Error contacting the parsoid restbase server http 404

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

if ( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == 'YOUR_SERVER_IP' ) {
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = true;
}

curl ifconfig.me

// Enable by default for everybody
$wgDefaultUserOptions['visualeditor-enable'] = 1;
// Set VisualEditor as the default
$wgDefaultUserOptions['visualeditor-editor'] = "visualeditor";

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

wfLoadExtension( 'Parsoid', 'vendor/wikimedia/parsoid/extension.json' );
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['writeapi'] = true;

// Enable by default for everybody
$wgDefaultUserOptions['visualeditor-enable'] = 1;
// Set VisualEditor as the default
$wgDefaultUserOptions['visualeditor-editor'] = "visualeditor";

Chitinlink
(talkcontribs)

Screenshots of the request as shown in the dev console when I open the page for visual editing:

if ( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '<THE_IP_ADDRESS_OF_SERVER_WHERE_YOUR_MEDIAWIKI_1.35_WITH_BUNDLED_VE_IS_RUNNING>' ) {
        $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
        $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
}

if ( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == 'YOUR_SERVER_IP' ) {
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
}

# To be added at the very bottom of /opt/meza/src/roles/mediawiki/templates/LocalSettings.php.j2 to allow VE to work in 35.x when meza_auth_type is "viewer-read" and apache is 100% localhost behind an SSL terminator/load-balancer/proxy front-end (like haproxy)

# Define and calculate "remote_ip_test" based on hierarchy of what we know about the requestor's origin from the request header
# Result: "remote_ip_test" is 127.0.0.1 if-and-only-if it is truly an internal server-side request
if     (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))       { $remote_ip_test = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']; }
elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) { $remote_ip_test = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']; }
elseif (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) )         { $remote_ip_test = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; }

# If the request is truly an internal server-side request, then open the wiki up for full access
if (isset($remote_ip_test) && $remote_ip_test == '127.0.0.1') {
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = true;
}

$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] = array(
    // URL to the Parsoid instance.
    // You should change $wgServer to match the non-local host running Parsoid
    'url' => $wgServer . $wgScriptPath . '/rest.php',
    // Parsoid "domain", see below (optional, rarely needed)
    // 'domain' => 'localhost',
);

POST /wiki/rest.php/localhost/v3/transform/html/to/wikitext/TestPage/12 HTTP/1.1" 200 521 "-" "VisualEditor-MediaWiki/1.38.2"

POST /wiki/rest.php/localhost/v3/transform/html/to/wikitext/TestPage%2FTest1 HTTP/1.1" 404 981 "-" "VisualEditor-MediaWiki/1.38.2"

error_reporting( -1 ); 
ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 ); 

$wgShowExceptionDetails = true; 
$wgDebugToolbar = true; 
$wgShowDebug = true; 
$wgDevelopmentWarnings = true; 
$wgDebugDumpSql = true;

(http obfuscated to evade spam filter) hxxp://<your domain>/api.php?action=visualeditor&format=json&paction=parse&page=Main_Page&uselang=en&formatversion=2

{
  "message": "Error: exception of type RuntimeException: bcmath or gmp extension required for 32 bit machines.",
  "exception": {
    "id": "f1802bf2024967674634873f",
    "type": "RuntimeException",
    "file": "/var/www/html/includes/libs/uuid/GlobalIdGenerator.php",
    "line": 637,
    "message": "bcmath or gmp extension required for 32 bit machines.",
    "code": 0,
    "url": "/rest.php/<your domain>/v3/page/html/Foo1/14?redirect=false&stash=true",
    "caught_by": "other",
    "backtrace": [
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/includes/libs/uuid/GlobalIdGenerator.php",
        "line": 222,
        "function": "intervalsSinceGregorianBinary",
        "class": "Wikimedia\UUID\GlobalIdGenerator",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "array",
          "integer"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/includes/libs/uuid/GlobalIdGenerator.php",
        "line": 211,
        "function": "getUUIDv1",
        "class": "Wikimedia\UUID\GlobalIdGenerator",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "array"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/includes/utils/UIDGenerator.php",
        "line": 88,
        "function": "newUUIDv1",
        "class": "Wikimedia\UUID\GlobalIdGenerator",
        "type": "->",
        "args": []
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/VEParsoid/src/Rest/Handler/ParsoidHandler.php",
        "line": 610,
        "function": "newUUIDv1",
        "class": "UIDGenerator",
        "type": "::",
        "args": []
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/extensions/VisualEditor/includes/VEParsoid/src/Rest/Handler/PageHandler.php",
        "line": 90,
        "function": "wt2html",
        "class": "VEParsoid\Rest\Handler\ParsoidHandler",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "VEParsoid\Config\PageConfig",
          "array"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/includes/Rest/Router.php",
        "line": 414,
        "function": "execute",
        "class": "VEParsoid\Rest\Handler\PageHandler",
        "type": "->",
        "args": []
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/includes/Rest/Router.php",
        "line": 338,
        "function": "executeHandler",
        "class": "MediaWiki\Rest\Router",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "VEParsoid\Rest\Handler\PageHandler"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/includes/Rest/EntryPoint.php",
        "line": 168,
        "function": "execute",
        "class": "MediaWiki\Rest\Router",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "MediaWiki\Rest\RequestFromGlobals"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/includes/Rest/EntryPoint.php",
        "line": 133,
        "function": "execute",
        "class": "MediaWiki\Rest\EntryPoint",
        "type": "->",
        "args": []
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/rest.php",
        "line": 31,
        "function": "main",
        "class": "MediaWiki\Rest\EntryPoint",
        "type": "::",
        "args": []
      }
    ]
  },
  "httpCode": 500,
  "httpReason": "Internal Server Error"
}

docker exec -it mediawiki /bin/bash

docker-php-ext-install bcmath

docker restart mediawiki

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install php7.4-bcmath

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Extension talk:VisualEditor

About this board

Please note that the Wikimedia Foundation does not provide support for installing VisualEditor on third-party wikis. However, if you have a question we may try to help.

I have fresh installation of MediaWiki 1.37. When trying to use VisualEditor error comes:

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server: (curl error: no status set)

It’s seems to be specific error as no status is set for curl error.

Isn’t Parsoid bundled by default in MediaWiki 1.35+?

It is installed by default, but: Many problems are solved by installing and configuring Parsroid and a visual editor.

OK, so how to reinstall or reconfigure it?

I worked very hard on this and spent a lot of time. If you wish, I can share my knowledge with you for a normal fee

So what is the fee?

