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Moving a page

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Page Help:New images needs to be moved to Help:New files leaving a redirect. I cannot do it myself since I am not a translation administrator. Thanks and cheers [[kgh]] (talk) 15:19, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Done. Also I didn't realize until now that you weren't an administrator. You should now be able to grant yourself translation admin. Legoktm (talk) 21:25, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh, ah, thank you for your help and even more importantly for your confidence and trust into me and my actions here on this wiki! [[kgh]] (talk) 22:49, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

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Not able to delete a page

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Hello, I am trying to delete a page - and keep getting this error message.

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "Article::doDeleteArticle". MySQL returned error "1364: Field 'ar_text' doesn't have a default value (10.50.225.19)".

anyone knows how to fix that? 108.171.130.167 (talk) 22:52, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Please post support questions to Project:Support desk! Create your question there and please provide your MediaWiki version. The error you posted can't happen on recent versions of MediaWiki at least, because the deletion explicitly sets ar_text to an empty string on insert, and the error is produced when a row is inserted without providing a value for ar_text. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:37, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

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Crud (create , read, update, delete)using external data

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I need to create a page that will query external sql data and display the result on that page.

Also any user can edit the data and will automatically update the external sql database/.

Is there already such available extension ? Aag2010 (talk) 13:53, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

This page is for issues on MediaWiki.org website, not for support questions, please read the description of this board.

Also, MediaWiki is a documentation system, not a CRUD. There's no such extension, but if you have knowledge of PHP you may he able to come up with something to do that. A CRUD is something very specific (database, table, fields to update, layout, etc) that I would be surprised to find anything ready to use. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:29, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

The Cargo extension could perhaps be what you're looking for. It can be used to query data in a database, and to write to it. I'm not sure how it goes doing both at once—you might have to first import your data into your wiki, if you want to be able to update it from the wiki. Sam Wilson 22:09, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

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verify / review a page before publishing

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is there a way to verify / review a page before publishing?

Step 1: a user is editing or creating a article, after finishing it is not published

Step 2: a user of a "reviewer-groupe" can confirm the change or new page -> published 2A02:8108:54BF:DAA0:25DA:C7D6:A4D6:6082 (talk) 19:46, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

You can use something like Approved Revs to let you do this. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:06, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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Profile Help?

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I made a profile but didn't enter the temporary password in the week time-span. Is there anyway I can get another or something so that I can get an account? 198.209.0.251 (talk) 17:19, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

You're looking for an account here? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:34, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

{{Delete }} —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:03, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I think you can use the password forgotton? feature on the log in page to get a new password like the first one. Now you've got a new password that you can enter in a new week time-span. And you needn't to wait because it's an autmaticly software feature FF-11 (talk) 07:00, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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Duplicate categories?

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Category:Resource loader variables and Category:Resource Loader variables. Should probably be fixed. AttemptToCallNil (report bug; view backtrace) 14:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

The problem was some uses of |section=Resource Loader instead of |section=Resource loader in the {{SettingSummary }} call. Fixed now I think. Sam Wilson 16:46, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

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Sysops can now add/remove the translation administrator group to self

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Someone told me about this a couple of days ago, but I haven't seen it announced (well, not that I'm really subscribed to news mailing lists or whatever), so I find relevant to announce it here:

Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed.

This is going to be useful when there's a need to delete/rename a page marked for translation, and no translation admin is looking at this board, because admins by default aren't granted the translation administrator group by default.

See T184610 Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:47, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

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Logo is shown as text and not as a picture in navbar

Hello guys

i want to put a Logo into the navbar. I'm using the Tweeki skin. When i follow this guide, the text (File:MYFILE.png)is shown in the bar and not the logo.

Navbar

Tweeki-navbar-brand: {{SITENAME}}

Content of the 'brand' link. You can also use a image, e.g. set the content of the message to File:MYFILE.png (without brackets) and costumize size and positioning for .navbar-brand img.

(The site of the link is not mine) 84.227.18.159 (talk) 20:54, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi,

I have the same issue, did you find the culprit? 82.127.218.230 (talk) 09:50, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Did anyone find out how to do this? 2A00:23C6:11B:E001:6526:432A:6921:4DDF (talk) 19:02, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Zapomenute heslo ke hre

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Zapomněl jsem heslo a nevím co dělat dál 177.47.27.231 (talk) 14:14, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Help:Logging in#What if I forget the password or username? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 20:55, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

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How do you undo translations?

Is there a convenient way of undoing (spam/obviously-incorrect) translations? The translation tool is probably great for doing piecemeal translation of individual messages/sections, but I cannot find any edit history or other useful mechanisms for reverting or inspecting changes within it, and having to go through the tool in order to undo something also loses the edit context (position/which-message) of the edit-to-be-undone. Is there any way to find the edit history of individual section/message translations and revert edits within the tool, or is there some way to bypass it? (I also cannot find any help/documentation on using the translation tool, at least not linked from the tool itself.) Clump (talk) 16:38, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

I have to go to the contributions page of the user I need to revert, and find the translatable unit that I have to revert (<pagename>/<number>/<language>), then revert from there. If the translation unit that was edited was new (no revert possible), then delete the unit. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 19:46, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Get rid of references to abandoned extensions.

If an extension does not work with at least one version of MediaWiki that's receiving security support, then there is no reason for it to be easily discoverable. Let it die, make the only place with any mention of it a simple list of abandoned extensions that's not indexed by search engines and stop give those coming here from Google search or following links false hope.

