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
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:, what is your point? What are you trying to do? Your edit link above does nor identify your problem.· · · 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
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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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 {{lang-zh}} and even {{short description}}. 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)
Please mention if it's reproduceable/if you attempted to reproduce or not. -->
Results:
The template parameters aren't recognized by the visual editor; it appears template data doesn't load.
Expectations:
for {{zh}}, |t= is recognized as "traditional characters" instead of "t"; |s= is as "simplified"; etc. In {{short description}}, the description parameter is shown as suggested.
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.
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.
Using the option to add a reference and letting it fill in details from a URL it gives an invalid date of |date=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.
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.
Hello @Ian7759:, 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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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?
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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Copying the {{extinct}} 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)
@Shyamal: As an experiment, I create an instance of the {{extinct}} 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
Resolved
- I now see that this came out as number 5 in the 2019 Community Wish List survey. Let's hope we get some action! PamD 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 Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Repeated_citations 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#Footnotes:_using_a_source_more_than_once 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. PamD 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"! PamD 08:35, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
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)
@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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@Rose Daly: Probably because the use of the named ref tag is incorrect - instead of <ref name="NSHS" /<ref>...</ref> it should be <ref name="NSHS">...</ref> --MarMi wiki (talk) 20:09, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Dritan Media
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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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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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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.
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)
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 mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or the local Wikipedia: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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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!
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)
@Golemwire and Whatamidoing (WMF): 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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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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019/Phase 2. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:17, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
cant seem to find the more/move button
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Thanks WhatAmIdoing, yes Evolution and evolvability 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. ϢereSpielChequers 18:50, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
@WereSpielChequers: 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&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. ϢereSpielChequers 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
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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:
The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
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.
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.
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)
trying to copy and paste the contents of cells into another table or section of the same table
Steps to Reproduce:
as follows
First open a table in the Visual Editor
Then copy some cells
Finally attempt to paste those cells elsewhere in the same table or a different table
Results:
the copied cells are pasted within your selected cell as a new table
Expectations:
previously, and correctly, the contents of the copied cells overwrote the selected cell (and whatever other cells were needed to fit the copied content (this changed probably in May or June 2019)
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
Bug report
VisualEditor
Mito.money
Please app{}
Intention:
add wikilinks
Steps to Reproduce:
#I added a wikilink to the album infobox, and made some minor edits to some of the producer credits
I added a wikilink to a producer within the tracklisting template
This seems to be due to adding the suggested=true parameter to the various fields in the TemplateData in Template:Track listing/doc. I've removed these parameters for tracks > 10. See [2] --Salix alba (talk): 06:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
William Taurua
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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:
[[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link]], okay?]] should be...
A) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link]], okay?]] (link colouring and darker background)
B) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link]], okay?]] (link colouring)
C) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link]], okay?]] (no styling / no link colouring)
[[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link|display]], okay?]] should be...
A) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link|display]], okay?]] (link colouring and darker background)
B) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link|display]], okay?]] (link colouring)
C) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [[link|display]], okay?]] (no styling / no link colouring)
[[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org external link.]]] should be...
A) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org external link.]]] (link colouring and darker background)
B) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org external link.]]] (link colouring)
C) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org external link.]]] (square bracket colouring fixed)
[[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org external link], okay?]] should be...
A) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org external link], okay?]] (link colouring and darker background)
B) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org external link], okay?]] (link colouring)
C) Not changed
[[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org], okay?]] should be...
A) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org], okay?]] (link colouring and darker background)
B) [[File:example.png|thumb|This a caption with a [https://en.wikipedia.org], okay?]] (link colouring)
C) Not changed
I prefer option A and I'm fine with either option B or option C.
Hi, On the Awards tables for BLPs - If you move the result columns across this happens, I have to enter |{{won}}/{{nom}}{{pending}} 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, –Davey2010Talk 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 | See what I have done) 02:36, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Sign button
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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!
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 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 04:01, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
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
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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.
Hello @CottonMallow:, 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
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Have a look at {{Stack}}, which has examples of tables floated right. --Mirokado (talk) 11:21, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Changes in a few weeks
mw: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
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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 |date=1531510450 to be input. See this edit. Keith D (talk) 21:08, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Copy/paste anomalies
Bug report
VisualEditor
Mito.money
Please app{}
Intention:
move a paragraph with its references to another spot in the article
Steps to Reproduce:
Edit article LiMux. Select the last paragraph in the article. Cut.
Results:
The page flashes and scrolls, but the text is still visible.
Expectations:
Text would disappear without scrolling and be pasteable. It is not.
Page where the issue occurs
Web browser
Chrome 77.0.3865.90
Operating system
Windows 10
Skin
Monobook
Notes:
This is one of various anomalies. If you edit the source strange red markings appear around the paragraph. Attempting to cut the text without the ref instead cuts the text, etc.
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)
@Whatamidoing (WMF): 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)
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)
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
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. ||align=center style=background:yellow | 243,567 ||—rather than selecting out the text part only—|| align=center style=background:yellow | 243,567 ||. 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
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.
example of visual editor problem 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 '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 'em (talk) 10:12, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
Bug report
VisualEditor
Mito.money
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Intention:
Editting table contents
Steps to Reproduce:
#Clicked on Edit Source on the Appearances and goals section in Player Statisics
Was met by a screen with a phantom blank line and squiggly lines indicating misspelling in places where there is no text
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
It happens each time I edit the page
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.
Results:
phantom blank line appears, cursor position misreported, text appears separate to cursor
Have highlighted the phantom line in yellow, note the lines warning of potential spelling errors above where they actually occur example of visual editor problem
Workaround or suggested solution
Resize browser window so that it is not in the width range above
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 '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
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.
Submitting drafts: by Submitting for review or by Wikipedia:Drafts#Publishing_a_draft. 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
Lenard Bas, fixed. Also, try to use inline references and try to use {{cite web}}. – BrandonXLF (talk) 20:46, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Text disappearing when you open Visual Editor
Bug report
VisualEditor
Mito.money
Please app{}
Intention:
Edit a sandbox page with Visual Editor.
Steps to Reproduce:
Open a page in my user sandbox, click Edit (i.e. with Visual Editor).
Results:
All the text on the page disappears, and if you try to save the page, you get "Something went wrong: Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 400)"
Expectations:
The text should not disappear and the page should save.
Page where the issue occurs
Sandbox in my English Wikipedia userspace
Web browser
Google Chrome version 78.0.3904.108
Operating system
macOS Catalina version 10.15.2
Skin
Vector
Notes:
Workaround or suggested solution
I will quit Google Chrome several times, wait a bit, and it will be working normally again.
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
VE producing {{safesubst:...}} 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 <ref>{{Lien web|langue=|auteur1=|titre=Red Star 93|url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_Football_Club|site=https://www.redstar.fr/|périodique=|date=|consulté le={{safesubst:Aujourd'hui}}}}</ref>. The {{safesubst:...}} (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
Resolved
Fixed -- John of Reading (talk) 20:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
to start editing.
Done but make future request at the talk page (eg Talk:Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport) – BrandonXLF (t@lk) 02:40, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