Should a program that is free and open source be installed and configured free by others?

I asked about price, not philosophical arguments.

Give as much as you’d like.

Email me every problem I have to fix for you.

I’ve stumbled on this thread as I’m faced with the same problem with no solution. I find Sokote zaman’s response above totally bizarre, as participation on an open forum about open source projects is entirely voluntary, and the existence of Stack Exchange is proof that people are willing to provide their solutions to others for free, and for those that aren’t, it simply isn’t acceptable to post passive aggressive rhetorical questions just to waste people’s time.

The information in stack overflow should be helpful in case anyone finds this in the future. The wiki page for visualeditor has a lot of outdated and confusing information and probably could be made much more concise.

Search on stackoverflow for «Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server: http-bad-status on Fresh Mediawiki 1.35.0 LTS»

For me, the problem simply disappeared after an upgrade from 1.38 to 1.39 including all extensions.

How to hide the “Save your changes” confirmation window when saving a page on Mediawiki

I have a personal wiki running on mediawiki and don’t think I really need to track the page edit summary or whatsoever, so is there anyway to skip it? which means when I am done with editing on a page and click on Save, it just Save the page without asking me to describe what I changed..

Same here, it would be a nice option

Did u find a way to this problem or is it still unsolved?

Looking for this as well.

Would appreciate a solution for this as well!

I have had a quick look at this, and decided it was too much of a specific hack. But for all of you asking this question, see the file:

where you will find this function:

and I’m pretty sure that is where the magic happens. It isn’t just a simple case of saying «skip the dialogue» because there are numerous messages that are handled.

DanShearer (talk) 01:25, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

VE most often does not display last version

I have a mediawiki instance behind a httpd reverse proxy.

VE is installed and configured for 1.35. The instance is using MEMCACHED as Cache Type.

Communication between the mediawiki httpd and the reverse proxy is without ssl (http), and the proxy does the encryption to https before delivering to client.

I am able to edit pages, it works great apart 2 issue:

1 Major Issue is that most of the time if you do two edits in a row, on the second edit it will display to edit the previous version of the page leaving you to erase your previous edit. Is there a configuration to avoid this ?

2 smaller issue links to pictures in the page are rendered as http, so browsers will not display them as the final communication is https . Is there a way to force parsoid to use https inside the code even if the mediawiki is configured as simple http behind a https proxy?

answering to myself in case someone has same issue, this was caused by using mod_expires. If you do so take care to define an entry for json, to avoid browser caching the result:

ExpiresDefault «access plus 1 days»

ExpiresByType application/json «access»

Adding a «Cite» button

I would like to add a «Cite» button to a wiki’s VisualEditor installation, like the one found in Wikipedia — including all the same «Cite web», «Cite news» etc. templates. Is there any documentation for how to do this? Does it require a lot of custom code?

Never mind — it happens automatically; there was just something wrong with my setup.

I had this error with 1.36.0 so I upgraded to 1.36.1 and still have it sometimes. It is a small private wiki farm. One way I can consistently cause the error is to use the VisualEditor on my User page. It does work on other pages though which is strange.

I have $wgGroupPermissions[‘user’][‘writeapi’] = true; set for all wikis in the farm.

I have the follow example in my vhost with the rewrite rules

I enabled debug logging and code this

I’ve not seen errors in apache or php-fpm logs or audit/setroubleshoot logs. It looks a bit strange to me to see the domain in the URL twice. Is that because of the rewrite rules and how do I fix it.

No wiki farm on my end, but getting the HTTP 400 error as well on my single wiki running 1.36.1. NGINX web server. Also getting the same debug log code as you. I’ll post more if I find any resolution.

Edit: Specifically, it works when creating a new page, but it doesn’t work when editing an existing page. See mention of it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Vunt92vkiyisn8cu&topic_showPostId=vupnmgwaasz9pvfm#flow-post-vupnmgwaasz9pvfm

One consistent way I found so far, is editing my user page — I always get the error

Same issue here on 1.35.6 downloaded today (no added extensions installed, no short URLs, default config from the installer), not on a farm, same message also:

VE of course was from the installer package, so no mismatched packages or anything weird going on there either.

«> «> «> «> «>

Adding to hosts file ie; /etc/hosts on Linux, fixed it until the solution is known

Adding my external hostnames to /etc/hosts (mapping them to 127.0.0.1) fixed this for me. If the local server cannot resolve its own public-facing hostname+domain, then VisualEditor fails in this way. In my case, I was iterating on a new server build to upgrade from 1.27 to 1.38, and I kept hitting this problem because my host is not yet officially deployed, with DNS updated appropriately.

Alas, this did not fix for me on MW 1.38

I noticed in the apache2 access log that it was trying to get /wiki/rest.php/https(link)://my.fullqualifiedwiki.domain/v3/page/html/Main_page instead of /wiki/rest.php/my.fullqualifiedwiki.domain/v3/page/html/Main_page (there is no»(link)» but I’m trying to get around the «abusefilter-warning-linkspam»)

So in LocalSettings.php I added ‘domain’ => ‘my.fullyqualifiedwiki.domain’ to the

This worked for me.

My wiki fixed after add text to Nginx config files srrver block. location /rest.php/ < try_files $uri $uri/ /zw/rest.php?$query_string; >

I’m having the same error reported so many times before, «Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)». It’s only occurring on pages with slashes in the titles. However, the difference here is that I’m using IIS, not Apache. I’ve looked through the past topics here and I’ve searched online for the IIS equivalent of

without any success. Anyone have an idea what that may be, or what else I could try?

Another issue I’m having that may be related is that on some pages with special characters like χ, using VE will either return the same error or will load a different page for editing, one that begins with the same title but cuts off the title starting at the symbol.

Can I use Self-signed Client SSL certificate

Hi, I am trying to use Client Certificate signed by my self-signed intermediate CA as protection for parts of my domain on public internet and one of them is Wiki.

I configured apache2 to require client certificates and all works fine till the moment I try to save my edit on page.

I reverted apache2 requirement for client certificates and all worked fine so based on Error at the end of this post I guess there is problem with curl and API that cannot take certificate from browser because curl is called server side not by client.

So my question is what should I configure on server or how can I solve this problem to use client certificates.

My guess is that I should give curl somehow list of certificates allowed for connection but do not know how.

