTC) [[File:Super rare Wikipedia error.png|thumb|([https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Super_rare_Wikipedia_error.png file])]]
:That 'weird' text was caused by a space before the sentence, which you removed when you retyped the paragraph. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 19:57, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:You can see how your two edits differ by looking at the {{diff|Toronto blackout (2013)|prev|587570228|diff}}. You can get to this using the history tab, then clicking "prev" next to your 2nd edit. See [[Help:Diff]] for more information on using diffs. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 20:38, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::I can't do that because that article doesn't exist anymore because it was merged into [[2013 Central and Eastern Canada ice storm]], unless I search Toronto blackout (2013) which redirects me to [[2013 Central and Eastern Canada ice storm]] then click the article I was redirected from then view its history. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 20:49, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::When you are redirected, you should see "<span style="font-size: 84%; color: #545454">(Redirected from {{noredirect|Toronto blackout (2013)}})</span>" under the page title. Click this to view the redirect itself, then click the history tab. Your edits are still there&#160;– they were not deleted when the article was replaced by a redirect. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::I think that acording to the proper answer format, you're supposed to use 1 colon if you're answering me and 2 colons if you're answering Edokter. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 20:51, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::I've fixed the indentation. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
== How long does the average reader spend looking at a Wikipedia article? ==

Is there a tool that tells me this for individual articles or for en.Wikipedia articles in general? --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  22:13, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:No. Wikipedia does not record when a user leaves a page or the site, so we can't know how long they were reading. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 02:40, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::Yeah; it wouldn't really be possible to track anyway. There's no 'reading a page' period - you make a GET request, you retrieve the page, it lives in your browser until you close the window and (short of active connections maintained between the site and the client, or further requests from the client) there's no further interaction. [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 04:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::OK. Thanks. It would have been nice to know what proportion of readers stays on a page long enough to read more than the infobox and lede. --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  04:27, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::::You could probably do something with the "onunload" hook, but 1. it would only work for people with JS enabled, 2. people could submit false data, 3. it would be a huge invasion of privacy. [[User:PiRSquared17|<b style="color:#f90;font-family:Arial">πr<sup>2</sup></b>]] ([[User talk:PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#0f3;font-family:Arial">'''t'''</i>]] • [[Special:Contributions/PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#03f;font-family:Arial">'''c'''</i>]]) 18:47, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Average pageview measured in seconds before next page:''' This topic has been discussed before, and the average duration was so short it seemed time unlikely to read more than one paragraph before then viewing another webpage. I have asked Jimbo, for longer discussion there (see: "[[User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#How long average reader views a page]]"). -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 17:23, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
*:Any idea how this data was gathered? I can only assume it was an opt-in study over a small sample of people; I'm pretty sure the WMF would not allow such tracking of readers without their permission. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 23:03, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
*::Maybe something like [[m:Requests_for_comment/User_site_behavior_collection#What_data_will_be_collected_.26_retained.3F|this]] or [[mw:EventLogging]]. [[User:PiRSquared17|<b style="color:#f90;font-family:Arial">πr<sup>2</sup></b>]] ([[User talk:PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#0f3;font-family:Arial">'''t'''</i>]] • [[Special:Contributions/PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#03f;font-family:Arial">'''c'''</i>]]) 03:05, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: Perhaps average pageview duration was a simple calculation of total pageviews per month divided by number of unique usernames/IPs per month, to split the month into seconds per pageview per user. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 21:09, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::I don't think I understood that properly. Page views per month divided by unique users per month gives page views per user. It doesn't give any hint how much time was taken per page view. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 18:38, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Thanks, [[User:PiRSquared17|πr<sup>2</sup>]], some interesting reading there. I'm convinced now that the WMF wouldn't have any problems using a similar system to track time spent reading articles without consent. The first link you gave also answered my question: the WMF have previously measured this using [[comScore]], which is an opt-in system. I'm not sure of the exact method of counting they use, though (e.g. do they look at how long the page is kept open? how long it is the active tab? exclude when the screensaver is on?). That page doesn't actually mention what the average reading time ''is'', though it does say the average plus 3 [[standard deviation]]s is 24 minutes. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 18:38, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::I'm not familiar with that particular research, but you could try looking in the page's history and asking one of the authors. [[User:PiRSquared17|<b style="color:#f90;font-family:Arial">πr<sup>2</sup></b>]] ([[User talk:PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#0f3;font-family:Arial">'''t'''</i>]] • [[Special:Contributions/PiRSquared17|<i style="color:#03f;font-family:Arial">'''c'''</i>]]) 05:01, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:I quite frequently come upon an article I think I could improve, and might have time "later that day" or tomorrow. I will just leave that page open in one browser tab, and continue my current work in other browser tabs. That means the article is open, but I'm not reading it. We're asking for technical data to give us information on human behaviour. There may not be a great correlation. [[User:HiLo48|HiLo48]] ([[User talk:HiLo48|talk]]) 03:22, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
::Agreed. That's partly why I asked how the data was collected, since I wondered if anything had been done to account for factors like that. I often open multiple tabs, and often go elsewhere for hours at a time with browser tabs left open. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 18:38, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

== Raging thanking dragon ==
{{tracked|59807}}
Sending "thanks" now redirects to a separate page that requires yet another confirmation. What is this?? <small>Why do I need to 'confirm' that I want to thank an editor?? Is this system of positive feedback being 'abused' by some hideous thanker of excess?</small>If we want users to use this system, it has to be easy to use; redirecting to a separate page with yet another button and system is ridiculous, and in terms of usability deprecates one of the only features that promotes positive feedback between editors. Am increasingly dissatisfied with the way Wikipedia changes around me with no easily-accessible consultation or notice. [[User:LT910001|LT910001]] ([[User talk:LT910001|talk]]) 23:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:I think it's because it's so close to the "undo" link that if you're not careful when going for "undo" you might hit "thank" by mistake, and so give the opposite impression to what you intended (hey! I'm so glad that you inserted "poop" into this page!) --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:56, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::I've opened a bug report to request that a preference be added. [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 23:56, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::The confirmation was added because people kept 'thanking' people for edits when they meant to undo them.  I believe that the day after the confirmation step was added, completed thanks dropped by a quarter and complaints about people mis-thanking dropped to zero.  I'm certainly very happy about this, since I made that mistake several times.
:::But I've not heard of it redirecting people to another page.  It normally has a small pop-up.  You click twice:  'Thank' and 'OK'.  The confirmation step adds about an extra three seconds.  It doesn't strike me as unreasonable.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 05:28, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: Depends if you have JavaScript enabled. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 22:32, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Also, if you click the "thank" link before the page has fully-loaded (as I managed to do a few days ago) it will take you to [[Special:Thanks]] (with the revision number filled in properly) instead of triggering the pop-up confirmation box. –[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]] ([[User talk:Quiddity|talk]]) 21:15, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::The behaviour described (redirecting to another page) is what happens with JavaScript disabled (or if JavaScript has failed, not yet loaded, etc). This is fairly new (deployed 2 January, I think). Before this, clicking thanks without JavaScript did nothing at all. I'd say this change is a definite improvement. See also [[bugzilla:49161|bug 49161]] and [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 121#Tech News: 2013-51|Tech News 2013-51]]. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 19:18, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::Ah, thank you {{u|PartTimeGnome}}. I was quite confused as to why I was getting a separate page. --[[User:LT910001|LT910001]] ([[User talk:LT910001|talk]]) 02:10, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

== Navboxes on ro.wiki ==
{{small|1=The below was originally posted under [[#Collapsible navboxes broken|Collapsible navboxes broken]]. I've split it out as it is unrelated to the original problem raised there. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)}}

I have a similar problem on ro.wiki. I created template [[:ro:Template:Navbox-test|Navbox-test]] (copy of [[Template:Navbox|Navbox]]). It uses [[:ro:Module:Navbox]] (+ [[:ro:Module:HtmlBuilder]] and [[:ro:Module:Navbar]]). Everything in them are copied from enwiki, but result is not the same - navbox is broken. See here an example [[:ro:User:XXN/teste2]]. How you can see the 3 buttons: view, talk and edit template - are not at their place, and when i collapse template it retracts in upper-left corner. What is the problem? [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 23:15, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:That is becouse ro.wikipedia does not have the same CSS rules - in [[:ro:MediaWiki:Common.css]] - as the english wikipedia does. For that specific problem, the code below is missing in ro.wiki's Common.css. Ideally, though, you should copy the navbox, navbar, hlist and plainlist CSS rules from [[MediaWiki:Common.css|enwiki's common.css]] and either add them to Common.css on ro.wiki yourself - if you are an administrator on ro.wiki - or ask an administrator on ro.wiki to do it for you.
<syntaxhighlight lang="css">.navbox-inner,
.navbox-subgroup {
    width: 100%;
}</syntaxhighlight>
--[[User:Snaevar|Snaevar]] ([[User talk:Snaevar|talk]]) 00:29, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thank you Snaevar. Unfortunately i am not admin. 
::Is here any global sysop to help solve this promlem? Our local sysops are not receptive to my proposals.[[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 14:19, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Global sysops are called [[meta:Stewards|Stewards]]. They won't help, though&#160;– they don't use their admin rights on wikis with active admins except in an emergency. You're only option is to convince your local admins. Possibly look into the decision-making and dispute resolution processes available on ro.wiki; I don't know much about them. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:58, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
::::But we have another group of people exactly for this purpose [[meta:Special:GlobalUsers/editinterface|Global edit interface]] editors. Editors who specifically deal with JS/CSS and MediaWiki/Template/Module namespaces on wiki's where local sysops might not have the required knowledge to get things like this done. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 22:22, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Thank you, ''TheDJ''. I′ll try ask them for help. [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 12:10, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

== Infobox horseracing personality broken ==
{{small|1=The below was originally posted under [[#Collapsible navboxes broken|Collapsible navboxes broken]]. I've split it out as it is unrelated to the original problem raised there. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)}}

*<s>All the inboxes for {{tl|Infobox horseracing personality}} have had a major parameter collapsed when it's not the default, and there is no "show" option to uncollapse them.  See, e.g. [[Rosie Napravnik]].  It's not in the history of that template, so must be some parent set of templates, but it's not happening everywhere.  Earlier, someone broke everything at Infobox person, but that was fixed.  Who is screwing around with these parameters and where?  [[User:Montanabw|<span style="color:#006600;">Montanabw</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Montanabw|(talk)]]</sup> 23:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)</s>  Never mind, this has been fixed.  [[User:Montanabw|<span style="color:#006600;">Montanabw</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Montanabw|(talk)]]</sup> 04:23, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::Somebody managed to break ''all'' the infoboxes by making a rather strange test edit to {{tlx|infobox}}. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

:::yeah, there were a couple other issues, but they got fixed, so all is well!  [[User:Montanabw|<span style="color:#006600;">Montanabw</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Montanabw|(talk)]]</sup> 01:34, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

== Wikilink of persons preferred name ==

Actor [[J.P. Manoux]] spells his name without a space between the initials. While [[J. P. Manoux]] redirects to [[J.P. Manoux]], there are many articles with the non-preferred spelling. Is there a bot or tool that can be used to fix these? <small>[[User talk:NE Ent|NE Ent]]</small> 23:21, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{done}} I'm working it for you right now with [[WP:AWB]]. [[User:Vanisaac|Van]][[User talk:Vanisaac|Isaac]]<sub><small>[[WP:WikiProject Writing systems|WS]] [[WP:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology|Vex]]</small></sub><sup style="margin-left:-7.0ex">[[Special:Contributions/Vanisaac|contribs]]</sup> 23:49, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::I've also tagged the redirect with {{tl|R from misspelling}}, which will encourage editors who work on [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings]] to fix links in the future.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 04:22, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

== Ping2 ==

I have written {{tl|Ping2}}. Distinction of this template and {{tl|Ping}} is, other than it being in Lua, that if your '/noping' subpage exists, your pings are not displayed: instead, they are hidden using CSS. You still get notifications in the notification centre. The rationale is backward compatibility with old times when discussions did not contain linked usernames that much.

Feedback? Thoughts? Thanks. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 05:42, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{#invoke:Ping2|main|Gryllida||||}}
 It seems to misformat the content after the ping2 template... 
:More testing required! ;p 
:Also, is the "/noping" functionality documented anywhere? Or is this also something new that you created for this template's usage? Thanks. –[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]] ([[User talk:Quiddity|talk]]) 20:01, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
::@[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3APing2&diff=590404790&oldid=590322774 Fixed]. The /noping is something new, I only documented it at the template /doc subpage. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 20:11, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
: Since it's written in Lua, why doesn't it support more than 5 usernames? But the noping thing is going to cause trouble if this gets any sort of use, considering that mw.title.new is expensive (and therefore can only be used 500 times per page, or fewer if other things on the page are also using expensive functions). [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 20:07, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
::@[[:User:Anomie|Anomie]]: Subst it. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 20:11, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{#invoke:Ping2|main|Anomie|Quiddity|||}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3APing2&diff=590408461&oldid=590404790] — I edited it to complain about substing.. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 20:38, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
::Just type them manually in the <nowiki>{{{N|}}}</nowiki> format in the template source code, and Lua will process as many as you like. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 20:38, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Lua can read the parameters passed to the template directly (using [[mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual#frame:getParent|frame:getParent]]). This technique allows any number of parameters to be read, which I think was [[User:Anomie|Anomie]]'s point. Passing them in <nowiki>{{{N|}}}</nowiki> format from the template puts a fixed limit of ''N'' on the number of parameters.
:::The template does not subst properly&#160;– it's outputting <code><nowiki>{{#invoke:Ping2|...}}</nowiki></code> followed by a line break. This still calls your Lua script, so is almost as resource-intensive as if subst had not been used. I suggest adding a <nowiki>{{{|safesubst:}}}</nowiki> to the #invoke call. Furthermore, the line break after the #invoke call is probably what's causing the formatting issue seen by [[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]]; remove it. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:45, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I have already fixed that by removing line breaks in the template itself. The template is substituted, so his message shows up with a problem. Thanks for the note about number of arguments, I will try to implement it. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 01:40, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
::::OK, the indent is broken again. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 01:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I have fixed it, including unlimited number of arguments, ''except'' requiring subst ({{tl|require subst}}); this bit is unreadable to me. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 02:14, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

== "Display a floating alert when I have new talk page messages" gadget might need updating ==

[[File:Echo Notifications new message indicator.png|frame|Talkpage message indicator]]
Hi, this is a friendly notice that [[WP:ECHO|Echo]]'s orange new talkpage message indicator will in the future be visible for users with JavaScript disabled, and therefore the gadget that replaces it with a bigger orange bar might require changes to continue working properly. (This has actually been requested here in the past.) See {{phab|58974}}. I think the change will happen on Thursday, 30 January 2014, per [[mw:MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap|the roadmap]]. You will probably also want to change the part that takes about JavaScript on [[Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ]] about then. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 15:25, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
* As is shown in your image, {{U|Kaldari}} is actually responsible for this script... So... We've pinged him now for comments. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 18:04, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
**That'd be [[MediaWiki:Gadget-topalert.js]] and [[MediaWiki:Gadget-topalert.css]]. –[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]] ([[User talk:Quiddity|talk]]) 20:23, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:Thank you very much to [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] for implementing this! I look forward to seeing orange talk page indicators once more. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:10, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/03|Tech News: 2014-03]] ==

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'''Recent software changes'''
* The latest version of MediaWiki ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/wmf10|1.23wmf10]]) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* Searching in the <code>File:</code> namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106537/]

'''VisualEditor news'''
* VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102208/]
* You can now add and remove <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>__NOEDITSECTION__</nowiki></code> in the page metadata menu. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56866] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56867] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57166]

'''Problems'''
* For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the [[mw:Extension:Translate|Translate tool]] on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59740] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59739]
* For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with [[m:en:Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] and [[m:en:JavaScript|JavaScript]] due to high server load.

'''Future software changes'''
* Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis  on January 14. [//wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_January_13]
* The new search tool ([[mw:Search|CirrusSearch]]) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Beta Features options]].
* You will soon be able to export [[mw:Extension:Collection|page collections]] into other formats than [[m:en:Portable Document Format|PDF]]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58151]
* It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from [[:m:en:Flickr|Flickr]] using [[mw:Extension:UploadWizard|UploadWizard]]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43320] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/105393]
* The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/ multimedia vision for 2016]. You are [[m:commons:Commons talk:Multimedia Features/Vision 2016|invited]] to comment.  [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073904.html]

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==stats.grok.se==
=== December 31 pageviews ===
The [http://stats.grok.se/ pageview tool] seems to have either gotten interrupted or was subject to partial data. I need help figuring out which it was. From what I can tell there must be some process that runs through WP pages alphabetically. Somewhere between [[Tim Hardaway, Jr.]] and [[Tory Burch]], the process did not run for December 31. Either the underlying data was not available for the end of the alphabet or they were not compiled. Can someone tell me whether the underlying data exist for the underlying data.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 04:31, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:It's the Y2K+14 bug I've been trying to raise the alarm about! Now don't you wish you'd listened to me??? [[User:EEng|EEng]] ([[User talk:EEng|talk]]) 05:14, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Estimate the missing 31-December data:''' Since the stats are complete for pages "[[A]]"-"[[TNZ]]", then until the database is fixed (during the next few days), perhaps treat the partial day's stats in "[[To]]"-"[[Zzz]]" as an estimate for 31 December as either the pageviews from 30 December, or 17 December (2 weeks prior), or the average: (30Dec + 17Dec)/2. After "To" there is some partial data, such as "Toy" from 472 to 3, or "Tow" 72 to 5, or "TS" 114 to 76. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 13:03, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

:It looks like it's just a problem with the stats.grok.se site:
<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
alexz@tools-login:~$ zgrep -F "en ZZ_Top " pagecounts-20131231-080000.gz
en ZZ_Top 52 1578087
</syntaxhighlight>
:-- <span style="font-family:Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</span> 15:29, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
::Either you are showing me something that suggests ZZ Top got 1.578 million pageviews or 52 pageviews in the 8:00 hour on December 31 according to the underlying data. I will assume it got 52 pageviews that hour. So something is not compiling correctly starting at some point in the alphabet between [[Tim Hardaway, Jr.]] and [[Tory Burch]]. Starting at "TO" there is minimal data according to [[User:Wikid77]]. I'll be watching here for confirmation that the database has been corrected.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 19:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Yes, it's 52. The second number is the total number of bytes sent (I'm not sure why that's included in the data). <span style="font-family:Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</span> 02:48, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
*Since January 2 and 3 did not run, I have recontacted {{u|Henrik}}.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 09:40, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
**I have left him a list of dates with English WP data that have not been compiled (1/31/08, 2/28/08, 3/1/08, 6/1/08, 6/2/08, 7/12-31/08, 11/15/09, 2/23/10, 6/26/10*, 9/2/2011, 10/20/11, 12/31/13 (TNZ-ZZZ), 1/2-4/14). I am hoping he will compile the old dates too.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 09:14, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
*Now at [[User_talk:Henrik#What.27s_happened_to_the_stats.3F]] other languages than English are reporting problems Polish since Dec 29 and Russian since Dec 28.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 15:19, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
**{{u|Wikid77}} and {{u|Mr.Z-man}}, what is going on with this issue?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 14:47, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
***Tried emailing Henrik as well but no reply. This kind of tool is something that really needs brought in house maybe to labs. It's very useful and when it's down its a real pain. [[User:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Maroon;">Blethering</span>]] [[User talk:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Green;">Scot</span>]] 15:41, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Having not run since the 1 January, it seems it tried to run for yesterday and most are complete but I've found a few that are missing. [[User:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Maroon;">Blethering</span>]] [[User talk:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Green;">Scot</span>]] 19:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I am fairly certain that January 5 results are only about 25% of the daily totals.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 19:17, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::It looks like the underlying data does not exist after 5 AM and extending well into the 6th. All dates are now caught up except for December 31 (TO-ZZZ).--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 16:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

=== stats.grok.se support ===

The help page for stats.grok.se (which we link to from all sorts of places, for example DYK notificiations) directs people to [[User talk:Henrik]], but that's littered with people pointing out that [[User:Henrik]] doesn't answer queries there. Should we be providing the equivalent service from a WMF server?

[FYI, The issue I wanted to raise is that, on, for example [http://stats.grok.se/en/201401/Magistrate_of_Brussels], it says "[[Magistrate of Brussels]] has been viewed 57 times in 201401.". But that doesn't include today's visits (the article was under DYK on the main page today). Better wording would be something like  "As of 4 December 9013, [[Magistrate of Brussels]] has been viewed 57 times in 201401."]  <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 21:06, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

:I think a couple of years back there was talk about Wikimedia finding another service for stats.  What happened to that idea, I wonder?  Henrik will often fix things if you email him.  But posting on that talk page goes nowhere fast.  And there seems to be many breakdowns of the stats. [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 01:32, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::I think we need to consider rebuilding the tool with more capabilities.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 18:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::There is definitely a problem with it. For example [http://stats.grok.se/en/201401/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are_Kidding_Jurgen_Klinsmann%3F this] only records the stats of 5 January and not the days before or after it (including one when it was on the main page as a DYK).  <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.5em 0.5em 0.6em;"> '''[[User:The C of E|<span style="color:red;">The C of E  </span><span style="color:blue;"> God Save the Queen!</span>]]''' ([[User talk:The C of E|<span style="color:darkblue;">talk</span>]])</span> 20:33, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::::How do we start the process of getting a replacement to the current tool?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 05:57, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Find a volunteer to write the replacement, or write it yourself. [[wikitech:Nova Resource:Tools/Help|WMF Tool Labs]] can host it. For finding someone else to write it, I don't know if there's somewhere specific to find tool developers, though this page is a good place to find technically-minded users. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 20:25, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Page traffic counter is sick ===

The counter has been down for a quite a few days now. There's no information as to whether 2 Jan figures are going to melt into the ether, lost forever. And no indication of whether the system is up and running properly now.

