Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive 2019 1

Crap

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Jason_Cheng_%E9%84%AD%E4%BB%A5%E5%BE%B7&action=edit&redlink=1

I graduated from Oxford and have spent an hour on the Wikipedia editor page and it's utterly crap. Can't even apply a biography template. Whoever designed this is a fuck wit

Jas cheng (talk) 07:41, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

On huge pages, the Chrome "aw snap" face appears within the visual editor, and I can't see anything below the gray screen it creates.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_population_centers_by_longitude&veaction=editsource

Paintspot Infez (talk) 18:54, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello!
Hello from the Ggarimasingh1 ! ©2019 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ggarimasingh1 (talk • contribs) 13:31, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Biggest Ashoka Chakra of India

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dharmachakra19/sandbox?action=edit

Dharmachakra19 (talk) 08:35, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Uploading family historical photo

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_North_Devon_Yeomanry?action=edit

Difficult to support Wikipedia when it won't allow a personal, historical photo, that is of interest to anyone searching information in regards to the Boer War.

Niagara-on-the-lake (talk) 20:59, 9 January 2019 (UTC)


 * , what is your point? What are you trying to do? Your edit link above does nor identify your problem.&middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 15:36, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Infobox collapsing (remove all newlines, white-space) after edit
Hi, I've recently started to come across edits make with the VisualEditor where after all the newlines and white-space are removed making it both very difficult for source editor users to read/edit and more importantly to compare what has changed. If someone vandalises content it's very difficult to tell on large infoboxes, or sometimes even small ones. For both the purposes of anti-vandalism work and just for general editing with the source editor this is really bad.


 * Test 'vandalism' examples: this and this. (Note I got the same testing with FF and Chrome)


 * Example I just noticed made by another editor: here

Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 15:28, 15 January 2019 (UTC)


 * On phabricator: T213922 KylieTastic (talk) 14:32, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Should now be fixed. KylieTastic (talk) 17:15, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

The {lang-zh} and {zh} templates no longer work

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betula_fruticosa?action=edit to mark Chinese text and transcriptions

Daviddwd (talk) 23:11, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Fortnight

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progressive_enhancement&action=edit

2601:743:200:D497:95D9:483D:98F5:F4B7 (talk) 04:28, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Broken template data in visual editor
I make a lot of edits on Wikipedia, mainly for formatting, copy edits and short descriptions. I usually use the visual editor. In the past week, I've noticed the template data fail to load or parse correctly in the visual editor on some templates I use a lot, like and even. Other templates unpredictably show proper parameter info and descriptions in the visual editor. I don't know why. --Daviddwd (talk) 03:33, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Daviddwd (talk) 03:33, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Correct the title

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Pacific_(Peru)?action=edit&oldid=879992771

Hello, i ask you for a change in my title. the name of our university is " Universidad del Pacífico" no University of the pacific(this is wrong), please help us.

JavierSV (talk) 17:59, 24 January 2019 (UTC)



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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Frederic_Bastiat_Institute/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template%3AUser+sandbox%2Fpreload

How do i recover my old updated photos on wikipedia and channel it to this new page setup herein, since i'm denied to upload the previous uploaded photos on the blocked platform.

Frederic Bastiat Institute (talk) 22:59, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Invalid date in references
Using the option to add a reference and letting it fill in details from a URL it gives an invalid date of 1548849780 - there appears to be no validation of the information that it adds in to the reference. It should only allow dates that are valid and that comply with the MOS.

Just as an example try the following URL http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1074838/peruvian-olympic-committee-opens-lima-2019-accreditation-process-for-national-press

Though I think that any reference generated from that site has the same problem. Keith D (talk) 16:51, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Page Title?

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NuFcULTRA/sandbox?action=edit

Hi, I am relatively new to wiki and was wondering if it is at all possible for me to change the name of my page that I have created.

Thanks

NuFcULTRA (talk) 00:46, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Not a VE issue. I assisted the user on their Talk page. Alsee (talk) 19:16, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Kathryn Kuhlman: Legacy

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Kuhlman?action=edit&oldid=881049459&wteswitched=1

This doesn't make sense: "The debate continues today with many believers upholding Kuhlman as an important forerunner with some Christian cessationist apologists." If you can fix it, it should read, "The debate continues today with many believers upholding Kuhlman as an important forerunner to the modern-day charismatic movement.

Ian7759 (talk) 09:09, 4 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello, this feedback page is only for Visual Editor-related feedback. Please discuss concerns about article content on the article's respective talkpage (Talk:Kathryn Kuhlman), ideally providing an independent reliable source for suggested changes and additions. The article seems to be a long-time controversial topic and needs published high-quality sources for all controversial aspects. GermanJoe (talk) 14:32, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Converting content cell to header cell in table
When many or one cell is selected to convert them into header cell, in preview you can see the change but after you publish only few cells are changed. Wiki KuthiVaiyans (talk) 16:59, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Cant click between characters?

