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Please unbreak Template:Not done

Latest comment: 7 years ago20 comments8 people in discussion

Hi. Some updates on the template have made the image and the text be separated by a line break. Can we have that fixed, please? Thanks. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 20:27, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Sometimes I can see it on the same line, sometimes on two line, strange. Stryn (talk) 20:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
  Works for me   Not done looks fine to me? @MarcoAurelio: is this happening consistently for you, or only in certain usages? — xaosflux Talk 21:12, 27 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Xaosflux: Meta:Requests for CheckUser information, the request "Pasha UA, Никита-Родин-2002, Liza Veniza & Vladislav Pavlov" section - "Marking these as Not done and out of scope", it shows as separate lines. -★- PlyrStar93. →Message me. ← 18:45, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Properly the software problem, look like now back to normal. SA 13 Bro (talk) 19:03, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Now shows as separate lines again. SA 13 Bro (talk) 19:10, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Check now, the problem at Meta:Requests for CheckUser information appears to have be related to its inclusion on the same line as an missing-end-tag html error, resolved with this edit. — xaosflux Talk 20:30, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
But it happens on every page + directly on the template page. I just took a screenshot: imgur.com. Stryn (talk) 20:55, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Stryn: try now? — xaosflux Talk 21:11, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Never mind, adding a left float fixed it, but ONLY if it is the first thing on the line. Removing the language features also fixes it, but seems undesirable. — xaosflux Talk 21:13, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Looks to be an issue that is occurring when Template:LangSwitch and all of its selection lines are used, see also Template:Checked. — xaosflux Talk 01:08, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Xaosflux: whilst playing, if you look at the template's history, you will see that it had an extensive list of languages in an earlier form, is that something that we wish to add back?  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:39, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Billinghurst: looks like the problem is coming from having that template/module in there at all right now, I'm just not sure where yet - the number of total languages shouldn't be an issue. — xaosflux Talk 01:43, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Quick hacked (Special:Diff/17980332, Special:diff/17980333). bdi breaks line. I do not know why that happened.--rxy (talk) 03:24, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. I see it right now. We should consider using server-side messages instead of creating ridiculously large templates: see https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADone&type=revision&diff=17980981&oldid=17653912 for the hack I've done to {{done}} and phab:T141740. Thanks, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:45, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Any hacks that can be done for {{doing}}? -★- PlyrStar93. →Message me. ← 23:20, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
@PlyrStar93: same hack applied, try now. — xaosflux Talk 01:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Xaosflux: Looks good now, thanks! -★- PlyrStar93. →Message me. ← 02:00, 30 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Be careful if you attempt to insert "bdi" tag wrappers around: the MediaWiki parser does not allow them to be embedded (it fails to recognize that as valid); the workaround is to use "span" wrappers with pseudo-equivalent CSS, but this is more compelx than you think: normally "bdi" should have "unicode-bidi:isolate", but there are still many old browsers around that don't implement the "isolate" value but only "embed" (the same browsers also implement "bdi" using "embedded" default style and not "isolate", and they are also uysing the older Unicode algorithm when "isolate" was not defined, and also don't recognize the Unicode characters that were encoded later for equivalent Bidi controls).
Isolation is the best solution, embedding is a reasonable fallback that works most of the time. So to have recurvely embedded isolates, don't use the bdi tag (due to the Mediawiki parser bug), but span tag with **two** CSS properties (the first one setting unicode-bidi to "embed", then overriden by a second one to "isolate"). However "bdi" tags are not limtied to jsut inline content, and can be used normally to also have block contents. It's not easy to find an universal equivalent of the very useful "bdi" tag.
I just hope that MediaWiki will be finally fixed to parse bdi tags correctly (this bug has been reported since long!). For now it is broken : depending on cases, you need to use "span" or "div" (it's not possibly to choose reliably in Template:LangSwitch without adding a context) plus the two CSS style properties. The recent change uses "bdi" but it breaks many pages where they are embedded (MediaWiki bug), the best solution would be to have a parameter to set the name of the tag to use ("span" or "div" instead of just "bdi")
Note that initially there was no bdi at all, no wrapper, the termpalte was made to used bith both inline and block content and did not infer any forced line-break; adding bdi causes theseunexpected line-breaks because MediaWiki incorrectly parses "bdi" as if it was a block content, and incorrectly thinks it cannot be self-embedded.
Do not use any newline in this template (except possibly *within* the noinclude section, but not around that section. I duggest removing that new bdi completely: users have to know whaere it is necessary to include a wrapper in the context of use. Making "bdi" the default behavior will just break too many pages and templates, the new parameter is also so badly named, it should should have been a neutral "elt=*" parameter to specify if we want a "elt=bdi", a "elt=span", or a "elt=div", and with a "span" or "div" value we could add the two needed CSS properties automatically or a class name to do the equivalent with the global CSS stylesheet!
I urge MediaWiki to look at the issues about the incorrect parsing and assumptions about bdi: reread the HTML specs, this element has *mixed* content, it is neither inline, nor block like what is currently incorrectly assumed (this breaks lot of pages)! This bug is in MediaWiki since so many years (bdi is not new in HTML even if its prefered styling was later changed to use "isolate" rather than the old/deprecated "embedded" bidi style) ! Supports for bidi "isolates" is strongly recommanded for internationalization and the "bdi" element is the only one we have that can reliably and simply use it without lot of complication in all variants of HTML (but only MediaWiki parser is completely broken here, non-conforming at all to the standards and all recommendations). verdy_p (talk) 11:48, 30 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Notice to administrators — consideration of application of autopatrol right

