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February 27

Trying to install Move+

I'm trying to install Move+ and I put the script in here. I reloaded to bypass my cache and still nothing is appearing. Can someone help me? Rexophile (talk) 01:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Rexophile: Is the problem in mobile or desktop? You edit in both and I don't know whether the script is supposed to work in mobile. If it's desktop then what is your skin at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering? Please link an example page and name a feature from User:BilledMammal/Move+ which is missing there. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:21, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Im on desktop. My skin is the 2010 legacy. The feature is importScript('User:BilledMammal/MovePlus.js'); // Backlink: User:BilledMammal/MovePlus.js. Rexophile (talk) 20:00, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Rexophile: I'm looking for a feature of the script and a page where that feature is missing. Something like "Move+ is missing from the More menu at Foobar". It's not missing for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:07, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Issue resolved. Rexophile (talk) 20:31, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

File:Old logo Ecological Movement of Venezuela (2008).png

Hi wikis,how remove this template {{di-disputed non-free use rationale}} ,after restore this photo on the Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#File:Old logo Ecological Movement of Venezuela (2008).png i edited the infobox but now User:Iruka13 reverted the tag,please how deleted this template?? (Google translator) AbchyZa22 (talk) 10:53, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

The best way to resolve this is to discuss it directly with @Iruka13. ColinFine (talk) 14:49, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Foreign editsummaries on English Wikipedia?

Resolved

Polygnotus (talk) 14:08, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

How is it possible that I see foreign editsummaries on the English version of Wikipedia in a few cases. For example Annulation des modifications... instead of Reverted edits by...? Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 11:59, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Polygnotus Links please. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:22, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@TheDJ: See here for example. Polygnotus (talk) 13:45, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

One possibility is that an edit history was imported from fr Wikipedia via Wikipedia:Requests for page importation. TSventon (talk) 12:37, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Interesting, I didn't know that that existed, but I don't think its the case here. Polygnotus (talk) 13:48, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Looking at the user's contributions, the French summaries are for Android app edits of the kind that generate an automatic summary. So I think they're editing in English with the app set to French. Much like I have the app set to English but occasionally edit on Norwegian Wikipedia with it. When undoing an edit, the app asks for a reason then appends that to a standard summary that the user has no opportunity to edit. Musiconeologist (talk) 13:57, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Musiconeologist: Thank you! I think that solves the mystery. Not sure if that is the desired behaviour of the app but at least that explains it. Polygnotus (talk) 14:01, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Probably isn't. Filed as T387518 * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:49, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Pppery! Polygnotus (talk) 20:04, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I know this counts as solved, but I do the reverse. I look for uses of "John Hopkins University" and correct to "Johns Hopkins University" across wikipedias. So even if the article is in an alphabet that I wouldn't know what continent it is from, I still can correct the English in a cite and will use the English Language "Spelling" as an edit summary. I would imagine someone whose language is Spanish correcting N to Ñ might be in a similar situation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naraht (talk • contribs) 18:34, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

question

Hi, I noticed this https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/02/12/wikipedia-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good/ so can we add https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DpgBadge.svg to our user page, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:17, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I see you have already added the badge, so you have answered your own question. TSventon (talk) 14:35, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

yes (I saw that other topics were getting posted and answered below, and mines was not) however thank you for answering, I do appreciate it,Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 15:07, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: I (more or less) had to click on the two links to answer your question, which may have deterred other helpers. I would suggest making life easier for helpers by asking something like Hi, I noticed that wikipedia has been recognized as a digital public good [link], so can we add the digital public good logo [link] to our user page, thanks. TSventon (talk) 15:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

good point(will do so going forward) and thanks again, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:33, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: You might want to update the Digital public goods article as well. GoingBatty (talk) 19:25, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_public_goods&action=history did a few edits, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:59, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Category enquiry

Hello. I am thinking of creating a category of "Body donors" to list those people who donated their bodies to medical science. There is a Sperm donors category. This is somewhat outside my usual category area, but I have recently researched two people who were donors, and there are quite a few others on Wiki already who did the same. I suppose I am mostly asking about the terminology - is Body donors OK? Thanks BJCHK (talk) 14:18, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

