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== Print/Export as pdf does not render tables ==

I've seen some chatter in the archives about the failure to render infoboxes, but it seems to me that the problem is much more widespread than that.  I have looked around and every WP article with tables that I have checked have had the tables excluded in the .pdf print/export version.  That is to say, after looking around, I have yet to find ANY tables that are rendered in the .pdf generated by print/export.  Yes, there are many articles without tables, nevertheless, many articles include critical information in the articles and the lack of tabular information renders (pun intended) the .pdf nearly worthless.  This is a widespread problem that IMHO should be prioritized relatively high.  Examples are easy to find: 
* [[So Far So Good (Bryan Adams album)]]: {{section link|nopage=y|So Far So Good (Bryan Adams album)|Track listing|Chart positions|Certifications}}
* [[List of countries and dependencies by population]]: {{section link|nopage=y|List of countries and dependencies by population|Countries and dependencies by population}}
* [[Periodic table]]: {{section link|nopage=y|Periodic table|Overview|Groups}}
* [[Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals]]: {{section link|nopage=y|Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals|Comparison of properties}} 
* [[Oregon]]: {{section link|nopage=y|Oregon|Geography|Major cities|Politics}}
* [[List of U.S. state abbreviations]]: {{section link|nopage=y|List of U.S. state abbreviations|Table}}
* [[Harrison Ford]]: {{section link|nopage=y|Harrison Ford|Awards}}
* [[Macaulay Culkin]]: {{section link|nopage=y|Macaulay Culkin|Film|Television}}
Go to your own favorite corner of WP and if you find tables, you will find this bug. [[User:YBG|YBG]] ([[User talk:YBG|talk]]) 05:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
::Known issue. See {{Phab|T87499}} which was merged into {{Phab|T73808}}. -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 06:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
::::Great!  Much appreciated. [[User:YBG|YBG]] ([[User talk:YBG|talk]]) 06:16, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

:::::[[Help:Download as PDF]] --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 14:49, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
== Infobox subheader shift? ==

In [[Jacques Brel]], my eye gets the impression that the infobox header (the colored bar with text 'Jacques Brel') is asymmetrical: lefthand whitespace looks like 3px, righthand ws 2px. I'm using Firefox 35 (not 36 yet) now. Possibly related: [[#Tables_just_changed_.28using_monobook.29]]. Is it just my eye, or is this real? -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 20:49, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:Not sure, was the dress white/gold for you today or black/blue ? —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 21:33, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:: Team white and gold! --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 22:15, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
In [[Jacques Brel]], my eye gets the impression that the infobox header (the colored bar with text 'Jacques Brel') is asymmetrical: lefthand whitespace looks like 3px, righthand ws 2px. I'm using Firefox 35 (not 36 yet) now. Possibly related: [[#Tables_just_changed_.28using_monobook.29]]. Is it just my eye, or is this real? -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 22:13, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
== Moving over a salted page (redux) ==
{{tracked|T91129}}
I'd like to revive [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_42#Moving_over_a_salted_page|this thread]].

Summary: When an admin moves a page to a salted target, there is no warning that the page is salted. (I tested it myself and saw no warning.) I'm not sure if the target remains salted.

Case in point: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Yadav&diff=648925442&oldid=648674365], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Ruby+Yadav]

A warning box would have made [[User:Necrothesp]] aware of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruby Yadav|an old AfD]]. He then would likely have made others aware of that at the [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruby Yadav Bjp Leader|new AfD]].

Can this be fixed? Bug report? Thoughts? [[User:Anna Frodesiak|Anna Frodesiak]] ([[User talk:Anna Frodesiak|talk]]) 01:09, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:To your q "I'm not sure if the target remains salted", no - because [[WP:SALT|salt]] can only be applied to the title of a non-existent page; once a page is moved to that title, it's no longer the title of a non-existent page. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 11:08, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::Hi, [[User:Redrose64|Redrose64]]. I see. And if it is deleted again? Is the redlink then salted again for non-admins? [[User:Anna Frodesiak|Anna Frodesiak]] ([[User talk:Anna Frodesiak|talk]]) 21:51, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::No, it's not; and I've just confirmed it at {{pagelinks|User:Cryptic/test1}}. &mdash;[[User talk:Cryptic|Cryptic]] 22:02, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::Thank you, [[User talk:Cryptic|Cryptic]]. So, how do we get this fixed. This is the second post about this, and it seems to be getting just as ignored as the first one. [[User:Anna Frodesiak|Anna Frodesiak]] ([[User talk:Anna Frodesiak|talk]]) 22:06, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

::::Posted at [[phab:T91129]]
::::[[User:Anna Frodesiak|Anna Frodesiak]] ([[User talk:Anna Frodesiak|talk]]) 22:34, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

==username change, and now I can't log in!!!==
I asked for a username change from EmeraldRS to Emerald-wiki. It says the change has been carried out but I can't log in with my old or new username. I get a message with the new username saying my account is being renamed or merged. Is there some step that got missed? Help! [[Special:Contributions/80.176.153.231|80.176.153.231]] ([[User talk:80.176.153.231|talk]]) 17:35, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

:The rename was an hour ago [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=gblrename&oldname=EmeraldRS] and your account has nearly 1000 edits in total. Try again later. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:52, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

I have waited, it is now about 15 hours since the rename, but still I can't login. Are you sure it is just a matter of waiting and not that something else needs fixing? [[Special:Contributions/80.176.153.231|80.176.153.231]] ([[User talk:80.176.153.231|talk]]) 08:49, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

:I think it should have worked by now. What exactly happens if you try to log in as Emerald-wiki? If you get a message then quote it precisely. Can you log in at [[meta:]] or [[wikisource:]]? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:01, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

When I try to log-in the message says "Login error/ Your account is currently being renamed or merged./ View the status", clicking 'View the status' shows the Global rename progress with everything 'Done' except de.wikipedia.org which is 'Queued' and has been for approaching 24 hours. I get exactly the same thing at Meta, Wikisource and Commons. I have never used de.wikipedia.org and, not speaking German, probably never will. I hope you can help. [[Special:Contributions/80.176.153.231|80.176.153.231]] ([[User talk:80.176.153.231|talk]]) 14:23, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
:Apparently the global renaming process is still waiting for de.wikipedia to be completed. That's one of the downsides of global accounts: if one local instance is delayed or interrupted I suppose you can't use your account at all. It looks like you'll have to wait for the German queue to finish. [[User:De728631|De728631]] ([[User talk:De728631|talk]]) 14:36, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
::Okay, thanks, I'll wait. I changed my username once before, that time it happened so fast it surprised me - within 5 mins of submitting my request it had happened, I hadn't even got as far as logging out. This time it is really, really slow! [[Special:Contributions/80.176.153.231|80.176.153.231]] ([[User talk:80.176.153.231|talk]]) 14:40, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
*{{ping|Keegan}} is such a long delay expected? –[[User:xeno|<b style="font-family:verdana;color:#000">xeno</b>]][[user talk:xeno|<sup style="color:#000">talk</sup>]] 14:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
*Note that there is already [[:de:Spezial:Benutzer/Emerald-wiki|a user on deWP called Emerald-wiki]], which was created on 10 January 2015 but hasn't made any edits. Is that his newly renamed global account, or is it an unrelated account holding up the rename? A few random other wikis I've checked don't have a user by that name, though [[:es:Especial:ListaUsuarios/Emerald-wiki|esWP does]]. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 15:15, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
It seems the hold-up has been identified. Can I take over the other Emerald-wiki on DE or choose another username - bearing in mind that I can't login anymore?[[Special:Contributions/80.176.153.231|80.176.153.231]] ([[User talk:80.176.153.231|talk]]) 15:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I should say that the Emerald-wiki on DE in January is nothing to do with me. I was EmeraldRS or my previous username, which unwisely was my real name [[Special:Contributions/80.176.153.231|80.176.153.231]] ([[User talk:80.176.153.231|talk]]) 15:26, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

:I don't know the reason for the de hold-up but I definitely think the de account is yours, created when you were EmeraldRS and part of the rename. [[Special:CentralAuth/Emerald-wiki]] shows it belongs to the global account, and was created at a time where you were also created at other wikis. If you are logged in at another wiki and visit any page at a Wikimedia wiki which is part of the global login system then your account is automatically created there. [[:de:Special:Logs/Emerald-wiki]] confirms it was an automatic creation. https://tools.wmflabs.org/quentinv57-tools/tools/sulinfo.php?username=Emerald-wiki also says there are no unattached acccounts. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 15:41, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I'll just keep waiting then!!! I wish I did know German to ask a question on one of their help talks![[Special:Contributions/80.176.153.231|80.176.153.231]] ([[User talk:80.176.153.231|talk]]) 15:48, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
:Hi there (thanks for the ping, [[User:Xeno|xeno]]). We'll get that fixed for you. Sorry for the hold up, that's not normal. [[User:Keegan (WMF)|Keegan (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Keegan (WMF)|talk]]) 03:36, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{done}} - [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] unlocked the account and hopefully [[m:Special:GlobalRenameProgress/Emerald-wiki|fixed the issue]]. You should be able to log in to your account. If you have any future problems getting locked out, please feel free to contact me directly. You can find my contact information on my userpage. Again, sorry for the trouble. [[User:Keegan (WMF)|Keegan (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Keegan (WMF)|talk]]) 03:58, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks everyone. Got up this morning and the first thing I tried was logging in to Wiki - straight in, no problem - great!! Richard [[User:Emerald-wiki|Emerald]] ([[User talk:Emerald-wiki|talk]]) 10:41, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

== AfD stats tool not recognising votes for me ==

Is there any reason why [http://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/afdstats.py?name=Fauzan&max=500&startdate=&altname= this] is only counting my noms, and not my vote at AfD? --[[User:Fauzan|<span style="color:#2F4F4F">Fauzan</span>]][[User talk:Fauzan#top|<sup style="margin-left:0.5px;color:#BDB76B">✆  talk</sup>]][[Special:EmailUser/Fauzan|<sub style="margin-left:-26.5px;color:#BDB76B">✉ mail</sub>]] 16:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
:[https://tools.wmflabs.org/usersearch/usersearch.py?name=Fauzan&page=Wikipedia%3AArticles+for+Deletion%2F*&max=100&server=enwiki&wildcards=true My contributions in Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion/*] --[[User:Fauzan|<span style="color:#2F4F4F">Fauzan</span>]][[User talk:Fauzan#top|<sup style="margin-left:0.5px;color:#BDB76B">✆  talk</sup>]][[Special:EmailUser/Fauzan|<sub style="margin-left:-26.5px;color:#BDB76B">✉ mail</sub>]] 16:13, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
::Which (diff) vote are you referring to? [[User:Nakon|<font color="#C50">'''Nakon'''</font>]] 04:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{u|Nakon}}, I mean the voting matrix shows only my nominations, and not the 50 other votes at AfD. The tool is not recognizing my votes at AfD, which it should. --[[User:Fauzan|<span style="color:#2F4F4F">Fauzan</span>]][[User talk:Fauzan#top|<sup style="margin-left:0.5px;color:#BDB76B">✆  talk</sup>]][[Special:EmailUser/Fauzan|<sub style="margin-left:-26.5px;color:#BDB76B">✉ mail</sub>]] 08:23, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

== NCMEC template ==

I recently created a template for a link to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which would be used on missing persons pages, but I can't get the URL to work. I created it after I saw [[Template:Find a Grave]]. Here is my template page: [[Template:NCMEC]]. Here is a page that it is used on: [[Michaela Garecht]] and here is a URL to a poster: [http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/717172/1#poster]. I'm hoping someone could help with this issue, as the formatting works perfectly with my template for unidentified persons on the website (see [[Template:NCMEC UID]]. Thanks, --<font style="text-shadow:#BD33A4 0em 0em 0.5em,#FF007F -0.4em -0.4em 0.5em,#0247FE 0.3em 0.3em 0.4em">[[User:Gourami Watcher|'''''<span style="color:Blue-Violet;">Gourami</span><span style="color:Blue-Violet;">Watcher</span>''''']][[User talk:Gourami Watcher|<font color=black><sup>'''''(?)'''''</sup></font>]]</span></font> 17:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

:I don't know the website. Is there a reason the template says NCMU instead of NCMC the second time? Your example works if it's changed to NCMC. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:26, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

::"NCMU" is used with the unidentified people. The missing children's URLs have the "NCMC." --<font style="text-shadow:#BD33A4 0em 0em 0.5em,#FF007F -0.4em -0.4em 0.5em,#0247FE 0.3em 0.3em 0.4em">[[User:Gourami Watcher|'''''<span style="color:Blue-Violet;">Gourami</span><span style="color:Blue-Violet;">Watcher</span>''''']][[User talk:Gourami Watcher|<font color=black><sup>'''''(?)'''''</sup></font>]]</span></font> 20:12, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

:::But why does [[Template:NCMEC]] only choose a url with NCMC if there is an author, date or accessdate parameter, and another url with NCMU if there isn't? None of those parameters sound like they have something to do with unidentified people versus missing children. It seems a very odd system, and I think it's an extremely poor idea to make an external link template which changes the url if an accessdate is added. That means a user may test the link, find it works, add an accessdate, and that action may break the link without the user rechecking it. Additionally, the NCMC case is coded wrong and needs fixing but I would like to first understand the idea behind the whole NCMC/NCMU choice. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

::::Changed [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:NCMEC&diff=649286233&oldid=649249304  NCMU to NCMC] as per ''PrimeHunter'' and it seems to pull the poster just fine then, but the concerns above remain & are on point.<p>Oh I think I get the premise now, the first incarnation is for use as a citation for inline refs and the second is for standalone usage (still doesn't quite add up however). -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 22:03, 28 February 2015 (UTC)</p>

:::::Maybe that's the intention. All current uses of both templates are in external links sections and none of them use any of the parameters which invoke the first incarnation. The OP said "the formatting works perfectly" about [[Template:NCMEC UID]], but that template also changed the url (although only by adding '=') if any of author, date or accessdate were added. In all cases I tested, this broke the link. I guess it was simply never tested and '=' should just be removed from the url in both templates, in addition to your change of NCMU, and an addition of a missing pipe. I made these changes [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:NCMEC_UID&diff=prev&oldid=649306003][//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:NCMEC&diff=prev&oldid=649306438] and both templates now give working links in both incarnations:
*{{NCMEC UID|1104264|Dana Point Jane Doe}}
*{{NCMEC UID|1104264|Dana Point Jane Doe|accessdate=1 March 2015}}
*{{NCMEC|795152|Michael Hughes}}
*{{NCMEC|795152|Michael Hughes|accessdate=1 March 2015}}
:::::[[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:52, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

::::::Thanks for your assistance! Sorry if I confused anyone! --<font style="text-shadow:#BD33A4 0em 0em 0.5em,#FF007F -0.4em -0.4em 0.5em,#0247FE 0.3em 0.3em 0.4em">[[User:Gourami Watcher|'''''<span style="color:Blue-Violet;">Gourami</span><span style="color:Blue-Violet;">Watcher</span>''''']][[User talk:Gourami Watcher|<font color=black><sup>'''''(?)'''''</sup></font>]]</span></font> 03:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

== What's going to happen next with Tables? ==

As someone who works with wikitables all the time I am very unhappy with the padding change. Most of the time I am working on wikipedia I work on results tables (Most of the time motorsport results tables). Those result tables need to be tight so you can put 20-sometimes 56 or more races in one table. Example: [[Dave Marcis#Motorsports career results|Dave Marcis]]. Now that the padding has changed (doubled) these result tables are way bigger than they should be. This makes them harder too reed and untidy. I really don't understand why the padding has doubled. This affect every single table on wikipedia. I am really disappointed and upset that this affects all the hard work I have put in to create all these results tables. What's going to happen next? I mean the padding being doubled is'nt a minor change. Particularly when this affects almost all the tables on wikipedia. Is their a possibility that this change is going to be reverted? [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]] ([[User talk:Jahn1234567890|talk]]) 15:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:Have you commented at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW33cfd0bc4a5f009b86c40b0312b4c7f7b006cbc7 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW33cfd0bc4a5f009b86c40b0312b4c7f7b006cbc7]? --[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00f;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-0.3em;line-height:1;font-size:62.5%;text-align:center;"><b>TALK<br />PAGE</b></span>]]) 18:08, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

== Using qqx as default language ==

We can append &uselang=qqx to an url to get the interface messages name, but what can we do when one wants to get the interface message names also when submitting requests ? I don't see qqx in the language selector in preferences.&nbsp;[[User:Cenarium|Cenarium]] ([[User talk:Cenarium|talk]]) 19:50, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:What do you mean by "when submitting requests" - is this editing a page? If so, the URL will already include a question mark at some point earlier than (but not necessarily immediately before) the <code>action=edit</code>; there can be only one of these, so leave that alone, and append <code>&uselang=qqx</code> to the right-hand end of the URL. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:56, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::The question is about cases where a displayed message doesn't just depend on the current url but also on what you just did, for example move a page. Adding uselang=qqx does not always reproduce the right situation and message. If you want to find the used MediaWiki messages in such situations then there are tips at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131#What interface page is used for the results after a successful undeletion?]] [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 20:52, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Thanks. Yes, it was when I was moving a page. There are some useful tips, though it may make things easier if the non-overriden default messages (for the site language only, like AllMessages) were indexed when searching mediawiki namespace. &nbsp;[[User:Cenarium|Cenarium]] ([[User talk:Cenarium|talk]]) 21:55, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: [[User:Cenarium|C]]: Indeed. This is [[phabricator:T22858]]. If you have a clone of mediawiki/core.git, "git grep" is probably fastest. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 22:00, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

== Secure link icon ==

Why do we have the secure link icon only for red links: [[Red link example]] and logged in secure. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 21:47, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
: I'm not sure what you mean. Internal red links have never had a secure link icon, as far as I know. I don't see an icon next to [[red link example]] using Vector or Monobook over HTTPS. Maybe you can provide additional details about your setup or a screenshot? --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 21:57, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::Must be me, not seeing it logged out. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 22:13, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Something in my JS. Possibly [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 22:20, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: I'm not seeing a secure link icon, but I am seeing the small [[WP:SKYBLUELOCK]] for that particular link thanks to [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier]]. Something random like [[slkndkfoewgfoiwenbgflksgewe]] that isn't create-protected isn't showing any icon here. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 23:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

== [Global proposal] m.{{SITENAME}}.org: {{int:group-all}} {{int:right-edit}} ==

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== An incorrect redlink ==

I was checking something in the [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] article, and saw that the link on his father, [[Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr.]], was red. Yet, when I hovered over the link, PopUps showed me that there is in fact an article on Samuel. But the link was red, and I still got the "(page does not exist)" title-text. The Samuel article has existed for years, so it's not one of those situations where it was recently created and the backlink colors haven't changed yet. I purged the page, and that seems to have fixed the problem, at least for me. [http://i.imgur.com/imZuiOY.png Here's a screengrab.] Is this a known issue? I skimmed Phabricator but didn't see anything similar.''' —&nbsp;<u>[[User:PinkAmpersand|<span style="color:#000;">PinkAmpers</span>]][[User:PinkAmpersand/Pink|<span style="color:#FF1493;">&#38;</span>]]</u>'''[[User talk:PinkAmpersand|<sup style="color:#000;">(<u>''Je vous invite à me parler''</u>)</sup>]] 02:27, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

:The page history of [[Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr.]] shows it was moved to that title one minute after [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] was last edited, so it was just a normal red link cached at that time. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:50, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

::{{Ping|PrimeHunter}} Ah, that explains it. I should've noticed. Thanks.''' —&nbsp;<u>[[User:PinkAmpersand|<span style="color:#000;">PinkAmpers</span>]][[User:PinkAmpersand/Pink|<span style="color:#FF1493;">&#38;</span>]]</u>'''[[User talk:PinkAmpersand|<sup style="color:#000;">(<u>''Je vous invite à me parler''</u>)</sup>]] 06:21, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

== Signpost app ==

Hello all,

As you may know there is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Signpost_Mobile_App Wikipedia Signpost Mobile App] for Android. It's currently borked, but the source code is on [https://github.com/yuvipanda/WPSignpost GitHub]. We're doing a lot of organizational work at the moment and the mobile app is one of the things we'd like to look into: we're looking into technical improvements behind-the-scenes and we'd like to take the opportunity to more tightly integrate mobile access into things.

The Android project is likely to be fixed soonish; would anyone be interested in working on porting the ''Signpost'' mobile app to iOS, or know someone that they think might interested in such a project? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 05:40, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

== Editnotice permissions by namespace ==
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We are currently restricting editnotice editing via the [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] by blocking creation and edits to: <code>Template:Editnotices\/.* <noedit|errmsg=titleblacklist-custom-editnotice></code>.  What technical options can be used to allow creating/editing of notices in the Wikipedia: / Wikipedia_talk: namespaces by standard editors? — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 16:08, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:I attempted a more-specific whitelist entry, but either have a syntax error or the software needs exact match on WL-->BL. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 16:12, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Why not just remove the title blacklist entry altogether? It's clearly a hack and it has always been very dubious. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 16:49, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::That is an option, and I plan on opening up a RfC on changing these--but want to know what the technical options are first. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 20:06, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Haha if you do I'll be sure to add "caused an RfC" to my list of...things accidentally achieved, I guess? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 20:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::It is the standard way to do this type of change, this isn't like a normal unprotection discussion as it applies to a feature of most every page - I'm sure the arguments are ''vandals'' - but there may be something else. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 20:11, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
*It isn't just vandals, it's also intended to avoid displaying off-putting messages to new users (probably other reasons as well, but this one is likely the most important). Editnotices aren't as visible as page content, and furthermore are often hidden by experienced users, so inappropriate changes to these can be easily missed. Lowering the requirement to edit existing editnotices in project namespace to 'autoconfirmed' may be acceptable, provided all the editnotices for project pages that are potentially edited by new users (like the help desk and so) are template-protected (this should number in the dozens). Creation should still be restricted since it is also intended to avoid an unchecked proliferation of editnotices. I've personally seen on numerous occasions editnotices incredibly BITEY, uncalled for or not assuming good faith. So we'd better be conservative in our approach to these user interface messages. Using the title blacklist is a hack for sure but it's all we've got now barring sysop-only. If this is still desired, we may have to rewrite the editnotice template so that it uses a Editnotices/Page/Namespace/UnprefixedTitle format, where mainspace is "main", so e.g. "Editnotices/Page/Main/Barack Obama" or "Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia talk/Help desk". Although it would cost a few hundreds of moves, this way it's going to be easy to make special cases on namespace using the title blacklist, or if we get that in the future, with a protection option that "applies to subpages" (i.e. the non-hackish way).&nbsp;[[User:Cenarium|Cenarium]] ([[User talk:Cenarium|talk]]) 21:12, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Cenarium}} From a technical point of view, to change main from using <code>Template:Editnotices/Page/PAGENAME</code> to (<code>Template:Editnotices/Page/Main/PAGENAME</code> or <code>Template:Editnotices/Page/Main:PAGENAME</code>) - can this be done on wiki, or will it require a patch? — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 14:25, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
::Technically, it can be accomplished locally.  Requires editing [[Template:Editnotice load]].  [[User:Dragons flight|Dragons flight]] ([[User talk:Dragons flight|talk]]) 05:05, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:::And fwiw, the editnotice will be shown correctly when redirected to a new location. So one can make the moves then update the template to use the new location, it'll still work in the mean time. &nbsp;[[User:Cenarium|Cenarium]] ([[User talk:Cenarium|talk]]) 01:53, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
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== Cremation or burial? ==

Why can't I delete [[Cremation or burial?]]? When I choose delete it just reloads the page. I can delete other pages but not this one. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]], [[User talk:CambridgeBayWeather|Uqaqtuq (talk)]], [[Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather|Sunasuttuq]] 07:28, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
:Not quite sure. I just did and it worked fine. Something with your browser or personal Javascript maybe? [[User:Seraphimblade|Seraphimblade]] <small><sup>[[User talk:Seraphimblade|Talk to me]]</sup></small> 08:11, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

::That's strange I deleted another page with no problem. I'll just put it down to [[sunspot]]s as they get blamed for almost everything in the Arctic. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]], [[User talk:CambridgeBayWeather|Uqaqtuq (talk)]], [[Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather|Sunasuttuq]] 08:19, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
:::I'm guessing it's a problem with '?' which usually indicates a [[query string]] in url's. MediaWiki encodes '?' in pagenames as %3F to avoid confusion but maybe your browser is still confused. Which browser? Does the same happen for [[Quo vadis?]] [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 19:30, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
::::I was using Chrome Version 40.0.2214.115 on Ubuntu 14.04 but I just tried in Firefox 36.0 on the Quo vadis page and got the same result. This time I checked the url and noticed it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis%3F?action=delete. I'll have to try later on Windows. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]], [[User talk:CambridgeBayWeather|Uqaqtuq (talk)]], [[Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather|Sunasuttuq]] 23:01, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|CambridgeBayWeather}} That really is odd, since I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 with Chromium 40.0.2214.111. Are you using Twinkle or any other scripts, or just the regular Mediawiki delete button? [[User:Seraphimblade|Seraphimblade]] <small><sup>[[User talk:Seraphimblade|Talk to me]]</sup></small> 01:22, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::It's indeed an issue with '?' but probably not in your browser. Your link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis%3F?action=delete doesn't work for me either. How do you reach that link and what is your skin? I'm in Vector and click the "More" tab and then "Delete". That gives me https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quo_vadis%3F&action=delete which works. Your url structure works on page names not containing '?', for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo?action=delete. It may be a MediaWiki bug that a query part cannot be added to a url of form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...%3F. It also fails for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis%3F?action=history as non-admins can test. The "View history" tab gives me https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quo_vadis%3F&action=history which does work, but I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis%3F?action=history should also have worked, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo?action=history works. MediaWiki apparently chokes on the %3F? combination where %3F is an encoded '?' ending the pagename, and '?' is the start of a query part. Or maybe there is some general url rule I'm unaware of which disallows '%3F?' in url's. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 01:49, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::The %3F? combination works on this wiki with an old MediaWiki version: http://mersennewiki.org/index.php/Why_participate_in_GIMPS%3F?action=history. http://mersennewiki.org/index.php/Special:Version says  MediaWiki: 1.5.8. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:24, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::The problem is not restricted to '?' at the end of the pagename. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F_Nycticebus_linglom?action=history should have produced the page history of [[? Nycticebus linglom]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:56, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::[[User:PrimeHunter]]. To get the non working link I just followed the original Quo vadis? link you provided. I then clicked on the delete and it reloaded the page with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis%3F?action=delete non working link. I'm using Vector as well. I notice you said that you clicked on the "More" tab and then "Delete". On the "More" I see the only option is "Purge". The option to delete is on the "Page" tab and says "Delete page". Also the https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quo_vadis%3F&action=delete works for me as well. I looked through my deletion log and found [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Why_is_austin_wilson_a_dummy%3F&action=edit&redlink=1 this], I did see at least one more with the ? at the end, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%22Are_You_Ready%3F_(Shakaya)&action=edit&redlink=1 this] with the ? in the middle. So at one time I was able to delete pages with the ? at the end. The other links on your 01:49 post all work the same for me as they did for you. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]], [[User talk:CambridgeBayWeather|Uqaqtuq (talk)]], [[Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather|Sunasuttuq]] 03:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::The "Page" tab is not part of MediaWiki. It is made by "Add Page and User dropdown menus to the toolbar" at [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets]]. The gadget is disabled by default. I have tried to enable it and get the same non-working url as you on the Page tab. The gadget uses  [[MediaWiki:Gadget-dropdown-menus.js]] which uses [[MediaWiki:Gadget-dropdown-menus-vector.js]] for Vector users, but the bug is in MediaWiki and should be fixed there. Question marks in pagenames are rare and I'm not sure it's worth coding the gadget to work around the bug by using url's with <code>/w/index.php?title=</code> instead of <code>/wiki/</code>. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 03:33, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

::::::::::OK that was it. I removed the gadget and was able to delete https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:CambridgeBayWeather/Test3%3F&action=delete. I found that with the gadget enabled it is possible to move the page and not leave a redirect. That deleted the ? page and then of course I was able to delete the page without the ?, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:CambridgeBayWeather/Test%3F&action=edit&redlink=1. Given that there are several things I like about the gadget and the very few times that the ? comes up I'll leave it enabled and use the move workaround. Thanks for all your help. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]], [[User talk:CambridgeBayWeather|Uqaqtuq (talk)]], [[Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather|Sunasuttuq]] 03:48, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::Moves are made with a special page and not a query string, so the bug does not interfere. Protect and Purge on the Page tab are affected. It probably also affects several other scripts and tools. I'm not proficient with Phabricator. Can somebody see if it's there, and add it if not? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 04:18, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::::I'm not seeing a problem with the Protect from the page tab. It worked fine yesterday. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]], [[User talk:CambridgeBayWeather|Uqaqtuq (talk)]], [[Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather|Sunasuttuq]] 04:58, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::::On a pagename with a question mark? The bug is only known to affect that. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 05:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
{{od|15}}I can fix this for [[MediaWiki:Gadget-dropdown-menus-vector.js]], but I do not maintain the non-vector version if that is what you are using. Because of the same bug all internal links involving a page name with a ? will not work, so it's worth fixing for the interim I think. <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 06:23, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:Should be fixed now. Thanks for the report! <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 07:05, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::This should be fixed in core though... <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 12:38, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::Thanks [[User:MusikAnimal]] that works now. [[User:CambridgeBayWeather|CambridgeBayWeather]], [[User talk:CambridgeBayWeather|Uqaqtuq (talk)]], [[Special:Contributions/CambridgeBayWeather|Sunasuttuq]] 16:18, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
*{{ping|MusikAnimal}} I use vector, and I'm having the same problem with ampersands and quotation marks. See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Can.27t_delete_an_article this discussion].--[[User:Bbb23|Bbb23]] ([[User talk:Bbb23|talk]]) 09:20, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

== Search not updating ==
{{tracked|T91216}}
The CirrusSearch, which normally updates within 10-15 seconds, appears to have stuck<br />I corrected misspellings of "received" at [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Money_in_the_Bank_ladder_match&diff=649370234&oldid=649338151 12.37] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Money_in_the_Bank_ladder_match&diff=649370234&oldid=649338151 12.38] but both sill appear in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=50&offset=0&ns0=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&search=recieve the search for recieved] nearly 6 hours later - [[User:Arjayay|Arjayay]] ([[User talk:Arjayay|talk]]) 18:18, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:I thought that it updated once a day, around 04:00 UTC, which is some eight hours off. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::The old Lucene-search updated once a day. The current CirrusSearch should normally update much faster. See [[mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Updates]]. I also get the old revision of your diff currently (you posted the same diff twice). [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:01, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::This is even worse than when LuceneSearch index was not updated; at least when it got restarted, even if it took a week, it would completely reindex everything. The CirrusSearch update failure has not been seen before to this extent, I think, and something extraordinary will have to be done to make things right. I don't think they expected that something like this could actually happen, and I will be surprised if they have a way to quickly fix it. [[User:Chris the speller|<font color="#C30">'''Chris'''</font>&nbsp;<font color="#060">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</font>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<font color="#900"><sup>yack</sup></font>]] 21:23, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::::We have a script for handling outages.  Its one of the first things I built. [[User:NEverett (WMF)|NEverett (WMF)]] ([[User talk:NEverett (WMF)|talk]]) 18:21, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
: Filed as [[phabricator:T91216]]. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 21:31, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::I just filed [[phabricator:T91217]], then saw your post. It looks like you beat me by a nose. I'll update mine as being a duplicate of yours. [[User:Chris the speller|<font color="#C30">'''Chris'''</font>&nbsp;<font color="#060">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</font>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<font color="#900"><sup>yack</sup></font>]] 21:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Now updates to the index are taking place again as articles are edited, but the ones we already complained about are still not updated in the index, as my earlier post predicted. [[User:Chris the speller|<font color="#C30">'''Chris'''</font>&nbsp;<font color="#060">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</font>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<font color="#900"><sup>yack</sup></font>]] 02:05, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Some old edits have appeared in the updated search, and some haven't.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Money_in_the_Bank_ladder_match&diff=649370234&oldid=649338151 The real one mentioned above at 12.37] hasn't, but the one I should have posted at [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%81d%C3%A1m_Szab%C3%B3_(singer)&diff=prev&oldid=649370254 12.38] has, although neither article has been altered since.  If there is a definite time period that has not updated, is it possible to give all articles edited in that time-frame a null edit to nudge the search along? - [[User:Arjayay|Arjayay]] ([[User talk:Arjayay|talk]]) 16:36, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Grabbed the task and will work on it now.  Thanks for filing it!  We have a script to handle it and I'll kick it off as soon as I find the timestamps to feed it.[[User:NEverett (WMF)|NEverett (WMF)]] ([[User talk:NEverett (WMF)|talk]]) 18:21, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

:I believe I've reindexed all the effected pages.  I'm off to kick off this process on the other ~880 wikis! [[User:NEverett (WMF)|NEverett (WMF)]] ([[User talk:NEverett (WMF)|talk]]) 02:07, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
::Well, I was surprised; they actually did have a way to quickly fix it. I sampled updates from yesterday to see what was reindexed, and they seem to have caught them all. This turned out better than I expected, and I have more faith in the CirrusSearch group than I did before. Thanks for resolving this. [[User:Chris the speller|<font color="#C30">'''Chris'''</font>&nbsp;<font color="#060">'''the&nbsp;speller'''</font>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Chris the speller|<font color="#900"><sup>yack</sup></font>]] 02:56, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

== Question about italicizing ==

I came upon the article [[Vytautas Mažiulis]] and noticed that italics in the biography section are not displaying properly. The organization name "Milanese Linguistics Society" is not entirely italicized, however the country and phrase that follows it is italicized for some reason. The code looks correct. Is there something that I'm missing here? How can these italics be fixed? [[User:Mamyles|Mamyles]] ([[User talk:Mamyles|talk]]) 16:15, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:It's because there was an artificial linebreak after "Milanese". I've fixed it (although those organization names probably shouldn't be italicized anyway per [[MOS:ITAL]]). Regards, [[User:Orange Suede Sofa|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:DarkGreen;">Orange Suede Sofa</span>]] ([[User talk:Orange Suede Sofa|talk]]) 16:21, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
::Looks better, thanks. That also clears up why my browser wasn't displaying a space after "Milanese" in the edit window. 
::I was just bothered by this issue while reading and do not care if the italics are there or not. Feel free to remove if you think they are inappropriate. [[User:Mamyles|Mamyles]] ([[User talk:Mamyles|talk]]) 16:33, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

== Fixing bulleted list inside an unbulleted list ==

This is basically a repost of [[MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Fixing bulleted list inside an unbulleted list]] to get some more attention.

When using {{tl|bulleted list}} inside {{tl|unbulleted list}}, it doesn't work because {{t|unbulleted list}} adds a class to the outer list without a means to revert that inheritance in inner lists. To make stuff less complicated, I propose to make the styles of unbulleted list apply strictly to the direct children of the outer list, so as to prevent the inner lists from inheriting the styles.

Example:

<pre>
{{unbulleted list
| This
| {{bulleted list|E|F}}
}}
</pre>

{{unbulleted list
| This
| {{bulleted list|E|F}}
}}

[[User:Timothy Gu|Timothy G.]] <sup>from [[California|CA]]</sup> ([[User talk:Timothy Gu#top|talk]]) 03:50, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

:Commented there. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 09:46, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

==Orphan tags not showing up==

There is something wrong with [[:Template:Orphan]], looking at the edit summary this edit: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Orphan&diff=601643230&oldid=595492990] hid the cleanup tag and as a result the tag has disappeared from 99 of our [https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/bycat/Anime_and_manga.html#Orphaned articles]. Is there a fix fir this? - [[User:Knowledgekid87|Knowledgekid87]] ([[User talk:Knowledgekid87|talk]]) 04:53, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Knowledgekid87}} Please see [[Template:Orphan#Visibility]], which explains that the template is only visible for the current & previous month (e.g. not visible on [[A Gentleman's Kiss]]), but is always visible within {{tl|multiple issues}} (e.g. visible on [[AUKcon]]).  The articles are still categorized and still on your report.  The template instructions also contains a fix that might interest you.  Good luck!  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 05:49, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

== subst not substituting ==

What am I messing up [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stortorget&diff=649667811&oldid=644999090 here]? [[User:Martijn Hoekstra|Martijn Hoekstra]] ([[User talk:Martijn Hoekstra|talk]]) 10:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:Substing does not work inside {{tag|ref|o}} or other parser tags. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 10:25, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thanks! Live and learn. [[User:Martijn Hoekstra|Martijn Hoekstra]] ([[User talk:Martijn Hoekstra|talk]]) 10:28, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
== Wikidata problem ==

I have added a new property to an existing item – P527 (name = 'has part', value = barangay) to (Q316370) [[:Santa Fe, Cebu]], then added qualifer P1114 (name = 'quantity', value = 10).

When I try to retrieve, using {{nowrap|<nowiki>{{#invoke:Wikidata|getRawQualifierValue|P527|P1114|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}</nowiki>}} it throws an error:<br />'''Lua error in Module:Wikidata at line 168: invalid value (table) at index 1 in table for 'concat'. '''

Is it me or ...?

NB I have successfully used getting qualifier values before, e.g. {{tl|Population census prose}}

--[[:en:User:Unbuttered Parsnip|<span style="color:slategray">Unbuttered parsnip</span>]] ([[:en:User talk:Unbuttered Parsnip|talk]]) mytime= Sun 16:35, wikitime=  08:35, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

:I don't know Lua and know very little Wikidata so I could be wrong but it looks to me like getRawQualifierValue in [[Module:Wikidata]] cannot handle qualifiers with data type Quantity such as [[wikidata:Property:P1114]]. {{tl|Population census prose}} uses getRawQualifierValue for [[wikidata:Property:P459]] which has data type Item. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 15:58, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::Well it allowed me to add the qualifier to the property, so it's a surprise it doesn't work (not really, this is wikidata we're talking).  I'll take my problem over to the wikidata village pump (T) , if there is one. [[:en:User:Unbuttered Parsnip|<span style="color:slategray">Unbuttered parsnip</span>]] ([[:en:User talk:Unbuttered Parsnip|talk]]) mytime= Mon 07:38, wikitime=  23:38, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I suspect the problem is in [[Module:Wikidata]] and have posted to [[Module talk:Wikidata]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 23:42, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: I think that my naming the Wikipedia Lua module "Wikidata" may be causing confusion. Whatever happens on Wikidata won't guarantee that the Lua module (which is intended to import data from Wikidata to Wikipedia in a flexible way) will always work. The problem occurs because the module was written before numeric data types existed on Wikidata. Line 168 takes a table of all of the values for that qualifier and concatenates them together with a comma+space separator ''assuming that the value is a string''. As I understand it, you can't concatenate numbers like that, using the table.concat() method, unfortunately. I think I can solve the problem by ensuring that the wikitext gets a string representation of the number but I'll need to do some testing before I can be sure. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 00:03, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Thanks for looking into it. Oddly, the revision time for my above edit [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=649453550&oldid=649452640] says 23:46, four minutes after the 23:42 signature which was made with a normal four <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>. I sometimes see a 1-minute difference which makes sense if it takes about a second to process the edit and it was saved near a minute change with signature time and revision time recorded at different stages. I have never seen more than 1 minute. The save went through quickly. My browser history indicates it was 23:46 with an accurate clock. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:08, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::: Well, it's not the problem I thought it was. It seems table.concat() does implicitly cast the numbers into strings, so the concatenation method works as it should. From the error message you give, I now suspect that the first item in the table is actually a table, not a single value. I'll go check that and see if I can fix it. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 00:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::: Update: yes the first item is a table, so can't be concatenated with ", " as the call tries to do. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 14:40, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
{{od}}
The more I've looked at this, the more I become convinced that you can't write a generic call to fetch just the value of a given qualifier associated with a given property because of the possibility of multiple values. For example, if you look at Richard Burton ([[d:Q151973]]), he has 3 spouses (P26) listed, two of whom have qualifiers for start time (P580) and end time (P582). What should a call asking for Richard Burton's spouse's start time return? Should it return nil for Elizabeth Taylor? or 3 July 1983 for Sally Burton? or 1949 for Sybil Christopher? Of course we could have it return 1949 ''and'' 3 July 1983, but what value would they be without knowing which spouse they referred to? It would be possible to write a call that fetched e.g. the value of first given qualifier from the first given property, but that becomes vulnerable to someone adding another value for the property. How would you want to deal with the situation if Santa Fe ([[d:Q316370]]) had 30 sitios and someone added "has part=sitio" with a qualifier of "quantity=30"? Should getRawQualifierValue|P527|P1114 return 10 or 30? Sorry to be negative about the problem, but I can't see a general solution. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 14:40, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:I don't understand any of this.  Other properties, for instance 'population', are quite happy to have more than one different qualifier ('date' and 'method'), no problem.  Other properties, e.g. 'inception' are happy to have (and return) more than one value.  I cannot believe that it is not possible to return a qualifier attached to an instantiation of a property, here 'quantity' attached to 'has part'=barangay.  Time to bin it all and start again in SQL, or anything proprietary and proven.-- [[:en:User:Unbuttered Parsnip|<span style="color:slategray">Unbuttered parsnip</span>]] ([[:en:User talk:Unbuttered Parsnip|talk]]) mytime= Mon 23:30, wikitime=  15:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:Maybe a discussion is needed about what to do with multiple values (an error message and tracking category if the caller didn't specify which value was wanted?), but can it be coded to at least give the value when there is only one? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:03, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
::There is no way of specifying which qualifier you want if more than one - you just get them all. But qualifier should be attached to property value, not to property name as implied here. [[:en:User:Unbuttered Parsnip|<span style="color:slategray">Unbuttered parsnip</span>]] ([[:en:User talk:Unbuttered Parsnip|talk]]) mytime= Tue 00:24, wikitime=  16:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
::: Yes, code can be written to return a given qualifier's value if there is only one qualifier present among all the statements connected with a given property. But how would you want it to behave in Wikipedia if somebody added another qualifier in Wikidata? Should it disappear because it's no longer a unique value? or are you willing to risk the value of the second qualifier now appearing in the Wikipedia article instead of the value of the previously unique qualifier?
::: Qualifiers are definitely attached to a particular name-value pair. So in the case of Richard Burton, the property named "spouse" with the value "Sybil Christopher" has attached to it a qualifier called "start date" with the value '1949'. But again how does that help you if you want a call that returns ''just the qualifier value''? because you don't know the value "Sybil Christopher" when you make the call. On the other hand, if you want a call that returns a list of the all values of a given property along with a list of the values of a given qualifier when present, then that's possible as it could look like this for Richard Burton / property='spouse' / qualifier='start date' :
:::* Elizabeth Taylor; Sally Burton, 3 July 1983; Sybil Christopher, 1949; <small>(note that the two dates for Elizabeth Taylor's two marriages to Burton could be added at any time)</small>
::: But that's different from the problem outlined by Unbuttered Parsnip. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 22:56, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
::::It already returns more than one value for a qualifier, as in 'inception' or 'demonym'.  I don't see the point in providing a massive database which can't be interrogated.  If it is possible to add a value to a qualifier of a property, then it has to be possible to read it back too.  As regards particular case, I can't make any sense of the notion that a qualifier could have more than one 'quantity' value.  In the general case, I think one would want the latest.  So for population ordinarily you'd want the latest (current) census, not one from 10 years ago.  Exceptionally you might want all of them.  Because data-sort is not a parser function, it would be incumbent on WD to return a sorted list. -- [[:en:User:Unbuttered Parsnip|<span style="color:slategray">Unbuttered parsnip</span>]] ([[:en:User talk:Unbuttered Parsnip|talk]]) mytime= Tue 10:52, wikitime=  02:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
::::: (1) The database can be interrogated. (2) It is possible to read the data back, but if there are multiple values meeting the search criteria, you have to specify what you want read back. (3) There is no reason whatsoever why a property can't have multiple instances of the same qualifier. I already gave you the example of Richard Burton marrying his second wife twice, so the start date of the marriage would appear as a qualifier twice with two different values: 1964 and 1975. If you call for the start date of Richard Burton's marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, which qualifier value would you want returned? (3) The "latest" doesn't make sense in general for all qualifier values which could be numbers or text as well as dates. (4) Yes, sometimes you want just one qualifier value from amongst several - and there's no means of specifying which one - and sometimes you want all of them, but writing a generic module that copes with any Wikidata item won't do what you want. (5) At present there is no call to the mw.wikibase API that returns sorted tables, but sorting can be done in the Lua module, so parser functions are irrelevant. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 03:59, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::Reads like a snow job to me.  I don't know how the database can be interrogated, because the only module we've been given doesn't seem to work.  In particular, it doesn't allow specification of which occurrence of the property, nor of which occurrence of any qualifier.  Your reply implies that the qualifiers for different instantiations of a property are jumbled together, and it's pot-luck which gets returned.  Sad if true.  I didn't specify every qualifier, I was restricting myself to 'quantity'.  If a property has a qualifier of 'quantity' then I'd be very surprised if there could be more than one associated value.  That's tantamount to saying that the value of the qualifier contains every known number.  I can't imagine anyone would update a raw value by adding another instantiation of the qualifier rather than just changing the value, since there is no way of differentiation.  As I said, other properties, e.g. 'inception', allow multiple copies of qualifier (a date) and return them without breaking.<br />Regarding Burton–Taylor, it seems incorrect to have only one wedding tuple with more than one date set, when they married twice – correct form would be one tuple for each marriage with not more than one date set each. -- [[:en:User:Unbuttered Parsnip|<span style="color:slategray">Unbuttered parsnip</span>]] ([[:en:User talk:Unbuttered Parsnip|talk]]) mytime= Wed 12:49, wikitime=  04:49, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::: If you want me to write more modules for specific purposes, then please feel free to ask, but please understand that these modules are created by volunteers like you and me and there's no entitlement for anyone to be "given" anything. When I wrote the Wikidata module, it only fetched property values because qualifiers were still in development. Since then, others have added calls to fetch qualifiers which - as I've pointed out - can't cover every case, although I'm pleased they work in some circumstances. To fetch a property, it is sufficient to scan though all of the values associated with that property and return them as some form of list (or a single value or nil). If you try to fetch the value(s) of a given qualifier associated with a property, then when you create a list consisting of just the qualifier values you won't know which property value they belong to, should there be multiple values for the property. Re Burton–Taylor, there's nothing "incorrect" about organising the spouse data as a single property value with multiple qualifiers - in fact that's exactly what you need if you want to populate an infobox with the names of Burton's wives. Wikidata allows editors some freedom to organise the data entered in the way that they choose, and the challenge for anyone seeking to import that data into Wikipedia is to cater for all possible cases. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 13:30, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

== How long does it take for a session timeout? ==

I've been experiencing trouble with a bot I'm running in Javascript that signs in as a user and does a lot of stuff that takes ~3-4 hours to finish before finally editing some pages with the results. At the end I'm getting a badtoken error for the edits (which I hadn't gotten until recently, actually.. did something change?), so my only guess is that it takes so long the bot is being automatically logged out before it has time to finish. I am going to try one more time with the "keep me logged in" button selected, but just for information's sake, does anyone know the time limit for a session? Is there any way for a user to modify that setting for him/herself? Has that default value changed recently, i.e. in the last few weeks? Thanks!--[[User:Dudemanfellabra|Dudemanfellabra]] ([[User talk:Dudemanfellabra|talk]]) 01:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:Ok I ran the code again and got the same error, even with the "keep me logged in" button selected, so now I'm stumped. Just to check to make sure I wasn't being logged out after the run, I visited another page after the error and sure enough was still logged in, so that doesn't seem to be the problem.

