Talk:VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode/Feedback

addReference on Archdiocese_of_Anchorage–Juneau at enwiki

How do I turn off this feature? It is very distracting while editing. I would suggest that the software activate this feature only when the article is being saved. Rogermx (talk) 17:31, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

The feature should only show for users who have enabled the beta feature in their preferences. It's possible you have auto-enrolled to all new beta features? ESanders (WMF) (talk) 16:04, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

@Rogermx: Go to w:en:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. Turn off either "Automatically enable most beta features" at the top or "Suggestions mode" in the middle of the page. Be sure to click the big blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page. (And hopefully they've fixed the bug from a few years back that kept the automatically enabled things still enrolled.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:25, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the tip. You've made my day! Rogermx (talk) 22:36, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

You're welcome. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:37, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Mnesarchus_of_Athens at enwiki

Interesting feature. That's a good use of AI, to suggest where a citation should be. I'm not a huge fan of it shoving the text to the left, perhaps it could be more of an "inline" tool (like an lightbulb next to the text or something).

In this specific case, the tool prompted for me to insert a citation at the start of the quote, where one already existed at the end. Given below is a screenshot.

https://i.imgur.com/yOLzMx8.png EatingCarBatteries (talk) 08:16, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

I do think this is a step in the right direction. It does need to be worked out more - we don't want inaccurate suggestions that mislead new users. Maybe there could be a box informing users of the feature and offering a toggle, located next to the visual/source edit toggle. Something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/4nFqM1W.png EatingCarBatteries (talk) 08:29, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

I also notice that if you dismiss the suggestion, switching to source editing and back to visual editing brings it back. EatingCarBatteries (talk) 08:31, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback!

The case of a citation at the end of a quote not being detected is one we should look into. Filed as phab:T417490.

A toolbar button to toggle the mode on/off is definitely something we are planning, so good to hear you suggest the same.

We have also discussed how suggestions might stay dismissed, although tracking that across edit sessions is not trivial. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 16:11, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Billardiera_scandens at enwiki

I pressed Return in the middle of a long paragraph w:en:Billardiera scandens#Uses, and Clippy immediately popped up to say that the "new" paragraph now needed a citation. I can see from the page history that most of this content was added at the same time and therefore is going to be the first source in the "second" paragraph, but newcomers will probably be discouraged from making simple copyedits by this kind of demand. Some experienced editors will be irritated that Clippy started nagging before they had time to fix the problem themselves.

Also, upon re-using the citation, Clippy goes away and gives me most of my screen real estate back (hooray), but the toolbar is still scrunched while scrolling. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:22, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

In regular edit check mode, this would not have suggested you add a citation, as it would correctly identify the split paragraph as not being newly-added. This only appears in "suggestion mode" which is for users looking for suggestions to improve the article (although currently the beta feature does not make that particularly clear, see discussion about a toolbar button above).

> the toolbar is still scrunched while scrolling.

I think this is T412223 and will be fixed next week (the patch only took 9 years to merge!) ESanders (WMF) (talk) 18:03, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Yesterday, it correctly identified a duplicate link (same link in the same paragraph). This is the only suggestion it has made that I wouldn't have noticed on my own. I find that I mostly ignore the presence of the suggestions, which means that I can't really comment on whether the quality is generally good. I suspect that this needs to be tested with newer editors (even editors with ~1,000 edits may find it more helpful). WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:09, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

... it correctly identified a duplicate link (same link in the same paragraph). This is the only suggestion it has made that I wouldn't have noticed on my own.

@WhatamIdoing, building on the duplicate link suggestion, I wonder: what (if any) other suggestion ideas come to mind that you can imagine being similarly useful? PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 22:37, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Sky's the limit?

Something that checks for signs of AI misuse, such as fake URLs or lousy prose.

