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thk

User-agent:Android-10


URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Richboyofsocialmedia&action=edit

Richboyofsocialmedia (talk) 13:09, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Request for change name

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kharfak?action=edit

the name is Kharfaq Lake

Saleemullah pPasha (talk) 14:41, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

dina

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

HRE kyinyot


62.16.165.158 (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 400)

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention: Student was trying to create a references section in their userspace
Steps to Reproduce: I'm posting on behalf of a student - they were trying to add a reflist template to their sandbox and instead got an error message. I've asked them if they were still having the same issues, but I wanted to post here as well.
Results:
Expectations:
Page where the issue occurs
Web browser
Operating system
Skin
Notes:
Workaround or suggested solution

Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:36, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Cannot save my changes on the wiki page

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention: Creating a wiki page for a mountaineer, Sunita Singh Choken
Steps to Reproduce: Each time I try to publish my changes, I get an error - Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 400)
  1. First
  2. Then
  3. Finally

Please mention if it's reproduceable/if you attempted to reproduce or not. --> Yes reproducible

Results:
Expectations:
Page where the issue occurs
Web browser Chrome Version 79.0.3945.117 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Operating system Mac
Skin
Notes:
Workaround or suggested solution

Mountaineers JC (talk) 04:27, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Mountaineers JC, is this a recent problem? The servers are unhappy right now. You might try again in an hour or two. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Parameters being added by default?

Hi there, I wish I had more examples of this, but I keep seeing, in BLP articles, blank |death_date= and |death_place= parameters being added by default (I assume) by the Visual Editor. An example here. Is this by design? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:45, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Cyphoidbomb, those parameters are added because someone marked them as either "suggested" or "required" in the template's TemplateData. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:57, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
@Whatamidoing (WMF): Hi there, I appreciate the explanation. Do we need these parameters added by default to every biographical article? They could be there unused anywhere from 0-100 years. Seems unnecessary unless a person dies. Should I ask elsewhere? I'm not a big fan of VisualEditor making AWB-like actions on the backs of unsuspecting novice editors and I've reported similar issues before. Thanks and regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:20, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
That decision is entire under the control of local editors. Edit Template:Infobox person/doc#TemplateData if you want to change it. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:30, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
@Whatamidoing (WMF): Thanks kindly. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:58, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Error publishing my Username's description

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12607.58.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.86 Safari/537.36

It won't allow me to submit and publish changes. A message "Error Parsoid/RestBase Server HTTP 400" keeps popping out.

ShepBranson (talk) 21:06, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

I want to delete this page

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

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Bassie_f&veaction=editsource

Bassie f (talk) 00:37, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

How to save my notes in my Sandbox?

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; Touch; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; Tablet PC 2.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Figbird/sandbox?action=edit

Newbie, question

Figbird (talk) 06:00, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Tóc Tiên

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/Sports/Sidebar&section=10&veaction=editsource&action=edit

Beodeutk (talk) 02:12, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadoc?action=edit I keep getting the error message in my subject when I try to save my edits.

Taylwardii (talk) 06:44, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

~~I am having this problem too. User:Jaygg

Pogrešna mapa

Кориснички агент: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0

URL адреса: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Church,_Lazarevac?action=edit

Prikaz lokacije ispod slike pokazuje Burovo kao lokaciju, a crkva je u samom centru Lazarevca

AlexitoSRB (talk) 11:35, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Adding 10 Point Plan to his page

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(psychologist)?veaction=edit&section=3

I added two sentences about Dr. Williams' Plan, while President of ABPsi, which helped many students get into graduate schools of psychology. I am working on linking the Plan to this wikipedia page. What would be the BEST and most permanent site to post the Plan for link connection?


RparkerWilliams!1 (talk) 14:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Top of article Nested Infobox with same line termination resulted in entire page being treated as transcluded

The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane article starts with a nested infobox,

{|{{Infobox Aircraft Begin
  |name = Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane 
  |logo =
  |image = Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane 1918.jpg
  |caption = Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane in 1918
}}{{Infobox Aircraft Type
  |type = [[Missile]]
<!-- Other parameters here -->
  |variants with their own articles = 
}}|}

Changing the ending from:

}}|}

to

}}
|}

allows the VisualEditor to function.


Note that a similar malfunction with the desktop Wikipedia page rending showed the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane hover text as :

|} The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a ...

instead of

The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a ...

See the edit at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hewitt-Sperry_Automatic_Airplane&type=revision&diff=942045487&oldid=896091373

--Lent (talk) 07:18, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

error

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Senayat7/sandbox?action=edit

Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 400)

Senayat7 (talk) 22:19, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

"Cite " problem

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventotene?action=edit When trying to use CITE a blank box drops down and remains on the page.

