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I attempted to ask a question but it shows anti spam. How to avoid? I mention the word "domain" and "redirect"
- @Absad1: Hard to say without knowing which website, which page, and which exact and complete error message. (Also, please sign your posts.) --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 14:04, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Change that breaks layout[edit]
In [1], the "portal" css class is removed, but many scripts is still using it: Commons Meta enwiki
Instead the "vector-menu-portal" class should be used.
MediaWiki:InterProject.js is loaded by default in Meta (and some other wikis), but I doubt how it is useful nowadays.--GZWDer (talk) 02:10, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- For Commons, there appear to be only three uses: a user script used only by a now-globally-locked user, a script in the MediaWiki space of unknown use and purpose that doesn't appear to be used by anyone, and the aforementioned InterProject.js which also no longer appears to be in use on Commons. It appears that the "scream test" is the best solution here: turn it off and see who screams. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:27, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- As the commit notes, the core CSS is now depending on another classname
vector-menu-portal, and yes people should switch to that, however the classname DOES remain present in the HTML for now, so scripts should NOT break, however they might miss some of the styling they depend on. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:39, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
The “Other languages” header (shown during editing in place of the interlanguage link bar, probably by UniversalLanguageSelector) is also broken. I don’t want to bother with creating a Phabricator task now, can someone fix it? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:02, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Tacsipacsi: Could you elaborate which exact steps to perform on which website to see some broken "Other languages" header somewhere? Thanks! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:54, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
- @AKlapper (WMF): Just open any page for editing that has ULS (e.g. any page on Meta while logged in, like this one you’re reading right now). The
“Other languages”“In other languages” (sorry, I haven’t checked the exact English string last time) header at the bottom of the left-hand sidebar is unstyled. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:49, 1 September 2020 (UTC)- @Tacsipacsi: See phab:T262374 for unstyled ULS stuff (I think). --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 14:32, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
- @AKlapper (WMF): Just open any page for editing that has ULS (e.g. any page on Meta while logged in, like this one you’re reading right now). The
Tools for compiling list of Wikimedia Commons users by contributions/uploads[edit]
Commons does not appear to ever have had an automatically updated page like the one on English Wikipedia and other wikipedias that compiles a list of top users by overall contributions.
Additionally, while it does tools that are supposed to compile lists of users by uploads, neither has been working for the over a year. one stopped updating on 31 Jan 2019. This one stopped updating 28 May 2019.
Would anyone be able to repair or replace the tools that compile lists of top user by upload counts, and create one that would compile a list of top users by overall contributions? SecretName101 (talk) 03:48, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- @SecretName101: See the link on https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm which leads to https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/commons.wikimedia.org/contributing/top-editors/normal%7Ctable%7Clast-month%7C~total%7Cmonthly --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 16:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
@AKlapper: But that only provides you info as to who had the most edits on a given day or month, as far as I can tell. That doesn't tell you who has had the most edits of all-time. SecretName101 (talk) 08:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
- @SecretName101: See "Report a bug" at the bottom of the page that I linked, and follow mw:How to report a bug. (PS: Your ping did not work as you dropped half of my username. :) --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:49, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
- My bad on that ping fail SecretName101 (talk) 19:31, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
- @AKlapper (WMF): is it really a bug though? Because the tool is functioning to do what it was designed to. It just doesn't sufficiently supplant the former tools' use in regards to compiling an all-time list of uploaders to Commons, nor does it have a use to compile an all-time list of users by edits either. SecretName101 (talk) 19:36, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
Trouble with Visual Editor[edit]
Today I was trying to add a reference citation to the English Wikipedia article about Blanch Armwood, and when I had completed the Visual Editor form for "Cite News" and clicked "Submit", I received the following: Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 503). Not sure if this was a one-time issue, or a more pervasive problem. - AppleBsTime (talk) 13:13, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
- You'd better ask on en:Wikipedia:Village pump/technical. Ruslik (talk) 18:03, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
7-zip one of the best compressors?[edit]
Hi guys, it's 7-zip one of the best compressors to use in the ios system according to [redacted spammy link].
this is true or what do you recommend?
- @Mribelina12: Hi and welcome. This page is about technology in Wikimedia, so discussion of unrelated software is off-topic here... (PS: Please sign your posts with your signature so it's clear who wrote something. PPS: Also see https://heyguys.cc/ ) Cheers, --Malyacko (talk) 16:00, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