The experience of following link after link after link to abandoned is extremely frustrating, and reflects ppoorly on the MediaWiki ecosystem as a whole, even if the core developers bear no responsibility. 2606:A000:140A:11A:7CC6:7FDA:42AD:1F5A (talk) 23:49, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

WordPress does this by excluding from search those plugins that have not been updated within two years. It's hard to do that with the current system of extension searching being just the same as the normal site-search. Phab:T118188 is probably of interest. Sam Wilson 00:35, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Upload Image

Helllo I installed the last version of mediawiki on ubuntu server and I experienced a problem with Upload Image. I enable it from configuration,i have php Enable upload,I have in Local Settings upload image true all of them(2),i have permission in image folder for write (root,www-data) i have permission in all folder from server,webserver side,I have permission for everything I did chown,chmod,777 permission even in apache ,i have upload in php.ini,even in php5,php7,I restarted services,I upgrade mysql(1500 pages read on google about this problem) AND I STILL GET this ERROR mwstore://local-backend/local-public/ 89.35.216.7 (talk) 10:19, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

ERROR mwstore://local-backend/local-public/ is not a meaningful error message. It lacks a verb. It's like saying "I the whole internet". It means nothing.

Please post your question to the right place --> Project:Support desk. And also provide a complete and exact error message. You can copy the text by selecting it with CTRL+C, and pasting it with CTRL+V, that way you won't omit any important information. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:48, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

MediaWiki extension and feature bounties using cryptocurrencies?

Would it be acceptable to create an area on the MediaWiki.org wiki to have a quasi-marketplace for cryptocurrency bounties for open source features and extensions? This could benefit a lot of stake holders potentially. Just curious. Thanks! Michael Ten (talk) 17:55, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

There is a Phabricator project phabricator:project/profile/137/ that is used to list requested extensions. I don't know about payment ideas. Sam Wilson 23:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

I don't see why not, as long as you make sure to specify its "unofficial" Bawolff (talk) 19:50, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Good call. Maybe I'll start this soon. I learned about Gitcoin recently. So there are some options. Michael Ten (talk) 02:32, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Probably one of these days ...

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Does revision 2438363 exist twice?

1. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:FlashMP3&oldid=2436383
2. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=2438363

Interestingly the second revision does not relate to an actual page but is shown via Special:PermanentLink [[kgh]] (talk) 14:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Your first link is revision 2436383, the second is 2438363. :-) Legoktm (talk) 17:44, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

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[RFC] Announce a period of time after each release for MediaWiki

Because this site is the official website of MediaWiki, it will be very useful to push the release announcement in MediaWiki:Sitenotice. 星耀晨曦 (talk) 14:20, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

That sounds like a great idea. Legoktm (talk) 16:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

MW 1.31 already released. 星耀晨曦 (talk) 07:58, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

[RFC] Enable right delete in Translations namespace for translation administrators

Administrators can delete pages. Here we have: normal administrators and translation administrators

Normal administrators can delete pages, translation administrators can not to delete pages in translations namespace.

I would like to translations administrators can have delete right for deleting pages in translations namespace, as I said. Kizule (talk) 13:36, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I think it's not possible to give the deletion right "only" on the translations namespace. It would affect all namespaces. Maybe the translate extension should provide a right for that. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 18:43, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

You are right about: Maybe the translate extension should provide a right for that. Kizule (talk) 23:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Please mark pages for translation

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I recently reworked three pages, Manual:Pywikibot/Global Options, Manual:Pywikibot/Page Generators and Manual:Pywikibot/pagefromfile.py. Please mark them for translation. Maybe there are some issues, tables and tvars look broken, but I can not find what is the problem inside the code. Dvorapa (talk) 21:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

And also Manual:Pywikibot, Manual:Pywikibot/Installation and Manual:Pywikibot/Version table please Dvorapa (talk) 13:56, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Done for all five; note that on Manual:Pywikibot/pagefromfile.py there were some issues due to not naming your tvars, which I think I've fixed. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 16:50, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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Mark changes for translation

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Please mark pages Manual:Pywikibot, Manual:Pywikibot/Global Options, Manual:Pywikibot/Installation, Manual:Pywikibot/Gerrit, Manual:Pywikibot/PAWS, Manual:Pywikibot/Overview, Manual:Pywikibot/Create your own script, Manual:Pywikibot/pagegenerators.py, Manual:Pywikibot/i18n, Template:Pywikibot, Category:Pywikibot and all subcategories for translation. Is there some better method or some better place to ask this thing for? Dvorapa (talk) 08:50, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Also please move Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/table2wiki.py to Manual:Pywikibot/table2wiki.py and mark it for translation too and the other way around for Manual:Pywikibot/delinker.py -> Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/delinker.py too, please. Dvorapa (talk) 12:47, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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Remove Czech translation

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Hello, please remove all the Czech translations from Help:Logging in, it looks like this was created by some bot, which does not really know how Czech language works. This would better be translated from scratch than fixing those randomly organized splash of words Dvorapa (talk) 21:24, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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Move a page

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Hello, could please some admin move the page Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/table2wiki.py to Manual:Pywikibot/table2wiki.py? Please also all its translations. There is a redirect on the desired name, therefore I can not do it by myself. Dvorapa (talk) 17:03, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Done Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 18:41, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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How to discuss (1) people of color (2) mixed people in history

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When discussing the history of George John Frederick Clarke the section that describes his personal life is written in a stereotypical fashion that suggests that Clarke had a mixed race relationship. In fact he had a mixed race "marriage" He lived with Flora Leslie Clarke and together they raised their eight children. This is supported by the fact that (a) some of his children lived in his home in Fernandina and again in St. Augustine while Flora, when she became ill lived with their daughter Felicia. Furthermore, (b) Clarke financially assisted each of his children when needed and (c) each of his children were given 1/8th of his estate.

As for the descriptions of people of color (naturally each area must be taken individually) but we can begin with Adrian Piper who ended up writing her own web page There is my bio which has been left out even given the fact that I am discussed in the page on the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Where We At Black Women Artists (there may be other pages I haven't gone through every one. Attention needs to be paid. I will work on the Art and Artist pages, if you don't mind Gylbert Coker (talk) 18:26, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

What is this in reference to? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:43, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

This is regarding the George John Frederick Clarke Wikipedia website and the passage concerns his personal life. I understand this is the wrong place to place this discussion so please tell me where I should go. There is no clear path in this program (you must know this) I believe this needs to be addressed as the passage stands now it is racist both in presentation and intend.

