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Oct 16 2024

DMacks created T377371: Support "diff=prev" for edit that created the page.
Oct 16 2024, 5:06 PM · MediaWiki-Page-diffs

Jul 10 2024

DMacks added a comment to T327201: wikimediastatus.net help popups are mobile-unfriendly and keyboard-inaccessible.

At the time I wrote that, I was on whatever esr was released sometime in June or July. Between whatever you just changed and my updating to 115.13.0esr (released today), it now looks correct. Thanks for diagnosing the CSS support history!

Jul 10 2024, 2:32 AM · Incident Tooling, SRE

Jul 7 2024

DMacks added a comment to T327201: wikimediastatus.net help popups are mobile-unfriendly and keyboard-inaccessible.

It is still not fixed on my desktop-Mac Firefox. There is no longer a scrollbar, but the box is still the same fixed size it was (not sized to fit the content), so the right portion of the message is cut off.

Jul 7 2024, 4:11 AM · Incident Tooling, SRE

May 5 2024

DMacks added a comment to T363995: Commons: File:Gnome-edit-delete.svg not found.

This icon is used by a bunch of deletion-related templates, , so its absence creates visible breakage. For example, when an admin looks at a page tagged with {{SD}}, it displays a broken-icon instead of the trashcan for the delete function.

May 5 2024, 11:51 AM · SRE-swift-storage, Commons

May 5 2023

DMacks updated the task description for T336086: Pagemove broke: file neither in old nor new location.
May 5 2023, 9:54 PM · Commons, SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Page-rename
DMacks created T336086: Pagemove broke: file neither in old nor new location.
May 5 2023, 9:34 PM · Commons, SRE-swift-storage, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-Page-rename

Apr 17 2023

DMacks created T334868: UI bug: help popups on wikimediastatus.
Apr 17 2023, 3:24 PM · Incident Tooling

May 22 2022

DMacks added a comment to T308820: Extension:FileImporter allows import of files originally uploaded by users that are blocked on Commons.

I agree a warning would be useful in this context. There have been at least two sock-drawers that have taken advantage of innocent third-parties to evade commons blocks in this manner. I would even support a prohibition (not just warning) because it is evasion-by-proxy (at best) and does literally appear to be evasion in the edit-history on commons. But unlike some wikipedias, commons does not seem to take a strict stance based on the *spirit* of evasion, only the letter of "this account is blocked, so this *account* cannot itself make edits".

May 22 2022, 8:14 PM · Commons, Move-Files-To-Commons

Jan 17 2022

DMacks created T299364: Omit redirects from search results.
Jan 17 2022, 6:53 PM · Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch

Jan 14 2022

Restricted Application added a project to T73491: Redirects should appear in Cirrus's results: Discovery-Search.

I have need for "limit search results to non-redirects" and was directed to this phab. The use-case is when trying to resolve page-naming controversies (or more mildly, how to name new pages) I want to look at precedent. And that means the actual pages alone. Conceptually, it would be an option I could add to intitle:, so an additional token in the search-box or a checkbox in the advanced-search mode or an include/exclude-redirects toggle in the results page.

Jan 14 2022, 6:11 PM · Discovery-Search (Current work), Discovery-ARCHIVED, CirrusSearch

Jul 15 2021

DMacks added a comment to T286705: Usernames in "file history" get hyphenated.

Browser-diving, Chrome (Mac) does the same thing, even without being logged in (therefore it's not user .js bug). Safari (Mac) instead does break at the whitespace (*despite* the nowrap tag). That makes it seem like HTML subject to the "tidy-whitespace-bug" lint-error, where indeed edge whitespace within a nowrap span is subject to varying behaviors. I'm uncertain why out-of-hand rejection to addressing something that looks confusing into something that is not as confusing and that affects multiple current-release popular browsers, even if "it's a browser effect". What's the drawback?

Jul 15 2021, 4:44 PM
DMacks added a comment to T286705: Usernames in "file history" get hyphenated.

Account-name should either be made nowrap

Which actual underlying problem would this solve? Please provide a specific use case.

Jul 15 2021, 4:33 PM
DMacks added a comment to T286705: Usernames in "file history" get hyphenated.