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Monkey_(smoothie_bar_chain)?action=edit&oldid=882217892 There seems to be a bug where you cannot click in between characters. this means you cannot insert text in between other pieces of text, and any characters you try to input replace other characters

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.&#34; - Sergei Rachmaninoff (talk) 00:05, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Automatic Cite decodes %26 as & in search query (books.google.com)
MarMi wiki (talk) 21:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Error in text appearing in dropdown list when using "Link' tool - how can it be corrected?
I'm a newish editor and have found an error I don't know how to fix. The problem is this: When I am using the Visual Editor to add a link on a page to Joan Withers, there is a dropdown list of possible pages that match what I'm typing, that appears as I type her name in. However under that 'Joan Withers' there is some grey text that says 'NZ businessman'. This is incorrect, as she is not a businessman! However I don't think that text is being sourced from the Joan Withers page, as there is no mention of the word 'businessman' on her page. How do I edit that text underneath the name in the dropdown list that appears as you try to add a link? Where is it sourced from?

Please don't just fix the Joan Withers problem itself, but tell me how to do it for other people in future, as I have found this type of error more than once.DrThneed (talk) 23:20, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Go to article about Joan Withers, go to Wikidata item page (under Tools section on the left list of wiki links) and edit the description. --MarMi wiki (talk) 18:55, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Perfect! Thank you so much! DrThneed (talk) 20:10, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

sandbox

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frustrated trying to create an article. Not intuitive. Lost all my writing in my sandbox and not feeling up to researching it all again. Can it be recovered?

Dkallen78 (talk) 03:33, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * If you don't save your work, it's lost. Sorry. The 'publish' button, which saves your work to wikipedia's servers and makes it publicly available to everyone who knows where to look. (There is no way to save it to Wikipedia and have it not be visible to everyone.) DS (talk) 02:44, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Lost my backup

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophiostoma?action=edit&veswitched=1&oldid=888404546

Dear Wikipedia.

I was editing this page, when an error occurred in the reference list, using the popup reference journal editor.

Now it seems that I have lost 4 hours of work with the edit.

Is there any way for you to retrieve my edits from your database?

I have been working and the automatic backup has been working from about 09:00 today till present at 11:20.

Please let me know it there is any way to retrieve my data.

Best regards Mathias Andreasen

Mathias Andreasen (talk) 10:27, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

PUBLISHING

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Hello there! I want to create an English page of Aram Mnatsakanov for our English-speaking colleagues. We have Russian page: https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Мнацаканов,_Арам_Михайлович&editintro=Шаблон%3AEditnotice%2FНыне_живущие

I don't understand how to publish this draft:(( URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mnatskanov_Aram_Mikhailovich?action=edit

I really need ur help

Ls.khimich (talk) 15:41, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Ref conversion incorrectly interpreted "Mylander" as two authors

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I was adding the reference https://www.thelantern.com/2000/11/maybe-not-as-big-as-your-head-labamba-8217s-burritos-big-on-taste/ and converted it to a template. It took the author's last name "Mylander" and broke it up into two last names "Myl" and "er". I suspect the regex is not working as intended and should check for whitespace around "and" before interpreting text as two authors.

Ost (talk) 16:46, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

photos

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lagessepascal&action=edit&redlink=1

I have been trying to upload the paintings associated with the artist Pascal Lagesse (me) and the software refuses the upload. What must I do please ?

Lagessepascal (talk) 15:20, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

X-Files season 3 Episode "731"

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Aloha, Wikipedia Edit Ninjas,

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_X-Files_episodes?action=edit&oldid=877743031&wteswitched=1

X-Files Season 3 Episode "731" incorrectly marked with double dagger; a very good episode, but NOT in the Alien Mythology Arc.

I attempted to edit it myself, and could not.

Your Trusted Friend, Wiki Red Pen

WikiRedPen (talk) 11:45, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Copying and pasting templates
Copying the template output via visual editor and pasting results only in the output character rather than the template. Not sure if this is particularly intuitive especially when the citation templates copy in such a different way. Shyamal (talk) 02:56, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

As an experiment, I create an instance of the template yielding. Next I copy-and-paste it yielding. And it seems to work (both are templates, not the character). You can check the history of this talk page to confirm I did this in the Visual Editor. Generally when copy and paste of templates doesn't work in Visual Editor, it occurs when the copy is done in Read mode (not open in Visual Editor). If you are trying to copy and paste between two articles, open both of them in Visual Editor, even if you have no intention of changng the one you are copying from. I hope this helps. If it doesn't, can you explain more precisely the sequence of actions that caused the problem. Kerry (talk) 04:04, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I retried at Jacanidae and it does indeed seem to work - not sure what caused the failure I noticed (perhaps a way of selecting). Shyamal (talk) 04:07, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Reference "names" as colon + number
- I now see that this came out as number 5 in the 2019 Community Wish List survey. Let's hope we get some action! Pam D  08:52, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