The error given by dialog

Error loading data from server:

Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server: (curl error: 56) Failure when receiving data from the peer

How to specify which page of a pdf or other file you want to display on an article through Visual Editor

Hello, I’m trying to test out imputting pdfs and other multi-page files in the articles of my wiki through VisualEditor, and as I discovered, while clicking on the option to import a file, even though the pdf clearly has multiple pages, nowhere in the options to modify the appearance, etc does it allow you to choose which page you want to display. I found out on the PDFHandler extension page, that you have to manually go onto the source to insert the line |page=#| where the name of the file is, in order to get the specific page that you want. I tried seeing if there was the same problem on Wikipedia itself, and so I went to try it in my sandbox, and there was the same problem, that there was no option to choose what page you were displaying. Is there a way around this, where I can make it so that an option while inserting a file in the article pops up for you to choose which page to insert? Thanks

So I noticed many people have been struggling with this issue for the past few months. My case is a little unusual. Visual Editor loads everywhere.. Edit: Actually only if the user subpage does not exist. However it is not able to save or preview any subpage under User:Admin. Editing pages in the main namespace works as usual. I’ve found that this page /api.php?action=visualeditor&format=json&paction=parse&page=User:Admin/Subpage returns fine if Subpage does not exist, but returns «Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)» when the page exists (created using source editor). I also get the same error when trying to switch to source editor within any User:Admin subpage from Visual Editor.

A little about my setup: Mediawiki 1.35.1 (I used 1.35 before, upgraded today after I found these issues hoping it would solve the issues). Short URLs using apache’s FallbackResource ($wgArticlePath = «/view/$1»;). Vanilla config except for:

• Hcaptcha (skip for User and Sysop, triggers for all pages)
• Luasandbox config
• Sysops may delete log entries
• External link target _blank

I do **not** have «wfLoadExtension( ‘Parsoid’, . )» in my config. I do **not** have «$wgVirtualRestConfig[‘modules’][‘parsoid’]» in my config.

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Is there a specific nginx configuration you need to do to get this working on 1.35?

When looking into the logs I’ve noticed it tries to access

but this returns a 404 on my server. Is the above URL the correct call url for VisualEditor and if so, how would I be able to tell nginx to not try and go to that location but pass those parameters to rest.php?

I also get a 404 error ( Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vuonx6s9lxsy1xew

I’m on a shared hosting which uses LiteSpeed web server.

I’ve fixed it on NGINX by adding following to my configuration

The server’s configuration or the LocalSettings.php file?

Servers configuration. The error seemed to be that my pretty url rewrite wrongly send it to index.php instead of rest.php.

Oh my gah!! I can’t thank you enough. I just copied and pasted and voilà, it work pretty straight and flawlessly!!

I got the same issue and the nginx configuration Tom mentioned does not help either.

Because it’s possible that there are multiple causes for the 404 error.

So, i found out that VisualEditor does show and work when trying to create a page that does not yet exist — but it fails when trying to edit a page that exists.

You are right! It’s the same for me.

I tried around for hours, but couldn’t find a solution. Hopefully someone that has one will read this and help us out.

Maybe reporting a bug on their bugtracker would be useful, but it needs a registration, which i don’t really want to do.

I have also posted about it here: Topic:Vuonx6s9lxsy1xew

I think there is already an entry about this issue on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255963

Thats a different issue, though. They got the issue on saving. We don’t even get that far out-of-the-box. Also looks like an issue for an older beta version and being on hold as well.

Did you ever find a solution, 10 months later? Having the same problem on 1.36.1.

I can replicate that VisualEditor does show and work when trying to create a page that does not yet exist — but it fails when trying to edit a page that exists.

I’m able to reproduce the same error on a new installation. Perhaps there’s something with the php version of parsoid that needs to be configured?

for the main wiki and all the other wikis of the wiki family (we’re using them in subfolders /en, /de, etc.) made the Visual Editor actually open without that error.

But it still doesn’t show the pages content and is loading infinitely.

Does RESTbase come with MediaWiki 1.35 or should it be installed following these directions: RESTBase/Installation?

I did not install a RestBASE Installation, i just changed these URLs.

The Visual Editor is supposed to work out-of-the-box and i can’t find instructions for specific installs required.

I don’t think that RESTBase is a requirement, but it is mentioned in the page of the extension: Extension:VisualEditor#Switching between Wikitext Editing and VisualEditor

Anyway, you set those 2 variables. Where do these URLs point?

For MediaWiki 1.35 and later, YOUR_WIKI_REST_ENDPOINT is the location of your wiki’s rest.php. For example, MediaWiki’s REST endpoint is mediawiki.org/w/rest.php. See REST API.

The VisualEditor loads without a 404 error, but also empty without the page’s contents.

VisualEditor/PHP will contact wiki/rest.php or w/rest.php when you go into visual editing. If you are already using rewrites to make nice short URLs, you may find that — your rewrite rule will make the call to rest.php redirect to index.php, which gives a 404.

If you just ignore redirecting call to rest.php, your visual editor will work but cannot load page contents — it is accessing rest.php/yourdomain.name/v3/. to load the page content, which cannot be ignored by checking rest.php.

The solution is, check the HTTP_USER_AGENT — VisualEditor make its access with UA: VisualEditor-MediaWiki/1.35.0. Add the bold line to every rewrite rules you defined for mediawiki (I’m assuming using apache2, tweak this accordingly if you are using other service):

This will not make any rewrite to calls from VisualEditor and make it successfully access page contents and load it without affect other short URLs.

No other modification in LocalSettings.php, My env: Ubuntu 18.04 + PHP7.4 + Apache2

You provide a great explanation but what do I do if I’m using NGINX.

@ Junebug12851 if you’re using nginx, something like this works:

I have the same issues and Tom’s solution doesn’t works for me as well.

Feel free to participate in helping them out to find the possible cause of this 🙂

I adding this gets me somewhere:

// Parsoid Setting $wgEnableRestAPI = true; $wgParsoidSettings = [ ‘useSelser’ => true, ‘rtTestMode’ => false, ‘linting’ => true, ]; // Restbase server Setting $wgVirtualRestConfig[‘modules’][‘restbase’] = [ ‘url’ => ‘localhost:/rest.php’, ‘domain’ => ‘localhost’ ]; $wgVisualEditorRestbaseURL = «HTTPS://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/rest_v1/page/html/»; $wgVisualEditorFullRestbaseURL = «HTTPS://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/rest_»; // Parsoid Setting $wgParsoidSettings = [ ‘linting’ => true, ‘_merge_strategy’ => ‘array_plus’, ]; wfLoadExtension( ‘Parsoid’, «$IP/vendor/wikimedia/parsoid/extension.json» ); wfLoadExtension( ‘VisualEditor’ );

So this works for you?