Thank you

Gylbert Coker Gylbert Coker (talk) 19:44, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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image adaptation

How to adapt the image to the website？ AceGeorgina (talk) 09:13, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Any plan to update Help:Magic Words?

I am translating Help:Magic Words, and think this page will be very helpful for new editors. However, it says to see Extension:StringFunctions, but when I open that page, it notes:

This extension is obsolete. All of these functions are now integrated into the ParserFunctions extension, but are only available if an administrator sets $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true; in LocalSettings.php. The documentation of these functions remains here.

MediaWiki's core magic words implement urlencode and padleft/padright.

Is there any better way to help eager new editors avoid confusion, or at the moment, I am afraid those two pages don't coordinate in parts. Any idea? Omotecho (talk) 12:01, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

The problem with that page is that it's both the documentation of string functions and the page for the StringFunction extension

The documentation for string functions should probably be in a Help: namespace, the same way we have Help:Extension:ParserFunctions Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 19:24, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

I agree, that way you need not to scroll up/down that much. It will be much handier to compare/contrast each string functions if they are devided by function, I guess. Omotecho (talk) 11:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

{{Edit request }} and Flow

I added {{Edit request }} to MediaWiki talk:Globaluserpage-editnotice, but the latter page did not land to category: Protected edit requests. A bug of Flow? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 12:31, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Topics can be categorized but only in topic Summary. wargo (talk) 08:22, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Alert won't disappear from the interface

"There has been a failed attempt to log in to your account from a new device. Please make sure your account has a strong password. 23d"

For 23 days this alert has been sticking to my 'alert bell' icon in the website interface. I have followed the link by leftclicking my mouse, changed my password to a very good one (random numbers, characters etc), but the alert keeps sticking to the alerts. It suggests the software doesn't process the fact I followed the link as intended. Can something be done about this? Please? OSeveno (talk) 12:32, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Click blue circle on the right of the message. wargo (talk) 08:21, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks; somehow that wasn't very obvious to me. OSeveno (talk) 10:34, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Next version of mw missing from navigation (1.31)

Go to MediaWiki 1.30, then check the navigation on the right, 1.30 and 1.32 is there, but 1.31 is missing. How am I supposed to easily get to the soon to be released next version without manually searching for it? 121.219.12.173 (talk) 05:16, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

You aren't "supposed" to get unreleased versions. If they're not released yet, it's because they're not thought to be ready yet. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 21:20, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Jdforrester: That's nonsense. MediaWiki 1.31 is a Release Candidate. How can people test it to see if there are bugs previous to formal release if it isn't made available?

Also, that's not the object of the question. The box at the top-rigt of the page contains the following items:

• MediaWiki 1.27 (legacy - LTS)
• MediaWiki 1.29 (legacy)
• MediaWiki 1.30 (stable)
• MediaWiki 1.32 (alpha; git master)

The problem is that MediaWiki 1.31 is not appearing there (but 1.32 is!). Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 08:38, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

That's nonsense. MediaWiki 1.31 is a Release Candidate. How can people test it to see if there are bugs previous to formal release if it isn't made available?

Regular end-users are absolutely not the right audience for Release Candidate software. The people looking to test it out are likely expert MediaWiki sysadmins, developers, and others who follow the mediawiki-l mailing list, not the more normal kinds of sysadmins who aren't necessarily expert in how labyrinthine bugs in MediaWiki can be explored.

The problem is that MediaWiki 1.31 is not appearing there (but 1.32 is!).

Wait a week or whatever and it'll appear when it's released. I don't see this as a problem. When 121… asked "How am I supposed to easily get to the soon to be released next version without manually searching for it?", and answer is "you aren't".

(If instead you want to debate having a link to the bleeding-edge master in the list, that's a fine discussion point, but not really the question asked.) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:57, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

If the alpha version is there, the release candidate clearly should be too. It's simply easy navigation between relevant versions.

As for why should someone have easy access, maybe they want to easily see what is the upcoming version either because they are looking to update when it comes out, or are a user looking at the new features for when the wiki they use is updated? 192.232.155.200 (talk) 06:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Alternative Extension Downloading Site? WMFLABS down.

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I'm trying to download some extensions, but I'm getting a 502 error.

For example, if I try to download Echo I go to this page which tries to download this file but it times out. Jer Hughes (talk) 14:45, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Works for me now. Another option is to browse the repository on github, switch to the desired branch and click "clone or download" Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 18:55, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

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How to find the page tail position in the development process ?

In the development process, I need to compare the cursor position and the last character position of the page, but how to locate the last character position? Beacon123 (talk) 01:21, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

"the development process" of what exactly? How is this question related to the website mediawiki.org ? Malyacko (talk) 09:37, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

mediawiki 1.31.0, SQL-Error when uploading

Query: SELECT oi_name,oi_archive_name,oi_size,oi_width,oi_height,oi_bits,oi_media_type,oi_major_mime,oi_minor_mime,oi_timestamp,oi_deleted,oi_sha1,oi_description AS `oi_description_text`,NULL AS `oi_description_data`,NULL AS `oi_description_cid`,oi_user,oi_user_text,NULL AS `oi_actor`,oi_metadata,MAX(fr_quality) AS fr_quality FROM `oldimage` FORCE INDEX (oi_name_timestamp) LEFT JOIN `flaggedrevs` ON ((oi_sha1 = fr_img_sha1 AND oi_timestamp = fr_img_timestamp)) WHERE (oi_name = 'Joergklein.jpg') GROUP BY oi_name,oi_timestamp,oi_archive_name,oi_size,oi_width,oi_height,oi_metadata,oi_bits,oi_media_type,oi_major_mime,oi_minor_mime,oi_user,oi_user_text,,oi_deleted,oi_sha1,oi_description,NULL,NULL ORDER BY oi_timestamp DESC LIMIT 10;

Error: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'oi_deleted,oi_sha1,oi_description,NULL,NULL ORDER BY oi_timestamp DESC LIMIT 10' at line 1.

