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A place to talk about tech related to a Wikimedia wiki.

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Tech-related questions about third-party wikis should be asked at mw:Project:Support desk.

Contributions from Wikimedia servers[edit]

Hi,

According to a checkuser, many people surprisingly logged in to Wikipedia, on 29 November 2022, from Wikimedia Foundation servers. Any info? (might be related to User:127.0.0.1).

Thanks.

Apokrif (talk) 22:51, 22 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Apokrif: Looks like it was T324018 — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 23:08, 22 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Hyméros: can you please add the link above to the talk page on the French WP? Apokrif (talk) 01:24, 23 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

About the restriction that wikipedia pished on me[edit]

Why do I have to be sanctioned for rendering the right sources for any information those people needed. I just edited a little infos on the history of IDL. Why do I have to be punished for that? Adhesivecobra17 (talk) 13:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It isn't much clear what you are referring to and what technical problems you are facing in particular. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:39, 1 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Account Deletion Should Be Allowed[edit]

I think while account can be easily added, account deletion should also be allowed. This may increase the number of accounts created. Because if there is no account cancellation, there may be those who don't want to become a member. Ekrembjk09 (talk) 22:45, 1 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Does Right to vanish cover what you would hope that "deletion" of an account would accomplish? -- BDavis (WMF) (talk) 23:42, 1 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Customize sidebar for some pages[edit]

I want to design a sidebar for particular pages. For example, I have some pages categorized in "Chemistry" and another pages categorized in "Physics". I just want to show "Chemistry" related sidebar and hide "Physics" related sidebar in "Chemistry" pages. Same for "Physics". Is it possible to do this? What kind of extension is needed? Thanks for helping! WentaoXu22 (talk) 06:48, 3 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This question is probably better suited for mw:Project:Support desk than this forum, but Extension:DynamicSidebar might work for you. If it does not, try following up at the MediaWiki support desk. -- BDavis (WMF) (talk) 21:49, 3 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Cite Function an edit window for Mon Wikipedia[edit]

Dear all, We would like to ask some help from any of you to install Cite Function in the edit toolbar in Mon Wikipedia from an edit window, where we can click the cite button, which brings down a bar of extra options which the template pulldown menu where we can choose such as cite web, cite news, cite book and cite journal ets. Htawmonzel (talk) 18:09, 6 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, see the initial instructions in mw:Topic:Xdvwuqttn98og9cs. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 15:04, 7 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AKlapper (WMF) Mon Wikipedia doesn't have people available with the correct permissions. Please help we really need it. Htawmonzel (talk) 16:04, 7 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Htawmonzel: Hi, is the required work on mnw.wikipedia.org already done? A link would be welcome. After that work has been done, see Interface administrators#Requests - thanks! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 16:17, 7 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Help Needed[edit]

Hello, This is Khattab. I am an interface admin of Bengali Wikiquote. We considered to add a working script as gadget. I added this to Gadget-Defination. But the gadget doesn't work.

I am adding URLs for checking.

Gadget Defination : https://w.wiki/6SKd (First gadget from editing gadgets)
JS - https://w.wiki/6SJn & CSS - https://w.wiki/6SKg

খাত্তাব হাসান (talk) 20:27, 13 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@খাত্তাব হাসান: Hi, please follow mw:Help:Locating broken scripts to debug, and please explain why you try to load mediawiki.Title.jquery.ui and what that is... Thanks! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 20:57, 13 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AKlapper (WMF) I was trying to find out which dependencies are not being loaded. AI Debugger says that (Maybe It's wrong) there is a JQuery dependency should be loaded. Then I added this. and still not working.

It's working when I use mw.loader.load but as a gadget, that's not working. I tried for debugging with Chrome, but I am confused why this one is not loading. খাত্তাব হাসান (talk) 11:34, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@খাত্তাব হাসান: What is "AI Debugger"? Why would "AI Debugger" know about existing MediaWiki ResourceLoader modules? What makes you think that mediawiki.Title.jquery.ui exists? Have you read and followed the steps in mw:Help:Locating broken scripts? If yes, what is still unclear why it is not loading? Thanks, --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:12, 14 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AKlapper (WMF) Ok, maybe it is for es8 and es6 conflict. now we (actually only the writer 😒) should work on this script again. Thanks a lot for your time. খাত্তাব হাসান (talk) 17:34, 15 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How to get MediaWiki installed and my network secured[edit]

Hi! I need help to get MediaWiki installed and my network secured. I don´t know how to start. Thanks Vanishingmode (talk) 06:06, 19 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vanishingmode: Hi, this page is for Wikimedia wikis only. See mw: for installation; see "Post a new question" on mw:Project:Support desk for questions about MediaWiki installations. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 06:59, 19 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]