IslandVita (talk) 16:55, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

we are missing dubbing versions of bhootnath

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention:
Steps to Reproduce:
Results:
Expectations:
Page where the issue occurs
Web browser
Operating system
Skin
Notes:
Workaround or suggested solution

2406:B400:D1:82E4:DC22:9873:25A6:7D36 (talk) 10:31, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Infobox

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Au.andrea/sandbox?action=edit Is it possible to remove this info box?

Au.andrea (talk) 04:16, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

How to add no wiki ???

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Omda4wady?action=edit

I can not add no wiki tag

Omda4wady (talk) 11:05, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Omda4wady, are use using the Visual Editor of the code editor. If you're using the Visual Editor, just press X or escape when the popup appears and the text will be nowikied automatically. If you're using the code editor, you can wrap the text in <nowiki>...</nowiki>. BrandonXLF (talk) 23:38, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 400)

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention:
Steps to Reproduce: It occurs every time I try now
Results: Changes not saved or published
Expectations:
Page where the issue occurs
Web browser Chrome 80.0.3987.132
Operating system Windows 10
Skin
Notes:
Workaround or suggested solution

Elpitts (talk) 17:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, Elpitts. I'm sorry that you ran into this problem. Server errors are not your fault, and there's not much that you can do about them. Usually, if you wait a while (usually a few minutes, but it could be longer), it will start working again. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:47, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Cant add a Graph:Chart template

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Serbia&action=edit&section=3

Xuexu (talk) 19:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Printing

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_paintings_by_Johannes_Vermeer&action=edit I wish to print out this page for further reference

Janitaly (talk) 10:26, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Janitaly, printing happens by your browser... menu File->Print. Key combination Ctrl-P (Windows) or Cmd-P (MacOS), or the "Print" link in the left bar of the website. —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 11:17, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Citation numbering issue (only in visual editor)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel)?action=edit

The numbering for the citations on this page should be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., but instead it's displayed as 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, etc.. The first "2" is cited in a block quote, so perhaps it's being "ignored" by the VisualEditor's counter for that reason.

Beaker Bytes (talk) 22:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Name correction request

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36 Edg/80.0.361.69

Currently, Republic of Korea and Japan is in dispute of naming issue. Please correct the name both; East sea and Sea of Japan

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan?action=edit

Tim Ko Gangbaek (talk) 06:32, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Gbk1004, please use the article talkpages for the respective articles for such concerns, and also check the archives of these talkpages for previous discussions and information as this question has been repeatedly discussed in the past. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 06:51, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Unable to cite in document.

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Southpaw20/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template%3AUser+sandbox%2Fpreload

Stopped being able to cite references. This empty box appears each time. Also the reference section of document disappeared.

Southpaw20 (talk) 23:54, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Ishi Ozalla

I was trying to create a page - Ishi Ozalla, but I keep getting error contacting the parsoid/RESETBase server (HTTP 400) at the end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ikemunachii (talkcontribs) 19:10, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Error to Upload of Images

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Template%3AAfc+preload%2Fdraft&editintro=Template%3AAfC+draft+editintro&title=Draft:Hermann_Hess_Helfenstein&create=Create+new+article+draft

Dears: It is not possible to upload any Images. Please¿What Could Happen with this Biography? Thanks for support. Roland Hess


200.104.134.44 (talk) 23:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

editing not showing

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Georgina_Downer?veaction=editsource

I was editing the first ref, attempting to change cite web to cite news, but with the cursor just after the b of web, backspacing and typing news did nothing visually, but then the https in the url was changed to newspps

Newystats (talk) 21:48, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Biology in modest

Wikimedia group — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.115.125.84 (talk) 10:51, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

The box of examples in phonology shoiuld be in the previous section

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bengali_language&action=edit&section=10

Simrin Khan (talk) 04:08, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Visual editor cannot be accessed on talk pages when adding new section.

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12739.111.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.162 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:IPA&preload=Template%3ASubmit+an+edit+request%2Fpreload&action=edit&section=new&editintro=Template%3AEdit+template-protected%2Feditintro&preloadtitle=Template-protected+edit+request+on+22+April+2020&preloadparams%5B%5D=edit+template-protected&preloadparams%5B%5D=Template%3AIPA

14bauhr (talk) 18:11, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't think that VE works on any talk page.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 20:37, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

The webserver is blocking me from choosing an edit summary in Custody_of_Strangers

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:In_the_Custody_of_Strangers&section=new&veaction=editsource


The webserver is blocking me from choosing an edit summary Custody_of_Strangers.