:The code is set up so that it can be run by two accounts--the bot one ([[User:NationalRegisterBot]]) and this one, my personal one (for situations like this, mostly). While signed into my personal account, I just tried to run a smaller section of the code that only takes about 10 minutes to run instead of 3-4 hours but which relies on the same routine (literally the exact same JavaScript function) to edit pages, and it worked, successfully editing the page it was supposed to. This led me to believe that maybe there was just something wrong with fetching a token for the bot account, so I tried running the same function that worked on my personal account while signed in with my bot account, expecting it to fail, but much to my surprise, it worked!

:Again, the piece of code that worked and the original 3-4 hour piece of code both rely on the same routine to edit pages at the end... the only difference between the two as far as practice goes is the time it takes for the two functions to run. It seems that since the 3-4 hour code takes so long to run, something freaks out with the edit token, causing it to be invalid. To figure out if that was the case--maybe the edit token had expired or something--I made the code fetch the edit token at the beginning of the run and then again at the end of the run so I could compare the two and got the same output for both (42163ed75d03ff490b30c96e9d59716a54f5440f+\, if that's relevant). Because they were the same, it doesn't appear to me that the token expires over the course of execution, so I'm ''really'' stumped. How can a function work in one instance and not in another?

:All of this started about 2-3 weeks ago, so I suspect something has changed in the API or somewhere else, but I haven't been able to find any information about that. Does anyone know why I might be encountering the error I'm describing?--[[User:Dudemanfellabra|Dudemanfellabra]] ([[User talk:Dudemanfellabra|talk]]) 08:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:: The test fetching the edit token at the beginning and end of the run should certainly have not given you the same token each time; even fetching two tokens one second apart should give you two different tokens (but both valid) since [[gerrit:156336|the end of October]]. Since you got the same token hours apart, whatever you're using to fetch the tokens is apparently caching them rather than fetching a new one the second time.
:: Ideally, your bot should be able to attempt the edit, and if it gets a badtoken error it should automatically fetch a fresh token and retry the edit.
:: As for the time it takes, the configuration is currently using the default of 1 hour for [[mw:Manual:$wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry|$wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry]]. I don't see any recent changes to the timeout, but I do see there was [[gerrit:188721|this]] recent change to session handling that probably made page views no longer reset the session timer. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 13:05, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

If I were you, i'd rewrite the bot to make use of [https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.Api.plugin.edit mediawiki.api.edit] module and friends, which do automatic token (re)fetching, uses promises etc and detects api errors. Examples of its usage can be found [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit#Editing_via_Ajax here]. And make sure to add proper logging in the fails of the request, so that you KNOW what is failing instead of having to guess. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 13:54, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:I see you are using mw.user.tokens and not checking for bad-token failures. That is probably why it is failing. These tokens are valid 'pre generated' tokens, but your script is supposed to be able to fetch a fresh token if your request fails with bad-token for whatever reason. mw.Api knows about these constraints and applies or recovers from them as required. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 14:06, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thanks everyone for the responses. Modifying the code to use mw.Api makes everything work. I was not aware that mw.user.tokens generates a token at pageload, not at the time of execution. In fact, I misunderstood the idea of a token all together. Either way, I have everything working now, so mission accomplished! Thanks again!--[[User:Dudemanfellabra|Dudemanfellabra]] ([[User talk:Dudemanfellabra|talk]]) 09:25, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{replyto|Dudemanfellabra}} you will want to wrap any usage of mw.Api with <code>mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.api.edit' ).done( function() { usage here } )</code>, to guarantee that the edit module is loaded on demand if nothing else on the page has loaded the module yet. [[mw:ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader#Client-side_.28dynamically.29|Developing user scripts with resource loader modules]]—[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 10:26, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

== Does Wikipedia collect statistics on the up-times and response-times of its servers? ==

At times, I have been unable get a page from Wikipedia, and it appears that the servers are either down or temporarily overloaded.  When this happens, I do not know if the problem is with my computer, the network, or Wikipedia.  I usually diagnose the problem by trying other web sites, but the really does not tell me if anything was wrong with Wikipedia.

My email provider gives me a link to [[pingdom]], where I can easily tell if the email servers were down.  Does Wikipedia keep track of down-times, response times, or server loads?  Where should I look?

If I had a graph of Wikipedia response-times, I could plan on using Wikipedia when it was lightly loaded.

Thanks.

[[User:Comfr|Comfr]] ([[User talk:Comfr|talk]]) 04:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:Lots of data is available at http://gdash.wikimedia.org/ - there is no one graph of some "response-times" though... --[[User:Malyacko|Malyacko]] ([[User talk:Malyacko|talk]]) 08:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:There is some information on [http://status.wikimedia.org status.wikimedia.org], eg. the response times for [http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/169667/https-services---wikipedia HTTPS wikipedia]. --[[User:Sitic|Sitic]] ([[User talk:Sitic|talk]]) 22:13, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

== Linking from medal icons ==

Hello.

I was trying to make the medal templates to link to an optional target by adding <nowiki>link={{{link}}}</nowiki> in {{tl|gold1}}, so the link can be passed on to the {{tl|sort}} template. It works fine, but when you don't provide a link to {{tl|gold1}}, it links to the gold medal icon itself, instead of not linking to anything at all. What is it that I do wrong?

For an example, check the [[Brittany Bowe]] article, section "Results overview", where I've linked the gold medal icon in the last row, left-most column, to an article, and it works, but the other gold medal icons in the same row link to the icon itself. I don't want that, and why does this occurs when the link parameter supplied is empty?

[[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 14:42, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
:This is result, that you wanted? See my [[Special:Diff/649697506|edit]]. --'''[[User:Edgars2007|<span style="color:#FF6600;">Edgars2007</span>]]''' <small>([[User talk:Edgars2007|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Edgars2007|contribs]])</small> 15:26, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

::Yes, it is. But the parameter is empty by default, so why does one have to add that code to avoid linking to the medal icon? [[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 15:50, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
::I see now that I had missed that pipe character. Thanks. [[User:HandsomeFella|HandsomeFella]] ([[User talk:HandsomeFella|talk]]) 17:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
== Popups not working ==

...starting late last week on several different Mac running various fairly-new and fairly-old firefox versions. I've tried disabling the gadget (hovering on a wikilink gives me a yellow box with just the target name) then re-enabling it gadget (reverts back to nothing appearing while hovering on a wikilink) and cache purge/refresh. Same on commons as well as enwp. On a Mac where firefox has not accessed WP in a long time if at all, popups do work. So it seems like "something at some level" has changed to be incompatible with "something else", but I don't know how to diagnose further what/where. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 04:08, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

:It works for me with Firefox in Windows Vista. Does it work if you log out and click https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Example&withJS=MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js&withCSS=MediaWiki:Gadget-navpop.css? That also works for me. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 04:25, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:Popups works for me on OSX 10.9.5, Firefox 35. [[User:Keegan|Keegan]] ([[User talk:Keegan|talk]]) 05:42, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:Updated to FF 35.0.1<small>edit: and 36.0</small> to be sure, and popups are still fine. [[User:Keegan|Keegan]] ([[User talk:Keegan|talk]]) 05:44, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:Removed AdBlock (it hadn't been a problem before, but may as well rule it out), also tried  [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:DMacks/common.js&diff=649358087&oldid=615171467 manually importing it in my common.js], still nothing. [[User:DMacks|DMacks]] ([[User talk:DMacks|talk]]) 10:22, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::It's working for me, although I had a weird problem with a popup appearing (after accidentally hovering over an article title) and then refusing to go away a few days ago.  What OS are you running?  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 19:58, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

== Input ==

When did we get Smurf buttons for {{xtag|inputbox}}? See [[Wikipedia:Editnotice#Creating editnotices]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 21:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

: Hi. This is the "mw-ui-button" CSS class. It was added to [[mw:Extension:InputBox|InputBox]] here: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rEINB7ce80c51a5f0c6ee8e78758afb924bc18b00d525>. You'll see some additional mw-ui-related changes at <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EINB/>. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 22:06, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

::{{ping|MZMcBride}} But, what are the CSS specifics of <code>class="mw-ui-button"</code>? The reason I ask is that that class does not yet exist over at Wikia. Therefore, I need to add the class details locally to <tt>MediaWiki:Common.css</tt>. Unfortunately, I could not discern the simple CSS setup from those phabricator pages.{{smiley|blush}} Thanks!{{smiley}} — <span style="font: bold 125% Garamond;">[[User:SpikeToronto|<span style="color:#DC143C">Spike</span>]][[User talk:SpikeToronto|<span style="color:#000000">Toronto</span>]]</span> 18:57, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

::: Hi [[User:SpikeToronto|SpikeToronto]]. Newer versions of [[MediaWiki]] use [[Less (stylesheet language)|Less]] for [[Cascading Style Sheets]]. The relevant code for ".mw-ui-button" is here: <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/0c8327466bebd44a9c0f60cd010307446b9ead63/resources/src/mediawiki.ui/components/buttons.less> (found via [https://github.com/search?q=mw-ui-button+%40wikimedia&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93 this search]). --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 05:22, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

::::{{ping|MZMcBride}} Thanks!!{{smiley}} — <span style="font: bold 125% Garamond;">[[User:SpikeToronto|<span style="color:#DC143C">Spike</span>]][[User talk:SpikeToronto|<span style="color:#000000">Toronto</span>]]</span> 20:29, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

== Table-end templates ==

We have a vast number of templates for ending tables, whose content is <code><nowiki>|}</nowiki></code>.

I propose that we redirect them to {{tl|End}}, which has the same content, and replace instances with <code><nowiki>{{End|Foo}}</nowiki></code>, where "Foo" is the name of the template which starts the table, as in {{diff|List of public art in Birmingham|649725781|649291101|this edit}}.

Eventually, a bot could do substitution for us. <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> 19:10, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

* '''support''' --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 20:06, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
* (ec) Redirecting is fine, but replacing the templates with {end|...} isn't very usefull; it does somewhat confuse the otherwise obvious pairing of templates. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 20:08, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
** Actually it makes it clearer in some instances. In Andy's example, the pair is {{tl|public art table}}/{{tl|public art footer}}. And many templates simply use {{tl|end}}. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 20:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
***The end template in that case would be would be <code><nowiki>{{End|Pubic art table}}</nowiki></code> -  easily matched to the start of the table. <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> 22:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
****"'''Pubic''' art table" is a funny typo. So the very example of the proposed system is already wrong, losing the ability to find the end by searching the source for "public art", and making it impossible for {{tl|End}} to detect the parameter if we want that later. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:24, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Oppose'''. The templates are from pairs like {{tl|Public art header}} and {{tl|Public art footer}}. The current system gives us the ability to easily change implementation of the pair, for example if something is added to the bottom or it's no longer a table. Your suggestion <code><nowiki>{{End|Public art table}}</nowiki></code> could in theory change implementation by testing the parameter value in {{tl|End}} and do something different for <code>Public art table</code>, but it requires that users always remember the parameter and always give it the exact same value. The parameter is ignored by {{tl|End}} so users will see no difference if they omit or misstype it. And {{tl|End}} is fully protected for good reasons but it means most editors would need help to change implementation of low-use cases like the currently unprotected {{tl|Public art footer}}. We would also lose the ability to use [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Public art footer]], for example to compare it with [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Public art header]]. Pairs like <code><nowiki>{{Public art header}}</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>{{Public art footer}}</nowiki></code> are also easier to spot in wikitext, especially when they start the line. I see no significant advantages of the proposed system. It would make it easier to fix if wikitext suddenly stopped accepting <code>|}</code> as code for table end but that seems highly unlikely. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 20:26, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
**You appear to be considering improbable hypothetical scenarios, such as  "[if] it's no longer a table" and "testing the parameter value in {{tl|End}}". <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> 22:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
***Eh yeah of course those are hypothetical. Wasn't he just saying that that was the whole point ? To keep that option open ? Such changes have happened in the past. Switches between divs and table structures have been quite common, and I don't think we have seen the last of them yet. I advise against substitution. Redirects could be possible, but might lead to people using the target instead. Indirect transclusion seem appropriate, but will wast more resources. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 00:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
***The proposal looks like a solution looking for a problem. If there is no problem to solve then there is no reason to destroy the current flexibility and create potential problems. Who knows whether {{tl|Col-end}} will always have a table end? If we replace uses by {{tl|end}} then maybe it will, because we have made it very hard to change it. It currently says <code><nowiki><p></p>|}</nowiki></code> (newlines omitted in code display here), so I guess the current version would actually be excluded from the proposal. Lots of end templates are not an isolated table end or may not be so in the future. {{tl|Multicol-end}} is <code><nowiki></div>|}</div></nowiki></code>. {{tl|Football squad end}} is <code><noinclude>|}|}</noinclude></code>. {{tl|Extended football squad end}} had been <code><nowiki>|}</nowiki></code> since 2010 but added code to give or request a source last week. And consider {{tl|S-end}} where the documentation says (I don't know whether it actually works like that currently): "The various [[Template:s-start|succession box]] templates are considered navigational content and thus are excluded from print in the [[Help:Books/for_experts#Improving_the_book_layout|PDFs and printed books]]. However, {{tl|end}} can be used to end ''any'' table, thus that template cannot be excluded from print. However, {{tl|s-end}} can be excluded without any negative repercussions. Similar templates that are unambiguously the end of tables which should be excluded in print should redirect here, rather than to {{tl|end}}." If we redirect the templates then it's certain and not just a hypothetical that some users will use the targets instead. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 01:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
****If "{{tl|Col-end}}... currently says <code><nowiki><p></p>|}</nowiki></code>", then it is clearly outside the scope of this proposal; and thus a red herring (and, logically, a straw man). <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> 09:11, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
*****It's an example of how tables can end in many ways depending on the chosen formatting. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cycling_past_winner_end&diff=346192772&oldid=212462227 This] one started out as <code><nowiki>|}|}</nowiki></code> but later became <code><nowiki>|}</nowiki></code>, so it would be within this proposal which would make it unable to restore the old formatting. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:24, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
*** I didn't say they are "hypothetical", I said they are "'''''improbable''''' hypothetical scenarios". <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> 09:11, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
* I agree with redirecting end templates to {{tl|end}}, but we shouldn't replace the instances for the reasons that PrimeHunter spells out. If someone does ever need to change one of the end templates, then that would be the difference between a one-edit task and a task requiring bot work. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 00:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' per PrimeHunter. This is too rigidly tied to the current implementation of these templates and would make it much more difficult to change them individually to a different implementation if we someday wished to do so. And what is broken about the current system that this would fix? —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:03, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

== CAPTCHA not working properly ==

The problem that I reported [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_134#CAPTCHA_behaviour_is_broken here] to no avail just happened again. This seems obviously broken and in need of a fix. Could some kind person log it as a bug? [[Special:Contributions/109.151.63.210|109.151.63.210]] ([[User talk:109.151.63.210|talk]]) 21:50, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
:Please see [[mw:How to report a bug]] (exact steps, browser and OS info etc. are welcome). --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 08:11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

== contrib logs ==

When I go to the contributions of an editor, and click his logs I get 'all public logs'.  When I go to the contributions as an admin, I am however often not interested in all their public logs, but in ''all'' logs, or even in all non-public logs.  However, currently I have to go through every single non-public log to see whether the editor was logged in one of them and for what reason.  Could the system be changed to standard show 'all logs that I am allowed to see with my userrights' (which for ordinary users defaults to 'all public logs' as well), and have two options 'all public logs' (to get an overview of all regular information like account creation, moving stuff around and such), and 'all non-public logs' (which shows why a user ran into problems, or why a user is problematic) as second and third in that dropdown menu.  --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 03:38, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

== Possible bug in the access date validator? ==

In the article [[Circular prime]], the References section displays as follows for me (bolding is mine):

# The Universal Book of Mathematics, Darling, David J., retrieved '''$1 $2''' Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
# Prime Numbers - The Most Mysterious Figures in Math, Wells, D., retrieved '''$1 $2''' Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
# Circular Primes, Patrick De Geest, retrieved 25 July 2010
# The mathematics of Oz: mental gymnastics from beyond the edge, Pickover, Clifford A., retrieved '''$1 $2''' Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

It looks like something got messed up with the way the access dates are validated, since '''$1 $2''' is being shown instead of the specified access date. Could someone familiar with that bit of the code take a look? Thanks, [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 15:08, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

{{Citation | publisher = Darling, David J. | title = The Universal Book of Mathematics | url = http://books.google.de/books?id=nnpChqstvg0C&pg=PA70&dq=circular+prime&hl=de&ei=4TVMTLTOMYSD4Qag-MSaDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=circular%20prime&f=false | accessdate = 25 July 2010 (see page 70)}} is using {{para|accessdate|25 July 2010 (see page 70)}} which is a bad date. But this should not be exposing the variables. Reported at [[Module talk:Citation/CS1/Archive 11#Date checking]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 15:13, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/10|Tech News: 2015-10]] ==

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'''Recent software changes'''
* A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the [[phab:P272|pages that use it]]. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005450.html]
* You can use the [[mw:Content translation|Content Translation tool]] on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
* You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/081024.html] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59732]

'''Software changes this week'''
* The [[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/wmf19|new version]] of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can [[mw:Content translation/FAQ#How can I request support for my language?|ask for the tool]] in other languages.
* Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89192] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74494] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85014] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67742]
* The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74062]
* The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53429]

'''Meetings'''
* You can [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081050.html read the notes] from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
* You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150304T08&p1=224&ah=1 March 4 at 16:00 (UTC)]. See [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal|how to join]].
* You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/001111.html]

'''Future changes'''
* You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691]

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: Documented direct section links at [[Help:Section#Direct section links]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 15:41, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

== Have categories been messed with? ==
{{tracked|T55130}}
As of today, categories appear to be trying to avoid splitting articles sorted under the same letter. For any large category this results in a single column of 200 entries, which looks ridiculous. Is this a site-wide change or a problem on my end? &mdash;[[User:Xezbeth|Xezbeth]] ([[User talk:Xezbeth|talk]]) 08:23, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:I'm seeing three columns, even if there's no heading to split at.  (Maybe browser-related?)  If there's a split after the first article in the cat, but no others in the first 200 (for example at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Living_people&from=9th%20W), I see a column of 1 and two columns of about 100 each, which is still fairly ridiculous, though. —[[User:Cryptic|Cryptic]] 08:34, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::I only get the single column with Chrome, IE doesn't have that problem. Even so, having different sized columns everywhere looks silly compared to the uniform categories we've had until now. &mdash;[[User:Xezbeth|Xezbeth]] ([[User talk:Xezbeth|talk]]) 08:47, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:Categories switched from tables to CSS columns. There are some minor errors in its implementation though, so I added my comments in [[phab:T55130]]. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 09:26, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:I'm seeing two columns in Chrome: the first column contains only 5 or 6 entries and all the rest are crammed into the second column, there is just whitespace where the third column should be. [[User:Dodger67|Roger (Dodger67)]] ([[User talk:Dodger67|talk]]) 18:09, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

== Invisible templates ==

The templates {{tl|oldpuffull}} and {{tl|oldffdfull}} are only shown on en.wikipedia.org but not on en.m.wikipedia.org. This causes confusion to the users of the mobile website. What is causing this and how can this be fixed? --[[User:Stefan2|Stefan2]] ([[User talk:Stefan2|talk]]) 19:51, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:What's causing this is the presence of the <code>tmbox</code> class. Mobile site has the CSS declaration <code>display: none !important;</code> applied to a number of classes, including tmbox. It's exactly the same issue as the <code>navbox</code> and <code>metadata</code> classes that occasionally come up on this page. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:04, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::Yeah I have been bashing the mobile team a bit on this topic. So far all this hiding hasn't been too bad (hardly any Wikipedians were using the mobile site anyways), but they really need to start investing some time on how to reduce those hidden content blocks and present the same information, in better ways. Like, a navbox is totally pointless on my phone, but there are ways you can use the contents of navboxes, to serve a similar need on mobile.. (carousel of related articles for instance). Similarly, I might not want to see a full section ambox on my smaller phone, but i might want to see a right floating small warning button or something that allows me to show the information. I don't know, just throwing ideas up there. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 21:22, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

== File mover needed ==

Re [[:File:Gerald Farinas saimin at Shiro's Saimin Haven in Hawaii.JPG]], I made a few tries with copying this over to Commons with the Move to Commons Assistant. It does not come up with the full file image name: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/commonshelper/?interface=en&image=Gerald_Farinas_saimin_at_Shiro%27s_Saimin_Haven_in_Hawaii.JPG&lang=en Step One]. I've copied other images to Commons with assistant and had no problems.  I'm thinking this file name is too long for the assistant to recognize/handle.  Continuing the process with the shortened name brings up a message that no such file exists. If I am correct, would someone with file mover permission please move it to a more apt name? [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 20:42, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
==PDF generator==
The Wiki' PDF generator is still funky. In the past several days, every time I attempt to generate and download a pdf file of an article I get a 'Wiki' Foundation' error. Will someone look into that or forward this message to someone who knows how to do something about it? Thnx. -- [[User:Gwillhickers|''Gwillhickers'']] ([[User talk:Gwillhickers |talk]]) 23:00, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

: {{Ping|Gwillhickers}} Does this happen for you only with large books, or also with single-article PDFs? We're aware of issues with large books due to HHVM and investigating, see [[phab:T89918]].--[[User:Erik Moeller (WMF)|Erik Moeller (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Erik Moeller (WMF)|talk]]) 05:39, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Erik Moeller (WMF)}} I was getting a Wiki' Foundation error even when I attempt to download one article. Just now however I was able to download a PDF on Abraham Lincoln, but got an Wiki' error when I attempted to do so with the Ulysses S. Grant article. Just to complicate matters. -- [[User:Gwillhickers|''Gwillhickers'']] ([[User talk:Gwillhickers |talk]]) 21:46, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

:::: {{ping|Gwillhickers}} OK, thanks for the update. This is likely the same issue -- timeout due to very large file. We'll aim to get this resolved ASAP, sorry for the inconvenience.--[[User:Erik Moeller (WMF)|Erik Moeller (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Erik Moeller (WMF)|talk]]) 06:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

==Non-issue==
Unrelated to my other thing here. "No, we will not add a spell-checker, or spell-checking bot.
You can use a web browser such as Firefox, which has a spell checker." above
Not that I care but why? –[[User:DangerousJXD|DangerousJXD]] ([[User talk:DangerousJXD|talk]]) 10:39, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:See [[WP:FDB#Fully automatic spell-checking bots]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 11:16, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|DangerousJXD}} You can also use tools such as [[WP:AWB|AutoWikiBrowser]], [[WP:WPCleaner|WPCleaner]], and [[User:Cacycle/wikEd|wikEd]] to find and fix spelling errors.  See [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos]] for the list of typo rules and other information.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 13:33, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

== Twinkle not working on a redirected talk page ==

At [[User talk:RightBKC]] I'm trying to leave a copyvio warning, but get the message "User talk page modification: Could not resolve redirects for: User_talk:RightBKC". I also can't find any history for the page, although it's possible there isn't any.
Thanks. [[User:Dougweller|Dougweller]] ([[User talk:Dougweller|talk]]) 12:21, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

:That's very strange. I understand why Twinkle can't resolve it (the page redirects to itself) but I don't understand why the logs show the page as having been deleted but no edits to it (you can't delete something that was never created, right?) Since you're an oversighter I'm assuming there aren't any edits that were oversighted, correct? If there were, that might explain the missing history; if not there may be something screwy going on with the global rename function.  [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 12:47, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

::Thanks. I can't see anything, so maybe there isn't any history. At least two editors reverted copyvio by this user but don't see to have warned him. [[User:Dougweller|Dougweller]] ([[User talk:Dougweller|talk]]) 13:25, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

:::Database error, I've been pointed to [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91409]. [[User:Dougweller|Dougweller]] ([[User talk:Dougweller|talk]])  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned"> — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 14:58, 7 March 2015 (UTC)</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== Outdated link on "page information" page ==

Is the "page information" page (e.g. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&action=info]) editable by local admins (perhaps via a Mediawiki: page)? I notice there is an outdated link to the toolserver in the footer. [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 13:02, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:Do you mean [[MediaWiki:pageinfo-footer|this list]]? --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 13:47, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Which is funny, because apparently I've actually edited that page before. Must be getting old... [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 13:48, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::::?uselang=qqx or &uselang=qqx shows the name of used MediaWiki messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&action=info&uselang=qqx. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 14:12, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Very handy, thanks! [[User:28bytes|28bytes]] ([[User talk:28bytes|talk]]) 23:53, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

== Background color of header cells in tables. ==

Since a while ago (I don't know exactly when) tables header cells (=cells which are coded with <code>!</code> instead of<code>|</code>) don't have a background color anymore on the mobile version of the site. Why is that? Furthermore, even in the desktop version their background color has become much lighter and is actually hardly noticeable at all, especially if a background color is coded for the whole table. There is hardly any contrast at all. Why? Many other wikipedias have much darker ( and in my opinion better) background color for their header cells (e.g. [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formel-1-Weltmeisterschaft_2015#Teams_und_Fahrer German], [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formule_1_in_2015#Ingeschreven_teams_en_coureurs Dutch], ...). If it's important I generally use desktop Safari 8.0.3. [[User:Tvx1|T]][[User Talk:Tvx1|v]][[Special:Contributions/Tvx1|x]]1 02:15, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

:The desktop CSS for the <code>wikitable</code> class is defined in {{shared.css}}. There was a recent change to padding, but not color. Would you give an example?
:I don't know where the mobile CSS repository is located. (anyone?) But I can see that the table background is set to transparent. As to why, my SWAG is that someone thought it was a good idea. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 12:37, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::Mobile Frontend extension. [https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend.git/c50b1c700c42a49fef100a0315de7c7509ba5fa6/less All styling files]. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 14:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:There has been no change in table color here, but I note that the Dutch Wikipedia has set a darker color for header cells. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 14:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

::Ok. If the color wasn't changed in the desktop I might have been wrong. I thought the contrast had reduced but I might be mistaken. I do think our header color is rather light however. [[User:Tvx1|T]][[User Talk:Tvx1|v]][[Special:Contributions/Tvx1|x]]1 22:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

== Reflist and Wikisource templates ==

When I look at the [[Writer]] article using Firefox 36.0.1, the references are displayed on top of the numerous {{tl|Wikisource}} templates.  When I look at the same article using Internet Explorer 11, the references start after the {{tl|Wikisource}} templates.  What is the correct way this article should be displayed?  Thanks!  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 15:57, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:Moving [[:File:Tomas Transtromer and Modhir Ahmed.jpg]] up a bit will fix this. So will removal of irrelevant Wikisource templates.--<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 17:09, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|Gadget850}} It appears that the picture of the Nobel Prize winning poet is supposed to be in the Awards category.  Presuming that the image and Wikisource templates are important enough to be there (which they might not be), what would be the next step?  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 21:34, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:::The image is taller than the section, which causes the problem. Clear it with {{tl|-}} (which will add a lot of whitespace), reduce the height or movie it. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 22:08, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:::The box-style {{tl|Wikisource}} templates can be changed to {{tl|Wikisource-inline}} if the boxes interfere with content further down the page - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 23:26, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::::The templates are in the wrong section, for a start - [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Links to sister projects]] says to put them in the last section, which for [[Writer]] is "External links" - but they're in "References". The {{tlx|commons}} and {{tlx|commons category}} templates advise "do not place this template in a section containing columns"; but {{tlx|Wikisource}} does not. Perhaps it should. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 00:27, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|Evad37|Redrose64}} I combined your advice and replaced the {{tl|Wikisource}} templates with a {{tl|Wikisource-inline}} template in the External links section.  Others can decide if these templates are really worthwhile or not.  Thanks everyone!  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 01:35, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::I thought there was an inline version, but it wasn't linked from {{tl|Wikisource}}. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 01:39, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
==Knowledge of personal pronoun preference data base==
There is an interest in tracking progress toward gender equality by dynamically updating statistical measure of self-identified "gender pronoun usage preference" on user pages to confirm trend of progress to achieve gender parity. This is likely admin only access to technical user data. Does anyone know how easy/how difficult it would be to gather and then print out these statistics? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 21:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

:{{ping|LawrencePrincipe}} Actually, you can access it using the "gender" [[Wikipedia:Magic words|magic word]] like so: <code><nowiki>{{gender:</nowiki>''username''<nowiki>|he|she|unset}}</nowiki></code>
:So if you enter <code><nowiki>{{gender:Philosopher|he|she|unset}}</nowiki></code>, you get <code>{{gender:Philosopher|he|she|unset}}</code>, indicating hat I have my preferences set to "{{gender:Philosopher|he|she|unset}}".  I do the same thing to you and see that yours is "{{gender:LawrencePrincipe|he|she|unset}}".  &ndash;&nbsp;''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 00:14, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

::{{ping|Philosopher}} On a one-by-one basis that works, though the stats are needed system wide on a weekly and/or monthly basis. That is, out of the total number of new users per month, what ratio self-identified as female and what ratio self-identified as male system-wide. Can it be done system-wide for being dynamically updated? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 00:35, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

:::Listed at [[Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences]] but out of date. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 00:53, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Gadget850}} Those stats are quite fine, but quite dated: "User preferences statistics; data as of 23:12, 19 June 2014 (UTC)." Is there a way to update them, or get a month-by-month graph? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 02:01, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::Looks like this was run on the old Toolserver. I don't know of a replacement. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 02:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::Note that this data is very unlikely to be useful or meaningful. The preference is designed to be used for gendering language correctly (not an issue in English) and not for demographic tracking; most users will never set it. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 15:28, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Andrew Gray}} The gender stats from the UN study from 2010 are the only ones currently is use and are dated. Although not optimal, looking at the "user preference choice of gender" offers a useful approximation. It is not optimal, but useful for gaining some insight into the current status of the gender stats. Are you familiar with the new Toolserver applications and data base access? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 16:02, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::FWIW, [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2014-August/002444.html this] is the WMF Analytics discussion from last year on whether it was likely to be useful data. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 19:51, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::Hi Andrew Gray; That conversation between Ryan Kaldari, Aaron, and Steven Walling at WMF Analytics was interesting on gender preference data being used in a sub-optimal way of getting gender stats updated from the old 2010 UN data. If anyone has their user id name, then I could ping them to try to find someone who knows the new Toolserver. The link just provided above here by Gadget850 was strongly on target with women editors estimated at 19%, which is actually quite close to the 2010 UN numbers. If anyone knows the new Toolserver well enough, or has the user id for any of the above (Ryan, Aaron, and Steve Walling) then I could ping them. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 20:46, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::I'm not sure what you mean by "knows the new toolserver", but if you have an idea of what the old SQL query was you can try it at [http://quarry.wmflabs.org/ quarry] - no need for a toolserver/labs account. I would strongly stress that the 19% is probably as much random chance as meaningful data, though. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 20:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::Does someone know how to update this link: [[Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences]]. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 21:22, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::: {{re|LawrencePrincipe}} The code that generates this report is at [[Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences/Configuration]]. Looks like it comes from the Toolserver era, so it's going to need adjustments, but you should be able to run the SQL queries at least without modifications on Quarry (mentioned above). Perhaps you can get {{u|MZMcBride}} (its author) to make it work. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 12:46, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::::{{re|Matma Rex}} MZMcB wrote that for the old toolserver, and what is needed to maintain stats now is if it can be updated/converted to the new toolserver to update the stats. Any way that this can be done? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 01:53, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
(un-indent) [[phabricator:T60196]] is what's blocking us here. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 20:03, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|MZMcBride}}{{ping|Rich Farmbrough}} That issue seems to have been addressed by @Rich who appears to be able to find a way to get the gender stats on a monthly basis (see section immediately below). The last update to comments on the phabricator link you just provide was from 14Dec which has not been updated since then. Any chance of getting the month-by-month gender preference stats for the last three or four monthly intervals? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 00:09, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

===Section break for Wikimedia research stats===
There was a user survey done by the WMF, the results of which have not been released yet.   There is a paper which describes identifying users gender by name as a supplementary process (I forget which paper).  There is also some work on gendered linguistic differences on Wikipedia, and the conclusion I took from that was that it is not valid to extrapolate  gender tells from general Internet discourse to Wikipedia discourse without supporting evidence.  I also analysed some small samples of text on a standard "gender tester" with poor results.  However there is no reason that a full text analysis of all talk page contributions could not be done, and it might well lead to a model with good gender predictive power, since there is a valid training set consisting of the gender identified users.   All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>11:46,&nbsp;18&nbsp;February&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
:{{re|Rich Farmbrough}} That paper you mention would be interesting to locate if you have any leads. The issue of using the new toolserver to count up the number of new accounts which self-identify as female seems to be difficult to accommodate, even though the old toolserver apps did this with ease. The research apps you describe above sound pretty advanced, though the simple counting of new accounts which self-identify as female would offer a first step if someone could figure out the new toolserver. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 15:18, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
::The last 5000 new accounts (that have edited) were 9 male, 1 female, 4990 unset.  All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>16:13,&nbsp;18&nbsp;February&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
:::Thanks, [[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]], that is important to keep in mind (also, specifying user gender is only possible since [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-October/001790.html october 2011]):
:::*Quarry [http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/669 Masc vs Femin ptwiki_p]
:::*Quarry [http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/671 Masc vs Femin in dewiki]
:::*Quarry [http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/625 swedishWP gender]
:::*Quarry [https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/1888 swedishWP admin gender]
:::"''However there is no reason that a full text analysis of all talk page contributions could not be done, and it might well lead to a model with good gender predictive power, since there is a valid training set consisting of the gender identified users.''" - Except that this would be freaking creepy! --[[User:Atlasowa|Atlasowa]] ([[User talk:Atlasowa|talk]]) 16:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
::::*Quarry [http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/2091 Male and female <s>users</s> accounts on enwiki]
:::: Declared: male = 502573, female=98369 , female = 16.40% of those with declared gender.
::::*Quarry [http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/2092 Male and female admins on enwiki]
:::: Admins: female=56, male= 600.  
:::: All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>17:04,&nbsp;18&nbsp;February&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
:::::{{ping|Rich Farmbrough}}{{ping|Atlasowa}} Those are remarkable gender stats, but what does 500,000 male editors refer to? The ''Economist'' newsweekly has stated here [<ref name="economist1">{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/news/international/21597959-popular-online-encyclopedia-must-work-out-what-next-wikipeaks |title=The future of Wikipedia: WikiPeaks? |publisher=The Economist |date=March 1, 2014 |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref>] that there is a total of 50,000 editors in 2007, which went down to 30,000 editors in 2014. What does your 502,573 number mean, and is it related to the 2011 date cited by @Atlasowa? Maybe there is a simple explanation. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 17:50, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
{{reflist-talk}}
:::::::The vast majority of the 20,555,036 Wikipedia accounts have never edited (or have no edits visible in their contributions).  There are several obvious reasons for these accounts, and some not so obvious:
:::::::# Someone sees some vandalism and creates an account, but it is fixed by the time they get there.
:::::::# Someone creates an account but finds editing too hard, changes their mind, gets distracted (ooh look a butterfly!)
:::::::# Accounts created to protect a name (e.g, User:Placeholder, and [[WP:DOPPELGÄNGER]] accounts) or to reserve a name
:::::::# Accounts who try to vandalise and give up because the edit filters won't let them
:::::::# Accounts that created an article which was later speedy deleted
:::::::# Accounts where the password was forgotten, or set wrongly
:::::::# Sleeper socks
:::::::and probably  a few more.
:::::::And the other figures are based on "active editors" which has various definitions, usually in terms of X edits per month or year.
:::::::All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>18:49,&nbsp;18&nbsp;February&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />

::::::[[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]], the Economist refers not really to "total editors" but to "active editors" (''Active Editors = Registered (and signed in) users who made 5 or more edits in a month''), see [https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm english WP summary stats], 2007: ~50,000 active editors and 2014: ~30,000 active editors. Same trend on other big WP, [https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryDE.htm german WP summary stats] 2007: ~9,000 active editors and 2014: ~6,000 active editors. Total (ever) Registered users on enWP: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics 24,107,661], that makes 500,000 male editors a very small part. Same for admins: Out of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics 1,363 enWP Administrators], 56 are female and 600 male. --[[User:Atlasowa|Atlasowa]] ([[User talk:Atlasowa|talk]]) 19:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::{{ping|Rich Farmbrough}} The comments all appear to be in agreement. The stats would be interesting to see for results for the last 10,000 editors and the last 15,000 editors. Are they all consistent at about 10% gender pronoun usage? {{ping|Atlasowa}} The ''Economist'' article also states that non-English Wikipedia is stable at about 42,000 active editors, up or down 2000 for seasonal variation. The 'active' editor number appears to be a significant one for all the reasons that Rich has stated above. Can the stats and tools you provided be used as reliable data to be published from Wikimedia? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 21:41, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::The Quarry tools are there, and I might be able to make something better.  (Well I am able, but I need to brush up my SQL.) 
:::::::::The 5k figure I can potentially get you the 10k and 15k figure.  To replicate those figures, it is important to state the time by which the accounts needed to have edited to qualify.  Probably simpler just to list the 15k accounts.
:::::::::I do agree with Steve Walling, though, that the declared numbers are a poor proxy.  For example GamerGate may have made females lees willing to self-identify (or it may not.. but it's a potential confounding factor.)
:::::::::All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>23:36,&nbsp;18&nbsp;February&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
::::::::::{{ping|Rich Farmbrough}} All those stats would be useful since at present there is no new data on gender stats since the 2010 UN study. If you say "it is important to state the time" for the 5k, 10k, 15k then it may be just as easy to double the time interval to indicate how many women registered (approx. 10k level), and the triple the time interval to approx. the 15k level, if that seems reasonable. The actual number for each time interval would tell the story. Regarding your other question about women "GamerGate" concerns, my understanding is that if women were given confidence that self-identifying gender would help them to better achieve gender parity, then they would have every incentive to do so. Historically, a chance to achieve goals is often a high incentive to participate. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 00:31, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::Absolutely, it's the case that Editathons based on improving coverage (achieving gender parity) on women's history, women's literature etc. are very successful in attracting participants (of both genders) I believe for this reason. However the motivation to edit is generally not related to gender parity, and those who are really passionate about this tend to think (perhaps rightly) that their time is best spent encouraging other women and girls to edit.
:::::::::::As far as the numbers go 5,000 editors is about 2 or 3 days worth.  But I can take samples at monthly  intervals, or some such.  All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>00:52,&nbsp;19&nbsp;February&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
::::::::::::If the monthly stats are a convenient time interval then by all means it would be useful to see it, for a few monthly intervals if possible. It is not clear to me why this data is being called unreliable by different editors. This is the same data source for counting the number of new editors and number of edits per week, per month, etc, with no-one thinking these data counts as being unreliable? Why call them unreliable for counting personal pronoun preference selection on user pages? [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 20:37, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::::It's unreliable because it's not complete. Making your gender public is optional: those [[User:Redrose64#Wikipedians I have met|I have met in real life]] know my gender, but I can (and do) hide it from those who only know me electronically: {{tlx|he or she|Redrose64}} → {{he or she|Redrose64}}. I expect that there are many editors who have not set their gender simply because they don't know that it is possible for them to do so - and some may have set it without realising that it's not compulsory. By contrast, the number of edits that I make is permanently recorded, and moreover is something that I cannot hide. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:23, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

I have produced a little graph at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force#F.2FM_ratio_of_gender_identifying_editors_on_en:WP]] which shows the gender ratio of new gender identifying editors month by month.  All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>01:16,&nbsp;4&nbsp;March&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
::redrose and Richf; those graphs are very good with comments on talk there. It is a priority to ask redrose how hard it would be to make a gender prefered sign in tab as a system wide change. If jwhales is serious for more gender equality then these stats are essential to track progress. The larger the base of stats then the more reliable the data. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 20:16, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{replyto|LawrencePrincipe}} I don't see why it should be a priority to ask me - I am not a MediaWiki developer. Try [[phab:]] (but don't hold your breath, judging by [[phab:T89690|a recent experience of mine]], they will probably close it as "invalid" because one of them passed it to the wrong department). --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Giving a gendered create account tab at the top of the page sounded like it might be welcoming. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 20:17, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I guess Lawrence can have any priority he likes!  And indeed you gave him one answer he needs, which is Phabricator. {{Smiley}}
::::For reference the figures I used are at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough/Gender_balance.
::::I have thought about the Gender Prefs  and ISTM that adding it to account creation would not be too onerous, especially if a "prefer not to say" or "hide" option, or both were provided.
::::All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>23:22,&nbsp;7&nbsp;March&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
:::::Yes, agree completely. Right next to the "Login" tab we could leave the current "Create account" tab as is, and then place a color coded one next to it for an optional gendered "Create account for women" (pink scarlet color tab I assume). Phabricator (see comment of {{ping|Redrose64}} above) apparently wants an RfC for this first somewhere though I have never set one up for them. If someone can do it, then the tool of {{ping|Rich Farmbrough}} just described above would have a much richer supply of data to show gender equality trends and trending on Wikipedia. Such a "Create account for women" tab would also be able to give a simple news flash of current Edit-a-thons for women editors as one possible use among others. Cheers. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 19:54, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::A special "Create account for women" pink tab is about as useful as [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/11/harriet-harman-denies-pink-battle-bus-female-voters-patronising this pink minibus]. No. Just no. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:30, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

===Data collection for user pronoun preference stats===
There is much skepticism on the gender gap issue at Wikipedia and some argue that gender distribution in the IT industry in general, currently at about 28 percent, cannot be breeched. Is there a preferred position that you have taken on this issue (see Redrose above), that is, gender equality is possible or gender equality is not possible at Wikipedia. Rich's tools above depend on getting added supplies of gender data, if Wikipedia wishes to track these stats in a serious way, then what would you suggest. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 01:13, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:About the "sign-in tab" idea, which I take to be an extra box on the account sign up page to specify gender:  The GettingStarted team (now disbanded) did some work on things like that.  Their overall finding is that every extra question you add to the sign-up process means that measurably fewer people sign up.  "Pick a username, password, (optional) email address, and (optional) gender" will result in fewer accounts being created than the current "Pick a username, password, and (optional) email address".   [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 18:17, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
::Hi {{ping|WhatamIdoing}} That seems very reasonable to leave the sign-up sheet as it is. The big question is the account sign-up tab on the system wide screen right before you get to the sign-up sheet. This new gender tab does not even have to be a long term thing, and 90 days would be sufficient time to collect much needed data for Rich's new gender stats tools discussed above. Since the tab on the system wide screen would be color coded and right next to the regular "Create account" tab, then there would be no need to re-ask the gender question after it is selected as "Create account for women". That makes it one less question on the sign-up form, and the data can still be gathered for the trial period of data collection of these statistics. Cheers. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 19:00, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

