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request to push for translation Template:Uploaded-files-access-restriction-info

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Hi all

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Uploaded-files-access-restriction-info

Thanks. Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 18:43, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Something now is wrong in the rendering with the new tvar conflicting(?) with MyLanguage around :

<!--T : 2-->
Use the information from {{ll|Manual:Image Authorisation}} and [[Special:MyLanguage/Manual:img_auth.php|img_auth.php]] pages when you have the need to restrict image views and file download access to only logged-in users.}}

producing trailing broken text instead of full transclusion:

 Avertissement : imgauth>img_auth.php</> pages when you have the need to restrict image views and file download access to only logged-in users.

can you correct please ? Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 21:15, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Fixed. Those templates need some hacks to work properly :( Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:36, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

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request to add link in documentation I am getting error due to external links to page

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It seems that you're trying to add an external link to a page Supriya Supugade (talk) 21:37, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

solved. Thank you :) Supriya Supugade (talk) 21:40, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I am also getting the same error Mansi29ag (talk) 11:44, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I tried updating an external link to a page for further reading, because the current links are deprecated but i keep getting this same error, please how can i get it resolved? Prosper Opara (talk) 12:37, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Somehow, after filling this issue here, My changes was accepted.

Thank you :) Prosper Opara (talk) 12:51, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

I am also getting this error , how to solve it? Aashuli (talk) 18:26, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

You need have two edits, and from now, one hour after registration. wargo (talk) 19:29, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Its solved. Thank you!! Aashuli (talk) 04:16, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

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Error creating thumbnail: Unable to run external programs, proc_open() is disabled. Error code: 1

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When uploading new pictures 2600:1700:4070:5280:493F:5127:C245:198A (talk) 21:42, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

The error is pretty self-explanatory: proc_open() is disabled in your host. Please enable it. Also, support questions should go to Project:Support desk! Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:21, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

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Request to add links to "Sites using MediaWiki/en"

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This is to links to wikis that previously weren't on the list. Siwan Li (talk) 11:04, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Feel free to add them to http://wikiapiary.com/

I'm not sure if adding all and every wiki to Sites using MediaWiki/en is relevant, unless they offer anything unique Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

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broken links on hooks pages

For example, see Manual:Hooks/BlockIpComplete.

{{MediaWikiHook }} generates broken link pointing to [1] Shirayuki (talk) 12:34, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Caused by this edit by @Krinkle

There's no way this could work if the full path is not provided. We should either write the full path, or find a way to tell gitiles to do a search for that filename, which doesn't seem possible. Maybe linking to phabricator instead would help? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 21:05, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Removed directory name from category name Special:Diff/3293736 Shirayuki (talk) 12:19, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

There's a few exceptions of hooks that don't exist under includes/, such as Manual:Hooks/ApiBeforeMain which exists right under the api.php entry point. And there's a few hooks under the maintenance/ directory:

https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/core/?q=Hooks%3A%3Arun%5C(&i=nope&files=maintenance%2F&repos=

I was going through some hooks to update the source after I saw this topic, but I've stopped since I recalled not all hooks are under includes/ (although most are). What should be done? I agree with Ciencia that we should write the full relative path.

I'll help with the updates if that has to happen (they needed updating in the first place anyways). SamanthaNguyen (talk) 02:43, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

We can use ../api.php, ../maintenance/cleanupPreferences.php or ../languages/Language.php. See Manual:Hooks/GetHumanTimestamp. Shirayuki (talk) 23:04, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

I didn’t realize the template recognized that, thank you for the pointer! SamanthaNguyen (talk) 23:19, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

One more thing, what should be done with categories for MediaWiki hooks by file and then later turn empty, when the file no longer exists and/or all the hooks were moved somewhere else?

For example:

Import hooks have been updated on-wiki to be under Category:MediaWiki hooks included in WikiImporter.php (includes/importer/WikiImporter.php). They used to be in includes/Import.php (until 1.27), but they've been updated on-wiki to reflect the reality of MediaWiki's current code. Now with the recent edits on the hook pages,Category:MediaWiki_hooks_included_in_Import.php is empty (and of course doesn't exist in current code).

