Talk:Phabricator/Help/2016

I too entered incorrect email during registeration

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I mistakenly entered mehtab.zafar1998@gmail.com as my email id, instead of mehtab.zafar98@gmail.com so I am unable to receive the confirmation email.

I guess the way to handle this is deleting the Phabricator user. So can someone please delete the user @Mehtab98 so I can re-register? Mehtab98 (talk) 13:52, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

No problem - user https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Mehtab98/ has been deleted. Please re-register. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 21:27, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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Tagging a task for Discovery

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Is it supposed to be possible to tag a Phab task for Discovery? Just plain "Discovery", not "Discovery-Search-Sprint" or something like that.

I can't do it (Safari 9/Mac OS 10.10.5). When I add a project tag, I'm given a non-scrollable list of five matches. If the one that I want isn't in those five, then I have to keep typing until the matches have narrowed down enough to be in the list of five (or fewer) matches. However, when the existing list of five matches all have names that are longer than the name that I want, then I will never see the desired result and therefore cannot add the project name. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:46, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99739 is the underlying issue and mentions some workarounds. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

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ContentTraslator fra<->cat

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Hello,

I search somebody to ask him if the improvements implemented in Apertium are active in the ContentTraslator for the fra-cat couple.

Besides, in the translations frs--> cat a series of codes that are not necessary are added to it. See the translation of Bob Rafelson

Thank you Pallares (talk) 16:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the help page for Wikimedia Phabricator. The post seems to not be about using Phabricator. To report an issue in Phabricator, please see https://mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug. To contact the Wikimedia Language Engineering team, please see Wikimedia Language engineering. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:42, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you @AKlapper (WMF) Mdia12 (talk) 08:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Link has changed

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the login screen on Phab links to Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account, so you probably want to update that. Also, FWIW, I was looking for the word "password" on the page to learn how to reset it/regain access to Phab. Current instructions may want to mention similar "keywords". Elitre (WMF) (talk) 14:47, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Uh. Thanks for catching that! I've changed the wikipage so the link works again.

I'm not sure I want to add information about password recovery as I have not seen any other support requests about it so far. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:19, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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Cannot login to Phabricator (LDAP error)

I have never been able to login to Phabricator at all (and thus cannot report this problem there). I always get the following LDAP error:

Unhandled Exception ("Exception")
LDAP record query returned more than one result. The query must uniquely identify a record.

at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/auth/login/ldap:self/ after trying the login form from any URL that generates one (e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/).

I get other auth-related problems on various WMF sites. E.g., here, right now, I see that I am logged in as SMcCandlish up top, but I also have a blue warning banner above this post reading "You are not logged in. To receive attribution with your name instead of your IP address, you can log in or create an account", and a green submit button reading "Add topic anonymously".

 — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:13, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
[But note that it did not save them anonymously.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:14, 15 March 2016 (UTC)]  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:13, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Same issue as T126890... The other auth problems sound unrelated.

@Andrew Bogott: I probably shouldn't mess around with LDAP accounts like this myself. Could you please figure out the correct way to resolve this? Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 02:18, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

@Krenair and Andrew Bogott: I'm still getting this problem. It's impeding things for me, since I have actual "business" on Phabricator, which has been held up ever since WMF moved everything from Toolserver and Bugzilla to Phabricator. I have no objection to my account being reset in a way that clobbers my passwords system-wide and makes me generate a new SUL password. I would not like to have my account clean-slated in a way that destroys any stats or history, though.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  23:00, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Anyone, anyone? Beuller, Beuller? I've asked in several more places for help with this, including the Steward username-related request page over at Meta, and everyone keeps sending me back here.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  12:46, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

PS: I have no trouble logging into Labs, Tools, etc., just phabricator.wikimedia.org.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  13:13, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

PPS: Since the Labs, Tools and Phabricator account is not connected to SUL, I actually don't care if my Labs/Tools/Phabricator account is totally nuked, as long as it won't perturb the SUL account I use for Wikipedia, etc. If it turns out that I somehow have two accounts in this system, the intent is for the account I use to be SMcCandlish in Mediawiki-space, and smccandlish at the shell level. If there's some bogus account like "Smccandlish" around, it can be destroyed.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  13:17, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

I created T138672 for you Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:28, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

No password retrieval from Phabricator login page

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Come on. Password retrieval is so basic. It is so exasperating to participate with anything to do with the Wikimedia hierarchy or structure anymore. Who decides priorities anymore?