== Tables just changed (using monobook) ==

I use monobook, and the default cell height and padding seem to have changed. The font size of the text appears to be the same, but the cells are definitely bigger. Where could a change have been made that would affect this for me? -''[[User:Niceguyedc|Niceguyedc]]'' <sup>[[User talk:Niceguyedc|Go Huskies!]]</sup> 01:59, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
:It's the same for me on Vector. Also, the bullets on bulleted lists are smaller (like a middot) and appearing to be at the bottom of the line instead of the usual larger size centered vertically on the line. <span style="background:#006B54; padding:2px;">'''[[User:Imzadi1979|<span style="color:white;">Imzadi&nbsp;1979</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Imzadi1979|<span style="color:white;"><big>→</big></span>]]'''</span>  02:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
::OS and browser please? <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 10:21, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
::The bullets are now SVG instead of PNG. There is one known issue where Webkit on iOS does not size the bullets correctly. [https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141367 Webkit bug report]. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 10:28, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
:::I'm using Safari version 8.0.3 on MacOS X Yosemite (10.10.2). Firefox (v. 14.0.1) does not have the bullet size issue, however the bullets are still slightly off center vertically, putting them slightly too low, but not as low as in Safari where the are at the bottom of the line. In Chrome (v. 40.0.2214.115), the appearance is the same as Firefox: right size but slightly too low on the line. Just for kicks, I also looked in Opera (v. 12.12 ), and it's the same as Chrome and Firefox. The bullets look the same in Safari on an iPad running iOS 8.1.3 as they do on Safari running on the desktop.  <span style="background:#006B54; padding:2px;">'''[[User:Imzadi1979|<span style="color:white;">Imzadi&nbsp;1979</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Imzadi1979|<span style="color:white;"><big>→</big></span>]]'''</span>  15:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
{{ping|Edokter}} I'm using Windows 7 and Firefox 36. I don't actually notice anything different with the bullets, just the extra size of rows in tables. -''[[User:Niceguyedc|Niceguyedc]]'' <sup>[[User talk:Niceguyedc|Go Huskies!]]</sup> 14:06, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Imzadi1979|Niceguyedc}} The table cells for <code>.wikitable</code> have had their padding increased... doubled even. I found only [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW33cfd0bc4a5f009b86c40b0312b4c7f7b006cbc7 this commit], but cannot find a accompanying task that discusses this change. (The bullets only affects Vector.) <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 14:43, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
:: Yep, the previous padding was pretty tight. You can see examples at [[testwiki:Wikitable padding]]. This change shouldn't have broken anything. Please provide links here or file [[phabricator:|Phabricator]] tasks if you see issues. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 15:50, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

:::While we are on this, where is the repository for shared.css? The catalog still links to SVN, and I can't find main on git.  --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 16:02, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
::::[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/master/resources/src/mediawiki.legacy/shared.css] this? It's on mediawiki core repo. [[User:Glaisher|Glaisher]] ([[User talk:Glaisher|talk]]) 16:09, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

:::::Thanks! Since I keep referring to it, created {{tl|shared.css}}. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 16:20, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

:::::: Is this a permanent change? I'm working with tables all the time on wikipedia and am quite upset by this change. Bigger tables don't even fot on a page anymore. Personally I think the tables harder to read and it looks untidy. Isn't there any way too make the table cells the size you want? [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]] ([[User talk:Jahn1234567890|talk]]) 00:45, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

::::::: {{ping|Edokter|MZMcBride}} I also agree that the change should be reverted - {{u|Jahn1234567890}}'s note on its untidy look is well take.  It is also harder to follow visually, especially when zoomed in - as I have to because of vision difficulties - as the distance between the text and the lines is increased.  Finally, vertical vs. horizontal whitespace is now unbalanced, as dmeonstrated in the small table at [[List of Governors of Iowa#Living former governors]]. &ndash;&nbsp;''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 01:48, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::Noted this through the notably wider infobox element, which contains a 6-column table. (see [[Uranium]]). Considerably widened. 1. Not a bad thing per se, except that relative image size now changed (i.e. it did not change absolutely), and there might be a guideline saying something about ideal infobox width ("33% body pagewidth max"?). The infobox now has fewer unforced line-wraps, but its whitespace is growing and growing. I hope this is within grand page-design philosophy. 2. Then I went to check a table that needs all 100% page width: {{tl|Periodic table}} in [[Periodic table]]. No effect so OK, because it has <code>cellpadding=</code> set (without this, the wider padding is breaking bad, undesired & useless). This leads to these points: a) are there similar tables (using & needing 100% width) that are gravely affected this way, because they are without cellpadding set?, and b) if I remember correct, {{!mxt|1=cellpadding=}} is deprecated. Though this depends on it. 3. Btw, is the padding in the infobox enlarged too (mostly visible with section headers)? Conclude: nothing broken so far for me, some questions left. -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 08:14, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::{{tl|Periodic table}} should not be affected because it's not using <code>.wikitable</code>, ''not'' because of the obsolete attributes being used. I did replace those attributes with proper CSS. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 09:34, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::I get this. (Had to squeeze out some ws). -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 10:45, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::What is this central point where deprecated code (like this) is listed? I only meet such statements off and on. -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 20:28, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::::[[Wikipedia:HTML5]]. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 21:09, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::: My biggest problem with the table change is that this affects every single table on wikipedia. I don't understand why it was changed in the first place. The previous table size was just fine. And if you found that padding too small you could adjust the width by yourself. Now you have no option at all. [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]] ([[User talk:Jahn1234567890|talk]]) 14:08, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::::Yes. Why not make it 8px? -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 20:28, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]]. You can trivially reduce wikitable padding in your personal user CSS. In general, I think the increased padding looks better. The cited example above ([[List of Governors of Iowa#Living former governors]]) looks good to me. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 20:47, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:Is there a central place where this whitespace philisophy is discussed? 'I think .. looks better' is not enough to me. -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 20:52, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:: I dunno about a central place. [[testwiki:Wikitable padding]] is where I did my testing. I don't think anything broke and there seems to be general consensus that the increased padding (0.3em 0.4em instead of 0.2em) is an improvement. There are quite a few studies that suggest that adding whitespace improves readability. Maybe that would be a better argument? --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 20:58, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::I'm lost. "I dunno", "don't think anything broke", "there seems to be general consensus" (''where, where, WHERE'' I repeat). If this is the way classes are set, why are we talking anyway? Who cares. (and let me note that you still did not address my specific points). Make it 8px, I say. -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 21:04, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|MZMcBride}} For results tables like this [[Dave Marcis#Motorsports career results|Dave Marcis]] the change makes tables like this look really untidy. Personally I'm unhappy with this change because with results tables in general this change makes those tables unnecessary big. But how would reduce wikitable padding in my personal user CSS? I haven't worked with this before. [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]] ([[User talk:Jahn1234567890|talk]]) 21:28, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::: Before I forget. Why was the table padding changed? It was just fine the way it was. I mean this change effects every wikitable on wikipedia. I think doubling the padding is a way to big change [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]] ([[User talk:Jahn1234567890|talk]]) 22:02, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

(un-indent) Hi. [[gerrit:188311]] contains most of the relevant discussion. [[User:DePiep|DePiep]]: If you want to propose 8px, a Gerrit changeset or Phabricator task is probably what you want. :-)  Also, the English Wikipedia's technical village pump is just one of many venues to discuss technical changes. [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]]: You'll probably want to add the following code (or similar) to [[User:Jahn1234567890/common.css]]:

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
table.wikitable > tr > th,
table.wikitable > tr > td,
table.wikitable > * > tr > th,
table.wikitable > * > tr > td {
    padding: 0;
}
</syntaxhighlight>

Hope that helps. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 22:28, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
:The concern is not just with [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]], there are tables on wikipedia which are now unnecessarily huge for everyone. If there is a consensus to make this sitewide change (other than just [[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] and "a friend of his"), could a new class such as <code>wikitablecompact</code> be created that uses the old 0.2em padding? While affected tables ''could'' be rewritten to not use the <code>wikitable</code> class altogether (manually setting the style for each individual cell), it would be an major pain and create unnecessarily confusing code. --[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00f;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-0.3em;line-height:1;font-size:62.5%;text-align:center;"><b>TALK<br />PAGE</b></span>]]) 18:25, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Hi [[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]]. Describing the increased padding as huge seems a bit extreme. I considered having wikitable variants, such as wikitable-compact, but the use-cases seemed to be pretty limited. If you'd like such variants available locally, we can modify [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]. This approach would require proposing alternatives and gaining local consensus to support the additional class(es) here. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 21:24, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
::: {{ping|MZMcBride}} The Padding increase is'nt huge to you perhaps, but for a person like me who works with tables all the time it is more than a huge change. All the results tables I made during my stay on wikipedia are now way to huge and untidy when they should be compact. I mean all the work I have done. Thats feels like a slap in the face to me. I honestly have no idea why the padding whould be changed like that. A lot of people are far from happy with this change. And to be honest I haven't seen a lot people who are happy with this change. There are way to many tables that are affected by this (and not for the best most of the time). There has got to be some way to work this out, because I think it is far from unreasonable to keep this change when there is so much objection against this change. [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]] ([[User talk:Jahn1234567890|talk]]) 21:54, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: Any design or user interface change is going to elicit some negative feedback. A few people have complained and there are various options available, including per-user and per-site customizations, as explained above. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 22:38, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
*{{u|MZMcBride}}, you keep saying that this change was discussed, and referring to the gerrit page.  Well, only developers read gerrit pages. This wasn't discussed with the people or projects that it affects. There's really no difference between a change that affects hundreds of thousands of pages made by WMF staff and changes that affect hundreds of thousands of pages made by volunteer developers:  both should be discussed with the affected projects and communities before implementation.  Basically, what I see here is one volunteer developer coming up with what he thinks is a cool idea, and having the connections to get it committed and distributed across WMF projects, without having discussed the proposal with anyone outside of the developer stream. That's pretty much the type of action that, when taken by WMF staff, you yourself have decried. I'd have expected better from you.  [[User:Risker|Risker]] ([[User talk:Risker|talk]]) 22:57, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
** Hi [[User:Risker|Risker]]. Theoretically any change to MediaWiki core affects millions of pages... I don't see your point.<p>The increased padding looks better on the whole. If you have proposals for discussing changes like this across 800-plus Wikimedia wikis (in addition to the thousands of non-Wikimedia MediaWiki wikis), please share. If you have specific technical problems to be addressed, please share.<p>As it is, you seem to be arguing that a slight padding increase required extensive community consultation, which seems to be pretty insane. Do you really believe that's how development works or should work? --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 23:04, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
***No, MZM, what I expect is an analysis of the impact of the change and a method of informing groups that will be affected by the change of how it will affect them, and what they can do to mitigate the change. This is especially important when it comes to subjective changes that have not been requested anywhere by anyone and are, essentially, the wish and desire of a single developer.  [[User:Risker|Risker]] ([[User talk:Risker|talk]]) 23:14, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
**** Well, I am spending volunteer time responding to questions and concerns being raised here. :-)  In this case, the change was so small/slight as to not warrant much in the way of notification or contingency plans. There was no expected breakage and the impact to users was considered negligible. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 23:26, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
****Hello {{ping|MZMcBride}} Thank you for your reply. I Figured out how to work on my own CSS page. But somehowe I can't get the skin like it was before the padding change. Could ypu help me out? [[User:Jahn1234567890|Jahn1234567890]] ([[User talk:Jahn1234567890|talk]]) 23:22, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
***** [[Special:Permalink/649445826]] looks fine. You should probably revert to that. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 23:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
***I'm sorry, but I disagree witht he change as well. 0.2em to 0.4em ''is'' doubling, ''not'' "slight", and it shows. Any change with such a visual impact should have been discussed, at least in Phabricator. The perceived improvement is subjective and there was no premise that prompted this change. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 23:26, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
**** No need to apologize, disagreement is fine. And the nature of [[Cascading Style Sheets]] allows individual sites or individual users to customize their experience by overriding the default padding or creating derivate CSS classes. There was a premise that prompted this change and it's explained in the commit message of [[gerrit:188311]]. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 23:32, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
***** So, shall we set it back to 0.2em on this wiki in [[Mediawiki:Common.css]] then? -- [[User:WOSlinker|WOSlinker]] ([[User talk:WOSlinker|talk]]) 09:19, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
****** I am very inclined to do so. I will also raise a task and seek to revert it. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 10:09, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
***** The premise of "it looks better" is not much of an argument, and considering the flack it has invoked, it was poorly researched for impact. You cannot send user to their personal CSS to 'undo' a change of this nature. What's even more troubling, that if you want to undo it in a table or template, it requires inline CSS for ''every'' table cell. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 10:09, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

(un-indent) Err, "flack" is a pretty generous term. Maybe a half-dozen people have commented, which is probably about equal to the number of people who reviewed the Gerrit change. It might've been best to not make [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&diff=649665282&oldid=646105607 this edit] yourself. Do you know if any other wikis have noticed or cared about this change to the wikitable padding? If the objections are specific to the English Wikipedia, a local override is perhaps for the best. Or perhaps 0.2em 0.4em. :-)  --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 05:17, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
:If these comments had appreared on Phabricator, it would have been -2'd (rejected). If such a 'minor' change generates comments, it is generally a bad idea. All the above comments have merit, but I haven't seen you address a single one of them, ie. you can't explain ''why'' "it looks better". It is a subjective, unmeasurable criterium, which in itself is ''never'' a good reason for a change unless absolutely uncontested. That is ''not'' the case here. Please don't dismiss all comments as irrelevant; it makes you look as simply ignoring them. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 09:00, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
::In MZ's defense, he did give a non-subjective reason:  that sort of small increase (an absolute change of one-fifth of the width of a single character) to white space improves [[readability]] (for average readers, on average content). 
::I think that a more productive conversation to have would be this:  What changes do we need to wikitext table settings, to be able to accommodate both readability for average tables (more white space) and common sense for other tables (e.g., less white space for cells that only contain a single number), without having to set CSS tags in every single cell? [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 19:47, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

:: [[User:Edokter|Edokter]]: I think this conversation has jumped the shark. Your comments are horribly wrong, but they're not really worth addressing. You've now imposed your preferred padding on the English Wikipedia; I think we can leave MediaWiki alone. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 21:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Horribly wrong? '''You''' imposed a drastic change bypassing ''any'' discussion, which is not well received. What did you expect? <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 00:01, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: There was discussion in Gerrit, you just don't approve of the venue. While you're trying to personalize this discussion by blaming me specifically, I only proposed this change. I didn't merge this change nor did I deploy this change. And I'll repeat that this change seems to have been well-received on the 800-plus other Wikimedia wikis. A few people on one wiki disagree with the change, as far as I can tell.
:::: I've tried to avoid directly calling you out, but in this entire discussion, I've had the strong feeling that you're mostly upset that you (personally) weren't consulted about this change. And that seems a bit petty to me. Your local override seems to suggest the same mentality. Could you really not find any other local administrator to agree with you? You really felt it necessary to revert this padding change yourself when you'd already been involved in the discussion and clearly have a conflict? Your behavior here has every taste of "I wasn't consulted!" and "I disagree with changes where I wasn't consulted!" even when the change is beneficial. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 15:40, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
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:::::I'm not blaming you personally... I'm trying to expose the absense of '''process''' with this change. You however seem to take this personally. I am addressing you because you stepped up defending the change, and systematically dismiss all complaints and arguments as non-existing. And it is irrelevant that I was not consusted... '''no one''' was consulted! I simply responded to complaints (which I happen to agree with). I don't know what you define as "well received"; please post examples of that. In the mean time, I will just open a tast to discuss the actual chhange. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 17:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

== Bullet points ==

[[File:En Wiki bullet point issue - Davey2010.png|thumb|]]
When you look at the bullet points in for instance this AFD [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Downs]] - Are they extremely tiny ?,<br />
As you can see from the picture they're absolutely tiny for me so I'm not sure if something here's changed or it's something to do with my laptop/chrome settings?,<br />
Thanks, –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 03:33, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:They appear at the normal size for me. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 03:35, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::There is some discussion of this at the top of [[#Tables just changed (using monobook)]]. &ndash;&nbsp;''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 03:40, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::Thanks {{u|Mr. Stradivarius}},<br />
:::{{u|Philosopher}} - It actually appears to be a Chrome issue I think ?, I tried IE and they're normal but when I try Chrome logged out it still seems tiny, The font settings are all normal, I'll wipe everything and see if that does the trick, –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 03:46, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::Forgot to say I'm using Vector, Anyway nope all still the same, Well it looks like I partially have the Monobook issue...Just in Vector {{p|grin}}, Ah well thanks anyway ) –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 04:44, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::It's a [https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141367 Webkit issue]; Chrome fixed this last year (in Blink), so that should not be a problem (unless you have a really old Chrome version). <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 09:43, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::Hi {{u|Edokter}} - Nope I'm using the latest version as far as I know (34.0.1847.116), Thanks, –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 17:35, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::{{U|Davey2010}}, that '''is''' old! The latest version is 40. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 17:47, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::::Yes, as I noted at [[#New CSS in Firefox]] above, Chrome 40.0.2214.115m is current version. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 17:51, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::{{u|Edokter}} Eh seriously?, I've been updating chrome the moment the 3 bars go green so how on earth could I have gone from using updated versions to old ?.....Unless without me knowing Chrome '''hasen't''' been updating at all for quite some time?, I really don't no!, Anyway thanks for solving the mystery ) –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 18:13, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::By the looks of it my browser hasen't updated itself since April 2014 ..... Great!, Anyway thanks all for your help :) –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 18:24, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
[[File:Wikipedia bullet point problem.tiff|thumb|Safari 8 on OS X Yosemite (Wikipedia home page)]]
[[File:En.wiki bullet point bug.png|thumb|200px|left|Chrome 40.0.2214 on Android 5.0 (TouchWiz)]]
:I've got the same problem with Safari 8.0.3 (latest version) on OS X 10.10.2 (see screenshot on the right). The bullet points have about the same size and position as full stops. [[User:SelfishSeahorse|SelfishSeahorse]] ([[User talk:SelfishSeahorse|talk]]) 13:40, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
:Same problem on [[Chrome for Android]] 40.0.2214.109 running [[Android 5.0]] on my [[Galaxy S5]](SM-G900V). Really annoying becuase they look like messed up periods. '''[[User:EoRdE6|EoRdE6]]'''<sup><small>([[User talk:EoRdE6|Come Talk to Me!]])</small></sup> 19:25, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

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== Ping and pong ==

{{tl|ping}} is very close to {{tl|pong}}&mdash;since I and O are very close on the QWERTY keyboard it's a common typo that I'll readily admit to making.

Proposal: a vanity template to take advantage of this fact in a humorous manner.

For example, {{ping|Resident Mario}}, or {{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}} (versus {{ping|Resident Mario}} or {{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}}) <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 21:01, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:Apologies to Stradivarius in advance for using him as a guinea pig! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 21:02, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

:[[Pong (disambiguation)]] says: "Pong, in computer networking jargon, a response to a [[Ping (networking utility)|ping]]". It may be confusing if you use pong as a synonym for ping instead of a response, but I suppose you could make documentation which suggests use when you alert a user who pinged you. See also [[Ping-pong scheme]]. <pedant alert>I could have used it to "pong" you but you didn't release the image as public domain so attribution is required and your template doesn't link to the file page.</pedant alert> [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:32, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|PrimeHunter}} Ah, sorry, [[:File:Pong ball in flight.svg]] is the one, I've pubbed it now. It wouldn't be too hard to reverse the image (and host it from the other side of the template if need be). <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 23:42, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I removed my template from this discussion to free up my sandbox, sorry, heh. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 04:46, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

== Problems with non-unique section titles ==

(See [[WP:Village pump (technical)/Archive 126#Link to a section in a Wikipedia article]])

When section titles are not-unique, the TOC still works fine, the 2nd section has _2 appended to its #anchor link; the 3rd, _3, and so on.

But the system fails in two other situations I know about.

When you edit a section, WP pre-fills the edit summary with /* &lg;section title&gt; */, which is turned into a → linking to the section.  This works fine provided the section names are unique. But WP isn't smart enough, so the summary of an edit in the 2nd or following identically-named section will include a misleading → link to the first section by the same name.  

Also, after completing a section edit, WP automatically scrolls to the beginning of the section being edited.  This, too, fails when section names are not unique.  If you edit the 2nd section, you'll get scrolled back to the beginning of the first section.

For example, the article [[Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals]], the first and third section have parallel sub-section names
* {{sectionlink|nopage=y|Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals|Shared properties|Metals|Metalloids|Nonmetals}}
* {{sectionlink|nopage=y|Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals|Anomalous properties|Metals_2|Metalloids_2|Nonmetals_2}}
When I made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Properties_of_metals,_metalloids_and_nonmetals&diff=650570824&oldid=650526882 this] dummy edit to 2nd Metals section, WP pre-filled the edit summary with /* Metals */, which got changed to [[Properties of metals, metalloids and nonmetals#Metals|→]], pointing to the first Metals section, and when I saved the edit, my browser scrolled to the 1st (not 2nd) Metals section.

Has this made it into the buglist? [[User:YBG|YBG]] ([[User talk:YBG|talk]]) 07:03, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

:Yep, back in 2004. These issues are [[phab:T4831|T4831]] and [[phab:T2111|T2111]], respectively. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 08:37, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

== X!'s tool not working ==

See https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Anthonyhcole&project=en.wikipedia.org

It is linked at the bottom of every user "contributions page". --[[User:Anthonyhcole|Anthonyhcole]] ([[User talk:Anthonyhcole|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Anthonyhcole|contribs]] · [[Special:EmailUser/Anthonyhcole|email]])  13:29, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
* {{U|Anthonyhcole}}, Xtools seems to be running, but apparently there is some db lag or some other db issue (that's why it's reporting as all 0s, no data coming back from the db).  Not much xtools can do about labs issues, sorry. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 14:34, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/11|Tech News: 2015-11]] ==

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Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/11|Translations]] are available.

'''Recent changes'''
* You can now [[mw:Extension:Collection|create books]] on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73416] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/165490]
* VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74048] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76998] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89923]

'''Changes this week'''
* The [[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/wmf20|new version]] of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* In VisualEditor the "Edit <sup>beta</sup>" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60583] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112590/]
* The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89878] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/192749]
* You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76523] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/192072]
* You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89054] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71474]
* If you use the [[:mw:Content translation|ContentTranslation]] tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

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* You can [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081080.html read the notes] from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
* You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150311T12&p1=224&ah=1 March 11 at 19:00 (UTC)]. See [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal|how to join]].
* You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-March/001115.html]

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* You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the [[mw:Google Summer of Code 2015|Google Summer of Code]] and [[mw:Outreachy/Round 10|Outreachy]] pages. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081052.html]
* You will soon be able to read technical reports [[phab:tag/report/|in Phabricator]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88470]

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== stats.grok.se broken again? ==

[http://stats.grok.se The website] hasn't updated since the 5th. Previously, pageviews for a day would be available the following day. But there hasn't been updates in five days. 

Also, should it be time to create a parallel tool on Wikimedia Labs, if only as a backup? [[User:Narutolovehinata5|Narutolovehinata5]] <sup>[[User talk:Narutolovehinata5|t]][[Special:Contributions/Narutolovehinata5|c]][[WP:CSD|csd]][[Special:Newpages|new]]</sup> 23:11, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

:There is already another tool at https://tools.wmflabs.org/#toollist-wikiviewstats but it has been completely down for a long time, at least each time I checked. I don't know whether there is work or plans for it. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 01:11, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
== Suppressing Infobox Person ==

Hi, could somebody give me the coding in my preferences to suppress [[Template:Infobox person]] in an article and to replace a photo if in the infobox with a formatted photo in place set at 250px with the caption given in the infobox?♦ [[User:Dr. Blofeld|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span>]] 14:27, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Dr. Blofeld}} I know how to suppress the display of the whole of {{tlx|infobox person}} - it's <syntaxhighlight lang=css>table.infobox.biography { display: none; }</syntaxhighlight> in [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] - but I don't know how to do put the image back in replacement. I suspect that Javascript is necessary. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:37, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
: Hi [[User:Dr. Blofeld|Dr. Blofeld]]. Can you please provide some specific examples of articles using {{tl|Infobox person}} and the specific images that you're trying to suppress? Can you please also provide some examples of articles using this infobox (or a different infobox) and examples of images you're trying to ''not'' suppress?
: You probably need a small JavaScript script to do this. Having a list of test cases would be very helpful in developing such a script.
: Finally, can you please provide a link to the image ("formatted photo") you would like to replace the natural infobox image with? --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 15:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

:::Hi, much appreciate the response both. Basically instead of the infobox to have it as it was before with the image, although 250px at standard [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Burges&diff=649979112&oldid=649951367]. Infobox architect feeds into infobox person at the moment but not sure if it would work for infobox architect. Basically on any arts biographical article which has a redundant (in my opinion) infobox like that I'd like to be able to suppress it and have clean photograph in place of it. [[Angelina Jolie]], for instance instead of that infobox with the trivia on family to just display her image at 250px with the caption in the infobox. If something can feed off the image parameter of the infobox and just put the image there, can that be done? Something like if image (in infobox person or architect, display [File:xxx.jpg|thumb|250px|Caption=]]...  ♦ [[User:Dr. Blofeld|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span>]] 17:31, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:It could probably be done without javascript if some css classes were added to [[Template:Infobox person]], with something along the lines of <syntaxhighlight lang=css>table.infobox.biography tr { display: none; } table.infobox.biography tr.main-image, table.infobox.biography tr.main-image-caption { display: table-row; }</syntaxhighlight>. —[[User:Cryptic|Cryptic]] 01:57, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Something like this seems to sort of work with [[Brad Pitt]] and [[Angelina Jolie]]:

<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
$('.infobox tr').each(function() { $(this).children(":not([colspan='2'])").parent().css('display', 'none') });
</syntaxhighlight>

For more complex cases such as [[Barack Obama]], this approach wouldn't work as well. It's also not clear how/when you'd trigger this suppression. --[[User:MZMcBride|MZMcBride]] ([[User talk:MZMcBride|talk]]) 06:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

infobox.person { display: none; } didn't work for me. I think it's time that the foundation and developers like {{u|Jorm (WMF)}} acknowledged that disputes over infoboxes are very common on here and to make wikipedia more flexible by suppressing them in biographies. Perhaps the intention is to centralize them in wiki data. If they do so, then there should be the option from user to user whether to suppress certain ones or not. Looks like I'll just have to ignore them for the time being. Thanks anyway.♦ [[User:Dr. Blofeld|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span>]] 11:39, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:Such disputes occur in discussion of a very, very tiny percentage of articles, and do not involve many editors at all. Most editors, and most readers, seem to welcome the inclusion of infoboxes. The Foundation would be foolish to squander time and effort on such an [[WP:IDONTLIKEIT|esoteric request]]. <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> 20:35, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::I don't know who you're trying to kid Andy but virtually every featured article I've been involved with in the last 2 years has had an infobox either imposed or attempted to be imposed on them. I respect that the people advocating them like to see consistency across articles and make infoboxes uniform, but you don't see it from the other perspective Andy and have a habit of gunning down anybody who doesn't agree with you with arrogant IDONTLIKEIT arguments. There is certainly a significant number of experienced editors here who loathe them in biographies. This is a very real issue, the disputes on talk pages often go on for weeks. {{u|KJP1}} in fact stated recently that he was appalled with the time wasting and passion gone into the infobox dispute when it could be used to write articles. He's right. It should never get to that. There should be the option there to customise pages for each editor, rather than assuming everybody ''must'' have an infobox and likes them. And by that I don't just mean infoboxes, I mean options like a whole page option when reading to suppress the sidebar, a much wider range of tools to give readers the desired look they want. Everybody is different.♦ [[User:Dr. Blofeld|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span>]] 10:40, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I'm not trying to ''kid'' anyone so please don't impugn my motives. The set of "virtually every featured article [you've] been involved with in the last 2 years" is far from being the set of all our articles, or even from being representative of it. Likewise, you and the other the editors to which you refer are not representative of all of our editors, let alone representative of all of our readers. My arguments are not (unlike the "loathing" of others) IDONTLIKEIT; I have explained the reasons why infoboxes are beneficial, at length and with supporting evidence. <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> 20:20, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Nevertheless, {{u|Dr. Blofeld}}, you could try pasting this:
<pre>
table.infobox.biography tr {display:none;}
table.infobox.biography tr:first-of-type + tr {display:table-row;}
</pre>
into your common.css - find it at [[User:Dr. Blofeld/common.css]]

I don't guarantee that it must work on every biography - and it won't work on old browsers, but it might make wiki-life just a bit more tolerable for you. I really hope it helps. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 22:41, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{u|RexxS}} Thanks for that!  It seems to work! Is there any way of ridding of the box outline around the photos though?♦ [[User:Dr. Blofeld|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span>]] 10:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: Yes, just add a new line:
<pre>table.infobox.biography {border:none;}</pre>
:::: underneath the other lines in [[User:Dr. Blofeld/common.css]]. It won't be perfect, but it's close to what you ask for. If you find you would like a faint border then use <code>table.infobox.biography {border:1px solid #EEE;}</code> instead. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|talk]]) 20:31, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

:{{replyto|Dr. Blofeld}} Assuming that in your post of 11:39, 8 March 2015 you mean [[Special:Permalink/650433870|this version]] - no, it wouldn't have worked for you (or for anybody else), because <code>infobox.person</code> is not a valid selector: there is no such HTML element as {{tag|infobox}}, and even if there were, "person" is not a class that is used on Wikipedia biography pages. If you look at the CSS blobs above, there is always a dot before the word "infobox" and this dot tells your browser that "infobox" is a class, not an element. Punctuation is critical in CSS, not optional. In my first example, I used the selector <code>table.infobox.biography</code> which means 'a HTML {{tag|table}} element which has the class "infobox" and also the class "biography"'. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:44, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

== Link to this section snake ==
{{Tracked|T18691}}
Am I the only one seeing two snakes with the message ''"link to this section"'' at the head of discussion sections? [[User:GoodDay|GoodDay]] ([[User talk:GoodDay|talk]]) 00:46, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

:It's a [[section sign]] added recently. You can remove it with this in {{yourcss}}:
 .mw-headline-anchor {display: none;}
:[[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:59, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::I don't understand. [[User:GoodDay|GoodDay]] ([[User talk:GoodDay|talk]]) 01:02, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{ping|GoodDay}} There's a help page at [[Help:User style]]. In short, create the page [[User:GoodDay/common.css]] and add the code that PrimeHunter gave you to it. Then the snakes will disappear. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 01:11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I tested it with ''show preview'' & was warned the code would compromise my account. [[User:GoodDay|GoodDay]] ([[User talk:GoodDay|talk]]) 01:12, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::::*Code that you don't know or trust can do that. The warning is that it ''could'' compromise your account, if it were malicious code.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 01:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::I think I'll put up with the double snakes. I'm not fussy about venturing into unknown territory. [[User:GoodDay|GoodDay]] ([[User talk:GoodDay|talk]]) 01:16, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::It's a good idea to be careful of things that you add to your personal JS and CSS pages, but in this case the code is safe, so don't let that deter you this time. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 01:29, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::Perhaps those who implimented the ''section sign'', will eventually chose to remove it. Doing so myself, is too risky for me :) [[User:GoodDay|GoodDay]] ([[User talk:GoodDay|talk]]) 01:47, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::The code is perfectly harmless and nearly the same is at [[WP:CSSHIDE]]. Your JS and CSS pages always show a standard warning, even when you preview a blank page. Administrators like Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius and I can actually post code in [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] and [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] which is automatically run by all people who view an English Wikipedia page, or at least those with JavaScript and CSS in their browsers. Administrators can also edit your personal JS and CSS files, but will almost never do so unless you request it, or possibly if you made a user script shared by others but don't maintain it. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 01:59, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::We really must do something about that "Code that you insert on this page" message, it causes too much worry, and it comes up every few months. See [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 57#New message|27 February 2009]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 78#EditCounterOptIn.js|13 July 2010]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 90#hello|26 May 2011]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 94#Malicioius code on a script?|15 October 2011]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 95#is "Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js" safe?|27 November 2011]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 95#Edit Counter opt-in Monobook code|9 December 2011]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 104#Malicious code?|1 November 2012]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 112#Top edited pages|2 June 2013]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 114#About common.js|8 July 2013]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 122#Common.css|2 January 2014]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 125#Font size and style|3 April 2014]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 125#User:Talk Special Pages Menu|8 April 2014]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 127#Removal Of Edit Counter?|20 June 2014]]; [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 130#Common.js dangerous?|13 September 2014]]; and [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131#Custom CSS|19 October 2014]]. It's held in [[MediaWiki:Jswarning]], and is displayed on user CSS pages via [[MediaWiki:Usercsspreview]]. The last discussion on this matter at [[MediaWiki talk:Jswarning]] was over three years ago. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:45, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:I love the snake description! but § is a [[section sign]] (used throughout law to indicate a statutory section). Anyway, anyone know of any discussion anywhere not of how we remove it through personal CSS or opting out, etc., but why it was a good idea to make this change everywhere in the first place, and whether it should be removed as a global change?--[[User:Fuhghettaboutit|Fuhghettaboutit]] ([[User talk:Fuhghettaboutit|talk]]) 01:42, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::And out of curiosity, what is the purpose of this? If it's to provide an easy way to copy a link to a section without going up to the TOC, it would be cool if it went straight to clipboard (yes, I'm aware that some browser implementations are paranoid about this). Regards, [[User:Orange Suede Sofa|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:DarkGreen;">Orange Suede Sofa</span>]] ([[User talk:Orange Suede Sofa|talk]]) 02:00, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::A [[Phabricator:]] search of "mw-headline-anchor" gave [[phab:T18691]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 02:05, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{ping|GoodDay}} If it means anything, I just added the above code to my CSS page and it worked a treat, no more snakes! - [[User:JuneGloom07|<font color="Purple" face="Arial">'''JuneGloom07'''</font>]]  [[User_Talk:JuneGloom07|<font color="Green" face="Times New Roman">Talk</font>]] 02:27, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I won't bother with mine. [[User:GoodDay|GoodDay]] ([[User talk:GoodDay|talk]]) 02:29, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:Snakes on a Wiki? '''[[User:Lugnuts|<span style="color:#002bb8;">Lugnuts</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:Lugnuts|Dick Laurent is dead]]</sup> 07:44, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:For what it's worth, the CSS code to disable the links didn't work with my screen reader [[JAWS (screen reader)|JAWS]] in either [[User:Graham87/common.css|common.css]] or [[User:Graham87/monobook.css|monobook.css]]; code like that usually does what it's meant to, but maybe the fact that it's in a heading confused the screen reader. I had to use JAWS' Flexible Web feature (telling it to hide elements with the CSS class to disable the section links. '''[[User:Graham87|Graham]]'''[[User talk:Graham87|<span style="color:green;">87</span>]] 09:29, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::JAWS? We're gonna need a bigger wiki. '''[[User:Lugnuts|<span style="color:#002bb8;">Lugnuts</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:Lugnuts|Dick Laurent is dead]]</sup> 09:51, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:To return to the original q, i.e. what's with the snakes, see the phabricator ticket linked from [[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Archive 13#Imminent MediaWiki feature that will impact accessibility for screen reader users]]. This ticket was raised in December 2008, but you may not be able to read anything older than about 16 February 2015, for reasons that whilst known, are still unclear to me. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 12:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::The Bugzilla url would have been https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16691. A Google search on that gave http://wikibugs-l.narkive.com/5RSNaeK4/bug-16691-new-section-headings-should-have-some-clickable-anchor-for-passing-links. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:30, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::: Just for the record, Bugzilla is still available in read-only mode at old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org. For example, https://old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16691 works. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 17:29, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
::This is a known issue that will hopefully be fixed after next Phabricator update ({{phab|T89690}}). In the meantime https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691?before=1 (note the ?before=1) shows all comments on the task. [[User:Wctaiwan|wctaiwan]] ([[User talk:Wctaiwan|talk]]) 21:46, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:*Isn't it great that WMF implements things we all hate and or find utterly useless ..... Other than Diffs I never need to use the URL bit here so personally not seeing any point to it but meh that's my 2¢ on it, Anyway thanks {{u|PrimeHunter}} for the code :) –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 16:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I don't see the point either. This basically saves us the enormous hassle of scrolling up to the table of contents? It doesn't offer nearly enough of a benefit to justify the distraction. --[[User:Bongwarrior|Bongwarrior]] ([[User talk:Bongwarrior|talk]]) 18:28, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::::<s>{{u|Bongwarrior}} - If you're on the bottom page or an area where the title is in the middle of the page - Clicking the snake thing next to a title makes that title/section go to the top of the screen .... So what's the benefit of that ?.....You may aswell just stick to using the scroll bar ? .... I honestly am not seeing any point to this ? ... –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 21:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)</s>
::::My bad I didnt read everything here - Meh it makes sense but personally I prefer scrolling to TOC, Been used to it for years. –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 21:45, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Credit where credit is due: this was implemented by a volunteer developer ([https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/186332/]). [[User:Wctaiwan|wctaiwan]] ([[User talk:Wctaiwan|talk]]) 22:16, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:*Yeah this is incredibly useless feature, yet when people want other things it takes months to get implemented... My question is why no one decided to start even the smallest discussion or notice of the change. Here was me scouring through my gadgets trying to figure our where these bloody snakes were coming from! '''[[User:EoRdE6|EoRdE6]]'''<sup><small>([[User talk:EoRdE6|Come Talk to Me!]])</small></sup> 19:47, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::They did actually mention it at the end of [[#Tech News: 2015-10]] which was posted in a lot of places across Wikimedia sites. You can even sign up to get Tech News delivered to your talk page: [[:meta:Global message delivery/Targets/Tech ambassadors]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:05, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::This has been a feature request since 2008, so I think it's taken a little longer than "months". [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 22:10, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:*I for one think it is a positive change (so long as it doesn't impact usability). Makes it stupidly easy to copy links to article/page sections. *If* it were to be removed globally, is there some CSS or JS code to add it 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> 23:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:*:I agree. It was pretty annoying to have to scroll all the way up to the top of the page to get the section link URL (and that's assuming there is a TOC). Protip: you can use this with {{tl|u2w}} to get nicely formatted wikilinks. — '''''[[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> 05:06, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: That's handy. Since some people don't want to see the snake and aren't comfortable editing their CSS, could we add a checkbox somewhere to Preferences?
:::::I find it irritating and distracting but I could see a use for it - if it gave a wikilink and not a URL. When linking to a section, one mostly is doing so in house - well, this one is... I suppose a choice would be too much to ask for, as would requesting that it appeared when one was on the left side of the heading and not way off to the right. [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 12:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::{{replyto|Peridon}} It happens when you mouseover a heading element of level 2 or deeper. Most browsers treat a heading element as occupying the full width of the page, even if the text of that heading is significantly shorter. In Wikipedia, level 2 headings are given a pale grey border along their bottom edges (as are level 1 headings, i.e. page titles); this demonstrates that the heading is full-width. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:26, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
* Okay, so I was unsure about all this as well, and this discussion itself didn't offer me much explanation when I read it.  Basically, per [[MW:Requests for comment/Clickable section anchors]] and the comments that don't appear to be on that page but instead are on [[Phab:T18691]], the purpose is to change the URL in your URL bar (if you have one) to a link directly to the section you are at or to make it possible to right click and copy the URL for the section you are at without having to scroll back to the top of a long page to click the link in the TOC to make it happen.  It is very useful indeed for those on a PC, with JavaScript enabled, and with a URL.  Everyone else, it's basically useless. It's not compatible with touch devices, it won't show up for people without .js or with .js disabled, and while they could probably right click on it and copy the link destination, if you don't have a URL bar displayed (my university has them removed from the interface by default for some reason on the lab computers for example) you won't see the result.  I also don't like its "Easter Egg" style implementation (despite the fact we are just weeks away from Easter itself).  I'm not sure why this option was chosen, it wasn't even the first option and has the most drawbacks in my opinion.  I've commented on the Phab ticket, and personally think option 1 was the best option (I've explained why in the ticket as well).  I've also suggested that those that like the currently implementation should be allowed to keep it by turning it into an opt-in gadget. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 13:53, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
** I haven't decided yet whether I personally care for the new feature, but it does work fine with JS disabled since it's implemented entirely with CSS. It also works on my Android phone in Firefox <small>(on the desktop site, of course)</small> if I touch on the header to activate it, although it does not in Chrome. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 14:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
** FWIW I think it's a good feature, because I sometimes forced a <nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki> manually only to get the fragment (encoded section link) for a link to a section on pages without a ToC. &ndash;[[User:Be..anyone|Be..anyone]] ([[User talk:Be..anyone|talk]]) 09:35, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

*For what it's worth - not much at all, I know, because the WMF are bound and determined to render the interface unusable except for those on particular types of bleeding-edge computer set-ups - I find this thing annoying clutter and still don't understand how I'm supposed to use it. It appears, I attempt to click on it, nothing happens. I can and do get the link for a section header by copying and pasting the section header and adding a #. In addition, what the fourpence-a-pound are the black vertical lines that started briefly appearing to the left of each item in my watchlist when I bring up or refresh that page? They made their eyestraining appearance at the same time. Do the WMF want that badly to give us all tension headaches? [[User:Yngvadottir|Yngvadottir]] ([[User talk:Yngvadottir|talk]]) 16:15, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
**For what it's worth, this change was driven by volunteers, not by the WMF. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 19:27, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

* I don't personally care much one way or the other (although it's one more inexplicable symbol on a page that could well be distracting to readers and its purpose isn't obvious at all), but I am quite concerned about the accessibility issue.  I thought MediaWiki was trying to *reduce* accessibility problems, not add to them. Yet up above we have a user with a screen reader identifying that it is a problem, and comments on phabricator indicate that should be a prerequisite to being applied. It was merged too soon (it also has other issues besides mucking up screen readers) and not tested thoroughly enough. I don't actually blame the volunteer developer(s) for this; it's up to the people who are giving +2 and have the access and authority to upload changes to make sure that the issues already raised have been addressed.  [[User:Risker|Risker]] ([[User talk:Risker|talk]]) 16:29, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
** This will be further addressed in the next few weeks. We just need to align a bit on exactly how. As someone who has made considerable efforts towards the accessibility of Wikipedia, and someone who actually saw this fly by (but did not review), I apologize for not mentally flagging it as a potential accessibility problem. It's difficult catching these issues sometimes, it's not something you think about all the time. We only have 2 devs sort of experienced with this topic, one parttime wikidata dev (aka mostly volunteer when working on this) and one volunteer (me). We can't review everything that everyone else does all the time and even if we get invited for a review, sometimes we simply don't have the time. But we do keep an eye out, and do strive to such issues. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 19:27, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
***Thanks very much, {{u|TheDJ}}, for reviewing this. It sort of strains my brain to think that something as important as accessibility doesn't receive in-house support, or that there isn't any expected or required testing standard related to accessibility prior to code implementation. It's a lot of responsibility to leave resting on the shoulders of a couple of respected volunteers.  [[User:Risker|Risker]] ([[User talk:Risker|talk]]) 15:46, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

=== § on the left ===
I keep the edit buttons over to the right hand side of the page (in Monobook) which is where I like them to be. Now, when my cursor goes to an edit button, a grey § appears on the left hand side by the heading. Why, and is there some way of getting rid of it? I find it distracting, irritating and unnecessary. [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 11:48, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:Just found out that it happens anywhere in the Heading line. [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 11:49, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::See [[Help:DSL]]; discussion at [[#Link to this section snake]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 11:59, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I call it a paragraph sign not a snake... (It's a standard proofing sign meaning 'paragraph break needed'.) Thanks. [[User:Peridon|Peridon]] ([[User talk:Peridon|talk]]) 12:24, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::::You are thinking of [[pilcrow]] (¶) perhaps.
:::
::::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 12:50, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

=== When and why did the [[Section sign]] get added to mainspace articles? ===
Hi all,<br/>
When I mouse-over some but not all mainspace articles, a clickable § pops up in front of the section name.<br/>
When and why did this enhancement happen?<br/>
Mostly clueless about techernogical things aka --[[User:Shirt58|Shirt58]] ([[User talk:Shirt58|talk]]) 11:51, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:See [[Help:DSL]]; discussion at [[#Link to this section snake]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 12:00, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::D'oh. Note to self: read page before posting. Thanks, Gadget850. --[[User:Shirt58|Shirt58]] ([[User talk:Shirt58|talk]]) 08:33, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

