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Once again, help!!



I had an image from Flickr from a photographer I just dealt with. He made the mistake of changing his copyright license to a Creative Commons one--but not one we accept. I took his word for it that he removed copyright in favor of Creative Commons, but since I'd just uploaded two of his photos with a correct one we accept, it was my oversight that he made a mistake and I didn't check it. The result of this was that the photo was not accepted in Commons for upload. Fine. But now I can't get the damned thing to upload it now that the license is correct! How '''RUDE'''. I've been uploading photos for years- more than any other editor I know of on the en.wikipedia. It is for this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcdavidphoto/3369410322/ ↗. How can I fix this? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 14:38, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

:You have GOT to be the coolest Wikisloth with super-powers that I ever met!! For a Sloth, you sure move at a quick pace!! :) Do you wear a "super cape", I wonder? That would really complete the whole outfit and mystique.. I keep trying to think of things I could maybe do for you since you are such a blessing and a help... Hmmm. Did you ever contact Roger Ebert ↗ before his untimely demise? Is there perhaps a photo of someone that I can search for on your behalf? Just say the words. I feel a great debt to you for your help over these years. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 12:00, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Boyd Bushman Entry Deleted



Could you believe the dark hearts won in deleting this entry? And now an article I started is also up for deletion by some nobody called LuckyLouie. --HafizHanif (talk) 21:24, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Timeshifter, would you be able to give your honest opinion regarding the deletion of Boyd's page? I think my suggestions at the discussion are fair and at least his memory as a scientist should be in wiki, regardless of the mention of any alien stuff. --HafizHanif (talk) 20:19, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Not sure if you or someone else is working on reintroducing this entry. I'm also not sure if you've come across this list of patents referencing Bushman's 1996 patent #5542247 ↗.

The sixth listed patent ↗ has two U.S. Airforce contracts; F49620-98-C-0038 ↗ and F49620-00-C-0005 ↗ with many independent source citations.

It is interesting how other deleted pages usually have a trail of information, but Boyd's has nothing. I didn't get to read what the final verdict was ( other than obvious deletion ). --HafizHanif (talk) 21:38, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Van Morrison song



I might have been buzzing through the disambig. page for the Van Morrison/Robbie Robertson song, "Caravan", seen here: Caravan (Van Morrison song) ↗ which they played during the filmed final concert "The Last Waltz" - if it's just my need for glasses please forgive me. Hopefully I'll have a computer soon. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 11:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

New discussion system



What you saw was Flow.

::{{ping|Alsee}} Thanks for all the info on Flow! I had to look up MFD. I see that it is Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion ↗. Are there any wikis using LiquidThreads still? The WMF or the devs or whoever is in charge (I have no clue), take simple requests for improvement (such as watchlisting sections of talk pages) and then go crazy with complete rewrites of all the code. Same for the request for a WYSIWYG editor. I just wanted a simple WYSIWYG editor that did the simple stuff, and did it in article sections. But they went crazy and created this monster VE that edits the whole page, and tries to do everything the wikitext editor does and more. I just want VE lite for section editing. Bold, italic, links. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 13:01, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to chat about interactive maps



Hello, I’m Chris, a community liaison ↗ in the Discovery department ↗ at the Wikimedia Foundation. One of the projects we’re working on is to bring interactive maps ↗ to Wikipedia. If you are interested, I’d like to have an informal conversation with you about your work with WikiProject Maps ↗, and the conventions ↗ you all have created. I'd like to learn more about your work and how that might influence the design of interactive maps.

Please let me know of some good times to chat via email and I can setup a meeting for us. I can be reached at {{No spam|ckoerner|wikimedia.org}}.

If you’re not interested, that’s fine. I would appreciate any direction to other editors that have been involved and might be interested.