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/auth/start/ Timeshifter (talk) 12:32, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

What do you mean by password retrieval? Browser-assisted autocompletion of fields? Password resets?

For Phabricator, the Phabricator developers decide priorities, not Wikimedia. Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:07, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Password resets, I guess. Though some places send you your existing password via the email connected to the login name. There is usually a link called "Forgot your password?" I have a record of my password. But the one I have is not working for my username on Phabricator. I have used it successfully in the past. Timeshifter (talk) 21:02, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Are you talking about OAuth or LDAP login? Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:50, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

At the page I linked to previously it says this:

Login or Register with LDAP

LDAP Username

LDAP Password Timeshifter (talk) 02:35, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Phabricator has two login methods:, oAuth via your MediaWiki wiki login (aka this wiki) or you can use LDAP login from Wikitech wiki, You need to use the password reset functionality on the platform/service that you used to login to Phabricator, Phabricator can not handle these resets directly. P858snake (talk) 03:48, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Is this going to be fixed? Many Wikimedia users coming from Wikipedia on an infrequent basis are going to have the same problem. Somehow they registered and logged into Phabricator in the past. But now they can't log in. Timeshifter (talk) 03:33, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Why can't they log in, given that they're already logged in to Wikipedia? Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:09, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

At other sites when I am unable to log in, I will sometimes be notified that there is no account with the username I used to try to login with. Or if the password is the problem I am offered a password retrieval or reset. Something is done to help out the user trying to log in.

Being logged into Wikipedia and Mediawiki.org does not help me to login here:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/auth/start/

Everything looks the same. I just tried. Both Wikipedia and Mediawiki.org were open in adjacent tabs before I went there. I am using the latest version of Firefox. I still get the same result from the form:

"Username or password are incorrect."

But no help. Timeshifter (talk) 18:26, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

The main LDAP login form refers to Wikitech login, If you are trying to login in with your MediaWiki account, Click the "Login with Mediawiki" button below the form to start the process. P858snake (talk) 21:31, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

OK. I suggest that someone at WMF take responsibility to fix this, or to get it fixed by whatever byzantine method is required to get the Phabricator developers to fix it. I suggest putting that sentence on that login page:

"If you are trying to login in with your MediaWiki account, Click the 'Login with Mediawiki' button below the form to start the process."

At least then people will have a clue as to why they couldn't log in via the huge login form. Many average outsiders, or average Wikipedia editors, have no idea that they shouldn't be logging in at the large login form where they are being pointed to for logging in.

And they are unlikely to know anything about LDAP or Oauth. Timeshifter (talk) 22:26, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

This broke, see phab:T116142. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 23:05, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for reopening phab:T116142: "Phabricator login page does not show Welcome text / 'Click button below' text anymore." Timeshifter (talk) 16:51, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

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Link to an existing project

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On the page Requests_for_comment/Redesign_user_preferences I want to replace the obsolete Agora Trello-Link by a link to Project:mediawiki/extensions/Agora on phab:. Please add the info how to do this in section Project management in Phabricator. –Be..anyone 💩 08:14, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Extension:Agora says it is discontinued. There is no Agora project on Phabricator. Could you clarify what exactly is your request? AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:10, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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Remove me please

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I'd like to be removed from phabricator. My user name seems to be "Dank". I've forgotten my password. If you can email me my password, that would work. ~ Dank (talk) 22:18, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

You should be able to login without a password, by telling it to look at your Wikipedia account.