Dhsert (talk) 22:22, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

@Dhsert: This isn't specific to 2017 wikitext editor; it also occurs by design in the new-section mode of Visual Editor, the "classic" textarea editor, and the mobile wikitext editor. Pelagicmessages ) Z – (06:57 Sat 23, AEST) 20:57, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Since this involves adding a new section to a Talk page, I've left a note ([1]) at the Talk Pages Project. I have also copied your feedback to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback#Can't modify edit summary for new section in NWE [2]. — Pelagicmessages ) Z – (07:33 Sat 23, AEST) 21:33, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

spelling error in title

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanisation_in_India?action=edit

There is a spelling error in the title that I cannot fix

IanFreebern (talk) 00:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Ian, this page is for feedback on the Visual Editor (VE) and New Wikitext Editor (NWE), though "leave feedback on this software" mightn't be clear in that regard. The best forum for questions like yours would be the Wikipedia:Teahouse, but I can answer here. Page titles are different from other headings in articles: changing them involves "moving" the page to a new name. Urbanisation rather than urbanization is the correct spelling outside USA, so that spelling change wouldn't be supported by the community. (I blame Noah Webster.) We do have guidelines about when to use US English versus British/Commonwealth English; sorry I don't have the relevant links handy. We do have a redirect from the alternate spelling Urbanization in India. Thanks for your interest in helping to improve spelling on Wikipedia, I'm sure you'll find plenty of other spelling and grammar issues to fix! Please reply about whether you found this answer satisfactory. — Pelagicmessages ) Z – (08:03 Sat 23, AEST) 22:03, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Photograph upload

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Palmer_(author)?action=edit

I am attempting to upload a photograph of Helen Palmer from her 1920 passport. It is a picture in the public domain. I am unsure why wikipedia will not let me upload it. It adheres to the guidelines.

Aazacz (talk) 20:13, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Aazacz: the preferred process for public-domain images is to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, then insert a special File: link into the Wikipedia page to display the image. You can get more help at Wikipedia:Teahouse. Pelagicmessages ) Z – (08:26 Sat 23, AEST) 22:26, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Table won't add row below or delete row

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention: Add a row below an existing row or delete row
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create table with this code:

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center" |+List of extended plays, with selected chart positions !Title !Released !Label |- ! ! ! |- ! ! ! |- ! scope="col" rowspan="2"|Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2"|Released ! scope="col" rowspan="2"|Label |}

2. Try to add row under lowest row 3. Also try deleting bottom row

IDK how reproducible this is - it sometimes happens, sometimes doesn't.

Results: Literally can't add row beneath, or delete bottom row. Can only add rows above
Expectations: What were your expectations instead?
Page where the issue occurs User:3family6/sandbox
Web browser Chrome 81.0.4044.113
Operating system Windows 10
Skin Vector
Notes: Any additional information. Can you provide a screenshot, if relevant?
Workaround or suggested solution I REALLY wish I had one. Table editing is bad enough in wikitext, it's absolute frustrating misery in VE.

3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 20:04, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, 3family6, thanks for the detailed error report. I tried your example and confirm the behaviour (iOS Safari, both Vector and Timeless). I also couldn't insert columns in this case. If I remove scope="col" rowspan="2" from all cells, then things return to normal. After adding back the rowspan on just one cell, it still seems okay. Have you seen this in other situations, or is it possibly isolated to cases where all cells in a row have rowspan? (I'm not a dev, just another Wikipedian.) Pelagicmessages ) Z – (09:28 Sat 23, AEST) 23:28, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
I think it's particular to cells that have a row in rowspan, but I'm not sure. I can't even reproduce this error all the time.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 23:42, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

How do I make suggestions, rather than just edits?

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opinion_polling_for_the_2020_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=3

Hi all,

This article has an error in the tables. It fails to include the number of voters who were "Don't know" or "Refused to answer". For the latest 1 News poll this was a massive 16%, so must be shown in the results table.

However, I'm a new Wikipedia user and don't want to mess it up. I also don't have the time to do it. How then, do I leave an action/suggestion in here?

Cheers Geoff

Geoffnz1 (talk) 21:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

"Publish changes" doesn't work

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens?action=edit

When I click "Publish changes", nothing happens. The button blinks dark blue, but the page never saves. The pencil tool to switch to source editing is similarly disabled. I can reload the page, after clicking yes to the "discard your changes?" dialog, and the resulting page will helpfully reload my unsaved edits. But I still can't save them. Firefox 74.0 under Win 7E (I edit all the time, never had this problem before.). Any suggestions? Thanks!