Have a good day,
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:46, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Need your help with this missing Wikipedian-



Hi, I don't know if there is a procedure to let people know when an editor quits to place a semi-retired placard on their talk page. In the case of Catfish Jim, one of my closest editing friends from the past, his talk page is looking like he's here, when it's just Admin and other bots that deposit info on timed intervals. To my knowledge, he hasn't been working since before I went into a coma three years ago. I think it's March 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Catfish_Jim_and_the_soapdish/Archive_8 ↗. I'll leave this to you as an Admin. I'm only doing little edits and am still not healed so, if you don't do something with this, I hope you'll pass it to someone who will. Thanks. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 13:09, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

"420" collaboration



As a member of WikiProject Cannabis ↗, you are invited to help organize the project's upcoming '''"420" collaboration ↗''', which is scheduled for April 2017. Yes, we're a few months away, but we're hoping to get the ball rolling by getting buy-in from experienced Wikipedia editors and seek help fleshing out some goals and ideas for a successful campaign. We also plan to conduct both on-wiki and offlline outreach so non-Wikipedias can also contribute. If you are interested in participating, please sign up and contribute to the ongoing discussions. All editors are welcome! ---<span style="color:navy">Another Believer</span> <sub>(<span style="color:#C60">Talk</span>)</sub> 16:55, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Double ping



An edit summary mention produces a separate ping so I got two pings for [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=prev&diff=904454161]. PrimeHunter (talk) 08:48, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
:Oops, sorry. :) -- '''Timeshifter''' (talk) 09:22, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Updating Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates



I have created Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates/doc ↗ with instructions for updating Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates ↗. Please advise if you notice any errors.

I have included the VBA code of a Word macro to automate the later stages of the update. This should work just as well for Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country ↗. I tried to create a macro to automate the whole process, but either the program or my computer does not like large macros. Dudley Miles (talk) 13:33, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

:{{u|Dudley Miles}}. Thanks. Looks good. I adjusted and clarified a few things. Check history for explanations. I don't have MS Word. So I can't help there. I use freeware LibreOffice. Of that free office suite I only use Calc. And I am a beginner with it. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 17:02, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
::Thanks for your help. The explanation in the doc is much clearer after your changes. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:06, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Separate but related questions



First I noticed that you undid the revision at Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country/styles.css ↗ however it doesn't seem you have implemented the changes from User:Timeshifter/Sandbox119 there yet so the table is now no longer scrolling with sticky headers. Are you still planning to re-add those features? If yes is there a reason you're waiting to implement them?{{pb}}Secondly, are you looking to create a table stylesheet that can be used to implement any of these features more generally, it seems to me this might be a good idea going forward if you are aware of any feature requests that have or are likely to recur.{{pb}}Apologies if this has been asked and answered elsewhere I don't really have time to read through any of those discussions in full at the moment; thanks for your help. {{ppor}}{{pb}}<span style="background-color:#EEE; font-size: 1.2em; padding:.15em .45em;"><b><span style="color:#800000;">&#119980;</span><span style="color:#800000;">&#120084;</span> ↗</b></span> 00:12, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
{{pb}}Update: OK I just noticed the link to Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates ↗ on the help talk page; I presume then that this supersedes Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country ↗? If so it should probably be redirected to the new table. Second question still stands; although as I mentioned earlier it will have to be a bit before I can start on it, thanks. {{ppor}}{{pb}}<span style="background-color:#EEE; font-size: 1.2em; padding:.15em .45em;"><b><span style="color:#800000;">&#119980;</span><span style="color:#800000;">&#120084;</span> ↗</b></span> 00:44, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

:{{u|Quantocius_Quantotius}}. This has been moving very fast. There are now 3 table templates and 2 style sheets.
:2 of the table templates are tables that are on this article page:
:*COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory‎ ↗
:Those 2 tables use the same style sheet:
:*Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles.css ↗

:The CSS style sheet you were working on is this one:
:*Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country/styles.css ↗
:It is now only used for this table template:
:*Template:COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country ↗
:That table template is in this article:
:*COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country ↗
:'''That table is not supposed to be a scrollable table.'''
:I just updated some of the history here:
:User:Timeshifter/Sandbox119
:--'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 01:10, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