Should these categories like this one be redirected to the new category? Should they be deleted? I'm interested in what others think. SamanthaNguyen (talk) 21:04, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

@Shirayuki: From which version are you including the file source from? The edits I've made were to include the file source from the latest master branch. SamanthaNguyen (talk) 16:06, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

I am using the latest master branch. Shirayuki (talk) 00:05, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Cannot add link to gitlab

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I wanted to change the bug tracker url in Extension:PdfBook, because this project is on GitLab now, not Github.

However, the site doesn't let me do that.

This is really annoying. I just wanted to fix a small issue I've found, to help others and improve the site. Now I find myself filing a bug with MediaWiki because I cannot add a bug in an extension to its page. There even seems to be no way to save my changes at all (I'm not logged in).

I understand that this is probably to fight vandalism, but there must be a better way to solve this. Save the change, and let someone else review it, or whatever. 2003:C1:9F0A:4100:9177:B8ED:BD0D:7309 (talk) 09:07, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

A pretty simple solution would be to allow at least links to domains which are already linked from the same page, as it is the case here. 2003:C1:9F0A:4100:9177:B8ED:BD0D:7309 (talk) 09:18, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

You can also create an account here to be able to add links. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:12, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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how to put external link on my page?

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I am trying to put external link. how can i put that? ITSavanna-Managed-IT-Support-Services (talk) 08:25, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

You can't.

User has also been blocked. Leaderboard (talk) 08:43, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

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Can't create a translation of page

(Error details: You do not have permission to create new pages.) is diplayed. Pacyuchina (talk) 15:32, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Can you post the page you were trying to create, and in which language? Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 18:09, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Here is the page, english language https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Pacyuchina/Yuriy_Kotyk&action=edit Pacyuchina (talk) 08:16, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

The page exists since 21 February. I don't see what's the problem here. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:09, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

But when i'm trying to rename it, or make some corrections there is a "You do not have permission to create new pages" warning(

Pacyuchina (talk) 13:45, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

You may need to BUGREPORT it for someone else to check what would be the problem. Please post exact steps to reproduce (if you want to rename the page, provide the exact page destination. If you are making changes, describe exactly what changes or post the contents of the page that you're tying to save but that gives error) Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:13, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Special:ExtensionDistributor: Unable to fetch extension list!

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Special:ExtensionDistributor on this wiki currently just says "Unable to fetch extension list!". Possibly related: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188692 Larivact (talk) 14:04, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

This is probably due to the current Gerrit outage, see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-March/091744.html

In the mean time you should be able to get copies of extensions via searching Phabricator Diffusion e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/query/Fc8MaJ6GJOrD/#R Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:07, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

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request for translation -> page /wiki/Manual:Hooks

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Hi all

I have added missing < translate > sections at the end of this page :

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks

Thank you. Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 14:11, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Done! Thank you for your work. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:28, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

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Old version of the Support page for anonymous users

I just checked the logged-out version of the Support page. However, for some reason no new edits from 3 hours ago are showing up.

Did a hard-refresh for both logged-out and logged-in versions. Checked on Chrome and Firefox.

Anyone else having the same issue? AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 16:23, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

I just checked and saw topics from an hour ago. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 16:48, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Still having the same issue.

Appears to be related to user IP. Using an HTTP proxy from Slovakia, is showing 2 days old posts on the Support page. Korean proxy is showing the hours-old ones mentioned in OP. Canadian and Bolivian proxies appear fine. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 17:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

I can also confirm that it displays topics older than 2 days ago.

