RefRenamer seems like a Beta tool. It is very good, but not super intuitive, not explained. The graphical interface could have user tips right on it, IMHO. The good thing is the preview window to have a double check moment before submitting the changes. Sadly, it does not (yet) search and suggest changes for the other problematic ref names which are: auto, auto1, auto2...auto234567890

'Fix dead links' now throwing this page error: "DB ERROR : QUERY: CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS s51059__cyberbot; ERROR - : Error encountered while creating the database. Exiting..."

IABot fix-pages Management Interface is now throwing a new error:

Fix-page requests are now throwing the "503 Service Unavailable" results error again.

Update: The new results page error being thrown is:

Auto-label them before insertion, but allow them to be changed by pressing the Edit button when our mouse pointer is hovered on the newly created Citation. This would be done before the changes are Saved.

If we try to name a reference by only using a numeral, the system rejects it and says that numeral only reference names are not permitted.
I feel it is bogus that Visual Editor gets around this by adding a colon: e.g. - :17
That kind of reference name is wrong and unhelpful.
I hope that the ability to manually name references, or at least the ability to manually approve the generated name is restored.

Normally editing only the header don't works with Mediawiki, I guess you're using a custom script. I thinl in this case it's the scripts fault?

Update: It happened again in this Diff. I deleted nothing below the first section header, but the system selectively nuked almost my entire talk page.

Never mind. I got it.

Aklapper said:

@Checkingfax: For future reference, please associate a project/tag with a task

Sure thing, Ak. How?

Same issue in Google Chrome Version 48.0.2564.116 m in wikEdDiff view.

I was afraid to save the page but I guess I could and then do a revert if it actually blanks the page.

Aklapper, how is changing the Priority level of this task from "High" to "Needs triage" a raising of priority? Just trying to understand the Phabricator Task priority process.

UPDATE: I used an Edit-source link and was able to add content to the TOTD Talk page without blanking the page. I clicked on the Changes button mid-way to confirm I was not going to nuke the page.

UPDATE: Just tested it on a User talk page and the New-section link blanks the whole page there too when you click on the Changes button:

Housekeeping regarding Tasks here:
1.- How do I edit a comment I submitted? I know how to edit the task itself, but how to edit my comments?
2.- Didn't comments here used to be threaded so comments were more germane to their topic?

Krenair, the button is "Changes" not "Show changes", but yes, when I made an entry it the Changes window showed me that the whole page was going to be blanked except my adds.

UPDATE: I just verified it by clicking on New-Section, then clicking on the Changes button before making any changes and it blanks the page. Cheers!

Found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Brion_VIBBER#Mobile_Sidebar_not_showing_up_in_Modern_skin

Updated to latest version and logged on successfully. Thanks folks.

Here is a screenshot of how it should look:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_sidebar_preview_-_Show_page_in_mobile_view_while_browsing_the_desktop_site_-_bigger_arrow.png

I do not fully understand Reedy's response.

In T117527#1781548, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:

There is probably no item for Laucke. You can only link existing items as surnames.

Never mind. It looks like I got added to the template listed at the bottom of that diff as being the co-creator of the five-millionth article on the English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Persoonia_terminalis

Still waiting for a fix on this.

In T116261#1746690, @Krenair wrote:

VisualEditor isn't the software making the decision of which to use.

In T116261#1746096, @Krenair wrote:

It's just showing the same image as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Laucke&action=info though right, scaled down a bit and cropped?

In T116261#1744994, @Krenair wrote:

IIRC we just use the image provided by https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages

In T115975#1737825, @Krenair wrote:

Interesting... If you go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sony&action=history&year=2001&month=10&tagfilter= you see that the first three revisions have broken parent revisions set.

The {{quote}} template had a thin space after the mdash that only rendered on certain systems. The template editors fixed it. See this diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Quote&curid=6832133&diff=686947734&oldid=686886236

Here is a User page where I see the little box after the mdash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wnt

In T115689#1732632, @Aklapper wrote:

Ah, screenshot shows a small box between — and R in

— Rita Loiacono of

Which exact operating system is this? I wonder if this could have something to do with fonts...
Do you know if any other (Chrome) user has also seen this?

Last testcase (with template used) before page got rewritten was https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monica_Geller&oldid=685986830

In T115689#1730308, @Aklapper wrote:

What exactly means "box"? Could you provide a small screenshot of that phenomenon?
Thanks!

In T115689#1730306, @Aklapper wrote:

Which exact revision in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monica_Geller&action=history does this problem refer to?

In T115689#1730313, @Aklapper wrote:

Does the problem still happen with this revision:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monica_Geller&oldid=685996844

(Copying the text into a hexeditor I see two 0A bytes before the "quote" box. While there's only one 0A after the quote box. Might be entirely unrelated though.)