The Error is the double comma in the GROUP BY part between oi_user_text and oi_deleted Topsnet-holgerd (talk) 12:06, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Normally, SQL errors also contain a SQL comment with the name of the method executing the query. It would be nice to have that, and also the backtrace (see Manual:How_to_debug for more details).

The SQL statements joins with the flaggedrevs table, which is part of an extension. You may try to disable that extension and see if the error is still reproducible, and then BUGREPORT against that extension. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:49, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Yes, you are right, when deactivating FlaggedRevs, the error does not occur. Maybe I shall turn to the developers of this extension.

And sorry, the function, that causes the error is:

Function: LocalFile::getHistory

And here's the backtrace:

#0 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1427): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->makeQueryException(string, integer, string, string)

#1 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1200): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportQueryError(string, integer, string, string, boolean)

#2 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php(1653): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->query(string, string)

#3 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/filerepo/file/LocalFile.php(1202): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->select(array, array, array, string, array, array)

#4 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/page/ImageHistoryPseudoPager.php(159): LocalFile->getHistory(integer, string, NULL, boolean)

#5 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/page/ImageHistoryPseudoPager.php(101): ImageHistoryPseudoPager->doQuery()

#6 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/page/ImagePage.php(787): ImageHistoryPseudoPager->getBody()

#7 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/page/ImagePage.php(170): ImagePage->imageHistory()

#8 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/actions/ViewAction.php(68): ImagePage->view()

#9 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/MediaWiki.php(500): ViewAction->show()

#10 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/MediaWiki.php(294): MediaWiki->performAction(ImagePage, Title)

#11 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/MediaWiki.php(861): MediaWiki->performRequest()

#12 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/includes/MediaWiki.php(524): MediaWiki->main()

#13 /var/www/virtual/mediawiki-wichmann.topskunden.de/htdocs/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run() Topsnet-holgerd (talk) 09:17, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Where should I ask for marking pages for translation?

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Three questions:

1. What is the best place to find the answer to question number 2?
2. What is the best place to ask for marking pages for translation?
3. Can someone mark Help:Notifications/Notifications types for translation, please. Pipetricker (talk) 16:29, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

I don't know where it could be asked. Probably this is a good place to do that.

Anyway, translation administrators have a page to list all pages with pending changes that need to be marked for translations, I'd assume they would routinely review them, but seeing there are more than 3000(!) pages marked for translation but with pending changes, maybe someone is not doing their duties...

Edit: I've now taken a closer look to this special page, and apparently not all listed pages have pending changes, which makes that page not so useful at all. It's hard to check for pages that require approval if one needs to check the action links and see if a "mark for translation" link exists. There aren't so many pages that need to be reviewed, then.

PS: I've marked that page for translation. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:56, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply and for the admin action. It seems like the bolded links on Special:PageTranslation are the pages with changes which are not marked for translation (I did a search for documentation of that, but couldn't find any). Pipetricker (talk) 17:43, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

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Web banner about EU Parliament Copyright Directive vote of 5 June 2018

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Good afternoon, some wikipedias are showing a homepage web banner and have blocked users'edits, in order to sensitize the public opinion about the Directive Proposal the European Parliament will vote on 5 June.

Connecting by a PC to es.wikipedia.org and it.wikipedia.org homepage:

• it.wikipedia shows a disclaimer which asks Javascripts has been enabled in the Internet browser. By a PC website connection, users won't see anything both for the desktop and for the mobile version.
• es.wikipedia has blocked articles'editing, but there is no redirect to the disclaimer, even when users try to edit any article.

So the reasons of this editing block seem not to be explained to the users with a fixed connection device.

De and fr.wikipedia hasn't any disclaimer or editing block.

The Directive Proposal impacts Internet citizens of all the Europe, and legitimates itself by virtue of the continental dimension of the copyright matter.

For this reason, it will be more effective a common form of civil action, coordinated among wikipedia of different languages.

I am a registered user of it.wikipedia.Micheledisaverio (talk) 11:07, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

No vivo en Europa y wikipedia me exige una firma que no puedo hacer para poder ver la información que necesito. 45.229.86.97 (talk) 12:34, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

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Add Support for ARM64V8 architecture

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Hi,

The Mediawiki docker package is building and running fine at my end for ARM64v8 architecture.

Build from: stable

Please suggest, what needs to be done to raise the request to add support for ARM64v8 arch at official docker library too.

Regards, Odidev (talk) 11:59, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Please ask for that on phabricator on the mediawiki-docker project Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:37, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

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Extension:Wikibase Repository

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It seems this page have some deleted pre-2013 edits. Can someone restore them? GZWDer (talk) 19:52, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@Jeroen De Dauw did. I can restore them, but maybe he can explain why he deleted it in the first place? Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 10:17, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

I generally don't remember the reasons for edits I made 5+ years ago ;) Why is this even a thing to care about? Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 01:16, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Done. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:13, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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delete Topic:Uiexc2122nzo5kfx

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It looks like a coyright violation FF-11 (talk) 08:56, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Done by @Mainframe98. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 14:52, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

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Semi-protect all subpages of Extension:FileImporter/Data?

