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Custom local buttons in WikiEditor panel get inserted in random unpredictable order in Chechen Wikipedia

Buttons of connected gadgets, for example, a Wikificator after renewal. Pages are mixed in the middle and back to the right. In Russian, all the gadget buttons on the left. Mozilla Firefox browser. Can't you make them stay in its place? 195.19.124.253 20:41, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I wrote this! Takhirgeran Umar (talk) 20:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Registration date

Hi, I registered on EN Wikipedia at 04:24, 12 October 2007, yet CentralAuth shows Registered: 00:18, 28 February 2012 (12 years ago). I understand that the reason given is always that the account became a global account, But why does it have to be like this? A registration date is what it is, and the global account date decreases the precision of registration time. I hope it changes. Mystrixo (talk) 06:56, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

You registered in a time before registration dates were being tracked. As you didn't have activity between 2007 and 2012, it cannot give a more accurate date for your account registration unfortunately. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:40, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Email: $wgSMTP not working

Hello With $wgSMTP i have a problem, it ist not working. I don't know from which update- status this happens. For sure this was working in march 2024.

I get this error-message if i wnat sent a email: Failed to connect to tls://smtp-mail.outlook.com:587 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: (code: -1, response: )]

to the History i can tell that before i use 1und1. I got a Hotmail adress taking the parameters and i got the above error message. I switched back to the old konfiguration and find out, getting the same error massage (see above)

Version: MW 1.39.7

LocalSettingsparameter. $wgSMTP = array(

   'host'     => 'tls://smtp-mail.outlook.com', // could also be an IP address. Where the SMTP server is located
   'IDHost'   => 'Sokradia von CC-Zeitlos',  // Generally this will be the domain name of your website (aka mywiki.org)
   'port'     => 587,                        // Port to use when connecting to the SMTP server
   'auth'     => true,                      // Should we use SMTP authentication (true or false)
   'username' => 'sokradia@hotmail.com',   // Username to use for SMTP authentication (if being used)
   'password' => 'XXXXX'             // Password to use for SMTP authentication (if being used)

);

Can somebody help to this topic Sokradia (talk) 05:56, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Please see the notice at the top of this page. This page only provides support for issues related to a Wikimedia wiki. — JJMC89 (T·C) 18:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for this help.

With this parameters it is working for Outlook/Hotmail.

'host' => 'smtp-mail.outlook.com', // could also be an IP address. Where the SMTP server is located

'IDHost' => 'Sokradia von CC-Zeitlos', // Generally this will be the domain name of your website (aka mywiki.org)

'port' => 587, // Port to use when connecting to the SMTP server

'auth' => true, // Should we use SMTP authentication (true or false)

'username' => 'sokradia@hotmail.com', // Username to use for SMTP authentication (if being used)

'password' => 'XXXXX' // Password to use for SMTP authentication (if being used)

for Outlook there is no need take the TLS with.

I not understand really because the port 587 is used for TLS. but it seems that for Outlook they are using STARTTLS which is not supported by the PHP-Server.

I use PHP 8.2.xx

Thanks a lot Sokradia (talk) 05:19, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

This is NOT THE PLACE FOR THIRD-PARTY WIKI SUPPORT. Read the header and ask at the appropriate place. You won’t get an answer here. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:25, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Are you going to migrate to Jetpack Compose for the android app?

Maybe this is the wrong place but I think that migrating to Jetpack Compose would be a good idea for making the code more simple and "modern" because it's the new and recommended way by Android to build android apps with it. Richard5ADev (talk) 19:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I don’t know if it’s planned, but you’ll probably get an answer more quickly on mw:Talk:Wikimedia Apps. By the way, my opinion is “don’t fix it if it’s not broken”: it may make sense to write new things with Compose, or even rewriting parts that need to be touched anyway, but touching code only to rewrite it from XML to Kotlin has no real benefit, but has the potential for introducing regressions. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 20:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

elwiktionary problem on mobile screens, when displaying English nouns

Hello, please see https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/farm how it looks on a mobile screen. For my phone/browser it displays the word "ουσιαστικό" (=noun) vertically. I reported this to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365322 (see print screens there) and they concluded:

• in the phone that the user tried, it worked ok (while I tried two browsers on my phone and it had the same problem)
• This needs fixing on the local wiki by editing its local content

Amazingly, this happens only for English nouns ! I suppose it is due to the el:wikt:template:ουσιαστικό, which is employing el:wikt:module:PartOfSpeech. This is as far as I can help. Thank you in advance. FocalPoint (talk) 08:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

