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Apr 27 2025
Reccomend closing as invalid.
Firstly, there is a rule on Tech News of not posting essentially the same thing multiple times.
Secondly, the audience of Tech News are wiki users, which can not use this in gadgets (T340477) or templates (T355242) and have no use for this yet. There is a developer newsletter, use that instead.
Thirdly, wiki users are not your testers. Hire a QA person since you need this. WMF having a massive reserve fund and asking for testing is out of order.
Apr 9 2025
Apr 8 2025
Commons revisited it's discussion on MP4 in 2019, allowing some usage. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals/Archive/2019/11#We_don't_have_enough_videos,_some_proposals_to_Improve_the_issue_of_meagre_video_files_on_Wikimedia_Commons
Mar 15 2025
Feb 2 2025
Vefsafn.is uses the Heritrix web crawler engine, with some additions, most of which affect how the site crawls the web, not the public webservice. Vefsafn.is requires a cookie, it will not work without one.
Jan 28 2025
I got the explanation on why the sole is.wikipedia user, Akigka supported moving from GoogleTranslate to MinT. We had a discussion on https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Afstaða_til_vélþýðinga where he said that he dislikes Google Translate and just took the first available opportunity to move away from it. They did not know much at all about MinT/Flores/NLLB and proceeded with agreeing to find alternatives to MinT.
Jan 26 2025
Jan 18 2025
Not going to be fixed locally.
Jan 16 2025
In https://scontent.frkv1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.8562-6/196203317_1861942553982349_5142503689226033347_n.pdf?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=b8d81d&_nc_ohc=3N_gjbmpNbIQ7kNvgGB9tqb&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent.frkv1-2.fna&_nc_gid=ALDapvsTm0A3ZSEogQwhX6F&oh=00_AYDzPuK0U348nAe5_xXD1qmCn1qWBSegpH0fuTw0u9YEmQ&oe=678E734D the Flores English to Icelandic score is 25,2% BLEU. That score is worse than even Google Translate. Compared to 66% with Greynir, the difference is 2,6x fold.
So, the writing is firmly on the wall (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/writing_on_the_wall) for flores/nllb.
There is also the research on NLLB-200 vs Greynir in Faroese. According to it, Greynir/GPT-4 is better than NLLB-200. Faroese is the closest modern language to Icelandic. Old norse is closer, but it is also an defunct language.
Jan 13 2025
@Pginer-WMF Since you pinged me and to answer the question.
The first thing I notice with the difference between Greynir and NLLB-200 is that Greynir does declensions but NLLB-200 seems to put a lot of words into the nominative case.
Icelandic is a declension heavy language, unlike English. Nouns, for example, commonly have around 14 different declensions. I would compare the declension usage with Spanish and Polish rather than English.
As such, the text from NLLB-200 is less complete and almost always needs fixing when it comes to declensions, while Greynir does not have that problem.
Jan 5 2025
Jan 2 2025
Dec 31 2024
Dec 28 2024
Yep. There is a precedent for this. There is an edit link in Wikidata bridge when Wikidata statements are used in Wikipedia. On top of that, multiple community templates do the same in that situation.
If there will be no link, then undoubtedly someone will create a template with a link to the chart on commons. Then it will become common practice to use said template with every chart invoke. Or the chart extension could just add that link itself.
Dec 13 2024
Dec 10 2024
Seems relevant:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54265699/how-to-align-the-x-axis-name-label-to-the-end-of-the-x-axis
https://github.com/apache/echarts/pull/9273
If that is not enough, then custom ticks are also a thing as an indirect fix.
Dec 5 2024
This is stalled on T179769. Minor wikis are not going to change magic links while any VisualEditor change can change them back to magic links. It should be an obvious non-starter.
Dec 4 2024
Dec 3 2024
Can reproduce with the following steps
Dec 2 2024
Aug 14 2024
It is orders of magnitude harder to move graphs from the original wiki to commons, than to have them in the data namespace on the original wiki. This is especially true if the move is done with a bot. This mostly effects the datapoints, the design is often shared between hundreds or thousands of graphs.
Aug 11 2024
Jul 31 2024
Jun 21 2024
Jun 14 2024
The way I see it "simple" is for all languages, so it could be simple German, simple French, simple Spanish, and so on. Using it for simple English only would not be appropriate. I do agree that using "simple" as an example is not that great. I got "en-basiceng" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codes_for_constructed_languages, but I have also seen "en-simple".
Jun 12 2024
I think users need to make some fixes here. The conclusion is clearly to use standards.
May 12 2024
May 8 2024
Hi,
I would like to add Icelandic Wikipedia (is.wikipedia) to the list.
Community consensus: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Heimildalausar_greinar:_EditCheck
May 1 2024
I was able to find 60% of my queries by visiting "https://superset.wmcloud.org/sqllab/?savedQueryId=" urls from my browser history. I have those back through saving "a new query". Trying to save those by updating them did not work; I got a "Your query could not be updated" error.
Apr 22 2024
This was addded in T87261, which asked for a gray box.
Apr 12 2024
The largest thing here would be having the current namespaces as aliases, especially in the Template and Module namespaces. This will create a massive mess otherwise, although it will only be for a while.
The projects that we have are small and often inactive for long periods.
Not true with Wikipedia and Wiktionary, but the rest, yes. Speaking of which, there has been NO discussion of this in the Icelandic projects. Agree with the required conseus.
Apr 7 2024
Apr 4 2024
Apr 2 2024
Fixed on wiki. Thanks for the information.
Mar 29 2024
Mar 28 2024
There is something weird going on. An auto-confirmed, non-sysop can not see the link. The manual says
If $wgUploadNavigationUrl is set to a url, the link is always shown, regardless of the user's permissions.
