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Citation pages now under "More"?!

Hi!

I'm an admin on pt.wikt and we noticed that recently (in the last week or so) the Citations tab disappeared from its usual place at the top of the page and is now hidden under the More tab. We would like to have that reversed, because the Citations tab needs more visibility than that.

Where should I go with such a request and who should I talk to?

Thanks.

ValJor (talk) 16:43, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

For the records, that "Citações" item is custom on-wiki code defined via pt:wikt:MediaWiki:Common.js, and I guess that docs like mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#addPortletLink are relevant. This page (Tech on meta) is a good place for such a request, as this is about on-wiki code. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:05, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi AKlapper!

Thank you for the quick reply.

The JavaScript page you mention hasn't been modified since 2023, so that cannot be the cause of our current problem (that started just this week). Other than that, I can only see the contents of the page, not edit it.

What is the next step?

Thanks again.

ValJor (talk) 11:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

It looks like that tab is there when using the Monobook skin, e.g. on https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/descangar?useskin=monobook, and not when using the default Vector skin, e.g. on https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/descangar?useskin=vector. I didn't spot anything mentioned in latest Tech/News but I could vaguely imagine this to be an intentional change to have a more standardized interface (that is just a personal guess though). I assume the mw:Readers/Reader Experience team might know best what may have happened here. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:18, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Change p-namespaces to p-associated-pages. Wargo (talk) 21:33, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi!

Can someone do the proposed change? I don't have editing permission on that file.

Thanks.

ValJor (talk) 19:33, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

@ValJor Per Interface administrators, see https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/Especial:Lista_de_utilizadores?username=&group=interface-admin for a list of local users who have permissions. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:40, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

The problem is now fixed, this item may be closed. Thanks for all your help.

ValJor (talk) 10:01, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. lp0 on fire () 22:38, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Right to delete sitewide JavaScript

What is the name of the right to delete sitewide JavaScript? Juandev (talk) 16:32, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

w:Wikipedia:Interface_administrators --A826 · ✉ · © 16:35, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Interface administrators, assuming that this is not about English Wikipedia. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Resim güncelleme problemi

Türk Hava Kuvvetleri'nin armasını güncelledim. Ancak güncel resim bağlantı yüklenmesine rağmen ön resim eski haliyle kalmaya devam ediyor. Sistem Türk Hava Kuvvetleri'nin resmini değiştirmiyor. Bu konuda yardımcı olmanızı rica ediyorum. Güncel ve doğru resim bağlantısını " https://dosya.hvkk.tsk.tr/Uploads/Hvkk/hvkk/LOGOLAR/LOGOLAR/HVKK%20Logo_PNG.png " arz ederim. Qletisim (talk) 07:05, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Missing "continue" element for categories

Every night, I use the Action API to fetch the categories for 50 articles. Around 27 February, the API stopped returning the "continue" element.

For example, this query would previously return a continue element, which I could use for follow-up requests to ensure all categories had been fetched for all articles.

But now no continue element is returned (example response). You can see that many articles are missing their categories (these articles definitely have many categories in reality), so a continue element is needed to fully populate them.

I also note that cllimit appears to be 500 (see the limits element in the response) but only 374 categories have been returned.

Continuations still appear to work when requesting redirects or other props - just not categories.

If there is a different place to raise issues with the Action API, please advise. Many thanks. Matthew at catfishing (talk) 15:00, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

It's probably based logged in phabricator, but based on the timeframe, deployment etc, phab:T405812 seems relevant, and this would likely count as a regression.

See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1241311 for the suspected code change. Reedy (talk) 15:29, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Duly logged at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419563 Matthew at catfishing (talk) 15:54, 10 March 2026 (UTC)