No. I got too excited. It loads without an error message and it looks fine until you realize it hasn’t loaded the actual page’s contents. Trying to save any edits will then result in cURL 28 error.

VisualEditor/PHP will contact wiki/rest.php or w/rest.php when you go into visual editing. If you are already using rewrites to make nice short URLs, you may find that — your rewrite rule will make the call to rest.php redirect to index.php, which gives a 404.

If you just ignore redirecting call to rest.php, your visual editor will work but cannot load page contents — it is accessing rest.php/yourdomain.name/v3/. to load the page content, which cannot be ignored by checking rest.php.

The solution is, check the HTTP_USER_AGENT — VisualEditor make its access with UA: VisualEditor-MediaWiki/1.35.0. Add the bold line to every rewrite rules you defined for mediawiki (I’m assuming you are using apache2, tweak this accordingly if you are using other service):

This will not make any rewrite to calls from VisualEditor and make it successfully access page contents and load it without affect other short URLs.

No other modification in LocalSettings.php, My env: Ubuntu 18.04 + PHP7.4 + Apache2

Anyway, I personally use short URLs. I added the line you suggested in my .htaccess and now I get » Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 403)«, instead of » Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)» I was getting without it.

The user agent conditional was the correct answer for me here. Thanks!

I was getting the same error message (403, not 404) with a standard, out-of-the-box MW 1.35, I’m not using any redirects/rewrite rules that I am aware of. Setting $wgVisualEditorFullRestbaseURL makes VE load, but with no content.

Since we are using a webhosting service, we are not able to edit the nginx or Apache base configuration.

I get a 404 error instead of the 403 error.

worked for me, as it is written here : Parsoid

This worked for me too

This didn’t work for me, same 404 message.

On WM 1.35.0, with an nginx reverse proxy, having a similar issue with error «Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server: http-request-error» when attempting to save VE documents, however I am not even getting a 404 and there is no activity in the NGINX error logs. Source code edits and saves are working without issue. An access to https://debian-guest.lan/rest.php suggests the redirection is correct (i.e., I receive what appears to be a response from the rest service); however https://debian-guest.lan/rest.php/v1/page/Main_Page/html (which I assume is the correct path) results in

• messageTranslations: <
  • en: «Unable to fetch Parsoid HTML» >,
• httpCode: 500,
• httpReason: «Internal Server Error»

One other datapoint: when I create a new page, for the first time, the entire process succeeds using VE through saving and everything. I immediately encounter problems as described above when I attempt to edit the existing page via VE.

One final datapoint: interestingly, when I disable https, everything works exactly as it should with rewrite rules otherwise untouched. Final update, this was due to not setting up the RootCA in the test VM; once that was done everything (finally) works in HTTPS. Leaving this here for future reference by others in case they need minimally working server/LocalSetting configuration.

full (this is a test VM) nginx and LocalSettings.php configs are available at the Pastebin links. Same behavior with with/out the trailing slash in «location /rest.php/» and with «rest.php?$query_string» instead of «rest.php?$args»

If anyone still struggles with VE 404 error on fresh install (1.36-alpha in my case):

`wfLoadExtension( ‘Parsoid’, ‘vendor/wikimedia/parsoid/extension.json’ );`

in LocalSettings.php solved it. Wouldn’t call this zero config.

Should be noted that for a brief time period (a few weeks — 2 months) this worked without configuration in 1.35-alpha and broke later.

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• Hello —

  Hopefully someone can help me out here. I am trying to get the Visual Editor extension to work.

  1. I have downloaded the extension file (although from what I read in the docs it should be included after version 1.35) and extracted it in /app/data/extensions . I see the folder installed in the correct location which I assume is good.

  2. Ownership of the file already appears to be set to www-data by default.

  3. I added the line wfLoadExtension( ‘VisualEditor’ ); in /app/data/LocalSettings.php .

  When I restart the app and try to edit anything in mediawiki I get the following error: Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)

  Does anyone know what I need to change in my configuration to get the Visual Editor to work? I’m no good with HTML so the editor is a huge help!

• @jtippetts Searching a bit, looks like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268277 might be the issue. Specifically this comment — https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268277#7621030

  Can you please try setting $wgServer = "https://wiki.domain.com" in your /app/data/LocalSettings.php and see if that helps ? If so, I can fix the package because currently we are not settings https there.

• @girish said in Help Needed: Installing VisualEditor extension.:

  $wgServer = «https://wiki.domain.com»

  This didn’t seem to work. After adding the suggested line I tried to restart the app but it wouldn’t restart. Once I removed the line again the app starts just fine.

  The Phabricator page you sent is referring to HTTP 415; the error I get is HTTP 404. Also, if it makes a difference, I am getting the error as soon as I try to edit a page; not after making an edit like this report suggests. When I click the edit link in mediawiki it doesn’t even load the visual editor at all.

• @girish Also I just noticed that the link you sent suggests that I use the line: wfLoadExtensions(array(‘VisualEditor’));

  This is different that what I have in my config… what does the «array» part in the line above mean?

• @jtippetts said in Help Needed: Installing VisualEditor extension.:

  This didn’t seem to work. After adding the suggested line I tried to restart the app but it wouldn’t restart. Once I removed the line again the app starts just fine.

  Just to double check: did you replace it with your domain and also did you add a semicolon at the end ? Since this is PHP, it should be like:

      $wgServer = "https://realwiki.domain.com";
  

• @girish So I copied it exactly like that and now I get this error: Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server: (curl error: 60) SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK

  

• @jtippetts Can you try with the latest package?

  Also, as you pointed out, VisualEditor is already bundled inside mediawiki. There is nothing to install. All you have to do is put this line in /app/data/LocalSettings.php:

  wfLoadExtension( 'VisualEditor' );
  

  Then, when you refresh, you will see two entries in the top bar — Edit and Edit Source

  

  Clicking Edit, show this popup:

  

  Click on ‘Start Editing’ and you can just edit away:

  

• @girish Should probably make that the default

• @robi the docs are so sparse, it’s not clear to me why it’s not loaded by default. Clearly, they have not enabled it for a reason despite pre-bundling it with mediawiki itself…

• @girish I think that’s an assumption, and one which we can remedy by making it nicer, the Cloudron way.

• @girish I’m just getting back to this… it’s strange, I have just the default settings in my LocalSettings.php file. The only thing I have added is the line: wfLoadExtension( ‘VisualEditor’ );

  Unfortunately I’m still getting this error:

  I would normally just uninstall and reinstall the app but I already have a lot of content in there…

• @jtippetts Did you update the app package to the latest version? I only pushed this out yesterday with the fix to wgServer. If you go to the Update view, it should show the package version as v1.17.0

• @girish Yes, I believe I am on the most current update.
  