===Symbol to use===
The symbol itself can be changed (or removed altogether) at [[MediaWiki:Section-symbol]]. Would [[¶]] be better ? &nbsp;[[User:Cenarium|Cenarium]] ([[User talk:Cenarium|talk]]) 21:06, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:No. The [[pilcrow]] is a paragraph sign; the link shown is to a section, not a paragraph. This also matches the behavior of {{tl|section link}}. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 21:47, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

== Navigation popups is "abandonware" ==

I'm surprised to be told, on its talk page, that [[WP:Navigation popups|Navigation popups]] is "abandonware". Are there any coders willing to tackle the feature requests for this immensely useful tool? <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> 13:36, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:Hmm, isn't that functionality basically superseded by a [[mw:Extension:Popups|proper extension called Popups / Hovercards]], if I get it right? --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 10:53, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{replyto|AKlapper (WMF)}} As an experiment I turned off popups and turned on Hovercards. Now when I look at my watchlist or at recent changes, I see no popup information when I look at a "diff", "hist" or "contribs" link. When I point at an article link, I see a preview but no way to access the history or the diffs of the last edits. So, no, Hovercards is not a replacement for popups. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 11:15, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::The new popups is nice, but it only does short previews of content. It doesn't give you actions, diffs or any of the many other previews that navpopups can give you. But the original popups is from 2003... it's a pain to maintain, does everything itself, and does so much, that it's difficult to reimplement in a modern way. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 11:22, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{replyto|AKlapper (WMF)}} [[WP:Navigation popups|Navigation popups]] is a tool I use everyday. It does no good to characterize it in a way that suggests its use will not be accommodated. Where should I go to ensure its continued survival?  --[[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] [[User talk:Ancheta Wis| &nbsp; (talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Ancheta Wis| &#124; contribs)]] 11:28, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{replyto|Ancheta Wis}} I'm not sure why you ask me. But thanks everybody for explaining that its functionality is way broader than I had expected from a quick read! --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 11:31, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Thanks for attempting to reply. --[[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] [[User talk:Ancheta Wis| &nbsp; (talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Ancheta Wis| &#124; contribs)]] 11:40, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::"Where should I go to ensure its continued survival?" It's like that old dark barn on the side of the scouting grounds. It still works, but it's slowly rotting away and no one want to replace 1/3 of the planks and paint the whole thing with tar front to back...  in the mean time, someone's dad dropped off an ugly but fancy new container. It's too white and new, is way smaller, but at least there's no draft. We could still paint the barn if all the scouts would get off their phones and picked up paintbrushes......But it's simply not happening. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 20:47, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::::For the record, it has the most users at [[Wikipedia:Database reports/User preferences#Gadgets]]. Thank you to the coders who so far prevent it from collapsing. At least there will only be whining users outside and not innocent children inside if it does. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:57, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::40.897 users with Navpopups activated in enwiki alone. Add to those the users in other wikis (i.e. [[:de:MediaWiki_Diskussion:Gadgets-definition/Archiv_2013#old-diff-style.css]]: 5913? in 2013). --[[User:Atlasowa|Atlasowa]] ([[User talk:Atlasowa|talk]]) 14:26, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Pigsonthewing}} The idea in the future is to have a hovercards setting for editors, see [[mw:Topic:S9xysb7xlucu4hyz]] and the screenshot at [[mw:File:HovercardsSettings V2.png]]. Hope this helps! '''[[User:EoRdE6|EoRdE6]]'''<sup><small>([[User talk:EoRdE6|Come Talk to Me!]])</small></sup> 19:57, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thank you, but no, it doesn't. <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> 20:10, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Hovercards looks very nice, but I don't see much similarity to Navigation popups.  [[User:Mr Stephen|Mr Stephen]] ([[User talk:Mr Stephen|talk]]) 20:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I think it's safe to say that Hovercards was inspired by Navpopups, but it's apples to oranges in functionality and purpose. Hovercards a reading tool that can help keep you from falling down the rabbit hole when you need to keep reading relevant things, Navpopups is an editor tool that provides functionality for cleaning up the website. [[User:Keegan|Keegan]] ([[User talk:Keegan|talk]]) 22:11, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:If you read the link, [[mw:Topic:S9xysb7xlucu4hyz|again if you missed it]], the plan for ''THE FUTURE'' is to have hovercards have more editor features. How far in the future is anyones guess but thats the idea. '''[[User:EoRdE6|EoRdE6]]'''<sup><small>([[User talk:EoRdE6|Come Talk to Me!]])</small></sup> 04:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::I think it's good we take the time to establish what's the status quo now; i.e. two different things, to attempt to answer the question at hand. The answer to the question at hand is that Navpopups receives life support every year or two or three to keep it running, so it's not quite abandonware. It's not getting bug fixes nor features. Hovercards is new, with recent development; however, the target future features are not on the table right now so it remains a project with different focus. [[User:Keegan|Keegan]] ([[User talk:Keegan|talk]]) 07:56, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

=== RefToolbar ===

We seem to have the same problem with [[Wikipedia:RefToolbar]] (see its talk page). <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> 19:48, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
:See also [[phab:T71550]]. [[User:He7d3r|Helder]] 20:39, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

== Autocomplete gadget ==

[[User:ערן/autocomplete|autocomplete script]] is widely used gadget in [[:ar:MediaWiki:gadget-autocomplete|Arabic]] and [[:he:MediaWiki:gadget-autocomplete|Hebrew]] Wikipedias and can help users to quickly fill links, templates and templates parameters in the editbox. I would like to promote [[User:ערן/autocomplete|autocomplete script]] to a gadget here too, so English Wikipedia users can take advantage of this useful gadget. [[User:ערן|Eran]] ([[User talk:ערן|talk]]) 06:32, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:Do you have the non-minify'd source available for review? [[User:Nakon|<font color="#C50">'''Nakon'''</font>]] 06:37, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::[[:he:MediaWiki:Gadget-autocomplete.js]] [add ?uselang=en if you don't like the Hebrew interface :) ] [[User:ערן|Eran]] ([[User talk:ערן|talk]]) 06:40, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I've replaced my [[User:Nakon/monobook.js|main JS page]] but am not able to utilize the script.  Would you be able to provide any technical assistance to get this working?  Is this script configured to use LTR on this wiki?  Thanks, [[User:Nakon|<font color="#C50">'''Nakon'''</font>]] 06:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::::*The gadget is configurated to LTR here. 
::::*importScript function is used to import internal scripts, use instead <syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">
mw.loader.load('//bits.wikimedia.org/he.wikipedia.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=he&modules=ext.gadget.autocomplete');
</syntaxhighlight>
::::[[User:ערן|Eran]] ([[User talk:ערן|talk]]) 06:56, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::This might be because I'm using the legacy monobook.  I'll try it with the new template and I'll let you know how it works out. [[User:Nakon|<font color="#C50">'''Nakon'''</font>]] 07:08, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::i doubt monobook has anything to do with it. just added &useskin=monobook to address line, and the gadget (or rather script) continues to work flawlessly. however, some gadgets may be incompatible with this one. specifically, if you have wikEd activated, you want to turn it off for this gadget to take effect. you can [[Special:search/~"User:ערן/autocomplete.js"|search for users using this gadget]] (click "advanced" and select "User" namespace) - there are several dozens users on enwiki already using it via [[WP:JS]]. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 15:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Support''' - I find it very useful, and so would many others.  It would be good to make it more discoverable by including it on the gadgets tab in Preferences.  Very few people know about [[WP:JS]]. [[User:Ijon|Ijon]] ([[User talk:Ijon|talk]]) 14:40, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Support''' This is brilliant. Like a live search as you type out template and page names with <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[</nowiki></code>. This will be tremendously helpful and timesaving! <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 05:13, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

== Assyrian pages won't open ==

This is very strange: almost every time I try to open any Wikipedia page related to the [[Assyrians]] using Google Chrome, I get an error message from the browser and the page won't load. It happens wether or not I'm signed in, but not on other browsers. I'd guess it has something to do with the Assyrian script on the pages. Anyone else had this problem? [[User:Liam987|<span style="color:Ivory;font-variant:small-caps;background:DarkSeaGreen;text-shadow:0 2px 8px #000080">&nbsp;Liam987</span>]][[User talk:Liam987|<span style="background:Tan;font-variant:small-caps;text-shadow:0 2px 8px black">(talk)</span>]] 23:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
:Works for me, in Chrome (current main release). — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 04:52, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
::I believe this may be the same as [[phab:T88478]], Chrome bug report at [https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=445075]. The tab doesn't crash every time I don't think. <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 05:25, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

== Media viewer problem -- Chrome and Firefox. ==

Clicking an image that is opened in the media viewer, then going back with the browser's back button, then clicking it again, and going back again will lose the place of the  scroll position in the original page. --[[User:Agamemnus|Agamemnus]] ([[User talk:Agamemnus|talk]]) 04:14, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
:[[phab:T65892]] is closed but maybe [[phab:T73796]] is related? --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 11:25, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
::Not sure. It didn't work at all at first (and I noticed this), but they fixed it in [[phab:T65892]] (and I also noticed this). However, they only partially fixed it, since it comes back when you go back and forth as I described. The second ticket you refer to mentions that all that code is hack upon hack, so maybe that is why this stuff keeps breaking in various places... iunno. Guess I should register maybe and post a reply to the first (closed) bug. Does anyone read replies to closed bugs? --[[User:Agamemnus|Agamemnus]] ([[User talk:Agamemnus|talk]]) 18:40, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Whoever is in the Subscribers list of a task receives notifications about that task depending on each subscriber's personal notification settings. However if you have found a new bug, a new task might be more effective including a reference to the older existing task. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 19:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

==Reminder: [[:mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal|VisualEditor's weekly triage meeting]] tomorrow==
Hi everybody. This week's triage meeting will happen on '''Wednesday, 11 March 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150311T12&p1=224&ah=1 19:00 UTC])'''. We hope to see you there - in case you can't make it, please remember you can still nominate "blocker" tasks in advance on [[:mw:Phabricator|Phabricator]], or you can read the IRC logs and minutes which are usually published shortly after the end of the meeting, so you can catch up on what was discussed. So see [[:mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal|the meetings page on mediawiki.org]] for details (notice the new format, a Google Hangout). Thank you, and talk to you soon, --[[User:Elitre (WMF)|Elitre (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Elitre (WMF)|talk]]) 21:14, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

== Page view statistics - status down from 5 march 2015 ==

Hello. Page view statistics don't working from 5 march 2015 in english, polish and spanish Wikipedia (and probably in much more). --[[User:Swd|Swd]] ([[User talk:Swd|talk]]) 09:18, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
:Confirmed. No Page count stats for any page since that date apparently. [[User:LawrencePrincipe|LawrencePrincipe]] ([[User talk:LawrencePrincipe|talk]]) 13:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
::A link to see the problem would be welcome. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 19:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
:::See the [http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Mount%20Hood last 90 days for Mount Hood] which is usually examined 300-500 times per day.  Notice that there is no information since 2015-03-06, no matter how the data is viewed.  —[[user:EncMstr|EncMstr]] ([[user talk:EncMstr|talk]]) 19:24, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

== Page protection levels ==

Is it possible to add (trough request at Phabricator) protection level for any existing user right groups? For example, at [[:lv:|Latvian Wikipedia]] we would like to add new protection level, so that pages can be edited by [[:mw:Help:Patrolled edits|autopatrolled users]] and sysops. Yes, we have autopatrolled user group enabled. --'''[[User:Edgars2007|<span style="color:#FF6600;">Edgars2007</span>]]''' <small>([[User talk:Edgars2007|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Edgars2007|contribs]])</small> 15:00, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
:Hi [[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]], are you talking about FlaggedRevisions? And do you mean polish/german WP style or russian WP style? Have a look at [[:meta:Flagged Revisions]] (and talk page). --[[User:Atlasowa|Atlasowa]] ([[User talk:Atlasowa|talk]]) 15:54, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
::No, i'm talking simply about page protection. autopatrolled users was just an example. Currently we (Latvian Wikipedia) have protection level 1, so that pages can be edited only by registred users and protection level 2, so that pages can be edited only by admins. I'm not asking this @Phabricator, because here I could get some respones faster. --'''[[User:Edgars2007|<span style="color:#FF6600;">Edgars2007</span>]]''' <small>([[User talk:Edgars2007|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Edgars2007|contribs]])</small> 16:21, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Yes, it is possible. File a request at Phabricator with #wikimedia-site-requests project. See [[m:Requesting wiki configuration changes]]. --[[User:Glaisher|Glaisher]] ([[User talk:Glaisher|talk]]) 16:24, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Thanks. That's all I wanted to know. --'''[[User:Edgars2007|<span style="color:#FF6600;">Edgars2007</span>]]''' <small>([[User talk:Edgars2007|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Edgars2007|contribs]])</small> 16:29, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
==Help==
At the Teahouse (and here as I just discovered) editing isn't working. There isn't any edit buttons. I use a phone and chrome, no app. It is why I had to put this at the top. The only edit button on this page and teahouse is the top one. Also there are no drop down menus. Because of this I can't reply to anyone here if I need too. I also can't fix a typo in this after posting for example. This issue is (my guess) only on mobile and only on pages that has Wikipedia: in the title. This issue needs to be fixed ASAP. If I have to reply I have to do it on your talk page. Normal pages are fine, this issue doesn't happen on normal pages. If I switch to desktop mode, it's the same thing. Help!!! Ping me or since I can't reply here, reply at my talk page to keep the conversation in one spot, it doesn't matter though. --[[User:DangerousJXD|DangerousJXD]] ([[User talk:DangerousJXD|talk]]) 10:36, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|DangerousJXD}} Going to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions (mobile version) in Chrome 41 on my desktop computer and switching to "Desktop" at the bottom, I do see an "[edit]" link next to the section heading (the mobile version indeed does not offer this). Hence I cannot reproduce the problem. --[[User:Malyacko|Malyacko]] ([[User talk:Malyacko|talk]]) 15:04, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|DangerousJXD}} I've fixed it with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:TH_question_page&diff=650998522&oldid=640176228 this edit] to [[Template:TH question page]]. It looks like the mobile skin has recently stopped being able to collapse sections and display edit links on pages with unbalanced div tags. Removing unclosed divs in the header removed some of the pretty formatting from the page, but at least now you can edit it from your phone. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 04:02, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

== How likely is it that Wikipedia would crash due to a 184 title page move? ==

I have submitted a multiple page move request for this number of pages and one of the objections was related to this worry.  Comments would be appreciated.  [[User:GregKaye|Greg]][[User talk:GregKaye|Kaye]] 22:50, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

: 250 page moves were carried out in the 6 hours prior to this comment, a rate of moves that is more or less typical.  An additional few hundred should cause no noticeable problems. - [[User:Topbanana|TB]] ([[User talk:Topbanana|talk]]) 23:44, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
:[[WP:PERF]], it won't. [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] ([[User talk:Legoktm|talk]]) 23:57, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
* 184 is a ''really'' small number.  Even if it was 1840 page moves, I'd have no concerns about any issues being caused by that. I'd have no worries if someone was deleting 2000 revisions of a page (if it was over 5000 revisions, I might worry a little, but there are safeties for that in place).  So, TL;DR answer, 184 page moves is nothing. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 01:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

== Template:AFC submission ==

I posted on [[WT:AFC#Bug with open ref tags]] regarding a bug that {{U|Newyorkadam}} and I stumbled upon which I presume is in {{tlx|AFC submission}}. Would any of you technically minded editors have a look at it? Thanks, -- [[User:Sam Sailor|Sam Sailor]] [[User talk:Sam Sailor|<sup>''Talk!''</sup>]] 11:08, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

: It's not a bug in {{tlx|AFC submission}}. It's merely that if there is an unterminated ref the rest of the content of the page is regarded as being part of the ref (but an error message is given to highlight the problem).  Hence the <code><nowiki>{{subst:submit}}</nowiki></code> was never parsed.  I've completed the correction which Newyorkadam started but which you had reversed. --[[User:David Biddulph|David Biddulph]] ([[User talk:David Biddulph|talk]]) 11:29, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

::The real bug is the often reported [[phab:T4700]], here meaning that [[WP:SUBST|<nowiki>{{subst:}}</nowiki>]] does not work in ref tags. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:16, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

== Receiving incorrect notifications ==

I have recently received notifications that edits I made were reverted, even though they weren't reverted at all. They were simply edits ({{diff2|651053537}} {{diff2|651070466}}) that followed mine. [[User:Tvx1|T]][[User Talk:Tvx1|v]][[Special:Contributions/Tvx1|x]]1 18:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

: In each case the edit reverted at least part of your change.  Even the first line of the change is a reversion of your change. - [[User:David Biddulph|David Biddulph]] ([[User talk:David Biddulph|talk]]) 18:20, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
:The notification is caused by clicking "undo" or "rollback" (only some have the latter feature), and eventually saving the edit. The users probably clicked "undo", removed the prefilled edit summary, and manually made some changes in the edit box before saving. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:05, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
::Also possible is that they were on the page history, and used "undo" after they either (i) clicked a "cur" link for any revision other than the second from top or (ii) selected two non-consecutive revisions and used {{button|Compare selected revisions}}. When you do either of these, you are undoing more than one revision, which might have been made by more than one different person; and so neither a single edit number nor a single user name are suitable, so the default edit summary is blank. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

== Wikimedia error ==

Just for documentation, I got this several times about an hour ago. I meant to copy the details and forgot to do it before it finally went to the right page.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#070">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;• [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#FA0"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;• [[Special:Contribs/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#700">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;•  19:02, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
:The whole site was down for that period. There was no root cause posted to the [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_Admin_Log Server Admin Log], but from inspection it likely was related to a DoS or error with the [https://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?r=custom&cs=03%2F12%2F2015+18%3A00&ce=03%2F12%2F2015+19%3A00&c=Mobile+caches+eqiad&h=&tab=m&vn=&hide-hf=false&m=cpu_report&sh=1&z=small&hc=4&host_regex=&max_graphs=0&s=by+name mobile cache servers]. In any case, seems to have been resolved quickly. [[User:Mamyles|Mamyles]] ([[User talk:Mamyles|talk]]) 19:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
::Curious. Around that time I noticed what may have been unusually heavy DNS traffic on an entirely separate system. I wonder if there were any global problems. ~ [[User:J. Johnson|J.&nbsp;Johnson (JJ)]] ([[User_talk:J. Johnson#top|talk]]) 20:18, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

== SUL finalization update ==

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;Statistics
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! year of last edit !! number of affected accounts
|-
| no edits or only deleted ones || 410,748
|-
| 2001 || 402
|-
| 2002 || 516
|-
| 2003 || 1,123
|-
| 2004 || 3,500
|-
| 2005 || 8,947
|-
| 2006 || 22,138
|-
| 2007 || 21,060
|-
| 2008 || 14,798
|-
| 2009 || 8,517
|-
| 2010 || 6,614
|-
| 2011 || 6,056
|-
| 2012 || 4,394
|-
| 2013 || 3,883
|-
| 2014 || 3,487
|-
| 2015 || 942
|-
| Overall || 517,125
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! number of edits (excluding imported edits) !! number of affected accounts
|-
| ≥10.000 || 25
|-
| 1.000–9.999 || 277
|-
| 100–999 || 2,247
|-
| 10–99 || 16,994
|-
| 2–9 || 53,349
|-
| 1 || 45,574
|-
| 0 || 398,659
|-
| Overall || 517,125
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! number of edits (excluding imported edits) !! number of affected accounts with last edit 2014/15
|-
| ≥10.000 || 14
|-
| 1.000–9.999 || 106
|-
| 100–999 || 498
|-
| 10–99 || 1,562
|-
| 2–9 || 1,522
|-
| 1 || 726
|-
| 0 || 1
|-
| Overall || 4,429
|}

== Change hatnote ==

I'd like to change a hatnote at [[ISIL]] from :

{{redirect-multi|2|ISIL|ISIS}}

to:

{{Hatnote|"ISIL", "Isil" and "ISIS" redirect here. For other uses, see [[ISIL (disambiguation)]] and [[Isis (disambiguation)]].}}

When I try this I get the message (in red) saying:
:Lua error: invalid expiry date ("22 March "ISIL" and "ISIS" redirect here. For other uses, see ISIL (disambiguation) and ISIS (disambiguation).2015").
Can we get round this or track this down pls?

Thanks  [[User:GregKaye|Greg]][[User talk:GregKaye|Kaye]] 02:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:Your code works for me in preview. The error message sounds like hatnote code is mixed up with the following <code><nowiki>{{pp-vandalism|expiry=22 March 2015|small=yes}}</nowiki></code>. Try again. If it still fails then post code producing the actual error message here, or save it in the article so you can post a diff before reverting to a working version. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 09:05, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{TY}} [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]], I'm learning. [[User:GregKaye|Greg]][[User talk:GregKaye|Kaye]] 14:12, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

== Infobox Legislature ==

Could someone explain why in the here shown infobox the 2nd session, omitting the "sessionend" parameter shows a single date in the box, while at the 4th session the "sessionend" parameter is required. If omitted it shows a sort of fault message. How can it made to show a single date? [[User:Kraxler|Kraxler]] ([[User talk:Kraxler|talk]]) 15:17, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

{{Infobox New York Legislature
|number = 185th
|image = 
|imagename = 
|imagedate = 
|start = January 1, 1983
|end = December 31, 1984
|vp = Lt. Gov. [[Alfred DelBello]] (D)
|pro tem = [[Warren M. Anderson]] (R)
|speaker = [[Stanley Fink]] (D)
|senators = 61
|reps = 150
|s-majority = Republican (35–26)
|h-majority = Democratic
|sessionnumber1 = 1st
|sessionstart1 = January 5
|sessionend1 = June 28, 1983
|sessionnumber2 = 2nd
|sessionstart2 = September 15, 1983
|sessionnumber3 = 3rd
|sessionstart3 = January 4
|sessionend3 = July 1, 1984
|sessionnumber4 = 4th
|sessionstart4 = December 6, 1984
|previous = 184th
|next = 186th
}}

:Because the {{tlx|Infobox New York Legislature}} has this:
::<code><nowiki>{{#if:{{{sessionend2|}}}|&amp;nbsp;– {{{sessionend2}}}}}</nowiki></code>
:if {{para|sessionend2}} is empty or omitted, then don't render anything for that parameter.  None of the other parameters are coded this way making {{para|sessionendx}} required parameters.

:—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 15:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:: Yeah that was kind of lame so I took the liberty of making it possible for any or all of the 8 sessions be just 1 day long. Of course now the issue becomes the ability to "skip" over session-ends without getting a bang, but I prefer to trust in the contributor's diligence over the merely theoretical "trouble maker". -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 15:49, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:::Thank you very much for the explanation and the fix. [[User:Kraxler|Kraxler]] ([[User talk:Kraxler|talk]]) 16:07, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

{{Clear}}
== Watchlist an entire project ==

Is there a way to wildcard watchlist an entire project space, on or off wiki? This is with reference to the ''Signpost'': we have to maintain an at this point vast collection of pages, many of them archival issues which should not be touched. It'd be helpful if we had a mechanism for doing so. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 16:15, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Resident Mario}} If all of the pages that you are interested in are in a single category, you can use the category expand feature of [[Special:Export]]: put the category name in the small "Add pages from category" box and click {{button|Add}}. The larger box will fill with page names. Click anywhere in that box, and then (Windows browsers) press {{keypress|Ctrl|A}} to select all, then {{keypress|Ctrl|C}} to copy. Then go to [[Special:EditWatchlist/raw]], open up  an empty line, and use {{keypress|Ctrl|V}} to paste, then click {{button|Update watchlist}}. If all of the pages that you are interested in are spread over several categories, you can do this for each individual category. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:18, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{pong|Redrose64}} Tut. I've discovered the numerical limit of the watchlist&mdash;it'll only take me as far as March 2011. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 22:42, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Resident Mario}} You might be able to use [[Special:RecentChangesLinked]] – it is like a watchlist, but for pages in a specified category, or linked from a specified page, or linked to a specific page - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 23:17, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{pong|Evad37}} The point appears to be moot&mdash;some change in 2012 appears to have stopped the archival process and so ''Signpost'' articles newer than 2011 are uncategorized. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 23:22, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

== rb element ==

I was doing some cleanup and found that the {{tl|ruby}} template does not pass the W3C HTML validation. I get the error "Element rb not allowed as child of element ruby in this context." I have been poking at this and I just don't see the problem. Examples from the [http://www.w3.org/International/articles/ruby/ W3C site] do not validate. I used the [http://validator.w3.org/ W3C validator] and https://validator.nu/ which allows text entry: both give the same results. Here is the sample I used for testing:

{{markup
|<nowiki><ruby>
<rb>紙芝居</rb>
<rp>(</rp>
<rt>かみしばい</rt>
<rp>)</rp>
</ruby></nowiki>
|<ruby>
<rb>紙芝居</rb>
<rp>(</rp>
<rt>かみしばい</rt>
<rp>)</rp>
</ruby>
}}

I am starting to think the validator is at fault here, but I don't see any issues on their [https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/ bug list]. Thoughts? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 02:03, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
* The issue is with rb; not rp. {{tag|rb|o}} is not part of the WHATWG living standard. See [https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26187#c0 this] bug. [[User:Alakzi|Alakzi]] ([[User talk:Alakzi|talk]]) 02:25, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
** Fixed discussion title. More reading... --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 02:27, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
***The version with <code><nowiki><rb></nowiki></code> doesn't validate, but this does: <code><nowiki><ruby>紙芝居<rt>かみしばい</rt></ruby></nowiki></code>. Note: I haven't read the documentation, this is after the example of the output at [[wikt:講#Kanji]]. Another issue is that in Firefox 36 the rubies at Wiktionary display as small characters after the kanji. They display correctly as small characters above the kanji in Chrome. –&nbsp;[[User:Margin1522|Margin1522]] ([[User talk:Margin1522|talk]]) 04:08, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
****Display is a different issue, and is browser related. The [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/html-ruby/ HTML Ruby add-on] for Firefox displays just fine. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 08:38, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
****so the question is what to use? I'd say we put the rb out as the WHATWG seems not to like it and the W3C says that it can be implied abd in the use case the ruby tpl is right now an implied use wouldnt make a problem.
::::[[User:My1|'''<font color="#00A0FF">M</font>''']][[User Talk:My1|'''<font color="#FFa000">y</font>''']][[Special:Contributions/My1|'''<font color="#80dd00">1</font>''']] 06:49, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
* [https://developers.whatwg.org/obsolete.html#obsolete HTML: The Living Standard]: has {{tag|rb|o}} listed under obsolete; "Providing the ruby base directly inside the ruby element is sufficient; the rb element is unnecessary. Omit it altogether."
* [http://www.w3.org/International/docs/ruby/#fonts-approach1-2a W3C: Use Cases & Exploratory Approaches for Ruby Markup]: "The HTML5 CR approach does not have an rb element." The next section then states "The span element can be used in place of the rb tag."
* See also {{phab|T69042}}. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 09:01, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
** Looks like {{tag|rb|o}} should be considered obsolete, but the documentation is conflicting. Thoughts? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 12:41, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

== Problem linking to articles with a closing paren - SOLVED ==

I'm trying to copy article links from my address line into a doc or pdf file, and consistently have errors ''only'' when the article title ends in a closing parenthesis:
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci) goes only to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_(lodging) goes only to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market) goes only to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop

Is this a known issue, and is there any way to create a working link in my file that goes to the correct article? I did notice somewhere that parentheses seem to be rendered as '''.28''' and '''.29''' (if I'm now remembering the numbers correctly), but substituting these by hand didn't work at all.

Thanks for any help. [[User:Milkunderwood|Milkunderwood]] ([[User talk:Milkunderwood|talk]]) 03:47, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:Here's the place I had found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Years_of_crisis_.281919.E2.80.931923.29, which goes to '''Years of crisis (1919–1923)'''. [[User:Milkunderwood|Milkunderwood]] ([[User talk:Milkunderwood|talk]]) 04:06, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:For that matter, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense that the parentheses at the end of a subsection title would encode properly, but not at the end of an article title. 
:FWIW I'm using Chrome 41 with Office 2013 on a 7 machine; but my files containing links will be for distribution to people with whatever setup they may have, so what I need is a general all-purpose solution. [[User:Milkunderwood|Milkunderwood]] ([[User talk:Milkunderwood|talk]]) 06:00, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::I'm feeling kind of stymied - maybe an experiment could help if someone wouldn't mind doing it. Just open any kind of blank document form, go to any article with the title ending in parentheses such as the three I listed here, copy your address line into your document, and see if it works, or truncates the title to remove the parenthetical part. I'd love to know if anyone can get to the correct article. [[User:Milkunderwood|Milkunderwood]] ([[User talk:Milkunderwood|talk]]) 09:02, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:Using Firefox 36.0.1 if I copy the addresss line and paste into Word 2007 I see <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_%28Leonardo_da_Vinci%29    </nowiki> and if ctrl-click that I get to the correct document with parentheses in the address bar. Generally, I don't remember problems with this sort of thing. [[User:Thincat|Thincat]] ([[User talk:Thincat|talk]]) 09:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:And with Chrome  41.0.2272.89 m copy/paste gives me <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)</nowiki> which I have to convert to a link in Word (from Firefox the text pasted in autolinked). Ctrl-click works OK with the address bar showing brackets. All with Windows 7. [[User:Thincat|Thincat]] ([[User talk:Thincat|talk]]) 09:58, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:It's a common issue in external software like email programs and apparently Word that some characters need [[percent-encoding]] to be interpreted as part of a url. The typical problems are '(', ')', and url's ending with '.'. They encode as %28, %29 and %2E. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 10:39, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much for these suggestions. Manually substituting '''%28''' for "'''('''" and '''%29''' for "''')'''" works for me. I was thrown off by the full stops used in the "Years of crisis (1919-1923)" in place of the percent sign. [[User:Milkunderwood|Milkunderwood]] ([[User talk:Milkunderwood|talk]]) 18:24, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:Full stops are used in anchors (the part after '#' to go to a specific place on a page). [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:29, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

== Manual page move for protected page ==

A long discussion at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Religion#Disambiguations of divinities]] has always unanimously opposed the disambiguation opposed disambiguation shown at pages such as [[Mars (mythology)]] on NPOV grounds in comparison to the religions of the living and the religions of the dead.

This page has no "more" menu so as to offer a move function and the tags (if that is the correct term):
<nowiki>
{{distinguish2|the planet [[Mars]]}}
{{pp-move-indef}} 
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}}
</nowiki>

I understand that the reason for protection is to avoid confusion with [[Mars (planet)]] but the proposal it to move to [[Mars (deity)]].  

I have tried a temporary removal of the tags but this did not work.

Thanks [[User:GregKaye|Greg]][[User talk:GregKaye|Kaye]] 07:17, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:The page is move-protected, meaning only administrators can move it (the tags are only used to indicate the protection.) If there is consensus to move, you can ask for it on [[Wikipedia:Requested moves]]. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 08:07, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ty}} [[User:Edokter|Edokter]] for the help.  There are likely just a handful of such protected articles also such as Gaia so I'll collect a list and make the request.  [[User:GregKaye|Greg]][[User talk:GregKaye|Kaye]] 13:26, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

== Need both user-script writers and bot writers for an initiative at the ''Signpost'' ==

Hello all, we at the ''Signpost'' are currently underway introducing technical archival architecture at the ''Signpost'', and we're in need of talented people to develop the damn thing =). There are essentially two different things we're trying to do:
*'''Story-tagging''': [[User:Mr. Stradivarius|Mr. Stradivarius]] has written and is still working on a [[Module:Signpost|module]] that tags stories in the ''Signpost'' archives according to a [[Module:Signpost/index|manually-generated list]] which I've put together on top of an automatic "greatest-hits" one. So for instance, if you hit <code><nowiki>{{#invoke:Signpost|tag|wikisym}}</nowiki></code> you will get:

<nowiki>{{#invoke:Signpost|tag|wikisym}}</nowiki>

We want to extend this system to every ''Signpost'' article to date, a massive task that'll require combing through more than a decade's worth of published material by volunteers. For the moment, however, I have presented what I hope will serve as the lynchpin of this effort, a proposed research hub of sorts, at [[User:Resident Mario/sandbox]]. The next steps are outlined in the [[User:Resident Mario/sandbox#To-do|To-do]]. Even populating this list is going to be a challenge and so we need a userscript that'll help us maintain the hub&mdash;adding things, deleting them, changing information, etc.

*'''Historical linking''': I've created a [[User:Resident Mario/SandBox|proof of concept]] in one of my other sandboxes but have not acted much further than that so far because at this point. This is a simple idea&mdash;an option to give readers links to articles as they appeared at publication time&mdash;that I think would be valuable to people going through old stories trying to get a picture of the "way things were". Introducing this into articles will require the work of a bot working together with the templates that the ''Signpost'' has used over time to integrate this feature into all of our articles.

Please help us! :) <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">[[User:Resident Mario|<b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b>]][[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|<span style="color:#444444; font-size:small;">Mar</span>]]</span> 17:12, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:I can have a go at writing the user script that updates the Lua module pages with new tags, etc. - it will be good practice for my JavaScript. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 23:37, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

== IPA and Greek ==

[[File:NB X vs chi.png|thumb|Naked Browser displaying {{format link|German phonology#Consonants}}.]]
I have a couple of issues with fonts on my mobile device (Motorola Moto X, Android 4.4).

First is that, in most browsers (specifically Chrome, Naked Browser, and both Operas), {{IPA|[x]}} ([[voiceless velar fricative]], U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X) and {{IPA|[χ]}} ([[voiceless uvular fricative]], U+03C7 GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI) have identical glyph shapes. They're distinguishable in Firefox, which uses a different font. For displaying Greek, the glyph without descenders is fine (presumably; I don't know Greek) but is a problem for IPA, since they make some passages misleading or incomprehensible, as the example here shows.

The second is that letters with polytonic Greek diacritics just aren't displayed at all - again, except in Firefox. See for example [[Perispomenon]]. Much of that article's content is obliterated by the bad font.

None of this goes away by switching to the desktop site.

Is this fixable? Bear in mind that user CSS isn't an option since the mobile style sheet ignores it - and in any case I'd like this to be fixed for all users, not just me. Also I'm not aware of any way to install extra fonts on Android unless it happens to be a Samsung device. [[User:Hairy Dude|Hairy Dude]] ([[User talk:Hairy Dude|talk]]) 16:47, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:Please file bugreuports with Google Android —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 10:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::Done for the x / chi issue: [https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=160613 Android issue 160613]. [[User:Hairy Dude|Hairy Dude]] ([[User talk:Hairy Dude|talk]]) 03:49, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== Aligning in "Template:fb" lists ==

Hello, I have an idea how to edit the [[template:flaglink/core]] in order to avoid the disorder in the first column, as you can see. So, what's your opinion?

{{col-begin}}
{{col-3}}
'''template:fb'''<br />using '''template:flaglink/core'''
* {{fb|Vatican City}}
* {{fb|Switzerland}}
* {{fb|France}}
* {{fb|Niger}}
* {{fb|Faroe Islands}}
* {{fb|Belgium}}
* {{fb|Gabon}}
* {{fb|Russia}}
* {{fb|Iceland}}
* {{fb|Monaco}}
* {{fb|San Marino}}
* {{fb|Portugal}}
{{col-3}}
'''template:fb/sandbox'''<br />using '''template:flaglink/core/sandbox'''
* {{fb/sandbox|Vatican City|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Switzerland|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|France|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Niger|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Faroe Islands|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Belgium|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Gabon|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Russia|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Iceland|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Monaco|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|San Marino|align=y}}
* {{fb/sandbox|Portugal|align=y}}
{{col-3}}
{{col-end}}
[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 23:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:Personally, I like your version (the sandbox) better. [[User:Mamyles|Mamyles]] ([[User talk:Mamyles|talk]]) 23:39, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:I like the sandbox version slightly better when countries are lined up in a column, but not when they are alone. Example from [[UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group E#Slovenia v Switzerland]] with {{tl|fb}}:
{{football box
| date=9 October 2014
| time=20:45<br>(20:45 [[UTC+02:00|UTC+2]])
| team1={{fb-rt|SVN}}
| score=1–0
| report=[http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/qualifiers/season=2016/matches/round=2000446/match=2013845/index.html Report]
| team2={{fb|SUI}}
| goals1=[[Milivoje Novaković|Novaković]] {{goal|79|pen.}}
| goals2=
| stadium=[[Ljudski vrt]], [[Maribor]]
| attendance=8,500
| referee=[[Wolfgang Stark]] ([[German Football Association|Germany]])
}}
:With {{tl|fb/sandbox}}:
{{football box
| date=9 October 2014
| time=20:45<br>(20:45 [[UTC+02:00|UTC+2]])
| team1={{fb-rt|SVN}}
| score=1–0
| report=[http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/qualifiers/season=2016/matches/round=2000446/match=2013845/index.html Report]
| team2={{fb/sandbox|SUI|align=yes}}
| goals1=[[Milivoje Novaković|Novaković]] {{goal|79|pen.}}
| goals2=
| stadium=[[Ljudski vrt]], [[Maribor]]
| attendance=8,500
| referee=[[Wolfgang Stark]] ([[German Football Association|Germany]])
}}
:I don't support alignment as default when there is often nothing to align and you just get an unnecessary gap. An optional alignment would be OK. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:12, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::How about when the flags are centered? <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 09:07, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:I agree with PrimeHunter; that is why I decided to create {{tl|flaglist}} (which Maio's test for the sports templates is based on) as a separate template instead of changing {{tl|flag}}. In this case, we could create separate "..list" templates for each of the hundreds of sports templates, or make the alignment optional by means of a parameter:
:*{{fb/sandbox|Niger|align=yes}} ({{tlx|fb/sandbox|Niger|align{{=}}yes}})
:*{{fb/sandbox|Australia|align=yes}} ({{tlx|fb/sandbox|Australia|align{{=}}yes}})
:*{{fb/sandbox|Niger|align=no}} ({{tlx|fb/sandbox|Niger|align{{=}}no}})
:*{{fb/sandbox|Australia|align=no}} ({{tlx|fb/sandbox|Australia|align{{=}}no}})
:<span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 09:58, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

::I agree with [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]], too. I propose to edit the 'flaglink/core' lines and add the optional alignment ...<br /><code><nowiki>| flaglink/core{{yesno|{{{align}}}|no=}}</nowiki></code><br />... in following team-sports templates:<br />bb, bbw, bd, bk, bku, bkw, bkwu, davis, fb, fbu, fbw, fbwu, fed, fhm, fhw, fl, flw, hb, hbj, hbw, hbwj, ih, ih18, ihj, ihw, ihw18, iih, iihw, ru, ruu, ruw, ru7, ru7w, sb, sbw, vb, vbw, wp, wpw<br />To [[User:Edokter|Edokter]]: That's absolutely perfect !!! Now just replace [[Template:Flaglink/core]] with its sandbox version.<br />To [[User:SiBr4|SiBr4]]: There are the hundreds of sports templates, but just these 40 are '''team''' sports. I can edit them (except tl:fb – it's protected)<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 15:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Done. It would be a good default in lists though. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 15:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I've reverted &ndash; with that change it always aligns, without any parameter switch. What should be done is moving the sandbox to a different title, and changing the sports templates ({{tl|fb}} etc.) to include a switch between that and the current {{tl|flaglink/core}} (see {{tl|fb/sandbox}}). <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 16:01, 14 March 2015 (UTC)


----
I don't know much about CSS. Would it be possible to add something like <code><nowiki><div class="alignedicons">...</div></nowiki></code> around content with flag icons in a column, and then put something in a central flag template and [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] which causes alignment without having to add a parameter to each template and each call of that template? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:16, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:That would be possible using something like <syntaxhighlight lang="css">.alignedicons .flagicon {display:inline-block;width:30px;}</syntaxhighlight> However, using a CSS stylesheet, the block width cannot vary with the icon size, like it does in the {{tl|flaglist}} template. So a CSS class would only be useful for icon sizes close to the default size. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 17:47, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
----


{{ping|SiBr4}} I've added switch to tl:fb/sandbox. Now it works fine. Please simplify the code. (The new template could have a title: [[Template:flaglink/align]]).<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 19:07, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:The previous version of the sandbox already had a switch; in fact it did exactly the same thing the current version does, but without duplicating the entire code.
:I created a new template at [[Template:Flaglink/aligned]], with the contents from {{tl|Flaglink/core/sandbox}}. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 19:18, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|SiBr4}} Please remove this code ...<br /><code><nowiki>{{#ifeq:{{{size}}}|20x16px|&amp;nbsp;}}{{#ifeq:{{{alias}}}|Nepal|&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;}}</nowiki></code><br />... from [[Template:Flaglink/core]]. From now it's unnecessary – see those "alignings" through adding of NBSPs.<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 20:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:::It may be better to first change lists to use the align parameter before removing the "pseudo-alignment" from /core ({{tl|flag/core}} also still includes it). I added the parameter to {{tl|fb}}; I could run AWB to quickly change all flag templates, but would advise getting some more input before doing any mass changes. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 13:03, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::::[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] we have a problem. Aligned icons are 1 px wider than the default ones. (Or, better said, spaces are 1 px wider.)<br />{{fb|FRA}} (default)<br />{{fb|MON|align=yes}} (aligned)<br />{{fb|BEL}} (default)<br />{{fb|NIG|align=yes}} (aligned)<br />{{fb|ENG}} (default)<br />{{fb|ENG|align=yes}} (aligned)<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 16:16, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::When aligned, the width of the icon with spacing is fixed at 30px by default. Without the align option, the maximum width at default size is 25px (a 23px image with a 1px border on both sides), plus a non-breaking space (the width of which probably varies with the font used by the reader). I don't think that is a problem, since aligned and non-aligned icons wouldn't be used together. If it really is, I can change the aligning box with to be a pixel less. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 16:33, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
{{od|5}}[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] – <br /><big>1)</big> I thought, the NBSP is always 4 px wide. This will never work. You could change 30px to 29, but it will do a mess to other users.<br />I would like to use aligned and non-aligned icons together, with aligning only for Switzerland and other squarish flags - see [[2015 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships#Championship]].<br /><big>2)</big> Back to my contribution from 20:41, 14 March 2015. The first half of the code – <code><nowiki>{{#ifeq:{{{size}}}|20x16px|&amp;nbsp;}}</nowiki></code> – is absolutely unnecessary, because flagicons with 16px height don't exist. And the second half – <code><nowiki>{{#ifeq:{{{alias}}}|Nepal|&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;}}</nowiki></code> – is about Nepal and those two strange NBSPs.
* {{fb|SUI}}
* {{fb|GBR}}
* {{fb|NEP}}
* {{fb|QAT}}
* {{fb|MON}}
[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 18:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:#The spaces in the following tests use different fonts: <ul><li>{{flagicon|QAT}}<span style="font-family:serif, serif;">&nbsp;</span>Qatar (serif)</li><li>{{flagicon|QAT}}<span style="font-family:sans-serif, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span>Qatar (sans-serif)</li><li>{{flagicon|QAT}}<span style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">&nbsp;</span>Qatar (monospace)</li></ul> The width of a space obviously also changes with the font size. So it is certainly not a fixed number of pixels. I'm not sure what you refer to with "this will never work".<p>I'd suggest just using {{para|align|yes}} for every entry, if only for consistency. The alignment option should only not be used if there is no need for any alignment; it makes no sense to force non-aligned icons to be aligned with aligned ones. The minimum aspect ratio for a flag icon to be the full 23px wide is 23/15&asymp;1.533, so actually ''most'' national flags would require the align parameter in a list (including all 2:3 flags, i.e. France, Russia etc.). If there is enough agreement to do so, aligning could be made the default, so that only flag icons outside of lists need to be marked.</p>
:#The 20x16px check not doing anything was my fault; I changed the default size in {{tl|Country data Switzerland}} and {{tl|Country data Vatican City}} from 20x16px to 23x16px back in August, and updated {{tl|flag/core}} but not {{tl|flaglink/core}}. I still think that the extra spaces for (less-than-)square flags shouldn't be removed before the align parameter is at least added to all templates. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 20:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|SiBr4}}<br />1.a) Almost every flag in template:flaglink uses 29px field (including borders and nbsp), so, let's change those 30px to 29px in [[Module:Flaglist/size]], maybe it will work after all.<br />1.b) Okay, I can use {{para|align|yes}} for every entry.<br />1.c) I don't recommend to do "align=yes" as default; flagicons outside of lists are used more often.<br />1.d) Now it's necessary to update 40 team-sports templates (see the list above – 15:32, 14 March 2015) but don't we need a permission, or something?<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 22:48, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:::The longest flags in your non-aligned list at the start of this section (France, Belgium, Russia and Portugal) are actually 30 rather than 29 pixels for me. The non-aligned width is inherently different for everyone, so I don't think there is much point in adapting the aligned width to it.
:::There are more team sports flag templates than those forty; I found about fifty more that use {{tl|Flaglink/core}} and are categorized in [[:Category:Flag template system]], for example {{tl|bandy}}, {{tl|rl}} and {{tl|af}}. You could ask/notify [[WT:SPORTS]] about the proposed changes. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 21:31, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

== Signalling character limit in edit summaries ==

Currently the edit summary is limited to roughly 250 characters. Per [[Help:Edit_summary#Edit_summary_properties_and_features]], "If you attempt to type or paste more, only the first 250 characters will be displayed – the rest will be discarded. For example attempting to add 10 new characters (at the end or in between) to a summary already containing 245 characters will result in the first 5 new characters being inserted and the second 5 being disregarded". In practice this means ellipsis instead of whole phrase, for example, "restoring neutral v..." instead of "restoring neutral version", while an edit summary before saving displays all characters properly. Since many contributors may not be aware of that or may simply forget this, I think some kind of prevention is warranted (also because in practice you have to calculate the characters via some application each time you write a relatively detailed edit summary). 