Are you getting spam from it or having some other problem? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I'm ruthlessly killing off 20 different ways I can be pinged. Just a process of life simplification. Okay that worked, I've unsubscribed from everything, thanks much WAID.

Dan Dank (talk) 03:09, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

On a related note, don't forget to go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and turn on "Enhanced notifications" on all the wikis where you're active.  ;-) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:19, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

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How I can configure User Profile?

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Hi all,

I want to create differents users profiles , so Who knows how I can do it this configuration ? I need four types of users: consumer, editor, and colaborator and obviously adminitrator.

I am waiting for your replies. Felipe.vazquez.bio (talk) 21:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, iIs this about your Phabricator installation, or is this about Wikimedia Phabricator at phabricator.wikimedia.org? Could you explain what the use case is for having "types of users"? AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 14:27, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Tasks get closed automatically

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Over at the task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89514, Phabricator keeps closing the task on my behalf as resolved every time I load a patch set, even though the patch has yet to be accepted. What is making it do this? I would think the task is not resolved until the patch is accepted and merged. Jeff.janes (talk) 22:04, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Can you please file a bug report about that in Phabricator, against Phabricator and/or Differential? Thank you. I guess it's because of something in the commit message like "closes bug T89514" but in any case this should be documented on Phabricator/Differential or such. Thanks! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 22:19, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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Create a page in French

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Good morning, I would like to create the French release of w:en:Milène Guermont   There is a bugg. Could you help me please ? Thank you in advance.  Best Regards, Lise Polluxou (talk) 08:02, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Describe it. See How to report a bug. wargo (talk) 08:40, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello Wargo, I do not succeed in creating the page in French of the article in English about Milene Guermont. Could create the beginning and I will full it please ? Thank you. Polluxou (talk) 08:55, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

This page is about discussing Phabricator itself and not for issues with Wikipedia sites. Please consider https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Questions_techniques - it might be a better place to discuss this problem first and receive help. Thanks! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

What error message when creating? Do you create it at French Wikipedia

Fr:

? wargo (talk) 16:54, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

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Change

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What happened to the editing layout? Yesterday, it was the same as Wikipedia. Now, it's a totally different, broken mess. Anjuna (talk) 04:47, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

The last time the layout changed was in April 2016 and Phabricator never ever looked like Wikipedia. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 08:15, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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creating a Macro to transform wikisource code to Writer document

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Hello! I suppose that this is the right page for technical issues so here is my question. I'm trying to create a openoffice macro program that transforms the wiki source code (in German wiki) to wiki writer document. You can find what I made up to now in [1]. I m trying to find a way to reach with the macro the source code or any wikiURL and also to find a way to reach the right address of media (for example https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain.jpg instead of https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain.jpg -the same without the numbers in the middle, which doesn't bring anything....-). Thanks in advance! (yomomo, see german wikibooks) Yomomo (talk) 22:16, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

md5(Douglas_C-47_Skytrain.jpg) = 40decfb5f1be8bca1e56c8a853027941

So it's <first char>/<first two chars> of md5() of the file name (spaces, no underscores). — Danny B. 22:51, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! So now I know what md5 is (I didn't know about it) and I also found an internet page with an md5 hash generator. I have the impression, that there is no StarBasic-Macro for it (I didn't find one up to now), so I still have to find out, how to have access to the code of an URL. Thank you once more! Yomomo (talk) 20:03, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Might come handy:

• http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/cryptographic-hash-functions-uno-component-openofficeorg
• http://hanixdiy.blogspot.cz/2015/02/hashing-with-libreoffice.html

If you know other programming languages, there are routines written in them (ie. JavaScript one), which you may convert to language you use. — Danny B. 21:52, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

thanks. I write here what I did, in case somebody else needs it (answer given to me in another forum, but still thanks).