::Thanks for clearing that up. Well if things are moving fast I probably won't be much help. I may drop in briefly every now and then for the next 2-3 weeks but substantive projects will have to wait until towards the end of the month at least. So I'm about to log-out in a few minutes but if you hit me with a ping I'll see it sooner or later.{{pb}}<span style="background-color:#EEE; font-size: 1.2em; padding:.15em .45em;"><b><span style="color:#800000;">&#119980;</span><span style="color:#800000;">&#120084;</span> ↗</b></span> 01:11, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

:::{{u|Quantocius_Quantotius}}. I am assuming that the '''non-scrollable table template ↗''' does not need the changes you made to it. Since those changes assumed it was a scrollable table. So I will revert your changes. Feel free to add back whatever you think is useful for a non-scrollable table. I haven't been working on that article and its template. Feel free to edit its CSS style sheet now that you know it is for a non-scrollable table.

:::I have been concentrating on the scrollable tables. Feel free to work on the CSS for those scrollable tables. I am a newb at CSS. I wish there was a collapse button to collapse the scrollable tables back to scrollbox size after they have been fully expanded by the "show all" button. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 01:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

::::Belatedly {{done}} please see Template:COVID-19 pandemic data ↗. Let me know if there are any issues or if there are any other templates you would like this feature added to.{{pb}}Sorry for the delay, had a lot more IRL stuff to attend to than I anticipated. If I do get a bit of extra time I was planning on setting up a workspace on testWP ↗ so we can try to work on some additional css features of general applicability, but I do ask for your patience. I'm already a bit overcommitted to stuff here considering the volunteer time I have available.{{pb}}<span style="background-color:#EEE; font-size: 1.2em; padding:.15em .45em;"><b><span style="color:#800000;">&#119980;</span><span style="color:#800000;">&#120084;</span> ↗</b></span> 16:16, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

(unindent). Thanks {{U|Quantocius Quantotius}}! There is a problem though. The collapse button only works on the template page. I just noticed this concerning "Show all" too. It works fine on the template pages. But when the 3 templates are together on '''COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory ↗''' the buttons only work on the top template. So I guess the classes below are not specific enough. I copied the wikitext below from your recent addition to '''Template:COVID-19 pandemic data ↗.'''
<syntaxhighlight>
<div class="covid-show-table" style="font-size:80%;font-weight:500;">[show all ↗]</div><div class="covid-collapse-table" style="font-size:80%;font-weight:500;float: right;">[collapse ↗]</div>
</syntaxhighlight>
I added the collapse part of the above wikitext to:
It works great on the template pages. But in the article with the 3 templates clicking any of the "show all" buttons in any table other than the top one does nothing. So the collapse buttons do not show up on the lower tables. Since they don't expand.

I created a sandbox just for you where you can experiment:
--'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 23:31, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

:I asked for help here:
:'''Wikipedia talk:TemplateStyles ↗'''
:In the section currently titled: "Need help with multiple templated tables on the same page using the same styles.css"
:--'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 06:58, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

::Just noting for the benefit of page watchers that I have given a more detailed explanation over at VPT ↗.{{pb}}<span style="background-color:#EEE; font-size: 1.2em; padding:.15em .45em;"><b><span style="color:#800000;">&#119980;</span><span style="color:#800000;">&#120084;</span> ↗</b></span> 23:03, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

'''''Note:''' See further discussion here: '''Template talk:Monthly cumulative COVID-19 death totals by country ↗.'''''

Wikitext is not ...



The use of HTML in wikitext is in fact HTML.

# Please stop edit warring over this. This is non-negotiable.
# John is in the right on this point. You must provide compliant HTML for WP:Accessibility ↗.

