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How to propagate my home page from meta-wiki, to my other home pages . . . .
[edit]This is my intended home page to cut down on repetition, however it cannot replace existing home pages. It is obvious and understandable, and the question is what are my options? Ineuw (talk) 00:33, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Hi @Ineuw, For your Global user pages to display you just need to visit a wiki for your account to be created and then not create the user page, for example you can see this already working at wikimania:User:Ineuw, For wikis where you have already created your local user page, you can ask the local communities to delete these. P858snake (talk) 02:06, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- If you have many user pages you want to replace with your global page, you can also request their deletion on Meta rather than one-by-one on the respective wikis. See Global user pages#Local user pages. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks!!! I was about to ask that question. Ineuw (talk) 06:57, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- After 20+ years, I collected many user pages. I cannot delete them. This is not a solution, unless the local sub-pages can be redirected and re-linked somehow. Ineuw (talk) 02:05, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Ineuw you are looking for Synchbot to delete your local user pages. Johannnes89 (talk) 05:16, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks. !!!! Ineuw (talk) 08:35, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- @Ineuw you are looking for Synchbot to delete your local user pages. Johannnes89 (talk) 05:16, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- After 20+ years, I collected many user pages. I cannot delete them. This is not a solution, unless the local sub-pages can be redirected and re-linked somehow. Ineuw (talk) 02:05, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks!!! I was about to ask that question. Ineuw (talk) 06:57, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- If you have many user pages you want to replace with your global page, you can also request their deletion on Meta rather than one-by-one on the respective wikis. See Global user pages#Local user pages. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
Need to confirm
[edit]Did anybody noticed some bug on the VisualEditor. Appears to be a regression of a commit related to the tool, and as far as I know it only affects mobile, but on more than one browser and wiki:
- Open the edit button on any mainspace article, and use the Visual edit button. The next time one opens the editor again, there would be no way to use VE; if the default is VE, they would be greeted by an empty source editor that blanks the entire section. If on source editor, the option to VE is broken.
- A similar thing happens in the content translation tool; the editor fails to load the srecond time it is accessed.
A temporary solution is to refresh the page, but this is inconvenient. Need to reach out first before going to Phabricator. ToadetteEdit (talk) 08:01, 12 September 2026 (UTC)
- I believe this is the same as (or related to) phab:T437828. The Editing team are looking into that. Thanks for reporting. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:29, 14 September 2026 (UTC)