Here's the HTML:

<td><a href="/wiki/User:Smiley.toerist" class="mw-userlink" title=""><bdi>Smiley.toerist</bdi></a><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> <span class="mw-usertoollinks">(<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Smiley.toerist" class="mw-usertoollinks-talk" title="">talk</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Smiley.toerist" class="mw-usertoollinks-contribs" title="">contribs</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Block/Smiley.toerist" class="mw-usertoollinks-block" title="Special:Block/Smiley.toerist">block</a>)</span></span></td>

There is no nowrap around the account-name. There is a whitespace between the account-name and the links-set, but it is part of the nowrap , and there is a whitespacea space between the account-name and the links-set, but it's part of the nowrap along with the links.

Jul 15 2021, 9:02 AM
DMacks created T286705: Usernames in "file history" get hyphenated.
Jul 15 2021, 8:57 AM

Feb 1 2021

DMacks added a comment to T22647: Allow way to choose thumbnail frame for video on its File: description page.

At [[commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Why Can't You Download Videos on YouTube How a 20-Year-Old Law Stops youtube-dl Users AND Farmers.webm‎]], we have a case where the auto-selected image is a nonfree frame. It's likely de minimis within the video, but it's not appropriate as the default thumb. And if we blur/blank it out for stricter license compliance, then we have blurred or blank image as the default thumb.

Feb 1 2021, 7:12 AM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, User-Jdlrobson, Commons, TimedMediaHandler, Multimedia, MediaWiki-File-management

Dec 13 2020

DMacks added a comment to T269929: Add a Commons user search preference to exclude certain file types / mime types.

When looking at a category, we already have a gadget for displaying only a certain filetype. When searching in other ways, we have selectors for namespace. I wonder if we could have a search-selector for filetype?

Dec 13 2020, 7:08 PM · CirrusSearch, Commons
Restricted Application added a project to T23613: Add block and protection expiries to the watchlist: Growth-Team.

My use-case is when a long-term protection such as a BLP-related semi or extended-confirmed needs a short-term upgrade due to an unrelated issue (few days' fullprot due to a heated content dispute). When that latter protection expires, it silently becomes completely unprotected. Having the alert would let me know to re-set the previous semi/EC.

Dec 13 2020, 11:32 AM · Trust and Safety Product Team, MediaWiki-Page-protection, MediaWiki-Blocks, Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Jun 2 2020

DMacks added a comment to T247187: Wrong subcategory counts in Commons.

I just noticed this for https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:4-Hydroxy-TEMPO that has no subcats but is listed as having "3C" at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aminoxyls and other parent cats of it. That's another "starting with a number" cat, part of the pattern Ghouston mentioned.

Jun 2 2020, 3:17 AM · WMF-General-or-Unknown, Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run, Commons

Aug 31 2019

DMacks added a comment to T226168: Chemistry beaker icon should have open top.

As far as terminology, "conical flask" is sometimes used as a synonym for "Erlenmeyer flask". But a flask (of which these are other shapes also) and a beaker are totally different profiles.

Aug 31 2019, 4:45 AM · Design, OOUI

Aug 19 2019

DMacks added a comment to T146628: Add IP range support to [[Special:Log]].

I'd also like to recurse "up" from a given IP or range (larger enclosing ranges of the given one rather than subranges). So if I look at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3A2601%3A586%3A400%3A833A%3AFD78%3A71BE%3A47B5%3A5110 (specifically [[:en:User:2601:586:400:833A:FD78:71BE:47B5:5110]], I would also see that [[:en:User:2601:586:400:833a::/64]] is rangeblocked. And this would still be visible once the blocks have expired, unlike [[Special:BlockList]] that only displays active ones.

Aug 19 2019, 3:06 AM · MediaWiki-Logevents

Feb 28 2019

DMacks added a comment to T138159: Not allowing linebreaks in Special:Contributions options box causes side-scrolling.

This seems to be mostly resolved. Looking at 1.33.0-wmf.18 (rMW3456bc65792b), narrowing the window allows breaking between each option in a set but checkbox+option-text remains together. If I narrow the window so much that even one full option does not fit on a line, it side-scrolls because no breaking is allowed within the text of any one option. I'm not sure if that is good/bad, but given how extremely narrow one has to get to observe it, and that the alternative (allowing breaking within an option) is a worse problem, I would call this RESOLVED.