Gould363 (talk) 13:33, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

javas

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greifswald&action=edit&section=3

2607:9880:4068:98:4578:951:F5D8:74A1 (talk) 11:30, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Democrats?action=edit

I attempted to insert the group logo (a png file), and keep running up against limitations. Unclear how to proceed. Thanks for any help.

Jwhelan2020 (talk) 17:30, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

IP should be able to use this

I think IP users should be able to use this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsla1337 (talkcontribs) 10:45, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Tsla1337 / 1.Ayana! There are two entry points to Visual Editor (that I know of) that are disabled for IP editors on English Wikipedia:

  1. Dual edit tabs for Edit source and Edit [visual].
  2. Switching edit mode with the pencil icon.

(Actually, I didn't realise before now that the second one was unavailable for IPs)

French Wikipédia has both, Japanese has single edit tab (wikitext) but you can switch. Enabling the switcher might be a proposal for Wikipedia:Village Pump. Pelagicmessages ) Z – (19:13 Sat 23, AEST) 09:13, 23 May 2020 (UTC) — minor edit Pelagicmessages ) Z – (19:20 Sat 23, AEST) 09:20, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

It was meant to be available (and has been for years), but they accidentally broke it earlier this year. A fix was just released. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:58, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Table editing that actually works

I tried to find the answer to this but wasn't sure where to find it, or if there is one: Is there an estimate on how much longer it will be before Visual Editor can actually, properly work for table editing? I don't even mean bug free, but usable to the point where it's quicker and easier than markup editing. Example: How on earth do I create the following in VE?

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions
Title Released Label Chart positions
US Gospel US Christ US Rap
Church Clothes May 10, 2012 Reach 10 10 75

Until that is doable, VE is next to useless in creating discography articles or new sections in discography articles. I've spent probably three hours at this point trying to figure it out, because I want to learn, but it's getting extremely aggravating and frustrating.--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 19:45, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. You can ping me when you have questions. This edit shows me adding a table like this one. You click in the empty places to add your content, select multiple cells when you want to merge them for rowspan and colspans. To set the background formatting, you go to the dropdown menu in the toolbar that usually says "Paragraph", and select either "content cell" (plain) or "header cell" (bold text and gray background). Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Changing reference to different type

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_delle_Femmine?action=edit I have only been editing in Visual mode. I have three references that have been flagged as circular as they reference other Wikipedia pages. I can change those three references to underlying references but I cannot change the type of reference, i.e. the template from a web citing to a book citing. I thought to delete the three and add new ones be again, I see no instructions to delete a reference.

One last question, in the READ mode the circular references have one set of numbers but in edit mode the reference numbers change with the circular tag. I guess I change what is flagged as circular even though the reference number is different?


JiminiVecchio (talk) 18:39, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

How do I remove Edit summary history?

I want to remove previously entered edit summaries that the visual editor remembers (which is entered in the pop up after you press the blue "Publish changes" button. Where do I delete the previous edit summaries that are visible in the dropdown on the editing box? The help section has nothing on it, nor the help editing community central at Fandom. Outside the visual editor I can delete those by simply pressing delete (or swiping them away on mobile presumably). I wasn't able to do this from within the Visual Editor. --Loginnigol (talk) 08:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Error

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossings_TV&oldid=962716746&action=edit

I keep getting a visual editing error while editing this page

Crossings TV (talk) 16:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

school

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

i like school and it is fun and do you like school as well thank you

95.146.212.205 (talk) 15:45, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

math

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

i love math and do you?

95.146.212.205 (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion for table editing

Inserting tables using VE would be much more efficient if one could select the desired number of columns and rows similar to how one can when using source editing. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 22:16, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Unable to visually edit

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36 Edg/83.0.478.58

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Haller?action=edit

I cannot do visual editing on this page. Please assist

Shreerajtheauthor (talk) 13:54, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Disregard. I figured it out.

Shreerajtheauthor (talk) 13:59, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I don't know how to save but not publish

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vermabhishek/sandbox?action=edit&veswitched=1&oldid=966136096

Vermabhishek (talk) 09:43, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

how can I change the photo of the profile of Pomnyun?

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pomnyun&action=edit&editintro=Template%3ABLP_editintro

Taeyeun (talk) 02:25, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Shortcuts not mentioned on the Keyboard shortcuts page

I came to the page Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Keyboard_shortcuts to see a full list of keyboard shortcuts available in VisualEditor. Especially the uncommon ones; the others (such as Ctrl+C) are more generally known and thus less important to mention on that page.