Would it not be better for the WMF to take over this facility formally? It's a very important facility. [[User:Tony1|<span style="color:darkgreen;">'''Tony'''</span>]] [[User talk:Tony1|<span style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) </span>]] 02:54, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

There is no data for the 6 Jan as it skips from 5 to 7. Then again there is nothing for 8 either.[[User:Lihaas|Lihaas]] ([[User talk:Lihaas|talk]]) 04:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

:All of a sudden, January 1&ndash;3 & 7 ran. December 31 (TO&ndash;ZZZ) and January 6, 8 & 9 remain a mystery and January 5 only seems to be about 25% of the data.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 04:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::There is definitely something wrong with it, I do agree that WMF probably should take over it so we can potentially minimize the disruption. for example, [http://stats.grok.se/en/201401/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are_Kidding_Jurgen_Klinsmann%3F in this article, the 6th of Jan doesn't exist!] <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.5em 0.5em 0.6em;"> '''[[User:The C of E|<span style="color:red;">The C of E  </span><span style="color:blue;"> God Save the Queen!</span>]]''' ([[User talk:The C of E|<span style="color:darkblue;">talk</span>]])</span> 10:37, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
{{od}} The raw data used to compute these things is [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ generated by the WMF]. This is what Henrik uses, what I use for [[WP:5000]], and virtually all other statistical page view functionalities of which I am aware. I will note that something broke spanning Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 2014 (UTC). Otherwise, it has been quite stable for some time. [[User:West.andrew.g|West.andrew.g]] ([[User talk:West.andrew.g|talk]]) 16:03, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{u|West.andrew.g}}, thanks for the explanation about Jan 5/6. Can you tell me why December 31 was left incomplete for the TO&ndash;ZZZ portion of the alphabet. Also, what do you know about the dates listed at [[User:Killiondude/stats#Are_there_known_dates_for_which_complete_sets_have_not_been_compiled_although_the_data_seems_to_be_available]]?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 16:22, 10 January 2014 (UTC)--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 16:22, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: All went through as planned with my processing script on Dec. 31, so there does not seem to be a fundamental problem. I cannot comment on what might have happened with Henrik's script . Henrik's tool is known the be [[User_talk:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages/Archive_1#Differences_with_Henrik.27s_tool|imperfect in some ways]]. I can't account for all those dates listed (my storage began sometime in 2010), but it did used to be a far more buggy process than it is now. [[User:West.andrew.g|West.andrew.g]] ([[User talk:West.andrew.g|talk]]) 18:28, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::I guess my question is whether the numbers posted on Henriks page are final or whether they can ever be compiled to include December 31st for the end of the alphabet?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 20:56, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::{{u|West.andrew.g}}, I am asking you.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 14:37, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::: I can't answer that question. It would be simple to reprocess if the bug is found (I assume a single line had some weird encoding; or maybe it was just that the machine lost power) and Henrik or a tool admin re-fires the code. The raw statistical data is stored for perpetuity. It's my understanding that getting a hold of Henrik might be the hard part, though. [[User:West.andrew.g|West.andrew.g]] ([[User talk:West.andrew.g|talk]]) 23:07, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Page-views ===
Hi there. I don't know if I am posting this in the right place, but I am sure that someone here you'll be able to send it to the right place. Is anyone here aware of [[User_talk:Henrik#Early_2014_outages|these problems]]? The page-views Stats Grok is out order since early 2014. This is an important data information and I still don't get why WMF simply don't put it running in order and, so, we are still depending on unstable server and scripts. Regards, [[Special:Contributions/177.148.179.211|177.148.179.211]] ([[User talk:177.148.179.211|talk]]) 23:42, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
:As I understand it, that's a private website run by a private individual.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 01:16, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::So, thats another question. Its a important and very desirable information. Why we still depend on "private website run by a private individual" to get it? Come on, WMF guys, bring us the Page-views data back! [[Special:Contributions/177.148.179.211|177.148.179.211]] ([[User talk:177.148.179.211|talk]]) 03:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Hi. See [[#stats.grok.se]]. Many things are provided by volunteers (bug fixes, tool/scripts used for editors, etc.). I actually prefer things that are run by (active) volunteers vs. the WMF getting involved. It's lamentable that Henrik's tool is erratic lately, however. [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 22:35, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

===Potential replacement===
[[:de:User:Hedonil]] has developed a tool on Labs that may be able to serve as a replacement. It doesn't currently have much historical data (only going back to September 2013), but it should hopefully be more reliable as it's run by a more active user. http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/?page=Example&lang=en&project=wikipedia <span style="font-family:Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</span> 16:27, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thanks {{Ping|Mr.Z-man}}. Looks like a nice tool, however a comparison of a few pages stats show the newer tool comes out with a higher figure. Not sure whether thats because Henrik's tool discounts something or there is something else causing that, only checked out on two pages but with a variety of dates.[[User:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Maroon;">Blethering</span>]] [[User talk:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Green;">Scot</span>]] 16:47, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Im wondering if it's redirects or something like that causing higher number of stats. Also what was interesting was if you run American Psycho (musical) on that tool it displays every days stats but adds a note that stats.grok.se was missing at least one day and page stats are lower by 1075. Thats useful buts different to the normally higher figures as doesn't display on all pages when data isn't missing on the other site. States uses dumps-wikimedia.org to get data but appears to check stats.grok.se to see if its missing data, can only assume tool was created for the basis of problems were having.[[User:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Maroon;">Blethering</span>]] [[User talk:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Green;">Scot</span>]] 17:26, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::The new tool is more powerful. You can click on a day and see the hourly totals. You can also see the current day partial totals. Can this tool be set to run over the historical datafiles to backfill its data?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 17:56, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Its far better i agree, but whats accounting for the higher day to day figures. Also i cant link to a specific page's stats i.e. Kinky Boots (musical) it gives you a ? in domain name not the title of the search.[[User:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Maroon;">Blethering</span>]] [[User talk:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Green;">Scot</span>]] 18:51, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::Yes an explanation for the higher totals would be appreciated.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 20:57, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::He has explained in detail to another user on his [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBenutzer_Diskussion%3AHedonil&act=url talk page]. Seems stats.grok.se is on average 10% lower.[[User:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Maroon;">Blethering</span>]] [[User talk:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Green;">Scot</span>]] 23:13, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::[[Victoria's Secret Fashion Show]] is one where stats.grok.se is 50% higher.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 23:28, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::::Seems against the norm but all you can do is ask him. Seems pretty responsive.[[User:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Maroon;">Blethering</span>]] [[User talk:Blethering Scot|<span style="color:Green;">Scot</span>]] 23:33, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:The translation tool that I used did not make it clear to me what the difference was. Does anyone understand it. How can some pages be slightly higher and others be significantly lower?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 09:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{u|Blethering Scot}}, u say "He has explained in detail". I don't see that. Am I translating the wrong thread. Which thread were you talking about?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 14:41, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:::To be fair, stats.grok.se is treated as an "authoritative" source only because it's been around longest. As there aren't really any official stats to compare to, there's no real way of knowing which one is more accurate. As long as they're generally consistent, it's probably as good as we're going to get. If one tool shows views for an article increasing over time and another shows them decreasing, that would be more of a cause for concern. Even the raw data is [[bugzilla:58036|not always]] accurate. Unfortunately, despite high community interest in this, it's not something the WMF seems to be highly prioritizing. <span style="font-family:Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</span> 00:27, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I like this as a replacement. I have inquired about whether it can be backfilled from the datafiles going back to 2007.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 00:35, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
*The guy seems to speak English, but he is ignoring my query. Does anyone speak German. I posted a question on the guy's talk page that has gone unanswered.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]] / [[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]] / [[WP:FOUR]] / [[WP:CHICAGO]] / [[WP:WAWARD]])</small> 00:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

== Proposal : creating an automatic alert for invalid usernames upon new account creation? ==

Hello Wikipedia Team...great job !

Just an idea : basing on my personal experience, it can be sometimes harsh to make one's first steps as a new contributor (despite the fundamental principles :"[[Wikipedia:Assume good faith|Assume good faith]]" and "[[Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers|don't bite newcomers]]"...). So here is a small suggestion for Wikipedia's great platform to still improve in conviviality-and especially indulgence towards newbies.. ! 

(I hope I am addressing the right recepient!)

I would like to suggest that action is taken preventively, so that new users don't infrige the policies and get blocked right after their very first contribution (for instance on ground of invalid username).

Couldn't it be done simply by the same automatic programm responsible for the block? Let it notify the user ''beforehand'' that the account he is creating contains words that are likely to result in a block, such as Society, Foundation, Group, etc... 

This would prevent the blunt barring a posteriori of good willing contributors, who just wished to contribute to the common knowledge. This type of [[Proactivity|proactive action]] is applicable to other domains of course.

For further reading, here is my short story: I assembled material, with the help of a few friends, to create and expand some articles that we thought interesting and missing on Wikipedia. It took us a few days to carefully complete the work (although we are well aware it is still highly perfectible). Putting the first part of the work online, as a token of consideration for my collaborators, I created an account with the name of this (unformal) group. No promotional purposes in that ! (This association is totally non-profit, its goal is mainly to raise public awareness about the environment on a tiny island in the Aegean). 

BAM : blocked !

I realize I did unwittingly infrige Wikipedia policy, that is clearly specified. I apologize and wish to correct this. But '''please consider that Wikipedia's guidelines, policies and regulations span over dozens of pages, making it difficult for newcomers to absorb them all at once.'''

I suppose most contributers are like us, regular users of Wikipedia who simply wish to contribute to the common knowledge in their turn, in good faith...Assuming that sticking to the Five Pillars is fair enough. [[Wikipedia:Be bold|Be bold]], they say ! So the blunt barring of a user- for an easily remediable problem - seems somewhat brutal. How could it be a motivating [[pedagogy]] ?


Still, congratulations for the remarkable achievement of Wikipedia and thank you for this worldwide epistemic adventure.

Lonaïs

[[User:Velanidia Foundation|Velanidia Foundation]] ([[User talk:Velanidia Foundation|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Velanidia Foundation|contribs]]) 14:37, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Velandia Foundation}} FYI, the process for checking usernames is not automated, it is an editor based process. But yes you are right that it the terminology is somewhat 'scary'. In this case I would personally suggest we use the term 'locked account' instead of 'blocked account'. The technical result is the same, but it's less offensive to people I think . Also [[User:Steven (WMF)]] has promised in the past that there would be further improvements to the Create Account page that would give users more feedback/instructions about the usernames and passwords while you type them. This functionality had been held back for deployment a couple of months ago, but is still planned I think. Thank you for your feedback and please be free to point out any similar problems that you encounter. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 15:22, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::We already use the term "locked account" for accounts that can't even be logged in to. How would we differentiate between these situations? [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 16:37, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:::TheDJ misspelled {{replyto|Velanidia Foundation}} above. See [[:meta:Global locks]] for the normal meaning of locked account. I think it would cause confusion to have two terms for blocked accounts, also if the terms aren't used for other things. I don't think the poster complains about the word blocked, but about being blocked so quickly. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:57, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{abbr|BTW|By the way}}, one of the reasons we block group usernames is because a user account should only be controlled by one person, and a group name gives the impression it is not. It's not just concerns about promotion. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 01:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
* I actually have no objections to adding "confusing" or "ISU" objective words in the Titleblacklist (assuming they are not already there).  Things like bot, sysop, reviewer, society, group, etc... They few edge cases of these being allowed would still be able to be created by request through account creation interface/process.  [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 18:06, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
*:"Sysop" is already a [[meta:Title blacklist|globally blacklisted]] username. There's a good case for blocking some of the others locally. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 01:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

"''I don't think the poster complains about the word blocked, but about being blocked so quickly.''" Indeed! Thank you PrimeHunter for clarifying. Locked or blocked, neither of those are likely to feel good for a newbie, who just would like to add his little contribution to the grand puzzle. The point is to prevent those hiccups from happening. At least why not give prior notice? Thanks!
18:22, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Velanidia Foundation  <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Velanidia Foundation|Velanidia Foundation]] ([[User talk:Velanidia Foundation|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Velanidia Foundation|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:I don't see any reason why we couldn't give [[WP:NOSHARE]] accounts a few days' warning before blocking them.  With [[WP:Flow]], it might even be possible to get automatic follow-up reminders to reduce hassle for the admins.  The main complaint in the past is that admins can't track these warned accounts efficiently, so "one week's fair warning, during which you need to get your name changed" turns into "indefinite freedom, because I can't remember who I warned".  But if a Flow process automagically told you when the time was up, then you wouldn't have to remember anything.  (Hey [[User:Quiddity (WMF)]]:  I want another pony for Christmas, okay?)  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 19:27, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::I agree that the problem identified should be addressed. I tried a more comprehensive approach:[[User:Sphilbrick/User naming convention proposal|User naming convention proposal]]. I still think it has merit, and this proposal is further evidence that there is a problem.--[[User:Sphilbrick|<span style="color:#002868;padding:0 4px;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">S Philbrick</span>]][[User talk:Sphilbrick|<span style=";padding:0 4px;color:# 000;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Light">(Talk)</span>]] 19:52, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
::I have given such accounts warnings before using {{tl|uw-username}}. I was rather disappointed to find that admins block accounts that have been given such warnings rather quickly (after about a day), even if they haven't used the account since the warning. I don't think there's any worry about admins having difficulty tracking warned users. (The template categorises the users into [[:Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues]], making them easy for admins to find.) –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 01:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{reply to|PartTimeGnome|WhatamIdoing}} Timer-based workflows (or "reminder Notifications" as my note on the scratchlist [//www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Flow/Release_planning&diff=870082&oldid=850709 calls them]) are definitely something Flow aims to improve. Anything from individual-editor-reminders ("A week has passed since I commented on X that I'd be back in a week"), to systemwide-workflows ("category of editors who've been warned for 5 days about username issues, and need followup action"). It's not being rushed, so will take a while to reach that level of complexity, but with our guidance and patience over the coming months, it will fix hundreds of small problems like this. (No more ponies for you, WhatamIdoing, they've all been hired by [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKmZFPvs-zw as extras] for some tv show...) [[User:Quiddity (WMF)|Quiddity (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Quiddity (WMF)|talk]]) 00:50, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Respects to all of you for considering the issue and various ways to address it. PartTimeGnome, you mention a template that "categorises the users into Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues, making them easy for admins to find". 
-Couldn't the same programm simply deliver a warning to the new user (automatically)?
Thank you.
Lonaïs Velanidia 21:07, 13 January 2014 (UTC)  <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Lonaïs Velanidia|Lonaïs Velanidia]] ([[User talk:Lonaïs Velanidia|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Lonaïs Velanidia|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:The template is called [[Template:uw-username]], and it does give a warning as well as the category. Click my link to the template to see what the warning looks like. It is only invoked by humans, though, not automatically. To use this automatically, we'd need to define criteria a computer could use to determine which accounts should get the warning. That's the tricky bit, and it could never be perfect&#160;– there would be many cases that require human judgement. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
::I seem to recall that there's a bot (can't remember which one) that files reports at [[WP:UAA]] using a filter test - it seems as though it wouldn't be difficult to apply that same filter at account creation. If tripped, it would produce a message along the lines of: "The username you have chosen may not meet [[WP:UN|Wikipedia's username policy]]. You may create an account with this username, but please be aware that username violations routinely result in accounts being [[WP:BLOCK|blocked]]. Do you want to proceed with this username?" Potentially the wording could differ depending on the filter tripped (e.g. "...because it appears to indicate that you are editing on behalf of a company or organisation" for usernames which include strings like "corp", "official" or "sales"). I'm sure that can't be terribly hard to implement. [[User:Yunshui|Yunshui]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Yunshui|<span style="font-size:110%">雲</span>]]&zwj;[[Special:Contributions/Yunshui|<span style="font-size:110%">水</span>]] 10:48, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:::That's [[User:DeltaQuadBot]]. It's not possible for it to catch usernames ''before'' they're registered, though, since there's no data for it to look at until after an account has been registered.  This isn't the kind of thing that could be done by a bot. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 17:21, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::::But bots are [[Grey goo|the answer to everything]]... Seriously, though, ignoring the idea of using a bot, how complex is it to introduce a filter at account creation? Is it something that could only be done in the underlying MediaWiki software? [[User:Yunshui|Yunshui]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Yunshui|<span style="font-size:110%">雲</span>]]&zwj;[[Special:Contributions/Yunshui|<span style="font-size:110%">水</span>]] 09:44, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

== WhatLinksHere overwhelmed by links in navigation templates ==

I wish there were an easy way to have Special:WhatLinksHere optionally (or even by default) not include links that only link through navigational templates.  It there are way?  Could there be?

My problem is that when I look at Special:WhatLinksHere for an article to find other articles with an interest in this article, the results can be overwhelmed by links that only exist in a navigation template.  Now while navigation templates are good, the incoming links they generate are not so useful.  --[[User:SmokeyJoe|SmokeyJoe]] ([[User talk:SmokeyJoe|talk]]) 00:12, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

:AFAICT, this can't be done right now.  I'd like it, too.
:Does anyone know if this could be handled by a user script, or if we'd need the devs to support it?  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 01:14, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

:It's a frequently requested feature but the developers will not implement it. See for example [[bugzilla:1392]] and [[bugzilla:3241]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 01:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::It's [[bugzilla:1392]].  I believe that priority setting translates to is "if you write it, then we'll (maybe) merge it, but we won't spend any time on this ourselves".
::Could something be built at Labs to produce the same effect?  It doesn't have to be onwiki.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 01:22, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::It would require a re-design of the database in order to achieve it. Right now all links (from templates, Lua, and article text) are combined, duplicates are removed, and the resulting list is in the database. [[User:Werieth|Werieth]] ([[User talk:Werieth|talk]]) 01:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Would the redesign be so bad.  Exclude all links from transcluded templates, but keep the links from the template itself?  --[[User:SmokeyJoe|SmokeyJoe]] ([[User talk:SmokeyJoe|talk]]) 03:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::The link tables in the database only store that a link is from a given page, but not whether the link is from a template. A new field could be added to store this, of course. Adding a new database field is not to be done lightly, but isn't ''that'' bad. The bad bit is figuring out what to put in it. The MediaWiki parser expands all templates in a page before it parses the expanded wikitext for links. Even if MediaWiki tracked which bits of text came from the original page and which came from templates, there are many cases where it is ambiguous whether the link is from a template or the page:
:::::*Where a link is passed in a template parameter, does it "belong" to the template? Common sense says the link belongs to the page passing the parameter, but tracking parameters as they pass through a template to ensure the appropriate links in the template's output are considered to belong to the page would be very tricky.
:::::*The most common one is a template that constructs a link based on parameters passed to it. The link is not in the page nor in the template, but is only present when the two are combined.
:::::*Consider a template {{tlf|X}} that contains "<code><nowiki>Page]]</nowiki></code>". A page uses this template as "<code><nowiki>[[Main {{X}}</nowiki></code>". Believe it or not, this is valid wikicode that produces the link [[Main Page]]. Since the link is split between the containing page and the template, does it "belong" to the template or the page?
:::::A simplistic solution is to ignore all links from a page that are also links from templates on that page. This still has problems: If a page directly links to something that is also linked by a template on the page, the direct link would be ignored. Furthermore, links in a template inside &lt;includeonly> or that are only output under certain conditions do not count as links from the template. With this simplistic approach, they'd count as belonging to the pages that contain the template which is probably not what most would expect. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:03, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::What if the MediaWiki parser <u>didn't</u> expand templates in a page before it parses the expanded wikitext for links?  --[[User:SmokeyJoe|SmokeyJoe]] ([[User talk:SmokeyJoe|talk]]) 22:39, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::Then "what links here" would be useless for the exercise that I described at 21:52, 10 January 2014 (below). The goal was to locate pages with a link to [[Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station]]; but some of the links to that were (and still are) constructed using {{tlx|stnlnk|Chapel-en-le-Frith}}. This template is commonly used across pages dealing with railway stations whose article names are of the form "Foo railway station", but when linking to that, you just want the "Foo" part to be displayed. So, {{tlx|stnlnk|Chapel-en-le-Frith}} displays as {{stnlnk|Chapel-en-le-Frith}} and so is exactly equivalent to <code><nowiki>[[Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station|Chapel-en-le-Frith]]</nowiki></code> but occupies significantly less wikicode. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:39, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{od|:::::}}{{ec}} That would be a major rewrite of the parser. It would effectively need to parse each template separately from the page transcluding it, rather than expanding everything and parsing once. With each template parsed separately, any given markup in a template would need to be self-contained within that template (no splitting markup across templates). This would break existing pages that rely on templates being used in combination. I really hope no real uses of my split link example exist, but we do have things like {{tl|collapse top}} and {{tl|collapse bottom}} that are designed to be parsed together. We also have templates that combine to make tables, with each table row being a separate template. There are also subtler effects such as the way line breaks inside and outside templates can combine. (There might be ways around such issues, at the expense of further complexity.)
:These changes would affect normal transclusion, but [[Help:substitution|substitution]] would continue to work as it does now because it expands templates when an edit is saved, before the page is parsed. The increased differences between the two might confuse editors further.
:Note that this still doesn't correctly resolve some of the ambiguities I mentioned. E.g. links constructed by a template based on parameters would be treated as links from the template, even though their destination is specified by the containing page.
:I understand the developers want to [[mw:MediaWiki 2.0#A new parser|rewrite the parser]], but this is a long way off, and some of the changes will require a conversion process for existing pages. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 23:50, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::We can expand on the idea of skipping pages that link to a page and also use a template. Have two lists: One of pages that don't use the template and one of pages that do. With the second list, it should be simple enough to write a little program that reads the list and looks at each pages' ?action=raw to find bracketed links to the desired page(s). Overly convoluted, I know, but it should get the desired result. [[User:The Mol Man|mol]][[User talk:The Mol Man|uɐɯ]] 15:00, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{od|:::::}}Not quite the desired result, though, since it still wouldn't handle non-bracketed links, such as [[User:Redrose64|Redrose64]]'s {{tlx|stnlnk|Chapel-en-le-Frith}}. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:13, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
::Hmmm. How many templates are there like that? and how similar are they to each other? If the majority of them create a link in a way that's as simple as what you linked, it might be worthwhile to take the page source reader idea a step further to include simple link creating templates like that. [[User:The Mol Man|mol]][[User talk:The Mol Man|uɐɯ]] 17:14, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:::See [[:Category:Internal link templates]]. There appear to be many such templates. There are also some linking templates not in that category. Citation templates can take an <code>authorlink=</code> parameter; some info-boxes take a page name in a parameter to produce a link. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 23:41, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Workaround ===
What I ''used'' to do (and this still works but takes much, much longer than it did before) was to edit the navbox so that the link that I was interested in was modified in some way, but not actually broken - such as going through a redirect, {{diff|Template:Derbyshire stations|prev|461332002|like this}}. Over the coming minutes, whilst the job queue was updating the link tables, I would monitor "what links here" for the page that I was interested in. Once it stopped growing shorter, I would wait ten or fifteen minutes more to make sure, and then I would make any edits consequent on the remaining incoming links. Having completed that task, I would then revert my edit to the navbox, {{diff|Template:Derbyshire stations|next|461332002|like this}}. However, in about May or June 2013, something happened to the job queue so that the wait is now measured in days or even weeks instead of minutes. It's just not practicable any more. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:52, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{ping|Redrose64}} I think this was {{phab|52785}}; see [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 114#Null edits]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 12:11, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:Well there's an idea. Require that all templates link only to ''template-redirects''. Then you sort out the link-heres that link directly vs. those that link through template-redirects. And you would know that everything linking through a template-redirect was transcluding a template. So for example I have a template {{tl|tools}} and one of the links in it is <nowiki>[[hammer-redirect|hammer]]</nowiki> [[hammer-redirect]] is just a redirect to hammer. When I look at what-links-to-hammer then I can ignore the pages coming through hammer-redirect. Yes, I know this would be a lot of extra work and is an idea that likely won't fly. The problem is editors who think that templates are a replacement for the category system and that every article in a broad topic area needs to be loaded up with template directories to everything remotely related to the topic. I'm frustrated with the amount of null-edits I need to make to thoroughly clean up after making certain changes. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 01:48, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{ping|Redrose64|Wbm1058}} ...except that redirect links in navboxes break functionality, because they do not show up in bold and unlinked when viewing that article, which hinders navigation through the articles in the navbox. Because of this, [[WP:NOTBROKEN]] specifically advises fixing redirect links in navboxes to point directly to the article in question. [[User:Jcgoble3|jcgoble3]] ([[User talk:Jcgoble3|talk]]) 06:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Oh, yea, right, I forgot about that. No, I actually bypass redirects in templates, in order to make the link appear in boldface. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 14:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I didn't intend my post as advice to leave the redirect in permanently - I did know about the boldface feature, which is why I put "Having completed that task, I would then revert my edit to the navbox, {{diff|Template:Derbyshire stations|next|461332002|like this}}". That edit eliminated the redirect (which was only intended to be ''temporary'') so that the boldface showed again. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:49, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
*{{Od}} ick.. no wonder the job queue is overloaded half the time...  I've been working on some core enhancements to Special:Userlogin today, but tomorrow I would be happy to look into writing a userscript to filter out the unwanted links... Can someone give me a clear cut example of what is expected to be done?  Like: "get rid of all links generated by Template:Bar on WLH for Foo" is what I currently think you want, and that should be easy via js. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 02:19, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
**Maybe we should just set limits on the allowed scope of navigational templates, seek out the worst offenders, and prune them down to size. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 14:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::*Navigational templates are very helpful, much better a navigation aid than the category system. They shouldn't be restricted due to this WhatLinksHere glitch.   <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:SmokeyJoe|SmokeyJoe]] ([[User talk:SmokeyJoe|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/SmokeyJoe|contribs]]) 22:46, 11 January 2014 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
**I really have no idea whether my null edits have any impact on the job queue or not. Just a vague idea of how the job queue works. I've made changes where I needed to find every article that truly linked to a particular article and make ''real'' edits to those articles. But I have to sift through a forest of "fake" links via navigation templates. To clear that forest, I make null edits. Can't recall the situations exactly, but I think certain page moves, i.e. article title changes, comes to mind. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 14:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

== Search index not being updated ==

It appears that the index has not been updated for 4 or 5 days. Can we get it running again? [[User:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#C30;">'''Chris'''</span>&nbsp;<span style="color:#060;">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#900;"><sup>yack</sup></span>]] 05:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:I'm not sure, but it might be because they are building the index for the new search engine that is going to launch soon. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 11:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thanks. That's either very reassuring or very scary; I'm not sure which. [[User:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#C30;">'''Chris'''</span>&nbsp;<span style="color:#060;">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#900;"><sup>yack</sup></span>]] 17:59, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Until we know when "soon" actually is, rather than when it is meant to be, I'm assuming very scary. [[User:Arjayay|Arjayay]] ([[User talk:Arjayay|talk]]) 18:25, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::::There was a [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/06/wikimedia-moving-to-elasticsearch/ blogpost] with a link to [[mw:Search#Wikis|timeline]]. So as you can see it is beta only and then there will be a bigger announcement when it leaves beta. I'll ask a sysadmin about the status of updates to the current index. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 13:08, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Bugzilla 59979 [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59979] has been created for this problem. [[User:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#C30;">'''Chris'''</span>&nbsp;<span style="color:#060;">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#900;"><sup>yack</sup></span>]] 03:52, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Job Queue, redlinks and Search ===