Thanks. --Izno (talk) 20:09, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

:{{u|Izno}}. I believe you are mistaken. Mediawiki software converts everything it sees into what it puts on the page. The browser sees none of what is in the wikitext until Mediawiki converts it to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc..
:<nowiki><ul></nowiki> in the wikitext in the case of side-by-side tables and/or images contributes nothing to accessibility.
:Side-by-side tables and/or images look exactly the same with or without <nowiki><ul></nowiki> in the wikitext.
:We can take this to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) ↗ if necessary for more info.
:Screenreaders ↗ do not see wikitext. They only see what the Mediawiki software converts it too.
:And side-by-side tables and/or images look exactly the same to the browser and screenreaders with or without <nowiki><ul></nowiki> in the wikitext.
:Your solution of using a gallery for images is fine too. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 20:39, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
::I am not mistaken. HTML text in wikitext passes straight through the parser as HTML (both Parser.php and Parsoid) in all cases (with some HTML causing additional changes to how the parser deals with the contained text; &lt;pre> is a notable example). That is why we have an allowed list of HTML and CSS directly in the parser as part of Sanitizer.php: we do not want bad-faith actors to use HTML elements in malevolent ways.
::Subsequently, to provide valid HTML per the HTML standard, &lt;li> must be placed inside either &lt;ol> or &lt;ul>, whether in an actual HTML document or a MediaWiki wikitext document. Perhaps you did not understand the point that John was making.
::(N.b. I am not speaking to wikitext as wikitext just to be clear e.g. <kbd>*</kbd> at the beginning of a line.)
::Invalid HTML is usually, almost always, inaccessible HTML. Izno (talk) 20:51, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
:::If I may butt in: if y'all are talking about this edit ↗ vs. this one ↗, then I can definitely see a difference, in both the HTML output and the rendered output of the page. Timeshifter's edit is missing the surrounding <code><nowiki><ul></ul></nowiki></code> in the browser HTML, and in the rendered output (at least in my browser), the images are placed closer to the left margin. So it seems that John and Izno are correct. Writ&nbsp;Keeper&nbsp;&#9863; ↗&#9812; ↗ 21:04, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
::::{{u|Writ Keeper}}. See my reply to Izno. Also, John like Izno was talking about inaccessibility problems, not the left margin. John and I discussed this elsewhere. And he did not show any inaccessibility problems. He just suspected there might be some. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 21:25, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
::::The edit in question indeed. Izno (talk) 21:33, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
:{{u|Izno}}. As you said everything has to go through the parser, sanitizer, etc.. And in some cases the HTML is not allowed to be used. Some deprecated HTML for example. Some works. Some doesn't.
:In the case of side-by-side tables '''I am not seeing any inaccessibility problem.''' See:
:'''User:Timeshifter/Sandbox153'''
:In this case <nowiki><ul></nowiki> serves no purpose except to mess up the left margin. Someone complained about this elsewhere. Removing <nowiki><ul></nowiki> fixes that problem, and it is more efficient code. Less to remember.
:'''It allows tables to fit in narrower screens too.''' Since there is no left margin. '''Narrow your browser window on the sandbox page to see.''' The '''horizontal scrollbar shows up sooner''' on the lower set of side-by-side tables that have <nowiki><ul></nowiki>
:'''What inaccessibility problem are you seeing?''' I see none '''when doing without <nowiki><ul></nowiki> in this sandbox case.'''
:--'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 21:19, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
::Yeah, no. Bold text that indicates an argument on how your device provides you content isn't how accessibility works. "I like less code" also isn't how we make decisions where accessibility is relevant. Much less conformant HTML. If you personally cannot remember that list item elements must be inside o/ul elements, then you specifically should not revert an editor correcting that issue; if you want to fix any particular display that you do not like, you need to ask how to do that, not revert. In this case, if you want to "fix" the left margin, the way to fix that is to set <code>margin-left: 0</code> on the list item elements. Izno (talk) 21:33, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
:::{{u|Izno}}. If you google '''<nowiki>style=display:inline-table</nowiki>''' you will see it used in many different ways. Many different ways without <nowiki><ul></nowiki>. I already knew about <code>margin-left:0</code>
:::I also already knew how to fix the problem without it. So I fixed it. You have yet to show me why my fix is incorrect. As in how it is inaccessible. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 21:44, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
::::You are barking up a totally weird tree if you think my concern has anything remotely to do with CSS display. I am strictly concerned about outputting both valid and accessible HTML, for which you must include ol/ul elements.
::::Regarding accessibility, it's not about you. It is specifically in regard to screen readers. Izno (talk) 21:50, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