This could be a vague category that comprise several notable people. Additionally, there's some confusion I have with that (I know sperm, blood and organ donors, but not body ones). Who, if willing, are the two, and are they notable primarily for being body donors? 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 14:23, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't know as being a donor has to be the primary source of notability. But it has to be defining of the person in some manner beyond just something they random did, I would think. I don't think that such a category would fly. I could be wrong; you could ask at... let's see... Wikipedia talk:Categorization I think. Herostratus (talk) 04:12, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

I think there's certainly some people who are notable for donating their bodies, like Susan Potter. Sarsenet (talk) 08:50, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Can't get citation maintenance messages to show up

I'm trying to be a good citizen and fix my maintenance issues on cites, but I can't see them. I changes by .css files, bypassed the cache, but still nothing. What else should I try? LouScheffer (talk) 20:55, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@LouScheffer: Try with !important:

.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint {display: inline !important;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */
.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error {display: inline !important;} /* display hidden Citation Style 1 error messages */

PrimeHunter (talk) 22:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

You shouldn't need !important. Help:CS1 errors was recently changed away from:

.mw-parser-output span.cs1-maint {display: inline;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */

Perhaps that change broke the css for you on your browser. Try the older version; ignore the warning message.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

I have reverted the change.[1] @LouScheffer: You still have to do one of the above to your own version of the code. They both give a warning you can ignore. !important says to override other attempts to control the display but that's OK here when the code is only for yourself and overriding existing code to hide it is exactly what you want. If something later changes in the existing code, maybe the span version fails and you do need !important. Some people strongly dislike !important and look for alternatives but when it's a user's personal CSS, it does exactly what that user wants, and they can remove it if they no longer want it, I don't see the point. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:33, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I tried the 'span' fix and it worked. I can now see the messages. LouScheffer (talk) 23:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Reference danger, Will Robinson.

I'm getting a warning that a url is unsafe for reference 5 in Yolande Bonhomme. How do I warn others, i.e. is there a standard warning template for this situation? Clarityfiend (talk) 21:13, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

There's no need to warn as the link seems to be dead. You can mark ref 5 as dead by adding "dead" to the "url status" field, or removing ref 5 entirely and replace with other source. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 21:28, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Umm, no. |url-status=dead has no meaning when a cs1|2 template does not have a value assigned to |archive-url=. Perhaps you meant {{dead link}}? A suitable fix might be:

{{Cite web |url=https://exhibits2.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/3945 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907050545/https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/3945 |archive-date=2021-09-07 |title=Yolande Bonhomme — Printer and Bookseller |website=[[Duke University Libraries]]}}

"Yolande Bonhomme — Printer and Bookseller". Duke University Libraries. Archived from the original on 2021-09-07.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:49, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:34, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Emmanuel College, Warrnambool

I added a file just now in the St Ann's College section. It is too big. Sorry. Please reduce size and place a caption underneath the old photo: St Ann's College Chapel (far right) Est. 1888 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srbernadette (talk • contribs) 22:39, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

@Srbernadette: Done DuncanHill (talk) 22:46, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Could both the two old black and white photos be made a little bigger and can we get rid of all the space underneath the "Geography" section please. Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 23:02, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Think about it, Srbernadette. The obvious way to get rid of all the space would be to let "History" (and perhaps also "House system") float above where it is (they are) now. Doing this would have the photos impinge further on the text. Would this be desirable? Also, rather than putting effort into prettifying the article (or anyway de-uglifying it), how about providing references for the sections that are now unreferenced? -- Hoary (talk) 23:15, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

March (already!) 6

diagram policy

i would like to add an illustrative diagram to the article i am writing

are there standards, do's, dont's for creating diagrams?

i did look in the Your First Article page; although there is an "images needing articles" section, i see nothing mentioning the opposite or touching on diagraming

i imagine that internationalization may be a big issue (or not)

i have lots of questions about diagraming, so if there is an article dealing with this issue, please point me to it; Many Thanks