I'm sure this is not a new issue, just as I'm sure the job queue is tied in to why the Search is not working on new articles.  As I go down the list of [[Template talk:Did you know|DYK nominations]], I've noticed that articles created within the last few days don't show up on a search, as if the articles do not exist at all. I created a new article 16 hours ago, which naturally does not come up in Search. But also, I noticed where I had placed a link to the new article in other articles, the link in the other article showed as a redlink, while running my mouse over the redlink gave me a popup of the new article's lead paragraph. To get rid of the redlink, I had to do a null edit on the article containing the redlink. [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 13:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:I think old pages are being lost from the search index somehow. If I start typing "Semper fi", the suggestions include "Semper fidelis" so long as I have just entered "Semp" or "Sempe"; but if I get as far as "Semper", then nothing is offered. It's as if I'd mistyped, when in fact I'm certain that the spelling "Semper" is correct. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 18:57, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::i do not see the same phenomenon, and i predict you won't see it either if you repeat the same experiment. as each letter typed causes a new AJAX call, it's possible that one of those calls went berserk for whatever reason (maybe for a short while all of them did), and the suggestion mechanism had a brain-fart. i do not think this is related in any way to "old pages". peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 20:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Thanks, I look forward to their answer.  It is now a whole week since it was updated, and us poor little [[WP:WikiGnomes]] will be swamped with spelling corrections etc. as it is, without any further delays. [[User:Arjayay|Arjayay]] ([[User talk:Arjayay|talk]]) 19:25, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Current search & new search ===
We haven't started building the new search index just yet (we are going to start in about 12 hours from now). And once we do, that won't have anything to do with the old search index not updating (we're running both in parallel for redundancy). Also, the job queue is ''not'' used for updating the old search index, it's done by a daily cron at about 1am UTC. The new search index will be done via the job queue via their own prioritized queue so it should be much faster :) I'll be posting here tomorrow about the new search some more when we start the indexing process. I'm having a look at the lsearchd indexer right now, will follow-up if I find anything interesting. <b style="color:#c22">^</b>[[User:^demon|<b style="color:#000">demon</b>]][[User_talk:^demon|<sup style="color:#c22">[omg plz]</sup>]]&nbsp;<em style="font-size:10px;">05:18, 13 January 2014 (UTC)</em>

: We haven't found an answer to the broken old search yet. Nik and I both have been taking a look at it. <b style="color:#c22">^</b>[[User:^demon|<b style="color:#000">demon</b>]][[User_talk:^demon|<sup style="color:#c22">[omg plz]</sup>]]&nbsp;<em style="font-size:10px;">17:09, 13 January 2014 (UTC)</em>

:: Ok, so the search indexer was restarted about a week ago, but the jobs to index don't seem to have restarted. We're pretty sure we've fixed this and they'll begin indexing overnight like before. I hate the once-per-day updates :( <b style="color:#c22">^</b>[[User:^demon|<b style="color:#000">demon</b>]][[User_talk:^demon|<sup style="color:#c22">[omg plz]</sup>]]&nbsp;<em style="font-size:10px;">00:29, 14 January 2014 (UTC)</em>

:::The index updater has caught up to reality. Thanks to all who helped get this fixed. [[User:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#C30;">'''Chris'''</span>&nbsp;<span style="color:#060;">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#900;"><sup>yack</sup></span>]] 21:44, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

== Rethinking the entire CSS framework ==
{{Main|Wikipedia:New CSS framework}}
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:220px; padding:0px !important; box-shadow: 0.25em 0.25em 0.5em rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-color: #E0E0E0 #B1B1B1 #B1B1B1 #E0E0E0;">[[File:Capitol-Senate.JPG|220px]]<div class="thumbcaption" style="background-color:#F9F9F9;"><div class="magnify">[[:File:Capitol-Senate.JPG| ]]</div>The Senate side of the [[United States Capitol]] in Washington, D.C.</div></div></div>
I have been toying with this idea in my head recently, for redesigning most of the current CSS in [[MediaWiki:Common.css|Common.css]]. Instead of singlular  blocks of CSS geared towards each template separately, it would be much more efficient breaking them up in smaller entities that can be reused by all templates. So instaed of one large block dedicated only to {{tl|navbox}}, there would be several smaller blocks describing borders, headers and the like, which are in turn used by multiple templates. This involves some work, but I want to poll the idea and see if this is feasable. One major benefit is eliminating the many occurences of duplication. It would also make design easier and more consistent, while still allowing flexibility.

This sprang to mind when I thouhgt about redesigning individual templates; doing each one separately is way to much work and very inefficient. Why not use a modular and reusable CSS framework that can be employed by all templates? As a side note, this gives a great oppurtunity to refresh the aging look of many templates. As an example, all floating element would look like the thumb image (the only element that would need a change in core) on the right. A consistent look also comes across much more professionally. Thoughts? <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 15:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:I'd support this idea. [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 16:07, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''support'''. You are certainly an expert in CSS and I would follow your lead here. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 16:12, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Support''' I do give this proposal.  Modular code is the way to go.  I'm somewhat of an intermediate css person myself, let me know if I can be of any assistance in developing the prototype.  [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 18:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
**I started a page for brainstoring and testing (see top of post). Anyone is welcome to contribute. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 20:31, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' {{ping|Edokter}} I'd strongly recommend posting to the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design Design list] about this. There are a number of volunteer and staff mediawiki devs and designers, who watch that list, that might be interested, including the folks who are implementing [[LESS]] in mediawiki core (See [[mw:CC/LESS]] for details). HTH. –[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]] ([[User talk:Quiddity|talk]]) 00:13, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
**{{ping|Quiddity}} This mainly concerns local templates and CSS in Common.css. Is LESS going to be supported from Common.css as well? In that case, I may ping the list. (But as I understand it, LESS is only supported in core CSS.) <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 00:32, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
*** {{re|Edokter}} There's nothing stopping LESS from being supported via, say, [[MediaWiki:Common.less]] and similar pages – it was just not done yet because everyone was eager to get support for it in core out, and allowing user-supplied LESS to be parsed would require considering various security issues, which obviously takes time :) (For example, you can use @import to load other LESS files – it would have to be disabled in the parser for usages from wiki pages, or some core files could be whitelisted, or it could embed other wiki pages – and AFAIK none of these are possible to do by just toggling a setting right now.) [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 01:01, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
****That's not helping much here. In either case, that doesn't stop us from creating a new framework here. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 01:55, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
****See [[bugzilla:54864]] for one step towards that. I think there are more discussions (on either a mailing list, or one of the numerous wikis or bug tickets) but I can't find them. That's another reason to ping the design list! HTH. –[[User:Quiddity|Quiddity]] ([[User talk:Quiddity|talk]]) 01:58, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
**** If I may suggest something, then for the love of all that is holy, ''do not ping the design list''. You will not gain anything through the experience, but you will get to admire truly impressive amounts of stillborn ideas and overblown egos. When you do need design input, ask someone directly. The list can sometimes be useful when you already have concrete ideas with proof-of-concept implementations and several people readied to put out any fires of stupidity that will inevitably start spreading. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 02:43, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
*'''Conditional support'''; while this sounds like a great idea, I'd want design changes to be separate from the code structure changes insofar as that's possible. Without that, I fear that the improvements that the code structure changes represent would be mired in frustrations with the specifics of the design changes. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">{&#123;[[User:Nihiltres|<span style="color:#233D7A;">Nihiltres</span>]]&#124;[[User talk:Nihiltres|talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Nihiltres|edits]]}&#125;</span> 03:12, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. I fully trust Edokter with our CSS, I know he knows what he is doing, and I think this will set us up to be able to improve our tired-looking styling. — <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:1px 0 0 1px">[[User:This, that and the other|This, that]]</span> and <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:0 1px 1px 0">[[User talk:This, that and the other|the other<small> (talk)</small>]]</span> 09:51, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
* Note that it is very likely that at some point in the next 2 years we will see CSS that is bound to templates. This is to cleanup the pervasive use of inline styling in templates while at the same time not serving every page with a ton of unused styling statements. Additionally, we have of course a lot of classes that double as semantic classes so we would have to be careful there as well.  —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 13:00, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
**That is fine of course. My main concern is the (re)use of common CSS code for generic styling to avoid duplication. I think there is a lot to gain there. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 14:08, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Support but raise parser limits:''' While condensing the massive CSS classes and style text will reduce size, there is also the need to support longer page names, as more people split mega-articles into long-named subarticles, and the [[wp:post-expand include size]] needs to be larger (3&nbsp;MB?) to support longer page names as well as all the massive CSS style tags which have swamped the parser with long-winded style text. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 19:56, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
*:Parser limits have nothing to do with this proposal. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:24, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
* I'm all for modularity and reusable code, so this makes a lot of sense to me. Anything that can reduce our dependency on inline styling counts as a big step forward in my opinion. I'm thinking that we should have a transition period where both the old-style and new-style classes are available, so that our major templates can be moved over to the new system, but I suppose whether this makes sense or not will depend on the details of the implementation. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 07:54, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

== [[Template:Infobox animanga/Video]] and [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 January 3#Films by country and year]] ==

[[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 January 3#Films by country and year]] was closed as double upmerge and delete. Unfortunately, some of the categories are being populated by {{tl|Infobox animanga/Video}}. Can some user please help with removing/fixing the code which populates these categories in this template? [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 16:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

:I think [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AInfobox_animanga%2FVideo&diff=590556252&oldid=571748492 this edit] has fixed that. Thanks. '''[[User:Lugnuts|<span style="color:#002bb8;">Lugnuts</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:Lugnuts|Dick Laurent is dead]]</sup> 19:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
::Yes, it works. Thanks - I can't handle complex tempaltes like this one. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 17:35, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

== Template sort appears to not give the correct sort key ==

I'm probably getting blind, can someone else see why my sort doesn't work. Please see article [[2014 European Allround Speed Skating Championships]]. In it, I have prepared the sort key like this '''<nowiki>{{sort|24|NQ24}}</nowiki>''' where I want to indicate both placing and that the skater didn't qualify for participation in subsequent events. In three of of four tables, it work as it should, but in the fourth – the second "Ranking after three events" section, the one for women – it doesn't.

Check the sort order by clicking first on "Skater", then back to "Rank". As mentioned, it works for the first three similar tables, but not the fourth. Why? Why? (to quote Nancy Kerrigan) ;-)

I would be greatful if someone could point out what I'm obviously missing. Will have get my eyes checked?

Thanks

[[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 20:32, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
:The type auto detection only looks at the first few rows, for reasons of efficiency. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2014_European_Allround_Speed_Skating_Championships&diff=590564567&oldid=590559884 Forcing it] will give more reliable results (and ideally should be done for most more complicate cases where you are using table sorting —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 20:54, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{ec}} The thing to remember is that whatever data you put into it, {{tlx|sort}} emits a text string. In the first three tables, you haven't used {{tlx|sort}} until the eighth row or later, and the sorting software has been able to work out from the first few entries that the column contains primarily numeric data, and so should be sorted numerically. But in [[2014 European Allround Speed Skating Championships#Ranking after three events 2|the fourth one]], the first use of {{tlx|sort}} is in the third row, and {{tlx|sort|3|WD3}} expands to <code><nowiki><span style="display:none;" class="sortkey">3&#32;!</span><span class="sorttext">WD3</span></nowiki></code> - that exclamation mark causes the sorting software to believe that the cell isn't purely numeric, and so the column should be sorted as text: 1, 10, 11...19, 2, 20, 21...29, 3 etc. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:57, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Brilliant! Mille grazie. I'll try to remember that.
[[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 21:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

:Just one question: why does the template produce an exclamation mark there? [[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 23:25, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
::It was added with {{diff|Template:Sort|prev|371620813|this edit}}, replacing a [[Byte order mark|<code>&amp;#xfeff;</code> BOM]]. The final version of the relevant discussion is [[Template talk:Sort/Archive 1#Incorrect sort and proposed solution (override in wikibits.js)|here]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

== Jakebot help - was directed here from the Teahouse ==

Hi,

I've been trying to run a bot and have been trying to work out editing using the API, but it doesn't appear to work. The code is: 
        Socket s = new Socket("en.wikipedia.org", 80);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream());
        out.print("POST "+ "/w/api.php" + "?action=edit&format=json&title="
                + "User%3AJakebot%2FTest%20report&text=foo&"
                + "token=1a783fff5b06fd636a301606d67b629d+\\&"
                + "summary=Test");
         Scanner in = new Scanner(s.getInputStream());

And yes, I make sure to get the correct token from [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=tokens&type=edit] before running it. Any ideas? --[[User:King jakob c 2|Jakob]] ([[user talk:King jakob c 2|talk]]) 22:42, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
: The code you have there isn't speaking proper HTTP to the server. Why don't you use a library/framework that will handle all the details of the HTTP protocol for you, including processing cookies correctly and such? [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 13:38, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

== Item appearing in watchlist-changes list, but is not being watched ==

I notice this morning that [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)]] (and its talk page) is appearing on my watchlist-changes list, but I'm not watching it - it does not appear in "edit watchlist" or "edit raw watchlist", and when I visit the page the tab reads "watch", not "unwatch". I did make an edit on that page on 9 December last, which is now archived, but the page would not have stayed on my watchlist for more than a few days. That is the only page affected. Does anybody know what the problem is likely to be? Thanks [[User:Rwxrwxrwx|Rwxrwxrwx]] ([[User talk:Rwxrwxrwx|talk]]) 10:12, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

== Bug: MathJax processes "script error" messages ==
{{tracked|55675}}
View this post with MathJax enabled: {{script error}} and <strong class="error"><span class="scribunto-error">Script error</span></strong> will look like <math>Script error</math>. This leaves me unable to read the error message after MathJax mangles it. <span class="signature">[[User:Kephir|Keφr]]</span> 16:38, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
* The math-format rendering of [[wp:Script_error]] is a common problem, but then the words "Script error" are fairly unreadable to many people, and we must View-source for the HTML markup of the page and search for "Script error" to see the specific details of the associated error message stored for a [[Lua script]] problem. If a search of the HTML page fails to find "Script error" then there is none. I wish Lua were more sophisticated and could exit MathJax to report, "Misspelled variable 'countEr' switched to 'counter' at line 2,560 in function xyz" but Lua does not check spelling or uninitialized variables. So, yes, the "2010s are the new 1950s" of computing technology, but now you know why fast auto-correcting compilers were developed in the 1960s. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 17:52, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
** Uhh... <strong class="error scribunto-error">Script error<!-- The user was unable to parse this sentence. --></strong>. <span class="signature">[[User:Kephir|Keφr]]</span> 18:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
***Uh indeed. Could you please stop dragging unrelated stuff into every discussion you comment on wikid ? —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 23:04, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
*Hmm this is a bug that was introduced in september. Filing a bug report.—[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 22:10, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
**Duplicate of [[bugzilla:55675]]. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 17:38, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

== "Cite Journal" template shortcut on Edit Toolbar not working properly ==

Hi folks, 

This is frustrating -- the "Cite Journal" template in the editing toolbar (at least the one I see) is not working properly all of a sudden (I don't know how long this has been going on, since I don't think I've used in a month or so). If one clicks "Cite Journal", the "Cite Book" template pops up instead! It is '''missing all of the critical ingredients of the "Cite Journal" template, like PubMed number, DOI number, and so forth'''. I tried to make some manual adjustments after I filled in the fields in the "Cite Book" template that in now the only one available, but it's still not working correctly. Even odder is the fact that though the edit toolbar clearly titles the template "Cite Book" (instead of the "Cite Journal" requested), when one clicks "add citation", the resulting citation text reads <nowiki><ref>{{cite journal}}</ref></nowiki>, even though it's clearly not and doesn't have the normal journal fields.

Anyway, this is really really frustrating for those of us citing medically related articles, and so forth. BTW, I've checked this on Chrome and on IE, and it's the same glitch on both.

Can someone please restore the "Cite Journal" template to its former correct state, complete with the proper name, and the  PubMed number field, DOI number field, and so forth? Thank you. [[User:Softlavender|Softlavender]] ([[User talk:Softlavender|talk]]) 23:41, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:It works for me. You can ask at [[Wikipedia:RefToolbar]], but there hasn't been a lot of activity. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 09:07, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::Just to confirm, I'm getting the standard journal form to fill in as well (Chromium 31). What happens if you try selecting cite web/news/book? [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 17:15, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::After a little digging, [[MediaWiki:RefToolbarLocal.js]] is the local version of the configuration code - it's not been altered since October. I suspect this is a local glitch on your computer, though I have no idea what's causing it! [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 17:17, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::None of the "Cite" tools work for me, but they never have in IE11 <small>(no sarcastic comments please)</small>. That includes all the "Templates", the "Named references" and the "Error check"; furthermore the "Link", "Embed file" and "Reference" icons on the initial toolbar do not work either. Of course, "Search and replace" hasn't worked on IE for several years.  The templates sometimes work in "Compatability view" but that uses the old, simplified, drop down menus and creates other problems. [[User:Arjayay|Arjayay]] ([[User talk:Arjayay|talk]]) 17:31, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

== Templates on [[List of PlayStation 3 games]] not showing up ==
[[File:Templates not showing up on List of Playstation 3 games.png|thumb|right|Screenshot showing the problem]]
Hello. I experienced some problems on [[List of PlayStation 3 games]] where templates after the “Viking: Battle for Asgard" entry are not showing up, and I suspect this is a server problem. The full explanation of the problem can be found on [[Talk:List of PlayStation 3 games#Templates not showing]]. Thanks a lot! <span style="text-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em black">[[User:Zhaofeng Li|Zhaofeng Li]]</span> <small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:Zhaofeng Li|talk...]] [[Special:Contributions/Zhaofeng Li|contribs...]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></small> 09:41, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:It is in the hidden [[:Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded]]. See [[Wikipedia:Template limits]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 10:12, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::Oh, I see. However, it needs to be fixed since it affects both editors (saving a tiny edit takes over a minute) and readers (confusing links leading to confusing template pages). I think splitting the long list into short ones by their initials is a good workaround. Is there any bot that can do this automatically, or we have to do this manually? <span style="text-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em black">[[User:Zhaofeng Li|Zhaofeng Li]]</span> <small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[User talk:Zhaofeng Li|talk...]] [[Special:Contributions/Zhaofeng Li|contribs...]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></small> 10:45, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

== Notifications have not been working for weeks ==

What does work for me: notifications of a new message on my talk page and of "thanks".  What notifications don't trigger:  Everything else that is supposed to. I first noticed this on January 4 - a ping had been left for me on a talk page not my own, and it never showed up in Notifications.  Here and there, I've noticed others.  Another notification should have triggered for me from WP:DYK about half an hour ago - but didn't. Is this issue already known?[[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 15:34, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:For mentions to work, you have to sign your new comment. So [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know&diff=prev&oldid=590824555 this] will never generate a mention notification (not signed) and neither will [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know&diff=next&oldid=590824608 this] (not a new 'comment' block). This is because in our talk format it is difficult to distinguish editing from 'new posts'. Flow will fix that. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 17:08, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::Also ensure that at {{myprefs|Notifications}}, you have "Mention" enabled. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 18:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Thanks for that - my Preferences are set correctly.  I get what TheDJ is saying.  Where I first noticed a ping wasn't notifying me was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations&diff=prev&oldid=589034673 Here], which was a new post that seems to be signed by the posting editor. [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 20:18, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: That particular post screwed up the template syntax, so it didn't generate a link to [[User:Maile66]]. And, of course, the fix in the next edit didn't count because it wasn't a new post with a signature. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 20:43, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Got it.  So what it amounts to when the Notifications don't work is "...user error..." [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 20:52, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Maile66}} not sure i'd put it the way you did, but sure, user error can cause notification to fail. genuine bugs in the software can also cause it to fail, but in this case, it was the former. check to see if you get notification for this one... peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 00:06, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::I got the notification on this one. Thanks. [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 00:08, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

== Current article link wish ==

I've two enhancement ideas:
#Expanding navbox to highlight (bold) link. Example: [[Jetpack (Firefox project)]] and its link in navbox
#Marking redirect link too. Example: [[XKeyscore]] and its link in navbox sidebar (''Programs'' section)
This can be done probably with JavaScript (especially the first idea) and IMO will make navbox navigation really better.

Please comment! --[[User:Rezonansowy|Rezonansowy]] <small>([[User talk:Rezonansowy|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/Rezonansowy|contribs]])</small> 15:40, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:The first should already be showing as bold by use of CSS. The second can be done by using [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier]]. For example, I see self-redirects with a green background. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 15:49, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::In first I meant expanding navbox to show its content with bolded link. In second, I know about this gadget, but that's not only an enhancement, IMO thats a bug and should be corrected in core of MediaWiki. Please tell me if you agree. --[[User:Rezonansowy|Rezonansowy]] <small>([[User talk:Rezonansowy|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/Rezonansowy|contribs]])</small> 16:12, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::You want to automatically expand a collapsed box that contains a link to the page it is transcluded on? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 16:52, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Yes, but only on current page where it is transcluded on, then the bolded link will be visible. --[[User:Rezonansowy|Rezonansowy]] <small>([[User talk:Rezonansowy|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/Rezonansowy|contribs]])</small> 17:31, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::That practically means that ''every'' navbox would be expanded as they normally all contain a link to the current page. That goes against the current practice of automatically collapsing navboxes when there are more then two navboxes on the page. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 17:40, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::And changing link colors to nonstandard is going to confuse readers. I enabled the linkclassifier so I understand why I get all those colors. It should never be a default. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 22:28, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

== RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on Wikipedia? ==

The Wikimedia Foundation's [[mw:Multimedia|multimedia team]] seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the [[w:MP4|MP4 video format]]. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as [[w:MP4|H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC]].

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora). 

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required. 

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members. 

[[commons:Commons:Requests for comment/MP4 Video|Please join this RfC -- and share your advice]].

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's [[m:IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours|Office hours chat on IRC]],  this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic.