I've recently been doing some work trying to clean up some articles where Visual Editor was used to create very thoroughly referenced but sometimes confusingly arranged text. All the references have "names" like ":0", because that's what VE does when an editor re-uses a reference. In trying to improve the articles, sometimes wanting to re-use one of the existing references, it's really difficult to keep track of which reference is which. If anyone ever needs to merge articles, or legitimately copy text from one article to another, and both articles were created with Visual Editor, these colon+number ref names will cause huge problems as any imported references will need to be renamed, at each occurrence, before the text can be moved around to integrate it into its new home.

The Guidelines on reference names at Citing_sources say "To help with page maintenance, it is recommended that the text of the name have a connection to the inline citation or footnote, for example "author year page" ". The Help page at Help:Footnotes says "Names should have semantic value, so that they can be more easily distinguished from each other by human editors." VE goes against the recommendation in a policy and the instruction in a help page.

Please, please, can VE be modified so that by default it creates a sensible reference name? It has the author and title fields in the reference, it could so easily construct something from those, and would save a lot of trouble.

As an example, a recent article I've been working on is Kate Jagoe-Davies. Initially, since no-one had edited references since the article's creation, I could see that each numbered footnote was one higher than the reference "name" - so footnote "1" was ref ":0". But after moving things around, footnote "3" is now ref ":4". It makes life unnecessarily difficult for human editors.

This problem is only going to get worse as a growing number of articles with VE-named references are, in the natural way of things, worked on to improve or update them. VE needs to be amended. Pam D  08:29, 17 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't use VE myself - tried it back in the day and found it unusable for much of the gnomish work I do. If there is some setting that the editor could have used to create sensible reference names, please tell me and I will pass it on to them. But VE should not even allow editors to create such hopelessly un-editor-friendly reference "names"! Pam  D  08:35, 17 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Good to see I'm not the only one bothered by this. Here - a link to make finding and fixing them easier. DS (talk) 13:04, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * See this recent VPT discussion for more links and info. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Adding a template entirely from the keyboard?
I often want to add a template without taking my hands off the keyboard. I know that " {{ " gets me into the template dialog, and then I can type the name of the template and hit return twice, But, then I'm left in a state where hitting additional returns edits text in the first template field text box. What I want to do is just simulate clicking the "Insert" button. I can hit tab some large number of times to cycle through the various U/I elements until the Insert button is highlighted, then hit return, but that's awkward. Is there any faster way to do this? I'm using Chrome on a Mac. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:53, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
 * {{re|RoySmith}} Tabulate backward with Shift (Shift+Tab x3, counting from the first field). --MarMi wiki (talk) 20:09, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Or even better, just use Ctrl+Enter - instant Insert. --MarMi wiki (talk) 20:12, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * There's help for keyboard shortcuts in Visual Editor: ? (question mark icon) -> Keyboard shortcuts. --MarMi wiki (talk) 20:20, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

This user interface

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RyanFetcherton/sandbox?action=edit&oldid=0

This user interface doesn't reflect what a typical Wiki page looks like and the process to upload an image is not explain well nor is it easy.

RyanFetcherton (talk) 17:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

How to change the title of the article

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Hak-Nazar_Khan?action=edit The title should be "Hak-Nazar Khan". "Draft:" should be removed.

IskAnar (talk) 11:01, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect author order in automatically generated citation (via URL)
Femke Nijsse (talk) 16:19, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

how can I change the title?

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Wamoc?action=edit

Wamoc official (talk) 14:02, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Read red Warning message in preview. --MarMi wiki (talk) 20:51, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

This section disappears when I publish the page.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:EVanier16/Sandbox&section=14&veaction=editsource&action=edit

Rose Daly (talk) 10:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Probably because the use of the named ref tag is incorrect - instead of  it should be   --MarMi wiki (talk) 20:09, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Dritan Media

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dritan_Media&action=edit

109.69.5.180 (talk) 14:32, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

images won't move

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buriolestes&action=edit&section=1 I can't move the images around on the page. I'm using Google Chrome on a MacBook.

