Note: Thanks to Echo I now do monitor this talk page. If for whatever reason you lack a reply your best bet is to e-mail me at jrobson@wikimedia.org
Note that I am a developer at the Wikimedia foundation currently working in the mobile team and working to make it easier for Wikipedia readers to become Wikipedia editors. As a result my team creates simple to use tools to make editing easier.
If there are problems with contributions I have made it is likely there is code responsible and your best bet is to discuss this on a mailing list/contact me directly so we can improve that code.
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A belated welcome to Wikipedia. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:31, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Contents
- 1 Signatures
- 2 Talkback
- 3 License tagging for File:Lead Photo For Hospet0-785521897720173.jpg
- 4 File:Lead Photo For Hauz Khas0-1134900008328259.JPG missing description details
- 5 Hello
- 6 Mobile question
- 7 Your edit to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 115
- 8 You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon
- 9 You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley
- 10 You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco
- 11 SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8
- 12 Gather edit feed
- 13 ArbCom elections are now open!
- 14 Pushipedia feedback
- 15 Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool
- 16 ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
- 17 Using 100% width for an outer container box
- 18 Lorem ipsum
- 19 Sig
- 20 ArbCom 2017 election voter message
- 21 Your map
- 22 List of pages not using stack template
- 23 Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing
- 24 Recommendations for mobile friendly articles
- 25 Thank you
- 26 Multiple image changes
- 27 Pequeno português
- 28 ArbCom 2018 election voter message
- 29 Category:Templates that are not mobile friendly
- 30 Mobile editor jumping when the first new character is entered
- 31 Test
- 32 Speedy deletion nomination of Tst page lah alh
Signatures
Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button
or
located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:31, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Talkback
I've replied to your comment at MediaWiki talk:Wikimedia-copyright. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 10:25, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
License tagging for File:Lead Photo For Hospet0-785521897720173.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Lead Photo For Hospet0-785521897720173.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.
To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 08:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
File:Lead Photo For Hauz Khas0-1134900008328259.JPG missing description details
If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 01:41, 5 December 2012 (UTC)Hello
Hi Jon, I apologise for my comment at MediaWiki talk:Common.css implying that you were not active here. Thing is, I visited your staff userpage, User:Jon (WMF), and did not find any mention of the fact that you have a personal account, under which you do have a repertoire of encyclopedic contributions.
Additionally, your staff talk page, User talk:Jon (WMF), redirects to the user page, which is confusing and makes it very difficult for users to contact you. Can I suggest you either redirect your staff talk page to this page, or remove the redirect and keep a separate talk page for this account (as User:Philippe and User:Ironholds do, for instance)? Thanks, — This, that and the other (talk) 07:38, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
No worries and that's a great idea. I'll do that today! Jdlrobson (talk) 15:59, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Mobile question
How do you keep a bot from deleting a section on your talk page? I use mobile with beta turned on.Justaguy120 (talk) 16:06, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
This isn't really a mobile problem. Any page can be edited by anyone regardless of whether they are a bot or not. The best thing to do is talk to the owner of the bot and tell them constructively why you dislike what it does. Most bots mean well but they don't always come across that way. Jdlrobson (talk) 16:57, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
It hasn't happened to me yet. I just saw some bots archiving old conversations on other's pages. I wanted to know how to tell it which ones you want to keep, and which ones you want archived.Justaguy120 (talk) 02:45, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
Your edit to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 115
Hi, re this edit: it's an archive page, so the discussion is closed. If you want to comment, please start a new thread at the parent page, including a link to that archived discussion. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:06, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon
Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited! | |
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Hi Jdlrobson! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco. Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors. SarahStierch (talk) 09:00, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited! | |
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The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library. You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 23:32, 13 March 2014 (UTC) |
You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco
You are invited! → Litquake Edit-a-thon → See you there! | |||||||||||
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The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:15, 27 September 2014 (UTC) |
SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8
ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)! | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending! First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works! Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course! I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about SF meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Gather edit feed
Yes indeed, I am interested. Will it work with beta mobile front end? --Thnidu (talk) 17:00, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thnidu you can use it on desktop even! You just need to bookmark the page as we don't link from it anywhere :-) Jdlrobson (talk) 18:50, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- The link goes to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GatherEditFeed?collection-id=3454 , which is titled "Edits to pages in my collections" and comes up with the drop-down open to my Philadelphia watch collection. Is that what it's supposed to do? --Thnidu (talk) 20:56, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- • Also, the "Pages" tab should be labeled "Articles" instead. After all, the page is headed "Edits to pages in my collections", and the other tabs are "All", "Talk", and "Other". --Thnidu (talk) 21:08, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Pushipedia feedback
Please let me know what you think about Pushipedia here. Here's how you can help! Right now you'll need the latest version of Chrome (mobile or desktop) or Firefox (developer version). This makes use of pretty new technology that hasn't yet made it into other browsers.