All the best, [[User:Fabrice Florin (WMF)|Fabrice Florin (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Fabrice Florin (WMF)|talk]]) 01:42, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
== Categorizing non-mainspace redirects ==

Per discussion on [[User_talk:TeleComNasSprVen#r_from_plural_is_restricted_to_mainspace|my talk page]], is there a better or more obvious way to categorize general redirects located outside of mainspace? There were two suggestions brought up, that we should "consider removing the namespace restrictions on the r from/to plural templates" or that we should "create new 'r from/to plural in non-main namespace' templates". See also [[Wikipedia_talk:Template_messages/Redirect_pages#Namespace_restrictions|here]] for a more complete discussion. I understand that primarily the {{tl|R from plural}} template is meant to produce the [[:Category:Unprintworthy redirects]] insofar as to prevent the redirect showing up should a user wish to download files from the Wikipedia website (or [[Template:R unprintworthy|Jimmy to construct his book]]) but there should be an easier way to categorize non-mainspace redirects. [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|TeleComNasSprVen]] ([[User talk:TeleComNasSprVen|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/TeleComNasSprVen|contribs]]) 18:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
:There would be no need for a separate "R from plural in non-mainspace" template. {{tlf|R from plural}} could use a template like {{tl|main other}} to detect where it is used, and output the appropriate categories for that namespace. In fact, I see it already does so&#160;– [[:Category:Unprintworthy redirects]] is omitted when the template is used outside of mainspace.
:As for [[:Category:Redirects from plurals]], this is a tracking/administration category, not an article category, so {{abbr|IMO|in my opinion}} there's nothing wrong with it containing redirects from mixed namespaces. The main question to answer is if there is any benefit in splitting main and non-main redirects, or would it just make things more awkward? –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 01:17, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
::The problem is that I don't see it categorizing non-mainspace redirects into [[:Category:Redirects from plurals]] even if it says it does, which it honestly should. I'm fine with excluding it from [[:Category:Unprintworthy redirects]] as things outside of mainspace should not be printed in the first place. [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|TeleComNasSprVen]] ([[User talk:TeleComNasSprVen|talk]] &bull; [[Special:Contributions/TeleComNasSprVen|contribs]]) 23:37, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
:::The sub-cats of [[:Category:Cross-namespace redirects]] – [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 01:25, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{tl|R from plural}} uses <code>|main category=Redirects from plurals</code>, so only mainspace pages are placed in that category. To apply to all pages, each use of <code>main category</code> should be changed to <code>all category</code> (these parameters are passed to to {{tl|Redirect template}}). –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 18:06, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I am the user who started the discussion in question. I never really thought that creating a separate template/category was the best idea; i.e., I am slightly in favor of just removing the namespace restriction, but it might be good to know who added that restriction in the first place and whether there was any previous discussion. I have no ''strong'' objections to anything here. --[[User:SoledadKabocha|SoledadKabocha]] ([[User talk:SoledadKabocha|talk]]) 16:37, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::The technical restriction {{diff|Template:R from plural|prev|434687235|was added}} by [[User:Paine Ellsworth|Paine Ellsworth]] in June 2011, with the edit summary "''standardize with Template:R to plural''". This was part of a larger rewrite of the template. [[Template:R to plural]] has the same restriction, which {{diff|Template:R to plural|prev|415698406|was added}} as part of a similar rewrite by [[User:Mclay1|Mclay1]] in February 2011. The mainspace-only restriction was added to the documentation of both templates more recently (August 2013), again by Paine Ellsworth. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 21:37, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

A lua module should be able to automatically detect the categories that are needed. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 18:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

== WikiProject Military History Lag. ==

WikiProject Military History is experiencing lagging. "We" (the WikiProject) is experiencing lagging inseveral areas. I am using Internet Explorer, and I clean my internet browser several times a day, yet I still see articles there. Please see the following:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history/Assessment#Requests_for_assessment

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Assessment#Requests_for_assessment

[[User:Adamdaley|Adamdaley]] ([[User talk:Adamdaley|talk]]) 06:45, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Directly check categories in page, not sub-pages:''' The system has become very slow to update nested sub-pages, and so try to simplify massive status pages to directly list the categories and related counts. For example:
::* [[:Category:Unassessed military history articles]] - {&#123;PAGESINCAT:&#125;} = {{PAGESINCAT:Unassessed military history articles}}
::* [[:Category:Military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists]] - {&#123;PAGESINCAT:&#125;} = {{PAGESINCAT:Military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists}}
: It is better to avoid nesting the layer upon layer upon layer of obtuse nested pages, where most people do not even know where the nested crap is coming from. Many [[wp:WikiProjects]] have created these uber-complex status pages which lag behind the actual counts. If you are not allowed to simplify the status pages, then create one in your own user-space to directly check {&#123;PAGESINCATEGORY:&#125;} for each category count. Then edit that status page, and rerun "Show-preview" when wanting to see the current counts. Otherwise, to update the whole massive status page, you will need to run a [[wp:null_edit]] to force all the sub-pages to update and re-render the whole page with current details. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 09:12, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:::There is anything I can do to stop this? There has to be a way? If so please explain it in a way that I can understand it. [[User:Adamdaley|Adamdaley]] ([[User talk:Adamdaley|talk]]) 07:06, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::hello? How can I stop this? [[User:Adamdaley|Adamdaley]] ([[User talk:Adamdaley|talk]]) 23:10, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

== Fixing issues with medical articles ==

A question I've seen a lot is "What about the people who use Wikipedia for medical advice? How do we protect them from vandals?" Well, how about a button to point out the recent changes that may not have had a chance to be reverted if they're vandalism, maybe by highlighting the edits in the past week? Ideas? [[User:Supernerd11|Supernerd11]] ([[User talk:Supernerd11|talk]]) 22:30, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:[[Template:WPMED related changes]] was recently developed for this purpose. [[User:Maralia|Maralia]] ([[User talk:Maralia|talk]]) 22:49, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
::Alright, thanks. [[User:Supernerd11|Supernerd11]] ([[User talk:Supernerd11|talk]]) 13:20, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:::enwiki has the ability to define some pages as "require review" - the whole shebang is explained in [[WP:RVW]].
:::it seems that this is the right tool to solve the problem you raise, by marking all pages that readers might turn to for medical advice as "require review".
:::peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 19:19, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

== Confusing media redirection ==

In [[:Category:Wikipedia soft redirects]] there is one file.  It is called "Normalspace.gif".  If you click on it, you appear on page "File:Normal space.png".  The reason is [[commons:File:Normalspace.gif]] is a redirect to [[commons:File:Normal space.png]].  However we have a local page called File:Normalspace.gif.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Normalspace.gif?action=history  It is probably easy enough to fix this case by deleting the local gif , however there is a bug somewhere in there, and many more files may be affected. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 02:24, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:The problem is that the file still appears to be present in the category. Even though the deleted file is no longer in the local category, it seems the system does not realize that this is the case. It might be that it just takes long to update due to the job queue, or perhaps it simply doesn't realize that the local page no longer exists. I suggest we wait a bit and see if the job queue cleans it up. If it is still there after a few days, we call in the system administrators :D —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 09:26, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{ping|TheDJ}} the local page does exist, with a {{tl|soft redirect}} which is doing the categorisation.  You can see it here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Normalspace.gif&action=edit <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 13:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Deleted the local file page; soft redirect was overridden by the Common hard redirect anyway. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 13:36, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I was leaving in undeleted so that we could identify the bug. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 18:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::I was unaware of that. Though I don't really see a bug here. Had the page contained an image, you would have landed on the local page. Otherwise, the Commons redirect takes precedence. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 18:48, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

==Message at page bottom==
When on a wikibreak, I put a message at the bottom of my talk page informing visitors of the fact and asking them to write ''above'' that message and ''below'' everything else. In practice, people often add their message below my advisory notice, which therefore gets lost. Is it possible to pin my message to the bottom of my talk page so that it stays there despite other editors?

I've left it very late to post this, since I'm flying this evening, so if it can be done, please feel free to fix my talk page according. Thanks, <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;">[[User:Jimfbleak|<span style="color:red;">Jimfbleak</span>]] - </b>[[User talk:Jimfbleak|<span style="font-family:arial; color:green;"> talk to me?</span>]] 07:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:Yeah, the add section button always puts the new section at the very end of the talk page, so oftentimes, people won't even see your notice. You might try out a [[WP:Editnotice]] as an alternative, since I don't know how to add a section that stays at the bottom. [[User:Vanisaac|Van]][[User talk:Vanisaac|Isaac]]<sub><small>[[WP:WikiProject Writing systems|WS]] [[WP:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology|Vex]]</small></sub><sup style="margin-left:-7.0ex">[[Special:Contributions/Vanisaac|contribs]]</sup> 08:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
::You might be able to concoct something with absolute positioning in CSS, a little like the [[User:Fran Rogers/peek|"Jimbo peeking" picture]], but I'd recommend against it. It would probably look annoying, and there are some tools (like [[WP:POPUPS|popups]]) that allow you to go straight to adding a new section, so people might not even see it then. I'd go for an edit notice plus a notice at the top of the page if you want maximum visibility. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 10:55, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Thanks, I've added an edit notice, and put the message at top and bottom of talk page, so we will just have to see if it works! <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;">[[User:Jimfbleak|<span style="color:red;">Jimfbleak</span>]] - </b>[[User talk:Jimfbleak|<span style="font-family:arial; color:green;"> talk to me?</span>]] 12:05, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''MediaWiki software should have page-footer notices:''' This issue is one of the quite important features to have, which should have been added years ago, as another example of a typesetting environment without ''typesetting'' capabilities, because [[footers]] have been provided in computerized typesetting for over 40 years. Perhaps enough people can keep reminding the developers to implement page-header and page-footer directives always positioned to the top/bottom of a page, especially as instructional messages without editing a page. Perhaps there is already a [[wp:MediaWiki extension]] which provides headers/footers, as with the extension to store data-settings between templates (which could make some markup-based templates run 10x faster). -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 12:52, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
*:There are multiple extensions providing page footers: [[mw:Extension:PageNotice|Extension:PageNotice]], [[mw:Extension:Header Footer|Extension:Header Footer]] and [[mw:Extension:HeadersFooters|Extension:HeadersFooters]] are some that I know. I don't think any are up to the code quality required for deploying on Wikimedia, but I don't think it would take much work to bring one up to scratch. I agree that such a feature would be useful.
*:The other extension you mention (I guess you mean [[mw:Extension:Variables|Extension:Variables]]) isn't relevant here, but is unlikely to be deployed. Templates are not intended as a fully-featured programming language, and the developers won't support attempts to turn them into such, especially when we already have Lua. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 20:59, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

== Database error in filtered new users' contributions search ==
{{tracked|58157}}
Does anyone else find that, when trying to perform a namespace-specific search in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=newbie&target=&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2014&month=-1 new users' contributions], they receive the following error message?

 A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.
    Function: IndexPager::buildQueryInfo (contributions page filtered for namespace or RevisionDeleted edits)
    Error: 0

I periodically run through and check new user uploads in the file namespace and have been experiencing this problem for the last three or four weeks. Sometimes, after much loading, I am able to view the most recent changes up to the end of the first results page; attempts to view changes older than the top 100 or 200, however, produce the database error. As a consequence, the oldest recent changes in the namespace (dating back a month) become inaccessible. '''[[User:SuperMarioMan|<span style="color:#CE2029;">Super</span>]][[User talk:SuperMarioMan|<span style="color:#FF3F00;">Mario</span>]][[Special:Contributions/SuperMarioMan|<span style="color:#FF8C00;">Man</span>]]''' 04:03, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

:Confirming that something similar happened to me too when I tried it, via [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20140114042917&tagfilter=&contribs=newbie&target=newbies&namespace=6 this link]. I didn't get the database error you mentioned though, but a "data not received" error from Chrome. (The actual error message may be different, as I translated it from Japanese.) I remember something similar was also reported for user log pages recently - I'll see if I can find the archive link. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 04:21, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

::Here it is: [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 118#timeouts]]. Also see [[bugzilla:54876]]. That bug report was resolved as fixed, so this may be a separate issue. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 04:43, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:::[[bugzilla:58157]] is still open though. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 10:39, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

::::Yes, the error is pretty much exactly as described in the second Bugzilla report. I didn't know that named user contributions lists were affected as well – yet, true enough, when I try the links provided in the first [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Citation+bot&namespace=4 two] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Redrose64&namespace=7 posts] there, the page is just as slow to load, and the eventual result is the same message as before. Curiously, if I remove the "&namespace=X" suffix, load the full contributions list, and then click back to the previous page, the namespace-specific list displays as normal.<p>For reference, this is the bookmarked URL that I normally use: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=150&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=newbie&target=&namespace=6&tagfilter=&year=&month=-1. Until a few weeks ago, the link functioned perfectly, and I was able to cycle back through past edits in batches of 150 up to the cut-off point (30 days?); now, it works only if lower limits of 20 or 30 are applied, and batches no longer show past the 100 or 200 mark – in upload terms, no further back than the last few days. For what it's worth, I'm using Firefox and Internet Explorer, although this is clearly not a browser issue. '''[[User:SuperMarioMan|<span style="color:#CE2029;">Super</span>]][[User talk:SuperMarioMan|<span style="color:#FF3F00;">Mario</span>]][[Special:Contributions/SuperMarioMan|<span style="color:#FF8C00;">Man</span>]]''' 14:42, 17 January 2014 (UTC)</p>

== IRC feeds down? ==

I'm not sure the logistics behind how recent changes work... but Huggle says it's connected to the IRC feed but nothing is showing up. Likely related, ClueBot NG has made no reverts since 12:15 EST. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks! &mdash; [[User:MusikAnimal|<b style="color:black;"><i>MusikAnimal</i></b>]] [[User talk:MusikAnimal|<sup style="color:green;"><b>talk</b></sup>]] 18:04, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:There is a network failure at the moment (apparently the fiber feeds into one of our datacenters have no less than three breaks) that reduces or prevents some services from running properly.  Impact on Labs is variable, depending on the exact tool, but no access to the database replicas will work until the network has been repaired (outside our control, atm).  &mdash;&nbsp;[[User:MPelletier (WMF)|MPelletier&nbsp;(WMF)]]<small><sup>&nbsp;([[User talk:MPelletier (WMF)|talk]])</sup></small> 18:22, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
::Gotcha, thanks for the update. For anyone else reading this that uses Huggle, change your options to force the software to use the API queries rather than the IRC feed. System > Options > uncheck "Use IRC feed for recent changes if possible". Cheers! &mdash; [[User:MusikAnimal|<b style="color:black;"><i>MusikAnimal</i></b>]] [[User talk:MusikAnimal|<sup style="color:green;"><b>talk</b></sup>]] 18:38, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:The RC-IRC feed is back up since about a minute. --[[User:Sitic|Sitic]] ([[User talk:Sitic|talk]]) 19:29, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:: Seems like it came back up, but isn't really stable and is having intermittent issues.  Just need to be patient with it until the fibers are patched... [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:47, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Hm, so that's why I couldn't access the IRC feeds when I opened up Huggle during my lunch (Yes, I do that a lot). I thought it was my Internet, but apparently not. MusikAnimal left me a note on my talk page saying that he/she couldn't access IRC either. It might also explain why ClueBot NG isn't working, though most RC patrolling bots, such as SineBot, are still okay as they use the API queries. I think that might be an idea - in case IRC goes down again, ClueBot NG should automatically switch to API, like Huggle does. It's slower, but it's better if vandalism was reverted one hour after it was made than never being reverted at all. '''[[:User:K6ka|K6ka]]''' ([[:User_talk:K6ka#|talk]] &#124; [[:Special:Contributions/K6ka|contrib]]) 20:37, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Or... not. While Huggle can access the IRC feeds just fine, [[User:ClueBot NG|ClueBot NG]] is still down. It may be an issue on ClueNet's end again. '''[[:User:K6ka|K6ka]]''' ([[:User_talk:K6ka#|talk]] &#124; [[:Special:Contributions/K6ka|contrib]]) 21:46, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

== Capitalization problem ==

I added a hatnote to [[Large-screen television technology]] because I didn't capitalize a T and [[TV technology]] sent me there. But there was no such redirect and my hatnote got changed because of a flag that the redirect didn't exist. Obviously, it does now, because I fixed it, but the redirect was from [[Tv technology]].

This has surely been discussed but I have lots to do and will have to come back tomorrow.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 22:38, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

:I'm not sure what your complaint is. You added the hatnote <code><nowiki>{{redirect|TV technology|the trade journal|TV Technology}}</nowiki></code> at a time where there was no redirect at [[TV technology]], so {{tl|redirect}} correctly added the article to [[:Category:Missing redirects]]. [[User:Wbm1058]] saw that and removed your hatnote. Maybe Wbm1058 should have changed the hatnote or created the redirect instead, but that isn't a technical issue. Are you saying that your hatnote should have automatically detected there existed a redirect at another capitalization [[Tv technology]]? I don't think that is possible without testing each potential capitalization one at a time, and that would be too expensive. Maybe [[:Category:Missing redirects]] should include suggestions to check incoming redirects by clicking "What links here" and "Hide links". [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:10, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::Just to be clear I did not completely remove the {{tl|redirect}}, I changed it to a {{tl|for}} ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Large-screen_television_technology&diff=prev&oldid=590883005 diff]). If the editor truly believes that readers searching for "TV technology" will find themselves surprised to land on an article about ''television'' technology, then fine, I won't further contest a decision to explain it to the confused readers with a {{tl|redirect}} hatnote. [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 00:33, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

:: Per [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]]'s "testing each potential capitalization";  we do this over at [[WP:RLR|Wikiproject Red Link Recovery]] and fix cases like this one as part of our normal process.  We also catch missing [[diacritic mark]]s, confusions of [[endash|n]] and [[emdash|m dashes]] and many other cases where red links are very-nearly-but-not-precisely-like the title of an article, template or redirect. - [[User:Topbanana|TB]] ([[User talk:Topbanana|talk]]) 10:41, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::If you enter a title in the search box then you automatically find a redirect with any other capitalization. An editor going through [[:Category:Missing redirects]] can certainly do that but since this was posted to the tech pump, the question  may be whether a template like {{tl|redirect}} can do it and produce different output depending on the result. [[:mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23ifexist]] only works for one capitalization. I don't know whether there is a way to do it in Lua. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 14:37, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::::When I first ran across [[:Category:Missing redirects]] it was a crowded and neglected maintenance category begging for attention. I enhanced several templates in the {{tl|redirect}} family to populate the category, as it was only being populated by a minority of these templates. As far as I know, I am the only one who actively patrols this category, and as a result I create redirects all the time. You would be surprised at how many editors put {{tl|redirect}} on top of an article, mistakenly thinking that is the way to actually create a <nowiki>#REDIRECT</nowiki>. So I create the xyzzy redirect and remove the template, as disambiguation to [[xyzzy (disambiguation)]] is unnecessary. So, please forgive me for simply simplifying the hatnote, and prioritizing my time by not bothering to create that particular redirect. And thank you, Vchimpanzee, for taking the time to create the redirect. I think the template functions fine as-is and shouldn't be modified to "work around" red links. Redirects are cheap, and fixing content forks is expensive. – [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 15:10, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
* I'm not entirely sure why {{U|Vchimpanzee}} posted this here either, I would have thought the Help Desk, the talk page of TV technology, or the talk page for the wikiprojects involving that would have been more appropriate.  If there ''was'' some kind of template that could determine all of the existing capitalization possibilities as discussed here, what exactly would it be expected to '''''do''''' with that knowledge?  Add the page to a category, perhaps?  Place a hat note on the page, perhaps?  Not sure this would be appropriate in most cases, and may cause confusion... Lua can't really do any more than a standard template in this case, and the big issue with using either one of them will be the fact that {{tl|(pf)ifexist:|expensive}} has a limit of 500 call before it quits working and both [[Help:Template|Template]]s and [[WP:Lua|Lua]] run into this issue.  Now, I suppose, what would be great here is if there was a bot... {{Ping|Anomie|Hasteur|Legoktm|Theopolisme|GorillaWarfare}} or any other "bot guy/gal" that might be interested, can one of you volunteer to help write a bot for this task of creating redirects to likely redirects for various characters or casing, assuming such a bot doesn't already exist... [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 17:45, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::I'm not sure what result I was expecting. I didn't realize I had caused a problem until later, and of course I was confused when I landed on this article that at the time looked completely different. I think my problem is that in some cases it has appeared the redirect existed when it didn't because I didn't capitalize something, but then later I discovered a red link or something. Or I might never have discovered the red link and it would have been a problem for someone else.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 18:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Wait, I know. The only reasonable expectation is that because TV is sort of an acronym, the fact that I didn't capitalize the V should have somehow led to a solution. The other letters in "technology" besides the T wouldn't have been a problem.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 18:26, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Looking at what has been said above, maybe the problem has been dealt with sufficiently.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 18:34, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

== Incorrect notice following pagemove ==

Even when redirect creation is successfully suppressed during a page move, the special page confirming the move displays a notice at the bottom stating "A redirect has been created."  This is a minor issue, but it is an unnecessary source of confusion.  Is this an issue that can be fixed on-wiki or does it need to be reported at Bugzilla?  Thank you, -- '''[[User:Black Falcon|Black Falcon]]''' <sup>([[User talk:Black Falcon|talk]])</sup> 06:52, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

:[[bugzilla:45348]]: moving a page with suppressredirect produces misleading message "A redirect has been created". [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 08:33, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

== FlaggedRevs ==

Hi. [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56408 Please help me to make a patch]. Sincerely -- [[User:Дагиров Умар|Дагиров Умар]] ([[User talk:Дагиров Умар|talk]]) 13:51, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

== File usage bug ==

OK who is ready for a brain bender? I was cleaning up [[WP:NFCC#9]] issues and came across [[:File:Corvus.jpg]] which Mediawiki lists as being used on 4 pages. So no big deal right? I went to remove the file and cant find it in the wikitext or any template being used. Odd, might be a cache issue, so I purged the pages where the file is used .... No go, still showing up. At this point Im scratching my head, as I cannot figure out why the file is being listed on a page where the file isnt displayed. I had one other thought perhaps it was a [[Media: link causing the false hit, After digging around, no luck. I finally decide to look at the HTML source of the article, and I discover that [[:File:Corvus-illustration.jpg]] is the source. The file is on commons and is a file redirect to their version of [[:commons:File:Corvus.jpg]]. Can someone please dig me out of this rabbit hole? [[User:Werieth|Werieth]] ([[User talk:Werieth|talk]]) 20:57, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
: Wikipedia handles Commons redirects in a strange way. [[User:Haus]] clearly wants to use the Commons file in his userspace and this situation is very confusing, so I have moved away our local file. --[[User:Stefan2|Stefan2]] ([[User talk:Stefan2|talk]]) 21:06, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:: No Commons redirect, simple name clash. Local page deleted. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 23:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
== CirrusSearch now enabled ==

Hi all. The exciting day of new search is upon us. We've just enabled the new search backend for enwiki and we're starting to build the index now. What does this mean for your searches? ''Nothing yet''. Right now you can only engage the new search engine via url parameters (&srbackend=CirrusSearch for API & Special:Search). Once we get the index built, we'll look at turning it on as a Beta Feature so more people can try it out. I'll keep this thread updated with indexing progress (honestly, we don't know how long enwiki will take just yet). As the index fills out you'll start to see more and more reasonable results. If you see any problems relating to the new search (Cirrus, elasticsearch, any term like that), please please let me know so we can fix it. Things should be mostly invisible to everyone right now while we're building things out, other than you'll see the job queue rise some (we'll be keeping an eye on it and try not to flood it). Thanks everyone! <b style="color:#c22">^</b>[[User:^demon|<b style="color:#000">demon</b>]][[User_talk:^demon|<sup style="color:#c22">[omg plz]</sup>]]&nbsp;<em style="font-size:10px;">17:14, 13 January 2014 (UTC)</em>
* Sharing what I found when reading about this just now: this search implements [[Elasticsearch]] for MediaWiki. For more info, see [[mw:Extension:CirrusSearch]] and [[mw:Requests for comment/CirrusSearch]]. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 17:50, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
* Thanks for adding those links, Scott (I forgot in my rush to get this posted). I'll also add [[mw:Search/CirrusSearchFeatures]], which is meant to be the user-facing guide for this (and is written PD, so hopefully wikis can use it for revamping any Help pages). <b style="color:#c22">^</b>[[User:^demon|<b style="color:#000">demon</b>]][[User_talk:^demon|<sup style="color:#c22">[omg plz]</sup>]]&nbsp;<em style="font-size:10px;">17:52, 13 January 2014 (UTC)</em>
'''Confirmed CirrusSearch matches pages changed within prior minute:''' Although the overall search-index is still being populated, we can already run ''instant'' near-[[real-time search]]es (including pages updated within recent minutes) by using the new CirrusSearch backend on typical [[Special:Search]] for text. For example, to search template-talk pages about recent "custom-text parameters" being discussed, use:
::&bull; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/?search=Template_talk%3A%20%22custom-text%20parameters%22&srbackend=CirrusSearch
Note the template-talk prefix is "Template_talk%3A" where colon ":" is encoded as "%3A" and spaces are "%20" in the URL encoding. Alternatively, just run a typical [[wp:wikisearch]] (MWsearch), and then rerun the URL with "&srbackend=CirrusSearch" appended, to also search pages recently edited within the prior minute. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 08:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
: You can also float pages with more recent edits to the top using some somewhat cryptic syntax.  I don't know if that is useful for you.
:::&bull; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=Template_talk%3Aprefer-recent%3A1,10+text&fulltext=Search&srbackend=CirrusSearch
: The "1" means scale the whole document score and the "10" means that the half life of the score should be 10 days.  You can leave off either or both of the numbers to get the defaults that are used on wikinews: 60% of the score is scaled at a half life of 160 days.  [[User:NEverett (WMF)|NEverett (WMF)]] ([[User talk:NEverett (WMF)|talk]]) 20:26, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


: Update on indexing status: we're churning away. Just passed the 9 million document mark, which is good. Trying to find ways to speed it up all the time. <b style="color:#c22">^</b>[[User:^demon|<b style="color:#000">demon</b>]][[User_talk:^demon|<sup style="color:#c22">[omg plz]</sup>]]&nbsp;<em style="font-size:10px;">20:11, 14 January 2014 (UTC)</em>

::Maybe there's a learning curve for using the new search. I tried it because the old search index is not being updated (yes, again). I expected about 150 results from searching "'''where played'''", but the new CirrusSearch gave me many thousands of hits, such as "'''where''' he '''played'''". That doesn't help me. I looked for detailed instructions on CirrusSearch, but haven't found any. [[User:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#C30;">'''Chris'''</span>&nbsp;<span style="color:#060;">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#900;"><sup>yack</sup></span>]] 15:52, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{replyto|Chris the speller}} Try adding "~0" to the search - see [[:mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Phrase search and proximity]]. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 16:08, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Thanks, John, that worked. Even more thanks for the link to the help page. [[User:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#C30;">'''Chris'''</span>&nbsp;<span style="color:#060;">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<span style="color:#900;"><sup>yack</sup></span>]] 16:29, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

== Site-wide template auto-collapse issue ==
{{tracked|59912}}

As seen in the image, does anyone know what's going on? Templates on Firefox 26 is acting funny, while IE10 (which I never use), displays fine... [[User:Rehman|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:bold; color:darkblue">Reh</span>]][[User talk:Rehman|<span style="color:green">man</span>]] 13:01, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:I see no issues here, using Firefox 26. Try [[WP:PURGE|purging]] the template. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 13:11, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::It's on all templates, and on all pages using templates. On all 3 W7/FF PCs I use. [[User:Rehman|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:bold; color:darkblue">Reh</span>]][[User talk:Rehman|<span style="color:green">man</span>]] 00:50, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:I seem to remember a beta feature (Near here) could be responsible for this. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 13:13, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::'''You're right!''' The "Near this page" beta feature is what's responsible for this! Thanks. [[User:Rehman|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:bold; color:darkblue">Reh</span>]][[User talk:Rehman|<span style="color:green">man</span>]] 00:52, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:I can confirm this for the latest version of Chrome for Windows (32.0.1700.76 m). — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 22:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

== Opt-in for pending changes ==

Is it technically possible to make it so an editor can opt-in to pending changes for a specific edit?