Something that flags low-quality or usually unwanted URLs in refs (locally configurable; might help with w:en:WP:ATODAY). Also, there's a tool at enwiki that compares usernames against article titles to see whether "Bob Business" is trying to write an article about himself. Being able to do something like that to identify exclusive use of non-independent sources (e.g., if w:Coca-Cola is only citing coca-cola.com) might be a good way to introduce newcomers to the desirability of an independent source.

Something that suggests adding an image, if there are are <2 on the page and a decent chance that Commons has something useful.

A size check to encourage addition of a few more sentences in smaller articles (<200 words?) or very short introductions (<50 words?).

Something that suggests the appropriate type of infobox (enwiki has so many that finding the correct one can be daunting for newcomers, but they're happy when they can put one in an article; should be limited to w:en:Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request to reduce the risk of drama).

For medical content specifically, something that flags any source that's more than about 10 years old ("This source is n years old. Is this information outdated?") or whose PubMed "Publication types" lists various categories (e.g., 'clinical trial' is iffy; 'review article' is good). WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:16, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

tone on Pam_Hallandal at enwiki

Good idea perhaps for novices, but for any experience editor, so disruptive...for just any verbatim quotation I insert, this 'feature' suggests I might want to change the 'tone'. Takes me back to the 1997 and Microsoft's impertinent and unhelpful 'Clippy'! The way it shoves the formatting about every time you finish a new para disrupts editing and you lose your place. I can put in a citation without being told to. And yes, the case of a citation at the end of a quote not being detected is one you should look into. I see now the information above on turning this off and will, thank you. Jamesmcardle (talk) 04:15, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, you are correct that we should not be checking for tone in quoted text. This was fixed in T417801 and deployed last week. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 13:01, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Floyd_v._City_of_New_York at enwiki

screenshot

Just now, while making this edit on English Wikipedia, I saw the "Add a citation" edit suggestion feature glitch slightly. The highlight (the part of the prose that, it's suggesting, needs a citation) starts and ends at words in the middle of a sentence, instead of at the end of a sentence, or even at the start and end of a meaningful clause or a reasonable subsection of the sentence. And the suggestion was visible while I was editing a two-line passage that had a citation at the end of each sentence. See screenshot. Sumana Harihareswara (talk) 16:24, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

That is indeed incorrect. "Add a citation" should only every highlight an entire paragraph, and only when it contains no references. Do you remember how you got it to happen? Were you splitting paragraphs / moving text around? ESanders (WMF) (talk) 12:57, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Apologies that I don't precisely remember how it happened. I'm pretty sure I was not splitting paragraphs at the time. However, sometime during this edit, I see I consolidated two references into one (the ref named nyclu1) because I had realized that previous editors had accidentally made two separate references to essentially the same cite. So maybe that influenced the sequence of events. Sumana Harihareswara (talk) 14:58, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

duplicateLink on Mylan_Denerstein at enwiki

I received a duplicate link warning while making this edit; the paragraph does not include any duplicate links. Sumana Harihareswara (talk) 16:00, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Sumana! That does look strange - the only thing I can see in that edit is that the full stop at the end of the sentence is part of the link. I'm wondering if maybe you inserted a reference before the full stop, thus splitting the link into two links: "the New York City Fire Department^[9].". Do you remember anything like that happening, or can you reproduce with another edit? ESanders (WMF) (talk) 12:54, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks - ah yeah, whoops I see I included the fullstop in the link. Yeah your speculation sounds very plausible, though I don't specifically remember it happening! Sumana Harihareswara (talk) 15:00, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

externalLink on Medicare_for_All_Act at enwiki

these are acceptable uses for external links. in this case, we're linking to congress.gov for the status of bills. this feature shouldn't tag all external links within the article, as per en:WP:ELYES. We don't want new people removing links that are acceptable.

EatingCarBatteries (talk) 00:32, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Context: on this page the external links are within a table cell, where the bill number is being linked directly to congress.gov. It's possible that we could add "legislative history" to the ignored sections for this check on enwiki if this is a common pattern. DLynch (WMF) (talk) 16:15, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Riley_O'Brien at enwiki

Waste of my time messages won't buzz off when I'm trying to edit. I know what a reference is. This is like Clippy again.