I replied on Phabricator: I believe it’s a bug in the Minerva Neue skin, not in your templates. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:50, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

M Tacsipacsi, thank you for your immediate response. Probem (mobile view only, reported at https://imgur.com/a/Wxbn7dp) is with all tables-floating-right (languages are irrelevant) when they are over a Level3...etc with equal.symbols whether it includes text or a template. When we reduce width of browser the table suddenly jumps to left with a 100% width border. I am so sorry, that I do not know how to make the borders properly (because I do not know how to have flexible, non restrictive width). I have tried here

Example: https://el.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/farm or https://el.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/proper_noun with its border at https://el.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:decl-sg-pl
I did the L3-titles-with-templates nobreak like at https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:ετυμολογία or at https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module:PartOfSpeech (diff) but the border problem is at the table.styles. Also 2 examples at https://el.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/σοφία (2nd table's styles at https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module:grc-nouns-decl#L-185 ) We do not have any interface admin, or any programmer around. If this cannot be fixed, mobile viewers could...?? zoom out? choose landscape view? Köszönöm again for your response at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365322 Sarri.greek (talk) 10:34, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

PS notifying MM AKlapper_(WMF), Jdlrobson, Tacsipacsi Concerning overall all floats at mobile (portrait) view @el.wiktionary (examples above), especially the problematic right floats discussued at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365322 We have thousands of pages with such rightfloat tables. Would it be possible, to cancel right floats at all el.wiktionary for mobile view? Unfortunately our https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css is archaic, and there is no interface administrator to apply any update. We thank you very much for your concern. Sarri.greek (talk) 05:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Alerte de connexion avec une nouvelle adresse IP

Hi there,

I received many alert messages about a connexion from a different ip address.

I have a question about this : 1°) Can the message language be written in the user's favorite language or bydefault in english. But not in italian.

2°) Can you attach to the message some data like date and hour of the connexion, and the IP address from the connexion.

Thank you for your attention. GPZ Anonymous (talk) 11:20, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Instance of User, string instead

Hi, I am creating a video permissions extension for my wiki. I keep getting this error and not sure how to go about fixing it. [81e16b69894234cb8a025ff0] /wiki/Special:Upload TypeError: Argument 2 passed to VideoPermissionsHooks::onUploadVerifyUpload() must be an instance of User, string given, called in /var/www/html/w/includes/HookContainer/HookContainer.php on line 338 Timmysworld (talk) 20:45, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Please see the notice at the top of this page. This page only provides support for issues related to a Wikimedia wiki. — JJMC89 (T·C) 20:51, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

MediaWiki wiki: How do I link to non-{Github,Gitlab,SourceForge,Bitbucket} git forges?

I've (very) recently created an extension (CustomSearchProfiles), and put it up on the MediaWiki wiki. However, I use a git forge that's not Github, Gitlab, SourceForge, or Bitbucket. What template would I use to link to the source code repository? BlankEclair (talk) 08:01, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

@BlankEclair: you should ask this at mediawiki.org's Village pump. Legoktm (talk) 14:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

new account disappeared

I set up my first new account in GnuCash and I am so upset because after saving it several times, it deleted the entire account and I know have to start over. 136.175.74.84 17:09, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi. You are in the wrong place. We have nothing to do with GnuCash. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:45, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Full path to thumbnails in text

My site is version 1.40.1 and is in /var/www/html/site. Mediawiki and the images file is in /var/www/html/mediawiki-1.40.1. I have a symbolic link wiki->/var/www/html/mediawiki-1.40.1 in /var/www/html. My site httpd conf file includes the statement "Alias "/wiki" "/var/www/html/wiki"

When I upload an image the thumbnails are created properly under the images directory. When I try to display a thumbnail, using

File:Mass 6 12 2020.jpg

Massachusetts Covid-19 as of 6/12

the url for the image is given with the full file path: "https://site.org/var/www/html/wiki/images/thumb/4/45/Mass_6_12_2020.jpg/200px-Mass_6_12_2020.jpg"

I do not see why "/var/www/html" appears in this link? Without it I get the correct thumbnail. Any suggestions? Wbean43 (talk) 21:33, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Please see the notice at the top of this page. This page only provides support for issues related to a Wikimedia wiki. — JJMC89 (T·C) 22:11, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Didn't understand the terms. Wbean43 (talk) 23:20, 5 June 2024 (UTC)