One of the solutions is simply prevention of further typing by [[Cursor (computing)|cursor]] when the character limit is reached, with possible notification reading something like "You have reached your character limit" (similar to that appearing after an edit was saved). Another way is increasing character limit to allow more detailed rationales, although then signalling character limit may also be appropriate. [[User:Brandmeister|Brandmeister]]<sup>[[User talk:Brandmeister|talk]]</sup>   13:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:I can only type the 255 allowed characters but in some cases like page moves where an automatic edit summary is added in front, it may cut off what I typed. What is your browser and does it allow you to type more than 255? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:42, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::I use the latest Firefox. Recently I've reached the character limit during a page move and the edit summary was cut down by ellipsis. I recall having a couple of such cases in the past and saw them in other edit summaries. From what I see the automatic edit summaries are also affected by character limitation, also when undoing and reverting page versions, so currently one has to delete them to make room for his/her own edit summary. Automatic page move summaries seem to be particularly vulnerable, since they are longer, in the form of "User:Foo moved page Foo to Foo2") [[User:Brandmeister|Brandmeister]]<sup>[[User talk:Brandmeister|talk]]</sup>   14:29, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Normal edits appear to have exactly what you are requesting, I [[Special:Diff/651341244|can't type]] more than the edit summary limit in the edit summary box. Page moves may be an issue though it seems. [[User:Samwalton9|'''S'''am '''W'''alton]] ([[User talk:Samwalton9|talk]]) 14:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Indeed (I'm also allowed to type 255 by default). However, the problem persists in automatic edit summaries followed by user's own edit summaries, like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_/_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf&diff=prev&oldid=651327829 here], and also during reverts. But unlike reverts, you can't remove automatic page move summary to make room for your own. Note that section headings in the summaries (including /* top */ sections) are also counted, unless removed. [[User:Brandmeister|Brandmeister]]<sup>[[User talk:Brandmeister|talk]]</sup>   15:03, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:::::I can type 200 characters in the page move "Reason" box, independent of the length of the page name. The whole typed summary is preserved in the move log like [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Talk%3AFor+colored+girls+who+have+considered+suicide+%2F+when+the+rainbow+is+enuf] but elsewhere like page histories [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:For_colored_girls_who_have_considered_suicide_/_when_the_rainbow_is_enuf&action=history] the total summary including the automatic part can only be 255 characters and the user part may be cut off. Really long pagenames will also cut off the automatic part when it reaches 255, and display nothing from the user. If an ordinary edit displays something automatic in the edit summary box like a section edit or undo then nothing is cut off. The user can just type less than 255 characters after the automatic part, but gets the full 255 if the automatic part is removed. The problem with some log actions also being registered in page histories with an automatic part may be hard to solve in a friendly way. There is probably a good reason for a 255 total limit in page histories, including whatever some feature may add automatically. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::Thanks. I remember seeing the links to move log in page histories a couple of years ago, but now the accessibility isn't the same it used to be. [[User:Brandmeister|Brandmeister]]<sup>[[User talk:Brandmeister|talk]]</sup>   17:48, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::The top of page histories say "View logs for this page". It must be clicked to find out whether there actually are any logs. The top of user contributions has "logs". [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 18:23, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:Original problem will still be valid but might appear less often once [[phab:T6715]] (Allow comments to have 767 instead of 255 bytes) is "fully" fixed and deployed. It is being worked on. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 07:43, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

== Bulleted list strangeness in ship infoboxes ==
{{tracked|T19486}}
See [[Template:Infobox ship characteristics/testcases]].  Ship infoboxes are made from a table that contains (usually) three and sometimes more individual templates each of which provide the necessary html table markup. As can be seen at the testcases page, an odd thing happens when a template parameter contains a bulleted list; in this case {{para|Ship armament}} though the problem is not restricted to this parameter alone.

I had thought that recent changes in the template might have caused this problem but now I think not.  The sandbox version at the testcases page predates the recent changes and exhibits the same problem in the same way.

If I wrap bulleted lists in {{tlx|plainlist}} then the infoboxes render correctly.

Looking at the html source we can see that following the bulleted list the table is terminated and a new table started:
{{collapse top |title=html output of infobox}}
<code><poem><nowiki><h2><table class="infobox" style="width:315px;float:right;clear:right;border-spacing:2px;font-size:90%">
<tr>
<th colspan="2" height="30" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%">General characteristics</th>
</tr>
<tr style="vertical-align:top;">
<td>Armament:</td>
<td>
<p>100 guns:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lower deck: 28 × 42 or 32-pounders</li>
<li>Middle deck: 28 × 24-pounders</li>
<li>Upper deck: 28 × 12-pounders</li>
<li>Quarter deck: 12 × 6-pounders</li>
<li>Forecastle: 4 × 6-pounders</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" height="30" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%">General characteristics</th>
</tr>
<tr style="vertical-align:top;">
<td>Armament:</td>
<td>
<p>100 guns:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lower deck: 28 × 42 or 32-pounders</li>
<li>Middle deck: 28 × 24-pounders</li>
<li>Upper deck: 28 × 12-pounders</li>
<li>Quarter deck: 12 × 6-pounders</li>
<li>Forecastle: 4 × 6-pounders</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</nowiki></poem></code>
{{collapse bottom}}

While not visually apparent, the problem exists when the template containing a bulleted list is the only template in the infobox.
{{collapse top |title=html output of infobox – one template with a bulleted list}}
<code><poem><nowiki><table class="infobox" style="width:315px;float:right;clear:right;border-spacing:2px;font-size:90%">
<tr>
<th colspan="2" height="30" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%">General characteristics</th>
</tr>
<tr style="vertical-align:top;">
<td>Armament:</td>
<td>100 guns:
<ul>
<li>Lower deck: 28 × 42 or 32-pounders</li>
<li>Middle deck: 28 × 24-pounders</li>
<li>Upper deck: 28 × 12-pounders</li>
<li>Quarter deck: 12 × 6-pounders</li>
<li>Forecastle: 4 × 6-pounders</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</nowiki></poem></code>
{{collapse bottom}}

Are the bulleted lists being correctly handled by code downstream from the template?  If so, what changes do I need to make to the template in order to allow bulleted lists in the various ship infobox templates?

—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 13:38, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:Please state the perceived problem and your browser, and don't just say "an odd thing happens". [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:45, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

::The infobox should, as infoboxes generally do, float right and not be, as I and others have seen, split into the normal right-floated portion and a left-floated portion. Do you not see that condition at [[Template:Infobox ship characteristics/testcases]]?  Current versions of Chrome and Opera and even a very old version of MSIE all exhibit the same problem in exactly the same way.

::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 14:19, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

I never use these ship templates and didn't know what to expect from them but I see what you mean. I get the impression there is a deeper problem which is not about bulleted lists, but their presence in your example causes a visible effect. It looks like there is a problem with mixing html code and wikitext for tables.

I have tried to construct a simple example.
<pre>
Pure wiki syntax:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|Row 1
|}

Pure html:
<table class="wikitable">
<tr><td>Row 1</td></tr>
</table>

Mixed syntax:
{| class="wikitable"
<tr><td>Row 1</td></tr>
|}

Mixed syntax for single row tables:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
<td>Row 1</td>
|}
</pre>

The above produces:

Pure wiki syntax:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|Row 1
|}

Pure html:
<table class="wikitable">
<tr><td>Row 1</td></tr>
</table>

Mixed syntax:
{| class="wikitable"
<tr><td>Row 1</td></tr>
|}

Something is inserting extra code in the mixed case which has a second row with no content. If html tidy or something thinks there is illegal table code then automated attempts to fix it may have very varying effects in different contexts. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:05, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:Entering <code><nowiki>{{Infobox ship characteristics/testcases}}</nowiki></code> at [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] does ''not'' show the problem at [[Template:Infobox ship characteristics/testcases]], but entering my above example at [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] does show the same problem as above. I don't know what that means. Maybe ExpandTemplates doesn't run everything that a saved edit runs, and this has "very varying effects in different contexts" as I vaguely put it above. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:24, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:: ''Really'' starting to think wiki mark-up is the root of all evil.... 
Mixed syntax for single row tables :
{| class="wikitable"
|-
<td>Row 1</td>
|}
See this [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_ship_characteristics/testcases&diff=651360305&oldid=651334846  diff]; Why it worked in stopping that extra empty table generation? Haven't a clue (never mind that entire family of templates need to go "all html" or go home:( ) -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 17:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

* It works if you put the template closing and opening braces on the same line; see [[Special:Diff/651363165]]. [[User:Alakzi|Alakzi]] ([[User talk:Alakzi|talk]]) 17:59, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Admittedly, that does make more sense now that I realize the finished product was intentionally suppose to be in series and not parallel box renderings.... but the truth is most of the solutions for the current batch of html table based templates need to go all-div, all-css3 sooner rather than later. I wonder if developers are even considering switching the table mark up at some point in the future to use a Div based scheme that still behaves like the current table/row/cells stuff does now but without all the "drama" that comes with it. -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 18:39, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::: I agree that these ought to be superseded; modular {{tl|Infobox}}es would work—comparatively—well. Farther down the line, infoboxes should probably be made to use [http://html5doctor.com/the-dl-element/ definition lists]. [[User:Alakzi|Alakzi]] ([[User talk:Alakzi|talk]]) 18:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

It now seems the problem in my earlier example and the ship templates have different causes, or at least are caused by different examples of mixing wikitext and html. I made a small example of the apparent ship problem.

<pre>Broken (does not display Row 1 and Row 2 in the same table):
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
*Row 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Asterisk removed from broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
Row 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Newline removed from broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
*Row 1</td></tr><tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Newline added to broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
*Row 1</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Asterisk replaced by html list syntax in broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
<li>Row 1</li></td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>
</pre>

The above produces:

Broken (does not display Row 1 and Row 2 in the same table):
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
*Row 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Asterisk removed from broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
Row 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Newline removed from broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
*Row 1</td></tr><tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Newline added to broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
*Row 1</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Asterisk replaced by html list syntax in broken version:
<table border="1">
<tr><td>
<li>Row 1</li></td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
</table>

Each of the four changes fixes the problem. So if a table has an asterisk causing a list and uses <code><nowiki></tr></nowiki></code> on the same source line to end the row then the following <code><nowiki><tr></nowiki></code> must also be on that line to become part of the same table. Or something like that. It's messy. All five versions make a single table at [[Special:ExpandTemplates]], but the last displays the bullet to the left of the table for me where it's inside the table above. If I save it in a html file on my PC and view it without MediaWiki then the bullet is inside the table. The first four versions don't make bullets in a html file since the asterisk is not html. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 19:49, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

<table border="1">
<tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>
*Row 1</td></tr>
</table>
:::: ''Broken "works" when Row 2 is swapped for Row 1 btw''
: Bet$ anyone? My money is on sub-par(?) handling of nuanced table elements like [http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/tabular-data.html#the-tbody-element TBODY] by the 'BOT behind the [https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore/HEAD/includes%2Fparser%2FParser.php#L997  curtain]' ("always there"? in the table accounting; nothing more than just some text  <tbody>  in our case). Some interesting reading there but.... ??? <p>Seriously, you can drive yourself nuts trying make rhyme or reason out of 'why some things "behave" the way they do' around here. -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 23:27, 14 March 2015 (UTC)</p>
:: Though the parser escapes {{tag|tbody|o}}, it is inserted in all tables by the "linter". Something in the linter is what's probably causing this mess. [[User:Alakzi|Alakzi]] ([[User talk:Alakzi|talk]]) 23:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::I was already driving myself nuts trying to figure out which wiki code breaks it, let alone why. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:05, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::::One of you good folks would know better than I as to what's behind this. Still I'd like to shamelessly cast doubt on <code><nowiki>$paragraphStack</nowiki></code> without any basis nor support in spite of my shortcomings.<p> why '''BR''' is ever tapped to -- in effect -- deal with 'one too many detected' opening '''P''' tags just doesn't sit well with me. Why not nullify it with a closing '''P''' tag if in doubt?  or just keep blindly inserting '''&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;''' pairs if there is any other remaining doubt that content immediately follows that (?)detected opening tag? (its kind of late in the game for curtailing the number of 'run on' sentences accidently rendered on WP if I do say so myself :). Weird. And frustrating not being fluent enough to stop throwing it under the bus just on a whim. -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 00:35, 15 March 2015 (UTC)</p>
:This is a known issue, see {{phab|T19486}}. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 08:25, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::I think that it would be better to just re-write the {{tl|infobox ship}} (and related templates) from scratch.  These old, odd templates have developed quite a few small problems.  [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 00:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== Infobox help ==

I've run into two infoboxes that have problems I don't know how to fix and I'd be grateful for help from some more template literate editors. The problems are explained at the links.
*[[Template talk:Infobox GAA tournament#Superscripts for ordinals]]
*[[Template talk:Infobox Site of Special Scientific Interest#Italics?]]
Thank you. <span style="background-color:#B7D9F9;border-radius:3px">[[User:SchreiberBike|&nbsp;SchreiberBike ]]|[[User talk:SchreiberBike#top| ⌨&nbsp;]]</span> 18:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

:Both have been fixed by John of Reading. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 23:24, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thank you {{ping|John of Reading}} and done elegantly too. Just another reason to believe that people can work together to make a great thing like Wikipedia.  <span style="background-color:#B7D9F9;border-radius:3px">[[User:SchreiberBike|&nbsp;SchreiberBike ]]|[[User talk:SchreiberBike#top| ⌨&nbsp;]]</span> 03:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== Preview button on file upload ==

[{{fullurl:c:Special:Upload|uploadformstyle=basic}} The upload form on Commons] contains a preview button at the bottom. [[Special:Upload|The local upload form]] does not contain any preview button. Why is there no preview button on this project, and is there a way to add one? --[[User:Stefan2|Stefan2]] ([[User talk:Stefan2|talk]]) 00:25, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:See [[:commons:MediaWiki:UploadForm.js/Documentation]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::When I made my earliest uploads at Commons, I normally used the "Preview" feature, but soon discovered a bug: any categories that you had added using the "Categories" selector (just below the "Licensing" drop-down) would be lost on using {{button|Preview}}, and had to be re-added before clicking {{button|Upload file}}. I don't know if this bug is still there. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 00:04, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

== More powerful version of "What Links Here" needed ==

Hi,

I'm trying to fix links going to the page [[TRS-80]], which was recently split. Content not specific to the original TRS-80 architecture has either been moved to [[List of TRS-80 and Tandy-branded computers]], or in some cases to its own article (e.g. [[TRS-80 Model II]]).

However, I'm sure there are still many links pointing *directly* to subsections in the original article, e.g. [[TRS-80#modelii]] (which was formerly where the Model II was covered, but isn't any more).

'''Ideally, I'd be able to see whether a link to TRS-80 was a subsection link, and the context (e.g. the piped link text and possible surrounding text)''', so I can determine if it should be moved. [[Special:WhatLinksHere/TRS-80|"what links here"]] only shows articles that link to TRS-80, not showing whether they're subsection links, nor the context- and that's a long line to manually check in this case. I'm not sure that the Navigation Popups gadget is useful here either.

'''Also, as a general principle, is it preferable to link via a redirect''' (e.g. <nowiki>[[TRS-80 Model 16]]</nowiki>) instead of a subsection link (e.g. <nowiki>[[TRS-80_Model_II#model16|TRS-80 Model 16]]</nowiki>), since the latter is far more maintainable and less likely to break if (e.g.) TRS-80 Model 16 gets moved to its own article (which it *might* do)? 

Thanks for any feedback, [[User:Ubcule|Ubcule]] ([[User talk:Ubcule|talk]]) 15:29, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Ubcule}} Oh, I can still hear the floppy drive of my 32k Model III and its daisy wheel printer.  Here's a list of articles that contain a link to a section on [[TRS-80]], from the March 4 database dump:
:*[[Aster CT-80]]
:*[[Motorola 68000]]
:*[[Xenix]]
:*[[ARCNET]]
:*[[Microsoft BASIC]]
:*[[Miner 2049er]]
:*[[Drive bay]]
:*[[List of Microsoft software applications]]
:*[[History of Microsoft Flight Simulator]]
:*[[Searchlight BBS]]
:*[[Influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market]]
:*[[Tandy 10 Business Computer System]]
:*[[Timeline of portable computers]]
:You've fixed some of these articles since the dump was created.  Hope this helps!  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 21:12, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:: That was very useful thanks- I've fixed all the links in the articles above where relevant.

:: I take it that finding that out wouldn't have been easy without looking at the database itself, though? It seems as if it would be quite useful functionality to have in general.

:: Once again, thanks for the help! [[User:Ubcule|Ubcule]] ([[User talk:Ubcule|talk]]) 01:01, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

== Green and blue bullets ==

First time posting at the Village Pump, so I may need to be directed to a more appropriate place.  Meanwhile, my issue. 

Recently, the size of the blue bullets used all over WP was changed from the long-standing size proportional to the default font to a (very small) pin-dot bullet; this morning, the green bullets have also changed to this new, tiny size.  This makes them extremely difficult to see, and it is impossible to differentiate the blue from the green on a watch list.  Their size is far too small for screen readers or other readers with low vision, making the site systemically out of 508 compliance.  I can't see them well wearing the ordinary glasses I use to read my computer screen, and I'm a long way from visually impaired.  I recall no opportunity to discuss this, and have no idea where to express my displeasure with this change, which now has made the color coding system on my watch list useless.  If there is a discussion where I should take this concern, please direct me and close this, otherwise, what has to be done to open a dialogue about restoring the original bullet size?  --[[User:Drmargi|Drmargi]] ([[User talk:Drmargi|talk]]) 15:36, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:It was recently discussed here ([[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 135#Bullet points]]) but it doesn't appear that anything was determined from that discussion. I'll note that in Monobook with Firefox 36 my bullets are normal sized. -''[[User:Niceguyedc|Niceguyedc]]'' <sup>[[User talk:Niceguyedc|Go Huskies!]]</sup> 15:54, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Thanks!  I read to the discussion, which was basically a lot of faffing about whose browser did what, but no solution to the problem.  I know less than nothing about Monobook and the like; I use Safari for OS 10.8, and I have a ADA/508 non-compliant website.  It has to be fixed.  What's the best next move? --[[User:Drmargi|Drmargi]] ([[User talk:Drmargi|talk]]) 18:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::: The core of the problem is a [https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141367 bug in WebKit], which miscalculates the size of SVG images when used in <code>list-style-image</code> (the CSS property that assigns the bullet icon). Short of not using an SVG, the only solution is to wait until Apple has fixed the problem. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 21:13, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

:{{ping|Drmargi}} Try this: add the code in {{diff|User:Diannaa/vector.css|493450966|462061175|this diff}} to your common.css file. It provides nice big visible green stars beside each unexamined watch-list item. -- [[User:Diannaa|Diannaa]] ([[User talk:Diannaa|talk]]) 03:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/12|Tech News: 2015-12]] ==

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Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/12|Translations]] are available.

'''Recent changes'''
* The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84842]
* You can now see lists of bugs about [[phab:tag/commons/|Commons]], [[phab:tag/wikisource/|Wikisource]] and [[phab:tag/wiktionary/|Wiktionary]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T802]
*It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Special characters|edit the list]] of characters for your wiki. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62770] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78038]

'''Problems'''
* Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

'''Changes this week'''
* The [[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/wmf21|new version]] of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* A puzzle piece icon ([[File:VisualEditor - Icon - Template-big.svg|30px|icon]]) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51806] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52633]
* You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53049] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90734]

'''Meetings'''
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* You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150318T16&p1=224&ah=1 March 18 at 23:00 (UTC)]. See [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal|how to join]].

'''Future changes'''
* The list of bad user names [[phab:P384|on your wiki]] will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to [[m:Talk:Title blacklist|add rules]] for bad user names on Meta. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38939] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/195623/]
* You can [[d:Wikidata:Watchlist integration improvement input|comment]] on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-March/001123.html]
* The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Single User Login finalisation announcement/Schema announcement|rules to rename accounts]]. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-March/077164.html]

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== Can there be a technical fix to stop IPs using ban templates? ==

I spotted (and blocked) an IP today who was using [[:Template:Banned user]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Alaney2k&diff=prev&oldid=651431466]) and [[:Template:Indefblocked-global]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Alaney2k&diff=next&oldid=651431466]) to harass another editor (who is in good standing). I was surprised to see that it's possible for an IP account to apply these templates without a bot or similar reverting them given that there's virtually no circumstances were it would be appropriate for an unregistered account to use them. Is it possible to implement a technical fix for this? [[User:Nick-D|Nick-D]] ([[User talk:Nick-D|talk]]) 09:54, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
: [[Special:AbuseFilter]]. <font class="signature">— [[User:Kephir|Keφr]]</font> 12:07, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
* I'm not sure it would be appropriate to implement an [[WP:EF]] for this. I know that the foundation has been known in the past to apply those templates to user pages of users legitimately banned by legal.  I know they recently created a new account for this, and I'm not sure what their position is on it in the future.  If such an EF was implemented, it would have to be careful to not block foundation IPs doing legitimate work. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 12:41, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
** This is a hallucinatory problem. Any [[WP:OFFICE]] blocks would be handed out by staffer accounts; the WMF has no reason to issue blocks under IPs (in fact, it probably has reasons not to). <font class="signature">— [[User:Kephir|Keφr]]</font> 12:55, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
*** All I'm saying is I've seen it happen in the past.  No need to get nasty about it, please keep it [[WP:CIVIL|civil]]. Thank you. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 13:01, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
****Any staffer that works with an IP  can be expected to be treated as an anonymous IP with edit filter or protection blocking things.  So if they are blocked it should trigger them to log on. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 09:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
:Thanks for the advice all, I've requested a filter at [[Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested#Filter to stop IPs using ban templates]] [[User:Nick-D|Nick-D]] ([[User talk:Nick-D|talk]]) 09:53, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== How to Download Flash Video and Convert to OGG ==

There's an excellent Fed-gov't public-domain video ([http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/DeltaL1011/DeltaL1011_Microburst_pop_up.htm]) on a plane crash that would be great to have on the relevant article as a supplementary media file, but I'm not sure how to download the flash format and convert that to a Wiki-accepted OGG file. Can anyone help? -- [[User:Veggies|Veggies]] ('''''[[User talk:Veggies|<font color="blue" face="Times New Roman">talk</font>]]''''') 15:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

:{{to|Veggies}} This seems to be an animation rather than a simple video, so I don't think it can be converted without resorting to screen capturing. [[User:Anon124|<span style="background-color: #777; color: #fff;">Anon<span style="color: #0ff;">124 (+2)</span></span>]] ([[User:Anon124/R|notify me of responses!]] / [[User talk:Anon124|talk]] / [[Special:Contributions/Anon124|contribs]]) 17:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
::Is there a freeware program for that? I'm not tech-knowledge savvy. -- [[User:Veggies|Veggies]] ('''''[[User talk:Veggies|<font color="blue" face="Times New Roman">talk</font>]]''''') 18:48, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

:::{{reply|Veggies}} That is indeed an excellent video. If you have Firefox, you can download it by right clicking the page and selecting View Page Info | Media | (file name) | Save As...  Or you can right click ([http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/DeltaL1011/DeltaL1011_FlightPath2.swf this link]) and select "Save Link As...". That will download the SWF Flash file to your computer, and you can drag it to your browser to view it. The problem is converting from the SWF format to the WebM or OGG format. I tried a couple of free online SWF to WebM converters, but they failed with errors. We have a help page at [[Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files]] but it is technical and kind of dated. Perhaps someone here will have more experience in converting SWF files. –&nbsp;[[User:Margin1522|Margin1522]] ([[User talk:Margin1522|talk]]) 16:42, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::::One more thought about {{u|Anon124}}'s comment. An animation is a set of commands, not image data. To convert that, a conversion program would need the ability to emulate the Flash player executing the commands, and that might be beyond their capabilities. That would explain the conversion errors. –&nbsp;[[User:Margin1522|Margin1522]] ([[User talk:Margin1522|talk]]) 17:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== I need some help with this box  ==

{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
|-
| width="100pt" | column is 100 points wide
| width="100pt" | column is 200 points wide
| width="200pt" | column is 200 points wide
| width="300pt" | dat 300 points
| width="100pt" | dat2 100 pt
| width="100pt" | dat3 100 pt
| width="100pt" | dat4 100 pt
| width="100pt" | dat5 100 pt
|-
| blah || blih || bluh || hey || rey || day || herr || murr
|-
| colspan="8" | messo
|}

I plan to use this to describe TV-series (it have some similarities with episode-guide)

I would like the last column (where it is written '''"messo"''') to go to the end ->. I with to write plot summary in this section while the upper ones are for title, year of release etc. Can someone give me some advice on how to make this column go to the end? --[[User:Ezzex|Ezzex]] ([[User talk:Ezzex|talk]]) 17:53, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
:Use the <code>colspan=</code> attribute. We do have ready made templates for this though, like {{tl|episode list}}. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 18:02, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

::I don't know how to put this into the system--[[User:Ezzex|Ezzex]] ([[User talk:Ezzex|talk]]) 18:30, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
::I would also like to put in some color in the top columns.--[[User:Ezzex|Ezzex]] ([[User talk:Ezzex|talk]]) 19:51, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Read the documentation I linked to on how to use it. I think you're trying to re-invent the wheel. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 22:08, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Thanks. I wonder if you could put some color in the top columns?--[[User:Ezzex|Ezzex]] ([[User talk:Ezzex|talk]]) 12:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== Mohamed Nasheed  ==
{{tracked|T88478}}
Is my computer possessed or is there a reason that whenever I try to lead the [[Mohamed Nasheed ]] page, my browser gets an error? [[User:Connormah|Connormah]] ([[User talk:Connormah|talk]]) 02:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Connormah}} I have no problem using Firefox 36.0.1.  What browser are you using, and what error are you getting?  Do you get the same error when you view other articles?  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 02:59, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::I am getting an "Aw, snap!" error when I try to load it in Chrome, but can view it using Safari. I've had several of these pageload fails whilst using Chrome in the past few weeks. -- [[User:Diannaa|Diannaa]] ([[User talk:Diannaa|talk]]) 03:07, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Yup, it's Chrome. So far the only page that does this. It just does not seem to want to load. [[User:Connormah|Connormah]] ([[User talk:Connormah|talk]]) 04:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::::A frustrating known issue, see the [[phab:T88478|phab report]] and [https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=445075 Chromium issue]. <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 05:54, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::Hmm, I don't have any problems loading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Nasheed in Google Chrome 41 on Fedora 21. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 20:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:::As far as I know it's 100% a bug with Chrome, and evidently just certain platforms/versions (I'm running Chrome 41 on Mac), but they are aware of it. I believe it's already been fixed and pending deployment, as the aforementioned page (or any other page with similar characters) seems to load fine on Canary, which is the bleeding-edge Chrome release. <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 20:29, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

== Any way to remove the 'link to this section' icon? ==

I noticed in the past couple days an icon pops up when you hover near a section that lets you click on it and it shows the link in the URL bar. For me, it's incredibly distracting and I can't ever see needing it (and if I did, there's still the ToC). So any way to disable it? A setting I missed, or some java script? [[User:Melodia|♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫]] ([[User talk:Melodia|talk]]) 17:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:See [[Help:DSL]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 17:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thanks. [[User:Melodia|♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫]] ([[User talk:Melodia|talk]]) 17:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

:::As an aside, I only just now realized that those icons are links to the section rather than merely decorative.  [[User:Dragons flight|Dragons flight]] ([[User talk:Dragons flight|talk]]) 17:57, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

This feature was implemented by a volunteer developer and merged as part of routine code review. Due to adverse impact on Wikipedia's appearance in search results and other negative effects discussed in this task, it has been reverted. We (Wikimedia Foundation) have no plans to re-enable this feature without additional user research, design, testing and validation. If you have any questions or concerns, the best place to comment is [[phab:T18691]] (cf. [[mw:Bug management/Phabricator etiquette|etiquette]] for Phabricator discussions).--[[User:Erik Moeller (WMF)|Erik Moeller (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Erik Moeller (WMF)|talk]]) 04:42, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

== TFD re [[template:Maintained]] ==

Please see [[WP:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_March_16#Template:Maintained]]. 04:37, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
== Family tree template problem ==
Hi. There seems to be a problem in the way that the [[Template:Family tree|Family tree template]] it is displayed. An extra line appear at the bottom right of some boxes. [https://www.asiatorrents.me/imgz/images/kZJI5.png Error picture], or an [[Xia dynasty#Xia dynasty family tree|other exemple is here]]. Can someone fix it, please.  [[User:Daduxing|Daduxing]] ([[User talk:Daduxing|talk]]) 13:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:The local Xia dynasty example renders without the line overflows just fine here (Win 8.1 & IE 11).<p>Could it be the 2011 script you're importing via your [[User:Daduxing/vector.js|Vector.js]] file that is somehow causing this for you? -- [[User:George Orwell III|George Orwell III]] ([[User talk:George Orwell III|talk]]) 13:51, 13 March 2015 (UTC)</p>
[[File:Family tree template error 2.jpg|200px|right|thumb]] 
[[File:Family tree template error.png|200px|right|thumb]]
:: I don't thik so. I have logged out and then i checked from the laptop and is displaying the same way on both cases. Here is a picture with Xia tree with the lines in red circle  ([https://www.asiatorrents.me/imgz/images/Di81.png Xia exemple]). The problem was also mentioned by [[Template talk:Family tree#Recent change|someone else]]. I don't think that the problem is from my account/PC  [[User:Daduxing|Daduxing]] ([[User talk:Daduxing|talk]]) 14:10, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
::''Update'': It is displaying well in Internet Explorer 9. Could be a Firefox problem??...  [[User:Daduxing|Daduxing]] ([[User talk:Daduxing|talk]]) 14:14, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:::It is displaying fine in Chrome, as well. I do not have Firefox to test. Please use a different example hosting service - that one seems to be broken. [[User:Mamyles|Mamyles]] ([[User talk:Mamyles|talk]]) 14:23, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:::: Other hosting service: [http://s8.postimg.org/6r7z34cxx/Di81.png Exemple 1] ; [http://s28.postimg.org/fr8rdpnx9/k_ZJI5.png Exemple 2]     --[[User:Daduxing|Daduxing]] ([[User talk:Daduxing|talk]]) 14:47, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Why does the hosting service need to be third-party - is there any reason that a [[WP:WPSHOT|Wikipedia screenshot]] is unsuitable? --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:40, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Done it. I didn't know that I can use wikipedia image upload for this kind of files --[[User:Daduxing|Daduxing]] ([[User talk:Daduxing|talk]]) 16:01, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
{{od|:::::}} This appears to be an issue with the combination of <code>border-collapse</code> and <code>colspan</code> in Firefox. [[User:Alakzi|Alakzi]] ([[User talk:Alakzi|talk]]) 16:10, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:I cannot reproduce on Firefox 36. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 08:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:: I've [[Special:Diff/651209185|fixed]] it. [[User:Alakzi|Alakzi]] ([[User talk:Alakzi|talk]]) 11:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

{{tl|family tree}} is deprecated. Use {{tl|chart}} instead. The latter's usage is almost exactly the same barring a few minor documented differences. [[User:Jason Quinn|Jason Quinn]] ([[User talk:Jason Quinn|talk]]) 19:56, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

== Email throttle ==

{{hatnote|Moved from [[Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)]]}}
Non-admin [[WP:TWL/Coordinators|coordinators]] of [[WP:TWL|The Wikipedia Library]] have been encountering issues with email rate limits - we often need to send multiples emails at a time, sometimes 30 or more. Since the [[WP:Account creator|account creator]] toolset currently includes an exemption from rate limits, granting that right to this small group of editors would be one means of overcoming this problem. Would this be feasible? If not, does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this problem? [[User:Nikkimaria|Nikkimaria]] ([[User talk:Nikkimaria|talk]]) 18:02, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:Has there historically been a widespread problem of users spamming others using the Wikipedia email function? If not, why does this limit exist? Without proof of a necessary cap being imposed, I'd rather raise the limit instead of granting more rights to individual users. [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 20:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::There have definitely been instances of new users spamming; the only instances involving autoconfirmed users that I am aware of have involved research studies ([[Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive263#Allowing_email_survey|example]]), though there may have been others. [[User:Nikkimaria|Nikkimaria]] ([[User talk:Nikkimaria|talk]]) 20:38, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I think this question is better addressed at [[WP:VPT]] because it concerns the best way for certain non-admin individuals to be exempt from email throttling. Whether email has even been abused (''yes'') is a distraction. If the technical answer requires some change to policy, perhaps continue here, but I would have thought that if it were possible for a switch to be thrown someone could be found to do that in the case you describe. [[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 22:57, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::::There is no question about abuse in the past. I would like to know to if there has been widespread misuse. We deal with isolated incidents of misuse by blocking users. It would be nice to see the [[Special:ListGroupRights|autoconfirmed users]] have an increased rate of emailing since I believe this issue has popped up before. But xaosflux's solution seems reasonable, as well. [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 18:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Okay, what rate of emailing would you consider to be reasonable, and how do we actually go about changing that? I think a bot might be a bit harder to manage, although that could be just because I'm not too familiar with bot operation. [[User:Nikkimaria|Nikkimaria]] ([[User talk:Nikkimaria|talk]]) 21:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
:Possibly to prevent forking you could get a bot ([[WP:BOTREQ]]) to it for you, you could also create a bot account that is just used manually for it (e.g. [[User:TWL Mailer bot]] or similar.  It also appears that several of your coordinators are admin, who already have <code>noratelimit</code>.  If you want to discuss more technical options lets move this to VPT. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 01:44, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
::Okay, moving to VPT as suggested. [[User:Nikkimaria|Nikkimaria]] ([[User talk:Nikkimaria|talk]]) 04:40, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
:::[[WP:IAR]], just grant the ACC userright.  ACC isn't really meant for this purpose, but it would resolve the problem and improve the encyclopedia without hurting anything.  It's quicker and simpler than filing a bot request, and it has far less policy restrictions than bots.  Granting the bot flag would be weird for a manually used account, while nobody would think oddly of ACC for a human.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 13:18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I agree - there is no downside to granting account creator to trusted editors. I'm not even sure IAR is necessary, just have them apply for account creator via the normal process, with email throttling as the justification. Admins that specialize in that area could impose conditions, such as requiring such users not to participate in the request an account process, but likely won't flat-out deny the request. [[User:Mamyles|Mamyles]] ([[User talk:Mamyles|talk]]) 15:27, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

== Chronology ==

Is there any way to search for Wikipedia articles by time and date of creation?Mcleod Allen Mueller Hill, aka Ohyeahstormtroopers6, Imperator Universi 23:57, 18 March 2015 (UTC)  <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Ohyeahstormtroopers6|Ohyeahstormtroopers6]] ([[User talk:Ohyeahstormtroopers6|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ohyeahstormtroopers6|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:So basically you want a way to look for pages created, say, between 14:22 on 1 January 2015 and 23:14 on 4 January 2015?  [[Special:Newpages]] works for this purpose, but it's only for recent creations; I don't know of anything that works on a longer-term basis.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 14:23, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{replyto|Ohyeahstormtroopers6}} Is this for all users, or one specific user? --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:55, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Redrose has a good point.  It's easy to get a list of all pages created by any specific user: just go to contributions and check the boxes.  In your case, [[Special:Contributions/Ohyeahstormtroopers6]] and then click "Only show edits that are page creations", and then pick "Search".  This will give a chronological list of all pages you've created.  I'm unaware of any feature that does this for more than one user.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 01:06, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

== SUL finalization rename notices going out ==

''Cross-posting to a few places''

I'm sending out messages to the user accounts here who may be [[m:Single User Login finalisation announcement|potentially renamed]]. A great number of these accounts likely just need to log in and visit [[Special:MergeAccount]] to make sure they are attached to the right global account and avoid renaming. Also, users who have been renamed may be contacted about their old name being up for renaming. These users are free to ignore the message if they're fine abandoning their old account. We're well over half way in notifying users and my meta [[m:User talk:Keegan (WMF)|talk page]] exploded along with my inbox, I anticipate this likely happening here.  Any extra eyes on my talk page will be greatly appreciated in case I get caught up answering emails first. Thanks, all. [[User:Keegan (WMF)|Keegan (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Keegan (WMF)|talk]]) 21:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
== Citation backlinks ==

I just noted on a page I edited ([[Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era]]) that references no longer contain backlinks to the text that uses them. Is this a bug, or a new feature? (If it's a feature, count me as one who doesn't like!). I'm using IE9 with the MonoBook skin. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 17:01, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:The links appear to be present for me on that page with both Vector and Monobook on Chrome.  I don't use IE so I can't test that, but if you still see a problem, you might try looking with a different browser and/or skin to see if you can nail down when the issue occurs for you.  You could also try looking at the page while logged-out.  [[User:Dragons flight|Dragons flight]] ([[User talk:Dragons flight|talk]]) 17:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::The "Near this page" beta feature caused this, but I no longer see it as an option. Try [[Wikipedia:bypass your cache|bypass your cache]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 17:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::: Switching to Vector skin doesn't help. Nor does clearing the cache. I don't have access to another browser at the moment. I'll try again when I'm at my home computer. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 17:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::::What do you have selected at {{myprefs|beta}}? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 21:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
::::: Nothing. And none of the selections available would appear to affect this feature. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 12:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::how about when you are logged out? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 13:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
{{outdent}} Not there when I'm logged out, but interestingly, when I logged back in, having been on a page already, I was returned to that page after login, and the backlinks appeared briefly before disappearing. Something in the CSS is doing it, but I couldn't say what, and it's present both in the default (logged out) CSS as well as the MonoBook CSS. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 14:55, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
:Do you see text from here—<span class="mw-cite-backlink">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</span>—to here? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 21:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
:: This appears to be an IE9 issue. Things look fine here on my home PC using Firefox. {{reply|Gadget850}} I'll have to check whether I can see that text tomorrow when I'm back at my office PC. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 03:46, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::: Now back on my work PC, the "mw-cite-backlink" class appears invisible. Gotta love non-standards-compliant IE9!!! [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 12:06, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Works for me in IE11. I need to install a VM with IE9 and test in a bit. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 12:54, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::But it does not show for IE9. This is a fresh VM from [https://www.modern.ie/en-us Microsoft]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 15:12, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::I I do a user page with just {{tag|span|params=class="mw-cite-backlink"|content=Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.}} then the content of the span shows. If I add a {{tag|ref|o}} anywhere, then it shows briefly. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 15:24, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::WFM in IE8 under XP, logged out. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 16:54, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::IE 7, 8, 10 and 11 all work. It is only IE9 that is affected. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 20:00, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

=== Ref name used twice but does not say a and b ===
Look at ref 2 in [[WHMA (AM)]].— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#070">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;• [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#FA0"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;• [[Special:Contribs/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#700">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;•  18:04, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Vchimpanzee}} Looks OK to me. How about ref 13? What browser? --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 18:15, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::Sorry, I went on to something else. Nothing works. I went to another article [[World oil market chronology from 2003]] I knew had references used several times because I added them. I was relieved to see them, along with the arrows pointing up, but then they (and the a and b) disappeared. I have IE9.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#070">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;• [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#FA0"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;• [[Special:Contribs/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#700">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;•  19:19, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

{{ping|WikiDan61|Vchimpanzee}} I think I know what is going on, but I have a real life interrupt. Need to do some testing and I might just have a fix. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 20:09, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
: {{reply|Gadget850}} No rush in my case. I can live with the system as is. It just seemed odd. Glad you're on it. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 20:42, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

{{reply|WikiDan61|Vchimpanzee}} There were some recent accessibility changes to the {{cite.php}} CSS that added <code>user-select: none;</code>.[https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCite/530ef0ab9ccda7a5adef8547b2f5c644e156e636/modules%2Fext.cite.css] This is not supposed to be supported by IE9 but, apparently it causes this to fail oddly.[http://caniuse.com/#feat=user-select-none] Add this to your CSS and refresh:

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
.mw-cite-backlink, .cite-accessibility-label {display: inline}
</syntaxhighlight>

--<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 20:49, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
: I don't presently have any custom CSS defined. I'm not sure how or where to add this line. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 21:00, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::It works. Thank you. I had to go through my contibutions to find out how, but I knew I had seen a change I had to do recently.— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#070">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;• [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#FA0"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;• [[Special:Contribs/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#700">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;•  21:02, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{U|WikiDan61}}, [[User:WikiDan61/common.css]].— [[User:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#070">Vchimpanzee</span>]]&nbsp;• [[User talk:Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#FA0"> talk</span>]]&nbsp;• [[Special:Contribs/Vchimpanzee|<span style="color:#700">contributions</span>]]&nbsp;•  21:04, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I took the liberty of creating it for you. Follow the instructions at the top of the page to refresh. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 23:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
::::: {{reply|Gadget850}} Thank you. I'll check it when I'm back at the office in the morning. [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 03:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

This was an interesting one to track down! Now documented at [[Help:Internet Explorer]] and {{phab|T93319}} (since anonymous readers can't apply CSS fixes). --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 06:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
: {{reply|Gadget850}} That worked for me (once I fixed the typo in my common.css file (you forgot the '.' before the mw-cite-backlink)). Thanks again! [[User:WikiDan61|<span style="color:green;">WikiDan61</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:WikiDan61|ChatMe!]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WikiDan61|ReadMe!!]]</sub> 11:59, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Copy/paste strikes again! You are welcome. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 14:05, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

== Recent change in RSS Syndication? ==

I use The Old Reader to subscribe to the edit history sections of lots of articles which I want to monitor. Yesterday I started getting lots of old content served to me. I emailed The Old Reader support and they seem to think it's on Wikipedia's end ("Seems likely that its a change on their end. I don't have a record of feed, but these old posts were created in our system today, which suggests they arrived in the feed for the first time today, and did not exist before"). Anyone know what's up or have suggestions of where I should ask instead of here? Might be just a one time problem--haven't noticed the problem happening again today. Thanks. (I've cross-posted this at [[Wikipedia talk:Syndication]] and [[WP:HD]]).--[[User:Pengortm|Pengortm]] ([[User talk:Pengortm|talk]]) 22:30, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:We were serving up invalid IDs in the RSS feed. This [[phab:T89975|was corrected]], causing of course 'new IDs' for RSS element that had been issued invalid IDs in the past. It should be a one time event (or rather, maximum 3 times, since there are 3 groups of Wikimedia servers running which will go through a round of this upgrade). —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 06:41, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thanks for the explanation. --[[User:Pengortm|Pengortm]] ([[User talk:Pengortm|talk]]) 16:02, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

== Quirk in watchlist ==

I was briefly confused by what seemed to be an IP reverting ClueBot NG, but turned out to be the watchlist order being inverted (normally the edits run bottom to top in sequence), possible because ClueBot's revert has the same timestamp edit being reverted.  Copied from my watchlist:
            23:55:57  Micrometre‎‎ (2 changes | history) . . (0)‎ . . [ClueBot NG‎; 111.69.22.229‎]
            23:55:57 (cur | prev) . . (-2,576)‎ . . 111.69.22.229 (talk) (→‎SI standardisation)
     m      23:55:57 (cur | prev) . . (+2,576)‎ . . ClueBot NG (talk | contribs) (Reverting possible vandalism by 111.69.22.229 to version by Stevenmitchell. False positive? Report it. Thanks, ClueBot NG. (2167277) (Bot))
Is this something that should be fixed? —[[User_talk:Quondum|Quondum]] 00:13, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

:Steps to reproduce for me: Enable "Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist" at [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc]] and "Expand watchlist to show all changes" at [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist]]. Watch [[Micrometre]]. View watchlist. Click triangle to the left of "Micrometre" on watchlist. The page history of the article shows the right order. The revision numbers are 652299116 for the IP and 652299128 for ClueBot NG. Several other pages on my watchlist had two edits the same minute, and all showed the right order. I added five other recently reverted articles at [[Special:Contributions/ClueBot NG]] to my watchlist. All were reverted in the same minute as the previous edit, and all were shown in the right order on my watchlist. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{u|PrimeHunter}}, for clarity, the above example is the the same ''second'', not merely the same ''minute''. And I take it from what you say that when you expand as described by clicking on the triangle, the last two lines above are swapped relative to the above (the above is in the incorrect order). It would be interesting if the same interface produces different results for the same information for different people. —[[User_talk:Quondum|Quondum]] 04:19, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I reproduced your wrong order. "The page history of the article shows the right order" meant https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Micrometre&action=history. I don't display seconds and didn't notice the seconds in your quote. Selecting the last date format at [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering]] gives me seconds. I get the right watchlist order for edits in the same minute but different seconds. I found another example with the same second at [[Row cover]]. There I get the wrong order again. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 11:12, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
:I have recently been playing with [[:mw:API:Usercontribs]] and found a couple of cases where my contributions were listed by the API with a slightly different order than shown using [[Special:Contributions]] (pairs of edits were reversed, as in the report here). I'm mentioning that in case someone wants to investigate, and I could look for examples if needed. [[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 00:56, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
::I've seen this before, at least three times over a period of many months (a few years?). It seems as if the query which obtains and sorts the rows for display is not taking the revision number into account when two edits have the same stored date/time. I believe that the stored time precision is to whole seconds, that being the precision of a [[UNIX time]]; although this is truncated to minutes for display. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 08:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

== A new idea for the wiki software ==

I have a new idea for wiki's software. I proposed it via [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92617?workflow=create Phabricator] a week ago but no one answered. Am I doing something wrong? [[User:רן כהן|רן כהן]] ([[User talk:רן כהן|talk]]) 10:37, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

:It's the wrong place if existing software features like [[Help:Collapsing]] are used. Content discussions about the English Wikipedia belong here at en.wikipedia.org. The below shows a way we could do it (could be made prettier), but I don't expect consensus for it. See [[MOS:CODE]] and [[WP:NOTREPOSITORY]].
;Hello world code
{{Collapse top|C}}
<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("Hello, world!\n");
}

</syntaxhighlight>
{{Collapse bottom}}
{{Collapse top|Java}}
In console:
<syntaxhighlight lang="java">
public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, world!");
    }
}
</syntaxhighlight>
{{Collapse bottom}}
{{Collapse top|C#}}
In a console or terminal:
<syntaxhighlight lang="csharp">
using System;
class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!");
    }
}
</syntaxhighlight>
{{Collapse bottom}}

:Or with an outer collapsed box:
{{Collapse top|Hello world code}}
{{Collapse top|C}}
<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("Hello, world!\n");
}

</syntaxhighlight>
{{Collapse bottom}}
{{Collapse top|Java}}
In console:
<syntaxhighlight lang="java">
public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, world!");
    }
}
</syntaxhighlight>
{{Collapse bottom}}
{{Collapse top|C#}}
In a console or terminal:
<syntaxhighlight lang="csharp">
using System;
class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!");
    }
}
</syntaxhighlight>
{{Collapse bottom}}
{{Collapse bottom}}
:It could for example be suggested at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer science]] or [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Thank you, I forgot that this feature existed. [[User:רן כהן|רן כהן]] ([[User talk:רן כהן|talk]]) 17:02, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

== Could someone help me put some color inside the top row of this box ? ==

{| border="1" cellpadding="4"
|-
| width="185pt" style="background-color:red;" | '''Tiger'''
| width="150pt" style="color:white; background-color:#012345;" | '''Orig'''
| width="180pt" | '''Bok'''
| width="125pt" | '''In'''
| width="50pt" | '''Episo'''
| width="60pt" | '''Spil'''
| width="110pt" | '''Sen'''
| width="150pt" | '''Send'''
|-
|  ||  ||  ||  || || ||  (IT) || 
|-
| colspan="8" |'''Produksjon:''' 
|-
| colspan="8" |'''Rollebesetning:''' 
{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0" style="width: 100%;"
|- valign="top"
|
|}
|-
| colspan="8" |'''Handling:''' 
|-
| colspan="8" |'''Boka:''' 
|}

-- <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Ezzex|Ezzex]] ([[User talk:Ezzex|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ezzex|contribs]]) 14:19, 20 March 2015‎</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

: {{Ping|Ezzex}} Examples shown above. Please be mindful of [[WP:COLOR]]. <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> 14:53, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

::Many thanks.--[[User:Ezzex|Ezzex]] ([[User talk:Ezzex|talk]]) 15:13, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

== Is there a good way to ask for help with Graphics? ==

[[File:Israel districts.png|right|50px]]
I am hoping to get a colour added to Golan heights and East Jerusalem so as to differentiate them from the within armistice line territory claimed by Israel so as to distinguish them in a similar way as the West Bank.  I think that a similar colour would do.  All as per discussions [[Talk:Israel#Colouration proposal re: File:Israel districts.png]] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Israel_districts.png File talk:Israel districts.png#Proposal for colour changes.]  Thanks.  [[User:GregKaye|Greg]][[User talk:GregKaye|Kaye]] 17:18, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

:[[Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:28, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

== Two toolbars in the editing window ==
{{tracked|T93384}}
Please help remove excess panel. This happened after the last update. --[[User:Дагиров Умар|Дагиров Умар]] ([[User talk:Дагиров Умар|talk]]) 20:16, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
This error in the Chechen Wikipedia.--[[User:Дагиров Умар|Дагиров Умар]] ([[User talk:Дагиров Умар|talk]]) 20:23, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
:This is bug [[phabricator:T93384|T93384]].--[[User:Snaevar|Snaevar]] ([[User talk:Snaevar|talk]]) 23:19, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Thank you so much. -- [[User:Дагиров Умар|Дагиров Умар]] ([[User talk:Дагиров Умар|talk]]) 23:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
== Rollback confirmation ==

I'd like to propose a user preference to turn on a confirmation when using the [[WP:ROLLBACK|rollback]] tool. I'm not the only one, as evidenced from the numerous previous discussions on this (linked below), that - especially from a mobile phone - has accidentally pressed the rollback button and rolled back a random edit without meaning to. To avoid this, I'd like to suggest that a yes/no confirmation, which could be exactly the same as the Thank yes/no confirmation, be added to the Rollback button. There were many users who expressed the fair opinion that rollback is meant to be quick and not require an extra click, so I think it makes sense for this to be an opt-in preference. Thoughts?