Harizotoh9 (talk) 16:26, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for providing feedback. Many of the individual suggestions from this feature are eventually intended to help newcomers (people with fewer than 100 edits) to slowly become successful and thoughtful editors. (See more details about the project at VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode).

It is currently available as a Beta Feature, partially so that experienced editors can help to refine/improve any aspects of the feature before it is shown to those newcomers. It is also possible for each community to create local types of suggestions, some of which may be more (or only) suitable for experienced editors.

In the near future there will also be a toolbar toggle to either collapse or hide the Suggestions entirely.

I hope that information helps to contextualize why you are seeing it, and how you can help now, or just to more happily utilize the tool in the future (once your home wiki(s) have created custom suggestions for experienced editors). Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:44, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Pasted content warning for a long proper noun

The edit suggestion/warning regarding copy-and-pasted content glitches slightly; the phrase "New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS)" is highlighted

While editing, I pasted the phrase "New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS)" into an article. I suppose it was long enough, character-wise, to trip an alert threshhold. Maybe phrases that entirely contain proper nouns (as indicated by initialisms or a preponderance of words that start with capitalized letters) ought to be exempt? Sumana Harihareswara (talk) 15:37, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, the threshold is 50 characters (chosen somewhat arbitrarily to be the same threshold as the add-a-reference check), and your text is 52 characters. The idea is that communities will configure this as it will also vary per language (e.g. you get many more words-per-character in Chinese), but we may also want to increase the default. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 17:40, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

textMatch-LLM-multiple-indicators on Downtown_Line at enwiki

I have been told by the suggestor multiple times during a good article assessment (w:Talk:Downtown Line/GA1 specifically) that the third paragraph of w:Downtown Line § Architecture is AI-generated, despite the nominator's assurances that it is not (I am the reviewer). Could you take a look into the software?

Whyiseverythingalreadyused (talk) 01:57, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Whyiseverythingalreadyused. Thanks for asking.

• Broadly: The LLM textmatch suggestions are purely/simply using the 3 lists defined within Enwiki's w:MediaWiki:Editcheck-config.json. If you search for "LLM" in that page, you'll see the 3 listings of words/word-strings it is detecting (taken from w:WP:AISIGNS). Note: The 3rd type [which your question here is about] is also further limited by the configuration-parameter below the listing, which currently says "minOccurrences [=] 3" (i.e. it only shows the Suggestion, if it detects 3 or more instances of those strings within a single paragraph).
  • The community can & should adjust those suggestion types (and all types!) in whatever way is desired.
• Specifically in this instance: I can deduce from that listing and that paragraph, that it is detecting the keyword "reflect" which appears 4 times. If I delete 2 of them, the Suggestion goes away. I.e. There is probably no problem with AI being used.

If you have ideas on how to improve the Suggestion via changes to the configuration, or changes to the wording shown to editors, the best place to discuss/request those is on the local configuration's talkpage. The one major complexity, which I see is already highlighted in the latest comment there (w:MediaWiki_talk:Editcheck-config.json#Message) is the perspective that [as Kowal2701 writes] "we probably don't want to link to WP:AISIGNS or let the editor know how we know, lest they superficially address the issues or game it."

Let me know if that info helps or if I can help in any other way. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:05, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Emmanuelle_Chapron at frwiki

French Wikipedia does not require references in the abstract.

Exilexi (talk) 08:29, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Bonjour. The community (admins) can change these settings. Please edit w:fr:MediaWiki:Editcheck-config.json and add this line above the current line#3:

"ignoreLeadSection": true,

For comparison/example, see line#3 at Enwiki's w:en:MediaWiki:Editcheck-config.json, and more example-options in either Beta Cluster's version, or in the documentation at Edit check/Configuration.

I hope that helps, and please let us know if you have any other questions. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:25, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Exilexi Oh, I'll add a ping here, too, in case that is needed/helpful. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:55, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Exilexi (talk) 19:30, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Véra_Eisenmann at frwiki

Pas de source dans le résumé introductif !