:::::{{u|Izno}}. '''In my first reply to you, I mentioned screenreaders ↗.''' You have yet to show me a problem with accessibility. There are many cases in wikitext that don't use the same full HTML that one would use as a webmaster. Long ago I did my share of basic web pages on Tripod, Angelfire, Geocities, etc.. So I know the difference. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 22:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
:::::Indeed, {{tq|'''What inaccessibility problem are you seeing?'''}} is ''precisely'' the wrong question when it comes to screen readers. Writ&nbsp;Keeper&nbsp;&#9863; ↗&#9812; ↗ 21:55, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
::::::Some people use screenreaders even though they have perfect eyesight. Some developers for example. But I take your point, and I ask everybody: '''What accessibility problems are you claiming?''' If you don't have a screenreader how can you claim anything unless someone with a screenreader tells you something? Send them to '''User:Timeshifter/Sandbox153.''' Ask them if their screenreader detects any difference other than the left margin. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 22:06, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
:::::::Okay, first of all, it is not the responsibility of people who need accessibility aids to analyze a page for accessibility issues; it is ''our'' responsibility as editors (and as coders) to anticipate and address all such issues proactively. Second of all, look at this: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DCOVID-19_pandemic_by_country_and_territory%26oldid%3D1028751755 ↗: specifically errors 11 and 12 (further errors suppressed). <code><nowiki>li</nowiki></code> tags are invalid HTML when used the way they are. (Granted, there are a ton of other errors, too, but that doesn't mean it's okay for us to throw a bunch more onto the pile; an analogy to WP:OTHERSTUFF ↗ comes to mind.) As Izno points out, screen readers parse the HTML structure of a page to present it to their users, and any invalid HTML can cause problems for screen readers; thus, it is incumbent on us as editors to avoid invalid HTML wherever possible, because being proactive about avoiding accessibility issues is our responsibility as editors. We should ''not'' wait until a person who depends on a screen reader to complain; if they complain, ''we have already failed''. I don't think "I like the margin padding better" is reasonable as an excuse to use invalid HTML, especially when the same effect can be accomplished with valid HTML, and "I think the HTML looks better" is ''certainly'' not a reasonable excuse. Do better. Writ&nbsp;Keeper&nbsp;&#9863; ↗&#9812; ↗ 22:30, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
::::::::I think you are making my case. There are 597 errors on that page. And additional warnings. HTML always has this problem. That is why we have transitional HTML versions, and so on. There will never be perfection.
::::::::Until we get someone with a screenreader to check out the sandbox '''(User:Timeshifter/Sandbox153),''' we are talking in circles. Mediawiki would be paralyzed if it held up everything until every single change in the mediawiki code was run by someone with a screenreader. And I have heard from someone with a screenreader who pointed out that a Mediawiki problem he experienced was annoying, but that the alternative was worse because it only helped him, but made things seriously worse for far more people. So everything is a balance. I find it annoying that you, John, and Izno are all going on strictly your suspicions, but without any evidence of a problem. I don't think there will be a problem. Screenreaders have no problem with basic tables with a single row of headers. As long as they have captions. That is what we have at User:Timeshifter/Sandbox153. See if you can round up someone with a screenreader. I will too. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 23:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
:::::::::Okay, so this conversation is indeed going around in circles, but I think it's for different reasons than the ones you're thinking. You started out by saying there was no difference in the page between your version and JohnFromPinckney's version: {{tq|Side-by-side tables and/or images look exactly the same with or without <nowiki><ul></nowiki> in the wikitext.}} That is demonstrably false, though; there is both a visible difference and a difference in the HTML output. When this was pointed out to you, you said {{tq|In this case <nowiki><ul></nowiki> serves no purpose except to mess up the left margin. Someone complained about this elsewhere. Removing <nowiki><ul></nowiki> fixes that problem}}. So, now, you're saying that you see the difference (in the left margin), and are remivng UL tags deliberately to fix that. But you see how that does not correspond with what you said forty minutes earlier and ten lines above, right? You're moving the goalposts. Now, you're demanding that a person who uses a screen reader come in and prove to you that there's an accessibility issue. But it should not take a blind person with a screenreader to tell you that you're messing up the page to convince you to stop inserting invalid HTML into a page. If there are hundreds of HTML problems with a page, we don't fix it by adding ten more. And honestly, ''the rules of how HTML works'' should be the baseline for any conversation about HTML in Wikipedia, even before we get into any questions about accessibility. The burden of proof is on ''you'' to justify why you're breaking the rules of HTML, and "I don't like the margin (which can be fixed with valid HTML)" and "it's nine bytes less code" does not cut it. Writ&nbsp;Keeper&nbsp;&#9863; ↗&#9812; ↗ 00:42, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

