Help talk:Extension:RealMe

Not working on Meta?

This is a much needed feature; thank you.

I added five links to my profile on Meta (a higher limit would be useful!), and set them as global preferences.

I then added them to the foot of my user page on Meta.

My user page has no rel-me attributes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:22, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

It looks like your userpages here and at Meta both have the required links set in the HTML, i.e.:

<link href="https://pigsonthewing.org.uk" rel="me">
<link href="https://twitter.com/Pigsonthewing" rel="me">
<link href="https://mastodon.social/@Pigsonthewing" rel="me">
<link href="https://www.facebook.com/pigsonthewing/" rel="me">
<link href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pigsonthewing/" rel="me">

So you should be able to use those in your Mastodon profile, and they'll be verified. I think you have to re-save your profile to make it re-check the URLs. Sam Wilson 00:50, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

The limit of 5 was chosen somewhat arbitrarily (Mastodon allows 4), feel free to file a bug report asking for it to be increased if you have a good use case for it. Legoktm (talk) 01:20, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

@Samwilson: Thank you, but I'm still seeing:

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://pigsonthewing.org.uk">https://pigsonthewing.org.uk</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/Pigsonthewing">https://twitter.com/Pigsonthewing</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://mastodon.social/@Pigsonthewing">https://mastodon.social/@Pigsonthewing</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/pigsonthewing/">https://www.facebook.com/pigsonthewing/</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pigsonthewing/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/pigsonthewing/</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pigsonthewing/">https://www.flickr.com/people/pigsonthewing/</a></li></ul>

on this wiki, and on Meta, even after purging the respective pages.

I guess you're saying the attribute is set on the headers, not the inline page content, which is what I expected, given the reference to microformats in the documentation, and the requirement to include the links in the page content. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:24, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Yep, that's right. Looks like you've updated the docs now. Sam Wilson 00:58, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Not working for some reason

Hello hello! Thank you for creating this extension! I'm trying to use it to self-verify but my user page just does not want to render with the rel="me" link tags. I have added multiple URLs to external profiles in my global preferences but none of them are showing up in the HTML. Please help, thank you! MPopov (WMF) (talk) 14:56, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@MPopov (WMF) The URLs specified in your preferences need to exactly match what you have in your user page. It seems like right now for all the links on your user page, you either have a trailing slash in the URL in wikitext but not in the one in your preferences, or vice versa. Taavi (talk!) 09:23, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh my gosh. I think I misread/misunderstood the directions! Yes that was it, thank you so much @Taavi!! MPopov (WMF) (talk) 17:10, 16 April 2024 (UTC)