Gustave en résidence (talk) 10:04, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Bonjour. My apologies for not replying in French. Please see my reply to Exilexi above for the answer to your question. I hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:27, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Bonjour Gustave, j'ai fait la modification suggérée par @Quiddity (WMF) et ça devrait être réglé pour tout le monde Template:Sourire Exilexi (talk) 19:32, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Merci ! Gustave en résidence (talk) 08:59, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

addReference on European_Long-Range_Strike_Approach at enwiki

Even though this is not the exact line of the article that causes this issue, I could not submit the issue while it was occurring. The issue is that if an editor manually adds a citation to a piece of text that the suggestion mode suggests that it should be cited, the suggestion textbox does not disappear, and causes the editor to be unable to publish changes. I wish the person who is attempting to fix this bug a nice day.

ItIsWindyToday (talk) 06:31, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

@ItIsWindyToday Hi, thank you for this bug-report.

Please could you add a few more details on which step of the process you were blocked on? I tried to reproduce this bug, but it all seemed to work as I'd expect. My steps were:

1. At testwiki:, change my preferences to enable the Suggestions Mode beta feature
2. Open testwiki:Zevia in visual editor
3. Click one of the 2 "Add a citation" suggestions that are shown on that page, and click the "Add citation" button within
4. Add an example citation to the Automatic citation-generator - e.g. just https://example.org/ - and then click "Create"
5. Click "Insert" to confirm the addition of that citation, after which the "Publish" button becomes blue.
6. Publish the edit. (example)

I also tried it with a default settings account but skipping #3 and just inserting the citation manually via the Toolbar. I also tried to write some prose in the article first, in order to trigger the Reference Check reminder feature for newcomers. Both of those tests worked as I expected.

Much thanks for any clarifications you can provide. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:36, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Visualeditor-suggestionfeedback-link broken on dewiki?

When opening the feedback flow implemented in phab:T415936 on German Wikipedia and selecting "report a problem", the link "VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode/Feedback" leads to de:Diskussion:VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode/Feedback. There's no issue with the link on other projects (I checked enwiki and eswiki) and there doesn't seem to be a local override causing the issue, de:MediaWiki:Visualeditor-suggestionfeedback-link is identical to other projects. Should I file a Phabricator ticket? Johannnes89 (talk) 09:46, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for this bug-report. I found another related issue, and I've filed phab:T420123, but please do edit-boldly if you can improve that. Cheers, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

externalLink on Tribunal_Superior_de_Justicia_de_Canarias at eswiki

Indica que se elimine un enlace y se mueva a la zona de enlaces externos, pero ya está en esa sección

HernC2 (talk) 17:58, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Gracias. My apologies for not replying in Spanish. Thank you for this bug-report. I will ask a local administrator to fix the local settings. This is one of the settings that needs to be configured for (and by) each wiki Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:47, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you!! HernC2 (talk) 21:53, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

duplicateLink on Egypt at enwiki

Sometimes says a part of a sentence needs a citation when it doesn't.

Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 17:59, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for writing here. Please could you share an example sentence that you saw, which led to this comment?

For context: I'm slightly confused because you write "part of a sentence needs a citation", but (1) you have arrived here via the feedback-link on one of the "duplicateLink" suggestions, and (2) the "Add a citation" suggestion type only highlights entire paragraphs; therefor I wonder/guess if perhaps you saw many "Add a citation" suggestions in a row, and then perhaps saw a "Duplicate link" suggestion and thought it was just another "Add a citation" suggestion? See this screenshot for example: phab:F73158169.

Much thanks for any additional details you can share. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:14, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

The more that I think about it, the more convinced I am that I accidentally saw "Add a citation" instead of a duplicate link suggestion. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Also, I didn't expect whatever I wrote on the feedback comes here. Thank you for trying to help, I appreciate it. Goodbye for now. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 22:38, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

disambiguation at enwiki

Broken link. Link is, exactly, "[ //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation disambiguation page]" instead of what it should be.

