Talk:Community Tech/Who Wrote That tool

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Not working for me in Chrome

I have tried several articles and get "Error: Refresh or try again later. If the issue persists, contact us." Nurg (talk) 02:47, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Also having issues with Firefox as well. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:06, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

I have admittedly not tried using it for a while, but I'm getting issues with it as well on a Chromium browser on macOS, as of today.

Chronque (talk) Chronque (talk) 11:36, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

It does not work (Chrome), --Schotterebene (talk) 17:23, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

It does not work in FireFox 151.0.2 nor Chromium 148.0.7778.167) --DungeonLords (talk) 13:05, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Here it works fine in Firefox. I only had to allow the additional corresponding domain in the additional NoScript extension.

Only issue I have is that it writes the percentage with visible "&nbsp" in German:

"Diese Person schrieb 96.5&nbsp ;% der Seite." McBerti (talk) 19:51, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

We are looking into Who Wrote That?

Thank you for reporting this issue. It looks like it has to do with the tool wikiwho not being available. We are looking looking into it. HMonroy (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

@HMonroy (WMF): This tool isn't working for me; is wikiwho still not available? Jarble (talk) 22:17, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Not working for me in Chrome

I have tried several articles and get "Error: Refresh or try again later. If the issue persists, contact us." Kristos (talk) 10:45, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Partial success

In the article Sina Khani on enWiki I can activate Who Wrote That? and it works for the first several sections, then stops working on the rest of the article. Retried several times, no change. Can't see any particular reason for this. I am using Firefox on Ubuntu Linux. M kuhner (talk) 22:14, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Similar issue at en:Charl Koch (architect) where the first sentence will highlight, but after the image, it breaks and will not highlight. It does display the contribution immediately after the image but it glitches. Sennecaster (talk) 02:52, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I've now seen that too. It feels as though the software is somehow becoming overloaded. M kuhner (talk) 03:00, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Not working in Firefox. The highlighting on different sections changes, but I don't see any information about who wrote the highlighted area. Totally unusable as it currently stands. This is a critical-path tool that I use for reporting activity as a Wikipedian-in-residence. MMO Tracking (talk) 13:46, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

This should be fixed now (or at least it seems to be for me, after this bugfix): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T434097#12198003.

(Update: Yep, we've got confirmation at mw:Talk:Who_Wrote_That?#This_extension_is_broken_in_my_browser.) Preimage (talk) 08:28, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

ToC disappearing

While I'm happy that the tool seems to be working again I noticed that using Vector 2020 as well as Monobook the ToC disappears when using it. This is unfortunate because I frequently use it to jump to the paragraph(s) of interest. Hope it can be fixed. Barbasca (talk) 22:04, 11 August 2026 (UTC)