Talk:Community Tech/Who Wrote That tool

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Error Message: Refresh or Try Again Later

Who Wrote That is not giving an error message when I try to use the the tool. Flalf (talk) 04:56, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

I am getting an error message as well, telling me to "Refresh or try again later. If the issue persists, contact us." I am on Microsoft Edge Version 91.0.864.67. Yeeno (talk) 06:48, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

I am getting this error using Google Chrome. Buidhe (talk) 12:30, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Ditto, began yesterday for me; have tried it on multiple articles and on both Edge and Chrome. Schazjmd (talk) 16:29, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

same for me, on Firefox with Ubuntu. regards --Bert (talk) 19:06, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Same, on Vivaldi 4.0 (Chromium-based) on Win10. 2601:646:4003:3940:802B:862D:ACA8:1515 03:57, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Hey everyone; thanks for letting me know! As reported above, it seems to be working again, and my personal tests also showed it working. However, I'm no longer on the Community Tech team, which manages the tool. So, in the future, if you experience issues, you can write a ticket in Phabricator and tag the Community Tech team in the ticket. Thanks! --IFried (WMF) (talk) 15:15, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Ah, apologies, I thought this was my personal talk page (long day!). At any rate, yes, it seems to be working again, but please do write a ticket in Phabricator if the issue arises again. Thanks! --IFried (WMF) (talk) 15:16, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Blocked by CORS on the English Wikipedia

Attempting to run Who Wrote That on any English Wikipedia page results in a CORS error. Relevant console error message:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://wikiwho.wmflabs.org/en/whocolor/v1.0.0-beta/Human_rights_abuses_of_the_Marcos_dictatorship/1046457425/. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).

Chlod (say hi!) 19:37, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

It's also stopped working for me in the past few days. (Firefox 90.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.) Certes (talk) 10:10, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

@Certes@Chlod Thanks for reporting this high priority bug. We have created a task to look into this and you can follow progress here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291886 NRodriguez (WMF) (talk) 20:44, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Fixed Thanks for the report, and sorry about the downtime! This specific problem was an edge case that shouldn't ever happen again. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Really strange bug

On this article (en wiki), there was a set of edits made at an unknown date by an unknown editor. When I examine the content with Who Wrote That (hover over the word "life" in the first sentence). Who Wrote That reports that it was (username or IP removed) and (edit summary removed), but with the date and timestamp of the time that I ran the tool so it matches nothing in the article's history. (I repeated the check on multiple days to confirm that it always reports the day and time I'm looking at it.) It looks like a revision-deletion, but when that happens, the edit is also reverted so wouldn't have remained in the article. Not sure what's going on here. I've only encountered this on this one article, so no big deal...just puzzling. Schazjmd (talk) 19:23, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

@Schazjmd: A total of 36 edits between August 2019 and July 2020 have been revdel’d in the article, and there’s quite some difference between the last public version before and the first public version after (including the change from “man” to “life”). I suspect a separate section was added with the copyvio, and that have been removed, but there was no reason to revert other, constructive edits. It’s a bug in the tool, though, and should be fixed. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:35, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Error Message: Refresh or Try Again Later, Redux

I've been getting this error message consistently for the last few days in Waterfox Classic, the browser I usually use. The extension works fine in Chrome. Carlstak (talk) 21:26, 26 May 2022 (UTC)