Organhaver (talk) 02:29, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I've requested the fix. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:01, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Performance issues for large articles

I like this feature a lot but noticed that it does not work well on larger articles. Specifically, I was working on de:Aldehyde where the suggestion mode caused a delay of multiple seconds while typing characters. Likely, the feature should limit consideration to a smaller section of the article in such cases. Anagkai (talk) 12:10, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

We just this week noticed-and-fixed T421235 which is quite likely to have been what was going on here. DLynch (WMF) (talk) 17:06, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Freshta_Kohistani at eswiki

Once I clicked on "Añadir cita" the box frozed

Silva Selva (talk) 00:49, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Hola. Thank you for reporting this. Please could you describe a few more details about what you experienced? I tried to reproduce the problem, by editing an older revision of w:es:Freshta Kohistani that still contained the Suggestion and then clicking/trying various things, but I didn't experience any freezing. In order to fix a bug, we need to be able to reproduce it (or understand more of the context, to narrow the investigation). It would be helpful if you could tell us details such as:

• Which specific "box" you are referring to (I believe you mean the whole "Añade una cita" box (as shown at w:es:Especial:EditChecks) but I want to confirm)
• How long the box froze for (a rough estimate in seconds)
• Whether it was just the box that froze and other parts of the interface still continued to work properly, or if it froze the entire editing window
• If you've experienced this again at any other page
• Whether you used the suggestion mode button again to make your latest edit at that article, or if you just used the Cite tool directly from the toolbar (or other).

Much thanks, for any additional details you can share, that might help us understand this bug (and ideally be able to reproduce it). Best regards, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:36, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

externalLink on W・アンドリュー・ロビンソン_(著述家) at jawiki

これは外部リンクの内容のため、読者の集中をそぐという理由は不成立。

Omotecho (talk) 08:07, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

@Omotecho Hi! Thank you for commenting. The community (admins) can and should change these settings! The feature is highly configurable, to fit local needs and nuances. Would you be willing to help request a change for the page w:ja:MediaWiki:Editcheck-config.json? Essentially, a local admin needs to update that page, using the content at Help:Suggestion mode#Create a local configuration page (but replacing those Spanish example heading-names, with Japanese). If you'd prefer, I can try to write it in English on the talkpage there. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:16, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Oh, so it is handled locally, that is good to know. How does it sound you would post in en and ja? Posts in English are slow to get attention, I am afraid. I am happy to assist in en-ja translation for your post, while not very techy myself.

For the *Suggestion feature*: Would you hint me where I read about the global general reaction how that feature is accepted? It will be great if the feature is diminishing admin's housecleaning workload.

Well, above is based on my worry that we have very small percentage of admins against the total user population among any /ja wikis, or if admins would burn-out any day or not: when you are very tired, you are not the happiest self. Cheers, -- Omotecho (talk) 02:45, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I have posted a request and some useful documentation links at w:ja:MediaWiki‐ノート:Editcheck-config.json. Please could you translate that however seems reasonable, and then either ping a specific admin or add the appropriate template to request an admin's assistance?

Re: Suggestion mode global reaction - It was generally been very positive, partially because everything is configurable, and also extensible with custom local ideas. I've included 2 links in my message on Jawiki pointing to the examples at Enwiki and Ruwiki. Ruwiki in particular has already created nine different types of local textmatch suggestions (e.g. suggestions based on: common typos, common grammar errors, non-standard country-names, non-specific-time words, etc). In the near future, the textmatch suggestions will become even more powerful once it becomes possible to use regex (phab:T407664). Please tell me if you need any more details.

Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:13, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, finished translation. Too bad a brach of wikipedia:news/ja for anything global is deprecated, so I am not sure where else to notify of the Suggest function to localize.