• @jtippetts That looks uptodate.

  I tried a fresh install on our demo server https://my.demo.cloudron.io (username/password is cloudron/cloudron). Can you try the install at https://wiki.demo.cloudron.io/ (username/password is cloudron/cloudron).

  Maybe you can compare the configs which I have above and what you have in your setup to see if we miss anything obvious ?

• @girish Everything on the test server worked perfectly and all of my settings appeared to be identical. I decided to shut down the entire server and reboot it. After the machine started back up it seems that everything is now working as expected. For future reference do I need to reboot my server after Cloudron updates? Seems like normally I get a notification in Cloudron telling me when the system needs to be re-booted…? Anyways, I think everything is working now. I really appreciate all of your help! Seriously, I love Cloudron!

• @jtippetts said in Help Needed: Installing VisualEditor extension.:

  For future reference do I need to reboot my server after Cloudron updates?

  No, app updates don’t require a reboot. Not entirely sure what the reboot did

• @girish Turns out I spoke too soon. I am still getting an error. I found a workound from someone that had the exact same issue. Here is a link to a possible solution:

  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:W2fgz5rywc86hciu

  Unfortunately, I can’t decipher what needs to be done. As soon as it starts talking about certificates it’s way over my head.

• @jtippetts I have to check your instance to see why it’s not working. Can you write to us at support@cloudron.io ?

{"messageTranslations":{"en":"The requested relative path () did not match any known handler"},"httpCode":404,"httpReason":"Not Found"}

$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] = [
    'url' =>  'https://example.com/rest.php',
    'domain' => 'example.com',
];

if ( !isset( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) OR $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == 'yourIpAddressHere' ) {
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = true;
}

// For the 1.35 LTS, Parsoid is loaded from includes/VEParsoid to provide a
                // "zero configuration" VisualEditor experience. In Wikimedia production, we
                // have $wgVisualEditorParsoidAutoConfig off (and $wgVirtualRestConfig set to
                // point to a separate cluster which has the Parsoid extension installed), so
                // this code won't be executed.
                if (
                        $wgVisualEditorParsoidAutoConfig
                        && !ExtensionRegistry::getInstance()->isLoaded( 'Parsoid' )
                        // Generally manually configuring VRS means that you're running
                        // Parsoid on a different host.  If you need to manually configure
                        // VRS, load the Parsoid extension explicitly.
                        && !isset( $wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] )
                        && !isset( $wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['restbase'] )
                ) {
                        // Only install these route files if we're auto-configuring and
                        // the parsoid extension isn't loaded, otherwise we'll conflict.
                        $wgRestAPIAdditionalRouteFiles[] = wfRelativePath(
                                __DIR__ . '/VEParsoid/parsoidRoutes.json', $IP
                        );
                }

$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid']['forwardCookies'] = true;

mw.Api error:  apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http 
{error: {…}}
error:
code: "apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http"
docref: "See https://example.com/en/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."
info: "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 500)"
__proto__: Object
__proto__: Object

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php
RewriteRule rest.php/ /rest.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

162.158.156.190 - - [08/Oct/2020:15:18:06 -0400] "GET /Main_Page HTTP/1.1" 200 8475 "https://[domain]/Main_Page?action=edit&veswitched=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36 OPR/71.0.3770.228 (Edition avira-2)"

162.158.156.190 - - [08/Oct/2020:15:18:09 -0400] "GET /load.php?lang=en&modules=oojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets&skin=timeless&version=7khli HTTP/1.1" 304 433 "https://[domain]/Main_Page?veaction=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36 OPR/71.0.3770.228 (Edition avira-2)"

162.158.156.190 - - [08/Oct/2020:15:18:09 -0400] "GET /load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.visualEditor.core&skin=timeless&version=1sypu HTTP/1.1" 304 433 "https://[domain]/Main_Page?veaction=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36 OPR/71.0.3770.228 (Edition avira-2)"

162.158.73.250 - - [08/Oct/2020:15:18:11 -0400] "GET /rest.php/[domain]/v3/page/html/Main_Page/95?redirect=false&stash=true HTTP/1.1" 403 455 "-" "VisualEditor-MediaWiki/1.35.0"

162.158.156.190 - - [08/Oct/2020:15:18:09 -0400] "GET /api.php?action=visualeditor&format=json&paction=parse&page=Main_Page&uselang=en&formatversion=2 HTTP/1.1" 200 931 "https://[domain]/Main_Page?veaction=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36 OPR/71.0.3770.228 (Edition avira-2)"

162.158.156.190 - - [08/Oct/2020:15:18:11 -0400] "POST /api.php HTTP/1.1" 200 885 "https://[domain]/Main_Page?veaction=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36 OPR/71.0.3770.228 (Edition avira-2)"

{"error":"rest-write-denied","httpCode":403,"httpReason":"Forbidden"}

if ( !isset( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) OR $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '162.158.73.250' ) {
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = true;
}

if ( !isset( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) OR in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $cloudflareIPS ) ) {
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = true;
	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = true;
}

location /wiki/rest.php/ {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /wiki/rest.php?$query_string;
}

[http] GET: http://localhost:8181/w/rest.php/localhost/v3/page/html/Main_Page/144730?redirect=false&stash=true
[http] Error fetching URL "http://localhost:8181/w/rest.php/localhost/v3/page/html/Main_Page/144730?redirect=false&stash=true": (curl error: 7) Couldn't connect to server

location /rest.php {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /rest.php?$args;
}

/www.mywiki.com/v3/page/html/Main_Page/27771

$parts = explode( '/', $path );

Array
(
    [0] =>
    [1] => www.mywiki.com
    [2] => v3
    [3] => page
    [4] => html
    [5] => Main_Page
    [6] => 27771
)

foreach ( $parts as $part ) {
  if ( isset( $node["=$part"] ) ) {
    $node = $node["=$part"];
  } elseif ( isset( $node['*'] ) ) {
    $node = $node['*'];
    $paramValues[] = $part;
  } else {
    # RIGHT HERE
    return false;
  }
}

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User-agent:Android-10

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Richboyofsocialmedia&action=edit

Richboyofsocialmedia (talk) 13:09, 2 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kharfak?action=edit

the name is Kharfaq Lake

Saleemullah pPasha (talk) 14:41, 5 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

