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Some problems in mobile view with infoboxes on simple.wikipedia
[edit]On mobile view on Simple English Wikipedia, certain contents on infoboxes don't appear centered as they are supposed to. I believe this problem started several weeks ago. For example: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Carpenter shows the photo and the line "musical career" centered on desktop view, but left aligned on mobile view. Also https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/London shows the line "capital city" centered on desktop view but left aligned on mobile view. The problem doesn't exist on English Wikipedia although Template:Infobox appears the same, so I don't know what's causing this. Could someone please help? TagUser (talk) 22:00, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- I want to confirm that this has been resolved. The problem was solved by updating https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Minerva.css . TagUser (talk) 00:52, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
Tagalog Wiktionary Logo and Name Change
[edit]I am an admin from Tagalog Wiktionary, a Wiktionary site that has been not very active over the years. Now, I'm planning to revitalize the site and I'm planning a rebrand of an updated name and logo. The updated name would be "Wiksiyonaryo", adapting the Tagalog term for dictionary : diksiyonaryo. The logo would be the same, just having a native text caption "Wiksiyonaryo: ang libreng diksiyonaryo".
Now, what do I need to get this done? Are there guidelines that I need to keep in mind? Thanks! Ysrael214 (talk) 20:40, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Ysrael214: Does the guidance at Requesting wiki configuration changes help with what you're looking for? Best, —a smart kitten[meow] 12:26, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Upgrade and unrecognized models
[edit]Hello, I upgraded my two Wikis from MediaWiki 1.25 to 1.43.1. But not all templates are recognized. For example: New Wiki: https://www.europe-politique.eu/wiki/Groupe_de_l%27Alliance_radicale_europ%C3%A9enne_(ARE)
Thank you very much for WikiMedia and for your help! Lo2b (talk) 10:45, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- Please ask questions concerning the Mediawiki software at the Mediawiki support desk. Count Count (talk) 10:51, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- OK, sorry for the mistake! 46.30.204.3 13:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
[edit](Apologies for posting in English)
Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.
Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:07, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Help with 15 year old implementation upgrade
[edit]Yes, I know. Any pointers for even attempting something like this ?
Thanks Chris Cawley Chris.cawley (talk) 20:24, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- Not really the right place to ask for this. Would ask over at mw:Project:Support desk, and say what version of MW you're reading. Best advice is taking a backup, both of files and the database.. And then seeing what happens from there Reedy (talk) 20:31, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Small size
[edit]In the most recent version of MediaWiki, I noticed that the space between lines got reduced. I tried to search for the logs but could not find it. Is there something that has been fixed? Note that I am on mobile browsing using the desktop interface. This only affect Vector 2022 with Small font size set in the "appearance" menu. ToadetteEdit (talk) 08:51, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- I believe this was related to the bug phab:T394305 and it should now be fixed. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:30, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Request to Enable TranslateTagger as a Gadget
[edit]TranslateTagger: Adds a toolbar button above the edit form to automatically insert <translate> tags around any untranslated text using the TranslateTagger API hosted on Toolforge.
This is already available as a gadget on MediaWiki.org, and the request is to enable it as a gadget on Meta-Wiki as well.
Reference: Gadget list on MediaWiki.org
Script used: Gadget-TranslateTagger.js
Tool: https://translatetagger.toolforge.org/ Gopavasanth (talk) 07:57, 16 May 2025 (UTC)