But I can see that not all keyboard shortcuts are mentioned. For instance, typing <ref will open an "Add a citation" dialog, and typing {{ will open an "Add a template" dialog. These are not mentioned. I came here to see other shortcuts like these. And I believe the primary place to place information about keyboard shortcuts would be on the page for keyboard shortcuts. Could someone who knows all the shortcuts add them to the page (or at least tell me where the list is so I can add them)? I only discover them by chance/accident with a few years in between, but I would like to actually see the entire list. --Jhertel (talk) 13:42, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for a late reply, Jhertel, I don't normally monitor or visit this page. I have a list of magic character sequences compiled at mw:User:Pelagic/Mobile keyboard shortcuts for Visual Editor. Pelagicmessages ) Z – (20:26 Sat 23, AEST) 10:26, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, Pelagic! Perfect! --Jhertel (talk) 12:02, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

What happened to my content in the sandbox?

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:SMangal77/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template%3AUser+sandbox%2Fpreload

SMangal77 (talk) 18:31, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Cannot change title which is inaccurate & therefore misleading

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_May?action=edit Here is the issue with the title: The title of this article needs to be changed to Henrietta Mabel May because:

1) the woman's name was not simply Mabel May but Henrietta Mabel May (indeed, per a biographer, Evelyn Walters, her nickname was "Henry"),

2) May's life overlapped with that of an American painter named Mabel May Woodward (1877-1945). Contemporaries in the art world may have similar palettes, styles, & subject matter, as is the case with these two painters. In fact, the two paintings this article links to are actually & inaccurately those of the American artist Mabel May Woodward, not the Canadian artist Henrietta Mabel May, so you can see why it's important to distinguish between the names as much & as accurately as possible.

I am explaining why this change needs to be made instead of simply making it because this editing mechanism does not allow me to make such a change. I am guessing that's because not just the title but the file itself has to be changed to change the title. & if you change the file name, you probably will break some links, unless you have some kind of aliasing mechanism to help out. Nonetheless, in the interests of accuracy & to avoid the kinds of mistakes already made, I encourage whoever is empowered to do this to undertake the work required.

Clizjaxon (talk) 17:55, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

plott adding/editing

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGrid_(film) i'm haviing trouble adding/editing a plot section....

A.payne32 (talk) 18:40, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

oman air

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oman air = = = - - - = = = = = = = = = = = -


67.70.90.145 (talk) 21:20, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Image fair use copyright, aso.

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Superdupont.jpg?action=edit


Why not also use this image to illustrate the French version of the very same article? Fluide Glacial and co will never sue any of us! They are on the "same side"! ;)

Dr. Barbich' (talk) 13:08, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Help me

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.89 Safari/537.36

How can I change the topic?

Famous People Of The World 1 (talk) 13:48, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

change the title

Браўзэр: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.105 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aliaksadr_Tsyrkunov&action=edit Please, help me change the title, the name of artist is Aliaksandr.

Наста Свікрос (talk) 08:51, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Памылка ў назве артыкула

Браўзэр: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.105 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliaksadr_Tsyrkunov?action=edit Калі ласка, дадайце літару N у імя мастака, правільнае напісанне імя: Aliaksandr.

Наста Свікрос (talk) 09:57, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Not able to edit a single section only without loading the whole article when using Visual Editor, and this lead to serious lags when doing any operation in long articles.

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.105 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_art&action=edit&section=7

SeikilosLin (talk) 11:57, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

dibya adhikri 13

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.105 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vans&action=edit&oldid=968643691fuhz udgjKYf jdfyht6r


2605:A000:1134:A12E:9522:9C2C:EA38:6CE6 (talk) 18:16, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

l love ako l love 1234 l love ako 1234 l love a ko l love 1234

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49.145.70.203 (talk) 12:28, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Remove spy app immediately

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Yes_(band)&action=edit

174.245.193.92 (talk) 23:33, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Can't publish changes

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans?action=edit

I can't publish my changes or change to the source editor. The error message is "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)".