HRE kyinyot

62.16.165.158 (talk) 20:37, 20 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:36, 21 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• The sandbox in question is User:Gallaz63/sandbox. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:38, 21 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Mountaineers JC (talk) 04:27, 23 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Mountaineers JC, is this a recent problem? The servers are unhappy right now. You might try again in an hour or two. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 24 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi there, I wish I had more examples of this, but I keep seeing, in BLP articles, blank |death_date= and |death_place= parameters being added by default (I assume) by the Visual Editor. An example here. Is this by design? Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:45, 22 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Cyphoidbomb, those parameters are added because someone marked them as either «suggested» or «required» in the template’s TemplateData. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:57, 24 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): Hi there, I appreciate the explanation. Do we need these parameters added by default to every biographical article? They could be there unused anywhere from 0-100 years. Seems unnecessary unless a person dies. Should I ask elsewhere? I’m not a big fan of VisualEditor making AWB-like actions on the backs of unsuspecting novice editors and I’ve reported similar issues before. Thanks and regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:20, 25 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That decision is entire under the control of local editors. Edit Template:Infobox person/doc#TemplateData if you want to change it. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:30, 25 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): Thanks kindly. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:58, 26 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12607.58.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.86 Safari/537.36

It won’t allow me to submit and publish changes. A message «Error Parsoid/RestBase Server HTTP 400» keeps popping out.

ShepBranson (talk) 21:06, 27 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.4 Safari/605.1.15

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Bassie_f&veaction=editsource

Bassie f (talk) 00:37, 29 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; Touch; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; Tablet PC 2.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Figbird/sandbox?action=edit

Newbie, question

Figbird (talk) 06:00, 29 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/Sports/Sidebar&section=10&veaction=editsource&action=edit

Beodeutk (talk) 02:12, 4 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadoc?action=edit
I keep getting the error message in my subject when I try to save my edits.

Taylwardii (talk) 06:44, 19 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

~~I am having this problem too. User:Jaygg

Кориснички агент: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0

URL адреса: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Church,_Lazarevac?action=edit

Prikaz lokacije ispod slike pokazuje Burovo kao lokaciju, a crkva je u samom centru Lazarevca

AlexitoSRB (talk) 11:35, 19 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(psychologist)?veaction=edit&section=3

I added two sentences about Dr. Williams’ Plan, while President of ABPsi, which helped many students get into graduate schools of psychology. I am working on linking the Plan to this wikipedia page. What would be the BEST and most permanent site to post the Plan for link connection?

RparkerWilliams!1 (talk) 14:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane article starts with a nested infobox,

{|{{Infobox Aircraft Begin
  |name = Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane 
  |logo =
  |image = Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane 1918.jpg
  |caption = Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane in 1918
}}{{Infobox Aircraft Type
  |type = [[Missile]]
<!-- Other parameters here -->
  |variants with their own articles = 
}}|}

Changing the ending from:


}}|}


to


}}
|}


allows the VisualEditor to function.

Note that a similar malfunction with the desktop Wikipedia page rending showed the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane hover text as :

|} The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a ...

instead of

The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a ...

See the edit at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hewitt-Sperry_Automatic_Airplane&type=revision&diff=942045487&oldid=896091373

—Lent (talk) 07:18, 22 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Senayat7/sandbox?action=edit

Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 400)

Senayat7 (talk) 22:19, 27 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventotene?action=edit
When trying to use CITE a blank box drops down and remains on the page.

IslandVita (talk) 16:55, 29 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

2406:B400:D1:82E4:DC22:9873:25A6:7D36 (talk) 10:31, 2 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Au.andrea/sandbox?action=edit
Is it possible to remove this info box?

Au.andrea (talk) 04:16, 10 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Omda4wady?action=edit

I can not add no wiki tag

Omda4wady (talk) 11:05, 23 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Omda4wady, are use using the Visual Editor of the code editor. If you’re using the Visual Editor, just press X or escape when the popup appears and the text will be nowikied automatically. If you’re using the code editor, you can wrap the text in <nowiki>...</nowiki>. – BrandonXLF (talk) 23:38, 10 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Elpitts (talk) 17:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the note, Elpitts. I’m sorry that you ran into this problem. Server errors are not your fault, and there’s not much that you can do about them. Usually, if you wait a while (usually a few minutes, but it could be longer), it will start working again. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:47, 10 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Serbia&action=edit&section=3

Xuexu (talk) 19:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_paintings_by_Johannes_Vermeer&action=edit
I wish to print out this page for further reference

Janitaly (talk) 10:26, 23 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Janitaly, printing happens by your browser… menu File->Print. Key combination Ctrl-P (Windows) or Cmd-P (MacOS), or the «Print» link in the left bar of the website. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:17, 23 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel)?action=edit

The numbering for the citations on this page should be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., but instead it’s displayed as 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, etc.. The first «2» is cited in a block quote, so perhaps it’s being «ignored» by the VisualEditor’s counter for that reason.

Beaker Bytes (talk) 22:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36 Edg/80.0.361.69

Currently, Republic of Korea and Japan is in dispute of naming issue. Please correct the name both; East sea and Sea of Japan

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan?action=edit

Tim Ko Gangbaek (talk) 06:32, 27 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Gbk1004, please use the article talkpages for the respective articles for such concerns, and also check the archives of these talkpages for previous discussions and information as this question has been repeatedly discussed in the past. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 06:51, 27 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Southpaw20/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template%3AUser+sandbox%2Fpreload

Stopped being able to cite references. This empty box appears each time. Also the reference section of document disappeared.

Southpaw20 (talk) 23:54, 30 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I was trying to create a page — Ishi Ozalla, but I keep getting error contacting the parsoid/RESETBase server (HTTP 400) at the end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ikemunachii (talk • contribs) 19:10, 1 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Template%3AAfc+preload%2Fdraft&editintro=Template%3AAfC+draft+editintro&title=Draft:Hermann_Hess_Helfenstein&create=Create+new+article+draft

Dears: It is not possible to upload any Images. Please¿What Could Happen with this Biography?
Thanks for support.
Roland Hess

200.104.134.44 (talk) 23:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Georgina_Downer?veaction=editsource

I was editing the first ref, attempting to change cite web to cite news, but with the cursor just after the b of web, backspacing and typing news did nothing visually, but then the https in the url was changed to newspps

Newystats (talk) 21:48, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikimedia group — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.115.125.84 (talk) 10:51, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bengali_language&action=edit&section=10

Simrin Khan (talk) 04:08, 15 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12739.111.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.162 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:IPA&preload=Template%3ASubmit+an+edit+request%2Fpreload&action=edit&section=new&editintro=Template%3AEdit+template-protected%2Feditintro&preloadtitle=Template-protected+edit+request+on+22+April+2020&preloadparams%5B%5D=edit+template-protected&preloadparams%5B%5D=Template%3AIPA

14bauhr (talk) 18:11, 22 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I don’t think that VE works on any talk page.—3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 20:37, 22 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:In_the_Custody_of_Strangers&section=new&veaction=editsource

The webserver is blocking me from choosing an edit summary Custody_of_Strangers.