I just visited http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/cryptographic-hash-functions-uno-component-openofficeorg. The site speaks for itsself... Yomomo (talk) 13:32, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

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how to sign phabrictor

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I cannot sign on phabrictor how do u sign up Joseph joubert (talk) 23:08, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

See Phabricator/Help#Creating your account . If something is unclear, please be more specific about your steps (click by click, actual outcome, expected outcome.) Thanks! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 08:14, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Don't bother with LDAP.

Click the Wikimedia button instead; The system understands your single sign-on to Wikimedia. But you have to allow Phab to be 'you'. So allow Phab to have your privileges by click the OK button. Then you will see all the Phab menu items and detail.

The Wikimedia logo will show up in black & white in the upper left of the top bar of Phab. Ancheta Wis (talk) 00:58, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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code bounties for MediaWiki

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Looking for a way to fund code bounties to get specific mediawiki bugs fixed. Please advise. DennisDaniels (talk) 08:30, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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editing on phabricator

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how to categorize things on phabricator by sorting out the list 61.12.41.2 (talk) 06:05, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Please provide clear steps and links, click by click, which "list" you refer to and what exactly "things" are. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 08:12, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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Wiki page accesss error using API.

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Hi,

We are trying to access the wiki page through the wiki API to update the information in Java.

But while accessing the wiki page with valid user , we are getting the error. Please find the attached image of the java code.

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import com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.Mediawiki;

public class MediaWikiTest {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

Mediawiki wiki = new Mediawiki();

wiki.setScriptPath("https://wiki.***********.net");

wiki.init("https://wiki.***********.net", "/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page");

wiki.login("*****", "*****");

wiki.logout();

}

}

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SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.

SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/C:/Users/dsant/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-simple/1.7.5/slf4j-simple-1.7.5.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]

SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/C:/Users/dsant/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-nop/1.5.3/slf4j-nop-1.5.3.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]

SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/C:/Users/dsant/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-jdk14/1.5.6/slf4j-jdk14-1.5.6.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]

SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.

SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.SimpleLoggerFactory]

https://wiki.********.net

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: unmarshalling returned null but com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.api.Api was expected

at com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.jaxb.JaxbFactory.fromString(JaxbFactory.java:98)

at com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.jaxb.JaxbFactory.fromXML(JaxbFactory.java:121)

at com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.api.Api.fromXML(Api.java:300)

at com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.MediaWikiApiImpl.fromXML(MediaWikiApiImpl.java:134)

at com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.Mediawiki.getActionResult(Mediawiki.java:408)

at com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.Mediawiki.login(Mediawiki.java:484)

at utilities.MediaWikiTest.main(MediaWikiTest.java:19)

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Error Description>: java.land.Exception : Unmarshalling returned null but com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.api.Api was expected.

Please help.

Regards, 

Pankaj Chaudhari

SQA Engg II, Delivery

SILICUS

Enabling Enterprises in the Cloud

Pune IT Park, C Wing, 3^rd Floor,

Tel: +91.20.3020 4000  PankajChaudhari (talk) 09:47, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Please ask on the MediaWiki Support Desk as this question is unrelated to Phabricator itself. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 08:11, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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Text "Send public thanks for this edit?"

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The Danish Wikipedia contains this question "Send public thanks for this edit?" (in English, thus untranslated), which I guess is common to all MediaWikis. The question contains the word "public", but the thank is not very public. The thank can be seen in the log, but the visible information is only the thanker and the thanked. The log is BTW not easily accessible. The edit thanked for is not visible. Thus I this the word "public" should be omitted. Am I wrong? Madglad (talk) 07:18, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Proposals for a better phrasing:

Send thanks to the editor for this edit?

Send thanks to the editor?

Send thanks for this edit? Madglad (talk) 07:24, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

More proposals:

Thank this editor for the edit?

Thank the editor for the edit? Ancheta Wis (talk) 12:04, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

See phab:T90486 where this was discussed. FriedhelmW (talk) 14:28, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks @FriedhelmW. So the best phrasing will be (omitting "this edit"):

Send public thanks the editor.

As the thank is public, containing thanker and the editor in the log, but the edit is not, and this is also how it is designed to be. Or have I misunderstood?