(unindent). I have been clear all along that other than the left margin, the '''visible''' output is the same. Both versions are side by side tables that wrap. Someone else on the Help:Table talk page complained about the left margin. They did not like all the clutter of using '''<nowiki><ul style="margin-left:0px;"></nowiki>''' to get rid of the left margin. I experimented and noticed that getting rid of <nowiki><ul></nowiki> altogether got rid of the left margin. '''This allowed side by side tables to work in narrower screens with simpler wikitext. It is all on the talk page.''' You keep thinking that HTML in wikitext has to follow all the rules of HTML elsewhere. According to '''this w3schools page ↗''' <nowiki><p></nowiki> without <nowiki></p></nowiki> is malformed HTML. But Help:HTML in wikitext ↗ says: "Note that the closing tag {{tag|p|c}} is not strictly necessary for MediaWiki installations that output HTML 5 (such as Wikipedia)." There are many other examples of allowed HTML use in wikitext that does not follow the HTML rules elsewhere.--'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 02:00, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
:...Okay, I'm not sure how this isn't clear yet, but none of us are concerned about what the HTML looks like ''in the wikitext'' (i.e. in the edit box, when you're editing the page). Of course ''that'' doesn't have to be valid HTML, because it hasn't gone through the Mediawiki parser to become true HTML yet. What we're all talking about is the ''output HTML of the rendered page'' (i.e. what you see if you view the page like a reader would and right-click to view source). The edits you're making are causing errors in the ''output HTML'', *not* the wikitext. As I explained on VPT, the example you give eith the <nowiki><p></nowiki> tag is not a relevant comparison. The reason the page says that the closing p tag is optional is because, when the wikitext containing an unclosed p tag goes through the Mediawiki parser, the parser will automatically close the p tag for you. So, while there is an unclosed p tag in the ''wikitext'', there is no unclosed p tag in the ''output HTML'', because the parser fixes it for you. But the parser does ''not'' fix orphaned li tags in the same way, so using li tags without an enclosing ul tag will lead to invalid HTML in the ''output HTML'', not just the wikitext. You can see this in action here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=User:Writ_Keeper/sandbox . Notice how, although there is an unclosed p tag in the wikitext, the p tag is properly closed, and thus valid HTML, in the HTML code that the parser outputs. They're not the same thing. Writ&nbsp;Keeper&nbsp;&#9863; ↗&#9812; ↗ 02:20, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
::There is lots of other stuff that ends up in the output HTML that is not perfect HTML. Deprecated HTML, etc.. Others in the VPT thread have pointed out various examples. As I have said several times, if it doesn't effect anything then it doesn't matter. You have yet to show that this lack of <nowiki><ul></nowiki> here effects anything in a negative way. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 02:30, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
:::Both JAWS ↗ and NVDA ↗ detect the version with ul as containing HTML lists but do not detect the HTML lists in the version without ul. Please do not use the latter version. Also, screen readers don't normally detect margins. '''Graham'''<span style="color: green;">87</span> 02:42, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
::::Thanks Graham. I am confused though since technically there are no lists at all in either section. There are just 2 side by side tables in each of the 2 sections.
::::But no problem. We no longer need that method that uses the list HTML of li and ul.
::::isaacl found a simpler solution that only uses divs. It is elegant, legal, and simpler. I pasted it in as a third section on that sandbox page:
::::User:Timeshifter/Sandbox153
::::--'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 02:56, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
:::::Sounds good re divs. Technically there are lists in the section that contains ul ... that is exactly what the ul tag does; it creates an unordered list. Whether it's *semantically* appropriate is another thing entirely ... but a list should be marked up properly in any case. '''Graham'''<span style="color: green;">87</span> 03:02, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