Dhsert (talk) 22:22, 14 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dhsert: This isn’t specific to 2017 wikitext editor; it also occurs by design in the new-section mode of Visual Editor, the «classic» textarea editor, and the mobile wikitext editor. Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (06:57 Sat 23, AEST) 20:57, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Since this involves adding a new section to a Talk page, I’ve left a note ([1]) at the Talk Pages Project. I have also copied your feedback to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback#Can’t modify edit summary for new section in NWE [2]. — Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (07:33 Sat 23, AEST) 21:33, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanisation_in_India?action=edit

There is a spelling error in the title that I cannot fix

IanFreebern (talk) 00:47, 26 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, Ian, this page is for feedback on the Visual Editor (VE) and New Wikitext Editor (NWE), though «leave feedback on this software» mightn’t be clear in that regard. The best forum for questions like yours would be the Wikipedia:Teahouse, but I can answer here. Page titles are different from other headings in articles: changing them involves «moving» the page to a new name. Urbanisation rather than urbanization is the correct spelling outside USA, so that spelling change wouldn’t be supported by the community. (I blame Noah Webster.) We do have guidelines about when to use US English versus British/Commonwealth English; sorry I don’t have the relevant links handy. We do have a redirect from the alternate spelling Urbanization in India. Thanks for your interest in helping to improve spelling on Wikipedia, I’m sure you’ll find plenty of other spelling and grammar issues to fix! Please reply about whether you found this answer satisfactory. — Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (08:03 Sat 23, AEST) 22:03, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Palmer_(author)?action=edit

I am attempting to upload a photograph of Helen Palmer from her 1920 passport. It is a picture in the public domain. I am unsure why wikipedia will not let me upload it. It adheres to the guidelines.

Aazacz (talk) 20:13, 17 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Aazacz: the preferred process for public-domain images is to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, then insert a special File: link into the Wikipedia page to display the image. You can get more help at Wikipedia:Teahouse. Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (08:26 Sat 23, AEST) 22:26, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 20:04, 17 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, 3family6, thanks for the detailed error report. I tried your example and confirm the behaviour (iOS Safari, both Vector and Timeless). I also couldn’t insert columns in this case. If I remove scope="col" rowspan="2" from all cells, then things return to normal. After adding back the rowspan on just one cell, it still seems okay. Have you seen this in other situations, or is it possibly isolated to cases where all cells in a row have rowspan? (I’m not a dev, just another Wikipedian.) Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (09:28 Sat 23, AEST) 23:28, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think it’s particular to cells that have a row in rowspan, but I’m not sure. I can’t even reproduce this error all the time.—3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 23:42, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opinion_polling_for_the_2020_New_Zealand_general_election&action=edit&section=3

Hi all,

This article has an error in the tables. It fails to include the number of voters who were «Don’t know» or «Refused to answer». For the latest 1 News poll this was a massive 16%, so must be shown in the results table.

However, I’m a new Wikipedia user and don’t want to mess it up. I also don’t have the time to do it. How then, do I leave an action/suggestion in here?

Cheers
Geoff

Geoffnz1 (talk) 21:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens?action=edit

When I click «Publish changes», nothing happens. The button blinks dark blue, but the page never saves. The pencil tool to switch to source editing is similarly disabled. I can reload the page, after clicking yes to the «discard your changes?» dialog, and the resulting page will helpfully reload my unsaved edits. But I still can’t save them. Firefox 74.0 under Win 7E (I edit all the time, never had this problem before.). Any suggestions? Thanks!

Gould363 (talk) 13:33, 26 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greifswald&action=edit&section=3

2607:9880:4068:98:4578:951:F5D8:74A1 (talk) 11:30, 11 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Democrats?action=edit

I attempted to insert the group logo (a png file), and keep running up against limitations. Unclear how to proceed. Thanks for any help.

Jwhelan2020 (talk) 17:30, 14 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think IP users should be able to use this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsla1337 (talk • contribs) 10:45, 10 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, Tsla1337 / 1.Ayana! There are two entry points to Visual Editor (that I know of) that are disabled for IP editors on English Wikipedia:

1. Dual edit tabs for Edit source and Edit [visual].
2. Switching edit mode with the pencil icon.

(Actually, I didn’t realise before now that the second one was unavailable for IPs)

French Wikipédia has both, Japanese has single edit tab (wikitext) but you can switch. Enabling the switcher might be a proposal for Wikipedia:Village Pump. Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (19:13 Sat 23, AEST) 09:13, 23 May 2020 (UTC) — minor edit Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (19:20 Sat 23, AEST) 09:20, 23 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It was meant to be available (and has been for years), but they accidentally broke it earlier this year. A fix was just released. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:58, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I tried to find the answer to this but wasn’t sure where to find it, or if there is one: Is there an estimate on how much longer it will be before Visual Editor can actually, properly work for table editing? I don’t even mean bug free, but usable to the point where it’s quicker and easier than markup editing. Example: How on earth do I create the following in VE?

Until that is doable, VE is next to useless in creating discography articles or new sections in discography articles. I’ve spent probably three hours at this point trying to figure it out, because I want to learn, but it’s getting extremely aggravating and frustrating.—3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 19:45, 17 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry for the delay. You can ping me when you have questions. This edit shows me adding a table like this one. You click in the empty places to add your content, select multiple cells when you want to merge them for rowspan and colspans. To set the background formatting, you go to the dropdown menu in the toolbar that usually says «Paragraph», and select either «content cell» (plain) or «header cell» (bold text and gray background). Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_delle_Femmine?action=edit
I have only been editing in Visual mode. I have three references that have been flagged as circular as they reference other Wikipedia pages. I can change those three references to underlying references but I cannot change the type of reference, i.e. the template from a web citing to a book citing. I thought to delete the three and add new ones be again, I see no instructions to delete a reference.

One last question, in the READ mode the circular references have one set of numbers but in edit mode the reference numbers change with the circular tag. I guess I change what is flagged as circular even though the reference number is different?