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For obvious reasons. This may be done by adding Extension:FileImporter\/Data\/.* <autoconfirmed|noedit> to MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. GZWDer (talk) 21:16, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Done. But I think this should have had some more discussion. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:10, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that, having these page semi-protect is definitely a must. Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (talk) 10:23, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Why is the code written that way? That seems like a massive architectural mistake. Anything trusted even within the Wikimedia cluster like that should be in the MediaWiki namespace at least (and probably locked down to be JSON or whatever content model so only technical admins can edit them). Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Since the FileImporter replaces/improves tools that the communities used for getting the job done, one very successful tool among those ( the Commonshelper ) was the gauge for the stuff we wanted to achieve with the FileImporter. The config structure and 'files' from that tool were used to have a good starting point for the changes made by the importer.

The relatively simple structure gives an easy way to maintain these by the communities and we see that more as a feature. Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (talk) 10:22, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

A gadget having major security holes is a problem, not an excuse to follow it. :-( Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 17:32, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

It seems like we should have some documented guidance for this sort of thing. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:17, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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process for deletion of translations

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A few weeks ago I asked a question on Project_talk:Deletion#Deletion_of_a_translation. Isn't there a project page on this wiki for users to submit general sysop requests? Bdijkstra (talk) 12:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Project:Current issues is the best place for this! Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 13:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

In that case please delete Manual:Parameters to index.php/nl. Somebody translated 1 phrase in 2015, nobody touched it since. Bdijkstra (talk) 08:16, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Done, although I'm not sure that was necessary. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:16, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. A link to the page appeared in the "Other languages" bar, which was misleading since it was absolutely useless in its state (2 words translated). I suppose deletion was unnecessary if there is a way to hide the translation until it is at least somewhat useful. Is there? Bdijkstra (talk) 09:29, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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Dharam salv

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Dharam salvi is adding personal details in various places. Please undo, hide, and perhaps block. Bdijkstra (talk) 09:33, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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Add signage to old TPG team pages and subpages to indicate deprecation

Done

The Technical Program Management Team would like to append a hatnote and historical tag to 118 Team Practices Group pages, as part of deprecating them so that visitors don't mistakenly assume they can still get TPG support (see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200484). I've been investigating AutoWikiBrowser, but I'm a little nervous about using a batch-editing tool when I might break something. Lego suggested I post here as a possible alternative to AWB, where someone might volunteer an existing bot and I can forgo the overkill of creating a new one.

The list of pages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P7423

The hatnote: "The Team Practices Group (TPG) was dissolved in 2017. Any previously TPG-related support is no longer available for request."

This would be followed by

Anyone willing to help me resolve this? :) MBinder (WMF) (talk) 21:32, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Block User:Moniquemota509

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Vandalism/blanking. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 04:27, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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User:PlavorSeol has been making changes to Manual:User rights that go against the guidelines set forth in Manual:Coding conventions/PHP[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. In two cases, they reverted me (and in one case another editor) with a claim of "Vandalism Recovery", in spite of the fact that I and the other editor were restoring the page to compliance with the coding conventions. I left a message on PlavorSeol's talk page which they never responded to, instead resolving it and summarizing it as "Just don't vandalize it. I WILL REVERT IT ANYWAY." At no point has PlavorSeol explained why they are making this change, or why they believe the reversions back to the coding conventions-compliant version are vandalism. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 15:30, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

I've left them a formal warning and will block if the behavior continues :/ Legoktm (talk) 22:18, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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Block User:Renamed user W1k1V4nd4l

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Vandalism.

Their userpage also needs to be deleted as a personal attack. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 06:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Done, thanks! Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 08:51, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

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Can't speedy-delete blank page

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Hi, I was trying to speedy delete request User:Shantanu_basarkar as it was blank but I got hit by the abusefilter. Can someone do it for me? Thanks. Leaderboard (talk) 19:39, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Deleted. Looks like there's a bug in Special:AbuseFilter/36 if the page exists but is blank. Legoktm (talk) 22:19, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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Make Template:See also translatable

I think Template:See also should be properly translatable. If I'm coming across this one while translating, I don't really know what to do with it. MGChecker (talk) 19:53, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

It is already translatable, see for instance Manual:Coding_conventions/ja and search "関連項目:". When creating a page, you have to use: {{TNT|See also|...}} instead of {{See also|...}} to make it translated when the template has been translated (currently English, Hungarian, Japanese, German). ~ Seb35 [^_^] 16:17, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be better to use Extension:Translate instead of maintaining a individual version for each language? MGChecker (talk) 18:58, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Yes, indeed. There is no major issue for the template itself, but there is the documentation pages in German and Japanese (see subpages). I don’t know if there are recommendations to do that.

I see that Template:Extension/fr/doc is a standalone (non-Tranlate) page, and it seems to be the case for most or all Category:Template documentation pages (a Translate documentation page would end with a language code and I see none in the category). Hence it could be done like that for our template. (I don’t have time as of now, will continue to see that later.) ~ Seb35 [^_^] 08:18, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

I have made the template translatable! Shirayuki (talk) 11:47, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

I think the actual problem because of which I mentioned this template here is that it's difficult to translate in practice, as label and target differ in practice in all languages except for Englisch. How are we supposed to handle this? MGChecker (talk) 16:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

We should use {{ll}} to save translators' time. e.g. {{ll|Manual:Coding conventions}} → Manual:Coding conventions

But ll does not work for interwiki links... Shirayuki (talk) 01:06, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Could we use this in See also if no Interwiki is provided? Is there any way to detect Interwiki links by Lua or something similar? MGChecker (talk) 14:13, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Distinction between MediaWiki X.XX and Release notes/X.XX pages

Currently, we have pages of both these types, for example MediaWiki 1.27 and Release notes/1.27. This has the upsides that there is

• a quick overview of the changes done
• not so much content to translate on MediaWiki X.XX
• Release notes/X.XX can basically be pasted from the source file

However, MediaWiki 1.31 choses a different approach: It copies the content of Release notes, restructures it, adds links and further documentation at some places (Database for example). This has these upsides:

• It finally feels like a proper documentation about a MediaWiki release.
• More of the documentation is translated
• The Release notes have helpful phabricator links

However, you invest much more work in translating the stuff in section Upgrade notices for MediaWiki developers, which I don't think is useful to anyone. Everyone who wants to develop in MediaWiki must be able to contribute some basic English to understand the documentation, and it's so much to translate as well, that I don't think it's worth the effort.