Audrey.m.horn (talk) 14:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

SHSHAHHAS

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duano%E2%80%99_language&action=edit

60.48.32.81 (talk) 03:28, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

I cannot copy references in visual editor and put them elsewhere in the article
I used to be able to copy references in visual editor and paste them elsewhere in the same article or in another article in visual editor in a separate tab, and used to be able to drag it elsewhere in the article to move it to the proper location. In addition, there have been glitches with the reference boxes, and in one case I lost my work because it wouldn't let me save. These issues need to be remedied. While I have no issue editing by source, and have both tabs at the top for my personal settings, it takes more time. Thanks in advance.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:29, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

unable to move media

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suskityrannus&action=edit&section=4 I can't move images around with the mouse as I should be able to with the visual editor. I am using the latest version of Google Chrome.

Audrey.m.horn (talk) 16:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Would like the option to clear some entries from suggested edit message / history

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-locked_loop_range?action=edit

Daviddwd (talk) 02:25, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Drop down menus for template parameters
A user suggested this to me and I thought I would pass it on. It would be super handy to be able to configure drop down menus in the Visual Editor to fill template paramters with a pre-configured set of options. NemesisAT (talk) 23:41, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Just realised I'm on English Wikipedia rather than the MediaWiki site. This suggestion is based on experiences on an independant wiki, not on Wikipedia.NemesisAT (talk) 23:42, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Pre block not rendering

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torbat-e_Heydarieh&action=edit&section=1

The gallery text for the final image in the gallery on this page renders in read mode as preformatted but renders as normal text in the visual editor

101.187.122.96 (talk) 04:05, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Uploading another example photo

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TI-34&action=edit&section=1

I have an older TI-34 calculator than the one published, but when I take a picture, crop it, and upload it, I keep getting an error that they can't determine whether or not it is suitable or if I have rights to the photo.

Richerichnc (talk) 12:52, 18 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello, Richerichnc,
 * You're getting this error because you're a new user, and the volunteers at Commons have decided to block most uploads from new users. (In their defense, they do get an enormous volume of people copying photos off other websites and then claiming that it's "my own work".)  You can try going to c:Special:UploadWizard and see if you have better luck that way.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:32, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Feedback centralization
Most of the feedback appearing on this page is going to be 'centralized' to MediaWiki.org soon. This will specifically affect any feedback that begins with "User agent:". The page is still open to anyone who wants to post manually – although, as it says at the top, the devs may not hear about feedback on this page very quickly.

I ask, therefore, that the regulars watching this page make a habit of alerting a more closely watch page if someone reports any serious-sounding problem. You can do this by leaving a note at VisualEditor/Feedback or the local Village pump (technical) (or pinging me, if all else fails) about any problem that seems urgent to you. They're still interested, but time constraints prevent the team from watching all the separate pages. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:42, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect phrasing!

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNOME_Web&action=edit

It says “Take care to violate third-party copyright” when you click the ⓘ button in the “Screenshot of web browser” textbox in the “web browser” infobox!

Golemwire (talk) 21:38, 22 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for this note, Golemwire. It looks like it was an accidental typo in one of User:Czarkoff's edits.  Czarkoff hasn't edited much recently, but User:John of Reading has done some cleanup work on those docs before; could one of you fix it, and maybe check that it doesn't appear in the TemplateData for any other templates?  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I've fixed that TemplateData, and there are no occurrences of "Take care to violate" on any other page at the English-language Wikipedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:56, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Not showing wikidate

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ospina?action=edit

Why the wikidata Q3568859 is not showing in the english page?

Vivita123 (talk) 15:30, 1 April 2019 (UTC)


 * It is now. It sometimes takes a little while to show up.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:59, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

How to reuse links?

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I want to reuse a link in differnet part of this template, but i can not click the reuse button. Please how can i re use links?

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled:_The_Series?action=edit&section=9#mw-save-preview-cite_note-19

Xiaobao (talk) 14:48, 2 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, you can't re-use refs that are inside templates, because those are 'hidden' to the main toolbar. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:05, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Why no VE on talk pages?
Is the lack of VE on talk pages a technical limitation? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:34, 20 May 2019 (UTC)


 * RoySmith, there are technical limitations (VisualEditor doesn't support Definition lists, which is what these colons that we abuse for fake indenting are about), but there are also design problems. It's a truism that software can be designed to do one thing well, or multiple things poorly.  So either you make it work well for editing articles, or you make it work poorly for multiple uses.
 * Something that came up in the Talk pages consultation 2019, which I'd never thought about before, is that when you want people to do different things, then it really shouldn't look the same. So while there may be a role for posting to a talk page without having to deal with wikitext directly ("a visual editor"), there should also be some signal that this isn't where you should write the article (and perhaps more importantly, that the mainspace isn't where you should chat about the article).  If you've got ideas about how to make them different (but not too different, because we don't all want to learn completely different systems for each namespace), then please share those thoughts at Talk pages consultation 2019/Phase 2.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:17, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

cant seem to find the more/move button

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NabuTheMuseum/sandbox?action=edit

hello! for some reason i cant find the move button to publish the page of the museum

