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Hello,

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Hi!

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18:17, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Google AdSense has an issue with misspelled variables on line 41-42 in file GoogleAdSense.class.php:

google_language = \"$GoogleAdSenseLang\";
google_encoding = \"$GoogleAdSenseEncoding\";

It should be:

google_language = \"$wgGoogleAdSenseLang\";
google_encoding = \"$wgGoogleAdSenseEncoding\";

So the letters "wg" are missing and the variables remain undefined! --WikiForMen (talk) 05:31, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello. Why did you need to move the page when the mentions in the text almost all use the capitalised version? Also, there is meta:Best practices for Content Translation events.

Hi, is it possible to do the same thing that [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMW883bcb5a0bebcf2663ae1cecf58b59eeb0a7c138 you've done] [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64725 here]

I like being able to have translated content, but the Translate extension is pretty bad.

It's my sense that any time anyone tries to criticize this extension, a small group of people who are closely involved with the extension (Nemo, Nike, and you, mostly) immediately get very defensive. Suddenly the conversation is about pitting people who want full multilingual/i18n support against everyone else. The reality is, of course, a lot more nuanced.

Currently, even very experienced wikitext editors have a lot of difficulty using the Translate extension. The extension takes an already challenging task (editing basic wikitext) and adds several layers of complexity, including difficult syntax and unexpected behavior.

There's nothing wrong with being frustrated by a frustrating feature.

solve my problem.

Hi, there seem to be some pywikipediabot bugs that I can fix myself. User:Xqt isn't active right now, and he/she doesn't respond to my bug reports.

Awesome. Welcome! :)

Please read Manual:Pywikipediabot/Development#Development and follow the steps that are documented there.

Cheers!

I already know about creation bots, and it's actually running on commons.

What I'm wondering is that how to make changes to them, as pyrev:11610 reported in User talk:Xqt#Bug.

See the link I pointed out to you. You should request commit access.

Thanks for your hint. I've send my email.

Is there any easier way? I've already have a wikitech account (Wikitech:User:Zhuyifei1999). Requesting a new one may conflict with the older one (http://svn.wikimedia.org/users.php).

As far as I know there is no easier way, as Subversion is a legacy system, not integrated into Labs and Gerrit.

This post was posted by 81.175.123.154, but signed as Siebrand.

Hi there!

Is there a way to hide the ads for certain usergroups? I want to offer the possibility to get rid of the ads for all donators of my wiki.

This post was posted by NobbZ~mediawikiwiki, but signed as NobbZ.

Not as a current features.

Is there a chance, that this feature will be in a future version?

This post was posted by NobbZ~mediawikiwiki, but signed as NobbZ.

If you provide the patch, I'm sure it is :).

I don't know much about PHP, and my knowledge about the necessary internals of MW is much smaller... I think I will discuss this issue with a friend of mine... Thanks anyway.

This post was posted by NobbZ~mediawikiwiki, but signed as NobbZ.

I am globally requesting rename for SUL purposes the change of my user name to とある白い猫. Thanks! (both accounts are mine) -- Cat ^chi? 20:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

This post was posted by とある白い猫, but signed as White Cat.