That's why I think we should do a compromise:

• We keep the Release notes page, but add links there to Phabricator in the future.
• We keep creating more verbose MediaWiki X.XX, except for the Upgrade notices for MediaWiki developers section. However, I think the Action API changes are quite important for bot developers and should stay.

P.S.: Today is the day I learned about Wikitext editing in StructuredDiscussions. I'm really happy. MGChecker (talk) 17:20, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't think I understand your proposal, so I can't comment usefully on it (even though you've already rushed to enact it, it seems). When you say

We keep the Release notes page, but add links there to Phabricator in the future.

… do you mean

1. We should have a release notes page with a nicely-written semi-prose detailed page (like 1.31 is going for);
2. We should have a release notes page which is just a basic copy-paste of the version in git with some find/replaces (like 1.27 etc. had); or
3. We should have a release notes page which is just a link to the "real" version in Phabricator/git?

I'm not sure I like any of these proposals, really. A more detailed set of highlights on the main page might be better, with links to the real release notes (in git) sprinkled liberally through it?

However, you invest much more work in translating the stuff in section Upgrade notices for MediaWiki developers, which I don't think is useful to anyone. Everyone who wants to develop in MediaWiki must be able to contribute some basic English to understand the documentation, and it's so much to translate as well, that I don't think it's worth the effort.

Translation memory means that that's not too much work over time. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 20:24, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

I didn't really "rush" this, I think, I acted according to the feedback I recieved here, at the central coordination page about the work in this project. Moreover, it's easily reversible and a "wiki" is fast by definition.

I mean: We should habe a release notes page (Which isn't MediaWiki 1.31, but Release notes/1.31!) that's just a basic copy-paste version of the version in git (like Release notes/1.27 and Release notes/1.31), but links the task references as actual working links to Phabricator.

The result is what you see at Release notes/1.31, which is linked from MediaWiki 1.31, and is basically identical with the removed section. They nearly were duplicates before, and are now entirely. That's why I removed the duplicate content from MediaWiki 1.31, trying to create a "more detailed set of highlights on the main page". I really didn't change that much, just deduplicating the Release notes.

Translation memory means that that's not too much work over time.

I don't understand what this means. However I don't think every page here has to be translated, and this is quite much semi-English content (coding jargon, which suffers from translation in most cases anyway) with variable and function names. Furthermore, this is no one-time job, but something you have to do twice a year. I just don't think it's worth it at all. MGChecker (talk) 20:48, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

I didn't really "rush" this, I think, I acted according to the feedback I recieved here, at the central coordination page about the work in this project. Moreover, it's easily reversible and a "wiki" is fast by definition.

Breaking translations are not undoable.

This is a reasonable venue for wider discussion about how well we serve potential MediaWiki sysadmins with content that is half in English-ish code, half in their own language, and I agree it's not great, but one person replying to one specific "let's revert this" isn't great. :-) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 22:00, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Breaking translations are not undoable.

Just reverting should do the job, I see no reason why this shouldn't work. Both the translations and the translation markers in the old revision aren't deleted.

I think we have to make a distinction here: There are three kinds of information requiring different levels of MediaWiki software knoeledge:

• New features concern everyone.
• Compatibility and upgrade notices concern sysadmins and developers
• Detailed information about programming interface changes and deprecations concern only MediaWiki developers

I think there is no need to localize the last points, but this actually doesn't concern sysadmins.

I would love to hear other opinions as well, however, I can't create them from thin air ;) MGChecker (talk) 23:22, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Your suggestions make sense. Would you like to help to implement them for 1.32 or even 1.31? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:45, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Let's leave this open for feedback a few days, but than I would like to move forward with this for MediaWiki 1.31 (won't be much work to do.) French is the only language that did some translations of the part I would like to remove by now.

I would like to help implement this for 1.32, once the release branch is created and we have got a ~final feature set. MGChecker (talk) 20:43, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Release branches are forked about six weeks before the release is made and this is the point that you would have what is considered to be a final feature set.

Since 1.32 is set for release sometime in November, that means that it will be forked around October 15th. At that point, we should have a clear idea of what the "final" feature set is.

I'd be happy to help you with this if you want to start on it then. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 17:36, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

I just implemented the changes we discussed here for MediaWiki 1.31 and Release notes/1.31.

Given previous releases, maxbe the release branch will even be created a little earlier, I guess 2-5 weeks from now. I guess Multi-Content Revisions will be one big thing included in this release, even if it will take until 1.33 until we have a real, full release here. MGChecker (talk) 18:30, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

I do not think blanking https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_1.31&diff=0&oldid=2839842&diffmode=source is at all appropriate for pages that are already translated. Please revert yourself. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

I agree blanking translated sections of pages should be avioded, however I disagree that it should block restructuring pages to a unified concept, especially since translations of this parts of the page aren't that helpful in principle. I wouldn't like people speaking other langiages putting any more effort in translating this.

Futhermore, it didn't undo that many translation work, the only language that hat large parts of this section translated was Japanese. I think a good compromise to make here would be to leave the MediaWiki 1.31 page as is, while moving the Japanese Release notes to Release notes/1.31/ja (because that's what it actually is), using old-school translation. MGChecker (talk) 19:37, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Improving the mediawiki.org frontpage

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I'd like to discuss potential improvements to https://www.mediawiki.org/ (the front page itself), both regarding content and presentation, as I see several issues with the current page.

I propose to discuss this in several stages:

* Defining audiences,

* defining content per group,

* defining presentation and layout.

My main intention are improvements to allow our audiences to better find the relevant information that they are looking for.