Either that is a lie or the change was not applied correctly. It could be that I am forgetting something, but nothing is pointing me in that direction. Uploads are limited to sysops on is.wikibooks. I have a theory that only sysops can see it.
Mar 21 2024
MediaWiki-extensions-IPReputation seems to be the exact project. It seems to use the risk data from spur, https://docs.spur.us/data-types?id=risk-enums. Spur and stopforumspan do not track the same thing. According to a security researcher, there definitely are groups that do lower risk level stuff like spamming, but not higher risk stuff like spur tracks. There are also groups that do both. LTA (Long term abusers/vandals) reports created by users on WMF projects show the same thing.
As for handing the task over to the team responsible for iPoid and IPReputation, they clearly allready have their hands full.
Mar 19 2024
Mar 15 2024
Mar 11 2024
Template:License template tag is also in FileImporter:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/FileImporter/+/7df62d4fb3d6b49c7d96ed13045031af0632e3f3/tests/phpunit/res/IntegrationTests/detailRetriever.json line 277
Mar 8 2024
There is an false positive here. When the about.com domain was added to the Global Spam list, it was said that old versions of the domain where fine. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2023-04#about.com ) So, if an user archives an already present about.com link, they would be, under this bug, blocked from editing. That is problematic.
Mar 5 2024
Sometimes new editors copy articles from one title to another because they do not know how Special:MovePage works, and are in fact fully unaware of it's existence. It is an false positive for an copy-paste copyvio check.
Mar 3 2024
Icelandic Wikipedia here. We mostly use English Wikipedia styles, with a handful of styles from spanish wikipedia.
Feb 28 2024
Not that my opinion has any weight, but I have some opinions on this. I think that a lot of these ideas can be done with Vega5. Since Vega4 it has supported layers, and that unblocks potentials that where not possible with Vega2. The map provided by JTanner is doable, probably even with Vega2 (although Vega2 will not be used). I am conserned about the number of dots though, Europe would probably be better as an one highlighted area, as WMF projects rarely use map closeups, but there are third party tools users can use to reduce the number of the dots. The route-map is also doable in Vega5.
Feb 20 2024
Feb 17 2024
Maybe just block them?
Feb 9 2024
Jan 28 2024
Icelandic ISBN numbers are also a problem. They are managed by the National library (https://landsbokasafn.is), which does not have an search engine for them. They are added to "Global register of publishers" (https://grp.isbn-international.org), but that only shows publishers, not books, and is thus inadequate for Wikipedia use.
Prior to WorldCat's removal from Citoid, they showed up just fine.
Jan 26 2024
Jan 24 2024
Jan 21 2024
Those need an function that accepts arguments, not frame. For example, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:SDC_tracking needs "function p._SDC_statement_exist(args)", "function p.SDC_statement_exist(frame)" will not work.
Oct 29 2023
All of those icons are in codex, their names are (from top to bottom):
cdxIconMoveLast ltr version, cdxIconInfoFilled, cdxIconHeart, cdxIconSuccess, cdxIconTag rtl version, cdxIconTrash, cdxIconDoubleChevronStart rtl version.
They are all the largest variants of the icons, 20px.
Oct 15 2023
The solution here is fine, but the problem is non-existant. It is a classic case of an solution looking for a problem.
In W3Cs standard (the same organization as was behind HTML4) alternative text is supposed to be short. See https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/G94
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility/Alternative_text_for_images#Basics says the same, so the editor is trying to violate the rules of the project he edits the most to. It so happens that the creator of this ticket pointed out the latter point out to me, so I know he has no valid argument here.
Let's not waste more time than necessary.
Oct 9 2023
The problem is that button is not in the Page namespace - random example: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(German_II).djvu/1&action=edit
Oct 8 2023
Sep 29 2023
Things missing (probably not exhaustive):
- Green button in "Set filters" under the "Set filters" link on the special page - or decide to use a blue one
- Date picker for "Set filters" under data range - T91148
Sep 21 2023
AutoWikiBrowser has an database scanner using the dumps. Just pointing it out, seems relevant.
Sep 16 2023
<span class='cdx-button'>Button text</span>
on a wiki page gives incorrect background color and color of the border. Tested on old vector skin.
Aug 29 2023
It would be nice to have the "Perennial sources" list under the community config page so it can be turned off on the small and medium sized wikis, most of which do not have one.
Aug 27 2023
Aug 19 2023
As for inserting the characters from the perspective of medium and small wikis, it would be best to add them to "special characters" in the editors, preferrably all three (Wikieditor, VisualEditor, 2017 wikitext editor).
Jun 30 2023
Might want to send a message to Arjunaraoc user talk page at https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Arjunaraoc since he is the only interface admin on that project and that te.wikisource was mentioned in T340682
Jun 23 2023
It would be nice to fetch the first page thumbnail up on visiting the Index page, using the same method as with the "Page" namespace. The "Page" namespace preloads 1024px for the previous and next page. That way, an user can upload PDF/DjVu, create an index and the first page is ready when the user saves the index.
Confirmed. 1024px is pre-fetched from looking at the previous page in the "Page" namespace. It does preload 1024px even if you use an higher resolution. Making it dynamic/calculated from the users resolution would fix the issue.
Jun 22 2023
Jun 21 2023
Jun 19 2023
If I create the json page, I get blocked with the error message "JSON should be an array". There is "{}" in the edit box by default, I did not add to that.
Looked at Recent activity on my account and saw nothing. That is despite me having around 30 saved queries. I have alpha and OAuth rights.
Jun 18 2023
Looked at my browsers networking tab, loaded the same wikipage in "Page" namespace on wikisource and switched my resolution around, with these results:
Jun 17 2023
I would suggest keeping ladsgroups patch, but limiting the max to 10, instead of 50.