Swiftestcat (talk) 08:52, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Swiftestcat. Can you try with another browser? Chrome 84 includes a major change on how cookies are handled between domains (by default, cookies, like session cookies, are not transferred between domains unless they are explicitly configured to be sent (SameSite attribute of the cookie). --NicoV (Talk on frwiki) 09:51, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi NicoV. How do I transfer my edits over to another browser? They're currently saved on a tab on Chrome. Is there any way to save them to Wikipedia as a draft? Swiftestcat (talk) 09:54, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't know about that :-( --NicoV (Talk on frwiki) 10:09, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
You could cut and paste the text from the edit window into notepad or similar text editor. You might need to switch to the old text editor. To be able to do this.
There is a chance that your edit session has expired. You get this if there is a long time between the time you first stated the edit and the time when you eventually try to publish. I get this with the text editor, and its normally cured by just pressing submit again. In VE try switching to the normal text editor.
There might be a related bug T255963 Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404). It seems to occur if you take longer than 24 hours. --Salix alba (talk): 11:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

visual editor

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

i am not able to access the visual editor. why?

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despina_Stratigakos?action=edit

Loriannbrown (talk) 21:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

  • More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
  • Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
  • Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[3]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

  • The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
  • Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

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Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Messing up onlyinclude tags

Hello. I've noticed that visual editor automatically inserts carriage returns between onlyinclude tags and any table or template the tags are used around (see e.g. this or this). This has the effect of creating whitespace on the page the pages the templates/tables are transcluded on. Can this be fixed? Cheers, Number 57 16:09, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Its rare for <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude> tags to appear in the main article namespace as they only apply when the page is transcluded. These are normally found in the template namespace where transclusion is common, but visual editor is not enabled. Really we are trying to get visual editor to do a task it was not designed for. You could try filling a bug at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ but I would not be optimistic about getting it fixed. A better solution might be to move the common text to the template namespace. This would prevent the Visual Editor from messing things up.--Salix alba (talk): 18:41, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 400) message

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention: <! - I was trying to publish https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bitsgrafia&action=edit&redlink=1? ->
Steps to Reproduce: <! - What did you do? Describe how to reproduce the problem so that someone else can follow in your footsteps:
  1. First

Upload information accordingly

  1. So

publishing it gave me an error

  1. Finally

Error contacting Parsoid / RESTBase server (HTTP 400)

Mention if it is playable / if you tried to reproduce it or not. ->

Results: <! - What happened? -> I cannot publish
Expectations: What were your expectations instead?
Page where the issue occurs <! - Add URL (s) or diffs -> https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bitsgrafia&action=edit&redlink=1
Web browser <! - Don't forget his version! -> Version 81.1.4222.140 (Official Build) (32 bit)
Operating system <! - What is your operating system? -> windows8.1
Skin <! - Monobook / Vector? ->
Notes: <! - Any additional information. Can you provide a screenshot, if relevant? ->
Workaround or suggested solution Add one here if you have it.


Date of Death

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bum_Phillips&action=edit You have the wrong date of death. It is 2018 not 2013.

172.58.102.158 (talk) 06:47, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

cm dvmsd.fmefmef

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12239.92.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.136 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music_Album_(TV_series)&action=edit&oldid=977404083

2601:500:C280:6720:2021:DBC0:914:CBAF (talk) 03:43, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Changing the title of the article

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brandonbott111?action=edit&veswitched=1

Hi, I'd like to change the title of the article but it is defaulting to my username which is "User:Brandonbott111." I'd like to put the actual company name there but it is not letting me, please help! Thanks.

Brandonbott111 (talk) 04:39, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

The page looks like it might be self promotion and might not meet the notability standards for an article in the main encyclopedia, see WP:COISELF and WP:ORG. As such you should submit the article to the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process, and if an independent editor finds its notable enough they will move it to article space. To do this add the template {{subst:submit}} to the top of your article. You will need to do this using the normal editor and not the visual editor. --Salix alba (talk): 09:02, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Edit to table looks fine in VE, in actuality it breaks the wiki markup

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention: Update the information about political party affiliation in Berkshire County
Steps to Reproduce: I tried to make the edit in VE. I updated the numbers and added another row for the Green-Rainbow Party.
Results: A pipe was added before the template which renders the party colors for each respective party. The addition of this pipe breaks the syntax. Compare the provided diffs. The problem is, editing in VE will not reveal this problem, the colors still render fine. It's only in the markup editor preview window, or after the edit is submitted, that you see that the template is broken by the addition of a pipe. As far as I can tell, the pipe is added automatically and you must make an edit in the source markup to avoid this. I will also note that centering the text is not obvious. Simply adding a new column or row will not duplicate the existing formatting of the other columns and rows.
Expectations: What were your expectations instead?
Page where the issue occurs https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berkshire_County,_Massachusetts&oldid=979977409 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berkshire_County,_Massachusetts&oldid=979979509 ; and original before my edits: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berkshire_County,_Massachusetts&oldid=969012370
Web browser Chrome 85.0.4183.102
Operating system Windows 10
Skin Vector
Notes: Any additional information. Can you provide a screenshot, if relevant?
Workaround or suggested solution Easily fixed in the source editor once you figure out what changed (which I did by comparing diffs in the source editor)

3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 22:12, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

unable to use visual editor

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despina_Stratigakos?action=edit

Loriannbrown (talk) 14:54, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

no citations

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36 Edg/85.0.564.41

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Sandbox&veaction=edit

The citations are not showing up...please help. Thank you!

