Gadgets and Preferences not loading in Wiktionary from Time to Time
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	Smuconlaw
	Jul 28 2016, 3:38 PM

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Hi,

I use several gadgets in the English Wiktionary such as the UTC clock that appears in the top right corner of the screen, and I've imported the script "User:Yair rand/AddAudio.js" using my common.js page. I also have "Show quotations" turned on.

However, I find that sometimes these gadgets and preferences don't load properly, requiring me to reload the page. I am using Windows 7 Enterprise and Mozilla Firefox 47.0.1.

Cheers,
Jack

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Smuconlaw created this task.Jul 28 2016, 3:38 PM

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Vaguely possibly a dupe of whatever Gadget page caching empty bug we have open

Hi @Smuconlaw, thanks for taking the time to report this!
Could you please open your web browser's developer tools and reload the page on which you see the problem? If there is a problem or an error with JavaScript it should be printed in the 'console' tab of the developer tools. If there is a problem with files not being available there should be 404 responses in the 'network' tab of the developer tools. For more information please see: Firefox ≥24. Thanks!

OK, it happened again, so this is what the web console said:

Use of "loadedScripts" is deprecated. Use mw.loader instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgNamespaceNumber" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)

When I reloaded the page and the gadgets loaded correctly, the web console said this:

Use of "loadedScripts" is deprecated. Use mw.loader instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgNamespaceNumber" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)
Use of "JsMwApi" is deprecated. use mw.Api() from the mediawiki.api module instead; see [[mw:ResourceLoader/Default_modules#mediawiki.api]] (unknown)

Exception in module-execute in module ext.gadget.HotCat: load.php:175:234
TypeError: $.cookie is not a function TypeError: $.cookie is not a function

So there might be an issue with the HotCat gadget. Vaguely naively wondering if an edit similar to this one might help.

No idea where it is located as https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=Search&search=hotcat&searchengineselect=mediawiki&ns2300=1&ns2302=1 Search provides no results. :(

Have you contacted the gadget maintainers on English Wiktionary already?

TypeError: $.cookie is not a function is shown if jquery.cookie module is not loaded before the gadget code is run https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js. Registering jquery.cookie as a dependency for the HotCat entry in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition#editing-gadgets would make it be loaded before the code is run. In this case:
* HotCat[ResourceLoader|dependencies=jquery.cookie]|HotCat.js
However, that cookie "YRNewStuff" seems like something that is probably not needed anymore (added in this edit) and should probably be removed before trying the above. @Yair_rand can maybe reply here?

Yeah, that's no longer needed. Removed.

The error occurred again. This time, the web console said this:

Exception in load-callback in module ext.cite.a11y: load.php:175:602
TypeError: $.cookie is not a function TypeError: $.cookie is not a function
Stack trace:
[object Object] load.php:175:640

Use of "loadedScripts" is deprecated. Use mw.loader instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgNamespaceNumber" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)
Use of "addOnloadHook" is deprecated. Use jQuery instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgPageName" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgTitle" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)

I don't see a reference to $.cookie in https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Cite/blob/master/modules/ext.cite.a11y.js Can you try checking whether that error appears again after clearing your browser cache and also please provide the errors shown in the console in debug mode. You can switch to debug mode by adding debug=1 to the URL (similar to action=purge).

Okay, these search results show that there are several gadgets which call $.cookie without registering it as a dependency in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. Please ask an administrator to add it as a dependency for those gadgets.

Added jquery.cookie dependencies for two gadgets.

An error occurred again. Not sure if I did it correctly, but I typed "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/natatorium#Noun&debug=1" into the URL field and pressed "Enter". This is what resulted.

Use of "loadedScripts" is deprecated. Use mw.loader instead. (unknown)
Exception in module-execute in module ext.uls.compactlinks: load.php:175:602
TypeError: this.getAttribute(...) is null TypeError: this.getAttribute(...) is null
Stack trace:
[object Object] load.php:175:640

Use of "addOnloadHook" is deprecated. Use jQuery instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgNamespaceNumber" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgPageName" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)
Use of "wgTitle" is deprecated. Use mw.config instead. (unknown)

That URL is not correct. You should instead use https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/natatorium?debug=1 (note the ? instead of &).
That module 'ext.uls.compactlinks' is from the ULS extension so a maintainer of that extension should probably look into it.

Ah, sorry. "Rooibos" did not load properly, but after I typed https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rooibos?debug=1 it did load successfully, so I'm not sure how helpful the following output is.

I am still not sure if I am retrieving the correct information. There was a loading problem when I viewed https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/earwitness. This was what was in the web console.

However, when I added "?debug=1" and reloaded the page, it now loaded correctly, so I don't know if the contents of the web console below actually capture the problem.

In T141530#2516822, @Yair_rand wrote:

Yeah, that's no longer needed. Removed.

Link to the diff, for the records.

Removing MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets as this is unrelated to the code of the "Gadgets" MediaWiki extension written in PHP.

TypeError: this.getAttribute(...) is null TypeError: this.getAttribute(...) is null
sounds like there is yet another problem with a gadget or some user script.
So this needs to be sorted out on-wiki but is not a general issue with code on Wikimedia servers.
I'm afraid we've given all info how to debug the problem.
If you write or use custom code that is hosted on-wiki it's pretty much on your own risk, hence I'm closing this task as invalid when it comes to the scope of tasks in Phabricator.

PS: For future reference, disabling the "Net" tab is welcome and only posting "JS" output, to keep things a bit more readable. :)

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