- Visit pushipedia and subscribe to "Trending edits (experimental)"
- You should receive a push notification within a 48 hour period - number of notifications really depends on activity in the world and Wikipedia :)
Questions I'm keen to have answered by you:
- What did you get push notifications about?
- Did pushipedia lead you to make edits that you normally wouldn't have made?
- Did pushipedia notify you of something happening before you heard about it elsewhere (e.g. news, Twitter, word of mouth)
- Were there pages that you would have expected to receive notifications that you didn't?
- Were there edits that you were alerted to that were due to vandalism? If so what titles were they (will help me finetune the algorithm).
Jdlrobson (talk) 22:58, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
- It's quite fun. I've come across several new articles, e.g. Perry H. Carson (which I helped edit), an edit war in progress on Objections to evolution, and lots of sports and celeb pages. Not much breaking news, other than Planet Nine. One gripe - using Chrome on Android, the notification includes the whole article text, which scrolls through in my notification bar even after I dismiss the notification. Just the lead would do. Fences&Windows 21:28, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for testing it! The whole article text should be fixed by now. Try visiting the script file and hard refreshing to make sure you are running the most recent version. I will take another look to be sure. Glad it's leading to some editing :-) With respect to the edit wars, I'm wondering if I should have a separate feed for edit wars as I'm muting a lot of them but it seems a useful thing to pull in soldiers :-). Jdlrobson (talk) 21:35, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
- Ta. It flagged vandalism on J. P. Manoux. A mix of trending topics and editing flashpoints is interesting, but separate feeds might be useful. A bot could edit WP:AN/I or WP:AN3 for cases that may involve vandalism or edit warring, and a list of trending topics might be useful in a community portal. Fences&Windows 00:10, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
- Me again. It picked up Terry Wogan, who died today - the first I knew of it. I, uh, fixed a typo. Fences&Windows 16:24, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for testing it! The whole article text should be fixed by now. Try visiting the script file and hard refreshing to make sure you are running the most recent version. I will take another look to be sure. Glad it's leading to some editing :-) With respect to the edit wars, I'm wondering if I should have a separate feed for edit wars as I'm muting a lot of them but it seems a useful thing to pull in soldiers :-). Jdlrobson (talk) 21:35, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool
Thank you for using the collections feature in Wikipedia beta! Due to technical and moderation issues, we will be turning off this experimental feature. Your collections will be available for viewing and export until March 1st. If you would like to save your collection as links on a special Wikipedia page, please fill out the following form. If you are interested in giving your feedback about Wikipedia Collections please do so here.
Thanks,
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Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 23:54, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
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Using 100% width for an outer container box
this looks horrible. I look forward to your corrections. Frietjes (talk) 20:24, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
- since you don't seem to be around, I have reverted your changes and put a revised version with your changes in the sandbox. removing offending 'width:100%' from the outer container box, we now only have one fundamental problem as see case 2 in the testcases. for some reason the title in the campaignbox is left aligned. by the way, the alternative to passing the campaign box in using a parameter is to wrap both in {{stack}}, which I imagine isn't mobile friendly either. Frietjes (talk) 21:13, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
- yes I am around. I'll look at your proposal. Could you please be a bit more descriptive about what the problem with my change was? "Looks horrible" doesn't help me so much :) Was it just the left alignment ? I suspect the article I was testing on was different to yours and I hadn't considered a different mode. Jdlrobson (talk)
Lorem ipsum
FYI: {{Lorem ipsum}}. - dcljr (talk) 11:55, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Sig
For the purposes of the archiving bot I've just added a dated sig to your comment at Template talk:Expand language#Problem with display on mobile due to HTML inconsistency. I believe the lack of a full sig will have prevented your {{ping}}s from working. Regards, Cabayi (talk) 07:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
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Your map
...will appear in the next issue of the Signpost. I mean it to be flattering. I love this map. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 20:55, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Nice!! Thank you 🙏🙏 User:Barbara (WVS) :) Jdlrobson (talk) 22:30, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- I am seriously considering having a poster printed out with this map on it-with proper attribution of course. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 22:42, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- I just saw it in the signpost. Wonderful work. Well done (thumbs up emoji). fish&karate 09:09, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- I agree, the map is awesome! ZettaComposer (talk) 18:39, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- thanks all!! :) Jdlrobson (talk) 02:37, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
- So far your map has made over 1,000 viewers laugh. Do you have any more artwork? Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 09:56, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
- I am seriously considering having a poster printed out with this map on it-with proper attribution of course. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 22:42, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
List of pages not using stack template
in this edit you added Princess Louise of Belgium instead of Princess Louise of Belgium (born 2004) which had the problem. same for Team Lotus instead of Team Lotus (2010–11); William Lockhart instead of William Lockhart (surgeon); and Central station instead of Central station (MTR). can you fix your query to include the parenthetical disambiguation? thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing
Hello,
There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.
There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).
If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.
Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Recommendations for mobile friendly articles
Hi! I ran across your edit to Geology, in which you cite mw:Recommendations for mobile friendly articles. These recommendations, if implemented, would be a major change on enwiki. Improving the mobile experience is a laudable goal, but I think you might want to get some consensus for your guidelines first. — Gorthian (talk) 19:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you for your recent work on the gallery template. That made a huge difference to the citole page.Jacqke (talk) 15:54, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Multiple image changes
As I understand it, you recently modified {{multiple images}}. At List of U.S. state foods, the last column for California is no longer displaying correctly. Is it possible that you left something unclosed in the current version? Thanks. BiologicalMe (talk) 16:48, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- This change seems to fix it although I'm not sure why. Seems unrelated to the recent template changes :/ Jdlrobson (talk) 20:21, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. The entry was fine last week, and then it was broken. I looked to see if the template had been changed and it had. Post hoc ergo propter hoc sometimes works in troubleshooting and sometimes it leads in the completely wrong direction. Thanks for the fix, even if it was more black magic than detailed analysis of a defined system. BiologicalMe (talk) 04:30, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Jdlrobson: Problems persist, see for example Fusion power#1970s (I see a full-width grey rectangle just before the template). I think this has to do with the recent changes in TemplateStyles stylesheet (Template:Multiple image/styles.css). --Ita140188 (talk) 04:52, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. The entry was fine last week, and then it was broken. I looked to see if the template had been changed and it had. Post hoc ergo propter hoc sometimes works in troubleshooting and sometimes it leads in the completely wrong direction. Thanks for the fix, even if it was more black magic than detailed analysis of a defined system. BiologicalMe (talk) 04:30, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- i'm still failing to see how and why this would cause a problem since all I did was add a style tag to the template (i didnt touch the structure) :(. All signs are pointing to a parser bug at the current time. If we can isolate this to a small example we can raise a bug against TemplateStyles and/or parser. 19:27, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- I've opened phab:T202023 to get some guidance here. This feels like a bug, hopefully with a quick fix. Jdlrobson (talk) 19:39, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- see the main thread. better to have a centralized discussion. Frietjes (talk) 19:55, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- I've opened phab:T202023 to get some guidance here. This feels like a bug, hopefully with a quick fix. Jdlrobson (talk) 19:39, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- i'm still failing to see how and why this would cause a problem since all I did was add a style tag to the template (i didnt touch the structure) :(. All signs are pointing to a parser bug at the current time. If we can isolate this to a small example we can raise a bug against TemplateStyles and/or parser. 19:27, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Pequeno português
Hi Jdlrobson. I admit I have no clue as to what you did here, but thanks for your help. I really struggle with templates, each time I think I have got it, templates become deprecated. I appreciate it. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
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Category:Templates that are not mobile friendly
Do you have in mind criteria for this category and how to populate it? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:36, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
I've had a go at updating the description on the category page itself. Does that help? Jdlrobson (talk) 02:26, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:27, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Mobile editor jumping when the first new character is entered
I had this problem only last week, on this page Allegheny Airlines. I tried to update the text "Founded 1939 (as Allegheny Airlines)" in the Infobox.
I was trying to edit on a OnePlus One running Firefox 35.0.
I'm trying it again. On the mobile, I accessed the page, tapped the Pencil icon. After a delay, it says "X Editing Allegheny..." at the top, with the source text of the infobox immediately below.
Now here's a bizarre bug. When I scroll down, the page below a flightglobal.com ref appears to be all blank. I have no idea why.
I scrolled back up to the top and tapped the word "Allegheny" in the quoted Founded text, just after "All". The screen scrolled slightly and put a cursor in the word "airline" in the line that says:
| airline = Allegheny
That's the bug I was reporting.
While I was typing this, the mobile screen went dark. When I brought it back, the cursor jumped back to where I had put it after "All" of "Founded 1939 (as Allegheny...". The damn thing keeps going dark over and over as I document what's happening. I'm going to start over.
Hit Pencil button. This time it's different. Source text comes up. I press the text after "All". The cursor goes there. I press the letter "f". It inserts the word "Member" ("AllMemberegheny Airlines").
It's just bizarro, unpredictable.
I used the Back button to get out, and tried again. The next time, it worked perfectly.
I am unwilling to use this editor when it gives me three different behaviors for the same set of inputs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnuish (talk • contribs) 08:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
- I've raised a bug and I'll see what we can do. next step will be for one of us to replicate it! Thanks for taking the time to report. Jdlrobson (talk) 03:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- "When I scroll down, the page below a flightglobal.com ref appears to be all blank.
I have no idea why." - I can help explain this one. Right now the edit icon at the top of the page allows you to edit the first section (lead section/section 0) not the entire article. This is obviously an inconsistency from desktop and confusing a lot of other people. This is going to be re-evaluated/potentially changed this year. Jdlrobson (talk) 03:37, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Test
test Jdlrobson (talk) 22:07, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Tst page lah alh
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