NabuTheMuseum (talk) 08:29, 21 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Replied at User talk:NabuTheMuseum. Pam  D  09:25, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Error when adding citation in Choice Hotels
Tornadosurvivor2011 20:30, 25 June 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tornadosurvivor2011 (talk • contribs)

I've added this to the phabricator bug report system. --Salix alba (talk): 21:20, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Welcome for new editors using VE
Hi, I would like to create a VE version of Template:Welcome training, draft created at User:WereSpielChequers/Welcome Training (VE) any assistance gratefully received.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  08:10, 18 April 2019 (UTC)


 * User:Evolution and evolvability did some good work on help pages for newcomers a while ago. If you're still working on this, you might ask for his advice.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:07, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks WhatAmIdoing, yes any help you can give would be appreciated. I suspect I need to make both welcomes "switchable" between V/E and classic editor. I was helping at a training session a couple of weeks ago, and though the trainer was promoting V/E, there was at least one lady present who preferred the classic editor as similar to html.   Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  18:50, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, apologies for the delay (I marked this as read but forgot tot actually reply!). I'm happy to help out. I'll take a look at your draft this weekend and do a bit of editing. I was genuinely shocked looking at the list of welcome templates that nothing already exists! T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 06:50, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks T. Shaffee, to be fair, most welcomes are basically walls of text re policy and as far as they work they are as good for V/E editors as classic editors. But the training template is designed to give newbies some uncontentious things to do, steer them into areas where they can make their first edits with minimal risk of contention.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  08:36, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

On july 4th 2019; Ruth B. Wikipedia age states she is 23, when she was born July 2nd 1995

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruth_B.&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template%3ABLP_editintro

2A02:C7F:BE67:F400:AC23:94BB:A80:14AF (talk) 17:16, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noticing this - I have purged the page, forcing the software to recalculate the age. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:34, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Removed Image (Mistake)

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sajjan_Raj_Vaidya&action=edit&editintro=Template%3ABLP_editintro I accidentally removed his image. Can you guys upload it again?

Sasmitbataju (talk) 20:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * -- John of Reading (talk) 20:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

visualEditor/Feedback

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_(computing)&action=edit

Seongkooi (talk) 18:47, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

 Edit Cards 



This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:


 * 1) Section editing
 * 2) * The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
 * 3) * The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
 * 4) Loading overlay
 * 5) * The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.


 * Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.  Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
 * Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
 * Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?  We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
 * Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

 * Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019.  They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space.  Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
 * Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Just a reminder that the "Edit Cards" change will probably happen on Tuesday. Feel free to ping me if you have comments/questions/problems.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:27, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

copying and pasting table cells broken
—Joeyconnick (talk) 23:06, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah... found it: . —Joeyconnick (talk) 16:41, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

i cant save my edits. there is a bug HTTP 404

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people_in_Germany?action=edit

Sandcastle112 (talk) 23:33, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

I want to turn this off!

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.143 Safari/537.36

I want to go back to the "edit source"! They should give you an option.

-Crossroads- (talk) 04:36, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , you can choose the editor you want at Special:Preferences. Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:46, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I found this after I sent this message, but I don't know why it changed to the visual editor without me telling it. I don't think I could have done it accidentally, as I was not in Preferences at the time. -Crossroads- (talk) 04:53, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

blank entries added to Tracklist template
3family6 (Talk to me &#124; See what I have done ) 03:43, 7 August 2019 (UTC)


 * This seems to be due to adding the  parameter to the various fields in the TemplateData in Template:Track listing/doc. I've removed these parameters for tracks > 10. See  --Salix alba (talk): 06:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

William Taurua

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/76.0.3809.81 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain?action=edit&section=10

William Taurua 08:16, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Links inside link to file
Browser: Google Chrome 76 - OS: Windows 10 64-bit - Skin: Vector

When using the source editor with syntax highlighter on, when you have links inside a link to a file. The colouring of the square brackets ends at the square brackets for the link and not for the link to the file. If an external link is at the end of a file link (causing ]]] ) at the end, the first two square brackets are coloured rather than the last two ( ]] ] instead of ] ]] ). External links are also not styled when in file links. For example:

should be...


 * A) thumb|This a caption with a  [[ link, okay? ]]  (link colouring and darker background)


 * B) thumb|This a caption with a [[ link, okay? ]]  (link colouring)


 * C) thumb|This a caption with a [[ link, okay? ]]  (no styling / no link colouring)

should be...


 * A) thumb|This a caption with a  [[ link| display  , okay? ]]  (link colouring and darker background)


 * B) thumb|This a caption with a [[ link| display , okay? ]]  (link colouring)


 * C) thumb|This a caption with a [[ link|display, okay? ]]  (no styling / no link colouring)

should be...