(unindent). Graham. So your screen readers read the divs option OK at sandbox 153? Or below? I pasted it below so that others reading this thread can check it out too.

<div style=display:inline-table>
{{Static row numbers}}
{| class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers" border=1 style=text-align:right
|+ Total number of matches played in official competitions only.
|-
!Player
!Matches
!Goals
|-
|style=text-align:left|Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson ↗
|'''407'''
|0
|-
|style=text-align:left|Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson ↗
|'''364'''
|1,875
|}
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{{Static row numbers}}
{| class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers" border=1 style=text-align:right
|+ Total number of goals scored in official matches only.
|-
!Player
!Goals
!Matches
!Average
|-
|style=text-align:left|Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson ↗
|'''1,875'''
|364
|5.15
|-
|style=text-align:left|Ólafur Stefánsson ↗
|'''1,570'''
|330
|4.76
|}
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Everybody: Narrow your browser screen to see the tables wrap (one drop below the other). Works in mobile view too. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 03:19, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
--'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 03:19, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
:Yes, it works fine. '''Graham'''<span style="color: green;">87</span> 03:33, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict...please fill out my survey?



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I am writing my MA dissertation on Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I noticed that you have contributed to those pages. My dissertation will look at the process of collaborative knowledge production on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the effect it has on bias in the articles. This will involve understanding the profiles and motivations of editors, contention/controversy and dispute resolution in the talk pages, and bias in the final article.

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A barnstar for your efforts



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Some stroopwafels for you!



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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I realize we have been butting heads (in good faith!) a bunch recently. But I wanted to stop by and just say I appreciate the work you do maintaining tables across the website, ensuring text-citation integrity, and helping others understand how to maintain the encyclopedia. Thank you, and happy new year! Enjoy this stroopwafel ↗ – I saw "stroopwafel" in the WikiLove menu and <em>needed</em> to see what one is. They look delicious, but I can't say I've heard of one before, much less tried one :)

Best, <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House<span style="color:#7D066B;">Blaster</span> ↗</b><sup>talk</sup> 02:56, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 27



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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. <small>Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily.</small> <span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

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20px ↗ Featured script


: '''WikiTextExpander''' by '''Polygnotus ↗''', is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? ↗ problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext ↗" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.

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We need scripts that...


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In breaking m:Tech/News ↗, {{tq|Gadgets can now include <code>.vue</code> files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js ↗, in particular using Codex ↗, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons ↗ are now also available. The documentation ↗ has examples.}}

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Lackluster doc pages


{{Ping|Timeshifter}}, I noticed you provided only examples and a link to a talk pages as descriptions on the templates' talk pages {{tl|Table TOC/doc}} and {{tl|Table help/doc}}. I tagged them for improvement so you can a better more concrete description of the templates' usage. Listing the parameters and their purpose would be a good start. 8rz (talk) 03:25, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
:{{re|8rz}} This comes under "So, just fix it." See Wikipedia:Do it yourself ↗. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 03:36, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
::That is not how doc pages are written. At least provide more info on the template. I won't do it. I could but I choose not to. 8rz (talk) 03:53, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
:::That is your right. We do what we can. Your adding of {{t|Improve documentation}} might get the doc pages improved over time. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 04:10, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
::::{{tq|Your adding of {{tq|Improve documentation}} might get the doc pages improved over time.}} Hopefully. 8rz (talk) 04:41, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Growth News #35



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''A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.''