ALLBN (talk) 18:09, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Changing the Title

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stance_(journal)?action=edit I am unable to "move" this page and change the title of it. Could I permission?

Mariahbowman (talk) 19:53, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Diversity (business)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_(business)?action=edit I would recommend that the implementation section has more information and articles that can help readers take the information in the article and use it in the business workplace. By showing examples, previously used forms and information on how to deal with conflict regarding diversity. NeumeyerL (talk) 03:37, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

good

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36 Edg/86.0.622.38

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leela_Majumdar&action=edit&section=6


45.112.242.4 (talk) 02:14, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

had to restart my computer - lost about 50% of my work???

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.80 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_J._Dorgan&action=edit

Mtm10647 (talk) 18:16, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Changing 64-bit to x64

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007?action=edit

Richblox999FX17 (talk) 15:03, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Adding More Cast Members to Jurassic World: Dominion

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.80 Safari/537.36 Edg/86.0.622.43

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jurassic_World:_Dominion&action=edit&section=1

Ariana Richards as Lex Murphy Joseph Mazzello as Tim Murphy Julianne Moore as Dr. Sarah Harding Vince Vaughn as Nick Van Owen Vanessa Lee Chester as Kelly Curtis Peter Stormare as Dieter Stark Harvey Jason as Ajay Sidhu Richard Schiff as Eddie Carr Thomas F. Duffy as Dr. Robert Burke Pete Postlethwaite as Roland Tembo Arliss Howard as Peter Ludlow Richard Attenborough as John Hammond Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Arnold Wayne Knight as Dennis Nedry Ty Simpkins as Gray Mitchell Nick Robinson as Zachary "Zach" Mitchell Irrfan Khan as Simon Masrani Lauren Lapkus as Vivian Katie McGrath as Zara Judy Greer as Karen Mitchell, Andy Buckley as Scott Mitchell Vincent D'Onofrio as Vic Hoskins Brian Tee as Hamada James Cromwell as Sir Benjamin Lockwood Toby Jones as Mr. Eversoll Rafe Spall as Eli Mills Ted Levine as Ken Wheatley Geraldine Chaplin as Iris Peter Jason as Senator Sherwood Camilla Belle as Cathy Bowman Jerry Molen as Dr. Harding Miguel Sandoval as Juanito Rostagno Martin Ferrero as Donald Gennaro Bob Peck as Robert Muldoon Alessandro Nivola as Billy Brennan William H. Macy as Paul Kirby Téa Leoni as Amanda Kirby Trevor Morgan as Eric Kirby Michael Jeter as Udesky John Diehl as Cooper Bruce A. Young as Nash Taylor Nichols as Mark Mark Harelik as Ben Hildebrand Julio Oscar Mechoso as Enrique Cardoso Blake Bryan as Charlie

Nick Ferrante 02:38, 18 October 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NickF4401 (talkcontribs)

sorry

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 13310.93.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.133 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=7_World_Trade_Center&action=edit

100.34.202.120 (talk) 20:45, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Why is my page duplicated?

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MiCorr/citing_sources?action=edit&veswitched=1

MiCorr (talk) 08:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Subject.org

Bug report VisualEditor
Mito.money Please app{}
Intention:
Steps to Reproduce:
Results:
Expectations:
Page where the issue occurs
Web browser
Operating system
Skin
Notes:
Workaround or suggested solution

2400:AC40:705:E082:B4A9:F41F:48B9:9877 (talk) 16:58, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

THANK YOU

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36

I love this BECAUSE i THOUGHT THAT I COULD NEVER EDIT IN GOOGLE BUT I CAN EDIT IN GOOGLE

182.77.39.13 (talk) 07:23, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

James Byrd, Jr.

He was not killed in Jasper, Tx. Only the trial was there, as it is the county seat. He was murdered near the Harrisburg, TX community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C5:4300:7280:A845:6546:6422:C8FC (talk) 15:44, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Image needs to be modified

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.105 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_10_(toy_line)&action=edit

4" Alien Collection Battle figures image have to be modified as Wildmutt is missing from it and Cannonbolt figure is the one from the previous wave. I made an updated image but I can't upload it.