Latest comment: 7 years ago5 comments4 people in discussion

Special:Abusefilter/161 has been implemented in a rather strict means to stop the editing of another person's user page. This has come about due to local abuse and the consequential impact upon global user pages. For the history please see the archives of this page, and reviewing the filter itself.

Consequences of the filter as written is that it restricts the ability of general users without administrator- or bureaucrat-allocated rights from reporting spambots or direct abuse by new users. With this filter, the means to allow trusted users to mark problematic pages is to allocate the autopatrol right.

If the administration of this filter is problematic, then we can look to changing the filter to manage the acceptable users by other means; or let us restart the conversation and look to the manner and amount of abuse that we will accept, the process to removal, and our tolerance for abused user pages to show globally.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:29, 1 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

This is a very sensible measure. – Ajraddatz (talk) 22:39, 1 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
It is new, but most of the stops are legitimate, for a few false positives (namely the tagging of pages for speedy deletion) the quick fixes are the give the taggers autopatrol if they warrant it - that way they are able to proceed in the future. — xaosflux Talk 11:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Agree with Ajraddatz & Xaosflux. I suggest to use user_rights-->autopatrol instead of contains_any->user_groups-->array --Steinsplitter (talk) 13:10, 2 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Steinsplitter: agree, optimized to that. — xaosflux Talk 13:57, 2 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

How to ping a group of people... Help!

Latest comment: 7 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I need to speak to this group of Wikiproject current active participants about the available scholarships to attend Wikimania. How do I ping or mass message them so that the message falls directly to their individual talk pages?

I don't quiet understand how this here works. Please help. Bobbyshabangu (talk) 06:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Bobbyshabangu: "ping" is part of notification and triggers a notification to people that have "mentions" enabled in their notification, using a mass-message will leave a note of their talk pages, on enwiki you can see: w:en:Wikipedia:Mass_message_senders for how to prepare the message, and w:en:Wikipedia_talk:Mass_message_senders to request the mailing be sent out. — xaosflux Talk 11:26, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

user:virajmishra

Latest comment: 7 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello everyone I'm virajmishra please help me Why stewards is not unlocking my account in globally. Because I came after 3 month. And i don't have any other account neither i have created any editing. Please Help me. i have accepted my mistake and my behavior. Im very very sorry. Please give me a only one chance. Thank you very much brother. Please help me. someone not help me but you please help me because i realized my behavior and mistake But now I will never do anything. Please check and unlock my account. 2409:4043:806:7F09:83:FE56:368:E58E 03:37, 7 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Please don't post your message to every page. Meta admins don't have tools to unlock you. Follow the instructions given to you by Matiia. Stryn (talk) 04:52, 7 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
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