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Здравствуйте. Куда идут пожертвования?

@Михаил1920: Please elaborate what this has to do with Wikimedia tech. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:24, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Is there a problem?

I can't reach en.wiki and downdtector lists it as unreachable for many people - 1840 reports and climbing. - Bri (talk) 23:06, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

There is a problem with the datacenter that serves users in the West Coast / Pacific regions ("ulsfo"), it's been temporarily disabled while the SRE team looks into the cause. But you should be able to connect to Wikipedia just fine now. Legoktm (talk) 23:09, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed, it's back. And downdetector reports are falling. Will this be discussed somewhere? Maybe Wikitech-l? - Bri (talk) 23:11, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for the trouble! This was caused by an interruption in network service between our ulsfo data center and some parts of the Internet. As Lego says, we're routing user traffic to other data centers while we troubleshoot further, so everything should work normally again.

For more details, watch for an incident report posted to wikitech:Incident status in the next few days. RLazarus (WMF) (talk) 00:03, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. For the record, downdetector had a peak of 1,839 reports at 1451 UTC-8 (Pacific), a little more than an hour ago. - Bri (talk) 00:11, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Help with adding Auto-Citation in my Home Wikipedia

I have been redirected here by one of you stewardess or whatever you call the role of a Wikimedian.

Please go here--> https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usapang_Wikipedia:Kapihan#Coming_soon

A bit of summary: I wanted to add an auto-cite in Visual Editor of Wikipedia Tagalog similar to that of English Wikipedia. Since I am not in control of the functionality and the codes of Wikipedia, can someone add it in our Wiki please? I can help in the translation and formatting and some admins too. Please ping me for immediate reply. --Likhasik (talk) 06:30, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

@Likhasik: Hi, please see Requesting wiki configuration changes to request enabling Citoid (though e.g. phab:T222956 implies that this might be pretty much self-service). Thanks!, --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 07:17, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

@AKlapper (WMF): If it’s self-service, this page is exactly the right place to ask, not Phabricator.

@Likhasik: To follow mw:Citoid/Enabling Citoid on your wiki, you partly need administrator or interface administrator rights on Tagalog Wikipedia (steps 1 and 2a), partly no extra rights unless the citation templates are protected (step 2b). Feel free to ask if the tutorial is unclear, but your community has the rights to do this yourselves. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:42, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Mejorar la pagina.

Buenos dias. Tengo un hijo especial a el se le dificulta escojer los videos por ejemplo del Chavo del 8, si ubiera la posibilidad de de organizar los videos que estan de lado derecho, por ejemplo; si voi aver videos del Chavo estos aparecen a la derecha en forma vertical pero mezclado con otro tipo de video y si se pudiera seleccionar con el raton cada video del chavo y moverlos y organizarlos que queden puros videos del chavo en forma vertical y estos se ejecuten uno a uno en forma secuencial.

Espero que esto le sirva de algo.
                Douglas Leal.P.

Correo: [email protected]

Social Profile $wgUserStatsPointValues

Hey commuinty,

i am fairly new to MediaWiki, so i am very glad if you can help me.

We want to use the Social Profiles to give Points for different Tasks a User has done.

I allready checked the following pages

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile/Technical_documentation

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile

but i didn´t find all events i was looking for.

The Idea is to give Points for the following actions

-User signs in to the plattform for the first time

-User adds a profile picture for the first time

-User creates a page (everytime)

-User Adds content to a page (everytime)

-User approves a page (everytime)

-user participates in a discussion (everytime)

-is there also a posiblity to give Points for custom events? Like visiting a Page?

e.g.

$wgUserStatsPointValues['edit'] = 50

like

$wgUserStatsPointValues['approvecontent'] = 10

$wgUserStatsPointValues['visitaspecialpage'] = 10

$wgUserStatsPointValues['participateindiscussion'] = 10

$wgUserStatsPointValues['customevent'] = 10

thx much in adv.

@Creamriper: Hi, this page is "A place to talk about tech related to a Wikimedia wiki." This does not sound like a Wikimedia wiki. See your post on mw:Project:Support desk (please don't post in various places). Thanks. (PS: Please sign your posts.) --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:29, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Hey @AKlapper (WMF) thx for your reply and sry for my Post, but i didn´t get any response in the other forum yet so i tried my luck here.

As i still need support for my question, maybe you know someone who can help me or you know another forum where i can get support?

thx much in adv.