New releases



= English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task =



We released ↗ the "Add a Link" Structured Task ↗ to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).

= Growth features for Wikidata =


After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata ↗ to allow for testing and discussion (T400937 ↗).
Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.

Work in progress



= Revise Tone Structured Task =


The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing ↗.
We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.

= Add a link to more wikis =



The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release ↗ the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.

Add a link ↗, which can be configured by the community locally ↗, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.

Research



The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:

Progression System ↗ – We have published ↗ initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers.
The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.

Mobile Web Editing Research ↗ – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.

Newcomers Survey ↗ – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.

Community events



The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.

'''Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement ↗'''

This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.

'''Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks ↗'''

This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.

'''Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors ↗'''

With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy ↗ aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.

'''CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors ↗'''

Many communities face a decline in volunteer engagement. Newcomers often leave soon after joining, while experienced editors struggle to manage increasingly complex workflows and overwhelming backlogs. We presented the Contributors Strategy ↗ and the different features and workflows that can help communities to address these challenges. We listened to the specific needs of the CEE communities to help guide the Contributors teams' work.

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A cupcake for you!



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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I really enjoyed your userpage specifically the sentence: {{Tq|Earth explorers went on multi-year voyages around the world. The nearest star is only 4 light years away. }} Only 4 light years! I could do that in my sleep ↗! Polygnotus (talk) 08:38, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
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:{{re|Polygnotus}} Thanks! May The Force Be With You ↗! And if your starship is approaching very close to the speed of light it may seem like a night's sleep timewise due to time dilation ↗ the faster you are moving. Google AI says: At 99% of the speed of light, the astronauts would experience a trip of a little over four months. At 99.9% of the speed of light, the trip would take only about two months. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 09:04, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Planning help for AI workflows



I'm contacting users who signed up as participants of the Wikipedia:Help Project ↗, about a discussion on brainstorming and choosing the first help page to draft on editing Wikipedia pages assisted by AI.

If you are interested, I'll see you at Wikipedia talk:Help Project#Planning help for AI workflows ↗.

Sincerely, <span class="nowrap">&nbsp;&nbsp; &mdash; ''The&nbsp;Transhumanist''&nbsp;&nbsp; </span> 13:05, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

A goat for you!



left|150px ↗
Thanks for supporting and advocating for the topics you do such as single payer healthcare AND UAP transparency topics. Too often ufology is considered toxic and grouped with less reputable conspiracy theories or pseudo-science, and associated with right-wing adjacent culture war issues, so I'm grateful for anyone looking to make this more bi-partisan and apolitical. Even skeptics have their bias in how and when they apply skepticism.

Omegamilky (talk) 15:28, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
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:Thanks {{u|Omegamilky}}! I agree with all you said. I am an advocate for WP:NPOV ↗ on ALL topics, and not just the politically correct ones. --'''Timeshifter''' (talk) 18:09, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2026



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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10



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'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗&nbsp;· Growth ↗&nbsp;· Product Safety and Integrity ↗&nbsp;· Readers ↗&nbsp;· Research ↗&nbsp;· Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗&nbsp;· Tech News ↗&nbsp;· Language and Internationalization ↗&nbsp;· other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>


'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>


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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11



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[[File:Baby Globe in Paris.gif|thumb|150px|The Wikimania program is now live ↗!]]

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗&nbsp;· Growth ↗&nbsp;· Product Safety and Integrity ↗&nbsp;· Readers ↗&nbsp;· Research ↗&nbsp;· Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗&nbsp;· Tech News ↗&nbsp;· Language and Internationalization ↗&nbsp;· other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12



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