 * A) [[ File:example.png |thumb|This a caption with a  external link.  ]]  (link colouring and darker background)


 * B) [[ File:example.png |thumb|This a caption with a external link. ]]  (link colouring)


 * C) [[ File:example.png |thumb|This a caption with a external link. ]]  (square bracket colouring fixed)

should be...


 * A) [[ File:example.png |thumb|This a caption with a  external link , okay? ]]  (link colouring and darker background)


 * B) [[ File:example.png |thumb|This a caption with a external link, okay? ]]  (link colouring)


 * C) Not changed

should be...


 * A) [[ File:example.png |thumb|This a caption with a   , okay? ]]  (link colouring and darker background)


 * B) [[ File:example.png |thumb|This a caption with a  , okay? ]]  (link colouring)


 * C) Not changed

I prefer option A and I'm fine with either option B or option C.

– Brandon XLF   (t@lk)  06:43, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Editor is unusable after a table is inserted
– Brandon XLF   (t@lk)  06:51, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Awards table
Hi, On the Awards tables for BLPs - If you move the result columns across this happens, I have to enter |Won/NominatedPending on a new line for the results template to work, Maybe this should be changed so that when you move columns it then creates them as a new line regardless of whether it was like that before or not, Thanks, – Davey 2010 Talk 17:02, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Completely unrelated to that, just FYI, those tables shouldn't use rowspan. I know this is typical and conventional, but it violates WP:ACCESSIBILITY--3family6 (Talk to me &#124; See what I have done ) 02:36, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Sign button

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

Hello. The new source editing in en.wiki made one aspect of talk page/project/etc. communicating: it has obscured the signature button, which is now two clicks away and is in a long drop-out list. Previously, it was much more easily accessible along other big buttons like Symbols or Links, so I'd like it to return to that position on talk pages. Thank you!

R8R (talk) 15:46, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Ability to bundle references
It would be helpful if there were an easy way to generate a citation with bundled references, such as the case for this edit.--3family6 (<u style="color:black">Talk to me &#124; <small style="color:purple">See what I have done ) 04:01, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

VE hangs while opening
BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:57, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

HTTP 404 when making edits on this page

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.75 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Cadet_League_of_Canada?action=edit

I am adding edits to this page (adding cadet information, training, more about girls in cadet, program information etc) but when I want to publish the information I keep receiving a HTTP404 error

Splatero (talk) 02:52, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

MYCAGITGANO

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myca&action=edit& section=3

112.200.19.128 (talk) 13:41, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Automatic citation error fails in 404

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36

The automatic citation creator feature seems to result in a 404 error when one tries to publish changes to articles using the visual editor. I have attempted to create citations automatically twice and both times I am unable to save my changes.

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Joeyvandernaald/Maurice_Zeitlin&action=edit

Joeyvandernaald (talk) 20:25, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

problem publishing

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Object_relations_theory&action=edit

Hi there, when I go to publish my changes (using chrome) get an error: HTTP 404. I can't save or publish my edits.

Thanks!

Ames86 (talk) 04:19, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

HTTP 404

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tylerjray/sandbox?action=edit

When trying to publish, i receive a 404 error message

Tylerjray (talk) 17:06, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

CHANGE

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12239.92.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.136 Safari/537.36

Hi! I need wiki to change this page to what is currently like. Sorry!

2A02:C7F:966F:8800:2961:E5D:3925:46D0 (talk) 16:09, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Random edit deletion.

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36

On the United Macedonia page I put the possible flag of a United Macedonia, but after 5 minutes it was gone and i want to know why.

CottonMallow (talk) 18:46, 21 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello, please discuss content-related questions and issues at the article's associated talkpage (in this case Talk:United Macedonia). This feedback page here is only for Visual Editor-related feedback about the editor itself. Just a quick additional tip: you can see who reverted your edits and why in the article's edit history - click "View history" on any page to view the edit log of that page. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask at WP:Teahouse, a forum for new editors. I have also posted a few links to basic Wikipedia information on your user talkpage. Hope this helps a bit. GermanJoe (talk) 21:28, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

cmd.exe

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmd.exe

Seongkooi (talk) 13:02, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Can't edit the infobox
Only via VE. What happened? -- <b style="color: black;">Kailash29792</b> (talk)  05:35, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Can't edit the infobox
Only via VE. What happened? -- <b style="color: black;">Kailash29792</b> (talk)  05:35, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

hello i want to change this image in wiki so how can i change this picture

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doli_Armaano_Ki&action=edit&section=3

112.196.171.149 (talk) 06:58, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

I can't find how to insert a table on the right side like they did in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_permittivity?action=edit

Gustav Lindberg (talk) 10:36, 29 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Have a look at, which has examples of tables floated right. --Mirokado (talk) 11:21, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Changes in a few weeks
Parsoid (thing that makes the visual editor possible) is going to change in late October and/or early November. It "should" all be invisible, but if you all start seeing weird results, (not just on a WP:THURSDAY, because I think this will ultimately be a config change rather than code on the normal deployment train), then please ping me. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:30, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Lagging on publishing changes

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miss_Earth_United_States&action=edit&section=1

Sarahlopez546 (talk) 05:18, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

help

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36 OPR/63.0.3368.107

I can't add an image because it already 'exists'. I have tried changing the name of the image to no avail.

