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I've replied to your comment at MediaWiki talk:Wikimedia-copyright. --Philosopher ^Let us reason together. 10:25, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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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

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You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon

Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited!

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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)

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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)

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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)

using 'width:100%' for the outer container box means that nothing can float next to it, which is a bad idea for a right floating object. Frietjes (talk) 21:32, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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)

It is wonderful! Thank you! Best wishes from Berlin/Germany! --Andrea014 (talk) 09:00, 6 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)

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)

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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)

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)

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)

they confuse me too. Don't worry! :) Jdlrobson (talk) 18:50, 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)

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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)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T214880

"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)

Testing again

Test

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Wikipedia:Main page 2020.01 technical update

So to move this live - will it need to be coordinated with phab changes or risk the existing specialcased mobile main page? I never did hear if you could point to where the current mobile main page layout configuration is actually stored. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:23, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Should not require any config changes. If the config is enabled but the markup does not use ids prefixed with mp or mf then the special casing is ignored:) Jdlrobson (talk) 05:59, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Well, when I added a section that did start with mf-, it didn't show up there. I'm worried that all sections may disappear from mobile during the change. We currently have multiple mp- headers but they don't all show up there either, so that explanation doesn't make a lot of sense. Do you know who would know how the enwiki config for this is actually being processed? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:10, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

I know the config and refactored the code a while back. There is one flag wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage.

What I am saying is provided there are no ids prefixed at all nothing in the page will be transformed (which is what's being proposed). A section with an id starting with mf- for example will not show if inside an element with class nomobile or navbox or if it lacks a title attribute (amongst possible other edge cases).

If you are concerned we can put the newly proposed main page on https://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ first which has the same config. Jdlrobson (talk) 14:12, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

@Jdlrobson: either I don't know what I'm looking at or something isn't right. That beta page does not appear to be the same as our config now. Notably, this page doesn't have mp- or mf- divs at all. Are you saying it would have the config that we would eventually change to, or that it has the actual config we have currently? Compare this production view to this beta view for example. What am I missing here? — xaosflux ^Talk 16:12, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

"Notably, this page doesn't have mp- or mf- divs at all." Correct. Yet despite having the exact same config as production all the content shows and nothing will hide. Since our new design doesnt have these ids either we are also good.

The content of both these main pages is obviously different but since this is a test wiki we could temporarily add the new main page design there inside Main_Page to confirm it will behave correctly. I have already done this on a local wiki.

To summarize: no config changes are needed to deploy the new main page. I have tested it.

When it's the default I will make the necessary config change to disallow any future invokations of the main page formatter so that this page behaves like any other page. Jdlrobson (talk) 00:17, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Wait what, are you saying the current production mobile front end design is not not show if there are mf's or mp's? We do currently have mp's on everything, and only a subset of them are on mobile - where is mobile pulling these in from? — xaosflux ^Talk 00:29, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

No I think I am adding to your confusion. Sorry about that. The new design Wikipedia:Main page 2020.01 technical update does not use mf or mp prefixed ids. That's the goal here. If even one is present it triggers the code in mobile that strips anything that doesn't have them which is what we need to move away from. If you need to understand how that exactly works in more detail I suggest looking through the code that I linked earlier in the thread. Jdlrobson (talk) 01:16, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

OK that helps mostly, in that so long as there are not a single m*- id it will skip that processing. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:24, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

MP update - possible issue

Please see Talk:Main_Page#Non-Mobile_minerva_and_responsive_monobook_issues. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:43, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Can you hop on IRC? — xaosflux ^Talk 01:00, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry to miss you. I'll be on IRC for next hour if you want to talk. Jdlrobson (talk) 01:39, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Got a time that the rollback can occur - getting some more friction on Talk:Main Page. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:42, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Are you online yet? @Jon (WMF):. Need to know if any backend holdups are still in the way of fallback onwiki? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:02, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Xaosflux, you can go ahead. Jdlrobson (talk) 23:29, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

 Done thank you. We should make sure that User:Jdlrobson/Main page technical change roll out is fairly complete, and we will need to open a community RfC. Getting some advocates to help on that page first is a good idea. One of the largest "selling points" to our editors that care about the Main Page content is that this will empower them to do more with the mobile main page. (Do we have pageview stats on the mobile domain?). — xaosflux ^Talk 23:49, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

I'd rather avoid an RFC and make this a pure technical change targetting Minerva for now. At least this will allow us to focus on the single issue of revealing content on mobile. I'd hope that revealing that content would also help in working towards cultural change that mobile and screen resolution need to be considered as the same thing. I've made some updates to Wikipedia:Main_page_2020.01_technical_update to restrict these changes to Timeless and Minerva and to be as minimal as possible. Jdlrobson (talk) 00:11, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Any clue if responsivemonobook will be impacted at all? I can't find documentation on that? — xaosflux ^Talk 00:16, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Xaosflux, it won't be impacted. The responsive styles have now been limited to only apply on Minerva and Timeless: diff. I'm pretty sure this is a watertight - no visual change for any skin except Minerva which will still hide content on mobile devices (while we work out the displaying content problem - as I've said before this is not easily avoidable - but if it is a huge problem we can add a rule to MediaWiki:Minerva.css which only loads on desktop).

User:Jdlrobson/Main page technical change roll out no longer applies as there should be no changes other than Minerva desktop on mobile resolutions (usually a forgiving crowd).

Monobook in responsive mode seems to currently use the two column layout mode so it's not really responsive. The new version will continue to do so.

One small step for Wikipedians... Jdlrobson (talk) 00:29, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

No changes until Friday at least, no way we're going to do things to main page when WP:ITSTHURSDAY. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:45, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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Transclusions of deleted templates

Hi, I have been cleaning up WP:Database reports/Transclusions of deleted templates/1 and noticed that Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Id is pointing to three of your .js pages. clearly these are false positives (basically a bug in how WP parses .js pages). it would be really great if you could add
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// </syntaxhighlight> to the bottom of those pages. by putting these tags in comments, it won't prevent the javascript from executing, but it will remove those pages from Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Id. thank you in advance for your help. Frietjes (talk) 19:51, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

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Can you please help?

i don't what's happening on the zulu.wiki, the coat of arms (image_seal & image_shield) on articles keeps shifting to left on the mobile site like on this stub article here [1] but on the desktop site it's on the center, where i think it should be...could the problem lie with the infobox template or something else? please help me out, when you get the time...have a good day. 3atbulletz (talk) 15:54, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

phab:T259728 Jdlrobson (talk) 16:36, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

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