Apparently, the problem is because it's a redirect, and the page is not purging the redirect URL, only the main support desk. I wonder if this is also a problem for redirects to non-structured discussions pages... Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 21:30, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Yes, Project:Support is working fine, while Support is still frozen at the time mentioned in OP which is 15 hours now.😕 AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 04:29, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Wanted to just note that the issue still persists. Some regions get the older version of the redirected Support page, while Project:Support works fine. AhmadF.Cheema (talk) 13:19, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

This isn't happening for me anymore now. This may be worth a bugreport Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:25, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

request for translation for pages: /wiki/Writing_systems and /wiki/Localisation

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Hi all

I have added missing < translate > sections on following pages :

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_systems

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation

Thank you. Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 20:00, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Done. Note that some of your translation units are very large, and you might benefit from splitting them up. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 20:44, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

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Lock pages for user groups

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Hello everybody,

I want certain groups of users on certain pages to have no access and can not see these pages. Can something like this be set up?

Thank you! :) Nigro2019 (talk) 13:52, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

@Nigro2019: There are no plans to set up this behavior on mediawiki.org, no. (Also see the info box on Project:Current_issues) AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:59, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

If you want something like that on your own wiki, though, try asking in the support desk. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 16:40, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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Adding new link issue?

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Hi. I am Sahil, Co-founder at ServerGuy and MageHost. We wrote a blog on redirecting HTTP to HTTPS on serverguy blog and have published a new updated article now on magehost.com blog with both apache and nginx. I tried adding this new link by editing this article, but it is not allowing me to do so:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cavila/Force_request_over_https

Am I doing something wrong? Sahilchugh serverguy (talk) 12:52, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Why does it not allow you to do so? What happens when you try? AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:31, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

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cannot translate page title Project:Uploaders/fr

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Hi all, the subpages of Project:Uploaders have their page title being always 'Uploaders' in the translated pages. In fact the page title is never proposed for translation (but done on all other pages). Can someone correct the original EN wikitext such as everyone could translate title Project:Uploaders/xx in his own language ? Thank you.

link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Uploaders Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 12:01, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

ok good - thanks. Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 15:10, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

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translation depending on the gender of the template parameter

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How to adapt gender of translated text depending on the value of EN parameter in the template 'Bundled' ?

See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template_talk:Bundled/fr

I want :

Cette extension est fournie avec MediaWiki 1.21
Ce skin est fourni avec MediaWiki 1.18

but not as actually :

Cette skin est fournie avec MediaWiki 1.18

Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 17:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Modified Template:Bundled (Special:Diff/3166913) Shirayuki (talk) 21:39, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Good job! very difficult to analyse. But it works. Now the problem is with 'it' in text "This extension comes with MediaWiki 1.32 and above. Thus you do not have to download it again.". Some languages as FRench do not have a neutral gender. So when referring to female gender (as for 'extension' or 'version') we use 'la' and for male gender (as for 'skin' or 'habillage' we use 'le' to translate the 'it'. What we get now is:

Cette extension est fournie avec MediaWiki 1.32 et supérieur. Ainsi vous n'avez pas besoin de la télécharger à nouveau.</code> Ce '''skin''' est fourni avec MediaWiki 1.18 et supérieur. Ainsi vous n'avez pas besoin de '''la''' télécharger à nouveau.

Extension and version cases are ok, but skin case is to be corrected. We want instead:

Ce '''skin''' est fourni avec MediaWiki 1.18 et supérieur. Ainsi vous n'avez pas besoin de '''le''' télécharger à nouveau. Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 14:58, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Can you omit "it" like Japanese translation? Shirayuki (talk) 22:42, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Marvellous ! This last version is good.

Cette extension est fournie avec MediaWiki 1.32 et supérieur. Ainsi vous n'avez pas besoin de la télécharger à nouveau. Néanmoins, vous devez encore suivre les autres instructions fournies.

Cette extension est fournie avec MediaWiki 1.21 et supérieur. Ainsi vous n'avez pas besoin de la télécharger à nouveau. Néanmoins, vous devez encore suivre les autres instructions fournies.

Ce skin est fourni avec MediaWiki 1.18 et supérieur. Ainsi vous n'avez pas besoin de le télécharger à nouveau. Néanmoins, vous devez encore suivre les autres instructions fournies.

We keep that as it is. Big thanks ! Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 10:02, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

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