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I think the VisualEditor got re-enabled after the MediaWiki 1.40 update!

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Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

Ever since Miraheze was updated to MediaWiki 1.40, the editing interface on mobile has looked different. I no longer just get a source editor, now it appears to be VisualEditor again!

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)
GethN7 (talkcontribs)
GethN7 (talkcontribs)
Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Thank you, Geth.

Summary by Looney Toons

Answered.

NoneOfYourBusiness (talkcontribs)

How do you add quotes in page examples?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

It's easy to see if you edit the source of a page that has a quote on it. They're created with the quote template, {{quote}}. (Click that link to get the detailed documentation for the template.) In its simplest form, it works like this:

{{quote|This is a quote, which can be quite large. Each line is a separate paragraph, and you create new paragraphs just by starting a new line. As I did right here.}}

(It may not look like I have a line break there, but that's a side effect of the markup I'm using to show you what the source code for a quote looks like.)

On the rendered wiki page, this produces

This is a quote, which can be quite large. Each line is a separate paragraph, and you create new paragraphs just by starting a new line.
As I did right here.

You can also add who said it and what work it came from as optional parameters:

{{quote|This is another quote, which comes from a famous work by a famous person. |Famous Person|Famous Work}}

produces

This is another quote, which comes from a famous work by a famous person.

Famous Person, Famous Work

You can just put the author and skip the work if you want.

It's a good idea to put the attribution parameters on a separate line when you use them -- if you leave it on the same line as the rest of the quote, and the quote is long, it adds a little extra space above the last line of the quote, which I think is unsightly. Also, if your quote has an equals sign (=) in it anywhere (like if you're linking to a YouTube video), you'll need to use the {{=}} template in its place, or the quote template will interpret it as indicating a parameter and eat that entire part of the quote.

Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

Can you have more than one user sandbox (draft) at a time? I have a sandbox for the game two Point Hospital, but I thought of some tropes for the newer game, Two Point Campus.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

You can hang subpages under your sandbox page just like you can hang subpages off of any other page: User:Bauerbach/Sandbox/Page 1, User:Bauerbach/Sandbox/Page 2, and so on. Put the {{subpages}} template in your Sandbox page itself and it will automatically populate with a list of the pages under it.

What you'll want to do is move your Sandbox to Sandbox/Two Point Hospital, create a new Sandbox page with {{subpages}} on it, and then create Sandbox/Two Point Campus.

Does that help?

Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

Yep! Thanks for the info!

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

You're welcome.

Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

It appears that I am unable to move pages. Can you please move my Sandbox page to “User:Bauerbach/Sandbox/Two Point Hospital”?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Sure. My apologies, I should have remembered that we restricted page moves after a couple particularly annoying vandals.

And it's done. All you need to do now is create a new Sandbox page with the {{subpages}} template on it.

Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

Thank you!

I have unreviewed a page you curated

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DeviantRaccoon (talkcontribs)

{{subst:Unreviewednonote-NPF|1=DeviantRaccoon|2=Without Sin: All Star Edition/Fridge}}

Recent example on "Rhymes on a Dime"

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HeneryVII (talkcontribs)

Thanks for that edit, BOY, that was embarrassing.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

No problem at all. God knows I've made the same kind of mistake more than once.

EDIT: But now I'm envisioning the Oompa-Loompa popping Wolverine claws... <grin>

HeneryVII (talkcontribs)

Lol

Before anyone tries to alert me...

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Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

...I'm aware that my site and forums are returning a 503 error page. I've already filed a ticket with my host's tech support. With luck it'll be resolved soon.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

And it's been restored, as of about an hour ago.

Kingtom44 (talkcontribs)

The wiki thinks I have not made 10 edits, so blocks me from editing my user page, despite having made 31.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Try now.

Kingtom44 (talkcontribs)

Still doesn't work. Something wrong on Miraheze's end?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I'll have to ask the other admins. I'm not the technical guy, I'm a content guy. I tried adding the autopatrolled group to your account, which I thought would make the difference, but it clearly didn't.

EDIT: In addition to that, I'll drop a ping here so everyone else on the mod team gets called in. Someone should know what to do.

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

This may be a bug with the user permissions Miraheze allows to be assigned to certain groups. If we can eliminate all other potential causes and it's still happening, we may need to escalate it to them, since it hooks into and modifies MediaWIki's stock permission assignment code.

HeneryVII (talkcontribs)

I really feel dumb right now, seeing as I wrote the first example...

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I thought that might be the case, given how closely the two resembled each other. And don't feel too bad, I've done the same kind of thing myself more than a couple times over the years.

Summary by Looney Toons

Addressed.

HeneryVII (talkcontribs)

I accidentally created a second account, (called HeneryVIII) while trying to log in. Not sure how to delete it, if that's even necessary.

Robkelk (talkcontribs)

You won't get in trouble with anyone for having two accounts, although Miraheze does ask "Please only create accounts you intend to use."

If it really worries you, the Stewards can help - make the request here.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

What Rob said. ATT's main issue with multiple accounts is when they're clearly created either by spammers or vandals, and that usually happens quickly because neither type is prone to patience and careful long-term planning. If we see several accounts with similar names being created in the span of an hour or so, that's when we are likely to be unhappy.

I am a bit concerned about what will happen to ATT if Miraheze shuts down.

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Summary by Looney Toons

Immediate concerns addressed by Rob; any lingering ones should have been addressed by the merger with WikiTide.

Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

Miraheze announced that they would be shutting down later this year, and then a group of volunteers decided to take it over. However, I don’t know if they will be able to keep the platform running like Miraheze Ltd. did. Any plans on where to migrate ATT to in case Miraheze shuts down?

Robkelk (talkcontribs)

Hello, @Bauerbach. Looney Toons is on vacation at the moment.

The "group of volunteers" that you mentioned is lead by @Labster, one of the two founding admins of ATT and previous Chief Financial Officer of Miraheze before they incorporated in the UK. The rest of the bureaucrats here are at least advising him on how to proceed. While we have contingency plans just in case we can't save Miraheze, we're operating under the assumption that the "save Miraheze" plans will let us continue here.

If we can't, well, it looks like what's in the middle of being done right now will let us self-host the wiki.

@Labster @Looney Toons @GethN7 @Robkelk @QuestionableSanity @Derivative @SelfCloak

Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

OK, that’s good.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I am not totally incommunicado during my vacation. Rob's covered everything, though, and there's nothing for me to add.

Bauerbach (talkcontribs)

OK then!