Talk:Community Tech/Who Wrote That tool

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Another outage (November 2025)

Not working for me on Firefox or Chrome right now, even after disabling other add-ons. Preimage (talk) 15:32, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Same issue for me – Chrome Version 141.0.7390.108 (Official Build) (arm64). I've spoken with a few other editors, who report that the tool has not been working since yesterday late afternoon (East coast U.S.).

As a note, the error message states "Error: Refresh or try again later. If the issue persists, contact us." Flipitover (talk) 17:15, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Error on every Wikipedia article

On Windows 11 and Linux Mint (current version); Firefox or Chome; with Adblock Plus, uBlock, or no adblock; with Vector 2022, Vector legacy, or monobook; with many userscripts or no userscripts; on this account or User:Rjjiii (ii) (mobile alt):

I get the error banner linking here on every article I try: "Error: Refresh or try again later. If the issue persists, contact us. which links me here. In Chrome, if I go to any Wikipedia article and click "Who Wrote That?", I see "Who Wrote That? is loading. This might take a while." for a minute or so (seems longer than usual), then the error message above appears, and see this pop up in Chrome's console:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://wikiwho.wmcloud.org/en/whocolor/v1.0.0-beta/Batman/1331560672/' from origin 'https://en.wikipedia.org' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.Understand this error
jquery.js:9940  GET https://wikiwho.wmcloud.org/en/whocolor/v1.0.0-beta/Batman/1331560672/ net::ERR_FAILED 504 (Gateway Timeout)

Rjjiii (talk) 06:21, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

It's a browser extension (for both firefox and chrome). So try disabling those and see if the error disappears ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:51, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

@TheDJ Thank you, but this morning it works? On the same articles, same accounts, same browsers, etc. No idea why, but the issue is resolved. Rjjiii (talk) 21:41, 8 January 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." 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)

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)