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URL problem at French Wikisource[edit]

Bonjour, Hi,

(French) Il y a un problème dans fr.wikisource avec un lien web dans une {{note | }} insérée dans le titre d'une <pages avec une <pages ...>.
L'url suivante est ok : https://archive.org/details/archivdermathem49grungoog/page/n486/mode/1up
mais celle-ci fait sérieux problème : https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=mnb-001%3A1848%3A0%3A%3A234#235.

Le ? dans l'url semble la cause du problème. Je n'ai pas trouvé sur fr.wikisource un équivalent du modèle {{lien web | }} avec lequel j'aurais pu essayer. Quelqu'un a-t-il une solution ? Cordialement,

{en}} There is e problem in fr.wikisource with a web link in a {{note | }} inside the title of a <pages ...>.
In fact the following url is ok : https://archive.org/details/archivdermathem49grungoog/page/n486/mode/1up
mais this badely fails : https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=mnb-001%3A1848%3A0%3A%3A234#235.

The ? in the url seeams to be the problem causis.

I did not find on fr.wikisource a model like {{lien web | }} with which I could have tried. Has anybody a solution ? Cordialement,

Valp (talk) 13:36, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@Valp: No, the cause is the equals sign (which usually appears in URLs that also have question marks). You should use the template with explicitly numbered parameters as explained in the second note in mw:Help:Templates#Anonymous parameters, i.e. {{note |1=https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=mnb-001%3A1848%3A0%3A%3A234#235}}. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:37, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: Thank you for your so fast answer. I'll dig it... Valp (talk) 17:47, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: I did try but could not make it. If you have time, see this and change with the "other url" : https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Leibniz-en.francais-Gerhardt.Math.1a7.djvu/Jean.Bernoulli.1684
Thanks, Valp (talk) 19:54, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@Valp: This way? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:59, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: That's it and so simple ! Thanks a lot. Valp (talk) 21:20, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Bug - text in editing box is hidden by hover box[edit]

Tracked in Phabricator:
task T287778 duplicada

Tracked in Phabricator:
task T258840

Dear Sirs,

Can you please remove this hover box?

Bug - hover box over text

Thanks

Xerostomus (talk) 04:08, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF): As far as I remember, something has been done with this, but apparently either it doesn’t work perfectly, or we’ve got a regression. Do you know anything about it? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:17, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, Tacsipacsi. I couldn't find a previous bug, so I filed a new one. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:06, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Article counts not updating[edit]

I have created hundreds of articles on these Wikipedias, but the article counts are not updating. They are all small wikis with fewer than 1,000 articles. Why is this the case?

Sabon Harshe (talk) 14:38, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

It's hard to say based on just links to the Main pages. Most wikis will require a wikilink on a page to be counted as an article. How long did you wait? Reedy (talk) 14:44, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Reedy: At least 1-2 weeks. The article count seems to be very slowly creeping up in Wikipedias such as Dagbani. These are some of the stubs that I had added: dag:Wikipedia:Mabiligu dundɔŋ#New stubs. I started when there were only about 400 articles. Sabon Harshe (talk) 13:09, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Adding Portuguese Wikinews to the Google News feed via Search Console[edit]

Hi! I recently noticed that Wikinotícias Português is not in the Google News feed, news.google.com, which if added could bring more views to our news. I tried to try to post, but I need the help of a Wikimedia employee to confirm the Search Console domain at https://publishercenter.google.com/publications , and to help me.

Grateful! can anybody help me? Juan90264 (talk) 06:43, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

@Juan90264: Hi, I guess we've made the loop from phab:T285091. :-/ I admit that it is also unclear to me what who to handle non-access Google Search Console related requests (assuming that phab:T132373 is still correct which states that it's not the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team), and unclear where such requests should be filed (Phabricator? Which project tags? wikitech:Google Search Console access would welcome an additional section, I guess). However, phab:T188453 also mentions that the intention is too keep the pool of domains small. Hmm, hmm... Maybe User:EBjune (WMF) has some idea? I'm sorry that I don't have a good answer myself. :-/ --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:14, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm actually not sure at this point, but am going to suggest asking User:CBogen (WMF) and User:GLederrey (WMF) as it may be something that can be routed through those working on SEO issues in the Product team, or the Search folks may have an idea. --EBjune (WMF)17:07, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Doubts[edit]

Hello everyone,

Do you know if I can create a new publication in here?

Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bondin (talk) 09:47‎, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

What kind of publication? What is it supposed to deal with? Please see also what Meta is not. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:50, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Color of red links across Mediawiki[edit]

Tracked in Phabricator:
task T288739

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but is it me or are red links across Wikimedia's sites (except, oddly enough, Wikipedia, so far as I know) no longer actually red but now a kind of bright pink? I wouldn't be bothered by the slight change in color, if only it wasn't for the fact the red link text is now less readable than before on those sites. Text with light colors don't work well against a white background after all. I would have thought someone else would have brought this up by now, but I have not yet found an existing discussion about this (please correct me if there is already a discussion elsewhere or if this is actually the wrong place, thanks). Monster Iestyn (talk) 13:20, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Seems to be new in this weeks train, filed a task. RhinosF1 (talk) 14:04, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Oh, this isn't intentional? Good to know, hope it gets fixed soon then. I actually recall seeing this happen months ago but forgot about it until the last 24 hours for some reason (did it fix itself?). Also, just to confirm since the issue appears to be skin-related, yes I use the Vector skin. Monster Iestyn (talk) 23:29, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@RhinosF1: I'm now seeing the pinkish-red color for red links on Wikipedia as well. Monster Iestyn (talk) 02:00, 14 August 2021 (UTC)