For example, if I am making a relatively small edit on an article where I have a COI. There is no need to discuss it on Talk, but because I have a COI, I think it would be polite and proper to have another editor approve it sort of speak. [[User:CorporateM|CorporateM]] ([[User_talk:CorporateM|Talk]]) 14:53, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:If it's on a pending-changes article, you can make the edit and then unaccept it, since you're a reviewer. For people who aren't reviewers, or for non-pending-changes articles, it's not currently possible. The best we have is {{tl|request edit}}. [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 17:57, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::Yah, I use Request Edit a lot, but I don't think anyone would be a happy camper with me submitting 20 Request Edits for various copyedits as part of a GA review or anything like that. OTOH, a quick click on the "approve" button as a formality to comply with WP:COI and Bright Line. It might also be great for new editors uncertain about their edit. 
::Do you think it's something I could reasonably beg and plead a technical person to make possible or would it be a huge thing?  [[User:CorporateM|CorporateM]] ([[User_talk:CorporateM|Talk]]) 19:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Flagging one edit as "please review this" is an interesting idea. However, what would happen to subsequent revisions by non-reviewers before the edit is reviewed? Such revisions would incorporate the edit flagged for review, but I'm not sure we'd want further edits to be subject to review as well. The alternatives&#160;– auto-accepting, auto-rejecting or forcing the next editor to make a choice&#160;– don't seem great either.
:::Regardless of how that is answered, I imagine some effort would be involved in implementing this. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 20:19, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::::{{ping|CorporateM}} Another option is that you could also copy the article to the draft namespace, make your changes on the draft, and then put one {{tl|request edit}} on the article's talk page to copy the draft to the article.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 02:54, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Meh, people generally don't want to do that, because they need to know what edits they are making by proxy. Otherwise they risk being hood-winked by a COI that did not accurately describe the changes between the two drafts. This happens a lot where a PR rep says it is "copyedits" but it is actually promotion. [[User:CorporateM|CorporateM]] ([[User_talk:CorporateM|Talk]]) 14:40, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

== Search results number ==

There used to be a setting in [[Special:Preferences|preferences]] to say how many results would be shown on each screen as the result of a search. I think the default was 20; I had mine set at 500, but now it is showing 100. Has something changed or am I missing something? <span style="background-color:#B7D9F9;border:solid 0px #0E5CA4;padding:0px 3px;border-radius:3px">[[User:SchreiberBike|SchreiberBike]]&nbsp;<span style="border-left:1px solid #0E5CA4;padding-left:3px">[[User talk:SchreiberBike|talk]]</span></span> 00:35, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
: Maybe it got removed on en?  The preferences help at en does not mention that, but [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Search] does.   [[User:RudolfRed|RudolfRed]] ([[User talk:RudolfRed|talk]]) 00:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
: Hmm... there have been [[#CirrusSearch now enabled|changes to search]] recently, though the loss of this option wasn't mentioned. Perhaps it was removed because the new search engine doesn't support it? (I'm just guessing.) –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 17:49, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:It got [[gerrit:105871|removed]]. [[User:^demon|^demon]]'s reasoning was: "In this case, we've got a preference that's set to insane values on WMF wikis when it's mostly not functional. lsearchd is hardcoded to return only 50 maximum results, so any number above that's basically been useless since ~2009 or so." [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 18:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Max wikisearch shows 501 results & next 500:''' Using the "&limit=999" then the [[wp:wikisearch]] results-increment is set to 500, but the first screen will list 501 results, possibly a [[fence-post error]]. Appending "&limit=" is an alternative to setting Special:Preferences anyway. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 05:40, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

::I'm sure I was getting 500 per page last month, and the "View (previous 100 | next 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)" is still available at the bottom of the list of results. And I see that I can work around it by modifying the search's url with a "limit=" statement. Could that be integrated into [[Template:Search link]] perhaps? Thanks for the info anyway. <span style="background-color:#B7D9F9;border:solid 0px #0E5CA4;padding:0px 3px;border-radius:3px">[[User:SchreiberBike|SchreiberBike]]&nbsp;<span style="border-left:1px solid #0E5CA4;padding-left:3px">[[User talk:SchreiberBike|talk]]</span></span> 18:39, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

== Integrate AfC into Article Alerts ==

It would greatly benefit the AfC reviewers and the backlog there if AfC articles could be marked with a Wikiproject and then added to the article alerts system. As with any other articles, the articles could then be detagged from the project, and if deleted the article is already automatically removed from statistics. Is there any way this might get done? --[[User:LT910001|LT910001]] ([[User talk:LT910001|talk]]) 02:52, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

== Please fix wp:CS1 cite month to show date ==
I am hoping several people can fix the protected [[wp:CS1]] cite templates ([[Module:Citation/CS1]]) to again re-show the date from the "month=" parameter, and keep it fixed to always work. I suspect thousands of cites have been dropping the dates since last year. Compare {cite_web} to {cite_web/old}:
:* {&#123;cite web |title=Test |url=http://loc.gov | month=September&#125;} &rarr; {{cite web|title=Test|url=http://loc.gov |month=September<!-- adding template-doc-demo in 2015 to remove this article from the error category while preserving the error message -->|no-tracking=yes<!-- changed from template-doc-demo in September 2020 -->}}
:: {&#123;cite web/old|title=Test|url=http://loc.gov |month=September&#125;} &rarr; {{cite web/old|title=Test|url=http://loc.gov |month=September}}
:* {&#123;cite web |title=Test|url=http://loc.gov |month=June 2013&#125;} &rarr; {{cite web|title=Test|url=http://loc.gov |month=June 2013<!-- adding template-doc-demo in 2015 to remove this article from the error category while preserving the error message -->|no-tracking=yes<!-- changed from template-doc-demo in September 2020 -->}}
:: {&#123;cite web/old |title=Test |url=http://loc.gov | month=June 2013&#125;} &rarr; {{cite web/old |title=Test|url=http://loc.gov |month=June 2013}}
For several weeks, the "month=" parameter has been dropping dates, to show no date at all in many citations. Please re-fix the CS1 cite templates and then leave them alone. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 06:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

:I think this discussion would be better off held at [[Module talk:Citation/CS1]]. Discussion seems relatively active over there, so you shouldn't have a problem with a lack of response. Although, bear in mind that the module's authors might have changed the behaviour of the month parameter on purpose. In my opinion, you will stand the best chance of not annoying the authors if you ask "why does this behave in this way?", rather than demand "please fix this and leave it alone". Remember that it [[Wikipedia:Do NOT bite the developers|doesn't pay to annoy the developers]]. ;) Hope this helps. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:07, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::: The omitted-month dates has been mentioned there before, but there are so many other problems added/found with the Lua module, and it seems out of control. With 180 cite parameters, there are numerous ways to foul-up the prior citation templates, as the possibilites are endless. Fortunately, {cite_report} still handles "month=". I am thinking essay "[[wp:Template-glitch density]]" to describe templates which ruin article pages. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 16:42, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

::{{ping|Wikid77}} Articles with CS1 citations that still use the deprecated {{para|month}} parameter are included in [[:Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters]].  I've updated the category page with an explanation of the issue.  The {{red|Cite uses deprecated parameters}} error does not yet appear for your {{tl|cite web}} examples for all users.  Before that's enabled, {{u|Trappist the monk}} is running [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 1|Monkbot]] over this category to fix these references. I think it would be good for Trappist to expand his bot to change {{para|month|June 2013}} to {{para|date|June 2013}}.  It might also be helpful if you could please provide an example of an article that only uses {{para|month}} without {{para|date}}, {{para|day}}, or {{para|year}}.  Hope this helps!  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 13:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{para|month}} will be displayed if {{para|year}} is present. To display the month, you can either populate the year parameter or change {{para|month}} to {{para|date}}. Either one will eventually display an error, the former because of the deprecated month parameter (a bot will fix this for you) and the latter since {{para|date|September}} is not a valid date per MOS. If you want to dig further, [[Module talk:Citation/CS1]] is the place to do it, with examples of citations from actual articles. Thanks. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 14:36, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: Thanks, as I had suspected the date handling was just getting worse each month, inventing more [[busy work]] where common-sense reasoning could tell what the month "September" was all about. Looks like [[wp:Template creep]] is well into ruining the formatting of citations. Other problems occur for typical 2-form ISBN numbers: {cite web|...|isbn=ISBN-10: 1234567890. ISBN-13: 1234567890123} gives error: {{cite web|title=Title|url=http://loc.gov|isbn=ISBN-10: 1234567890. ISBN-13: 1234567890123|no-tracking=yes<!-- changed from template-doc-demo in September 2020 -->}}. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 16:42, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::The original query has been answered in multiple ways, and now the discussion is forking into specifics of the module's code. Let's continue these two discussion items at [[Module talk:Citation/CS1]]. See you there. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 16:53, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/04|Tech News: 2014-04]] ==

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Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/04|Translations]] are available.

'''Recent software changes'''
* The latest version of MediaWiki ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/wmf11|1.23wmf11]]) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* You can now see relatively recent results on special pages like [[Special:DoubleRedirects]], [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] or [[Special:WantedCategories]]. They were disabled before because they were very slow. The results are now updated once a month. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15434]
* As of January 16, you can make and use [[mw:Guided tours|guided tours]] on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedtour&filter=&language={{CONTENTLANG}}&action=translate translate it] and ask in [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org Bugzilla]. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-January/000542.html] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105997/]
* You can give comments on an idea to have a [http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/navmod/ fixed toolbar] at the top of wiki pages. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-January/001377.html]
* You can [[:File:How to file a report in Bugzilla.webm|watch a video]] to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54606]

'''VisualEditor news'''
* In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow ([[File:VisualEditor - Icon - Text style.svg|25px]][[File:VisualEditor - Icon - Down.svg|15px]]). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
* You can now edit <code><nowiki><gallery /></nowiki></code> tags with a very basic tool. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107537/]
* You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52844] 
* When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48560]
* When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51930] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53611]
* The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59660]
* Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit [[mw:Extension:TemplateData|TemplateData]]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51734]

'''Problems'''
* There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59979]
* There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59993]
* On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes ([irc://irc.wikimedia.org irc.wikimedia.org]) were broken for about two hours.  [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/074050.html]

'''Future software changes'''
[[File:Echo Notifications new message indicator.png|frame|Orange bar with new messages]]
* If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56974] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95102/]
* You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using [[mw:Extension:UploadWizard|UploadWizard]] on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/42770]
* You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108188/]
* You will so longer see disambiguation pages in [[Special:LonelyPages]]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3483] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106435/]

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== Archive bots ==

Thanks all for your very responsive feedback to my previous queries. I'd like to know what the currently accepted archive bots are? I know there are quite a few around, but that only a few are still working. Is there one that is supported by WMF and/or semi-official? I want to add a bot to talk pages on some articles, but am unsure how. Would value some advice or pointers as to how to do this, what bot to use, and where to look for advice --[[User:LT910001|LT910001]] ([[User talk:LT910001|talk]]) 11:02, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{ping|LT910001}} You may want to look at [[User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo]] for instructions on one of the popular archiving options.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 13:30, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::None of the archiving bots are supported by WMF; and I don't think that any are official (semi or otherwise). The MiszaBot family no longer operate on English Wikipedia, but a page set up for archiving by those bots will actually be archived by {{user|Lowercase sigmabot III}}. Another popular archiving bot - used on this page - is {{user|ClueBot III}}. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:49, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::: Thanks, as I think [[User:ClueBot III|ClueBot III]] seems to work well. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 17:14, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Thank you all! --[[User:LT910001|LT910001]] ([[User talk:LT910001|talk]]) 08:40, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

== Spamming Template:C. and Circa ==
Another growing area of [[wp:template creep]] can be found with [[Template:C.]], which calls [[Template:Circa]], where {circa|1856} gives "{{circa|1856}}" as originally to allow sorting with circa-dates. Perhaps step 1 would be to find who is actively spamming [[Template:C.]] into 1,000 pages or {circa} into 5,000 pages, and ask them to stop. If those cannot be stopped, then let's AfD delete those templates and recommend some form of sort-key template, and add examples of how to sort with "c.&nbsp;1984" as a date/year. Obviously, people will create a template for every phrase in the language, and quick put it into a 1,000-5,000 pages, unless deterred. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 17:14, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:That's a funny way to say you don't like something. If you want to TfD it, TfD it. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 17:23, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
* '''Further options:''' We can have central discussion at [[Template_talk:Circa]], with {c.} mentioned there, because there are other issues since created in November 2007, to reduce usage, but also improve "sortable=on" for wp:ACCESS perhaps by using "postition:absolute;left:-10000px" to handle more browsers, but add middle space for [[screenreaders]], so option sortable=yes will give data: "1850&nbsp;c.&nbsp;1850". -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 00:35, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

== Separating direct and indirect transclusions of templates ==

I'll take an existing template as an example to illustrate my question. Consider {{tl|Lorem ipsum}}, which generates a nonsense text also called [[lorem ipsum]]. It takes one unnamed parameter {{{1}}} which specifies the number of paragraphs of text it gives. (It actually takes more, but this is just an example.)<br/>
Now suppose an editor creates a template <nowiki>{{Lorem ipsum 2}}</nowiki>, with soure code <code><nowiki>{{Lorem ipsum|2}}</nowiki></code>, to output exactly two paragraphs of lorem ipsum. (Note that a template {{tl|Lorem Ipsum 2}} once existed and is now a redirect, but again, this is just an example.)

Now for my actual question. Pages which tranclude a template that itself transludes another template are counted as transcluding the other template in the WhatLinksHere pages. In the case of the example, "Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Lorem ipsum" would also show pages that transclude <nowiki>{{Lorem ipsum 2}}</nowiki>, since the latter itself transcludes <nowiki>{{Lorem ipsum}}</nowiki>.<br/>
Is there a way to apply coding (such as a tracking category) only to pages that directly transclude a template, or in another way generate a list of direct transclusions only? I've tried using tricks like <include<no<nowiki/>include/>only>, though that seems to work only if all templates are substituted (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:X5&oldid=591572638 these] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:X6&oldid=591573247 three] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:X7&oldid=591572787 sandboxes]). [[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]]) 18:40, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:There isn't. But oh, if only... --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 18:44, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::Well, thanks for the very quick response! [[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]]) 18:59, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

If it's not possible to automatically generate such a list, can I request a bot/script to generate a list of direct transclusions of a specific template, sorted by the parameters used? Or should I use another page for such requests? [[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]]) 11:52, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

== Wikimedia Foundation Error ==
[[File:Wmf error.PNG|frameless|right]]
I keep getting "Wikimedia Foundation Error".

About an hour ago, I got it a couple of times; then a few mins ago, I got it every time I tried to save;

"Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes.
If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.
Request: POST http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&action=submit, from 88.104.24.157 via amssq49 frontend ([91.198.174.192]:80), Varnish XID 2393050699
Forwarded for: 88.104.24.157
Error: 503, Service Unavailable at Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:30:52 GMT"

What's the problem?  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/88.104.24.157|88.104.24.157]] ([[User talk:88.104.24.157|talk]]) 20:35, 20 January 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:You mean like the screenshot that I've just pasted into this section? It means that the page you were editing was so large that the servers took too long to process it, and gave up. Apparently this page was [[User talk:Jimbo Wales]], which does get ''huge'' every few days. First, check [[Special:Contributions/88.104.24.157|your contributions]], and if the edit is there, all well and good; if it's not, try and save it again. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:56, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::I got the same error on this page. And other pages, which are not large. Repeatedly.
::I don't think it's just a 'huge page' problem.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/88.104.24.157|88.104.24.157]] ([[User talk:88.104.24.157|talk]]) 21:12, 20 January 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
::: Agreed, as the Jimbo talk-page was archived 30% smaller at 15:00, to reformat in 2 seconds, and should not cause a WFEM timeout error. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 23:17, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, I just tried to look at a page history, and got;

XML Parsing Error: unexpected parser state Location: jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Mozilla%20Firefox/omni.ja!/chrome/toolkit/content/global/netError.xhtml Line Number 308, Column 50: <div id="ed_netReset">&netReset.longDesc;</div> -------------------------------------------------^  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/88.104.24.157|88.104.24.157]] ([[User talk:88.104.24.157|talk]]) 21:14, 20 January 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:: That error message, with "Program Files (x86)/Mozilla Firefox..." seems like a local [[Firefox]] browser error. -[[User:Wikid77|Wikid77]] ([[User talk:Wikid77|talk]]) 23:17, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:See [[WP:WFEM]]. ~ [[User:J. Johnson|J.&nbsp;Johnson (JJ)]] ([[User_talk:J. Johnson|talk]]) 22:11, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
== Deletion warning in new version of MediaWiki ==

With the latest update, we get a warning when attempting to delete most pages: "'''Warning''': Other pages link to the page you are about to delete".  Most of the time, a page's creator will be warned about its deletion, many deletion-taggers log their tagging on a dedicated page ([[Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Sunshineseeker71/sandbox|example]]), and many pages in CAT:CSD will end up being linked by userspace or WPspace pages ([[Special:WhatLinksHere/Blue Glue|example]]) that are set up to track CSD-tagged pages.  Is there ''any'' benefit to using it here, or any benefit to paying attention to it?  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 06:36, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:I haven't tried it myself yet, but it sounds like it would be very useful if it could be configured to display a warning if the page had incoming redirects or transclusions, rather than just links. And maybe links from mainspace would be useful too? — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius on tour|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius on tour</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius on tour|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 07:45, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::This was the result of [[bugzilla:35485|feature request 35485]] —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 07:51, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::I would add that this feature is probably more useful for small wikis. Pages up for deletion here will almost always have incoming links. I suppose we could just blank the message if we don't want it. — <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:1px 0 0 1px">[[User:This, that and the other|This, that]]</span> and <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:0 1px 1px 0">[[User talk:This, that and the other|the other<small> (talk)</small>]]</span> 10:10, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Restrict it to mainspace links, redirects, and transclusions, and I'd welcome it, and I can see how this would be much more of a thing for smaller wikis.  Wouldn't complain about blanking either.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 23:02, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::I agree with Nyttend. The message as it is is meaningless, and I would welcome a facility to turn it off, because it will be a very rare page which ''doesn't'' have any incoming links. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 23:08, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::* I agree with Nyttend. It must be restricted to mainspace links (surely redirects are mainspace links?) and transclusions. &mdash; [[User:RHaworth|RHaworth]] ([[User talk:RHaworth|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/RHaworth|contribs]]) 14:13, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::some more spaces where the warning is desired come to mind: template, portal, book, help, and possibly  others. it probably should be fine to mask links from talk spaces (including all the "XXX talk"), WP and user space. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 18:14, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
::I agree with everything said above. I've seen two situations where this feature would have been useful:
::#Someone mistakenly [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#G6|G6]]-tagged a couple of templates that were in use. An admin deleted them without checking properly (the templates were subsequently restored). A warning that the template still had transclusions would have prompted the deleting admin to check more carefully.
::#I've found a couple of broken redirects left behind after deletions. A warning to the deleting admin would prompt them to delete or re-target these redirects.
::For this feature to be useful, it needs to only warn about those cases that matter. Counting links in notifications left on talk pages and in deletion discussions means the warning will appear for almost every deletion, so will be ignored. There are many possible enhancements we could suggest on [[mw:Bugzilla|Bugzilla]] to make this more useful. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
:::The feature, as is, would probably end up being ignored due to [[banner blindness]]; unless we end up having some means of showing the warning only when it's likely to matter, we're better off removing it completely. (And some times speedy-deletable pages will have incoming mainspace links - either created by the author of the speedy-deletable page, or a user created a speedy-deletable page with a linked-to title.) [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 08:55, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
*I agree with Nyttend, PartTimeGnome, and others here. Substantially every page that is up for deletion ''ought'' to be linked to from some other page -- often a user talk page, warning the article creator that the article they started is up for deletion. But links like that are not worth warning the deleting admin about. --[[User:Metropolitan90|Metropolitan90]] [[User talk:Metropolitan90|(talk)]] 19:04, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
*{{ping|Nyttend}},{{ping|Metropolitan90}},{{ping|RHaworth}},{{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}}, et al.: If y'all are curious, I stumbled across this page and wrote [[User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/backlinkWarner.js]]; if you install it, it'll add separate warnings to that box for mainspace links (as opposed to any ol' link) and also warnings for redirects <s>(my brain is too fried to figure out the API call for transclusions so far)</s><small>done</small>. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 00:51, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:*Thank you.  Is there any way that we could make it default for everyone, e.g. putting it into the site JS?  Or would this be overkill, since it would load for all non-admin users as well, and on every page?  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 01:00, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::* Script content can be loaded on a per-group context, which in this case would be [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]. <span style="color:red; font-size: smaller; font-weight: bold;">§[[User:FreeRangeFrog|<span style="color:#00CA00">FreeRangeFrog</span>]]</span><sup>[[User talk:FreeRangeFrog|croak]]</sup> 01:07, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::*: It could also be placed in a gadget with <code>default|rights=delete</code> in its gadget definition. The gadget would only be available to administrators and would default to on for them. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 23:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:*Added transclusion detection. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 01:11, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::Sounds good WK. All we need is mainspace links and transclusions, not everyone's CSD list and talk page mention. So far, I think I've seen one or two pages where this thing didn't appear. [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 11:29, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Err, how does one install it? I probably should know, but I do very little technical twiddling these days... [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 11:31, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Peridon}} Sure, just add <code><nowiki>importScript("User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/backlinkWarner.js");</nowiki></code> to your [[Special:MyPage/common.js|common.js page]]. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 17:55, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::That won;t have had any effect. A link to a user page (which is all that a ping is) only trigers a notification if it is signed '''as part of the same edit'''. If you want to ping {{U|Peridon}}, you need to create a new signed edit, as I jsut did. [[User:DESiegel|DES]] [[User talk:DESiegel|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 18:02, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::Yeah, I know that. I actually deleted my old sig on that post and replaced it with new tildes, since I know it's dependent on the post being signed, but apparently that's not enough. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 18:05, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::Oh I failed to notice you had replaced the sig. Maybe that was enough then, I'm not sure. Well, no harm done if s/he gets 2 pings. [[User:DESiegel|DES]] [[User talk:DESiegel|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 18:16, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::Actually, I don't think it was; after I did it, I got to wondering whether it worked; tested it from my test account, and it didn't seem to, so... [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 18:30, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::Thanks. Only one ping - from DES. I'm a 'he', by the way. [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 18:37, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{od|:::::::}}For an edit to trigger a user mention notification, Echo looks for signature-like text being ''added'' to the page: a full timestamp and a link to the editor's user, talk or contributions page. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ Keeper]]'s ping {{diff|Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|prev|590694829|overwrote a previous signature}}; much of the new signature text was the same as the old, so did not count as being added to the page. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 23:56, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{ping|Writ Keeper}} You shouldn't use "wgTitle" because it will leave the namespace part out. For example, if I am deleting [[Template:Navbox]], there will be no message "There are pages that transclude this page" because wgTitle = "Navbox", not "Template:Navbox". --[[User:Nullzero|Nullzero]] ([[User talk:Nullzero|talk]]) 06:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
:::I'm getting confused. I installed that thing per instructions, and {{ping|Writ Keeper}} redid it with another version. I'm still getting talk page links, and some times a red warning about redirects (useful) and a red warning about pages that transclude the page I'm about to delete. I don't tend to delete templates, but what transcludea an AfC page, or a main space article - and what am I supposed to do with it if I even manage to identify it? [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 16:10, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Peridon}} Well, to identify it, you can just click on the "What links here" link for that page; it'll list all the pages that link to it, and say whether it's a transclusion or not.  As for the warning, well, I'm not sure, but for some things, Wikipedia (that is, WhatLinksHere, the API, everything, not just my script) is saying that the page transcludes ''itself''. If it's not something that's normally transcluded (e.g. an article or draft), you're probably fine to just ignore the transclusion warning. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 19:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Still confused... I've come across templates being transcluded, and managed to do it to my RfA (don't ask me how...), but I didn't know that articles were transcluded. I've also not seen any comments in WLH about transclusion. Just links and redirect page. I've dealt with redirect pages (as usual) and ignored the transclusion warning. Nothing seems to have blown up or collapsed yet. [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 19:22, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::<small>[[User:Peridon|is flow here yet?]]</small> Well, technically speaking, ''any'' page can be transcluded; there's nothing special about templates that allows them to be trancluded. Basically, any time you put any page's name in the double curly braces (as in <code><nowiki>{{User:Writ Keeper}}</nowiki></code>), that page's contents will be inserted into the page when the page is rendered, which is what transclusion is.  It's just usually not helpful to insert one page's content into another's, unless it's something like a template or an RfA (where you insert the content of your RfA into the general [[WP:RFA]] page).  Anyway, I've added a check to catch this weird self-transclusion thing (it's weird because you'd never need to insert a page's content into ''itself'', since the content is already there, plus there are infinite [[recursion]] issues), so you shouldn't see any more transclusion warnings when you don't expect it. [[User:Writ Keeper|Writ&nbsp;Keeper]]&nbsp;[[User Talk: Writ Keeper|&#9863;]][[Special:Contributions/Writ_Keeper|&#9812;]] 19:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