We might not be able to make everything perfect but we can certainly try to make it better?

If this sounds interesting, please take a look at MediaWiki/Homepage improvements 2018

and let's discuss on the corresponding discussion page and work on this? Thank you! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 22:24, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

While there has not been a lot of feedback to this posting, most of it was pretty helpful. You can find the results under https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_improvements_2018#Audiences

The next step is to decide on the content. An initial proposal and explanations of related challenges can be found under https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_improvements_2018#Content

It's not too different from the current content and tries to use clearer phrasing, avoids some of the current content duplication, removes a smaller number of some currently unhelpful pages and adds better information mostly for sysadmins and people who heard about MediaWiki for the very first time.

If this sounds interesting, please take a look at the link above and let's please discuss on the corresponding discussion page! Thanks! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Phase 3: Layout:

Now that the content is defined, the next step for the next two weeks is to sort out the layout. An initial proposal can be found in MediaWiki/Homepage improvements 2018#Layout and layout implementation.

Please take a look at the link above and let's discuss on Talk:MediaWiki/Homepage improvements 2018. Thanks! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 23:27, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

The proposed changes are now live. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:24, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Looking good. Thank you AKlapper (WMF)! —Mainframe98 _talk 14:48, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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Delete Template page

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Hi, I don't know how I created a Template:Page. I can't find the Delete option, so I tryied moving that page to (Main) but still the option doesn't appear. Peh2000 (talk) 19:15, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Only sysops (by default) can delete pages. You can contact a sysop on his/her talk page to request the deletion (if they don't see that already on the recent changes). Special:ListUsers/sysop (on your wiki) can be used to locate sysops on the wiki Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:05, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, I tried next day and the option appears. Maybe I was editing with an user the first time instead of the admin. Peh2000 (talk) 22:29, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

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Block User:Fuckerintheusa

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Vandal 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 21:43, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

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Author and source on media viewer

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I have the mediaviewer / multimediaviewer.

On Mediawiki help pages, when I click on image at the bottom of the lightbox it shows the description and below it shows the author name and source. But on the Mediawiki installation shows the description and below the link 'View author information' instead author name and source.

How to show the author and source on lightbox? Thanks Peh2000 (talk) 22:53, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

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Search 0 pages

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I don't know why, on my Timeless top search bar, it shows the text 'Search 0 pages' but we already have some pages created... Recently it happened the same and it updated after some hours but more pages were created and now 1 day before still says 0 pages.

How to solve it, to autoupdate th enumber? If it's not easy, how to edit that text to remove the '0 pages'?

Thanks Peh2000 (talk) 10:25, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

What does Special:Statistics on your wiki says about the number of articles? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:28, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Please do not ask support questions here. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:29, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

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Unable to delete translation pages

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I could not delete the following pages:

• "Keep me logged in" extended to one year/av - no translation
• Help:VisualEditor/User guide/egl - disabled language
• HHVM/About/th - no translation
• Help:Logging in/atj - no translation

Why?

The server says:

Error
Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes.

See the error message at the bottom of this page for more information.

Shirayuki (talk) 12:53, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

gerrit:463287 and gerrit:468912 Shirayuki (talk) 21:13, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Is there a phabricator bug for that? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:07, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

T207930. MGChecker (talk) 09:35, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

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Unable to save translation

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Unable to save the following translation pages:

• Translations:Manual:List of MediaWiki configuration settings containing sensitive data/Page display title/ja
• Translations:Manual:List of MediaWiki configuration settings containing sensitive data/4/ja

The server says:

PHP fatal error: Argument 1 passed to MessageGroups::isDynamic() must implement interface MessageGroup, null given Shirayuki (talk) 14:34, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Nobody from us can fix this by editing this wiki. Please next time report this to the right place where developers can take a look. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:24, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

@Shirayuki: Issue should be fixed. Please try again. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 15:41, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Saved successfully. Thanks. Shirayuki (talk) 21:55, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Block User:Akikah jogja

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This user is advertiseing. See contributors for more details FF-11 (talk) 16:15, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Done Shirayuki (talk) 22:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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Block User:Birajpaul.joydoyamoy.bp

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Vandal. Their userpage should also be deleted. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 19:03, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Agreed Saederup92 (talk) 19:06, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Blocked, and user page deleted. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

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Block User:195.198.84.33

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It has posted an insult. FF-11 (talk) 08:51, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Done Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:07, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

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Abusefilter for talk pages

As part of reducing spam, I've updated filter 12 (see abuse log), which is now doing an excellent job of blocking spammers. But that one has no effect on talk pages (which use flow), so I've created filter 59, which does the same thing for flow pages (or so it should).

However, my filters don't seem to work against talk pages (those which use flow). Can someone figure out what I'm missing? Thanks. Leaderboard (talk) 11:08, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Maybe testing functions in AbuseFilter help but those do not support StructuredDiscussions. wargo (talk) 15:58, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Did these changes help? wargo (talk) 15:53, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

@Wargo: Sadly no. Leaderboard (talk) 10:23, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

From looking at the logs from other flow and non-flow filters (via examine) I get the impression that added_links is not filled in for flow edits. Clump (talk) 16:14, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

So it is missing hook wargo (talk) 18:50, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Check User:Manochehrparsam

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I see no constructive contributions in the history and now he moved Extension:WebFonts without good reason. Nikerabbit (talk) 06:42, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

@Nikerabbit: Blocked him for a month, he's blocked on multiple projects. While I'm usually conservative on blocking, see his SUL history. Leaderboard (talk) 10:08, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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Report about WikiTechstorm, unable to add external link

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I was asked by Wikimedia Nederland to write a report about the Techstorm and to add a link to the report page (Wiki Techstorm/Reports). I wrote a report on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6472885239768186880 but now I’m not able to add the link to the report page. Walkuraxx (talk) 07:13, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

@Walkuraxx: Try again; you should now be able to add the link. Leaderboard (talk) 10:03, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Linked added. Thank you very much :-) Walkuraxx (talk) 18:40, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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Report about WikiTechstorm, unable to add external link

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I'm trying to add the Showcase & Project list (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Women_Tech_Storm_hackathon_showcase_2018) to the page of the Wiki Techstorm but I'm not allow to add external links... OlafJanssen (talk) 13:57, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

@OlafJanssen: Please try again; you should now be able to add the link. Leaderboard (talk) 15:25, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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Let me add links

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When i was linking to the download page of my skin, it said: Error:

We're sorry, your edit was not saved as it matched the rule: New users adding external links or email. This usually happens because the type of edit you made is often done by vandals and spammers. If that's not the case, we apologise.