There have been a few previous discussions on the implementation of a confirmation when rolling back, which might be worth a quick read before responding here: [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_55#Rollback_option|Rollback option]], [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_68#iPhone_and_rollback|iPhone and rollback]], [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_57#Rollback_on_Watchlist_really_needs_to_go...|Rollback on Watchlist really needs to go...]], [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_50#Rollback_popup.3F|Rollback popup?]], [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_97#Adding_a_confirmation_dialog_to_the_watchlist_rollback_link|Adding a confirmation dialog to the watchlist rollback link]]. [[User:Samwalton9|'''S'''am '''W'''alton]] ([[User talk:Samwalton9|talk]]) 20:31, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Support''' I like the idea as an opt-in preference. For disabling rollback only on mobile devices, you can use a tiny script for that such as [[User:MusikAnimal/rollbackTouch.js]]. I could write another script equally as tiny to achieve the rollback confirmation you are after, but it would use the browser's confirm popup, with OK and Cancel buttons, rather than the little interface you see for thanking users. We could then add it as an opt-in gadget. <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 20:52, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
*:If you're interested, here's a script that does what I was talking about: [[User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback]]. I could modify it or create a new version that only prompts for confirmation if on a mobile device, or only on watchlists, etc... all very easy to do. Cheers <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 00:04, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
*:Here's one that only prompts on mobile: [[User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback-mobile]]. If this ever does become a gadget, we might consider enabling it by ''default''. Note also the browser confirmation as opposed to the tiny interface seen when thanking someone, is probably more mobile-friendly anyway. <span style="font-family:sans-serif">&mdash; <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 00:09, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
*::{{+1}} '''Hallelujah!''' I just tested this, and it works great! This is something I've wanted for a while. <span style="background:#006B54; padding:2px;">'''[[User:Imzadi1979|<span style="color:white;">Imzadi&nbsp;1979</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Imzadi1979|<span style="color:white;"><big>→</big></span>]]'''</span>  02:58, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Support''' - Personally I'll probably never use it but for those on mobiles this is probably a dream come true :), I like the idea and I like the fact it's opt-in as opposed to it simply being forced down our throats!, Meh I don't see any harm in the opt-in message. –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 21:49, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Support''' as long as it's opt-in.  The whole point of rollback is that it doesn't require confirmation (because this slows things down a lot), so we shouldn't change the default, but of course it would be good if we gave the option to users who want it.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 13:15, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
* '''Support as opt-in''' - I can see that it may be useful for some users, but most rollback-capable users wouldn't want it. [[User:Od Mishehu|עוד&nbsp;מישהו]] [[User talk:Od Mishehu|Od&nbsp;Mishehu]] 14:01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
* '''Support as opt-in''' on main site '''support as opt-out''' on mobile. All&nbsp;the&nbsp;best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'',&nbsp;<small>16:33,&nbsp;19&nbsp;March&nbsp;2015&nbsp;(UTC).</small><br />
*To hide the rollback button altogether on your watchlist use this:
 .mw-special-Watchlist .mw-rollback-link {
    display: none;
 }
'''[[User talk:Konveyor Belt|<span style="text-shadow:0em 0em 1em #003399;"><span style="color:#00008B;">Konveyor</span></span><span style="text-shadow:0em 0em 1em #FF8C00;"><span style="color:#B7410E;">Belt</span></span>]]''' 17:03, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
* I believe this was one of the intended use cases of [http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/docs/uidesign/confirmable.html jquery.confirmable], currently used to confirm "thanks". It might be worth investigating making a gadget using this feature. [[User:Wctaiwan|wctaiwan]] ([[User talk:Wctaiwan|talk]]) 20:45, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
*Support as opt-in only. Although we already have that with MusikAnimal's extension. [[User:Stickee|Stickee]] <small>[[User talk:Stickee|(talk)]]</small> 23:34, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
* '''Support as opt-in''', good idea. [[User:Matiia|Matiia]] ([[User talk:Matiia|talk]]) 23:46, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
* There is an old proposed patch for MediaWiki that implements this (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90729/), which is probably what wctaiwan had in mind, indeed using the same mechanism as Thanks confirmation. Shouldn't be difficult to dust it off. [[User:Matma Rex|Matma Rex]] <small>[[User talk:Matma Rex|talk]]</small> 23:41, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
::I was actually thinking of a gadget rather than a core change. That way it'd be opt-in without requiring further code changes. [[User:Wctaiwan|wctaiwan]] ([[User talk:Wctaiwan|talk]]) 23:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
*Rich's suggestion of '''opt-out for mobile''' (and opt-in elsewhere?) is an excellent idea. I have only ever made a mistaken rollback once or twice on desktop, but can imagine it happening a lot more frequently on mobile. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 15:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

== Updating list of 500 most viewed mathematics articles ==

I'd be interested in updating the list found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/Wikipedia_1.0/Frequently_viewed/List, which was last edited in 2009. Does anyone know what methods I can use to find the most-viewed mathematics articles as of this year? Is there currently a bot that could update this list for 2015?[[User:Brirush|Brirush]] ([[User talk:Brirush|talk]]) 14:26, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

:For starters, see here [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/], and this page [http://stats.grok.se/] will let you query single articles. Getting a top 500 in category math from there would require a little scripting, but someone may already have tools to do that. [[User:SemanticMantis|SemanticMantis]] ([[User talk:SemanticMantis|talk]]) 15:36, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

:Furthermore, something seems a little fishy about techniques used to make that list. Why is [[Albert_Einstein]] number 1? I wouldn't think he should count as a "math" article, and currently, his page has no categories that even contain the string "math", though maybe in the past his page had the category "mathematician" or something... [[User:SemanticMantis|SemanticMantis]] ([[User talk:SemanticMantis|talk]]) 16:48, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

::In this context, "Math articles" are articles that are part of Wikiproject Mathematics.[[User:Brirush|Brirush]] ([[User talk:Brirush|talk]]) 16:57, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
:::A page like [[WP:WA/PP]], updated monthly by bot, can be set up for Wikiproject Mathematics (or any wikiproject) - see https://tools.wmflabs.org/popularpages/config.php to set it up - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 15:14, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

== Wrong(?) diff ==

[[File:Wikipedia_diff_bug,_2015,_March_21.png|thumb|right|diff bug]]
Hello, I noticed that in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC_6086&diff=652803778&oldid=651163669| this diff], part of the page which I did not touch is being shown as changed. I believe this to be a bug. Can someone report this on Phabricator ? (I don't have an account nor do I know how to check if this bug has already been reported.)

See image. Thank you. --[[User:Siddhant|Siddhant]] ([[User talk:Siddhant|talk]]) 00:00, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:This will happen in a number of diff views by different programs. Notice that the {{tag|ref|c}} at the end of the line didn't show as being changed. This is because the diff view engine thinks you ''inserted'' the content in the middle of the ref, rather than copied and pasted after it. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 02:39, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Ah. I see your point. Actually, what happned is that because of this ambiguity in deciding whether I inserted the text or appended it, the [[User:Citation bot|Citation bot]] ended up doing a botched up job via its [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NGC_6086&diff=next&oldid=652803778| followup edit]. I'll report this to the Bot ownner. Furthermore, I was wondering if the diff software can/should be made to choose the appended text interpretaion over the inserted text interpretation? Can/should this be special cased?  --[[User:Siddhant|Siddhant]] ([[User talk:Siddhant|talk]]) 03:36, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I see no errors in Citation bot's edit. What you are seeing appears to me as purely an inadequacy in the diff program. It simply can't tell whether you inserted a new reference or extended the old one. I have seen this in diff output forever (for more than 20 years); diff is pretty smart, but it often reports that a whole word has been changed when I changed only one character, for example. A bug report on Phabricator might generate a useful programming challenge for some young and ambitious programmer who doesn't know what is impossible yet. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 04:32, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
::::You are correct! There is no error in the bot's edit (except the blank fields which is did not remove, but that's a minor problem. Thanks for your cleanup edit regarding that.) --[[User:Siddhant|Siddhant]] ([[User talk:Siddhant|talk]]) 07:55, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::It should be possible to enhance the diff so that it shows character differences instead of word differences. If you go to a file description page on Commons, and request rename of the file by using {{tlc|[[c:Template:Rename|Rename]]}}, it presents a box showing two diffs. This is demonstrated on the template page itself, where under "Difference in words:" it shows all of the page name as changed, whereas under "Difference in characters:", the letters "e", "m" and "p" are shown as unchanged. [[c:Template:Rename#Examples|Further examples]] make this clearer. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 11:42, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::I don't know what part of the software builds these character-based diffs, but I suspect it is some template or module; the transclusion mechanism at Commons is pretty horrid. As for why regular diffs seem to count the first occurence as changed; it is because a diff is usually build from end to beginning. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 12:31, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::Probably [[c:Module:Diff]] then. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:01, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

== [[:File:Italy vs Wales 2015-03-21.svg]] ==

For some reason, a black box appears on [[:File:Italy vs Wales 2015-03-21.svg|this image]] when it is called in articles. The black box doesn't appear in the original image ([https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Italy_vs_Wales_2015-03-21.svg here]), so I can't explain why the Wikipedia software would render it. – [[User:PeeJay2K3|Pee]][[User talk:PeeJay2K3|Jay]] 18:08, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{replyto|PeeJay2K3}} I've come across this before, at [[:File:Metropolitian Railway (1870).svg]]. In this case it was the presence of the following: <syntaxhighlight lang=xml>  <flowRoot
     xml:space="preserve"
     id="flowRoot3396"
     style="fill:black;stroke:none;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-linecap:butt;fill-opacity:1;font-family:Sans;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:40px;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px"><flowRegion
       id="flowRegion3398"><rect
         id="rect3400"
         width="91"
         height="46"
         x="231"
         y="921.39148" /></flowRegion><flowPara
       id="flowPara3402" /></flowRoot></syntaxhighlight> That {{tag|rect|s}} drew the black rectangle, so {{done}} I removed it; I also removed the {{tag|flowRoot}} {{tag|flowRegion}} and {{tag|flowPara|s}} elements, since these are not documented in the SVG spec, and so their behaviour is unknown. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:47, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{replyto|Redrose64}} Thank you very much. That was bugging the crap out of me. I wonder why it happened! – [[User:PeeJay2K3|Pee]][[User talk:PeeJay2K3|Jay]] 20:09, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:::That SVG has all the hallmarks of having been edited in Inkscape, which adds all sorts of strange stuff, ranging from undocumented elements through undocumented attributes on documented elements to undocumented values on documented properties. Ordinarily I would strip out all of the obvious Inkscape deadweight, and it would still render as intended. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:34, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
::[[phab:T43424|flowRoot]] is not supported by the SVG rendered in use by MediaWiki. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 21:16, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:::OK, part of the issue is with Inkscape, which seems to be creating a file header that is inconsistent with its content. I've looked at the {{tag|svg|o}} tag in that file, and it has the attribute <code>version="1.0"</code> The current W3C Recommendation (i.e. widely-accepted standard) for SVG is [http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-SVG11-20110816/ version 1.1, 16 August 2011], which lacks {{tag|flowRoot}} and those others. These are proposed for SVG version 1.2, which is still a [http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVG12-20050413/ W3C Working Draft - last revision 13 April 2005], nearly ''ten'' years ago. It doesn't have a clickable Table of Contents, but googling around I found [http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/flow.html this older version]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:05, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

==Andy Mackay infobox==

On the page for [[Andy Mackay]], something isn't showing in the infobox. There's a line for "Instruments", shown here:
| Instruments         = [[Alto saxophone]], [[tenor saxophone]], keyboards, [[oboe]], violin
But as displayed, the line doesn't show. I've tried various fixes - changing the capital I to a lowercase, changing the location of the line - but they've had no effect in the page previews. What's causing this problem?[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] ([[User talk:Bjones|talk]]) 21:07, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Bjones}} The infobox in question is {{tl|Infobox musical artist}}, the documentation of which shows the parameter name is {{para|instrument}} (singular and lowercase). The parameter works if it is changed to that. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 21:17, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
::Got it, and that did work. Thanks for your advice.[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] ([[User talk:Bjones|talk]]) 02:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

== ARIA blocked? ==

Hi all, I'm trying to address [[Template talk:Physics particle#Non-screenreader friendly]] by using dummy <code>&lt;sup></code> and <code>&lt;sub></code> tags while hiding the problematic tags in text-based browsers using <code>aria-hidden</code>. However, I found out that the [[WAI-ARIA]] attribute (or at least the one I'm using) seem to be blocked. An example can be seen in my [[User:Timothy Gu/sandbox|sandbox]], where the <code>aria-hidden</code> attribute seems to be stripped from the HTML output (by examining the source). Is is behavior documented? If so, is there any workarounds? Thanks. [[User:Timothy Gu|Timothy G.]] <sup>from [[California|CA]]</sup> ([[User talk:Timothy Gu#top|talk]]) 21:27, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
:The attribute is not whitelisted. See [[Help:HTML in wikitext#Attributes]]. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 21:33, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

==Special:Watchlist legend==
Don't know if anyone else has seen this, but the legend on my Watchlist page says "m This is a" instead of "m This is a minor edit".  I've checked it back to what I believe is the MediaWiki page it originates from, but that page has the correct wording, and I couldn't edit it if it didn't.  I thought some of you folks here might be able to fix it. [[User:Beyond My Ken|BMK]] ([[User talk:Beyond My Ken|talk]]) 01:06, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:Looks OK to me. Do you see this text: "<span id="minoredit_helplink">[[Help:Minor edit|minor edit]]</span>" --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 01:10, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::No, you would not. [[User:Beyond_My_Ken/monobook.css]] contains:

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
#minoredit_helplink { display: none;
}
</syntaxhighlight>
::Which causes it to be hidden. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 01:13, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:::You must have added that code to hide the link in [[MediaWiki:Minoredit]] which is displayed next to the minor edit checkbox when editing, so you should also see "This is a" there. Some users hide the link to avoid accidentally hitting it during an edit. [[MediaWiki:Recentchanges-legend-minor]] uses the same id for the link so it also becomes hidden there. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 03:40, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Added in {{diff|User:Beyond My Ken/monobook.css|prev|363526888|this edit}} - almost five years ago. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 10:48, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

== Upload constantly failing ==

[http://www.bhu.kg/_/rsrc/1401003005995/config/customLogo.gif?revision=3 This logo], tried gif and jpg with an error message: This file did not pass verification. --[[User:Titodutta|Tito Dutta]] ([[User talk:Titodutta|talk]]) 01:50, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:The software checks to ensure the file matches the extension. Looks like it is a PNG image with a GIF extension. Rename it to a PNG extension. --<span style="color:Turquoise">''''' &nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 01:59, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
== John Coates (Businessman) Not Showing Up in Wiki Search ==

When I type in [[John_Coates_(businessman)|John Coates]] into the wiki search bar John Coates (businessman) doesn't show up. Around 9 other John Coates are listed. The one I'm looking for is the CEO of bet365.

However, when I type in John Coates businessman, he does show up.

Is there any way of resolving this issue?

Cheers,

Alex

--[[User:AlexMoscow74|AlexMoscow74]] ([[User talk:AlexMoscow74|talk]]) 15:44, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

:If you mean the drop-down suggestions when you type in the search box then at most 10 pages are selected and [[John Coates (businessman)]] doesn't currenly make the cut for "John Coates", but appears on "John Coates (". Nothing should be done about that. Don't try to game the system to get your preferred page to replace another. If you mean the disambiguation page [[John Coates]] then it's not a search feature but a manually edited page. An editor added the business man after your post.[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Coates&diff=652747476&oldid=555634138] The article author should have done it at the page creation but it's an inexperienced editor. If you mean the search results page for {{search link|John Coates}} then the business man is currently the 11th result on the first page. Don't try to game the systemn to make him appear higher on the page. So regardless of what you meant, there is nothing more to do now. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 17:25, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you PrimeHunter, I appreciate you help with resolving this issue. --[[User:AlexMoscow74|AlexMoscow74]] ([[User talk:AlexMoscow74|talk]]) 10:05, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

==Where can I buy a wikipedia mediawiki clone with decent Captcha etc?==
Does anyone sell a wikipedia mediawiki clone? By this I mean wikipedia software with all of the incredible bells and whistles without the article content?

Out of the box, mediawiki is just terrible as far as spam and malicious bots.  It is amazing the trouble I have had with the 10+ mediawiki sites I have.  If I don't immediately disable editing, I am assaulted with bots within weeks.  The captchas are clunky and difficult for me to effectively install.  Why doesnt a robust wikipedia like captcha come standard with mediawiki? To me, this is the biggest weakness of mediawiki.

My account just was suspended with [[Namecheap]]:

:It has come to our attention that there is a huge amount of similar emails queued on the server by your hosting account ideakwty. Please note that transmitting any unsolicited commercial or bulk email, or being engaged in any activity known or considered to be spamming or Mail Bombing is expressly prohibited on our hosting servers according to our Acceptable Use Policy, paragraph 8. ‘Prohibited Activities’ www.namecheap.com/legal/hosting/aup.aspx

:As we can see, the emails are sent per each account registration on your web site [removed].com. In order to protect your web site from spam bot account registration please consider using anti spam software (e.g. Captcha). 

Please, please technical people - don't shoot the messenger.  I am very technically savvy.  This is a constant difficultly I have had for years with mediawiki.

Again, Does anyone sell a wikipedia mediawiki clone with awesome captcha, etc? 

Thank you [[User:Namecheapblues|Namecheapblues]] ([[User talk:Namecheapblues|talk]]) 13:16, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:Have you checked [[mw:Manual:Combating spam]]? --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 16:03, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

:How have you configured Mediawiki?  Are you requiring registration to edit?  Have you turned on edit rate limiting?  Do you enable uploading? Have you looked at the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide Installation guide]?  —[[user:EncMstr|EncMstr]] ([[user talk:EncMstr|talk]]) 19:38, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::thank you for suggestions. thank you for your help. yes I am doing all this. 
::The problem is that mediawiki has a HUGE flaw.  
::I wish I could spend my own money and buy wikipedia mediawiki. [[User:Namecheapblues|Namecheapblues]] ([[User talk:Namecheapblues|talk]]) 13:11, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
:::It really depends on what you need exactly. A website that anyone can edit is doomed to have spam. Besides setting up a decent captcha (which is definitely possible by Mediawiki, through extensions), you might want preventing new account registration, forcing new edits to be approved by a seasoned user, [[mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount|forcing users to verify their account]], ... Otherwise, there are a lot of alternatives: [[List of wiki software]]. -- [[User:Luk|<span style="color:#002BB8;">Luk</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Luk|<span style="color:#008080;">talk</span>]]</sup> 13:36, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

== Duplicate files ==

Hello, [[User:Ebraminio]] wrote a php tool that can list duplicate files in certain Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons. [http://tools.wmflabs.org/ebraminio-dev/a.php?from=en&to=commons This is result for English Wikipedia] (the file is too big to copy paste it in a Wiki page). English Wikipedia should have a bot to delete these files. <code style="background:yellow">:)</code>[[user:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]<sup>[[User talk:Ladsgroup|overleg]]</sup> 17:44, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
: These can't be deleted by bot because they first need to be carefully checked for errors. For example, fair use files are sometimes posted to Commons with bogus copyright tags and should instead be nominated for deletion on Commons, and some people upload files to Commons without providing correct source information. [[quarry:query/947]] can also be used for finding untagged files on Commons. A bot could maybe add {{tls|ncd}} to the files, but this assumes that the deleting admin carefully cleans up the files and nominates files on Commons as necessary. --[[User:Stefan2|Stefan2]] ([[User talk:Stefan2|talk]]) 20:39, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:: I used to have a bot doing just that, but it needed careful human examination: lots of duplicates are moves from Wikipedia to Commons, with incorrect licensing information. And of course non-free files that would get moved to Commons by someone who doesn't know better, and get deleted there after a few months. -- [[User:Luk|<span style="color:#002BB8;">Luk</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Luk|<span style="color:#BB0066;">talk</span>]]</sup> 13:39, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/13|Tech News: 2015-13]] ==

<section begin="technews-2015-W13"/><div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="plainlinks">
Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/13|Translations]] are available.

'''Changes this week'''
* The [[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/wmf22|new version]] of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T10303]
* VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78628] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90372] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53569]  
* When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71727]
'''Meetings'''
* You can [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-03-18 read the notes] from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
* You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=03&year=2015 March 25 at 19:00 (UTC)]. See [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal|how to join]].

'''Future changes'''
* Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the [[mw:Flow|new system]]. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sdoatsbslsafx6lw]

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== Patrolling notification ==

I just saw a discussion in which an interesting suggestion is raised, but I'm not sure how to help (let alone if help is needed), so I'm just bringing it here.<blockquote>Hi, could you explain to me what "user was patrolled by.. " in this case you, means? I did not find any objective information on that. Greetings![[User:Lucentcalendar|Lucentcalendar]] ([[User talk:Lucentcalendar|talk]]) 11:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Lucentcalendar}} It basically just means I decided the page is ok and not vandalism, spam or anything.  Not sure if you've seen [[m:Help:Patrolled edit]], but there's more information there.  The notification thingy should probably link to some help page or other so that people won't be confused.  [[User:ekips39|<b style="color: #062">e</b><b style="color: #069">k</b><b style="color: #04f">i</b><b style="color: #108">ps</b><b style="color: #60c">39</b>]] ([[User talk:Ekips39#top|talk]]) 20:00, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Thank you. Your site is OK too, I would go a bit easier on the colors, but that is certainly a matter of taste. There is no information shown about patrols and googling it only found information about patrolling new content pages and harassment of administrators against users.[[User:Lucentcalendar|Lucentcalendar]] ([[User talk:Lucentcalendar|talk]]) 07:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)</blockquote>I assume that this is new page patrol, but I'm not sure.  Could a link be added, as suggested by ekips?  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 01:16, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
== Wikipedia Library Related Changes ==

I'm tracking changes related to [[WP:The Wikipedia Library]] at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library]].  Oddly, several biographies are included in the list including: [[Albert Einstein]] and [[William Shakespeare]].  

What those pages happy to have in common is the [[Template:Library_resources_box]].  But despite looking in that template, in the page's source code, and the page's html.  I can't find a link to The Wikipedia Library in any of them.  So... why are they showing up in the related changes feed? Thanks! [[User:Ocaasi|Ocaasi]]<sup> [[User talk:Ocaasi|t ]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Ocaasi| c]]</sup> 17:51, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:[[WP:The Wikipedia Library]] mentions those authors in the quote section at the bottom. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 20:44, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::Ohhhhh.  Thanks! {{Ping|John of Reading}}.  Cheers, Jake [[User:Ocaasi|Ocaasi]]<sup> [[User talk:Ocaasi|t ]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Ocaasi| c]]</sup> 23:01, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

== Error when displaying [[Wikipedia:Featured_topics/count]] ==

I simply loaded the page (I didn't edit it), and after 'All articles tagged as being part of a good topic:' and 'Total:', I get an 'Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",".'

I don't know where to even begin searching to fix this; the most (I think) I know for sure is that there's a problematic comma within those templates (or scripts?) that became transcluded onto the Featured topics count page.

Anything I could rely upon for future reference would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. [[User:Googol30|Googol30]] ([[User talk:Googol30|talk]]) 07:38, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
:The four-digit counts were causing problems. I've fixed it, with some help from [[Help:Magic words]]. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 07:53, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

== Islamic calendar ==

Hi.   The diff shows an edit by CambridgeBayWeather at 06:57 but the history ends with an edit at 16:44 yesterday.   There is an "edit this page" tab but clicking on it produces an "editing is restricted to registered users" notice.   How can this be? [[Special:Contributions/87.81.147.76|87.81.147.76]] ([[User talk:87.81.147.76|talk]]) 13:22, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

:Your browser may have cached [[Islamic calendar]] and the page history before the protection by CambridgeBayWeather at 06:57. Try to [[WP:BYPASS|bypass your cache]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:36, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

::It cleared.   Thanks. [[Special:Contributions/87.81.147.76|87.81.147.76]] ([[User talk:87.81.147.76|talk]]) 15:33, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

== Is Move-to-commons assistant malfunctioning? ==

I have previously easily used this tool to move an image from Wikipedia to Commons. The last few times over a series of recent weeks, I tried on various files with Tools using OAuth Uploader, the OAuth Uploaders tells me I've authorized it.  But when I do a "refresh" on the page where I'm doing the move, it goes through the motions and then kicks up the message:

:Querying CommonSense ...done.
:Querying image data ...done.
:Retrieving image description ...done.
:ERROR: null

If while still logged in on Uploader, I go back to the original file to try again, in this case [[:File:New York Dramatic Mirror June1910.jpg]], it will go through the motions and still kick up the above error message.  The image never gets uploaded at Commons.  Since it worked before, why is it not now? [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 19:46, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

::I see a July 2014 message identical to mine on Commons: [[commons:User_talk:Magnus_Manske/Commonshelper_interface/Help_en|Discussion]]. No answer was posted there. [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 19:52, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Have you informed [[user:Magnus Manske|Magnus]] on this wiki? --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:56, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

::::Thanks.  I just posted to his talk page. [[User:Maile66|— Maile ]] ([[User talk:Maile66|talk]]) 20:05, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

== Extension:Gather launching on beta  ==

Greetings,

It is my first time to announce here.  I am Moushira, a new community liaison for mobile products and I have some updates to share :).  So, [[mw:Extension:Gather|Extension:Gather]] has been in development for a while and is now ready for beta launch on wp:en mobile web by next week, where mobile logged in users activating their beta features option, will have the possibility to create and share public lists of their articles. For more information, kindly check the [[mw:Extension:Gather/FAQ |FAQ]] and feel free to add comments and further questions.  I would have ideally loved to share more updates earlier, however, there are details that were only clarified/solved very recently, without which earlier announcement would have been vague. Lets look forward to awesome lessons to learn on beta. Thank you :).  --[[User:Melamrawy (WMF)|Melamrawy (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Melamrawy (WMF)|talk]]) 22:31, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
== Can someone log a bug for me? ==
{{tracked|T86454|patch pending}}
Could someone with an account please log [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_134#CAPTCHA_behaviour_is_broken this] as a bug? I am unfamiliar with the system for reporting bugs and I do not have an account. While this bug is quite easily circumventable, it really is a bit silly that something so glaringly obvious has not been fixed long ago. Thanks to any person who can do this on my behalf. [[Special:Contributions/86.152.162.108|86.152.162.108]] ([[User talk:86.152.162.108|talk]]) 18:18, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
:already logged (patch pending review). thanks. [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 20:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thank you! [[Special:Contributions/86.152.162.108|86.152.162.108]] ([[User talk:86.152.162.108|talk]]) 21:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{ping|86.152.162.108}} [[mw:How to report a bug]] explains the system and you can [[mw:Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account|reuse any Wikimedia account in that system]]. --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 10:35, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
== Template:Flagbig/core ==

Please edit the default flagicon size in [[Template:Flagbig/core]] because the current code <code><nowiki>{{#if:{{{size|}}}|{{{size}}}|30x27px}}</nowiki></code> causes incorrect flagbig of Switzerland – see [[2015 Davis Cup#World Group]]. In other words, remove that exception for fixed sizes (if:size|size) and set a new default height, I propose 21 or 22 px. [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 21:11, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

=== Fixed size ===

I've added parameter <code><nowiki>fixed size = 23x16px</nowiki></code> into [[Template:Country data Switzerland/sandbox]], and also added a switch into [[Template:Flagicon/core/sandbox]]. I think it will work.
*{{flagicon|Switzerland}} ← flagicon|Switzerland
*{{flagicon/sandbox|Switzerland/sandbox}} ← flagicon/sandbox|Switzerland/sandbox
*{{flagicon|Switzerland|size=30x30px}} ← flagicon|Switzerland|size=30x30px
*{{flagicon/sandbox|Switzerland/sandbox|size=30x30px}} ← flagicon/sandbox|Switzerland/sandbox|size=30x30px
Now we need to edit all articles from [[:Category:Country data templates with distinct default size]] and also the templates flag''...xyz...''/core. (Except flagbig/core)<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 13:33, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:That is horrible. What are you trying to acomplish? Why pollute the code this way to single out ''one'' flag? It doesn't even seem to do anything different. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 14:03, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:Since standard-sized flags wouldn't include this "fixed size" parameter, what about just doing [[Special:Diff/653014827|this]]? <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 14:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]], thanks! That's much much better. [[User:Edokter]], what do you say? [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 14:59, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{param|fixed size}} is redundant here. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 15:58, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Edokter}}<br />No, it isn't redundant. It's necessary, because [[Template:flagbig]] currently uses parameter {{param|size}} of Switzerland (and others, e.g. Vatican City, North Dakota ...) which is 16px. See:<br /><code><nowiki>{{flagbig|MON}}</nowiki></code><br />{{flagbig|MON}}<br /><code><nowiki>{{flagbig|SUI}}</nowiki></code><br />{{flagbig|SUI}}<br /><code><nowiki>{{flagbig|VAT}}</nowiki></code><br />{{flagbig|VAT}}<br /><code><nowiki>{{flagbig|North Dakota}}</nowiki></code><br />{{flagbig|North Dakota}}<br /><code><nowiki>{{flagbig|NIG}}</nowiki></code><br />{{flagbig|NIG}}<br />Therefore I'm trying to fix it with "fixed size". [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 17:11, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::{{tl|Flagicon/core}} can handle only one size parameter, so it ''is'' redundant. This must be fixed in {{tl|flagbig}} to pass the right size. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 17:50, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Edokter}}<br />No way. {{tl|flagbig}} needs empty {{param|size}} parameter, therefore it's necessary to edit country-data templates – remove {{param|size}} & add {{param|fixed size}}, but this action could corrupt the flag.../core results. So, I need to add just one word into "flag.../core" templates.<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 18:55, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::You completely lost me here. Anything passed with {{param|fixed size}} can be passed with {{param|size}} to {{tl|Flagicon/core}}. Why does it need to be a separate parameter? <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 20:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::{{ping|Edokter}} I just need an empty {{param|size}} parameter in Country-Data articles for correct use in template:flagbig. Currently are 8 flagicons displayed incorrectly with template:flagbig. [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 22:49, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Ideally, flags that are larger by default in 23x15px flag templates should be larger by default in other-size flag templates as well. Instead of setting the default for those flags at a certain number of pixels (whether in all templates, as is the case now, or in 23x15px templates only, using the proposed "fixed size"), I added a parameter for relative size increase to the sandboxes:
{|class="wikitable"
!Flag!!Flag/sandbox!!Flagbig!!Flagbig/sandbox
|-
|{{flag|UK}}||{{flag/sandbox|UK}}||{{flagbig|UK}}||{{flagbig/sandbox|UK}}
|-
|{{flag|France}}||{{flag/sandbox|France}}||{{flagbig|France}}||{{flagbig/sandbox|France}}
|-
|{{flag|Switzerland}}||{{flag/sandbox|Switzerland/sandbox}}||{{flagbig|Switzerland}}||{{flagbig/sandbox|Switzerland/sandbox}}
|}
Instead of being fixed at 23x16px, the height of the Swiss flag using the sandbox is set at 110% of that of other flags, rounded to an integer number of pixels. That means the height for Switzerland using {{tl|flagbig/sandbox}} is increased from 21px to 23px. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 12:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
:[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]], the {{tl|flagbig/core}} template doesn't require a percentage increase of size; I've edited its sandbox to default 32x23px and the result is the same – see above. Problem with size is only in flag-, flagicon-, flaglink-, and flagu- cores.<br />Your idea with 110 % is pretty good, but the code seems too long (and for [[User:Edokter]] – "horribly" long) <small>(joke)</small><br />Your idea with '''size increase''' parameter:<br />– change from&nbsp;&nbsp;<code><nowiki>23x15px</nowiki></code>&nbsp;&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<code><nowiki>23x{{#if:{{{size increase|}}}|{{#expr:{{{size increase}}}*15 round 0}}|15}}px</nowiki></code><br />My idea with '''fixed size''' parameter:<br />– change from&nbsp;&nbsp;<code><nowiki>23x15px</nowiki></code>&nbsp;&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<code><nowiki>{{{fixed size|23x15px}}}</nowiki></code><br />And the result would be the same.<br />I propose to edit the flag-, flagicon-, flaglink-, and flagu- cores with "fixed size" parameter or something even shorter.<br />The second problem is how to achieve a consensus; this is almost a forgotten discussion. [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 23:15, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
::The code is longer than that for the "fixed size", but it is in no way horrible. While 32x23px may work for Switzerland, don't forget about the [[flag of Nepal]], which would be 2px less tall than Switzerland without any size increase:
::{|class="wikitable"
|-style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:center;"
!style="vertical-align:middle;"|Flagbig, fixed at 32x23px
|{{flagbig|UK|size=32x23px}}||{{flagbig|France|size=32x23px}}||{{flagbig|Switzerland|size=32x23px}}||{{flagbig|Nepal|size=32x23px}}
|-style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:center;"
!style="vertical-align:middle;"|Flagbig with dynamic height
|{{flagbig|UK|size=32x21px}}||{{flagbig|France|size=32x21px}}||{{flagbig|Switzerland|size=32x23px}}||{{flagbig|Nepal|size=32x26px}}
|}
::Regarding consensus for "fixed size", I'd suggest starting a thread (possibly an RfC) at [[WP:WPFT]] and posting a neutral message linking to that on each template's talk page. I'd like the relative size increase option to be considered as well. Note that {{tl|air force}}, {{tl|army}}, {{tl|flagc}}, {{tl|flagcountry}}, {{tl|flagdeco}}, {{tl|flaglist}}, {{tl|flagright}}, {{tl|navy}} and probably more templates also use 23x15 icons. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 11:52, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::Note that the "size increase" code can be shortened to <code><nowiki>23x{{#expr:{{{size increase|1}}}*15 round 0}}px</nowiki></code> with the same result (assuming the parameter won't be set to an empty string). I don't know what's better from a performance standpoint.
::Or, to avoid expression errors with empty or invalid parameter values, <code><nowiki>23x{{#iferror:{{#expr:{{{size increase|1}}}*15 round 0}}|15}}px</nowiki></code>. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 12:13, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::[[User:SiBr4]] I believe, the people of Nepal will not be angry to us because of 23px height (current Nepal's flagbig is 22px high).<br />Alternatively, we could enlarge it to 25px through {{param|#if}}: ''"if no borders then size=32x25"''<br />[[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 15:21, 27 March 2015 (UTC)


=== Reduction of big flagicons ===
{{Hst|reason=[[Template_talk:Flagbig/core#Template-protected_edit_request_on_21_March_2015]]}}
<s>Please support my proposal for reduction of big default sizes in [[template:flagbig]].</s>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! current<br />default size<br />30x27px max. !! proposed<br />default size<br />30x21px max. !! real size change
|-
| {{flagbig|FRA}}|| {{flagbig|FRA|size=30x21px}} || —
|-
| {{flagbig|NIG}}|| {{flagbig|NIG|size=30x21px}} || from 30x26px to 25x21px
|-
| {{flagbig|GBR}}|| {{flagbig|GBR|size=30x21px}} || —
|-
| {{flagbig|MON}}|| {{flagbig|MON|size=30x21px}} || from 30x24px to 26x21px
|-
| {{flagbig|USA}}|| {{flagbig|USA|size=30x21px}} || —
|-
| {{flagbig|DEN}}|| {{flagbig|DEN|size=30x21px}} || from 30x23px to 28x21px
|-
| {{flagbig|CAN}}|| {{flagbig|CAN|size=30x21px}} || —
|-
| {{flagbig|SMR}}|| {{flagbig|SMR|size=30x21px}} || from 30x23px to 28x21px
|-
| {{flagbig|GER}}|| {{flagbig|GER|size=30x21px}} || —
|-
| {{flagbig|NOR}}|| {{flagbig|NOR|size=30x21px}} || from 30x22px to 29x21px
|-
| {{flagbig|QAT}}|| {{flagbig|QAT|size=30x21px}} || —
|-
| {{flagbig|ISL}}|| {{flagbig|ISL|size=30x21px}} || from 30x22px to 29x21px
|}
<s>Thanks,</s> [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 22:58, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

:Please be careful with how you word requests for action so that you do not [[WP:CANVASS|canvass]]. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 23:10, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

:What is the rationale here? It makes some flags ''not'' big anymore. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 08:17, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
::[[User:Edokter]] – some big flags are currently not big, some are very big. What do you think about compromise dimensions 32x23px? [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 13:05, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
{{Hsb}}

== Icons ==

Is there a reason top icons such as [[Template:Featured article]] now appear much larger than before? Is there a way to deactivate this change? [[User:Seattle|Seattle]] ([[User talk:Seattle|talk]]) 04:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:[[User:Mr._Stradivarius|Mr._Stradivarius]] and [[User:Edokter|Edokter]] are working on converting all topicons to a system that will work better for different skins (incl mobile), the Visual Editor and live previewing. This might have some temporary side effects for a while, and if you point them out, I'm sure they can fix them. Is [[Template:Featured_article/sandbox]] perhaps more alike with what we had before ?? —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 08:39, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::BTW, I personally actually like the new size better. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 08:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:20px is now the default for {top icon} (as opposed to the old 15px) <s>as that is the default for the indicator system</s>. Actually not quite true, but the [[mw:Help:Page status indicators|documentaion]] gives an example using 20px, which does look better. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 08:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
*Would this be why my [[User:Sagaciousphil|user page]] is suddenly not displaying all the FP icons? I don't know if it is possible - or something yourselves are able to do - but could a slightly different icon be devised so FP and FA are not the same, please? [[User:Sagaciousphil|<span style="color: Navy">SagaciousPhil</span>]] - [[User Talk:Sagaciousphil|'''Chat''']] 11:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
**You have 27 top icons, but only 15 display. I will have to find out if there is a maximum. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 12:12, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
***They have all displayed in the past - not sure if it was yesterday or today that it changed to only a few. I know [[User:Hafspajen|Hafpajen]]'s page has a considerable number but I use a slightly different method for those. [[User:Sagaciousphil|<span style="color: Navy">SagaciousPhil</span>]] - [[User Talk:Sagaciousphil|'''Chat''']] 13:24, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
****[[Template:FP user topicon]] hadn't been updated to use the new system yet, so all the featured picture icons were being squashed into one. Now that I've made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:FP_user_topicon&diff=653750787&oldid=579401131 this edit] they should show properly. This is a problem for top icons that are used more than once on a page, and they will need special attention to make sure that all of the icons have a unique {{para|name}} value passed to [[Template:Top icon]]. If anyone spots any but doesn't know how to fix them, give me a shout and I'll take a look. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 13:57, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
*****Thanks, they are all back now. [[User:Sagaciousphil|<span style="color: Navy">SagaciousPhil</span>]] - [[User Talk:Sagaciousphil|'''Chat''']] 14:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

== GeoGroupTemplate again ==

{{tl|GeoGroupTemplate}} was recently switched to use OpenStreetMap after Google stopped supporting the relevant service.  It initially worked well, but now it's not doing anything; do we know what's wrong?  If you go to [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Belmont County, Ohio]] and click the OSM link, it takes you to [//tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Belmont_County%2C_Ohio this page], which just sits there, nothing but whitespace.  The tool itself looks like it's working fine, since the Bing link goes to [http://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftools.wmflabs.org%2Fkmlexport%2F%3Farticle%3DNational_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Belmont_County%2C_Ohio%26usecache%3D1 this page], which displays as expected.  It's not vandalism to the Belmont County page; I've gotten similar results from pages in my userspace that use this template, and they've not been edited by anyone except for me.  The last edit to the template itself was by [[User:Doncram|Doncram]], just [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=652878262 moving Bing-related text] and not touching the OSM stuff, and anyway it was working a day or two after he edited it.  I also don't see anything weird with Special:RecentChangesLinked.  I've tried this with Windows 8.1, using both IE11 and Firefox 36.0.4.  [[User:Nyttend backup|Nyttend backup]] ([[User talk:Nyttend backup|talk]]) 13:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

:https://tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki seems to be completely down. [[:de:Wikipedia:Technik/Labs/Tools#Geo]] gives a start page https://tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl which is also blank. The tool maintainers are listed at https://tools.wmflabs.org/#toollist-osm4wiki. They link to German user pages. I don't currently see any reports of the problem at [[:de:Benutzer Diskussion:Plenz]] or [[:de:Benutzer Diskussion:Kolossos]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:38, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::See [[#Generate a list of articles I have created|my post of 11:32, 26 March 2015]] regarding the reliability of tools.wmflabs.org - i.e. try again, but not too often. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 15:17, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Yeah, I saw it yesterday — I was going to report this then, but I decided to wait and try again every several hours.  I didn't notice that the OSM tool is different from the Bing tool; that's why I was confused, since I thought the same tool was working for one thing but not for another.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 15:54, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
== Problems in my Firefox browser history when javascript is on while viewing Wikipedia articles ==

A strange issue began a few weeks ago [maybe since Jan 1, 2015] when viewing wikipedia articles: When clicking on a "Contents" link, my Firefox generates SEVERAL EXTRA, identical pages. Also, a more irritating problem is: While reviewing a history list of previously viewed articles, LATER web pages in the 'History' disappear[!!] while reviewing a Wikipedia page (making the currently appearing Wiki the MOST RECENT, and LOSING my LATER viewed web pages). The ONLY way I've found to prevent this, is to TURN OFF JAVASCRIPT while viewing Wikipedia. What happened to Wikipedia? This did NOT happen to me last year using the SAME PC and browser.