Feb 28 2019, 3:29 PM · MediaWiki-Special-pages

Dec 18 2018

DMacks added a comment to T212187: Special:BookSources embeds parser output without using mw-parser-output.

Original bug report on en.wp.

Dec 18 2018, 7:01 PM · MediaWiki-Special-pages

Dec 1 2018

DMacks added a comment to T210822: Reconsider section heading marker ("→") in edit summaries.

I was just about to post to [[:en:VPT]] wondering about this. At least on en.wp, the § symbol is already used in several places to represent a section (as delimited by a header) of an article. We already do that in the semi-niche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Section_link but also the widely used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Main for example. ~~~~

Dec 1 2018, 8:50 PM · MediaWiki-Page-editing

Aug 22 2018

DMacks added a comment to T190015: Create separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JavaScript that does not include administrators by default.

There appears to be a typo in the gerrit 421125 change. In the inserted line 3675:

Aug 22 2018, 7:23 AM · Security, MW-1.32-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-08-28 (1.32.0-wmf.19)), User-Tgr, Trust-and-Safety, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Patch-For-Review, JavaScript, Security-Core

Jan 17 2018

DMacks created T185126: Have searchbox recognize {{ to search Template: namespace.
Jan 17 2018, 6:45 PM · patch-welcome, Discovery-Search, Discovery-ARCHIVED, MediaWiki-Search

Sep 25 2017

DMacks added a comment to T140606: Check user signature for linter errors.

Some broken signatures are now triggering [[Special:LintErrors]], including "high priority" ones. If it's a prolific talk-page user, that means lots of talkpages and other discussion namespaces get flagged. See for example [[:en:User talk:Milonica#Signature HTML bug]]. I don't know how much of a Big Deal lint errors are, but given they're called "high priority errors", it seems important.

Sep 25 2017, 4:40 AM · User-Ryasmeen, Verified, MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.41; 2020-07-14), Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools, OWC2020, MediaWiki-extensions-Linter, MediaWiki-Core-Preferences

Jul 13 2017

DMacks added a comment to T170513: Enhance user-rights log messages with diff-like visual styling.

I envision the result to look like:

Jul 13 2017, 10:40 AM · MediaWiki-Logevents, MediaWiki-User-management
DMacks created T170513: Enhance user-rights log messages with diff-like visual styling.
Jul 13 2017, 4:21 AM · MediaWiki-Logevents, MediaWiki-User-management

Jul 31 2016

DMacks created T141704: Unable to delete certain files due to "inconsistent state within the internal storage backends".
Jul 31 2016, 4:32 AM · MediaWiki-File-management, Wikimedia-production-error, User-fgiunchedi, Multimedia, Commons, SRE, SRE-swift-storage

Jun 19 2016

DMacks added a comment to T138159: Not allowing linebreaks in Special:Contributions options box causes side-scrolling.

That seems to work if I download the generatged page and manually edit the HTML.

Jun 19 2016, 3:25 PM · MediaWiki-Special-pages
DMacks updated the task description for T138159: Not allowing linebreaks in Special:Contributions options box causes side-scrolling.
Jun 19 2016, 3:23 AM · MediaWiki-Special-pages
DMacks created T138159: Not allowing linebreaks in Special:Contributions options box causes side-scrolling.
Jun 19 2016, 3:22 AM · MediaWiki-Special-pages

Mar 8 2016

DMacks added a comment to T129212: Unable to undelete file.

Confirmed working for me also.

Mar 8 2016, 10:59 PM · Commons, SRE, SRE-swift-storage
DMacks added a comment to T129212: Unable to undelete file.

Got a comparable error just now trying to delete (not undelete) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airborne_Assault_entrance.jpg

Mar 8 2016, 7:31 AM · Commons, SRE, SRE-swift-storage

Mar 18 2015

DMacks added a comment to T70324: Cite: Add namespace detection for automatically generated reference list.

And now

Mar 18 2015, 6:55 PM · Cite