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noireallymeanit?action=edit

Noireallymeanit (talk) 09:26, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Cut
Lfstevens (talk) 06:57, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Adding invalid dates
The editor allows invalid dates to be added. It could be one of the citation insertion bits but a number of websites just give a numeric date in the cites. As an example from soompi.com it allows 1531510450 to be input. See this edit. Keith D (talk) 21:08, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Copy/paste anomalies
Lfstevens (talk) 17:49, 30 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Lfstevens, it seems to work for me (I didn't try to save it). Which paragraph did you try to move?  (Please ping me.)  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:33, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * The final paragraph. Saving wasn't a factor. Tried again just now. Attempted to cut the final paragraph. Got the flash and the cut didn't take. Lfstevens (talk) 05:01, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Lfstevens, I think this is supposed to be fixed now. Please ping me if it's not.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:04, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

404 Error When Publishing Changes

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:International_Student_Exchange?action=edit

Hello, I am trying to publish an update to my article, however, I am receiving a 404 error each time I click "Publish Changes"

Eleanore36 (talk) 16:13, 18 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Eleanore36, this is supposedly fixed. Please leave a note on my user talk page if you're still having this problem.  Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:05, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Having trouble enabling visual editor
I can't enable visual editor.

LemonsForever (talk) 20:47, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Visual Editor not working on English Wikipedia
71.169.160.57 (talk) 10:47, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Universal Studios Japan

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Studios_Japan&action=edit&oldid=913128374

2601:206:4080:A680:4466:635C:B031:D04B (talk) 05:40, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

update the name of Rockliffe parkway and bus route no longer services the museum.

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ottawa/Rockcliffe_Airport&action=edit

198.84.217.108 (talk) 01:03, 6 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ but make future request at the talk page (eg Talk:Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport) – Brandon XLF   (t@lk)  02:40, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Difficulty properly formatting

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 9; Tablet; rv:68.0) Gecko/68.0 Firefox/68.0

While I was discussing an AFD, I was unable to format links outside of the Article namespace, and it was difficult to format my comment.

Luke Talk  02:00, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Universal Studios Japan

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Studios_Japan&action=edit

2601:206:4080:A680:185B:4642:F31F:4C89 (talk) 05:09, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

I can't save!

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

I worked on this article for 3 hours but I can't save!!!!!! Please HELP!!

JakeTheIV (talk) 19:59, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Regarding adding of two castes in India i.e.Devesar and Prashar

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan?action=edit&veswitched=1

Sharmaadvocatevivek (talk) 08:40, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Adding to the Edit box the NoWiki code

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.87 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Editing&veaction=editsource

Wouldn't it make sense to add the NoWiki code somewhere to the Edit box? I keep forgetting how I can make a url/square brackets/accolades appear without them invoking a template or so. Thy

SvenAERTS (talk) 02:38, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 403)

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=97.7_Record_FM&action=edit&redlink=1 Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 403) during publishing

Jiame Josh (talk) 22:04, 2 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for finding this error. We've now fixed it. Sorry for the disruption. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 16:00, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Deactivate

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; Moto E (4) Plus) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.92 Mobile Safari/537.36

I want to deactivate this account. So please solve my problems

Gufran Raza (talk) 17:53, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Population density in square miles.

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk?action=edit Can't change the population density per square mile in the infobox section.

JanekD30 (talk) 18:23, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Because it's auto calculated from population_density_km2. Also see Template:Infobox_settlement. MarMi wiki (talk) 21:24, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Include format when copying table cells
Please consider including formatting—e.g. background, alignment, etc—when copy/pasting cells in a table. It seems easy enough to include the whole content in the cell—e.g. —rather than selecting out the text part only—. Is it?

Perhaps later, one could also think of implementing paste values and paste format options. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guarapiranga (talk • contribs) 15:07, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Table cell background colour
Please consider including a palette of background colour options on the editor ribbon. Cheers. Guarapiranga (talk) 07:56, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

editor has lines mis-spaced

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Crystal_Palace_F.C._season?veaction=editsource&section=12#Player_statistics

Using Chrome to edit page, there is a dummy blank line in editor window. Cursor position on screen when editing then does not match the logical position within the data, so editing mistakes will happen.