NOW I'M GETTING REALLY ANGRY AT THIS !!!!! Every time I try to edit THIS, the "Edit Summary" link WIPES OUT MY QUESTION/COMMENT!!! So much for any DONATIONS!!! I've been trying to alert SOMEONE to the FACT that JAVASCRIPT on Wikepedia keeps WIPING OUT the FIREFOX FORWARD HISTORY after the Wikipedia page being displayed. IT'S A SERIOUS BUG which does NOT occur when JavaScript is OFF!!!!! [And it is NOT MALWARE]

Thanks for reading, Steve [Remembering to sign now] [[Special:Contributions/75.175.254.143|75.175.254.143]] ([[User talk:75.175.254.143|talk]]) 22:53, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
:You may need to [[WP:BYC|bypass your cache]] (due to some bad change on the Wikipedia side). I might also suggest you run a malware and virus detection program. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 23:26, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
::Please do not remove others' comments added in [[WP:AGF|good faith]], per [[WP:TPG|the talk page guidelines]]. Thanks. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 17:16, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
:Do these bad things happen if you try "Help > Restart with add-ons disabled" in the Firefox menu? That might help to narrow down the problem. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 11:13, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
:Does the problem still happen if you start Firefox in Safe Mode? (Safe Mode disables extensions and themes, hardware acceleration and some JavaScript stuff in order to exclude some possible reasons for problems. It does not disable plugins which are add-ons.) See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode . And does this also happen with a new and empty profile? See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile and http://support.mozilla.org/kb/Managing%20profiles . --[[User:AKlapper (WMF)|AKlapper (WMF)]] ([[User talk:AKlapper (WMF)|talk]]) 02:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
== How possible is it to alter conventions for within header title presentation? ==

I have just presented a proposal at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposed change for headers (allowing parenthesis texts to be used at reduced sized)]].

I anyone advise regarding the practicalities of the proposals.  Depending on both the practicalities and editor reactions a next step might be to convert the thread to an RfC.  [[User:GregKaye|Greg]][[User talk:GregKaye|Kaye]] 11:41, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
== Template:Winners vs. Template:Winners-other ==

{{Col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
code:<br />
<code><nowiki>{{winners|hopman|2015 Hopman Cup Champions|Poland|First}}</nowiki></code>
{{winners|hopman|2015 Hopman Cup Champions|Poland|First}}
{{col-2}}
code:<br />
<code><nowiki>{{winners-other|2015 Hopman Cup Champions|Poland|[[Poland]]|First}}</nowiki></code>
{{winners-other|2015 Hopman Cup Champions|Poland|[[Poland]]|First}}
{{col-end}}
Hello everybody, what's your opinion on these flagicons? A year ago, they were the same (100px wide). But then came one user and (without any discussion) reduced it to 50px and then once more. I think, the best would be something in between. [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 20:03, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
:Why is this a VPT matter? Surely it would be better discussed at [[Template talk:Winners]] or [[Template talk:Winners-other]]? --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:10, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::Okay, this discussion continues at [[Template talk:Winners]]. [[User:Maiō T.|Maiō T.]] ([[User talk:Maiō T.|talk]]) 22:24, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

== Suppressing redirects ==

Without a major software change would it be ''possible'' to either automatically or give users the option to suppress the creation of redirects upon moves in certain namespaces, but not others? '''''[[User:Kharkiv07|<span style="color: #000080">Kharkiv07</span>]][[User_talk:Kharkiv07|<span style="color: #FF0000"><sup>Talk</sup></span>]]''''' 21:37, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
:Yes; [[WP:SYSOP|admins]] are able to suppress the creation of redirects upon moves (the checkbox is called "Leave a redirect behind", enabled by default, and admins have the ability to deselect it). Giving this option to regular users has has been suggested before, but declined because of the potential for page move vandalism. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:41, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::But my question is if it could be done ''in specific namespaces'', namely user and draft. '''''[[User:Kharkiv07|<span style="color: #000080">Kharkiv07</span>]][[User_talk:Kharkiv07|<span style="color: #FF0000"><sup>Talk</sup></span>]]''''' 23:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

== Most templates in category ==

I have a category X, which is populated with articles. And I have templates A, B, C, D, E, F, which (to some articles in category — none, some — few, maybe some — all) are used in articles from category X. Is it possible (with quarry, I suppose) to get information, which articles has the most of those six templates. And article with B, C, D (in this case) is the same as article with A, E, F, I just need the number. The desired result would be:
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Article !! Template count
|-
| Article1 || 6
|-
| Article2 || 6
|-
| Article3 || 3
|-
| Article4 || 1
|-
| Article5 || 0
|}
If it's possible with quarry, then maybe somebody could write the SQL query, at least the skeleton. --'''[[User:Edgars2007|<span style="color:#FF6600;">Edgars2007</span>]]''' <small>([[User talk:Edgars2007|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Edgars2007|contribs]])</small> 23:24, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
== Generate a list of articles I have created ==

How can I generate a list of articles I have created? --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|talk]]) 18:36, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
:With this tool: [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/].[[User:Maunus|·maunus]] · [[User talk:Maunus|snunɐɯ·]] 18:39, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
:Yours is [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/index.php?user=Richard+Arthur+Norton+%281958-+%29&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects over here]. Impressive number by the way. You can access this link from the bottom of your user contributions. '''[[User:EoRdE6|EoRdE6]]'''<sup><small>([[User talk:EoRdE6|Come Talk to Me!]])</small></sup> 18:41, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
:*Thanks! I have several hundred more in my user space. I create them based on photos released by the Library of Congress each week at Flickr Commons or from reading the New York Times archive. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|talk]]) 18:51, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
:FWIW, it is possible [{{fullurl:Special:Contributions/Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|newOnly=1&namespace=0}} on-wiki] as well, though without an option to exclude redirects and page moves. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 19:11, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
::Hmm, I make a lot of edits but don't create many pages, so [{{fullurl:Special:Contributions/John of Reading|newOnly=1&namespace=0}} my corresponding query] stressed the servers:
<pre>
A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

    Function: IndexPager::buildQueryInfo (contributions page unfiltered)
    Error: 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server during query (10.64.32.25)
</pre>
::-- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 19:53, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
:::The link to your created pages works fine for me &ndash; it shows 44 pages, the most recent of which is [[Louis Legendre (disambiguation)]]. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 20:32, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I'm surprised it's that many. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 20:36, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|Maunus}} This tool: [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/] you recommended seems to be down.  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 00:59, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Works fine for me.[[User:Maunus|·maunus]] · [[User talk:Maunus|snunɐɯ·]] 02:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Working now - thanks!  [[User:GoingBatty|GoingBatty]] ([[User talk:GoingBatty|talk]]) 03:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::This is a long-term problem: the tool (like several others hosted at tools.wmflabs.org) is often down for periods ranging from minutes to days. What I do is to try later, at increasing intervals (e.g. 2 mins, 10 mins, 1 hour, 6 hours etc.) until it cooperates. If you try too often, you may overload the server, which may be one of the original causes of the downtime. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 11:32, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

:Wow, [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/index.php?user=Lugnuts&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects more than I thought]! '''[[User:Lugnuts|<span style="color:#002bb8;">Lugnuts</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:Lugnuts|Dick Laurent is dead]]</sup> 19:02, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

== Need assistance over image files ==

I left a message at [[User talk:Mark Arsten#Image file restoration]] over image files, but now I just realised that the user is not active anymore. Can anyone please help me?

The message I left:
<blockquote>
#I uploaded a screenshot of Marceline from Adventure Time intro at [[:File:Adventure Time - Marceline.png]], but someone put a ''new version'' of the file with another image of the character, and the older version I put has gone. As the Fair Use Rationale (that I put) became useless (since that new image doesn't match the description), and I have no way to recover the original, I simply removed the rationale from that file. Now, the file is going to be deleted within a few days because it has no rationale. Can you recover the original image for me? (It's Marceline holding a red axe bass.)
#I once requested you to restore [[:File:Fosters intertitle.jpg]], and you did it. But then I was busy and I forgot to replace [[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]] article's infobox image with the file. Can you restore the file once again? I'll replace the image within the days given.
[[User:JSH-alive|JSH-alive]]/<sup>[[User talk:JSH-alive|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/JSH-alive|cont]]/[[Special:Emailuser/JSH-alive|mail]]</sup> 15:37, 23 March 2015 (UTC) </blockquote>
[[User:JSH-alive|JSH-alive]]/<sup>[[User talk:JSH-alive|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/JSH-alive|cont]]/[[Special:Emailuser/JSH-alive|mail]]</sup> 16:56, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{done}} I have completed both of these requests. -- [[User:Diannaa|Diannaa]] ([[User talk:Diannaa|talk]]) 23:04, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thank you very much! [[User:JSH-alive|JSH-alive]]/<sup>[[User talk:JSH-alive|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/JSH-alive|cont]]/[[Special:Emailuser/JSH-alive|mail]]</sup> 14:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

== Confirmation message for un-watchlisting a page? ==

Just noticed for the first time, that un-watching pages shows a warning message "Remove this page from your watchlist?" with a "Yes" button to click. Some problems with it:
#The message has only a "yes" option (without "no" such a warning is fairly pointless).
#It seems to show up only the first time for every page.
#After clicking "yes", the blue star to indicate watch-status is not actualized (and the affected page is not reloaded).
This archived thread [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_110#Unwatch_bug.3F]] mentions, that this extra message was caused by the Wikimedia software in the past. Is is possible to disable that bugged feature? (I searched my gadgets and preferences, but couldn't find it). I am using vector skin, Windows XP and FF (latest version). [[User:GermanJoe|GermanJoe]] ([[User talk:GermanJoe|talk]]) 11:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:This is the HTML fallback. You must have a Javascript problems or something. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 12:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
::I had the problem like 10 times before posting here, but couldn't force another occurence since then. Should I try Java tracing and logging or how can I see, which method/problem caused the fallback? It seems to be very sporadic and only happened in the last few days afaik (but now I am curious). Current Java version is (Build 1.8.0_31-b13). [[User:GermanJoe|GermanJoe]] ([[User talk:GermanJoe|talk]]) 13:36, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:::The default behaviour is to confirm all watch/unwatch requests. However, when you watch/unwatch a page using the white/blue star (Vector) or the watch/unwatch tab (MonoBook), the URL that is sent includes a token which tells the MediaWiki servers which page you wish to watch/unwatch. If this matches the pagename in the URL, the confirmation step is skipped. Thus, if the page names differ, or the token is corrupt or missing, it falls back to requesting confirmation. You can see the confirmation step in action by using a URL without a token: {{tlx|Watch|Example}} → {{Watch|Example}} --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 14:21, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Maybe the connection is just too slow at times or some background process is not finished (I noticed, that "loading data" is sometimes still displayed in the footer while the page is already fully available). I'll keep watching for this. Thanks for providing all that background information, it's very helpful to understand the situation. [[User:GermanJoe|GermanJoe]] ([[User talk:GermanJoe|talk]]) 15:45, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

== Yahoo and Bing search ==

When searching for this article [[2012 Virginia Beach F/A-18 Crash]] using Yahoo or Bing they go to a deleted version from 2012. A Google search will lead to the most recent version. Can't figure why. [[User:Samf4u|Samf4u]] ([[User talk:Samf4u|talk]])  16:42, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

:[[Yahoo! Search]] is powered by Bing so it's not unexpected that they give the same result. They both give a blurb from the current [[2012 Virginia Beach F/A-18 Crash]] with uppercase C in Crash, and write the title as "2012 Virginia Beach F/A-18 Crash" with uppercase C. But they both link the search to the deleted [[2012 Virginia Beach F/A-18 crash]] with lowercase c. That's odd. It appears that either we served the upper case C version on the lowercase c url when Bing read and cached the page 16-03-2015, or Bing corrupted the url in their database. All links ("Article", "Talk" and so on) in Bing's cached version go to uppercase C. I guess this is Bing's error but it could also be ours. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 19:44, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

:: Thanks for looking into this Prime Hunter. The issue has been resolved by changing capital C in crash to a lower case c by  [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno#top|talk]]).  [[User:Samf4u|Samf4u]] ([[User talk:Samf4u|talk]])  20:39, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:::That actually doesn't fix the problem per se, I was just following [[WP:AT]] when I moved it. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 21:30, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

== Quick reasoning for Template Editor protection level? ==

I'm feeling lazy so can someone answer a quick question, please. Was the main reason for implementing the "template-protected" protection level 1) downgrading protection from sysop level in those templates that can be edited by experts, or was it 2) upgrading protection from semi-protection to combat serious vandalism? Or both? I am thinking about an additional protection level for fi-wiki and need some info. Links are welcome, too. --[[User:Pxos|Pxos]] ([[User talk:Pxos|talk]]) 21:26, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
* [[WP:PINKLOCK]] {{Xt|1=''This is a protection level that replaces full protection on pages that are merely protected due to high transclusion rates, rather than content disputes. It should only be used on templates whose risk factor would have otherwise warranted full protection. It should not be used on less risky templates on the grounds that the template editor user right exists – the existence of the right should not result in more templates becoming uneditable for the general editing community.''}} — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 21:42, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:: Thanks! I'm now a bit embarassed because I was too lazy. I even managed to find [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Template editor user right|the RfC]] now. --[[User:Pxos|Pxos]] ([[User talk:Pxos|talk]]) 22:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
== Recent change to HTTPS/SSL/TLS settings on en-wiki? ==
{{resolved}}
I use AWB on Linux using wine. It stopped working yesterday morning UTC (26 March 2015) with error "GnuTLS error: An unexpected TLS handshake packet was received", I could not log in (using HTTPS). Testing further, I find that Internet Explorer under wine loading page https://en.wikipedia.org/ gives the same error and page doesn't load at all. AWB was working up to around 1800 UTC on Wednesday (25 March 2015). AWB fine under Windows so is clearly some sort of wine/Linux utilities issue, though as none of these have changed on my side, something else must have changed. So has something changed/security been raised on wikipedia side? Thanks [[User talk:Rjwilmsi|<font color="darkgreen">'''''Rjwilmsi'''''</font>]] 09:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:[[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/wmf22]] was just deployed. I don't see anything relevant in the change list; take a look and see if anything pops out. --<span style="color:#800000">'''&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|Gadget850]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|&nbsp;''talk'']]</sup></span> 09:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:: This is an educated guess. A little while back (a few weeks? months now?) some changes were made to the SSL/TLS infrastructure that made IE6/Windows XP clients no longer able to use our SSL services (due to XP only supporting broken protocols and cipher combinations). My '''guess''' is that Wine is similarly impacted by this change and you're seeing it now because your previous login session has ended and you have to log in again. I'm not sure if this is actually the case or what the workaround would be (other than using your native Windows, which seems to work). <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;">13:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)</em>
:::Yes, must have been something like that. I have managed to resolve this one, took some faffing. Information for others: resolution on opensuse 13.1 (64 bit, 32 bit WINEARCH) was to install libgnutls28 and libgnutls28-32bit packages from opensuse 13.2 update repo (so version 3.2.18-4.1), replacing the version 3.2.4 packages from opensuse 13.1 oss or 13.1 update repos. [[User talk:Rjwilmsi|<font color="darkgreen">'''''Rjwilmsi'''''</font>]] 10:12, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

==Ping==
I've had two people ping me in a post when they replied to me right? But I never got a notification that they mentioned me. I noticed that they did the <nowiki>{{ name here thing }}</nowiki> correctly. Using a phone and browser with no app downloaded. I should have gotten a notification [[User talk:Human3015|here]] and at the Teahouse from that user and EoReD (something like that) respectively. Anyone that replies, ping me to see if it works too. I'll say if I got a notification and I'll keep checking back here just to make sure. Sorry if this is written terribly. [[User:DangerousJXD|DangerousJXD]] ([[User talk:DangerousJXD|talk]]) 06:06, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{replyto|DangerousJXD}} The message to you at [[User talk:Human3015]] wasn't signed. From [[Wikipedia:Notifications]], "Note that the post containing a link to a user page must be signed" -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 06:45, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
== [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/14|Tech News: 2015-14]] ==

<section begin="technews-2015-W14"/><div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="plainlinks">
Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/14|Translations]] are available.

'''Recent changes'''
* You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59732]
* You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62768] [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid] [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Reference_Dialog#Auto-filled_Web_Citations]
* All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35890]
* You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93322]
* VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93204]

'''Changes this week'''
* The [[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/wmf23|new version]] of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 ([[mw:MediaWiki 1.25/Roadmap|calendar]]).
* VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93386]
* You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93210]
* You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gather/FAQ|lists of articles]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91341]
* You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52206]
* VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57769] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T61647] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52100] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51452]

'''Meetings'''
* You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on [[m:Special:MyLanguage/IRC|IRC]] on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=31&month=03&year=2015 March 31 at 16:00 (UTC)]. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html]
* You can [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-03-25 read the notes] from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
* You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=04&year=2015 April 1 at 18:00 (UTC)]. See [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal|how to join]].

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== WMF donation appeal blocked my viewing of Wikipedia, with no option to dismiss ==

I have a link to my contributions page on my smartphone, and I checked it just now to see if the page I most recently edited was still "current" or if it had been edited. Unfortunately, I was taken to [https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPage&country=XX&uselang=en 1] (archived at [http://www.webcitation.org/6XPAifgOC 2]), which has no obvious way to leave the donation page to get to the page I wanted to see. This must be some sort of fundraising error, right? Shouldn't there be a prominent option to leave the donation page to actually get to the Wikipedia page I chose to see? Thanks. [[User:Biosthmors|Biosthmors]] ([[User talk:Biosthmors|talk]]) <small>pls [[Wikipedia:Notifications#Features|notify]] me (i.e. &#123;&#123;[[Template:U|U]]&#125;&#125;) while signing a reply, thx</small> 02:55, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

:Obviously you have to make a donation before you can proceed. Just kidding. I can't help much with the problem, but here's a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Biosthmors link to your contribs] if that will help. I'm ignorant as to the mobile platform and unclear as to whether you were able to get there via a different route. &#8213;[[User:Mandruss|<span style="color:#775C57;">'''''Mandruss'''''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mandruss|<span style="color:#AAA;">&#9742;</span>]] 03:03, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

:I don't think users can be redirected from en.wikipedia.org to donate.wikimedia.org. You probably got a donation banner here at en.wikipedia.org and clicked it without realizing it. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 11:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

::Thanks. That seems very possible, as my phone does do funny things. [[User:Biosthmors|Biosthmors]] ([[User talk:Biosthmors|talk]]) <small>pls [[Wikipedia:Notifications#Features|notify]] me (i.e. &#123;&#123;[[Template:U|U]]&#125;&#125;) while signing a reply, thx</small> 21:02, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

==HTTP becomes HTTPS==
A ref on [[Laser cutting#Pulsing]] at the end of the section ''...from adhering to the side of the hole or cut.'' has an external link to [http://web.gat.com/pubs-ext/miscpubs/A25867.pdf http://web.gat.com/pubs-ext/miscpubs/A25867.pdf]. However, Wikipedia appears to redirect to the secure version HTTPS://... web.gat.com web site does not appear to handle https, so it uses http. IE as well as Chrome responds with something like: ''There is a problem with this website’s security certificate...'' Is there a way of having the the EL use HTTP: rather than HTTPS: so that this problem does not occur? Thanks [[User:Jim1138|Jim1138]] ([[User talk:Jim1138|talk]]) 07:26, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:The redirection from http to https is at the target, it's an issue in their server. You could of course bypass the redirect and go directly to https, but in both cases Chrome will inform users that something with their certificates isn't as it should be (for a value of "should" determined by the Chromium project, not necessarily matching any IETF RFC.) &ndash;[[User:Be..anyone|Be..anyone]] ([[User talk:Be..anyone|talk]]) 07:42, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::Sadly misconfigured HTTPS variants of sites are very common, a big issue is when the site is served by a CDN but of course the certificate is for the CDN not the site's domain. But in this case it seems there's a simple solution as the problem is simply that the certificate is for a different subdomain, fusion.gat.com which seems to serve the content fine [https://fusion.gat.com/pubs-ext/miscpubs/A25867.pdf] [[User:Nil Einne|Nil Einne]] ([[User talk:Nil Einne|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{U|Nil Einne}} Thanks for fixing the link too! Also updated [[Laser drilling]] [[User:Jim1138|Jim1138]] ([[User talk:Jim1138|talk]]) 17:15, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

== MediaWiki error performing transwiki ==
{{tracked|T94325}}
I just transwiki'd two pages requested at [[WP:RFPI]], ([[User:Dan Koehl/Ditmar Koel]]; [[User:Dan Koehl/Alfred Brazier Howell]]).  In both cases the import failed with a try again server error, but the page history WAS imported.  However, the log entry was not created on the import log or in the page history.  (Ping to {{ping|Graham87}} for awareness).  Any suggestions? — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 17:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

:See [[phab:T94325]] [[User:Glaisher|Glaisher]] ([[User talk:Glaisher|talk]]) 17:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thank you {{ping|Glaisher}} that's exactly the issue; subscribed to the bug. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 17:57, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

== New editnotice created, but it doesn't appear when the page is edited ==
{{archive top|{{done}} Fixes to this notice's parameter, mediawiki, and templates - great community response to resolve all quickly. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 02:36, 31 March 2015 (UTC)}}
We created a new editnotice at:

[[Template:Editnotices/Page/Comparison of EDA software]]

...by when we try to edit the associated article ([[Comparison of EDA software]]) the text the template carries doesn't appear at all. Any clues?  Thanks! [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 21:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
* Little more detail. When you mouse over the link for the editnotice for the page, navpop shows the source for the edit notice, but it doesn't display (at least not with wikEd enabled, I haven't tested other ways). — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 21:30, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::There have been some changes to the edit notice system. I pinged [[User:Catrope]] and [[USer:Krinkle]] on IRC, it'll take a few minutes. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 21:41, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Other mainspace pages w/editnotices, e.g. [[One Direction]] show the same problem, ''but'' [[Talk:One Direction]] shows its editnotice correctly. For those which fail to display, when edit the page (whole page or single section) the top and left menus are reduced to 90% of normal size. This has happened before somewhere, IIRC there was an unclosed {{tag|div|o}} which set 90% font size. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:45, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:Seems to be related to recent changes at [[MediaWiki:Editnotice-notext]].  I just deleted this message to revert it to default. {{ping|Krinkle}}; {{ping|Technical 13}}. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 21:56, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::@[[User:Xaosflux|Xaosflux]]: The [[MediaWiki:Editnotice-notext]] page is harmless. It makes something appear after [[Template:Editnotice load]] has been tried first. It can only make something appear where there would otherwise be nothing. It cannot cause something to disappear. [[User:Krinkle|Krinkle]] ([[User talk:Krinkle|talk]]) 21:58, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Well for [[Template:Editnotices/Page/Comparison of EDA software]] the problem is just user error, there is no param value "infinite", it should be "indefinite" —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 21:59, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Also, if [[:Template:Editnotice load/notext]] is being loaded to MediaWiki, shouldn't it be full-protected? But something else is going on here; now with that message deleted I'm not getting prompts to create page notices/etc. I'm going to be offline for a few hours, please update here any other changes. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 22:02, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:Deleted the bad expiry parameter, appearing now.  This is failing in a very poor way though. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 22:04, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::Restored the deleted mediawiki message, protected the transcluded template as well. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 22:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
*{{done}} Think this is all good now? — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 22:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
**All good i think. Just bad luck that we had a template error and a change to the whole system at the same time. Usually things like that are then related, but not in this case. :0 —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 22:10, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
***But we should probably protect [[Template:Editnotice_load/notext/core]] as well. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 22:12, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
***: {{ping|TheDJ}} Done. [[User:Jdforrester|James F.]] [[User talk:Jdforrester|(talk)]] 22:14, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
****:Thanks, everyone! All good now! [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 22:15, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
****Also protected [[Template:Editnotice load/content]]. [[User:Krinkle|Krinkle]] ([[User talk:Krinkle|talk]]) 22:53, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::It's not "all good now". When I edit [[Wikipedia talk:Editnotice]], the 90% size problem is there - and that page doesn't even have an editnotice. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:35, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::(edit conflict) If a page does ''not'' have an edit notice then the MonoBook edit window currently reduces the font size on tabs and the sidebar, at least for me in Firefox. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foobar&useskin=monobook and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foobar&action=edit&useskin=monobook. I don't usually use MonoBook so I don't know how recent this problem is but I suspect it was caused by edits by [[User:Krinkle|Krinkle]] to [[MediaWiki:Editnotice-notext]] or a related page in response to this section. It doesn't happen if there is an edit notice, for example for https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_EDA_software&action=edit&useskin=monobook. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:37, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::::[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AEditnotice_load%2Fnotext%2Fcore&diff=654251525&oldid=654247413 Fixed] the font-size problem in [[Template:Editnotice load/notext/core]]. [[User:Krinkle|Krinkle]] ([[User talk:Krinkle|talk]]) 22:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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== Citoid ==

[[:mw:Citoid|Citoid]], the automagic citation filling tool, is on its way at last.  It's been up at the French and Italian Wikipedias for a while, with positive feedback overall.  The time isn't firmly settled, but Wednesday evening UTC is most likely. 

Citoid depends upon good TemplateData.  [[Wikipedia:TemplateData/Tutorial]] explains how to write the basics by hand, but the TemplateData GUI tool is usually faster and easier.  It also depends upon external services like [[Zotero]].  If your favorite website isn't working, it probably needs a new Zotero entry.  The design is less than ideal.  There is a book-with-bookmark button for Citoid, next to a now-unlabeled "Cite" menu for filling in citations the old way.  

If you have suggestions on how to improve the design, then please leave your comments where the designers are most likely to see them, at [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog]].  If you have any other suggestions or run into problems, then please leave feedback at [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback]].  If you would like to see Citoid at another wiki, then you may make that request in [[Phabricator:]] by creating a new task under the "Citoid" project.  Most requests will probably not be granted for the next couple of weeks, but evidence that TemplateData is current on your main citation templates will likely improve your chances.

Here at the English Wikipedia, you will need to opt-in to VisualEditor via [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Beta Features]] to see Citoid.  Pre-deployment testing can be done [http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Sandbox?veaction=edit here on Beta Labs].  (Before you ask:  yes, after getting all the bumps smoothed out, the plan is to make it available in the wikitext editor as well.  However, that will likely not be for some months yet.)  

Happy editing, [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 00:14, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

:Update:  This is being delayed for a few days.  Monday (late) is the most likely time now.  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 01:49, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
::Also, is anyone here involved in [[Zotero]]?  Their BBC and Google Books descriptors are out of date.  I think that the BBC News website may have been rearranged last week.  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 16:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
:Latest word:  This isn't going to happen until Labs is happy again.  However, the schedule is looking like maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow.  Citoid is likely to appear here pretty shortly after Coren gives the all-clear on Labs.  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 23:39, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::It's up.  Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think.  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 04:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

== Weird deletion display error ==
{{tracked|T94012}}
{{tracked|T92046}}
For some reason I can't view [[Forever (U.S. TV series)]] as it keeps coming up with this error

''The revision #0 of the page named "Forever (U.S. TV series)" does not exist.''

''This is usually caused by following an outdated history link to a page that has been deleted. Details can be found in the deletion log.''

And there is nothing in the deletion log. I have tried purging the page with no result. [[User:Simply south|Simply]] [[User talk:Simply south|south]]  ....[[User:Simply south/Poem|..]] ''sitting on fans for just 8 years'' 23:03, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

:It works for me. Is it the url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_%28U.S._TV_series%29 which produces [[MediaWiki:Missing-revision]]? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 00:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

:In the past couple of days I have seen this multiple times at [[Germanwings Flight 9525]] and once at [[Ferguson unrest]]. The workaround is to revert the last edit. In the latter case, the article was out of service for one hour and 16 minutes because the last editor didn't know what to do about it. Definitely not a freak accident and needs attention. &#8213;[[User:Mandruss|<span style="color:#775C57;">'''''Mandruss'''''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mandruss|<span style="color:#AAA;">&#9742;</span>]] 21:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::Have noticed this on about a dozen articles over the last few days. Not sure where to escalte this one. [[User:Amortias|Amortias]] ([[User talk:Amortias|T]])([[Special:Contributions/Amortias|C]]) 19:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I'm guessing it needs a report on Phabricator, but I don't know how to do that. {{u|PrimeHunter}}? &#8213;[[User:Mandruss|<span style="color:#775C57;">'''''Mandruss'''''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mandruss|<span style="color:#AAA;">&#9742;</span>]] 21:28, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Please see [[mw:How to report a bug]]. --[[Special:Contributions/89.176.96.33|89.176.96.33]] ([[User talk:89.176.96.33|talk]]) 22:09, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

: This bug just struck me while editing [[United States House of Representatives elections, 1860]] – reverting my edit seemed to fix the problem. So, whatever this bug is, it isn't fixed yet... Any word on anyone figuring out what this bug is, and when it might be fixed? TIA... --[[User:IJBall|IJBall]] ([[User talk:IJBall|talk]]) 02:23, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:*In the past two days I've seen it twice, both times at FAC nominations.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 02:26, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:Is this filed at [[phab:|Phabricator]]? If not, it's unlikely to receive attention from developers. — <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> 07:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::Yes, [[phab:T94012]]. --[[User:HHill|HHill]] ([[User talk:HHill|talk]]) 09:33, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

===Really weird===
I have been working on [[List of Recently, My Sister is Unusual episodes]] and was about to submit more info when this message appeared "The revision #0 of the page named "List of Recently, My Sister is Unusual episodes" does not exist. 

This is usually caused by following an outdated history link to a page that has been deleted. Details can be found in the deletion log."

The deletion log has no record of the page being deleted [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=List_of_Recently,_My_Sister_is_Unusual_episodes]. There a reason for the message? - [[User:Knowledgekid87|Knowledgekid87]] ([[User talk:Knowledgekid87|talk]]) 02:16, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

:See [[#Weird deletion display error]] above. &#8213;[[User:Mandruss|<span style="color:#775C57;">'''''Mandruss'''''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mandruss|<span style="color:#AAA;">&#9742;</span>]] 02:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thanks, I reverted my edit and replaced the data that I copied just in case and have no issue now. - [[User:Knowledgekid87|Knowledgekid87]] ([[User talk:Knowledgekid87|talk]]) 02:20, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

=== Homo ergaster ===
What's wrong with the article of [[Homo ergaster]]?

''The revision #0 of the page named "Homo ergaster" does not exist.

This is usually caused by following an outdated history link to a page that has been deleted. Details can be found in the deletion log.
''
And nothing was found in deletion log.

[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Homo_ergaster]

&mdash; [[User:HenryLi|HenryLi]] ([[User talk:HenryLi|Talk]]) 05:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:I [[wp:purge|purged]] the article and it fixed it. Not sure what caused the error. [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 05:15, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
::Weird, it seems that this is occurring more often lately. Mentioned this one in the ticket where this been reported a few times more this month. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 06:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

== How do new features get implemented?  ==

I've been on Wikipedia for a long time, but have no knowledge of the technical things that go on behind the scenes. Recently, I had the thought that it would be nice to get e-mail notifications whenever specific articles on my watchlist are edited. A feature similar to this already exists, but it only works for the watchlist as a whole - pretty much useless, considering the vast number of articles that I'm watching and the small fraction of them that I would actually want to receive e-mails for. I went to the [[WP:Help Desk|Help Desk]] to ask about this and was told that it's a [[WP:Perennial proposal|perennial proposal]]. Then I came across this page [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T7875] on phabricator (a website that I have no familiarity with) and was shocked to discover that requests for this feature date all the way back to 2006! So naturally, I'm wondering why nothing like this has been implemented yet. Another editor that I've talked with expressed the opinion that it wouldn't actually be all that hard for someone to design, if only someone would put in the time of doing so. Which leads me to the question - how do new features get selected to be worked on? Do individual editors just design whatever features they feel like working on, or is there a group of some sort that establishes a consensus on what the project will be? I'd really like to see this feature become a reality, but am worried that ''another'' decade might pass before that happens. If there's some process that I could go through to support this feature, I'd like to do so, but am unsure what could be done. --[[User:Jpcase|Jpcase]] ([[User talk:Jpcase|talk]]) 22:12, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
: Here's a possible workaround:
# Create a second account for maintenance (It's legit to do so provided you declare each account on the other's user page. See [[WP:VALIDALT]] for the do's and don't's)
# Create a small watchlist on one account and have it emailed
# Create a big watchlist on the other account and don't have it emailed
hth, {{reply-to|Jpcase|p=}} [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 22:27, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:
::{{ping|SageGreenRider}} Thanks SageGreenRider. Someone actually made that suggestion to me at the Help Desk already. Apparently, once an e-mail is sent for a page, no more e-mails will be sent for it, until I've looked at that page through the account that is signed up for the e-mail notifications. Since I have no interest in actually using an alternative account, it would be a bit of a bother to have sign in and out of two different accounts just to keep getting e-mails. --[[User:Jpcase|Jpcase]] ([[User talk:Jpcase|talk]]) 22:36, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::If it's easier for you (I suspect it wouldn't be) to change browser than to sign in and out then you could have another browser which uses "Keep me logged in (for up to 30 days)" to always be logged in to the second account. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:58, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

OK, {{reply-to|Jpcase|p=}}, how about you set up your email inbox so that it puts the email from wikipedia into a low priority folder if it doesn't contain important keywords and a high priority folder if it does contain the keywords/article names you care about? [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 23:01, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

{{ping|PrimeHunter}} {{ping|SageGreenRider}} Thanks PrimeHunter and SageGreenRider for your suggestions. I may try one of those ideas, but would still like to see the above-mentioned feature implemented. Do either of you know who would be responsible for seeing something like this designed? Is it just up to individual editors to decide what they want to design? Or would there be a specific group that takes on these issues? --[[User:Jpcase|Jpcase]] ([[User talk:Jpcase|talk]]) 23:06, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

{{reply-to|Jpcase|p=}} Sorry, I don't know it works. My guess would be people just work on things that a) they have the skill set for and b) they find useful themselves. [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 23:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

...by the way, risking lapsing into cyber-psychology here, I'm reminded of a story attributed to the Buddha, something like this: "A red-faced farmer runs up to a group of monks and says 'Have my cows come this way? They broke the pasture fence and trampled all my sesame plants and escaped. I'm ruined. Have you seen them?' The head monk says 'Sorry, no, we've seen no cows all day' The farmer runs off shouting madly. The head monk says to the other monks 'Be thankful you have no cows. Be thankful you have no sesame fields. The farmer has made his own Hell' My point (and I do have one) is that maybe you are being a tad obsessive about your watchlist and you've "made your own Hell" so to speak. Why not forget the email thing, trim down your watchlist, and just look at recent changes when you log in? hth [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 23:40, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:Because people sort of expect me to show up at certain pages whenever they post.  The feature he'd like would be helpful to me, at least until [[WP:Flow]] creates a decent feed (to serve up all the discussions wanting my attention on <s>a silver platter</s> one page  ;-).  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 23:42, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::It's only Wikipedia. Feel free to disappoint those people. ;-) [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 23:52, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{ping|SageGreenRider}} Thanks for the sage advice Sage. ;) You're probably right that I should cut down my watchlist, but the main reason that I'm wanting an option for article-specific e-mail notifications, is so that if I'm waiting for a response from someone on a talk page, I won't have to actually check in on Wikipedia to know when they've gotten back to me - rather, I could just check my smartphone to see if I have any new e-mails. It would make it much easier for me to move my mind onto other things. 
:::Anyways, I registered at phabricator, left a message there, and lo and behold - someone actually said that they've decided to start working on it. So we'll see what happens. :) --[[User:Jpcase|Jpcase]] ([[User talk:Jpcase|talk]]) 00:55, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

::::Ok good luck, but I'm merely the owner of a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sage_green sage green] bicycle, not a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage sage] per se. [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 01:06, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

To answer the original question, [[Mediawiki]] (the software that runs Wikipedia) is maintained by a mixture of volunteers and staff paid by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].  In addition to keeping the site running, the WMF staff tend to focus more on big tasks and long-term goals.  Hence the development they lead tends to be more big picture.  Smaller changes are more often made by volunteers poking at things.  Anyone can [[mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker|Become a Mediawiki Hacker]], assuming you know (or can learn) [[PHP]], Mediawiki's [[mw:Manual:Coding conventions|code conventions]], and associated things.  Anyone can submit potential changes to the codebase, which are handled through [[git (software)|git]] / [[gerrit (software)|gerrit]] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/], and then developers discuss changes and incorporate the good ones into what we actually run.  Discussion of bugs and feature requests generally happens on [[phabricator]] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/], on mailing lists (e.g. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l wikitech-l]), or on [[IRC]].  See [[mw:developer hub|developer hub]] for more info on contacting developers.  However, unless you can do the development yourself, or convince a volunteer to do it for you, then you probably won't see the changes you hope for any time soon.  [[User:Dragons flight|Dragons flight]] ([[User talk:Dragons flight|talk]]) 04:15, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:This request in particular is one of the many tasks that are 'in between'. Too big for a single developer to take on (most definitely considering return value), too small and insignificant for the WMF to take on (they deal with much bigger problems). That basically makes it end up in the waiting chamber, where it will probably be until either we have an excess of resources (unlikely :) ) or a very determined volunteer who wants this for himself.
:Also remember that there are always [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/report/project/ thousands of bugs and feature requests] in [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/query/all/ hundreds of subprojects] open at any one time, and that many of this are 'super tasks', that still need to be split into a couple more micro tasks, before they will be solved.
:The oldest task is currently from October 2004, but that is probably because dates were not imported from the system that was used before 2004. We regularly solve issues that have been requested some 6 years ago. Over the last 3 months, I myself have been steadily making progress on getting [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41272 ajax previews] for the edit page working, something for which every wiki has a gadget, and that was blocked in core for multiple years for various reasons. Due to investments of teams like VisualEditor etc, into the core of MediaWiki some of these blockers are starting to disappear and the functionality suddenly becomes 'feasible' to add for a little volunteer developer like me. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 12:02, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

== Toolserver down? ==

Whenever I click a Toolserver-based coordinates feature, I end up at a blank white page with my browser constantly indicating that it's waiting or trying to load a page; this has happened both in IE11 and in whatever the latest edition of Firefox is.  It's not the same as the OSM error that I reported a few days ago: yes, clicking the OSM link in {{tl|GeoGroupTemplate}} at [[User:Nyttend/Pennsylvania NRHP/Westmoreland]] results in this blank white page, but I get the same result whenever I click on a single coordinates tag (for example, [https://tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=User%3ANyttend%2FPennsylvania_NRHP%2FWestmoreland this link] for the Bells Mills bridge at the Westmoreland list, the coords immediately below "West of Yukon"), even though the resulting page is a general Toolserver page and not something dependent on OSM.  What could be wrong?  Maybe I'm just sleepy (past 2AM here; I'm normally asleep well before now), but it seems like a weird malfunction.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 06:12, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:I think it is down and has been all day. ~ ''[[User:ONUnicorn|<span style="color:#0cc">ONUnicorn</span>]]''<sup>([[User talk:ONUnicorn|Talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/ONUnicorn|Contribs]])</sup><small>[[WP:P&amp;S|problem solving]]</small> 06:39, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
::But things were working fine "earlier", i.e. at least as late as midnight my time.  Until I finished what I was doing, and began closing tabs, I had several tabs running with Toolserver-placed coordinates from earlier in the evening.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 06:43, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{U|Nyttend}} There was a scheduled maintenance on March 30 at 22:00 UTC.  Let's just say things didn't go well.  Things are still down and as of a posting one hour ago, they are still working on it.   FYI... it is WMFLabs and not Toolserver.  Please don't sully Toolserver's good name by confusing it with WMFLabs :)  [[User:Bgwhite|Bgwhite]] ([[User talk:Bgwhite|talk]]) 07:14, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
::::[https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-March/003561.html Latest email] says things are back up and working now.  [[User:Bgwhite|Bgwhite]] ([[User talk:Bgwhite|talk]]) 07:40, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

== [[WP:Beans|I probably shouldn't ask this]] ==

This is probably one of those [[WP:BEANS|Beans]] type questions, but what, exactly, would happen if someone made bots to work at cross-purposes to each other, and then tried to run them  at the same time?  Like, say, someone made a bot to go around and change all instances of British spelling to American spelling, and another bot to change all instances of American spelling to British spelling? Would that crash the servers or shut down the site or something? ~ ''[[User:ONUnicorn|<span style="color:#0cc">ONUnicorn</span>]]''<sup>([[User talk:ONUnicorn|Talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/ONUnicorn|Contribs]])</sup><small>[[WP:P&amp;S|problem solving]]</small> 06:38, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:See the "(Ro)bot wars" section of [[Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars]].  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 06:46, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
::Amusing, but I think a little different, as the choice between British and American spelling impacts every single page in the encyclopedia, meaning billions of words on over five million pages (counting project and talk space), not just two bots edit warring over the sandbox.  I was wondering if that type of thing would cause a server crash the way deleting the main page or deleting the sandbox does. ~ ''[[User:ONUnicorn|<span style="color:#0cc">ONUnicorn</span>]]''<sup>([[User talk:ONUnicorn|Talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/ONUnicorn|Contribs]])</sup><small>[[WP:P&amp;S|problem solving]]</small> 07:05, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:::No problem. Anything can be blocked. Accounts would be first, if need be, sysadmins would block the traffic on the servers. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 07:38, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
== How do I import a reference from wikidata? ==

How do I get the reference from wikidata? [[d:Q140|Lion]] have the population <nowiki>{{#property:P1082}}</nowiki> and it looks like the reference for this is P854, but <nowiki>{{#property:P854}}</nowiki> gives nothing if I preview it on [[Lion]] (P1082 gives 491,268±1). [[User:Christian75|Christian75]] ([[User talk:Christian75|talk]]) 13:35, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:I would answer this question but I can see no property P1082 on the listed Wikidata page (which is the one for [[lion]]). --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 14:04, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|Izno}} - Thank you. I messed up. It shouldnt have been Lion but Lyon (the town). A rewrite my question here:
::How do I get the reference from wikidata? [[d:Q456|d:Lyon]] have the population <nowiki>{{#property:P1082}}</nowiki> and it looks like the reference for this is P854, but <nowiki>{{#property:P854}}</nowiki> gives nothing if I preview it on [[Lyon]] (P1082 gives 491,268±1). [[User:Christian75|Christian75]] ([[User talk:Christian75|talk]]) 13:35, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Okay, so the only way that I know of to access the reference is to use Lua to get the entirety of the object's claims, and then use the same Lua code to select the reference of the particular element. I believe this would require a Lua module, probably built on [[Module:Wikidata]]. I'm not familiar enough with Lua at this time to help further. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 15:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
== Parser function to determine if an image is on Commons? ==

I have a great disdain for the template {{tl|Keep local}}.  Among my (innumerable) problems with the template is that it says that the image might be on Commons with the same filename when, for the overwhelming majority of images that use the template, the Commons image does not actually exist.  Is there any way that we could suppress the link from showing up if a Commons image with that filename does not actually exist?  Some kind of #ifexist for detecting whether the page exists at Commons? --[[User:B|B]] ([[User talk:B|talk]]) 14:42, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:<del>Use {{pf|ifexist|Media:...}} instead of {{pf|ifexist|File:...}} to determine whether a file (as opposed to a local file page) exists at a title. For example, [[:File:Example.svg]] is a Commons file without local description page, so <code><nowiki>{{#ifexist:Media:Example.svg|exists|doesn't exist}}</nowiki></code> returns "exists" while <code><nowiki>{{#ifexist:File:Example.svg|exists|doesn't exist}}</nowiki></code> returns "doesn't exist".</del> <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 16:31, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::The above method cannot detect whether a given file is a local file, a Commons file or both, though, so it won't be usable for the {{tl|keep local}} template. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 19:24, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::You are supposed to use {{tlp|keep local|file name on Commons}} if the file is available somewhere on Commons. --[[User:Stefan2|Stefan2]] ([[User talk:Stefan2|talk]]) 22:21, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::::There are several cases and what would be nice would be to have them completely separated:
::::#Images that are not on Commons and never should be on Commons because they are copyrighted in their country of origin.  These should not be using keeplocal at all - there's a different template for that.
::::#Images that would not be useful on Commons because they are someone's user page files or something else that is useless anywhere but this particular wiki.  Again, this template should not even be used for those.
::::#Images that are not (yet) on Commons, but would be legitimate for moving there.
::::#Images that actually are on Commons, but the uploader has asked that a local copy be kept here (for whatever reason).  
::::There is some benefit to be gained from having these four groups of images categorized separately.  Well, there's no way that the template is going to fix #1 and #2.  But there would be at least some benefit to the template (a) being able to put #4 in its own category and (b) not showing a link to a Commons image and telling the user it "might" exist, when it actually does not exist. --[[User:B|B]] ([[User talk:B|talk]]) 03:06, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
::::The "Media:" trick could be used to give an error for non-existing files, but files that exist locally but not on Commons would give false negatives. I don't think there is a better currently available method to check for non-existing files though. <span style="font-family:serif;">[[User:SiBr4|SiBr<sub>4</sub>]] ([[User talk:SiBr4|talk]])</span> 20:22, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
== Red dot of love wont go ==
{{seealso|Wikipedia talk:Notifications#Red box}}
The notifications red dot doesn't go after I click on it. Anyone else have this issue? '''[[User:Lugnuts|<span style="color:#002bb8;">Lugnuts</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:Lugnuts|Dick Laurent is dead]]</sup> 19:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
:What OS/browser are you using? --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 19:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
::Firefox. But now I've clicked on Preferences (didn't change anything, just clicked on it), the problem has gone. '''[[User:Lugnuts|<span style="color:#002bb8;">Lugnuts</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:Lugnuts|Dick Laurent is dead]]</sup> 20:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
:::I had this yesterday as well (I think it was yesterday). It went away for me too after I clicked on preferences. I'm also on Firefox (36), and I'm using Ubuntu. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr.&nbsp;Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪&nbsp;talk&nbsp;♪]]</sup> 14:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Clicking on preferences worked for me too. --[[User:HHill|HHill]] ([[User talk:HHill|talk]]) 14:02, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

=== Notifications red box not clearing after clicking to look at them ===
Normally, the red box clears after I look at the notifications, but starting sometime today, after clicking on the box, it doesn't clear.  I've rebooted Firefox and did Ctrl-R, to no avail.  Is anyone else noticing this? [[User:Stevietheman|<span style="color:green;">'''Stevie is the man!'''</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Stevietheman|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Stevietheman|Work]]</sup> 21:41, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:Clicking on Preferences worked for me too.  Crazy. [[User:Stevietheman|<span style="color:green;">'''Stevie is the man!'''</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Stevietheman|Talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Stevietheman|Work]]</sup> 23:32, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

=== Notifications number is stuck ===
I woke up this morning and had two notifications, one for a 'thanks' and one for a talk message, but no matter what I do it continues to show that I have two new notifications, and when I click on the number it just shows me the old notifications. The yellow box that says "you have new messages" went away when I checked.