Anyway, I will enjoy editing with the Suggests and cast my eyes on how I will upgrade the articles. --Omotecho (talk) 16:59, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

[off-topic] Re: "I am not sure where else to notify" - I agree this is a concern. On any wiki, I would normally attempt to use {{Edit protected }} at a wiki talkpage to request help (listing: d:Q6578653), but I saw that the Japanese version has been deprecated: w:ja:Template:保護編集依頼. I think it might be helpful for many people (e.g. cross-wiki editors, etc) if someone could add information into that old template that explains how/where to request admin attention, instead. Perhaps you might like to raise this issue somewhere? Just a thought. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

[back to main focus] Would you agree that we add to your message above that editors would post here in any language? That I hope would be a springboard across Jawp and mw, hopefully.

[off topic] For adding a small note to bad a brach of wikipedia:news/ja for anything global: Ahhh, right, I'll try and find fitting _de-tour_ message we have locally, for no matter what language(s) or project you base your activities.

[off-off topic]

As the crossing point for multi-language, pondering the hunch if Wikidata be handy to find way-around or not, but this case might be too local. --Omotecho (talk) 05:57, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

1. If I understand correctly, you are suggesting adding a note at the top of w:ja:MediaWiki‐ノート:Editcheck-config.json to explain that feedback is welcome in any language. Yes please! -- I've also updated the note at the top of Talk:VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode. -- This page just contains the results of the "Feedback" form, so it implicitly welcomes all languages.

2. Sounds good. I've clicked around a bit, and I now believe that old template (w:ja:Template:保護編集依頼) ought to include a link to w:ja:Wikipedia:管理者伝言板/保護ページ編集 as a clue for people like me who are trying to find where to request help. That seems to be the newer location to request this kind of assistance (and I see Cookie4782 has already helpfully mentioned our request for help).

3. Yes, I often use Wikidata's interlanguage-links to find an equivalent page in many languages, e.g. d:Q6578653 or d:Q4580256.

Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

duplicateLink on 古代エジプト文字の解読 at jawiki

Multilple linkst to a single tl:visible anchor is needed especially ja readers are not familiar with names of Arabic/Islamic/Judeic person names.

Omotecho (talk) 09:20, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I've filed phab:T422190 to prevent this suggestion type from appearing for self-links (Links that point to the same article). We believe that is the cleanest way to prevent these specific types of instances. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 16:48, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Yes, please, and thank you suggesting a very practical and straight forward fix (: FYI in fact, there might not be many claims like this as Tl:visible anchor could be less popular among Jawiki users, I doubt. Omotecho (talk) 02:12, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

disambiguation on Ikan at mswiki

"Hutan hujan tropika" link is not directed to disambiguation page

Hakimi97 (talk) 12:48, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

@Hakimi97 Hi, thanks for commenting. That page (w:ms:Hutan hujan tropika) does currently include the magic word of __DISAMBIG__ (in the External links section). I assume that is a human-error.

Usually that magic word is only included within a template that is placed on disambiguation pages (e.g. w:ms:Template:Nyahkekaburan).

I will leave this for you to fix (and perhaps investigate if the problem exists elsewhere, e.g. this search seems to show other pages that ought to either use the template-version, or have the magic word removed).

I hope that helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:02, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

I see, I will take note of this. Thank you for the help! Hakimi97 (talk) 02:37, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

externalLink on Oskar_Rózsa at skwiki

Je to v sekcií "Externé odkazy". Treba asi vyladiť filter.

JakubD47 (talk) 10:21, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@JakubD47 Hi. My apologies for not replying in slovenčina. The community (admins) can and should change these settings! The feature is highly configurable, to fit local needs and nuances. Would you be willing to help request a change for the page w:sk:MediaWiki:Editcheck-config.json? Essentially, a local admin needs to update that page, using the content at Help:Suggestion mode#Create a local configuration page (but replacing those Spanish example heading-names, with slovenčina). If you'd prefer, I can try to write it in English on the talkpage there. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:27, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi, no worries. From what I gathered, that example you sent, but with the text in the JSON replaced with how the headings appear on skwiki?