I ask this question because the phrase must be translated into Danish, but I would prefer it to be correct before I translate. Madglad (talk) 16:51, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

"Send public thanks to the editor" sounds good to me. FriedhelmW (talk) 17:00, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes of course. Thanks @FriedhelmW.

So is there a consensus about this? Madglad (talk) 17:08, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

No, please move this conversation to an appropriate venue, like a new Phabricator ticket. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 17:29, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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I am registered on Phabricator but unable to log in

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I am registered on Phabricator with the same account and password as Mediawiki, but unable to log in. Tried to re-register, but both my login name and password are used already, meaning that I am registered — Ineuw talk 17:53, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Did you type your username in the big "LDAP Username" fields? (Don't do that. Instead, click the button underneath them, which has the MediaWiki sunflower on it.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 14:01, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/ineuw/ shows that Ineuw registered via their Gerrit/wikitech/LDAP account and not via their mediawiki.org/SUL/OAuth account. Hence they must use the big "LDAP Username" field and enter the username and password also used for Gerrit and wikitech.wikimedia.org. As the "MediaWiki sunflower" won't work here (no SUL account attached to the Phabricator account). AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 08:09, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Please look at my uploaded screenshots. File:Sequence of login attempts.jpg .

My apologies to User:Whatamidoing (WMF) but as I attempted every variation of logins, I forgot to reply. The first instructions through Mediawiki did not work, so I posted on your talk page. Since seeing is believing, I assembled a series of screen shots to demonstrate what happens. These images were made before I saw your reply here.

I deleted all the cookies and saved logins to Mediawiki and Phabricator.

Frame 1. (very narrow strip on top) shows that I am logged in to Mediawiki

Frame 2. I clicked on the Phabricator login from the Phabricator/Help#Creating your account which got me to the OAuth screen. When I clicked on Allow . . .

Frame 3. Login or Register to Wikimedia Phabricator and I clicked on the Mediawiki link at the bottom which led to

Frame 4. The login screen of Phabricator, which recognized my existence, but displayed the message that something is wrong. I used my email address to get confirmation from one of the screens but Phabricator did not recognize it as a registered email.

At this point I logged it to Github (I have an account) and made it to Phabricator, checked my email address if it's correct, proceeded, but then I was blocked again when tried to login to Mediawiki. So I searched for Phabricator/Mediawiki login on the web and . . . .

Frame 5. This is what I got. A registration screen but, no login option no contact option, no email option.

I think I also bookmarked all pages.

P.S: It's the same problem when attempting to login to Wikitech. — Ineuw talk 00:15, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

There are two authentication methods available. When you registered your Phabricator account Ineuw, it was registered by linking it to your Gerrit/wikitech.wikimedia.org/LDAP account (which is the non-default way). Hence it's irrelevant whether you are logged in on mediawiki.org or not - Your screenshots (thanks!) show that you tried to register a new account Ineuw in Phabricator via the (default) SUL/mw.org method so you get an error as that account already exists in Phabricator.

Please log in on either gerrit.wikimedia.org or wikitech.wikimedia.org. Then enter the same username and password into the corresponding LDAP fields in Phabricator. Ignore the button with the sunflower. :) AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 03:00, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikimedia Phabricator does not offer login via Github. You probably went to some other Phabricator instance on the internet. The 4th screenshot is definitely not Wikimedia Phabricator as the logo is different. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 03:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Mystery solved. I found the problem by requesting a password renewal. The password rule at both sites changed to minimum 10 characters. I logged in at the end of August (21st is my last backup) and perhaps even early September with an 8 character password. This solved the issue at both Wikitech and at Phabricator.

