[10:43:32] If anyone want to tell https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2017-September/005068.html the answer: http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/backlinkscount.py (Please use ts link, I'm jumping between DDNS hosts) It takes 8-48 hours for enwiki, I've made a pre-computed available on our databases [10:56:45] SELECT COUNT(*) FROM u2815__p.backlinkcount_enwiki_p WHERE blc_count > 100; has 991,518 articles [17:39:22] hi, I'm trying to build a node server on the wiki cloud. I'v used this guide https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Web#node.js_web_services. but when I print the port- it is empty (undefiend). so it doesn't listen to anything. do I need to get a port number and set it? [19:42:08] hi [19:42:37] I'm trying to solve the problem exposed here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Psychoslave#Template:Participants (in French) [19:43:20] in a nutshell, the goal is to be able to ping a group of user on meta [19:43:52] so ideally, you just type something like {{ping|my_group}} [19:44:44] but as ping and the underlying "Module:Reply_to" are expecting one user per argument [19:45:32] my current idea is to make something like {{ping|{{:/some_group/members}}}} [19:49:07] so instead of {{ping|Amqui|Ariel1024|Aryamanarora|Benoît_Prieur|Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)|Delarouvraie|Epantaleo|Ernest-Mtl|GastelEtzwane|JackPotte|Jberkel|Jitrixis|Kimdime|LA2|LaMèreVeille|Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)|Lyokoï|M0tty|Malaysiaboy|Marcmiquel|Micru|Nattes_à_chat|Nemo_bis|Noé|Otourly|Pamputt|psychoslave|Rich_Farmbrough|Rodelar|Satdeep_Gill|Sebleouf|Shavtay|Stalinjeet|S_The_Singer|TAKASUGI_Shinji|TaronjaSatsuma|T [19:49:10] hibaut120094|Thiemo_Mättig_(WMDE)|tpt|Trizek_(WMF)|VIGNERON|Vive_la_Rosière|Xabier_Cañas|Xenophôn}} I can just write {{ping|{{:Wiktionary/Tremendous Wiktionary User Group/affiliates}}}} for example [19:50:03] but even if I put Amqui|Ariel1024|Aryamanarora|Benoît_Prieur|Daniel_Kinzler_(WMDE)|Delarouvraie|Epantaleo|Ernest-Mtl|GastelEtzwane|JackPotte|Jberkel|Jitrixis|Kimdime|LA2|LaMèreVeille|Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)|Lyokoï|M0tty|Malaysiaboy|Marcmiquel|Micru|Nattes_à_chat|Nemo_bis|Noé|Otourly|Pamputt|psychoslave|Rich_Farmbrough|Rodelar|Satdeep_Gill|Sebleouf|Shavtay|Stalinjeet|S_The_Singer|TAKASUGI_Shinji|TaronjaSatsuma|Thib [19:50:06] aut120094|Thiemo_Mättig_(WMDE)|tpt|Trizek_(WMF)|VIGNERON|Vive_la_Rosière|Xabier_Cañas|Xenophôn in the page [19:50:16] verbatim [19:50:30] it will end up with a Error in Template:Reply to: Input contains forbidden characters. [19:50:51] This message is generated by the module Reply_to [19:50:56] but I can't change it [19:51:04] it's protected [19:51:35] So I'm looking for a way to bypass whatever generate this error [20:00:03] hi, anyone around [20:00:29] where's the best place to drop suggestions/feature requests [20:01:16] well if noone else is here then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical) could be an option [20:01:46] i'll try that, it looks kind of chaotic though compared to say github issues [20:03:57] There's phab, what feature are you requesting? [20:04:29] i have a load of ideas i could dump but just one simple one sprang to mind:- [20:04:47] filter search by 'what isn't linked' [20:05:05] also, after finding a page by search, 'seach instead for the text' [20:05:17] you know how there's a hazard that pages interfere with the text search [20:06:09] if i search for 'enclosure', it will show the page [[enclosure]], but imagine if beside it there was a little icon in the title that said (search instead for enclosure..) [20:06:39] to be honest the search is crap, its almost worth using google instead [20:06:59] wikipedia knows more about itself though, [20:07:07] but i think the WMF IT people are aware of its shortcomings [20:07:13] and its not good to allow google to be a monopoly [20:07:46] i have a theory some of wikipedias guidelines are actually to inhibit it's strength as a user-maintained search-index [20:07:55] google must pay trolls for that [20:08:21] stranger things have happened, after all [20:08:30] like trolls influencing elections [20:08:49] if paid trolls can tip a presidency.. they can keep wikipedia from becoming a search index [20:09:05] anyway where was i [20:09:56] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug [20:10:13] davr0s, Instructions for feature requests are there ^ [20:10:20] ok great, thanks [20:10:55] i have time i could put into contributing but i know contributing to a big project with momentum and many voices is hard [20:11:36] the few little tweaks i have in mind are fairly simple which means either (a) no one has time or (b) no one wants them [20:12:27] the next 2 ideas are a bit more elaborate:- [20:12:46] 'what links here' - display it like search results, with the snippet that shows the context [20:13:21] and extend the category page to do the same, then categories+stubs could do the job of glossaries [20:14:07] i guess it's not far off with the hovercards [20:14:32] that would want to be switchable [20:14:38] i mean collapse/expand the view [20:15:05] 'display category contents as pure titles', or 'display titles+the first couple of lines from the page..' [23:23:37] Hi! Is there some way to disable visual editor by design in any Wikimedia project (some variable that needs to be set via GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey etc.)? [23:24:13] [[Tech]]; MF-Warburg; /* Admin activity tool */ new section; https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=17255924&oldid=17224852&rcid=10577905 [23:25:52] mediawiki.org uses one link for ‘edit’ and it is really annoying for me that I click to edit a section and 1) it opens visual editor, 2) visual editor opens its popup, 3) if you click ‘Switch to source editing’, it forgets that you were trying to edit a section and opens the whole page. [23:28:59] yes it's in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing [23:29:29] IIRC there were technical problems with making VE do single-section-editing [23:29:33] Yeah, I am talking including anonymous editing (or just private browsing). [23:29:42] anonymous users don't get preferences [23:30:24] Well, it still stays turned off after turning it off once, so I am interested in what needs to be set to have this by default. [23:31:12] you could try $.cookie( 'VEE', 'wikitext' ); [23:43:24] Thanks, seems to work.