If you believe your edit was constructive, please file a request at here, explaining what you were trying to do.

Now i put the links to Locked until the request is answered. Can you enable access to link for me? I'm not a vandal nor spammer. 69.206.77.233 (talk) 18:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, and the Skin's name is Bitmap.

If you wanna link yourself, my username is MicroshaftCorp, the name is mediawiki-skins-Bitmap, and it's on Github.

69.206.77.233 (talk) 19:01, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

There isn't any username with "MicroshaftCorp".

And no, link access isn't given to new accounts or IP addresses due to the massive spam we receive from them (there isn't a 'whitelist' option). Leaderboard (talk) 19:57, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

MicroshaftCorp on Github, not MediaWiki.org 69.206.77.233 (talk) 02:09, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

@Clump: Can IP users submit extensions? Leaderboard (talk) 10:28, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

I've added the links Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:52, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

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Developer input on topic

I'd appreciate getting input from developers (especially extension developers) on Talk:Extension default namespaces#h-"Reserving"_blocks_per_extension?-2018-11-21T18:09:00.000Z; I posted it almost two weeks ago, but it's gotten no attention from anyone else yet. In short, it's a proposal to start recommending extension authors reserve blocks of 10 namespace numbers for their extensions (when their extensions add a namespace(s)), since that's what most current extensions seem to have informally done to date. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 01:09, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

I would suggest emailing wikitech-l to solicit input from developers. Legoktm (talk) 07:35, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer! I don't really have any experience with posting to the mailing lists; would you be willing to pass the request along? (It's fine if not, I can figure it out myself if I have to. =) ) 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 09:36, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Sent. :-) Legoktm (talk) 21:36, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! =) 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 03:08, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Need block

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Please block IP 38.132.116.188 for harassment of Yaron Koren. Matthew Wong (PMA) (talk) 15:27, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

No edits in two hours. Probably OK to leave. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:30, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

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Cannot post links

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I'm trying to upload my report on the Wikimedia event (sorry it's late!) Mm.michelle (talk) 20:08, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

@Mm.michelle: Try again. Leaderboard (talk) 20:39, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

I am posting a link of new york but it shows error Skyvella08 (talk) 06:01, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@Skyvella08: Spam-only, you've been blocked. Leaderboard (talk) 10:27, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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User:79.67.220.158

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Hello, may anyone have a look on User:79.67.220.158 and perhaps prevent him in doing sthg like this? Thanks --Rax (talk) 04:27, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks! Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:03, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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Links.

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on, Sites using MediaWiki, can you make Fanonpedia link to https: fanonpedia (dot) shoutwiki (dot) com (replace the (dot)'s with .) Dohdude65 (talk) 23:34, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

That depends on the site. On MediaWiki.org abusefilters are used to block external links to new users. Leaderboard (talk) 00:15, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

No, i mean link to it on the article Sites using mediawiki. Dohdude65 (talk) 22:34, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Use Sites using MediaWiki/en if it's written in English. Tropicalkitty (talk) 01:10, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what you mean. One can call an external link from a wiki powered by MediaWiki using the syntax [link name]. For example, [google.com Google]. Leaderboard (talk) 00:04, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, as it is promotional and Mediawiki.org is not the place to post such content. You've also been blocked. Leaderboard (talk) 11:50, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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External Links

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So, I am a new user and I can't put external links into my userpage.
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That's intended. Too much spam going on Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:04, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

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add a link about biothch

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I try to add some anabolic steroids powder data to mediawiki Buyaas (talk) 03:41, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

That's definitely not appropriate here. Please read Project:About. Tropicalkitty (talk) 03:43, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

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external link

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I have a domain which i want to link to this page, but its not allowing to add external links BrightAutomotives (talk) 12:33, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

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why do you have at the bottom of the notes information about updates which are wrong?

How can you publish a page was updated in the future??????? 190.16.231.99 (talk) 16:20, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Without any context, I don't know what are you talking about. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 19:45, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Add external link to "Sites using InstantCommons"

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Hello, I am trying to add a link to the mediawiki site www(dot)bright-child-school-dictionary(dot)com in the section "Sites using InstantCommons". The description is: "Online picture dictionary for school aged children". Pls let me know if this can be done? Thanks in advance! Olsido (talk) 02:13, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Be Bold and add it. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:21, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

@MarkAHershberger: He cannot add the link as he was hit by the abusefilter.

@Olsido: I've added the links for you. Leaderboard (talk) 13:41, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

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updating SPARQL endpoints to use https where possible

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Hi,

I have gone through all SPARQL endpoints listed at Wikidata_Query_Service/User_Manual/SPARQL_Federation_endpoints and tested those using http if they also offer their service on https protocol. Would such change please be permitted?

A few entries have moved to a different URL, which I would also like to change if permitted, thank you. Jonas.smedegaard (talk) 05:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Be Bold. Make the change. If it isn't wanted, it can be reverted. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:14, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Not an issue of being bold or not, but apparently I was blocked write access initially - no longer.

Too bad - I don't have my notes for those improvements any longer :-( Jonas.smedegaard (talk) 13:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

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