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I've asked Masumrezarock100 (talk⧼dot-separator⧽contribs⧼dot-separator⧽logs) that we could delete some pages from Special:WantedPages, but with some requirements:

• Page title:
  • The pages should be in the main and Template: namespaces.
  • Their {{BASEPAGENAME}} should begin with a dollar sign ($).
• Coding:
  • For templates:

    <includeonly>[[Template:{{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}]]</includeonly><noinclude>{{Translation variable notice}}</noinclude>

  • For other pages:

    {{Translation variable notice}}

• The template "Translation variable notice" is located at User:Keyacom/sandbox/Translation variable notice.

Masumrezarock100 said we have too many pages like that if we would need to do this by hand, and he said a bot can handle this.

I'm not sure what do you want to do... create those red link pages with a placeholder template? I don't think that's clean.

Hi all, following SVN reference remains at top of Manual:Templatelinks_table page =>

[http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance/tables.sql?revision=15779]{{dead link|date=April 2018}}

What should it be replaced with ? or still worth to be mentionned there ? Thanks.

Christian FR (talk) 21:23, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

I've removed the link. It serves no purpose here

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done; thanks.

Hi this is my first Template:msgtxt concatenating template msg and int. When these are called separately inline result is ok, but when my template is called, indentation is broken and inline is not respected why ? . Example is called on section 1 of Help:Watching_pages :

While viewing a page

The white star (or the link "Watch" in the monobook skin), located at the margin of each page, adds the current page to your watchlist, and turns the star into blue (or in the monobook skin a "Unwatch" link).
The
message with id 'addedwatchtext' (talk) "$1" and its discussion page have been added to your watchlist.
or 

message with id 'removedwatchtext' (talk) "$1" and its discussion page have been removed from your watchlist. , respectively, i

Be indulgent.Thanks

Text before message with id 'addedwatchtext' (talk) "$1" and its discussion page have been added to your watchlist. text between message with id 'addedwatchtext' (talk) "$1" and its discussion page have been added to your watchlist. text after.<= here in this note, the sequence is respected; tag translate problem ?

Christian FR (talk) 13:30, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

This is caused by extra newlines that you inadvertently added inside the template. I've fixed that.

Great ! so the template skeleton is  :

<noinclude><languages/>
</noinclude>|---here is the active code of the template---|<noinclude>
{{documentation|content= .... }} </noinclude>

I just checked the logged-out version of the Support page. However, for some reason no new edits from 3 hours ago are showing up.

Did a hard-refresh for both logged-out and logged-in versions. Checked on Chrome and Firefox.

Anyone else having the same issue?

I just checked and saw topics from an hour ago.

Still having the same issue.

Appears to be related to user IP. Using an HTTP proxy from Slovakia, is showing 2 days old posts on the Support page. Korean proxy is showing the hours-old ones mentioned in OP. Canadian and Bolivian proxies appear fine.

I can also confirm that it displays topics older than 2 days ago.

Apparently, the problem is because it's a redirect, and the page is not purging the redirect URL, only the main support desk. I wonder if this is also a problem for redirects to non-structured discussions pages...

Yes, Project:Support is working fine, while Support is still frozen at the time mentioned in OP which is 15 hours now.😕

Wanted to just note that the issue still persists. Some regions get the older version of the redirected Support page, while Project:Support works fine.

This isn't happening for me anymore now. This may be worth a bugreport

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T202989

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T203083

This is weird. I wanted to view Mediawiki:Common.js history but if I go to https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=MediaWiki%3ACommon.js . It gives me an access error. But I already am an administrator here. I get the following message.

The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Administrators.

Any idea what's happening?

Only interface admins can view deleted / undelete - looking for phab task now

phab:T202989

Then the error message should be updated. The current one is confusing.

thats phab:T203083

done; thanks.

Help:What_links_here Section 6 => https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/query.php?what=backlinks%7Cembeddedin&titles=template:t&bllimit=500&eilimit=500&blfilter=all&eifilter=all provides

Sorry, the old query.php interface has been shut down as of 25 August, 2008 in favor of MediaWiki's native machine API.
Please update your scripts to use the current interfaces, which are actively maintained..

Can someone correct please ? Thanks.

Christian FR (talk) 18:02, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

The error is pretty self-explanatory. I am not sure how it can say things better. Use the new interactive API interface https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php to get what you want.

Thanks but I only do translations and the original page should be at least reread and functional for our readers to have immediate answer. If not, I ask for help and I dont think one can blame me for that.

done; thanks.

On page Help:What_links_here section 2, following link is undefined => Help:Section linking and redirects

[[<tvar|section>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Section#Section linking and redirects</>|Help:Section linking and redirects]]

Can someone correct please ? Thanks.

Christian FR (talk) 23:04, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Doing a web search, looks like this link exists only on meta-wiki. I've linked to it. Not translatable, though :(

ok it is good enough; several links in this page are related to meta pages. Thanks.

Christian FR (talk) 10:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

every now and then anons are inappropriately hiding flow posts. I'm not even sure its malicious I think they just think the button means mark as read. anyways, can we restrict the right to autoconfirm?

Support - It doesn't make sense to me that we restrict "Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users (flow-edit-post)" right to autoconfirmed users while giving access to "flow-hide" right to all users. I mean I have seen a number of IPs vandalising by hiding posts.

sure

I've noticed that a number of times recently as well - not sure it needs to necessarily be autoconfirmed, just logged in.

Strong support. Hidden topics can't be noticed unless you actually follow them in your watchlist, and the hide action is not notified in Echo, it only appears when visiting the watchlist, which is annoying.

For context, originally hiding posts was only available to sysops (I think), and people complained that "normal users can blank talk pages!" and so rights were altered.

Doesn't the same logic applies for flow-edit-post right?

sounds fine to me, although i'll note that this seems like it has been less of a problem in practise.

Yes, that too. Happy to implement the consensus request, once it settles down. Thoughts?

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T241429

=> the language banner appearing on tablette does not reload the last version of the translated page.

I was surprised to see in french "Modèle:Page d'aide de PD" on => m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:PD_Help_Page on my tablette and I have some remarks:

1. PD sounded pédé (literally gay with a notion of rejection) is a bad word and should not be present in this kind of page and 'public domain' would be better ; why the filter has allowed this term ?
2. I have translated "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:PD_Help_Page/fr" and adopted "Modèle:Page d’aide du domaine public" ; the question is why is there a translation for mobile different from the translation for desktop (i dont speak of th skin but the contents) 
3. When I compare the update of both versions, the desktop version of the page is from 4 december 2019 and the mobile version of the page is 'updated 4 months ago by Shirayuki'; so the question is why doesnt mobile contents follow the destop contents (or vice versa) since source is unique ? (...I hope) 

Christian FR (talk) 22:22, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

It must be a caching issue, apparently now gone. The mobile site shows "Last edited 20 days ago by Mainframe98" now for me, using private browsing, which means no session cookies are involved.

Referenced now in Phabricator.