If yes, I can post in on that page's talkpage in Slovak. I thought I would be reporting it to skwiki admins, so I apologize for not typing it in English right away. JakubD47 (talk) 06:33, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

@JakubD47 Yes, exactly. You'd just need to replace the Spanish examples with Slovak examples (and you or the admin/community could also add any additional headings that ought to be excluded from each type of suggestion).

Plus, it would help to also ask the admin(s) to look at the other section in the help page (Help:Suggestion mode#Localize the links) about localizing the links that are within each type of suggestion, if Skwiki has local documentation about any of those details.

Much thanks! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:17, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Tree_planting at enwiki

I added a citation and the message does not disappear. I added by using the citation tool

John Cummings (talk) 11:54, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

@John Cummings Hi! Thanks for commenting. The message box should disappear, but only after we move/click our cursor into another paragraph/node. If I understand correctly, this is technically for performance reasons, to prevent it rechecking the content constantly as we type. I will mention it to the team as something that still causes confusion though. Cheers. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:28, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Quiddity, I didn't realist that this comment would be added to a page and someone reply :) So I copied the text from my sandbox and then added the reference and after that the box showed up to say there was no reference. I think this is probably not a normal way of doing things and that's why it got confused. Thanks, John Cummings (talk) 02:33, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

yearLink on 東急2020系電車 at jawiki

Some of the links to railway vehicle types incorrectly display "yearLink". Some Japanese railway vehicle types are represented by four-digit numbers, and the editing check function may be mistakenly identifying links like "1000系 (series 1000)" as year links.

Cookie4782 (talk|Contribute) 07:01, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

@Cookie4782 Thank you for the bug-report. The devs are working on this bug in T422274 ("False positive yearLink check"), and will probably just be making it simpler to only react to plain 4-digit year links, for now. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:00, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

requiredTemplateParam on XMM-Newton at frwiki

Il faudrait préciser quels paramètres sont manquants pour que le contributeur sache si cela constitue un véritable problème. It would be necessary to specify which parameters are missing so that the contributor knows if this constitutes a real problem without having to display all the parameters.

Pline (talk) 11:13, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

@Pline Thank you for commenting, and the ideas of how to improve this suggestion type (and the good example of where it is not working well). That particular type is one of the experimental ones (see the section it is within), and is only available to users of the user-script version. Editors using the Beta Feature, or newcomers within the upcoming A/B test will not see those. I know that particular type still needs quite a bit of work before it's ready for full release. Thanks again, Merci. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:15, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

yearLink on Dhurandhar:_The_Revenge at enwiki

Was not a year link-was about rupees.

User97104 (talk) 23:35, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the bug-report. The devs are working on this bug in phab:T422274 ("False positive yearLink check"), and will just be making it simpler to only react to plain 4-digit year links, for now. That fix should be live later this week. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

externalLink on Web_colors at enwiki

Not "external link", link to another Wikipedia page, just in URL format.

User97104 (talk) 23:44, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

@User97104 Thank you for the report.

1. That instance within the article w:en:Web colors looks like it might be incorrectly setup, too, perhaps via a copy&paste mistake. I would assume that the "update" link is meant to lead to a cache-purge of the page it is on, not the page "w:en:Hexadecimal time" which is where it currently targets (and presumably is where it was copied from).

2. I believe both those pages ought to be using w:en:Template:Purge instead of a raw external link. I'll ping User:Kencf0618 here as you might be interested in helping to fix both instances. (Context: You added the version on the "Web colors" article.)

3. For the broader problem of links to local-articles that are misformatted as external-links, I will ask the devs to investigate possible solutions.

Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:04, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

tone on Lorem_ipsum at testwiki

Doesn't make sense-lorem ipsum text which has no meaning in any language so tone cannot be "revised"

User97104 (talk) 22:28, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure if you're joking? It's lorem ipsum text for an entire page, so of course it confuses the software! That page would never exist in a non-test Wikipedia's main-namespace. Many strange pages exist on testwiki. I hope those details help explain the situation. Cheers, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 10:45, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

duplicateLink on Birmingham_Snow_Hill_railway_station at simplewiki

it dosent appear more then twice

Crazywork (talk) 12:31, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for this. It looks likes "Birgmingham" and "Moor Street" are separately linked, if you look at the wikitext: [[Birmingham Moor Street railway station|Birmingham]] [[Birmingham Moor Street railway station|Moor Street]].

These links should be merged into one (clear the link formatting then re-apply the link to the whole word "Birmingham Moor Street").

We could have an edit check to detect cases like these but I'm not sure how rare they are. (Filed as T425410) ESanders (WMF) (talk) 11:51, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Nicholas_Brendon at enwiki

This is Wikipedia's version of Clippy. Just an obnoxious tool with no benefit.

Harizotoh9 (talk) 15:31, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

The primary target-audience of the tool is newcomers, who often appreciate some guidance on how they can start to help with editing, and who will potentially benefit from seeing related documentation-links (by familiarizing them with both the specific details, and with the habit of consulting the documentation).

You are seeing this tool at Enwiki because you've enabled (or opted-in to automatically enabling) the Beta Feature. You could either disable that Beta Feature for yourself, or hopefully you could share feedback (or bug-reports) about how to make the feature even more useful for newcomers.

The secondary target-audience is experienced-users (like yourself), and in the future, communities will be able to setup custom types of Suggestion that are limited to only being visible to editors with a certain quantity of edits, so that more complicated tasks can be highlighted without requiring things like inline cleanup-templates, or AWB installation, or an abundance of user-scripts (cf. VisualEditor/Suggestion Mode#Inspiration and alignment). If you are a edit-patroller in any form, you may also appreciate the Tags that are added to revisions, as they might help to explain the context of an edit.

I hope that information helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

addReference on MEMRI at enwiki

Wasn't a normal paragraph-was like "Name, the X of Y, said Z:" with the next paragraph being the actual quote. You'd want to add the citation after the quote.

User97104 (talk) 18:51, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for this feedback. There's a related task at phab:T424606 ("Exclude short paragraphs ending in colons from Suggestion Mode "add a citation" suggestion") and the team is working out how to most effectively address these types of contexts. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:04, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

addReference on Flower_delivery at enwiki

This is an invalid link, a dead link.

Also, the statement "many florists" is not credible or backed up by facts.

~2026-27574-38 (talk) 19:48, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment. Unfortunately we cannot help with content decisions at this page (which is only about the software-feature that shows Suggested Edits).

As context: I understand that you saw the (still-existing) dead-link used as a reference in w:en:Flower delivery in the paragraph starting "Many traditional retail florists [...]" and thus you tried to add a more useful reference based on the Suggested Edit. It looks like User:KH-1 reverted those edits, probably because the new citation that you added is perhaps not a w:en:WP:Reliable Source and so was interpreted as spam (per their edit summary). It would be best to discuss all of these details on the talkpage of w:en:Flower delivery instead of here.

I hope that helps (you both!). Best regards, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:18, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

addReference on AN/SPS-29 at enwikiThe power output on the SPS-29 Radar was 1 Million Watts NOT 250Kw's.

I know this as I was a school trained SPS-29 Radar Tech while in the Navy in the 70's on the USS Luce (DDG-38/DLG-7) and also as a shipyard worker in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in the 80's.

Geekster123~enwiktionary (talk) 23:18, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Geekster123~enwiktionary, thank you for the comment. Unfortunately, we cannot help with content decisions at this page (which is only about the software-feature that shows Suggested Edits).

You should mention your concern about the accuracy of this detail at the talkpage of the article: w:en:Talk:AN/SPS-29. I will also mention that information in articles should be based on w:WP:Reliable sources, and not ever on personal experience, so it would help immensely if you can find a published instance providing the accurate details that you describe above. If you'd like help with any of that, you can ask at w:en:WP:Teahouse.

I hope that information helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:40, 13 May 2026 (UTC)