Thanks for your kind attention and patience. — Ineuw talk 09:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Great to hear it works for you now! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 09:40, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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Request to unblock my account on Phabricator

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Greetings, I am requesting to have my account unblocked on Phabricator. I very short summary of why it was blocked. Someone globally locked me and I was very pissed about it. I have since gotten that mostly fixed. But, while I was globally blocked I kept getting spammed with stuff from Phabricator I couldn't login to do anything about and it wouldn't let me login to disconnect my email from it or do anything about the email traffic I was receiving. Every time I got an email it was like having the global lock rubbed in my face so I asked for my access to be removed. Reguyla (talk) 16:32, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Reguyla explicitly asked for disabling the user account a while ago, and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/reguyla/ stated "Roles: Disabled" so this is unrelated to any passwords. I have enabled the Phabricator account again now so you can use your login on mediawiki.org to access Phabricator. :) AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:55, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

I also had a problem logging in, and found that there is a new rule about passwords. It mast be minimum (10) ten characters and may require a mix of Upper, lower and numbers. Request a new password to replace a forgotten password and then log in and change it. — Ineuw talk 19:32, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks I'll try that tomorrow but I suspect that won't fix my problem. Reguyla (talk) 02:40, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

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Search on Phab is nearly useless, part 2

There is an open task, phab:T95739, written by me. The title is "support dynamic columns directly in wikitext". There is nothing secret or security related to this bug. Anybody can click that link and see the task.

This task cannot be found by Phab's search system.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Phab. Type "dynamic columns" in the search box at the top of the page. Check both pages of results (all open tasks). It's not there.
2. Well, you're on the basic search page now, and you know that I wrote it. Add "Whatamidoing-WMF" to the author field. Nope, that produces zero results.
3. Okay, let's go to "Advanced search". So first go to the main page, then click Maniphest, and now find Advanced search in the sidebar. Now, let's see: That discussion was probably last year, so let's do all tasks written by me last year that contain the word "dynamic". Nope, zero results again.
4. Same search, but with the word "columns", just in case I've mis-remembered the keyword? Two irrelevant results.
5. Go to the English Wikipedia. Do one quick search to find the discussion that prompted the task. The first hit has a link to the Phab task.
6. Go back to Phab. Copy and paste the exact title(!) into the search bar. Phab can't find it. Phab can't find anything at all when the title's in quotes.

I'm not the only person who was searching for this task, so it's not just me. Do we have a specially broken copy of search on Phab, or is it generally useless for all Phab users everywhere? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:50, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Rather "generally useless" for the Wikimedia instance. Sounds like good testcases to add to Phab:T146843 for evaluation. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 20:24, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Search should be a tad better as @20after4 did a change today that should make searching better. 86.183.242.164 (talk) 22:58, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

@86.183.242.164: Links to "a change" please? AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Phabricator is now using elasticsearch for the full-text search engine. This is (in my opinion) a massive improvement in search quality, however, it almost certainly isn't perfect so I welcome your feedback after trying with the new search engine. 20after4 (talk) 22:45, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

I switched to it a few weeks ago, and I've been really happy with the result. Since then, I've quit needing to use foo site:phabricator.wikimedia.org at my favorite web search engine to find anything. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:24, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

How to test MediaWiki api with action="edit"?

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I want to add some links into "External links" section of some wikipedia pages, so I write an application using mediawiki api with "action=edit" to do this.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php)

Do I have permission to do this? If yes, could you please tell me how to update this section using wiki api and how to test this api?

Because when I try to test some APIs with "action=edit", my account is blocked.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Kevin Nghiem419ddt (talk) 11:40, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Kevin, this page is about Phabricator itself. If you'd like to ask question about the MediaWiki software in general, please refer to Project:Support desk (and elaborate why you think your "account is blocked"). For API usage limits, see API:Etiquette - thanks! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 11:48, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

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Change how error messages are displayed in Phabricator

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I was uploading an image for a task using my mobile browser. The upload failed as the connection was unstable and hence I got an error message. The error message took up the whole screen as it was showing a lot of content that doesn't make up much meaning for the user. Moreover it didn't go off even after a few minutes. Please change the way how error messages are displayed in Phabricator to something that's more meaningful and that doesn't annoy the user.