Spike &#39;em (talk) 09:59, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Wp editor.gif All the lines below "Stephen Henderson" are mis-spaced, so I can type on that blank line and it puts text in the next real row about "Vicente Guita". I have tried resizing browser width to no avail. Spike &#39;em (talk) 10:08, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually, if I make browser window so wide that the 3rd line (starting "{{updated" is on one line, then the problem goes away. Spike &#39;em (talk) 10:12, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

{{VE Bug2 | description = Editor has lines mis-spaced, changes made to page do not appear where expected | intention = Editting table contents | steps = | results = phantom blank line appears, cursor position misreported, text appears separate to cursor | expectations = | site = User:Spike 'em/sandbox/Tab1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Crystal_Palace_F.C._season?veaction=editsource&section=13 | browser = Chrome 78.0.3904.97 | OS = Windows 10, build 17763 | skin = Vector | notes = Have highlighted the phantom line in yellow, note the lines warning of potential spelling errors above where they actually occur | workaround = Resize browser window so that it is not in the width range above }} Spike &#39;em (talk) 14:01, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Clicked on Edit Source on the Appearances and goals section in Player Statisics
 * 2) Was met by a screen with a phantom blank line and squiggly lines indicating misspelling in places where there is no text
 * 3) When I click on some text in middle of page to place cursor and then type, the new text appears in the line below (the line that should be where the cursor was place should the phantom line not be there
 * 4) It happens each time I edit the page
 * 5) It seems to depend on where a long line of text at the top of the table is split when window is resized. If split is in the hyphen in the middle of "crystal-palace" in the url, the strange behaviour happens with a browser width of between 1214 and 1569 px.
 * I think this is still a bug, as it does behave strangely, but I stopped the problem occurring in this edit by removing a large amount of whitespace at the end of the "Stephen Henderson" line. I've left a copy of the problem-some table (with the whitespace) at User:Spike 'em/sandbox/Tab1, which I can still reproduce the problem with. Spike &#39;em (talk) 14:45, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Photo is incorrect

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Esteban_Salas_y_Castro&action=edit&gettingStartedReturn=true

How do I change this picture? Don Salas y Castro lived way before the onset of photography. There are no known pictures of him; however, it is known for certainty that he was a bi-racial man, with African features. This picture is totally inaccurate.

Gonzalezme (talk) 14:35, 8 December 2019 (UTC)


 * There is no photo in the article, nor has ever been as far as I can see. Pam  D  16:29, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Sir i am compeletly ending my article and press the publish buttun but my article is not show in other google and even my google why ?

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; vivo 1724) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.96 Mobile Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Therasana&action=edit

Jigar singh charan (talk) 18:05, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Submitting drafts: by Submitting for review or by Drafts. The first one is probably more preferable, as the article need some corrections before the final submit (extra spaces and adjustments for English language). MarMi wiki (talk) 20:28, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Techical difficulty editing my draft, " [1] [citation to reliable source, print or e, goes here] keeps popping up beneath my references

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12499.66.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.106 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Kalleem_London?action=edit

Lenard Bas (talk) 08:43, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_VisualEditor/2 MarMi wiki (talk) 20:37, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , fixed. Also, try to use inline references and try to use cite web. – Brandon XLF  (talk) 20:46, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Text disappearing when you open Visual Editor
 Ergo Sum  00:57, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Foto hochladen

 * User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carl.Bucher?action=edit

Guten Tag Wikipedia Team, gerne würde ich ein Bild des Künstlers Carl Bucher, auf seinem neuen Wikipediaeintrag hochladen, scheitere jedoch immer und weiss nicht weshalb... Da dass Copyright bei uns in der Familie liegt. Vielen Dank für eure Hilfe. Liebe Grüsse, Letizia

Carl.Bucher (talk) 10:35, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tokyo_Woman%27s_Christian_University&action=edit&section=1

112.201.74.13 (talk) 02:45, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

VE producing inside ref in frwiki
Hi. I tried to report this problem on Phabricator, but quickly closed without investigating... On frwiki, it has been several weeks/months that VE is creatings things like. The (Aujourd'hui means today) is supposed to be initialized with the date where the reference has been added (it's the access date). The template doesn't define this default value in the TemplateData (cf. API call: "autovalue": ""), but in some situations it seems to be added nonetheless by VE. Any idea on where to look and how to fix this problem? --NicoV (Talk on frwiki) 18:56, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Someone would put Mix106.3 instead of 1CBR

 * User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.4 Safari/605.1.15

Bassie f (talk) 20:59, 30 December 2019 (UTC)