== Does the [[:mw:Extension:Disambiguator]] have a MagicWord to count the amount of the page which have the DISAMBIG? ==

I want to calculate the amount of the page which is the disambiguation page.Now I use the <nowiki>{{PAGESINCATEGORY:<the category's name of the disambiguation page>}}</nowiki> to calculate it,but I hope my formula can work in any plan beacause of the difference of the category's name in different plan.Thank you for help.--[[User:Cwek|Cwek]] ([[User talk:Cwek|talk]]) 04:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
:No magic word, but
<pre>
MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select count(*) from page_props where pp_propname="disambiguation";
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|   242120 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.38 sec)
</pre>
:[[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 09:22, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

== Streamlining page moves over redirects? ==

Moving a page over a redirect is becoming less likely to succeed because so many minor adjustments are being made to redirect pages. Many of us are allowed to move over a redirect if it has just one line in its edit history, but have to request a page move in other cases. Would it be difficult to relax these restrictions so that multiple edits of rather minor sorts would not hold up a page move? A case where [[User:AvicBot|Avicbot]] had fixed a double redirect is discussed at [[Talk:Gomphocarpus fruticosus]], and there is some more discussion [[User_talk:Sminthopsis84#Proposing bot behaviors|on my talk page]]. Some of these edits are manual, and some made by bots. Category additions are one type, and template additions such as the "redirect to …" and the "R from …" templates. [[User:Sminthopsis84|Sminthopsis84]] ([[User talk:Sminthopsis84|talk]]) 19:57, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:Nothing we can do at this end; it would need a amendment to the MediaWiki software. Please file a feature request at [[WP:Bugzilla|bugzilla]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:17, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:: Before you do, please define "of minor sorts" in a manner that can be determined quickly and unambiguously by a computer program. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 22:02, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Thank you both, this is clearly beyond my knowledge realm, so I'll drop the matter. [[User:Sminthopsis84|Sminthopsis84]] ([[User talk:Sminthopsis84|talk]]) 22:04, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Here's one way to define it: allow a redirect to be overwritten if all of its revisions are redirects to the page being moved over it, and the redirect does not have any form of protection. So that MediaWiki doesn't have to look over potentially hundreds of revisions, also include a restriction that there must be fewer than 20 revisions. Any change to a redirect that does not change its target or turn it into an article is minor enough to allow it to be overwritten, to my mind. Under this system, should there be a special case that must not be overwritten, an admin could semi-protect it. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:14, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: That won't handle the relatively common case of double redirect fixes though, because they will have pointed to a different target at some point. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 23:07, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::::: {{ping|Anomie}} What if, as long as the page has never been anything but a redirect, regardless of target, allow moving over it? If that would lend itself to abuse, then require that the initial revision must have pointed to the page being moved over it. [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 23:13, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::: The former would allow the vandal to retarget a redirect and then move over it, which seems open to abuse. The latter would still not handle double redirect fixes. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 01:18, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::: Regarding the former, how big of a problem would it be if vandals could move pages over unrelated redirects? The code could be changed to put the deleted revisions in deletedhistory instead of sending them down the memory hole to make cleanup of that easier. (And only autoconfirmed users can do that anyway, so it's not like it would be an everyday occurrence.) Regarding the latter, you could handle that if, for example, A was moved to B and then C, by just moving C to B before moving it back to A (which I've successfully done before in cases where nobody "fixed" the double redirect before I got to it). [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 01:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
{{unindent}} The former is even worse: A candal could move a page, then move some other page over that redirect. This would make a bigger mess. Iwould propose the following: The target has never been anything but a redirect either directly to the source page, or something else that has only ever been a redirect and is currently a redirect to the page in question. That would fix my issue; and would allow reverting multiple page moves. I think that Jackmcbarn's problem with the former is less serious - and if the revisions are somehow retained, we don't need to worry about it much. To the average reader, it's no diferent than converting an article into a redirect; to the vandalism fighters, just revert the move and fix the redirect. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 20:40, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
: Vandal wants to move page A to B, but a page exists at B. So he moves B to C then to D, then changes the redirects at B and C to point to A before a double-redirect fixer gets to it, then moves A to B. This is allowed because B has always been a redirect (to C then A), and C has also always been a redirect and currently points to A. Now you could fix that by requiring that C has always pointed to A or a another redirect under the same terms, but then you're getting into a growing number of pages that need checking. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 21:06, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:: If my second proposal (all revisions must have been redirects, and the earliest must point to the page to be moved over it) were done, though, wouldn't that just mean that if 2 moves are made, 2 moves must be done to undo it, without adding potential for more vandalism, and without causing a web of pages to need to be checked every move? [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 21:10, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:'''A partial solution''': How about having bots that make such edits tag them as "okay to page move over."  If ALL of the edits of a page except the first one are 1) made by bots (we can change this later if needed) AND 2) have the "okay to page move over" flag, THEN any mere mortal can move-over-redirect.  This should cover at least half of the "simple cases" of page moves blocked by multiple minor edits.  Yes, this would require editing the Wikimedia software but at least it's well-defined and there's no room for guesswork or abuse-by-vandal. [[User:davidwr|davidwr]]/<small><small>([[User_talk:davidwr|talk]])/([[Special:Contributions/Davidwr|contribs]])</small></small> 03:09, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
* Also needing to be taken into consideration is just because a page is a redirect, does not mean there isn't other content on the page.  See [[:Category:Redirect templates]] and I remember there being a Bugzilla ticket requesting that redirects get processed to allow those templates to display (not just add categories) and to allow parserFunctions to dictate where the redirect goes, but I can't seem to find it right now. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 16:01, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
::Question: as the suggester I was out of my depth and stated above that I would drop the matter, but in light of the inspiring discussion above, I wonder if the request of me to file a feature request at [[WP:Bugzilla|bugzilla]] is still open. Has that effectively been handled already, or should I do that? [[User:Sminthopsis84|Sminthopsis84]] ([[User talk:Sminthopsis84|talk]]) 16:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
::: You may most certainly still do that.  At very worst it will be closed as WONTFIX and will note that it has been requested before.  Just make sure to link to this discussion in your request so the developer that reviews it has the full context. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:56, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
::::It's [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60383 bug 60383]. [[User:Sminthopsis84|Sminthopsis84]] ([[User talk:Sminthopsis84|talk]]) 23:14, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{reply to|Technical 13}}The same issues you raise apply (at least in theory) to redirects which only have one edit.  [[User:davidwr|davidwr]]/<small><small>([[User_talk:davidwr|talk]])/([[Special:Contributions/Davidwr|contribs]])</small></small> 19:40, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
::: Yes, but the likely-hood of there being an issue caused by this increases with every edit.  Where should the threshold be?  [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:56, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: The difference is that normal editors can move-over-redirect if there is only 1 edit.  If the presence of "other content" should prevent move-over-redirect, then we should disable move-over-redirect for most editors or at least have a way of "fully undoing" the move and restoring the full previous content.  If the presence of this content in a redirect is not an issue for a redirect with only 1 edit, then I'm not seeing how it would be an issue if there was more than one edit (assuming of course that this is the ONLY issue with the various edits).  [[User:davidwr|davidwr]]/<small><small>([[User_talk:davidwr|talk]])/([[Special:Contributions/Davidwr|contribs]])</small></small> 20:10, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
=== Convenience break in MoR discussion ===
* Perhaps a [[Bugzilla:]] issue should be created that disallows ''normal'' editors from moving any redirect that has "other content"?  I would support that if there is consensus. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 20:16, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
:* Certain common, safe-to-lose-the-content cases would need to be exempt, such as "move over my own edit that happens to be the only edit in a redirect" (this would be a special case of db-user) and "move over other content that is typically created as part of the move process" such as {{tl|R from move}} or which are typically created for manually-created redirects but which would never need to be preserved, such as the "R from" and "R to" templates listed in Template:R template index, as well as other templates that do not need preserving, like {{tl|This is a redirect}}. [[User:davidwr|davidwr]]/<small><small>([[User_talk:davidwr|talk]])/([[Special:Contributions/Davidwr|contribs]])</small></small> 20:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

== Echo ==
{{tracked|56828}}
{{See also|mw:Thread:Talk:Echo (Notifications)/Why can't we thank IPs?}}
[[File:Notifications-Flyout-Screenshot-08-10-2013-Cropped.png|thumb|The feature in question.]] The [[:mw:Echo (Notifications)|Echo]] feature appears to be limited to logged in users only. Do we want to disable it until it does, per [[Wikipedia:IPs are human too]]? --[[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] 14:47, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:Sorry, what has Echo got to do with archive bots? AFAIK if a bot archives a user talk page, you don't get a notification. Is your problem that you ''do'' want a notification when your talk page gets archived? --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 14:54, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::I didn't type a heading name. I did, now. [[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] 21:13, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
: Some things, like Echo, Watchlists and Preferences, are inherently associated with registered accounts. I don't see anyone advocating we turn off the other two, I don't see why would we turn off this one :) [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 11:16, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

== WikiData gone awry? ==

What has happened to the WikiData links to equivalent articles in other languages. They seem to have disappeared and it's impossible to add them. [[User:Voceditenore|Voceditenore]] ([[User talk:Voceditenore|talk]]) 19:19, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:They're there, but are in a rather silly font which takes time to download. You can force the font to be the same as the rest of the page - and thus speed things up - by putting <syntaxhighlight lang=css>#p-lang li.interlanguage-link, .autonym { font-family: inherit; }</syntaxhighlight> into [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:50, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thanks! I managed to get them to appear without adding the code, by waiting a bit after I clicked Languages. Best, [[User:Voceditenore|Voceditenore]] ([[User talk:Voceditenore|talk]]) 19:04, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

== Pool queue is full ==

FYI FWIW Trying to perform a search on en.wiki I was just greeted with "An error has occurred while searching: Pool queue is full". Subsequent searches did work... [[User:Palosirkka|Palosirkka]] ([[User talk:Palosirkka|talk]]) 10:34, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
: Yeah, this happens sometimes. WMF's top people ([[User:Chad (WMF)|^demon]] and [[User:NEverett (WMF)|manybubbles]]) are working on a replacement. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 11:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:: I'm glad someone thinks I'm a top person. [[User:NEverett (WMF)|NEverett (WMF)]] ([[User talk:NEverett (WMF)|talk]]) 15:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
::: Hehe, thanks for the info and for working on Wikimedia! [[User:Palosirkka|Palosirkka]] ([[User talk:Palosirkka|talk]]) 15:37, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

== Universal language selector ==

{{tracked|46306}}

Hi everyone,

Universal Language Selector was disabled on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis a little while ago due to a  performance problem. It is an opt-in feature for logged-in users.  This may not be a big issue for most users here at the English Wikipedia, but this means:

* several wikis with less than optimal system level font support
* OpenDyslexic font is not available
* web-based [[input method editor]]s are not available (affects all users)
* <s>the translate extension is broken for wikis that use it for page translation</s> (fixed)
* <s>Wikidata affected by the non-availability of ULS's js APIs</s> (ULS enabled by default on Wikidata)

I don't know how quickly this will be resolved, but the hope is "soon".  If you know people or projects that will be affected by this, please share the news.  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 18:03, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:You can re-enable ULS by selecting it in the language section of your [[Special:Preferences]]. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 18:04, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

==Feedback request: VisualEditor special character inserter==
The developers are working towards offering [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor]] to all users at [[:mw:VisualEditor/Rollouts|about 50 Wikipedias]] that have complex language requirements.  Many editors at these Wikipedias depend on being able to insert special characters to be able to write articles.  

A special character inserter tool is available in VisualEditor now.  They would like to know what you think about this tool, especially if you speak languages other than English.  To try the {{int:visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title}} tool:
* If you haven’t already opted-in, then opt-in to VisualEditor by going to [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures]] and choosing “{{int:visualeditor}}”.  Save your preferences.
* Edit any article or your user page in VisualEditor. See the [[:mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide]] for information on how to use VisualEditor. 

{| style="margin: 0 auto;"
| [[File:VisualEditor insert menu 01 January 2014.png|thumb|upright|alt=Screenshot of TranslateWiki interface|The “insert” pulldown on the task bar of VisualEditor will lead you to the ‘{{int:visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title}}’ tool.]]
| [[File:VisualEditor - Toolbar - SpecialCharacters.png|thumb|upright|alt=Screenshot of Special Characters tool|This is the {{int:visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title}} inserter.  Your feedback on this tool is particularly important.]]
|}

To let the developers know what you think, please leave them a message with your comments and the language(s) that you tested at [[:mw:VisualEditor/Feedback#Feedback_for_the_character_inserter_38371|the feedback thread on Mediawiki.org]] or here at the English Wikipedia at [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback]].  It is really important that the developers hear from as many editors as possible.  Thank you, [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 20:18, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

== Playing our audio and video on iOS and Android devices ==

Following [[:Commons:Commons:Village pump#FLAC on Apple devices|discussion on  Commons:Village pump]], about the difficulty of playing Wikimedia audio and video on mobile devices, we've added red links to [[:Commons:Commons:Media help|Commons:Media help]], for iOS and Android. I'm sure some of the readers of this page have the requisite knowledge, to populate those pages; so please do!

The issue arose during [[Commons:Commons:BBC voice project||a project I've been running with the BBC]], in which they've released clips of broadcast material under open licence, for the first time.

Assisting mobile users, on any of our projects, to play our media more easily will lend weight to future requests to other archive holders, to release audio-visual resources under open licences. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:38, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

== Error creating data template ==

I've created [[Template:Data Philippines]]. I started off with content copied from [[Template:Data United States]], with parameter values adjusted for the Philippines. However, in the ''Derived data'' data section, I get an error saying {{error|Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "["}}. I've apparently done something dumb, but I don't see what it might be. I'd appreciate some help. Thanks. [[User:Wtmitchell|Wtmitchell]]  [[User talk:Wtmitchell|(talk)]] <small>(earlier ''Boracay Bill'')</small> 02:17, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

:The error message disappeared when I [[WP:PURGE|purged]] the page. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:27, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

::Great. I guess I didn't do something dumb after all -- just didn't do enough things correctly. I'll spiff up a few things on the template and move forward. Thanks for the help. [[User:Wtmitchell|Wtmitchell]]  [[User talk:Wtmitchell|(talk)]] <small>(earlier ''Boracay Bill'')</small> 11:53, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

==Speedy template==
Ican;t figure this out , but CAT:CSD is including many articles that have never been nominated for deletion. This isn;t a question of whether they should be listed, but that they simply have not been, as shown in the article history. eg. [[:Collinsville Power Station]] , [[:Climate change policy of the United States]] ,  [[: Ralph Keeling ]], [[:Citroën C3 Aircross]] Many of them seem on environmental subjects, so I wonder if someone is tinkering with them in some fashion. I do not see any relevant hidden categories. '''[[User:DGG| DGG]]''' ([[User talk:DGG| talk ]]) 04:44, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

:It originates from a {{tl|db-move}} transcluded from [[Template:CO2]]. The version with db-move has since been deleted but it can take a long time before affected categories and pages are updated. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 05:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
== AFD page ==

I'm running into a technical issue with a [[WP:AFD]] discussion, which I thought I should bring to somebody's attention.

I first created [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rock for Dimes]] on January 15, and correctly transcluded it to the correct day's AFD log; however, a couple of days later a bot incorrectly detected it as ''not'' transcluded anywhere, and thus added it to the AFD log for January 18. I've since removed it from the later day, as there's no need to have the same discussion transcluded into two separate active AFD daylogs at the same time. However, I can see a possible reason for the bot error nonetheless, as even with the page correctly transcluded on January 15, that daylog seems to be ''dropping'' from the discussion page's "what links here" list at random and unpredictable intervals — which, I suppose, might cause an automated tool to incorrectly assess the page as not being transcluded anywhere even though it actually is. 

Can somebody check into whether there's a database issue that's causing that page's transclusion status to fluctuate? Thanks. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 22:12, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
:Interesting. I created an AfD last night (my time) and transcluded it to the log that came up when I clicked the proper link on the [[WP:AFD]] page instructions. Turns out that the log that came up when I clicked that link was for the previous UTC calendar day, so a bot detected it had not properly been transcluded.  [[User:Risker|Risker]] ([[User talk:Risker|talk]]) 22:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

:Bearcat: You created [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rock for Dimes]] on January '''16''' UTC time, but added it to the AfD log for January 15. Risker: I guess you used the link "Today's AfD log" at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion]]. That link may point to an earlier day if the page needs to be [[WP:PURGE|purged]]. The page has a purge link on "Click here to refresh this page". I don't know whether Cyberbot I is so picky that it treats the previous day as no valid transclusion ([[User:cyberpower678]] could probably say). Or maybe it thought there was no transclucion at all. If a template or transcluded page somewhere got messed up then it might actually have prevented the transclusion from working on the AfD log when Cyberbot I checked it. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 23:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
::I think the bot should have enough tolerence to allow discussions from the first hour of any given day to be transcluded on the previous day log. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 08:44, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

::Just for the record, I transcluded the debate into the daylog that I was taken to by clicking on the "list" link in step 3 of the template — so essentially what happened, thus, is exactly the same as what happened to Risker. And if it took me to the wrong date, that's still a ''technical'' error on the ''server'' end rather than ''my'' error. Either way, the bot has now retranscluded my page a second time, this time into the daylog for January 22 — which is ''still'' something that shouldn't be happening at all, as the page ''still'' has no need of being transcluded into two active daylogs at the same time. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 03:16, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Anyway, this is a combination of known server cache issues, and a bot which is the responsibility of {{ul|cyberpower678}} - so there is no need to  continue the discussion here. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 06:43, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
*I can't find any error with the bot.  My best guess for this one is a caching issue and Cyberbot is not seeing the transclusion.—[[User:C678|<span style="color:green;font-family:Neuropol">cyberpower</span>]] [[User talk:C678|<sup style="color:black;font-family:arnprior">Chat</sup>]]<sub style="margin-left:-4.4ex;color:black;font-family:arnprior">Absent</sub> 19:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

== Login Problems on Chrome ==

Hello. I can't login to Wikipedia on Chrome (version 32.0.1700.76 m). I type my username and password, click Login, and get redirected back to the login page. Any help is greatly appreciated. --[[User:Mayfare|Mayfare]] ([[User talk:Mayfare|talk]]) 01:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:Double check that your browser is keeping the cookies. This is a likely source of this problem for any browser - especially if you're having login problem on other web sites. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 08:38, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
::So there is not even a message displayed? It just silently shows the same login page again? --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 13:01, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:As of my reboot last weekend, I've had the same problem. Yes, AKlapper, it just returns me to the logon screen, with my user name preloaded. When I try to edit a page, I'm dumped back into the editor with none of my edits visible, in fact I'm now editing the entire page instead of just the one section where I started. (This started happening whilst I was still logged in, but it does the same when I'm not, IP visible.) [[User:Westley Turner|WesT]] ([[User talk:Westley Turner|talk]]) 02:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

== BBCode → Wiki markup ==

Hello. Are there free converters in working condition? Thanks.--[[User:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль]] ([[User talk:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|talk]]) 13:40, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:Have you looked at / tried http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki/ and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BBCode ? No idea if they work but they look like the closest you can find. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 13:50, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:: Yes, I saw these references, but I am afraid that very small my technical knowledge are in an order to understand and understand, that to do farther with the begun to swing files of formats .tgz and tar.gz . :-(
:: Am sorry I, and are there in good condition online-converters? All those converters, that I found in the Internet, did not execute the work. Only: http://www.rpgdl.com/wiki/BBwiki.php, but this converter assumes very much inaccuracies in the process of converting. Thank you.--[[User:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль]] ([[User talk:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|talk]]) 14:41, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:::The extension will only work if it is installed here, which it is not. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 14:46, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: In Russian Wikipedia, where I conduct the most of the time, also costs no extensions. Also I have a test wiki. I made a request to connect any of the extensions and got the [http://bugzilla.shoutwiki.com/show_bug.cgi?id=255#c1 following reply].
:::: By testing the online converters , I found the only option with the correct conversion web links.  [http://www.bbcode-to-html.com/ BBCode → HTML], [http://marksy.arc90.com/ HTML → Wikitext], — defects are present, but from present variants in my opinion the best, that is present. I will leave references here, because maybe other users will have the same problem. Thanks.--[[User:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль]] ([[User talk:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|talk]]) 19:05, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:::: I've considered creating a userscript or gadget or special page that will allow a user to convert from various types of coding to wikitext, I just haven't gotten around to it.  I envision a textbox of some type that will allow formatted text to be pasted in, a dropdown list being offered for the user to select what formating their source has and a button to convert to wikitext.  The page would then reload (or open a new tab or a new section on the page) with a chunk of code the user can copy and paste into a wiki page with proper formatting.  I'll move this project up a few notches on my todo list, but it still might take me a while to iron out all of the details of how it should function.  In the mean time, my answer to the OP is this, You can always start a new section on your talk page, start it with {{Tl|Help me}}, then paste your [[BBCode]] in a {{Tag|syntaxhighlight|content=Put your [b]BBCode[/b] here}} and ask if someone can convert it to wikitext for you. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 15:07, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
::::: Many thanks, I will do so, if I will appear in a difficult situation.--[[User:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль]] ([[User talk:Парис &#34;Анима&#34; надаль|talk]]) 18:43, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

== API query for redirects to a page ==

Is there a way to get a JSONp result from an API for all the pages that redirect to an article?  I'm at a hackathon, so a speedy answer would be awesome! [[User:Ocaasi|Ocaasi]]<sup> [[User talk:Ocaasi|t ]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Ocaasi| c]]</sup> 19:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
* See [[mw:API:Allpages#parameters]] apfilterredir + redirects -- Good luck! [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:33, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
: <code><nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&format=jsonp&apfrom=Criteria_for_speedy_deletion&apcontinue=Criteria_for_speedy_deletion&apnamespace=4&apfilterredir=redirects&aplimit=10</nowiki></code> for example perhaps? [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
: If that doesn't work exactly how you want, you could probably do something like <code><nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&format=json&callback=result&apfrom=Criteria_for_speedy_deletion&apcontinue=Criteria_for_speedy_deletion&apnamespace=4&apfilterredir=redirects&aplimit=10</nowiki></code> [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:41, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

==CSS==
It′s possible to create a template what use my own CSS rule undeclared in MediaWiki.css? (template [with this CSS style] should be visible for all the same, '''not only for me''') --[[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 21:40, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:Yes, we have [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 22:12, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
* We also have [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]], [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]], [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]], and [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]] as skin specific all user stylesheets.  I believe it is also possible to create special usergroup or namespace or projectspace css to be automatically applied to the proper groups or pages.  However, all of these pages and options are restricted to be created and/or edited by an administrator.  You will need and exact use case of what you want accomplished, sample code that can be tested in a sandbox and appropriate testcases, and a community consensus to implement said code in order to get any of these enacted. 22:29, 24 January 2014 (UTC) <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Technical 13|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
I think the question is about attaching a CSS file to a template, such that the CSS has effect in all pages that transclude the template. This cannot be done, though it is possible to use <code>style=</code> to include in-line CSS in a template. E.g. {{code|lang=html5|<nowiki><span style="color: red">Example</span></nowiki>}} → <span style="color: red">Example</span>. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 00:05, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
:If that ''were'' possible, it would help at [[Help talk:Table#Help with Wikitables]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 00:15, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thank you. I have to define some classes. And how i see is not possibly, so i leave this idea. [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 03:07, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
:::This is something that will be worked on in the not so far future, since the developers want to get rid of the usage of inline styles for templates, which have a big set of problems that is preventing us from enabling truly responsive (adapt to many screen sizes) lay outing of the content. It's one of the bigger new developments that will happen over the next year. It is good to see that users have identified similar missing functionality. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 10:29, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
:FYI:
:* [[mw:Requests for comment/Allow styling in templates]]
:* [[mw:Requests for comment/Scoping site CSS]]
:* [[bugzilla:35704]] - Deprecate inline styles (tracking)
:* [[mw:Requests for comment/Deprecating inline styles]]
:[[User talk:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 12:45, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

== Watchlist history ==

I had about 8000 pages in my watchlist. On day i decided to delete them all from [[Special:EditWatchlist/raw]]. )) Is there any way to recover my watchlist? [[User:XXN|XXN]] ([[User talk:XXN|talk]]) 22:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:No, I'm pretty sure there isn't - unless you can convince the people in charge of keeping database backups that they need to go to the backup tapes. I suspect that they would only do this if it was a legal matter. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:14, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
* You mean you don't remember what pages were on your watchlist so you can just re-add them all manually (I [[:wikt:jest|jest]]).  Let me make this easy for you.  No, it can not be done automatically for you. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 22:31, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

== Mobile interface contains bad English ==
{{tracked|60426}}
Wikipedia's mobile interface urges users to "login". But "login" is a noun and so it makes no sense to use it as a verb. The interface should instead urge users to "log in", using the phrasal verb. As far as I know, Wikipedia uses the correct wording everywhere else. Here are some examples from the mobile interface. In each case "login" should be "log in".