Mario99marian (talk) 23:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Shortcut suggestion

I use Mac. I regularly use Command + Enter as the shortcut for publishing an edit after writing an edit summary, and find it really useful. Having burnt that pattern into my brain, I now routinely press it while editing a page in VE, expecting it to take me to the edit summary box, and am disappointed that it doesn't work. I would find this a useful shortcut while editing pages. Popcornfud (talk) 16:14, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Humbly requesting this again, as I continue to press Cammand + Enter automatically when trying to save edits. Popcornfud (talk) 16:23, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.193 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haloila&veaction=editsource

Hi, Haloila pages needs to be moved to Signode Finland

Haloila (talk) 11:52, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

uploading images using the "insert" command

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ricardus_Cibarius/sandbox?action=edit Dialog box does not provide the option to upload an image file from computer

Ricardus Cibarius (talk) 14:00, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

My work is not being saved

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:IleRosario/sandbox?action=edit I've attempted to save my work by clicking the "Publish changes" button and absolutely nothing happens. I do not want to lose my work.

IleRosario (talk) 05:41, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Visual editor and blockquotes

Why does the Visual Editor screw around with the text before blockquotes?

For example, while editing in the Visual Editor, go to Adaptation (film), go to the Production section, and select the text above the blockquote ("Kaufman said"). The text is uneditable, and has to be edited instead inside the quote template, in the "content" field. This is apparently not a normal part of the quote template; the Visual Editor appears to be injecting something weird into it.

Does anyone know what's going on here? It's been annoying me for months or years now. Popcornfud (talk) 10:59, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uee&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template%3ABLP_editintroywywee e


2001:4455:46A:CC00:F85E:2A3A:88F5:6376 (talk) 11:15, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Include date attribute, etc., in inserted citation

The dialog for inserting a citation has a short menu of attributes that includes year but does not include date, making it necessary to use the search dialog. I have two suggestions:

  1. Provide an option to do a source edit of the generated {{cite}}
  2. Include all of |date= |edition=, |publisher= and |work= in the short list.

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 19:17, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Editing List of Rhodes Scholars

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How do I add a Rhodes Scholar who is omitted from the list?

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Rhodes_Scholars&action=edit

Chekeditor (talk) 21:37, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Keyboard Shortcut for merging and splitting table cells

One problem I have is to operate splits/mergers of whole columns. The process cannot be automated, and one has to split or merge every column's cells one by one.

It is still possible to resort to an external automation program. However, there is no keyboard shortcut for 'merge cells' or 'split cell'.

Either one of the two should be done, and for programmers, it seems a shortcut is by far the easiest to implement.

Kahlores (talk) 06:06, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

(suggestion related to Popcornfud's)

help me hide my ip pleaseeeeee

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/601.1.42

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Woshiyiweizhongguoren&action=edit

2603:8000:F93C:4114:7C74:F24A:434:D5C (talk) 21:10, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

article is showing in draft mode

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Foreign_Manufacturers_Certification_Scheme_(FMCS)?action=edit

article in showing in draft mode and if possible please edit into article mode

Dheeraj budhori (talk) 08:03, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Preview button

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:National_Defense_Authorization_Acts&action=edit&redlink=1

I recommend adding a preview button or menu option, for both visual editing and source editing (2017 editor). If the button already exists, consider making it more prominent, because I can't find it.

Novem Linguae (talk) 06:46, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Changing case

A facility that I have found very useful in other editors is changing case, e.g.,

  • Change to lower case
  • Change to upper case
  • Change to sentence case
  • Change to title case
  • Invert case

I'd like to see icons and keystrokes for at least those. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:54, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Adem Kastrati

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Greetings! This site is extremely secure and should not be deleted because it has sufficient resources as well as information


Shkupi Kumanova 1234 (talk) 21:47, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Shkupi Kumanova 1234, multiple editors have tried to communicate with you already on your talk page and have replied to you when you reached out to them. Please review their comments, and contribute to the article draft at Draft:Adem Kastrati. Once you properly cite claims in the article with inline references and remove promotional language, you can resubmit the draft for review. signed, Rosguill talk 22:09, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Sandbox contents disappeared.

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Motizin/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template%3AUser+sandbox%2Fpreload

I've been editing this page. When I returned to this page I got a message asking if I want to resume editting. I confirmed that I want but no page came up, so I restarted the sandbox. It was empty. There was history of previous deletions or transfers but not any mention of my last edit. Looks like the contents is lost. Why?

Motizin (talk) 15:09, 26 December 2020 (UTC)