Manfred Creamriper (talk) 08:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Creamriper: Please see the side bar on mw:Project:Support desk. Thanks, --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 08:34, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

My first java script code

I have never written Java Script in my entire life (besides a few "Hello world" programs ;)) and want help with this script. It will start simple, and all I want for now is a button somewhere on the sidebar that says "Create null edit", mostly as an example to add the buttons I actually want. Please can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks! L10nM4st3r (talk) 11:07, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

@L10nM4st3r: You have some typos in the second line: it should be e.preventDefault(), not e.eventDeafult(). (This is why I love TypeScript: if it was TypeScript, it wouldn’t even compile, and the compiler gave a helpful error message. But we don’t have TypeScript support for on-wiki scripts.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 15:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I fixed it. I don't see any buttons that say "Create null edit" still. Where are they even ment to appear anyway? Or is the other script I read it from also not giving a button either? (The Wikipedia null edit script) Or do some browsers not support this (I checked Java Script was on before I asked this. It is.) L10nM4st3r (talk) 17:17, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

I have changed the script after a bit of reading and experementing. The new idea is to move the "move" tab too the tools sidebar. Please can somebody tell me why it won't work. I copied it from the 2013 archive file. L10nM4st3r (talk) 22:43, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, the 2013 is the issue. addOnloadHook has been deprecated since 2013 (commit fcf4934a5275) and recently has been removed. You should use $ (a single dollar sign as the function name) instead. By the way, this version of your script works for me, it puts the link in the More ▼ dropdown menu between the search field and the watch star. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 01:41, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

I feel as if I put it in the wrong place... It still doesn't work for me. I even wrote a quick test css file to hide my contributions link that I used in wikibooks, but it didn't work! I wrote it correctly! (I'm using the monobook skin, if it helps) L10nM4st3r (talk) 08:05, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

If you opened a web browser JavaScript console and typed in importScript('User:L10nM4st3r/global.js') (when on Meta-Wiki page), you would see Uncaught SyntaxError: unexpected token: ')'. At the moment, you have got too many closing parentheses on the second line. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 22:21, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

I accidentally found myself on a page that led me to the MonoBook.js file used by everyone who uses MonoBook. I saw an interesting function, could I call it from my java script file, or do I need to make a new "MonoBook.js" file in my userspace? Or can I not call it atall and need to copy the code? The function is "addToolboxLink" L10nM4st3r (talk) 08:03, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

If you are referring to this file (please always refer using links, so that I don't have to guess), then yes, you can call it from your code, but you can only do it from your local monobook.js file. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:31, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Also, I made a global userpage here, but if I press on a link to my userpage in wikibooks, it says the page does not exist, but when I press the userpage tab, my userpage from here shows. Does making an empty page work? Or is there something else I must do? L10nM4st3r (talk) 20:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

It was something I did wrong! User "L10n4st3r" doesn't exist... Lol. I do that a lot. My bad. L10nM4st3r (talk) 20:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

I can't make it work and have no explanation as too why. This is wasting my time as well as yours, so I give up. Maybe some other day when I get a web browser that can check for errors, I'll try again. Thanks for trying to help, though. L10nM4st3r (talk) 20:38, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Ukraine

Hello! I want to address a mistake not of a technical but of an ideological nature. Why, in mid-March 2022, does Wikipedia still allow discussions about the spelling of the preposition "on" / "in" next to the name of an independent country? I am a philologist, and more importantly, a humanist. That's why I'm for sure aware of how language and rhetoric could affect the reader's worldview. I would like to start with making changes in the russian translation of the article about Vyacheslav Chernovol. Thanks for the answer!

Hi, this page is for technical wiki questions. For content, you'll need to ask your question on the Wikipedia that you refer to. (PS: Please sign your posts.) Thanks, --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 07:25, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Cross-wiki linking not working for... some reason?

I was trying to link the English wiki article for Arnold McCuller in the Portuguese Wikipedia like this: [[en:Arnold McCuller|Arnold McCuller]], but it resulted in it not showing. A similar test I made in the English Wikipedia's sandbox produced the same result, but it works just fine here on Meta. Is it just my browser or is it some weird glitch? Wizzito (talk) 04:37, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

The correct syntax for making a link is with a colon at the beginning: [[:en:Arnold McCuller|Arnold McCuller]] → Arnold McCuller. Without the colon, it may be interpreted as an interwiki link and added to the left sidebar. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:29, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Wat veroorzaakt deze foutmelding

Mijn provider heeft het pakket met mijn wiki verplaatst naar een nieuwe server. Nu krijg ik bij het openen hiervan ( wwwat54-wiki.nl) een foutmelding waar ik niet meer kan Wat kan/ moet ik doen om mijn wiki weer werkend te krijgen. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gharryh08aep (talk) 21:42, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

@Gharryh08aep: This page is for questions related to Wikimedia wikis, not to MediaWiki wikis in general. Please ask at mw:Project:Support desk (with a bit more details, for example a working link). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 01:12, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

GAG Wikipedia

Hello, please add Modul:Wikidata and other important Moduls on Gagauz Wikipedia. --Santorica (talk) 07:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

@Santorica: There is a plenty of Wikidata modules around. You need to choose those that work best for your wiki. See also Small wiki toolkits/Starter kit/Templates and Modules. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:23, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Delete account please

Hello. I would like to know how to delete this account, I set up.

I had no idea how to use it and found it difficult to navigate and made many mistakes.

Please delete, or let me know how to. Thank you. Ig Oliver

Special:CentralAuth/Ig-oliver --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 09:51, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello. Once created, user accounts cannot be removed entirely. You may be able to request a courtesy vanishing rename by filing a request at Special:GlobalRenameRequest. Note however that accounts with active blocks are usually not eligible for renaming. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:07, 28 March 2022 (UTC)