I don't believe this is related but I also received two Wikipedia emails from two different new users, explaining or asking about edits of theirs I had reverted. I get Wikipedia emails very rarely so I don't know why two people at once suddenly decided to use that option, their emails were polite and didn't contain any particularly private information. —&nbsp;[[User:Jeraphine Gryphon|Jeraphine&nbsp;Gryphon]]&nbsp;<sup>([[User talk:Jeraphine Gryphon|talk]])</sup> 08:47, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:I '''think''' I saw someone say you can fix that by clicking Preferences. I could be wrong, but it might be worth a try while you're waiting for someone who actually knows what they're talking about. &#8213;[[User:Mandruss|<span style="color:#775C57;">'''''Mandruss'''''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mandruss|<span style="color:#AAA;">&#9742;</span>]] 08:50, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:: That worked. o_O Weird... —&nbsp;[[User:Jeraphine Gryphon|Jeraphine&nbsp;Gryphon]]&nbsp;<sup>([[User talk:Jeraphine Gryphon|talk]])</sup> 08:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
== Edit summaries in all caps ==
{{archive top|{{resolved}} [[WP:FOOLS]] prank that went too far; mediwiki change was already reverted. — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 17:29, 1 April 2015 (UTC) }}
Um, why is every edit summary shouting at me? --[[User:NeilN|<b style="color:navy">Neil<span style="color:red">N</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:NeilN|<i style="color:blue">talk to me</i>]]</sup> 00:56, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:Same here, but only when I'm registered. ---[[User:Sluzzelin|Sluzzelin]] [[User talk:Sluzzelin|<small>talk</small>]] 00:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:IT'S JUST YOU; I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 

:(Just kidding...I came here to ask the same question.) '''[[User:Postdlf|postdlf]]''' (''[[User talk:Postdlf|talk]]'') 00:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:Just wondering that myself. An April Fools thing? Have we angered the servers? [[User:Anna Frodesiak|Anna Frodesiak]] ([[User talk:Anna Frodesiak|talk]]) 00:59, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

: I also see that since a few minutes ago.  Looks ''really'' bad. &mdash;&nbsp;[[User:Dsimic|Dsimic]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Dsimic#nobold|talk]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Dsimic|contribs]]) 00:59, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::{{ec}} Same here, but it seems to have stopped.  I hope it's just as temporary a problem for everyone else.  [[User:Ian.thomson|Ian.thomson]] ([[User talk:Ian.thomson|talk]]) 01:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Everything does now appear back to normal. That was strange... [[User:NickW557|Nick]]—<sup>[[User talk:NickW557|Contact]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/NickW557|Contribs]]</sub> 01:01, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:::: Right, normality seems to be restored. :) &mdash;&nbsp;[[User:Dsimic|Dsimic]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Dsimic#nobold|talk]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Dsimic|contribs]]) 01:01, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Stopped for me. I fed [[User:Postdlf|postdlf]] to the servers. --[[User:NeilN|<b style="color:navy">Neil<span style="color:red">N</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:NeilN|<i style="color:blue">talk to me</i>]]</sup> 01:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:This was an April Fools' prank added at [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]].  I've deleted the page. [[User:Nakon|<font color="#C50">'''Nakon'''</font>]] 01:03, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::I was headed here to report the same problem. But just a second ago everything went back to normal. Perhaps a few microchips were fed to the servers to appease them. [[User:MarnetteD|MarnetteD]]&#124;[[User talk:MarnetteD|Talk]] 01:03, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I want to emphasize a consensus reached years ago that April Fools pranks to the interface are '''out of bounds'''. [[User:Harej|Harej]] ([[User talk:Harej|talk]]) 01:05, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

''I thought it was just me!!!!'' This had me super confused! I have a screenshot uploading now for those who don't understand. '''[[User:EoRdE6|EoRdE6]]'''<sup><small>([[User talk:EoRdE6|Come Talk to Me!]])</small></sup> 01:08, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:{{reply|EoRdE6}} Can you please request deletion of the screenshot from Commons? The user whose contributions it depicts is upset. Thanks.--[[User:Bbb23|Bbb23]] ([[User talk:Bbb23|talk]]) 01:34, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::{{reply|Bbb23}} So I see... Instead of making this a fiasco, I will go and deal with it there. May be a few hours though, this is commons. '''[[User:EoRdE6|EoRdE6]]'''<sup><small>([[User talk:EoRdE6|Come Talk to Me!]])</small></sup> 01:36, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:*Sorry to be a "party-pooper" here but AFD'ing every article here is one thing but fucking around with the interface is on another level!.... Sorry but I can have a laugh & all that but personally mucking around with stuff like that isn't really that funny.... –[[User:Davey2010|<span style="color: blue;">'''Davey'''</span><span style="color: orange;">'''2010'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Davey2010|<span style="color: navy;">'''Talk'''</span>]]</sup> 01:37, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
: YAY!!! <mark style="background:Red">[[User:Bobherry|<font color="White">Bobherry</font>]] [[User talk:Bobherry|<font color="White">Talk</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Bobherry|<font color="White">Edits</font>]] Happy April Fools Day! </mark> 02:44, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I've given my opinion at [[MediaWiki talk:Group-user.css]] and won't retype it here.  Btw, {{u|Legoktm}} is responsible for it in case anyone wants to complain to him personally.  [[User:ekips39|<b style="color: #062">e</b><b style="color: #04f">ki</b><b style="color: #108">ps</b><b style="color: #60c">39</b>]] ([[User talk:Ekips39|talk]]) 02:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:Discussing on a talk page of a non-existant MediaWiki interface page is gr8. [[User:Killiondude|Killiondude]] ([[User talk:Killiondude|talk]]) 03:40, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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For some reason, on Safari 8.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite (Vector skin, both when logged out and logged in), bullet points display really small. I was expecting the normal bullet points of about 6 pixels in diameter (like in Firefox) but for some reason the displayed bullets have diameter of about 3 pixels. [[User:Jc86035|Jc86035]] ([[User talk:Jc86035|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Jc86035|contribs]]) <small>Use <span class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;[[Template:Reply to|re]]&#124;Jc86035&#125;&#125;</span> to reply to me</small> 10:09, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:See [[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_135#Bullet_points]] -- [[User:WOSlinker|WOSlinker]] ([[User talk:WOSlinker|talk]]) 10:50, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::Quick links: [https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141367 webkit bug], [[phab:T37338|phabricator background]]

=== Edit window text in Safari 8.0.4 ===

On an unrelated (or perhaps related) note, the size of the text in the edit window is also twice as small as it is in Firefox. [[User:Jc86035|Jc86035]] ([[User talk:Jc86035|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Jc86035|contribs]]) <small>Use <span class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;[[Template:Reply to|re]]&#124;Jc86035&#125;&#125;</span> to reply to me</small> 10:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:It has never been different. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 12:32, 1 April 2015 (UTC)



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== User scripts using the old Sajax framework ==

Krinkle posted [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081371.html a message] on the wikitech-l mailing list regarding the old "Sajax" AJAX framework, which has been deprecated for a very long time now, and is likely to be removed from MediaWiki altogether before the end of the year. Quite a number of (mainly very old) user scripts still use this old JavaScript library.

There are only two MediaWiki namespace scripts still using Sajax that I can see ([[MediaWiki:Gadget-dropdown-menus-nonvector.js]] and [[MediaWiki:RefToolbarLegacy.js]], both of which are nasty-looking old scripts which could use some cleanup). However, the search engine turns up '''479''' matches in userspace for <code>sajax</code>. So a lot of people need to either update their old user scripts, or get rid of scripts they don't care about anymore.

I guess my point is, just be aware that Sajax will eventually go away one day, so migrate your user scripts to jQuery before it's too late. See [[mw:ResourceLoader/Legacy_JavaScript#ajax.js]] for info. Thanks, — <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> 09:29, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
* I brought up this basic issue that most of the wiki's JavaScripts will fail to load by the end of the year when I started adding things to [[:Category:JavaScripts using deprecated elements]] across multiple wikis by tagging JavaScript talk pages with {{Tlp|JS migration|done{{=}}no}} and got the impression that everyone appears to think it is a "it's not broken don't fix it" situation and no-one wants anyone to go around and fix these scripts (I offered and was declined most everyplace I offered).  If there is suddenly interest for someone with the ability to fix these things to go around and start fixing them, I would happily fire AWB back up and start tagging talk pages again for the various things that will cause massive script failures this year. I just got so discouraged with the general consensus that no-one cares, that I have given up (and have been saddened to a point where I have little interest in contributing much at the moment). — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 11:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
**I would say, don't do it on your own. Make a separate taskforce board, have people direct their indifference/anger/enthusiasm/ask for assistance there, instead of your talk page.. Another idea is to try and see if you can change the AWB run in such a way that you can skip user scripts that are very likely not even in use by people. Then you might bother fewer people with stuff that they are not interested in. But if you need a break, take time and return later :) —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 18:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
*** {{U|TheDJ}}, the template I linked above actually organizes all of the tagged pages.  If it is a script that isn't it User: space someplace, it is placed at the top of the queue on the category page. If it is in User: and is not a common.js/skin.js(/global.js on meta), then it is listed next.  If it is a common.js/skin.js(/global.js on meta), then it is placed at the very end of the queue so that it is still tagged so those people know there is an issue with their script if they ever come back but there is no rush to fix those scripts and other editors (admins) can decide if they want to fix that level of script or not. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 19:42, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
****Please do '''not''' put {{tl|edit protected}} on pages, if there is no simple copy+paste fix suggestion. If an admin needs more than five seconds to understand and execute a requested edit it was a bogus request flooding the tracking category for good requests. Maybe roll your own template + tracking category for this business, outside of the edit request queue (not as sub-category). The template could be something you can switch into a deletion request later for the final clean-up. &ndash;[[User:Be..anyone|Be..anyone]] ([[User talk:Be..anyone|talk]]) 07:57, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

== Greenlandic #Babel templates are in Danish ==

As someone noticed [[wikt:Wiktionary talk:Babel#Greenlandic_.28kl.29|on Wiktionary a while ago]], the Wikimedia <tt>#Babel</tt> system incorrectly uses Danish rather than Greenlandic for the Greenlandic templates; see e.g. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:-sche&oldid=654622398], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:-sche&oldid=654622554]. Both Wiktionary's and Wikipedia's local <tt>Babel</tt> (no <tt>#</tt>) templates correctly use Greenlandic (see [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:-sche&oldid=654623199]). The solution seems to be to update [https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Babel-0/kl translatewiki.net's kl-0] through kl-N pages, but I don't have an account there and the user who initially reported the issue said they didn't have sufficient editing rights to report the problem there even after creating an account. Help? [[User:-sche|-sche]] ([[User talk:-sche|talk]]) 11:47, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
== Error message on user page ==

I don’t know how long it’s been there, but I just noticed my user page sporting an error message at the top: 
{{!xt|Error: Page status indicators'}} {{mxt|name}} {{!xt|attribute must not be empty.}} I’m pretty sure it wasn‘t there when I last saved the page in 2013, so I guess it has to do with a template that’s since been modified—but I can’t see any empty “name=” fields in my wikitext, so I’m quite at a loss in identifying the cause and the offending element. Any suggestions as to what’s producing the error or how to fix it?—[[User:Odysseus1479|Odysseus]][[User talk:Odysseus1479|'''<span style="color:slateblue;">1</span><span style="color:darkviolet;">4</span><span style="color:purple;">7</span>''']][[Special:Contributions/Odysseus1479|'''<span style="color:maroon;">9</span>''']] 21:25, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
:Look at [[template:top icon]] template and add a name=something parameter. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 21:51, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::And how I worked it out is to delete chunks of your user page till the error went away. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 21:52, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Thanks, {{reply|Graeme Bartlett|p=!}} Believe it or not, that was my prime suspect—but I’d more or less ruled it out because {{T|Top icon}} makes no mention of a “name” parameter. How did you know to add one, when it’s not described in the documentation—do all templates have a “name” parameter, whether or not it’s explicit? And why was it OK until (?somewhat) recently?—[[User:Odysseus1479|Odysseus]][[User talk:Odysseus1479|'''<span style="color:slateblue;">1</span><span style="color:darkviolet;">4</span><span style="color:purple;">7</span>''']][[Special:Contributions/Odysseus1479|'''<span style="color:maroon;">9</span>''']] 22:05, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::::If you suspected, you should have tried a preview with it removed yourself! I tried to add a name=graphic parameter because the error message said name was missing. Although it is not in the documentation it is in the source code. Not all templates have a name= parameter, and I don't even know why this is needed for in top icon. I suggest you look at the history, as I know there was an an announcement of a change to top icon recently. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 22:28, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::The error message [[MediaWiki:Invalid-indicator-name]] was caused by a blank assignment <code>name =</code> in <code>#tag</code> in this code in {{tl|top icon}}:
:::::<code><nowiki>{{#tag:indicator|...| name = {{{name|{{{id|{{{image|{{{imagename|}}}}}}}}}}}}}}</nowiki></code>
:::::<code>name</code> is an undocumented synonym for <code>id</code> in {{tl|top icon}}. The error is produced if <code><nowiki>{{{name|{{{id|{{{image|{{{imagename|}}}}}}}}}}}}</nowiki></code> evaluates to blank, i.e. if either none of the four are assigned or if the first of the four to be assigned a value is assigned blank. Assigning <code>name</code> as non-blank was one way to avoid that. Another would have been to remove the blank <code>|id=</code> from the call in [[User:Odysseus1479]]. That would have meant the non-blank <code>imagename</code> was used instead. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:31, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::I have warned against a blank <code>|id=</code> in the documentation.[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Top_icon/doc&diff=654692015&oldid=653728352] [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:01, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::I should have caught this before... Anyway, this should no longer generate an error (even though using an empty id makes no sense), but using one is advised regardless. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 22:28, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

== noexternallanglinks ==
{{tracked|T94889}}
Am I the only one who sees "Edit links" link on Main page and Recent changes page? noexternallanglinks isn't working? --'''[[User:Edgars2007|<span style="color:#FF6600;">Edgars2007</span>]]''' <small>([[User talk:Edgars2007|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Edgars2007|contribs]])</small> 07:51, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:I am pretty sure that is caused by an issue with skin styles. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93050] We have a fix for it now and it will be deployed soon. [[User:Aude|Aude]] ([[User talk:Aude|talk]]) 19:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::Looked at it more and think it's another issue, but probably can get it fixed shortly. [[User:Aude|Aude]] ([[User talk:Aude|talk]]) 19:10, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Have a patch to fix this and now waiting for someone to review it. [[User:Aude|Aude]] ([[User talk:Aude|talk]]) 20:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

== Special:Preferences looking weird? ==
{{tracked|T93050}}
Is it just me, or is [[Special:Preferences]] looking a bit weird right now? The tabs of settings have somehow disappeared and turned into a list of bullets, like this:
*User profile
*Appearance
*Editing
*Recent changes
*Watchlist
*Gadgets
*Notifications
*Beta features
I have this issue on both Chrome and Firefox. [[User:Tony Tan 98|<b style="color:#28589C">Tony&nbsp;Tan</b><sup   style="color:#4775FF">98</sup>]]&nbsp;'''·'''&nbsp;[[User talk:Tony Tan   98#top|<span style="color:#177245">talk</span>]] 01:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

: It looks the same as ever to me. Cache issue? [[User:SageGreenRider|SageGreenRider]] ([[User talk:SageGreenRider|talk]]) 02:34, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:: It's been fixed, somehow. :) [[User:Tony Tan 98|<b style="color:#28589C">Tony&nbsp;Tan</b><sup   style="color:#4775FF">98</sup>]]&nbsp;'''·'''&nbsp;[[User talk:Tony Tan   98#top|<span style="color:#177245">talk</span>]] 02:42, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:::It also happened to me in Vector at the same time but went back to normal. MonoBook was not affected. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 11:19, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
::::{{replyto|Tony Tan 98}} The tabs at [[Special:Preferences]], like the tabs along the top of any other page, are essentially an unordered [[HTML list]] - styled to display as a horizontal row with boxes drawn around each item, rather than a vertical stack of bulleted items. The styling depends upon several CSS and JavaScript files being served with the page proper, and if one of these CSS or JavaScript files fails to be received by your browser, or is corrupted, the styling can be affected. A [[WP:BYPASS]] will usually fix it, unless the relevant WikiMedia server is down. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 11:27, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

This issue is still happening for me and for others. For some reason, it's not an issue on other Wikipedias (e.g. German, Spanish...) and other wikis like Wikidata. But is happening on beta wikipedias [https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org] Developers are aware and are looking into this. [[User:Aude|Aude]] ([[User talk:Aude|talk]]) 09:09, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:Fixed just now, it was an issue on the WMF side. Apologies for the delay; some "fun" was had tracking this down, the culprit ended up being in code that was thought to be mobile-only. --[[User:Roan Kattouw (WMF)|Roan Kattouw (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Roan Kattouw (WMF)|talk]]) 00:58, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

== Simplest, easiest, best way to do exponents ==

What is the best, simplest, easiest way to include exponents in articles? <nowiki>{{math|10^7}}</nowiki> doesn't work, and even if it did, the formatting isn't very nice. [[User:Maury Markowitz|Maury Markowitz]] ([[User talk:Maury Markowitz|talk]]) 19:49, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:Superscripts? 10<sup>7</sup> --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:54, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::Red, the only problem with those is typing in the tags. It's an annoying amount of work, with shifts and its easy to type one thing wrong and the whole page stops rendering. I was hoping there was something simple like the frac template? And if there isn't, maybe there should be? [[User:Maury Markowitz|Maury Markowitz]] ([[User talk:Maury Markowitz|talk]]) 20:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:::If you like templates, {{tl|sup}} has the same effect, e.g. <nowiki>10{{sup|7}}</nowiki> = 10{{sup|7}}.  Personally, I don't think that is easier than the <nowiki><sup></nowiki> tags, but you can use it if you do.  [[User:Dragons flight|Dragons flight]] ([[User talk:Dragons flight|talk]]) 20:17, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::::{{replyto|Maury Markowitz}} The {{tag|sup|content=}} tags don't require any extra typing. Below the edit window, you should see a dropdown menu, make sure that "Wiki markup" is selected there. This offers a variety of commonly-used constructs, and {{tag|sup|content=}} is between {{tag|s|content=}} and {{tag|sub|content=}}. Click the tags to insert at current cursor position; alternatively, mark the figures that you wish to superscript, and then click the {{tag|sup|content=}} link to enclose those figures in the tags. I note that you raised [[Template talk:Frac#I love frac. So can I get exp?|this thread]] after Dragons flight replied above. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:16, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:<code><nowiki><math>10^7</math></nowiki></code> produces <math>10^7</math>. This is the standard form used in most articles about math.  Superscripts work best for short discussions on talk, etc.  — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 19:59, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::Xaos, but it doesn't look good. It renders differently than the rest of the text on the page. And it has all the problems of typing tags into wikitext that sup has too. [[User:Maury Markowitz|Maury Markowitz]] ([[User talk:Maury Markowitz|talk]]) 20:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::See also [[Help:Displaying_a_formula]] for more then you probably ever wanted to know about this :) — [[User:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#FF9933; font-weight:bold; font-family:monotype;">xaosflux</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:Xaosflux|<span style="color:#00FF00;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 20:11, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:::For powers of 10 we also have {{tl|10^}}, e.g. <code><nowiki>{{10^|7}}</nowiki></code> to make {{10^|7}}. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::::Prime, you nailed it, that is precisely what I was looking for. I still think <code><nowiki>{{exp|7}}</nowiki></code> would be a good idea though, because it follows the mold of frac and also you could do <code><nowiki>{{exp|2|7}}</nowiki></code> <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Maury Markowitz|Maury Markowitz]] ([[User talk:Maury Markowitz|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Maury Markowitz|contribs]]) 21:21, 1 April 2015 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
:::::Shouldn't <nowiki>{{exp|x}}</nowiki> produce <math>e^x</math>? [[User:Hawkeye7|Hawkeye7]] ([[User talk:Hawkeye7|talk]]) 04:12, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

== Template back link ==

I'm trying to figure out how to include (on my project) a template back link like the one seen in this {{plainlink|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Template_back_link.jpg|screen shot}}. I first thought it was included in the {{tl|Documentation/start box}} or {{tl|Documentation/start box2}} wrong, so my next thought was maybe here [[MediaWiki:Tagline]] wrong again, is this hard coded in MediaWiki core ?  <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS">[[User:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#800000">'''Mlpearc'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#FFD700">'''open channel'''</span>]])</small></span> 19:47, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:It is indeed 'hardcoded' in MediaWiki; subpages always show these links to their parent pages. <code style="font-size:small;white-space:nowrap">-- [[[[User:Edokter|<span style="color:#006">User:Edokter</span>]]]] {&#123;[[User talk:Edokter|<span style="color:#060">talk</span>]]&#125;}</code> 20:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
* If you want a template to simulate it, that could probably be done.  Please give an exact use case and where you want to see it and I'll happily help you figure out what you need. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 21:19, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:If you don't get these links automatically for template subpages in your wiki then maybe the wiki is configured to disable subpages in template space. That sounds like a bad idea. Or maybe you want a link to a page which isn't actually a parent page. Can you give a link to the page missing the link? [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 21:50, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::These links do not show on [http://mywiki.everythingfoodanddrink.org/wiki/Main_Page my project] with Mediawiki 1.24.0, guess I should take it to {{plainlink|//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki|MediaWiki.org}}. Thanks.  Cheers,  <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS">[[User:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#800000">'''Mlpearc'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#FFD700">'''open channel'''</span>]])</small></span> 21:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::I believe that they're known as a "[[breadcrumb trail]]". --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:11, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::Subpages are disabled in template space in your wiki. They are enabled in userspace so you get the backlink at http://mywiki.everythingfoodanddrink.org/wiki/User:Mlpearc/Workshop. The disabling may have been done with [[:mw:Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages]] in LocalSettings.php, a file in your MediaWiki installation. It is not visible or editable as a wiki page so you may need a developer if you aren't one. I don't see a reason to deliberately disable subpages in template space. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:20, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::Thank you {{U|PrimeHunter}}, Yeah, I'm the only dev on the project (self taught). I thought this would be [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages#Default_value enabled by default] but I'll go through LS.php and check. Thanx again for all your help.  <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS">[[User:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#800000">'''Mlpearc'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#FFD700">'''open channel'''</span>]])</small></span> 22:29, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::Oh, it's apparently only default for template talk and not template. I wonder why. Wikimedia enables it for template with code in http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 22:35, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::I saw that, it's working fine now {{=)}} thanx everyone. That's funny it's working in CommonSettings.php and not InitialiseSettings.php. <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS">[[User:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#800000">'''Mlpearc'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Mlpearc|<span style="color:#FFD700">'''open channel'''</span>]])</small></span> 22:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
== Labs is going to be slow ==

{{tracked|T93792}} 
Heads up:  NFS on Labs will be slow for a few days, and then will be offline on March 26, 2015 at 22:00 UTC (less than five minutes).  I understand that the point is making backups and setting up disaster recovery mechanisms.  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 23:34, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

:This is taking longer than expected.  Consequently, you didn't have a five-minute outage 25 minutes ago.  Maybe in the morning (North America time). [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 22:27, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
:* I'm not sure exactly what is going on, but tool labs for xtools seems to be completely gone (I tried logging in and it sent me to bastion instead of tools (yes, I know)).  The tool is still there, but completely refuses to run due to whatever is going on. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 22:31, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

=== ''revision history statistics'' link ===
hi, I asked ''technical 13'' and ''cyberpowers'', and haven't gotten a response so im asking here, the '''"history revision statistics"''' link is not working,can anyone help? thank you--[[User:Ozzie10aaaa|Ozzie10aaaa]] ([[User talk:Ozzie10aaaa|talk]]) 16:55, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
* Due to the outages and issues in [[#Labs is going to be slow]] above, xTools has been temporarily disabled until that is done. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 18:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

===XTools again===
[//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/index.php?pageid=199800&project=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en no webservice, again, for Xtools] --[[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] [[User talk:Ancheta Wis| &nbsp; (talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Ancheta Wis| &#124; contribs)]] 18:34, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

See [[#revision history statistics link]]

Ditto [[#Labs is going to be slow]]
:Some users appear to be using [[User talk:Technical 13]] to report these issues. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 19:24, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:* Which is fine by me, as a maintainer, of course. I've also seen reports on [[User talk:Cyberpower678]], which is fine too of course (as I watch that page as well).  I'll have a much better internet connection tomorrow, and will work on coordinating with {{Ping|Cyberpower678|Nakon|MusikAnimal}} (other xTools maintainers) and touch base with {{Ping|Coren|YuviPanda}} (labs admins) to see what's going on with the labs change where we are as xTools group getting moved into our own instance.  I apologize for any inconveniences caused by this outage, and will try to get everything back up as soon as humanly possible.  Thank you for your patience. — <code class="nowrap">&#123;&#123;U&#124;[[User:Technical 13|Technical 13]]&#125;&#125; <sup>([[Special:EmailUser/Technical 13|e]] • [[User talk:Technical 13|t]] • [[Special:Contribs/Technical 13|c]])</sup></code> 19:37, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:::Thanks for being on top of things, T13.  I trust ''youse Labs guys'' will make us happy asap.  --[[User:Mareklug|Mareklug]] <sup>[[User talk:Mareklug|<b>talk</b>]]</sup> 02:32, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

===Soon and very soon===
Looking at e-mail, the "brief service interruption" was an hour or two ago.  However, there were some problems.  Coren and his team are on it.  The first sign that it's working again will be that it's working for you.  The second sign that it's all working again will be an announcement (maybe here, maybe in wikitech-l or one of the other mailing lists). 

I don't expect it to be much longer.  (This may be your cue to post a link to the Dilbert strip about the impossibility of predicting how long it will take to fix an unknown number of bugs.  ;-)  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 23:38, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

:This has apparently been fixed.  [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 04:17, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:*I can't access [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/ Wikiviewstats]...&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 05:54, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

== False warnings from db-u1 template ==

Template {{tl|db-u1}} has started to display its red "''Warning: This page was last edited by a user other than the owner of the userspace in which it was used''" notice even when actually placed by the real owner. I have encountered <s>two</s> three instances this morning. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 11:30, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

:Please give an example, even if you only know one where the page has been deleted. A test at [[User:PrimeHunter/sandbox]] doesn't display the warning. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 12:26, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

::[[User:TSRL/sandbox/Caudron C.140]] and [[User:Umais Bin Sajjad/sandbox3]]. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 12:44, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

:::The warning is made by <code><nowiki>{{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|{{REVISIONUSER}}||'''Warning: This page was last edited by a user other than the owner of the userspace in which it was used. Please make sure the page was tagged by the correct user before deleting. '''}}</nowiki></code>. It hasn't been edited recently and should work as far as I can tell. Did it happen at the normal /wiki/ url and not a preview? I don't know why it would happen at a normal page view in your examples. Do you remember the user or time in the statement like "This page was last edited by PrimeHunter (contribs | logs) at 12:24 UTC (45 minutes ago)"? If it happens again then please copy this statement here without deleting the page. I realize somebody else may delete it and you shouldn't edit it to tell others not to delete it. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:21, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

::::Sorry, I don't remember what that statement said. The warning occurred in normal view when I clicked on the pages in the speedy deletion queue. You can still see it in preview mode if you look at the last revision before deletion in the examples I linked. No U1s in the queue at the moment, I'll keep an eye open. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 14:01, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::If you preview a page then <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code> returns your own name so the warning will always be displayed in a preview, unless you are viewing a page in your own userspace where <code><nowiki>{{ROOTPAGENAME}}</nowiki></code> also returns your username. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 14:20, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::[[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] and [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]], see [[User:Nyttend/TESTING]].  This is definitely a malfunctioning template.  Please don't delete the page yet; please wait until I ask for it.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 15:57, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::That's odd - I was just coming to say it must have been a temporary glitch, because I made a test page from an alternate account which behaved normally, and I have since had a live one from CAT:CSD with no problem. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 16:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::I just opened a new tab to view it (no edits have been made since I left a note here), and the warning's gone.  No explanation that I can see.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 16:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::For me it doesn't display the warning and it correctly says: "This page was last edited by Nyttend (contribs | logs) at 15:57 UTC (10 minutes ago)". What does it say for you? Caching means the time may look wrong but don't worry about that. I wonder whether some servers don't have access to the right value of <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>, but it's hard to say if nobody seeing the error reports what it says. The html source says "Parsed by mw1050" for me. '''If anybody sees the warning then PLEASE report what it says below''', and also in the html source if you know how to see that in your browser. In many browsers you can do a {{keypress|Ctrl|f}} search on "Parsed by" when you view the html source. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:10, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::When I first created the page, it gave a big <span style="color:red; font-weight:bold; font-size:120%;">'''Warning: This page was last edited by a user other than the owner of the userspace in which it was used. Please make sure the page was tagged by the correct user before deleting. '''</span>  I then edited it to fix the {{tl|ambox}}, and the warning was the same.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 16:25, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::Here's another: [[User:Varant Dndlian]]. Message just says "''This page was last edited at 16:10 UTC (0 seconds ago)''" without mentioning a user. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 16:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::For me it didn't display the warning and said "This page was last edited by Varant Dndlian (contribs | logs) at 16:10 UTC (8 minutes ago)". It has since been deleted. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:21, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::I just now created [[User:Nyttend/TESTING 2]] and got the same situation.  The template begins with the ordinary "This user page may meet..." and concludes with "...that has been moved. See CSD U1. Warning: This page was last edited by a user other than the owner of the userspace in which it was used. Please make sure the page was tagged by the correct user before deleting.<br /><br />If this user page does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, please remove this notice.  This page was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nyttend/TESTING_2&diff=cur last edited] at 16:26 UTC ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nyttend/TESTING_2&action=purge 0 seconds ago])"  Note that it doesn't know who tagged it!  I don't know what to do to fix the situation.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 16:28, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::::TESTING seems to be ok for me, while TESTING2 is still broken and does not mention who edited the page last, just the time. '''[[User talk:Konveyor Belt|<span style="text-shadow:0em 0em 1em #003399;"><span style="color:#00008B;">Konveyor</span></span><span style="text-shadow:0em 0em 1em #FF8C00;"><span style="color:#B7410E;">Belt</span></span>]]''' 16:52, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::::I looked at TESTING2 and it still showed the red warning: then I purged it (using the clock/purge gadget), the red warning disappeared and the message changed to "''This page was last edited by Nyttend...''" [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 18:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::"(0 seconds ago)" indicates the page was rendered at the original save and has not been purged since. {{tl|db-meta}} only displays who last edited it if <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code> is non-blank: <code><nowiki>{{#if: {{REVISIONUSER}} | by [[{{ns:2}}:{{REVISIONUSER}}|{{REVISIONUSER}}]] <small>{{toolbar|1=[[Special:Contributions/{{REVISIONUSER}}|contribs]]|2=[[Special:Log/{{REVISIONUSER}}|logs]]}}</small> }}</nowiki></code>. So the problem is apparently that <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code> can be blank. We could consider coding {{tl|db-u1}} to only display the warning if <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code> is both non-blank and different from <code><nowiki>{{ROOTPAGENAME}}</nowiki></code>. [[Template talk:Db-meta/Archive 2#Add some magic keywords about the last editor and the last revision]] and [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Db-meta&diff=279588740&oldid=262502732] shows the test has always been there, but doesn't mention that it might be blank. Maybe the test was only added originally in 2009 by [[User:Church of emacs|Church of emacs]] because the magic word was brand new and not because it was actually expected to sometimes return blank. The possibility isn't mentioned at [[:mw:REVISIONUSER]]. I edited [[User:PrimeHunter/sandbox]] to always display <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>. I got the warning and a blank <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code> on the original save. A [[WP:PURGE|purge]] fixed it. If this issue has not been noticed before then maybe it's new that <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code> can fail on the original save. If somebody sees the warning on a page which does ''not'' say "(0 seconds ago)" then please report what it says, including a username if it's displayed. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::::Deep down, {{tlx|db-user}} invokes [[Module:Message box]]. I suspect that this shares a problem with {{tlx|asbox}}-based templates (i.e. stubs), where a double save is normally necessary to categorise the page correctly. That is, when I created [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=7&title=Special%3AContributions&target=Redrose64&namespace=10&offset=20150318201000&newOnly=1 these seven stubs], they correctly showed cats in the box at the bottom, but on following those links to the cat page, the templates were not listed there. Performing a [[WP:NULLEDIT]] on the new template fixed it (this is not a new problem, see [[Template talk:Asbox#Categorization of stub tags doesn't work on creation]]). So, if a user adds {{tlx|db-user}} and gets that red error message, does it disappear if they [[WP:NULLEDIT]] the page? --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 18:03, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
{{unindent}}I just encountered another example at [[User:Dodger67/Sandbox/Link-ZA]]. The message was "''This page was last edited at 21:09 UTC (0 seconds ago)''". When I purged the page (with the clock/purge gadget) the red warning disappeared and the message changed to "''This page was last edited by Dodger67 (contribs | logs) at 21:09 UTC (4 minutes ago)''"

There is certainly something new going on here. I have been doing U1 deletions for years and have never encountered this message before (except where the requester really ''was'' a different account), but today it is happening all the time. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 21:21, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

:I have changed {{tl|Db-u1}} to display "{{Purge}} to see last editor" instead of a warning if <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code> is blank.[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Db-u1&diff=653878883&oldid=623200196] [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 11:48, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::Thanks!  I can confirm that things are working better now.  I recreated [[User:Nyttend/TESTING]] with only {{tl|db-u1}} and got the "Purge to see last editor" upon creation, and when I purged, the warning disappeared; all is well.  I then went to the userspace of my public-computer sock and created [[User:Nyttend backup/TESTING]]; again the purge message appeared, and when I purged, the big red warning properly appeared.  [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 12:28, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
:::{{ping|PrimeHunter}} Thanks, that works. I have deleted five live U1s today, three with the "Purge" message (which without your fix would presumably have been showing the red warning) and two without. Do we know why this problem suddenly appeared yesterday? It must have been caused by some change in the underlying system? [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 21:13, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Might this be related to [[#Weird deletion display error]]? [[User:Nil Einne|Nil Einne]] ([[User talk:Nil Einne|talk]]) 12:58, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::Possibly - at any rate, it also seems to have been a one-off event, as since then I have deleted several more U1 pages, but none have had the "Purge" notice which would have indicated a recurrence of the problem. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 17:34, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::No, I spoke too soon - I had another one with the "purge" message just now, [[User:Zackmann08/Springfield]]. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 21:42, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::And several more today, including a large batch from one user of which about half showed the "Purge" message. [[User:JohnCD|JohnCD]] ([[User talk:JohnCD|talk]]) 13:35, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

== Edit toolbar: Adding embedded file: "thumb" or "thumbnail"? ==


When I add a file using the "embedded file" button on the Edit toolbar, the default size option added is "thumbnail". An editor has just changed that to "thumb" in an article I've edited. Looking at [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images#Image_syntax]], "thumb" is used, though I see that [[Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax]], after initially showing "thumb" as the word to use, then refers to ""thumb" (or "thumbnail"...)".  It looks as if the RefToolbar is offering the less preferred word here: could it be changed so it adds "thumb", please? 

I raised this at [[Help_talk:Edit_toolbar#Thumb_or_Thumbnail.3F]] and was advised to come here. Can anyone help? [[User:PamD|<span style="color: green">'''''Pam'''''</span>]][[User talk:PamD|<span style="color: brown">'''''D'''''</span>]] 22:57, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:[[WP:RefToolbar|RefToolbar]] is a gadget that adds a citation inserter into the toolbar, it has nothing to do with this. Furthermore, I'm a tad conflicted on this. On the one hand, thumb is the de-facto standard that we use. On the other hand, we  (as developers and as a community) have been trying to get away from 'lingo' and shorthand notations for a long while now. This is why 'thumbnail' is marked as the default, and 'thumb' as the alias for the thumbnail option. To change that, in my opinion would be a mistake. I'd love to hear more opinions on this. —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 08:46, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
::For future reference, this is defined by the order translatable magicword names in <code>./languages//messages/MessagesEn.php:	'img_thumbnail'           => array( 1, 'thumbnail', 'thumb' ),</code> —[[User:TheDJ|Th<span style="color: green">e</span>DJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/TheDJ|contribs]]) 08:48, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
== Finding all my deleted images ==

Over the years I have had a number of images I uploaded deleted as copyvios even though they were made by federal labs. Now I have found [https://www.llnl.gov/disclaimer an unequivocal statement] that these images are, as anyone would have imagined in the first place, indeed covered by PD-gov. So I would like to bring these photos back, and move them to the commons. Can anyone suggest a method of finding them all and doing this easily? [[User:Maury Markowitz|Maury Markowitz]] ([[User talk:Maury Markowitz|talk]]) 13:37, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

:Deleted file names are visible to non-admins at [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/upload&user=Maury+Markowitz]. If no current file has that name then the name is red. The actual file and file page can only be seen and restored by admins. You could compile a list and post to [[Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion]]. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 13:56, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

::{{u|PrimeHunter}}, worked like a champ, thanks! [[User:Maury Markowitz|Maury Markowitz]] ([[User talk:Maury Markowitz|talk]]) 20:42, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

:Not so unequivocal. MM probably has in mind this language: "{{tq|the U.S.  government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce these documents, or allow others to do so, ...}}}. But note the continuation: "{{tq|'''for U.S. government purposes'''. All documents available from this server may be protected under the U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws. '''Permission to reproduce may be required.'''}}" [Emphasis added.] See additional comments at [[Template talk:PD-USGov-DOE#Is any of this correct?]]. Seems like it would be good to have this clarified by someone knowledgable about copyright. ~ [[User:J. Johnson|J.&nbsp;Johnson (JJ)]] ([[User_talk:J. Johnson#top|talk]]) 23:04, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

==Possibility of adding categories based on lack of template==
Is it possible for a template to add a category based on the presence (or lack of presence) of another template? [[WP:POTD|POTD]] has several images which haven't been run despite being old enough to be run, and I'd like to have a category like [[:Category:Featured pictures that haven't been on the main page]] to track them. I was thinking of having a parameter in [[Template:FeaturedPicture]] to look for [[Template:picture of the day]] and then add the category if it's not present. (A bot could do this, too, I guess, but a parameter would fail less often). &nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 15:32, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
:A template does not have the understanding of a completely separate template on the same page (i.e., when one is not embedded in the other). Is Template:picture of the day usually embedded in Template:FeaturedPicture on a file page? --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 16:34, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
:As for bots, yes, a bot could track this. A report could also be set up at [[WP:DBR]] (though apparently most of the reports presently listed at DBR are broken per Toolserver's shutdown and have not been updated to run on Labs). --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 16:40, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
:*First question: no, they're always included separately. 
::Second comment: I'm loathe to depend on bots... maybe for a one-off task, okay, but recently bot-centric stuff at FAC and FLC has been a mess.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 16:45, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
:::You could use [[:Wikipedia:CatScan]] to find file pages which are in [[:Category:Featured pictures]] but not in [[:Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day files]]. I got 1675 files. [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 16:56, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
:::*Amazing, this is working for me on Labs. The page counter isn't... that would be a good temporary solution.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 17:02, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
::::*Though I wonder: is there a way to exclude images transcluded on [[WP:POTD/Unused]]?&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 17:42, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::The "Linked from" filters seem to be inactive (they're formatted as "strikethrough"), so not directly. However, CatScan can exclude multiple categories, so if you (or a bot) add(s) the pictures from POTD/Unused to a dedicated category, you could then use that category to limit the results of the scan. -- [[User:Jokes Free4Me|Jokes_Free4Me]] ([[User talk:Jokes Free4Me|talk]]) 18:06, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::*Sounds like a good work around. Thanks.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 23:44, 3 April 2015 (UTC)