*"Please login to add an image to this page."
*"Wikipedia is made by people like you. Login to contribute."
*"Help improve this page! Login. Sign up."

[[User:Geoff Moreton|Geoff Moreton]] ([[User talk:Geoff Moreton|talk]]) 22:40, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:I've found [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-donate-image-login-action]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-donate-image-login-action}}); [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-edit-login-action]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-edit-login-action}}); [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-generic-login-action]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-generic-login-action}}); [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-photo-upload-anon]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-photo-upload-anon}}); [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-user-cta]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-user-cta}}); [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-watchlist-cta-button-login]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-watchlist-cta-button-login}}); [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-watchlist-login-action]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-watchlist-login-action}}). There may be others. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:20, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
::I've also found [[MediaWiki:mobile-frontend-main-menu-login]] ({{int:mobile-frontend-main-menu-login}}). --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:44, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
* [[:wikt:login]] is defined as {{Xt|The process of logging in}} on Wiktionary.  Query "define login" on Google [https://www.google.com/search?q=define+login&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a returns] a box that says: {{Xt|log·in (ˈlôgˌin,ˈläg-/) noun: 1. an act of logging in to a computer, database, or system.}} (condensed into a single line format for simplicity). [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/login dictionary.com] defines it as {{Xt|log·in [n. lawg-in, log-; v. lawg-in, log-] (noun Also, log-in, logon.) 1. the act of logging in to a database, mobile device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked computer system.}} [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/login thefreedictionary.com] defines it as {{Xt|log·in  (lôg′ĭn′, lŏg′-) also log·on (-ŏn′, -ôn′) n. The process of identifying oneself to a computer, usually by entering one's username and password.}}.  I could go on as there are many more sources (reliability of some may be questionable, but the sheer number of them, some by major publishing companies) seems to indicate that the single word login is the act of logging in to the system which is the correct usage in all of these cases. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 23:28, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
**Three out of your four list it as a noun. Not a verb. [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 23:31, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
*** Yes, they do, and I believe that is what these system messages call for.  The are saying that you need to preform the act of logging in to (share your media|edit|contribute|add and image to this page|see your notifications|see)...  They are not using it as a verb. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 23:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
**: Let me clarify, in order for these messages to be using the word as a verb, they would need to be preceded by a noun.  They would need to be in the form you "You need to log in to contribute.", however, they are worded as "Login to contribute." [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 23:40, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
**:: Even so, that seems like it should be a verb. [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 23:42, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
**::: I mentioned this on the edit request as well. What about "you have to hurry to catch your flight"? [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 23:48, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
**:::(ec) Technical13, I'm not sure where you got the idea that a verb requires a noun to precede it, but that is incorrect. When it says, "Login to [whatever]", there is an understood "you" before the verb usage of "login". <span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy">[[User:LadyofShalott|<span style="color: #442288">Lady</span>]]<span style="color: #22aaaa">of</span>[[User_Talk:LadyofShalott|<span style="color: #cc2288">Shalott</span>]]</span> 23:51, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
**:::This is called the [[imperative mood]] and in English it frequently drops the subject pronoun "you". [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 23:55, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
*:English has noun forms for many verbs, and the words are often similar to each other. E.g. the verb ''register'' has a corresponding noun, ''registration''. Imperative statements should start with a verb phrase (a verb optionally preceded by adverbs); they don't make sense if one uses a noun instead. For example, we can use the imperative "please ''register'' an account" (using a verb), but "please ''registration'' an account" is nonsense (no verb). Likewise, "''login'' to contribute" is nonsense because ''login'' is a noun. It should be "''log in'' to contribute", where ''log in'' acts as a verb. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 00:17, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
::::* {{Ec}} A quick Google search of "noun verb sentence structure" returns ''About 1,700,000 results (0.20 seconds)''. Selecting the first one in the list, [http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/basic_sentence.html http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/basic_sentence.html], says {{Xt|There are five basic patterns around which most English sentences are built. They are as follows:}} and goes on to list, '''Subject-Verb''', '''Subject-Verb-Object ''', '''Subject-Verb-Adjective''', '''Subject-Verb-Adverb''', and '''Subject-Verb-Noun'''. This is a widely accepted norm for English which says that all sentences start with '''Subject-Verb''' (and of course a subject is a noun). The issue that we face with many of these messages, is that many of them are not actual full sentences, but instead are used as part of sentences and injected into other messages. Also, everyone should also consider that the devs have already seen the counter discussion to change it to login in [[Bugzilla:6138]] and changed it to "login" as a result of that ticket. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 00:20, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::Yes, "log in" is a verb phrase, which is what is called for. It is comparable to "check in", "log off / log out". The subject-verb structure is fine, because imperative sentences have an implied "you" as the subject. Otherwise "Jump!" would not be a complete sentence. 

:::::The reference to bugzilla confuses me. It appears that the request was to fix "login" by changing it to "log in", and that was done. That is what is requested here. Also note the bottom of the bugzilla page if you are not logged in: "You need to '''log in''' before you can comment on or make changes to this bug." (emphasis added) – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 00:28, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
* The ticket says please change {{!xt|1=< 'loginreqlink' => 'log in',}} to {{Xt|1=> 'loginreqlink' => 'login',}}.  So, it is asking for the code to be changed to "login" from "log in". [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 00:38, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
*:I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. The title of the Bugzilla request is 'Should be "log in" for the verb, not "login"'. Maybe I am misreading {{U|Technical 13}} and we are both saying the same thing? 
*:Who can make the requested changes to the locations listed above? It's a simple grammar fix. If you can, please do. To be clear, the request is to change "login" to "log in" in all of the above Mediawiki:mobile* locations listed above. 
*:As an added bonus, if you can fix it in all of the rest of the places on the web where it is wrong, along with similar variations like "Checkin here" and "Click logout", I'll send you a giant barnstar IRL. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 03:08, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
*:[[User:Technical 13|T13]], the bug reporter used a reversed diff. I can tell this because he quotes the [[diff]] command he used: <code>diff wiki/languages/Messages.php wiki/languages/Messages.php.orig</code>. For a normal diff, the original file should be the first parameter. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 16:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
*There are a lot of words here, and some sentences as well. The imperative version of "to log in" is "log in". No hyphen, not spelled as one word. Such prepositional verbs are typically spelled as their two separate constituent verbs, and that's just all there is to it. [[User:Drmies|Drmies]] ([[User talk:Drmies|talk]]) 02:09, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
* Since we can't know what other system messages transclude the phrase, we can't know if it is always used as a verb or a noun.  This is something that the developers should fix in core and possibly the Bugzilla ticket should be reopened.  {{U|AKlapper (WMF)}}, since your the big Bugzilla ticket sorter guy, what do you think? [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 03:13, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
*:We can know, because [//git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend.git the code] is public. It even contains [//git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend.git/5bcbcc45acdc7565145393ef0d9b3bb10269529b/MobileFrontend.i18n.php#L418 documentation] for every message (the documentation also uses ''login'' where it should say ''log in''). Most of the messages are complete sentences with a terminating full stop. One is used as the text on a button (normally a verb), and one is the text on a menu. Using messages in multiple different ways is strongly discouraged as it makes them hard to translate to other languages (i.e. such uses would be bugs).
*:I agree the developers need to fix this, though. The incorrect messages originate from the MobileFrontend extension (not core), so that is where the fix should be made. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 16:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
* So we're settled? Is there anything else I need to do? I don't need to file a bug or anything, do I? [[User:Geoff Moreton|Geoff Moreton]] ([[User talk:Geoff Moreton|talk]]) 12:46, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
::No bug needs to be filed, since we can do all the necessary customisation for English Mobile Wikipedia by creating or editing MediaWiki: pages, such as the ones that I linked earlier. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
* The existing ticket should be re-opened, a new one does not need to be made.  These changes should be done in core because apparently there were some  changes before and they were wiped out by a restore or an upgrade, so locally customizing is a great stopgap, but may not be permanent. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 14:00, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
*:What existing ticket? [[bugzilla:6138|Bug 6138]] that you mentioned earlier is about a different message that is still correct ([[MediaWiki:loginreqlink]] → ''{{MediaWiki:loginreqlink/default}}''). Furthermore, that bug is about MediaWiki core, whereas the problematic messages are in [[mw:Extension:MobileFrontend|Extension:MobileFrontend]]. Unless someone knows of some other bug, a new bug should be opened. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 16:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Entered as [[bugzilla:60426|Bug 60426]]. Thanks for the discussion, everyone. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 16:54, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

== Template error ==

I keep on getting weird errors at {{tl|Service award progress}}. Does anyone know why exactly the expr magic word keeps failing, or if the error is related to something completely different? Thanks! [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 02:05, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

:Your switch syntax is wrong. It should be #switch:. See [[:mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23switch]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:27, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

::Thank you! [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 14:22, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

== [[Wikipedia:Wikipediholism test]] automated version account expired ==

I went to update my Wikipediholic score on https://toolserver.org/~merphant/cgi-bin/wikiholic.cgi and was dismayed to get a 403 error as the account has expired.  Can any of our wmflabs people possibly get this script running again on labs?  Thanks! [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 00:30, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

== To those of you who can parse JS and jQuery... ==

...[[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation#Script_using_jQuery.2C_.2Ftext_subpage|this script]] is looking for more contributors and pairs of eyes. Thanks, --[[User:Gryllida|Gryllida]] ([[User talk:Gryllida|talk]]) 11:53, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

== Unable to resize [[:File:Extreme XM logo.png]] ==

<s>I am unable to resize [[:File:Extreme XM logo.png]], an image file from the Commons.  If I attempt to post the file without any size specified, it appears just as it should (see below); if I try to adjust the size, the image will not display.  I first encountered this problem while attempting to place this file in the {{tl|Multiple image}} template.</s>  <span style="background:#000000;border:2px solid #000000">[[User:Levdr1lostpassword|<span style="color:#FFFFFF;">Levdr1</span><span style="color:#FF0000;">'''lp'''</span>]]</span> / <small>[[User talk:Levdr1lostpassword|<span style="color:#000000;">'''talk'''</span>]]</small> 01:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

::Never mind.  The previous version had errors -- I have uploaded an error-free version which seems to be working just fine.  <span style="background:#000000;border:2px solid #000000">[[User:Levdr1lostpassword|<span style="color:#FFFFFF;">Levdr1</span><span style="color:#FF0000;">'''lp'''</span>]]</span> / <small>[[User talk:Levdr1lostpassword|<span style="color:#000000;">'''talk'''</span>]]</small> 02:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
== Can we please get rid of those shouty comments in template documentation? ==

You know the ones I mean... "PLEASE ADD CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE" and "CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS HERE, THANKS". I don't know where or when they originated, presumably in the first ever template documentation template. But we've now been successfully using the system for years, and everybody knows how it works. For the times that someone doesn't, another person will fix the transclusion of a category momentarily; and it causes no actual harm until they do. Perpetuating this copy-and-paste mess also creates its own maintenance overhead, as I've now seen someone who's decided that they need to {{diff|diff=590803752|label=grind through them adding a mention of Wikidata}}. That's a colossal waste of time.

So can we please, please agree that it's time to get rid of these patronizing and shouty comments? And when we have, get a bot to remove them? I, for one, am sick to death of seeing them, and will continue my practice of nuking them on sight if they occur in a documentation template that I'm working on. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 12:26, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:Technical: The comments are added by [[Template:Documentation/preload]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 14:37, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:: Thank you. I was almost right, then; they originated in the first version of [[Wikipedia:Template documentation]] in 2006. See also my reply below. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 16:02, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:I'm assuming they are still there for all of the editors that are new to templates and documentation that might not know.  The reason for them to be all caps like that is that they are HTML comments, and as such, need to stand out to be noticed in a seas of text or walls of code.  I suppose there could be a note added to the editnotice for all template pages, but that might be more work than it is worth and easier to just have the SHOUTY comments in the source (where they are more likely to be seen than editnotices anyways). [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 14:55, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
::Following the link provided above by Gadget850, it seems that the shouty comments only occur in templates older than February 2011, when the preload template was {{diff|diff=prev|oldid=413228483|label=deshoutified}} by {{u|DePiep}}. I'm less concerned now that I know the shouty ones aren't being added any more. {{ping|Gadget850}} I'm going to ask people at [[Template talk:Documentation]] if they think the comments are really still relevant. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 16:02, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Yes. Later on, the interwiki link message has changed too, for wikidata. Maybe a botter would like to clean these. -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 17:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
::::Removing the comments would have the disadvantage that all of the templates' transclusions would have to be updated. If it's done by bot, then that would become a very large number of pages, probably in the millions. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 04:44, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::::: Most of them are /doc subtemplates, with few transclusions each (not millions). -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 00:36, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::: I've usually seen them as a set, with "CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS GO ON THE /doc SUBPAGE" placed on the template page, and "CATEGORIES AND INTERWIKIS GO HERE" placed on the /doc subpage. I've no problem with fixing ones on /doc subpages, by bot or by hand. The ones on template pages should probably wait until there is a separate reason to edit the template, so that there is an actual content edit as well as the beautification fix. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 10:41, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{outdent|:::::}}
:''"everybody knows how it works:''
...except for the hundred-thousand-plus editors who are active now but have never touched a template, and the tens of thousands who have occasionally edited templates, but not often enough to remember how it works.  The "everybody" who already knows how this works is actually a quite small percentage of users.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 00:16, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:Yes, and they're the ones who'll fix it when the inexperienced ones get it wrong. Them, or bots. We have innumerable bots crawling around the site making similar grades of fix on a vastly larger scale; this should be one of the things that they look out for. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 21:57, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
::Why waste the time of more experienced editors? Why make it easier to make mistakes? The comments do no harm. They help inexperienced editors learn what to do, and hopefully reduce the time the rest of us spend fixing mistakes. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:04, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Like I said, bots could catch these errors in real time. Editor involvement would be minimal. To answer your question, the comments are already doing some harm in the form of accumulating [[technical debt]] - notice the effort that will be required to update them. Better to do away with them entirely, have real documentation in a single location, and have systems in place to catch whatever minor errors occur subsequently. This is poor factoring that will only get more messy over time. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 13:46, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
::::In fact, this could and should be one of the tasks performed by [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia]]'s army of bots. — [[User:Scott Martin|'''<span style="color:#000">Scott</span>''']] <span style="color:#900">•</span> [[User talk:Scott Martin|''<span style="color:#000">talk</span>'']] 13:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
: '''Updated SHOUTy text with new /preload text:''' The new format should be copied to replace any old, ALL-CAPS comments in /doc pages, as from the current [[Template:Documentation/preload]], especially to control /sandbox use:
::::{| class=wikitable style="border:1px solid #999"
| <nowiki><includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{SUBPAGENAME}}|sandbox||</nowiki><br><nowiki><!-- Categories go here, and interwikis go in Wikidata --></nowiki><br>

<nowiki>}}</includeonly></nowiki>
|}
: It's not just HTML cmts but also the #ifeq for sandbox use. The plan is for any new /sandbox to omit the category links of the doc subpage. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 00:36, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
::I've been guilty of adding those many times. I mainly just copy and paste from [[Help:Template documentation]] ({{diff2|592833742|just changed it}}), which did have the shouty comment. I suspect a lot of other people did, too. [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 18:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Curious inclusion   ==

I recently selected "Printable version" from the "Print/export" drop-down menu for [[Stop the World (Aranda album)]]. The following text appeared at the bottom of the copied, (ctrl/a), text:<blockquote><nowiki>&lt;onlyinclude&gt;{{#ifeq:{{{name}}}|Stop the World (Aranda album)|~~~~}}&lt;/onlyinclude&gt;The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic [[User:AndyZ/peerreviewer|javascript program]], and might not be applicable for the article in question.</nowiki></blockquote>I am curious about the desirability of this text, as well as its origin? [[User:AndyZ|AndyZ]] may have insight as well.—[[User:John Cline|John Cline]] ([[User talk:John Cline|talk]]) 22:04, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:The origin is likely [[User:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js]], which is mentioned in [[User:John Cline/vector.js|your vector.js]]. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:11, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thank you; this is helpful insight.—[[User:John Cline|John Cline]] ([[User talk:John Cline|talk]]) 00:33, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

== Wdsearch.js edit request ==

Hi everyone. Could someone who knows JavaScript take a look at the protected edit request at [[MediaWiki talk:Wdsearch.js#vi]]? It's been open since 9 January and could do with being reviewed by someone who understands the code. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 23:38, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
:Now done by [[User:Salix alba|Salix alba]]. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius on tour|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius on tour</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius on tour|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 09:40, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

== Protecting a table within an unprotected article ==

At [[WT:MED|Wikiproject medicine]] we're discussing the risk of vandals moving a decimal point on dose information. Is it possible to protect or semi-protect a table or section within an otherwise unprotected article? Could that be done by transcluding a protected template into the article? --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  23:16, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
:At the moment, protecting just part of an article is not technically doable, but I'd imagine the transcluding option would work.&#32;~[[User:HueSatLum|Hue]][[User talk:HueSatLum#top|Sat]][[Special:Contributions/HueSatLum|Lum]] 23:27, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
:(ec) "No" and "yes" in that order, but my understanding is that the general rule is that templates shouldn't be used to transclude article content. See [[WP:Template namespace]]: "Templates should not do the work of article content in the main article namespace; instead, place the text directly into the article." [[User:Bencherlite|Bencherlite]][[User talk:Bencherlite|<i><sup>Talk</sup></i>]] 23:28, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
::However, see e.g. [[hydrogen]] and {{tlx|Infobox hydrogen}} - most (all?) of the chemical elements have the infobox separately, see {{cl|Periodic table infobox templates}}. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 00:03, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:* {{U|Bencherlite}}, I wouldn't consider an edit protected table (semi-protected would be fine according to the requestor) being transcluded as a template as "''doing the work of article content in the main article namespace''"  Since there is no way to protect part of a page (without extensions that we don't have, nor I expect will ever have on this wiki).  However, that being said, perhaps PC1 protection to the whole page would be more appropriate in this case, no? [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 00:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
::*Well, if the content is being transcluded from a template, then that template ''is'' doing the work of article content since to edit the content, one has to go to the template namespace. I hadn't seen {{tl|Infobox hydrogen}} before and I'm not sure that's a great example to follow too widely, although I see that [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_April_3#Template:Infobox_hydrogen|the deletion discussion for the element infoboxes templates]] was a resounding "keep" a couple of years ago. Protection (semi or PC1) would depend on the level/type of edits rather than being a first step. [[User:Bencherlite|Bencherlite]][[User talk:Bencherlite|<i><sup>Talk</sup></i>]] 00:19, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:::* Ahh, but if the template is protected, then it is the protection that makes it so that it is doing something the article can't. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 01:47, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:Transcluding article content is generally a bad idea per the above comments, but [[WP:IAR]] is policy.  I think I would only go that route if the page were protected to prevent such vandalism AND there was a followup discussion to replace the page protection with using transclusion.  There is one other issue:  If the page itself is not protected, any editor can just subst: in the transcluded page then edit it to his hearts content. If move-protection on the trancluded page isn't in place, he can move the transcluded page away and unless both the moved-to page and the leftover redirect are protected (they might be, I don't know how moving an edit-protected page that isn't move-protected works), he can do mischief at either the now-moved transcluded page or replace the leftover redirect with whatever he wants, likely avoiding page-watchers in the process.  [[User:davidwr|davidwr]]/<small><small>([[User_talk:davidwr|talk]])/([[Special:Contributions/Davidwr|contribs]])</small></small> 00:14, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
::You can't move an edit-protected page unless you can also edit it, and when such a move is made, both the old and new titles have the original protection level. [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 02:33, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:* This is true, and part of why I think it is a waste of time and better to just PC1 or semi-protect the whole page.  Why would on;y part of the page need protecting? [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 01:47, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:::{{tl|EICAR test file}} and {{tl|OpenDNS IP addresses}} were created to make protected article content, but I'm not sure it's a good idea for a whole table or section with dose information. We would probably want other parts of it to be editable, and we have a medical disclaimer. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:26, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
We'll address the advisability and policy aspects in another discussion once the technical feasibility is established. I've read all of the above and it seems to answer my question. (I'm a digital foreigner.) I'll re-read it once I've had some sleep. Thank you all! --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  01:26, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
::::also, note that not only "templates" (IOW, pages in the "template namespace) can be transcluded: it's possible to transclude articles (and, indeed, pages from any namespace except "special"). also, for about a year now, it's possible to transclude arbitrary parts from another page using the little advertised extension [[mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion]]. see [[Help:Labeled section transclusion]]. whether there's any policy in enwiki governing this kind of use i do not know. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 21:58, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:For context, Anthony is worried about the table in [[Equianalgesic]].  He has previously blanked it.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 20:30, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

== What's the essential difference between PC1 and PC2 ==

I can't see any meaningful difference between the two forms of pending changes protection in this [[Wikipedia:PC2012/RfC_1|2012 RFC description]]. Can someone tell me how they differ and (sorry the next is a bit off-topic for this thread, so brief would be good) why people would support 1 but not 2? --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]]) 06:39, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

: With PC level 1, edits by unregistered and new users must be approved by a reviewer, while confirmed users can edit freely. PC2 means that edits by both unregistered and confirmed users (except reviewers and admins) are subject to review. It was agreed that PC2 shouldn't be used on the English WP by several [[WP:PC#Timeline|past RfCs]], though I don't know what the main objections against it were. [[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]]) 10:22, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:: Thank you, [[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]]. --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  16:20, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:::The last RFC (over a year ago, not the current one) concluded that PC2 shouldn't be used for the first six months, until we figured out whether PC1 was going to be used so widely that the reviewers would be overwhelmed.  (It wasn't, so they weren't.)  PC2 has been used on a few articles during the time when it was [[WP:IAR|allegedly]] "prohibited" with some success and no obvious problems, but it's not likely to be appropriate for large numbers of articles.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 20:33, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

== Minor change to HTML diff representation ==

Something of a PSA here. In the past couple of days a minor change was made to the way diffs are represented in the browser interface with HTML (if anyone screen scrapes and processes that). Also, this is the same HTML that is returned by the Mediawiki API if you ask for a diff. The change caused the processing engine of my [[WP:STiki]] tool to go crazy, as I parse that HTML. Any ways, lines that used to look like:

<pre><td class="diff-deletedline"><div>* Ivan Shawbly, a <span class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fiction</span> 
character from the television series ''[[Mona the Vampire]]''</div></td></pre>

have become...