Screen shot of Phabricator showing error message

Kaartic ^[talk] 00:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Which mobile browser and which operating system is this problem about? AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 11:02, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

I guess this is not specific to any browser or operating system. It's a problem with the mobile web client of Phabricator. Anyways I got the error when I was uploading a file using Firefox on Android 4.2.2 Kaartic ^[talk] 13:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

What is the "mobile web client of Phabricator"? Do you just mean "on the website phabricator.wikimedia.org in my browser" or is something else involved? If this is reproducible it's probably worth a bug report in Phabricator against the "Phabricator" project. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 18:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I do mean "on the website phabricator.wikimedia.org in my browser". It's easily reproducible, if you can make the upload fail, by disconnecting from the network in the middle of the upload for example. I got the error as my connection was unstable (as our area's network coverage is not so good) , and hence meet with the situation often. Kaartic ^[talk] 10:37, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

In that case, a bug report is very welcome: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Phabricator AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Have they fixed this already? I seem to be getting a better error message when I tried to reproduce this now. See the screen shot in the link below.

File:Screen shot of Phabricator showing error mesaage.png Kaartic ^[talk] 14:17, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

No software changes in Wikimedia's installation of Phabricator in the last hours. :) AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:39, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

That's interesting. Anyways as I am unable to reproduce it now, I would file a bug report when I am able to see it again. (I guess that's not going to happen :) ) Kaartic ^[talk] 02:23, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

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Looking to get re-enabled on Phabricator...

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I wrote a short extension to use the OpenSeadragon viewer. It is here.

I have some working code that I have to figure-out how to upload it. Otherwise looking for some help... I did escape the input... but no idea how secure it really is. Also, as the extension uses DZIs ... where to put them is a question. I decided ''$IP/images/zimages/''. Nephron (talk) 01:51, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Nephron. How can we help and with what? What exactly was disabled on Phabricator? If you are after code hosting in Wikimedia Git, please see Gerrit/New repositories. For secure coding, see Security for developers. No idea what "DZIs" stands for (and this discussion page is about the Phabricator software itself) - see Communication where to potentially receive feedback. Thanks! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 07:45, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

I had a Phabricator account... don't remember the login. Still navigating the logins. Signed-up at wikitech... looking to upload the code for ZoomableImages. Vaguely familiar with git -- need to figure things. DZI = deep zoom image. I added an image to the extension page that I think explains it. Nephron (talk) 03:56, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

There is no user named Nephron in Phabricator (and I have no good idea how to find out which Phabricator user "is you", and only you can reset your password as your Phabricator password is either your mediawiki.org password, or your wikitech.wikimedia.org password). Maybe just create a new account? For code upload, see Gerrit/New repositories. Thanks for the edit to the extension page! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 07:25, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Username... I was thinking Steinlaus or Nierensteinlaus. I was thinking Lookup User would work-- that you might lookup my email address for this account and search Phabricator with it... but I suppose it doesn't link to the various databases or you don't have access.

When I tried to create another account it said the email was used. The Phabricator login page doesn't link to the password recovery page. I was on the recovery page before... but cannot immediately find it at the moment. Currently, I am waiting for a Gerrit access-- which is taking longer than I had hoped. I am bit underwhelmed by the responsiveness. I tinkered on gnu.org and I don't remember it taking so long to get set-up. Nephron (talk) 14:18, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

There is a user named Steinlaus in Phabricator who registered 19 months ago, and it is linked against the "Steinlaus" account on mediawiki.org. I'm afraid that the Phabricator login cannot link to a single password recovery page as different options how to create a login are available. So it is either Special:PasswordReset on mediawiki.org (more common) or https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset on wikitech (if you registered via LDAP).