<pre><td class="diff-deletedline"><div>* Ivan Shawbly, a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fiction</del> 
character from the television series ''[[Mona the Vampire]]''</div></td></pre>

The "del" tag can also be an "add". This is happening on relatively few pages (maybe 1 in 100, or 1 in 1000). One example is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=592227949&diff=prev]. This shouldn't affect many, but hopefully my post can save a tool developer some time if they run into similar issues. [[User:West.andrew.g|West.andrew.g]] ([[User talk:West.andrew.g|talk]]) 22:04, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
:I think [[User:MaxSem|Max]] recently made some changes in the diff area... [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 22:07, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
::That wasn't me but the precending commit, [[gerrit:78156]]. Because only I have pressed for wikidiff2 to be updated after changing the code, that change went live with my [[gerrit:99541]] which doesn't alter side-by-side diffs even though it looks scary:) [[User:MaxSem|Max Semenik]] ([[User talk:MaxSem|talk]]) 00:12, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Navigation Popups and Mixed Content Blocking in Firefox  ==

Ever since Firefox upgraded to version 23, I have been unable to use [[WP:POPUPS]] unless I click on the Firefox Shield Icon in the address bar and select "Disable Protection on This Page".  Of course, this only works on the page selected, and only until that page is refreshed or otherwise displayed again.  Has anyone come up with a way to have the Firefox Mixed Content Blocking "Feature" not function either with all Wikipedia pages or specifically in conjunction with Popups?  I've already searched the Archives and if his was already discussed and solved, I seem to be unable to find it. --[[User:After Midnight|After Midnight]] <sup><small>[[User talk:After Midnight|0001]]</small></sup> 13:52, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{ping|After Midnight}} see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AAfter_Midnight%2Fmonobook.js&diff=592531143&oldid=489612838], I've fixed it for you. The old code you were loading had "http://" which forced a load over HTTP rather than HTTPS. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 21:04, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thank you so very much for fixing this for me.  It never occurred to me that this was an issue with my monobook.  --[[User:After Midnight|After Midnight]] <sup><small>[[User talk:After Midnight|0001]]</small></sup> 13:59, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

== MediaWiki:Common.js/IEFixes.js ==

There's an issue being reported with IEFixes.js and IE11.  IE Debugger is reporting an error at line 40 <syntaxhighlight lang=css>document.attachEvent( 'onreadystatechange', fixIEScroll );</syntaxhighlight> that Object doesn't support property or method 'attachEvent'. [[User:Nthep|Nthep]] ([[User talk:Nthep|talk]]) 14:50, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
:I wonder if this fix is still needed in IE8/9/10/11. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 14:57, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
::Apparently not. That fix was used for old IE versions in Monobook. Removed. <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#008"><i>E</i>dokter</span>]] ([[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#080">talk</span>]]) — </span> 15:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Consider notifying the mainteiners of [https://toolserver.org/~hoo/globalPageHistory.php?page_namespace=8&page_title=Common.js/IEFixes.js&rev_count=3&project%5B%5D=wikipedia forks of MediaWiki:Common.js/IEFixes.js]. [[User talk:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 19:03, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Sidebar shop link for all (but faster) ==

Due to end-user [[:File:Ori_Livneh,_Site_performance_update,_January_2014.webm|performance concerns]], [[bugzilla:57939]] has just been [[gerrit:98885|fixed]], meaning that the sidebar will always link to the WMF shop. The current system delays page load by inserting the link after the fact if the IP of the user appears to be in the appropriate location. This change affects only the English Wikipedia, the only project currently <s>slowed down by</s> featuring the WikimediaShopLink extension, and will start taking effect <s>on [[mw:MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap|6 February 2014]]</s> [[gerrit:109699|tomorrow]]. --[[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 20:58, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05|Tech News: 2014-05]] ==

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Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05|Translations]] are available.

'''Recent software changes'''

* Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. [[:File:Ori Livneh, Site performance update, January 2014.webm|See video]]. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/074140.html]
* The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=TimedMediaHandler file a bug] or tell [[mw:User talk:Bawolff|User:Bawolff]]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/55550]
* The <code>Special:ActiveUsers</code> page will be removed because it's too slow. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/107988]
* The latest version of MediaWiki ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/wmf11|1.23wmf11]]) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.23/Roadmap|calendar]]).

'''Problems'''
* On January 21, [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector|Universal Language Selector]] was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Language Selector/Announcement Jan2014|it makes pages load slowly]]. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal|in your preferences]]. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56433]
* For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with [[m:en:Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] and [[m:en:JavaScript|JavaScript]] due to high server load.

'''Future software changes'''
* You can [[mw:Talk:Winter|give comments]] about the new version of "[http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/ Winter]", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-January/001411.html]

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== VPT not showing up at VPA again ==

Once again, some code I can't find (not that I know anything) on this Village Pump is preventing it from showing up at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (all)]]. [[User:Ntsimp|Ntsimp]] ([[User talk:Ntsimp|talk]]) 16:06, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

:Fixed in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=592658658&oldid=592654140]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:02, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
:{{ec}} {{diff|Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)|prev|592658658|Fixed}}, that {{tag|onlyinclude}} was being processed despite being tucked inside {{tag|blockquote|content={{tag|nowiki}}}}. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 17:04, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

== Kindle "loc" vs. printed page numbers ==

Footnotes that provide Kindle digital page numbers (loc) are showing up in the articles. Is there a way to convert these into the page numbers included in the hard copy book, i.e., if you provide the ISBN? [[User:36hourblock|36hourblock]] ([[User talk:36hourblock|talk]]) 19:29, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
:Many Kindle books will give you the page number, provided you have the right device (some Kindles don't show page numbers at all). If the user is around to ask, you could ask them to check. I don't think it is possible to convert using a service or formula, though. [[User:FormerIP|Formerip]] ([[User talk:FormerIP|talk]]) 20:20, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
::There is no way to match loc and the page number in a hard copy version. And you should not try to do so, as those versions may differ in other ways. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 20:27, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

== Categories for multiple merge targets ==

At [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual]] there are a set of categories that have two merge targets. I am about to close another discussion with a similar outcome. Whilst the bots can do a simple Cat X -> Cat Y then delete Cat X type thing, they can't do a two targets thing, i.e Cat X -> Cat Y and also Cat Z. There doesn't seem to be any multi-step way obviously available either, i.e. I can't do a merge and delete to Y and then use Y to duplicate into Z, because Y will get deleted after it is 'merged'. Does anyone know of any automated way I could cause this to happen? Many thanks, [[User:Splash|Splash]] - [[User talk:Splash|tk]] 21:56, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
:[[WP:AWB|AutoWikiBrowser]] is a good semi-automated tool to do this sort of task - take a look at [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression]] to see how to do a whole group of categories atr the same time. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 06:31, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
::[[User:Splash|Splash]]: the cat-a-lot script can help here. it's a script from commons, which, for a long time, handled files only, but for more than a year now it can do non-file pages also. with "cat-a-lot", you open the category, click the cat-a-lot linkette, click "select all", set the target category, and click "copy". repeat for next one and next one and next one. except that in the last target, choose "move" instead of "copy". i haven't test it on enwiki for a long time, so you probably want to test it on a smaller scale to make sure it still works properly, and also get familiar with it. for anyone who deals with categories a lot, "cat-a-lot" is indispensable tool. see cat-a-lot in [[WP:US]]. 
::(limitation): note that cat-a-lot works through the category page itself, which is limited to 200 entries. if one needs to manipulate categories with thousands of members, this may not be a good choice. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 15:51, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
:::This sounds like it could have potential. I'll take a look once I've knocked back some more of the CfD backlog, thanks. AWB I know of but seem to have had trouble with in the past, but maybe that can be useful too. [[User:Splash|Splash]] - [[User talk:Splash|tk]] 19:57, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Who or what is Widr? ==
{{Resolved}}
Why is <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER:last}}</nowiki></code> always {{REVISIONUSER:last}}?  Is it just me, or is that a MW bug? [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 05:01, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
* Ahh-ha!  {{User|Widr}} is the last editor to edit [[Last]].  I see.  How would one go about getting the "previous" editor (not the current revision, but the one before) for the current page? [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 05:05, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
:*Hmm... I guess this officially means that I am around too much. :-) [[User:Widr|Widr]] ([[User talk:Widr|talk]]) 06:01, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
:*I don't think you can, apart from through the API. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 06:46, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
:Not a bug, working as documented; see [[mw:Help:Magic words#Technical metadata of another page]], last row of table. This is also implied at [[WP:VAR]], but the impression given there is that only the first bulleted list takes a pagename as a parameter, whereas in fact many (but not all) of the second list do as well. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 12:52, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
:* [[WP:VAR]] is outdated and needs to be redone to reflect the changes in the command.  [[mw:Help:Magic words#Technical metadata of another page]] does seem to be up-to-date.  I see that parts of the discussed changes on Bugzilla (particularly [[Bugzilla:6092#c12|comment 12]] suggesting that the revision id should be allowed to be used in place of pagename) were never implemented, and that is my bad.  I wonder if anyone else will expect to be able to use "curr", "prev", "last" as revision ids to use with this function and will be disappointed.  Anyways.  I'm glad my understand has been clarified. [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:37, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Parser functions failing ==

In {{tlx|Service award progress}}, I have two <code><nowiki>#expr</nowiki></code> statements that consistently do not return the arithmetical sum of their inputs. Does anyone know what's going wrong? Thanks! [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 19:09, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

: It would be useful if you could tell us what you are passing in to the template, and what you are expecting to get back out.  Also, let's discuss it on the [[Template talk:Service award progress|template's talk page]] where it should have been asked first.  :)  I look forward to seeing your response there. :) [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 19:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

::<small>I was referred here from the IRC help channel. [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 20:29, 28 January 2014 (UTC)</small>

:::It looks like there is mismatch between how {{tl|Service award progress/helper}} is called and what it does. If we say it's called correctly now (with a second unnamed parameter indicating a level) then I think it will do what you want by replacing <code><nowiki>{{Service award progress/level|edits|date={{{year|1970}}}-{{{month|1}}}-{{{day|1}}}|edits={{{edits|1}}}}}</nowiki></code> with <code><nowiki>{{{2}}}</nowiki></code>. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 23:59, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
::{{ping|Technical 13}} VPT is appropriate for this kind of request, as there may not be anyone watching the template talk page. — <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:1px 0 0 1px">[[User:This, that and the other|This, that]]</span> and <span style="border:dashed #666;border-width:0 1px 1px 0">[[User talk:This, that and the other|the other<small> (talk)</small>]]</span> 02:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
* Normally I would agree with you, which is why I said nothing the first time a few days ago when help was asked for on this template.  A couple editors responded including {{Diff|Template:Service award progress|592268615|592263895|my edit on the template}}.  I might also agree if the question was posted on the talk page and got no answer before coming here, I guess the fact that help has been asked for here multiple times and the talk page is still a red link struck me as off and out of process.  Perhaps I was having a bad day.  I dunno.  [[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 03:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

== Strange marks in infobox in edit mode ==

Could someone take a look at [[Journal of Near Eastern Studies]] in edit mode? In its infobox I see things like:

<code><nowiki>title	=	</nowiki></code>

What are those signs (they appear like the bottom-right corner of a square to me, if you can't see them)? Are they supposed to be there? Thanks. '''[[User:It Is Me Here|<span style="color:#006600;">It Is Me Here</span>]]''' <sup>'''[[User_talk:It Is Me Here|<span style="color:#CC6600;">t</span>]] / [[Special:Contributions/It Is Me Here|<span style="color:#CC6600;">c</span>]]'''</sup> 19:43, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

:Those look like your browser is rendering tabs with little squares. Since they don't impact the performance of the infobox and are only used as separators, they are not causing any problems. I went and replaced them with spaces, since the tabs ended up mis-aligning many of the parameters. [[User:APerson|APerson]] ([[User talk:APerson|talk!]]) 20:32, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Random selection, is it possible? ==

Do we have any parser functions or other magic, that would expand on page saving time to a random page name selected from a category that is given as parameter? [[User:jni|jni]]&nbsp;<sup>[[Special:Log/delete/jni|(delete)]]</sup><sub style="margin-left:-7.5ex;">[[User talk:jni|...just&nbsp;not&nbsp;interested]]</sub> 20:18, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
:Sort of. You can use [[Special:RandomInCategory/Living people]], which will take you to a random page in [[:Category:Living people]], but it won't give you the actual page name. You can also get a random item from a list by using [[Module:Random]] with the syntax <code><nowiki>{{#invoke:random|item|list item 1|list item 2|...}}</nowiki></code>, but there isn't a way to get a list of pages in a category to use with it. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 21:54, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thanks! I'll see if I can cook something interesting out of those tools. [[User:jni|jni]]&nbsp;<sup>[[Special:Log/delete/jni|(delete)]]</sup><sub style="margin-left:-7.5ex;">[[User talk:jni|...just&nbsp;not&nbsp;interested]]</sub> 22:19, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Template problem ==

I wanted to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turn!_Turn!_Turn!&diff=prev&oldid=592816256 display] the verses of the [[Bible]] from which the lyrics of "[[Turn! Turn! Turn!]]" were taken. The link makes it appear they come from only one verse, but I was hoping this could display all the verses. However, what I did causes the link not to go to the correct verse.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 20:25, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
:Fixed - template parameter names are case-sensitive. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 20:41, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
::Thanks.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 20:49, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

== Unable to copy at the Teahouse ==

When I went to the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions|Teahouse]], then clicked 'Ask a question', text from the question box coludn't be copied, but text from elsewhere could be pasted into the question box. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 01:39, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:Is this the problem exemplified in the screencast I uploaded on [[bugzilla:60441#c8]] or something else? [[User talk:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 09:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::No, the problem is in the pop-up window that appears when I click 'Ask a question'. When ever I highlight text that I typed into that pop-up box then press Cntl + C, it acts like I did nothing then when I press Cntl + V, the last piece of text I copied from somewhere other than that question box pastes instead. [[User:Blackbombchu|Blackbombchu]] ([[User talk:Blackbombchu|talk]]) 17:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

== Template issue ==

Would anyone know why [[Template:Infobox military installation/sandbox|this template]] is producing the weird images [[Template:Infobox military installation/testcases|on this page]], as well as the extra "}}"s? I suspect it may have to do with the fact I'm modifying a template designed for different parameters than the image thing, but if anyone could help fix it, that would be great! [[User:Ktr101|Kevin Rutherford]] ([[User_talk:Ktr101|talk]]) 02:47, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

:There appears to be an extra <nowiki>}}</nowiki> before <nowiki><!-- 09 --></nowiki>, but there may also be other issues. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 03:36, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::Many of the parameters in your testcases do not seem to match the parameters in the sandbox template, as far as I can tell. Maybe I'm missing something. <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Jonesey95|contribs]]) 04:39, 29 January 2014 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
:::I'm not keeping that page up as much, as I am trying to work out this image thing. We have worked out all of the other kinks, but that one is what is holding it back. I could revert to an earlier version and deal with it later, but I would rather get it right now. [[User:Ktr101|Kevin Rutherford]] ([[User_talk:Ktr101|talk]]) 04:54, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::::{{diff|Template:Infobox military installation/sandbox|prev|592942958|This edit}} should fix it. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 10:47, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

== How to view rev-deleted edits :O ==

I found a loophole recently.

1. Turn on WikiEd from Gadgets.

2. Find a revdeleted edit, if you can manage to reach the edit's diff page. It should say that you cannot view the contents because it has been revdeleted.

3. Click the WikiEd button to show the differences in each edit (the green triangle). You can now more or less see the revdeletion, kind of. Everything is in red though.

This might have to be patched. [[User:Thekillerpenguin|<span style="background-color:black"><span style="color:white;"> '''Thekillerpenguin'''</span></span>]] [[User talk:Thekillerpenguin|<span style="background-color:black"><span style="color:white;">'''(talk)'''</span></span>]] 04:01, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:That's the revision that wasn't deleted... [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 04:19, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

:(edit conflict) As far as I can tell, wikEdDiff is simply treating the revdel'ed version as blank, and showing a diff betwen the visible previous version and a blank page. This causes the whole previous version to be red but doesn't reveal anything you couldn't see by just editing that version in the page history. If you really have a way to see revdel'ed content then see "Bugs with security implications" at top of this page and don't post it in public, or we may have to revdel your post (oh, the irony). [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 04:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::Indeed, there's no vulnerability here. [[User:Jackmcbarn|Jackmcbarn]] ([[User talk:Jackmcbarn|talk]]) 00:48, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

== Module:Documentation ==

Just a note that I have finished working on [[Module:Documentation]] and it's ready to replace {{tl|documentation}} on all of our template and module pages. I'd like people to comment on it before I put it up live, so if you're interested, please join the discussion at the [[Template talk:Documentation#Module:Documentation ready to deploy|template talk page]]. Bug reports, feature requests and general questions are all welcome. :) — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 07:55, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

== Database error ==
{{tracked|60600}}
For documentation only; this may be an isolated incident rather than indication of a serious problem.

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A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.
Function: AbuseFilter::checkEmergencyDisable
Error: 1205 Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (10.64.32.26)

— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 16:49, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:I have the same problem when trying to save pages. If saving does work, it is terribly slow. [[User:Ruigeroeland|Ruigeroeland]] ([[User talk:Ruigeroeland|talk]]) 16:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::I'm getting that as well - you can preview but whenever you try to save it (eventually) gives the message above. [[User:Sagaciousphil|<span style="color: Navy"><span style="font-family: Monotype Corsiva; font-size: 12pt">SagaciousPhil</span></span>]] - [[User Talk:Sagaciousphil|<span style="font-family: Century Gothic; font-size:10pt">'''Chat'''</span>]] 16:59, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Happened to me again. Same message.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 17:08, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::::I keep getting this too, especially while using HotCat. [[User:De728631|De728631]] ([[User talk:De728631|talk]]) 17:10, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::I am facing same problem.--[[User:Wikiuser13|Wikiuser13]] ([[User talk:Wikiuser13|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Wikiuser13|contribs]]) 17:11, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::Three times. And I'm about to do some major editing.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 17:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Vchimpanzee}} Try coping the content before saving and if it appears again, edit again, paste and save.--[[User:Wikiuser13|Wikiuser13]] ([[User talk:Wikiuser13|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Wikiuser13|contribs]]) 17:20, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::This seems to be a problem of the article namespace. I guess 10.64.32.26 is one of the servers there. I've been playing with my user sandbox though and have also done some edits in category namespace and these all went just as smooth as ever. [[User:De728631|De728631]] ([[User talk:De728631|talk]]) 17:24, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::I'm pleased to see that it's not just me; I've been having this same problem and I noticed that I've been [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchUser=Acalamari triggering] filter 554 with almost every edit I've made to the mainspace in the past couple of hours; as De728631 has said, non-article edits seem to be okay. [[User:Acalamari|Acalamari]] 17:27, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::Well, if it's a filter problem can someone at least temporarily disable said filter?  This is obviously an untenable situation, I've been having the same issue. [[User:The Blade of the Northern Lights|The Blade of the Northern Lights]]  ([[User talk:The Blade of the Northern Lights|<span style="font-family:MS Mincho; color:black;">話して下さい</span>]]) 17:29, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::::It also seems that on the occasions it eventually says the edit is saved, it hasn't actually done so? [[User:Sagaciousphil|<span style="color: Navy"><span style="font-family: Monotype Corsiva; font-size: 12pt">SagaciousPhil</span></span>]] - [[User Talk:Sagaciousphil|<span style="font-family: Century Gothic; font-size:10pt">'''Chat'''</span>]] 17:32, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::::Well, after 6 tries I finally just forced it through, not sure if we're in the clear yet. [[User:The Blade of the Northern Lights|The Blade of the Northern Lights]]  ([[User talk:The Blade of the Northern Lights|<span style="font-family:MS Mincho; color:black;">話して下さい</span>]]) 17:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
{{outdent}}{{ping|Wikiuser13}}Didn't have to, but thanks. That's what I did just in case.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:Green;">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: orange"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color: maroon">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;'''·''' 17:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::::::::::{{ping|Kww}} I disabled it. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 17:39, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

*I've been having the same issue today.  And it's really slow.  Yesterday, I kept running into "Bad Gateway". [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 17:44, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
**Seems to be okay for me now... – [[User:Connormah|Connormah]] ([[User talk:Connormah|talk]]) 17:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

*My most abject apologies ... obviously completely my fault. My only saving grace is that at least I had it running with no action while I was testing, but obviously that wasn't enough.&mdash;[[User:Kww|Kww]]([[User talk:Kww|talk]]) 18:12, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
::What looked weird to me is that the filter was already autodisabled due to exceeding a system limit. The timeouts I got gave error messages specifically mentioning checkEmergencyDisable, not generic database access. Seems like what should have been short-circuiting the too-expensive filter is also too expensive? [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 18:43, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Meh... the extension [[bugzilla:51294|doesn't even known how to count...]] [[User talk:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 18:49, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::Agreed. The emergency feature that is supposed to stop a filter blocking all edits seems to have had the opposite effect... I've logged [[bugzilla:60600|bug 60600]] for this. –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 22:44, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
*:Everything's working for me... I was somewhat reminded of [[WP:Village stocks#Reaper Eternal for the "Block ALL the edits" award|this]] incident. Stuff happens. [[User:The Blade of the Northern Lights|The Blade of the Northern Lights]]  ([[User talk:The Blade of the Northern Lights|<span style="font-family:MS Mincho; color:black;">話して下さい</span>]]) 18:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

=== Database query error ===

I've no idea if this matters at all, but, in any case, I just got the following error while trying to make [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angels_on_horseback&diff=592985644&oldid=592867427 this] edit. Thought I should report it. [[User:J Milburn|J Milburn]] ([[User talk:J Milburn|talk]]) 17:41, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

 A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

    Function: AbuseFilter::checkEmergencyDisable
    Error: 1205 Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (10.64.32.26)

The same is discussed [[#Database error|above]].--[[User:Wikiuser13|Wikiuser13]] ([[User talk:Wikiuser13|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Wikiuser13|contribs]]) 17:43, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

=== The problem with filter 554 ===
This problem started with [[Special:AbuseFilter/history/554/diff/prev/12101|an edit to filter 554]]. The filter condition was changed to the following text:
 article_namespace == 0 
 & <span style="background:lime; color:black">(</span>
 <span style="background:yellow; color:black">(</span><span style="background:blue; color:white">(</span>lcase(added_lines) rlike <span style="background:aqua; color:black">(</span>"top100\w*\.blog"|"charly1300"<span style="background:aqua; color:black">)</span>|"mickeycharts"<span style="background:blue; color:white">)</span>| "atrl.net/forums"<span style="background:yellow; color:black">)</span>
 <span style="background:lime; color:black">)</span>
I've highlighted the matching parenthesis to make this a little easier to follow.

There are two things that jump out at me about this: First, I'm not sure it makes sense to apply the <code>|</code> (OR) operator to quoted strings. I suspect something like <code>"(top100\w*\.blog|charly1300|mickeycharts|atrl.net/forums)"</code> was intended instead, with the <code>|</code> inside the string where it would function as the regular expression choice operator.

Secondly, note that the right-hand side operand for the <code>rlike</code> operator is terminated by the parenthesis after <code>"mickeycharts"</code>. The boolean result from <code>rlike</code> is OR'd against the string <code>"atrl.net/forums"</code>. I suspect the edit filter coerced the string into a boolean value because it was OR'd against a boolean value. I further guess the resulting coerced value was ''true''. Anything OR'd against ''true'' is also ''true'', making the condition have the same effect as <code>article_namespace == 0 & true</code>&#160;– i.e. it matched all edits in the main namespace.

(Note: I'm not much of an expert on edit filter syntax. I've guessed most of the above based on my knowledge of similar operators in other languages.) –&#160;'''[[User:PartTimeGnome|PartTimeGnome]]''' <span style="font-size:79%">([[User talk:PartTimeGnome|talk]]&#160;&#124; [[Special:Contributions/PartTimeGnome|contribs]])</span> 23:40, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:Yes, I certainly blew it big time.&mdash;[[User:Kww|Kww]]([[User talk:Kww|talk]]) 00:35, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

== Technical question about redirects ==

{{moved from|Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical)}}

An editor just asked a technical question at [[Wikipedia talk:Redirect]]. Could one of you pop over there and answer their question, please? [[User:Ego White Tray|Ego White Tray]] ([[User talk:Ego White Tray|talk]]) 15:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)