Phabricator administrators cannot look up email addresses associated to user accounts in Phabricator. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 14:59, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

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Completely does not work

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Impossible to create an account on Phabricator directly. "Log in as mediawiki" gets "Application Connection Error There was a problem with logging you in globally. If you just created your account, please log out and log back in, then try again to authorize the app. If you did not just create your account, please visit meta.wikimedia.org and then try again to authorize the app. (Error code: E008) Return to MediaWiki." every single time! I make an account on wikitech.wikimedia.org after a whole lot of trouble where it demands I already have a shell account and it doesn't like anything I put until I finally put "yourshellaccountnameisinvalid" it takes it. Then it claims those logins work on Phabricator and I tried both the username and shell account name with the password and neither work, it just says "Username or password are incorrect." because it's too dishonest to say what the hell is wrong. Stoodpointt (talk) 10:00, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that it does not work smoothly for you. Phabricator/Help#Creating your account explains the two options how you can log in: Either via SUL on mediawiki.org; or via an LDAP/wikitech/Gerrit account.

"There was a problem with logging you in globally" implies an issue with OAuth / SUL (Single User Login) on Wikimedia sites in general. The problem happens sometimes with newly-created accounts (your account was recently created on mediawiki.org) due to database replication lag. Have you tried visiting https://meta.wikimedia.org and logging in there, and then checking again if you are logged in on www.mediawiki.org, before you try to log in on phabricator.wikimedia.org? This type of login requires using the "Login or Register" sunflower button at the bottom of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/auth/start/.

Regarding LDAP/wikitech, see Developer access. If "it doesn't like anything", please elaborate what exactly is the message you receive, and in which exact fields on which URL address you try to enter them on Phabricator. This type of login requires using the "Login or Register via LDAP" fields on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/auth/start/.

Does that help? AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 10:32, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

I think the whole article should have a great big {{hoax}} tag on it because it's impossible to log in to file a bug report. Stoodpointt (talk) 10:01, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Why did you mark this as resolved? If you somehow managed, please explain in a summary when closing this thread. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 10:32, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

The post says it didn't work until he tried a bogus response. i.e., ' it doesn't like anything I put until I finally put "yourshellaccountnameisinvalid" '

Then it sounds like he has given up. Ancheta Wis (talk) 10:52, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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Email commands stopped working?

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Hello. Yesteday I've tried to close via email command a task assigned to me as resolved (phab:T150586). I've tried !close two times and !status resolved one time but the task didn't update. A couple of days ago I've also tried to raise the task priority via email command to phab:T150925 whithout success either. I'm not sure if this is happening just to me or you've just disabled this kind of operations. Thanks in advance for your help. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:11, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

The problem seems to be with email in general. I cannot issue email commands nor even reply to Tasks via email when it was possible before. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:26, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting this in phab:T151229. The problem (and its resolution) was also announced here, to help other people discover the issue. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:15, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

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Problem with categories

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I have a problem with categories. If i try to use categories, at the bottom of the site appears the box "Category:Test". If i click on "Test" the Category-Page of "Test" opens. But there are no sites linked.

Why? 77.189.120.112 (talk) 22:04, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Help page for the Phabricator issue tracking system. Your question seems to be about the MediaWiki software instead - MediaWiki questions could be asked at Project:Support desk. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 22:09, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I will post it there. 77.189.120.112 (talk) 22:22, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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Cannot create an account

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I want to create an account, but the e-mail was incorrect and now it seems impossible to correct the e-mail and create an account. Svensson1 (talk) 07:30, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I have deleted the Phabricator user account "@Svensson1" so you should be able to re-register with a different email address. Please let us know if it does not work! AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 10:23, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

It works. Svensson1 (talk) 10:42, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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create (new tag) in phabricator

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Hi all, I want to ask: Can anyone create tag (ArWiki) or (Arabic Wiki projects) or any name in phabricator, to reach all tickets about this porjects easily, thanks. Ibrahim.ID (talk) 18:16, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi, see Phabricator/Creating and renaming projects (and just to be explicit: This will still require someone like you to manually add that tag to tasks.) AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Of course, I will add it manually, I will ask my colleagues do that also

thank you AKlapper :) Ibrahim.ID (talk) 19:50, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

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