JiminiVecchio (talk) 18:39, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I want to remove previously entered edit summaries that the visual editor remembers (which is entered in the pop up after you press the blue «Publish changes» button. Where do I delete the previous edit summaries that are visible in the dropdown on the editing box? The help section has nothing on it, nor the help editing community central at Fandom. Outside the visual editor I can delete those by simply pressing delete (or swiping them away on mobile presumably). I wasn’t able to do this from within the Visual Editor. —Loginnigol (talk) 08:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossings_TV&oldid=962716746&action=edit

I keep getting a visual editing error while editing this page

Crossings TV (talk) 16:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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i like school and it is fun and do you like school as well thank you

95.146.212.205 (talk) 15:45, 30 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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i love math and do you?

95.146.212.205 (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Inserting tables using VE would be much more efficient if one could select the desired number of columns and rows similar to how one can when using source editing. — Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 22:16, 30 June 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Haller?action=edit

I cannot do visual editing on this page. Please assist

Shreerajtheauthor (talk) 13:54, 3 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Disregard. I figured it out.

Shreerajtheauthor (talk) 13:59, 3 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vermabhishek/sandbox?action=edit&veswitched=1&oldid=966136096

Vermabhishek (talk) 09:43, 6 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pomnyun&action=edit&editintro=Template%3ABLP_editintro

Taeyeun (talk) 02:25, 10 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I came to the page Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Keyboard_shortcuts to see a full list of keyboard shortcuts available in VisualEditor. Especially the uncommon ones; the others (such as Ctrl+C) are more generally known and thus less important to mention on that page.

But I can see that not all keyboard shortcuts are mentioned. For instance, typing <ref will open an «Add a citation» dialog, and typing {{ will open an «Add a template» dialog. These are not mentioned. I came here to see other shortcuts like these. And I believe the primary place to place information about keyboard shortcuts would be on the page for keyboard shortcuts. Could someone who knows all the shortcuts add them to the page (or at least tell me where the list is so I can add them)? I only discover them by chance/accident with a few years in between, but I would like to actually see the entire list. —Jhertel (talk) 13:42, 13 February 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry for a late reply, Jhertel, I don’t normally monitor or visit this page. I have a list of magic character sequences compiled at mw:User:Pelagic/Mobile keyboard shortcuts for Visual Editor. Pelagic ( messages ) Z – (20:26 Sat 23, AEST) 10:26, 23 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you, Pelagic! Perfect! —Jhertel (talk) 12:02, 10 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:SMangal77/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template%3AUser+sandbox%2Fpreload

SMangal77 (talk) 18:31, 10 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_May?action=edit
Here is the issue with the title:
The title of this article needs to be changed to Henrietta Mabel May because:

1) the woman’s name was not simply Mabel May but Henrietta Mabel May (indeed, per a biographer, Evelyn Walters, her nickname was «Henry»),

2) May’s life overlapped with that of an American painter named Mabel May Woodward (1877-1945). Contemporaries in the art world may have similar palettes, styles, & subject matter, as is the case with these two painters. In fact, the two paintings this article links to are actually & inaccurately those of the American artist Mabel May Woodward, not the Canadian artist Henrietta Mabel May, so you can see why it’s important to distinguish between the names as much & as accurately as possible.

I am explaining why this change needs to be made instead of simply making it because this editing mechanism does not allow me to make such a change. I am guessing that’s because not just the title but the file itself has to be changed to change the title. & if you change the file name, you probably will break some links, unless you have some kind of aliasing mechanism to help out. Nonetheless, in the interests of accuracy & to avoid the kinds of mistakes already made, I encourage whoever is empowered to do this to undertake the work required.

Clizjaxon (talk) 17:55, 12 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGrid_(film)
i’m haviing trouble adding/editing a plot section….

A.payne32 (talk) 18:40, 12 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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67.70.90.145 (talk) 21:20, 13 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Superdupont.jpg?action=edit

Why not also use this image to illustrate the French version of the very same article? Fluide Glacial and co will never sue any of us! They are on the «same side»! 

Dr. Barbich’ (talk) 13:08, 15 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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How can I change the topic?

Famous People Of The World 1 (talk) 13:48, 21 July 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aliaksadr_Tsyrkunov&action=edit
Please, help me change the title, the name of artist is Aliaksandr.

Наста Свікрос (talk) 08:51, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliaksadr_Tsyrkunov?action=edit
Калі ласка, дадайце літару N у імя мастака, правільнае напісанне імя: Aliaksandr.

Наста Свікрос (talk) 09:57, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_art&action=edit&section=7

SeikilosLin (talk) 11:57, 4 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vans&action=edit&oldid=968643691fuhz udgjKYf jdfyht6r

2605:A000:1134:A12E:9522:9C2C:EA38:6CE6 (talk) 18:16, 6 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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49.145.70.203 (talk) 12:28, 7 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Yes_(band)&action=edit

174.245.193.92 (talk) 23:33, 18 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans?action=edit

I can’t publish my changes or change to the source editor. The error message is «Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)».

Swiftestcat (talk) 08:52, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Swiftestcat. Can you try with another browser? Chrome 84 includes a major change on how cookies are handled between domains (by default, cookies, like session cookies, are not transferred between domains unless they are explicitly configured to be sent (SameSite attribute of the cookie). —NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 09:51, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi NicoV. How do I transfer my edits over to another browser? They’re currently saved on a tab on Chrome. Is there any way to save them to Wikipedia as a draft? Swiftestcat (talk) 09:54, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I don’t know about that  —NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:09, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You could cut and paste the text from the edit window into notepad or similar text editor. You might need to switch to the old text editor. To be able to do this.

There is a chance that your edit session has expired. You get this if there is a long time between the time you first stated the edit and the time when you eventually try to publish. I get this with the text editor, and its normally cured by just pressing submit again. In VE try switching to the normal text editor.

There might be a related bug T255963 Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404). It seems to occur if you take longer than 24 hours. —Salix alba (talk): 11:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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i am not able to access the visual editor. why?

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despina_Stratigakos?action=edit

Loriannbrown (talk) 21:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello. I’ve noticed that visual editor automatically inserts carriage returns between onlyinclude tags and any table or template the tags are used around (see e.g. this or this). This has the effect of creating whitespace on the page the pages the templates/tables are transcluded on. Can this be fixed? Cheers, Number 57 16:09, 1 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Its rare for <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude> tags to appear in the main article namespace as they only apply when the page is transcluded. These are normally found in the template namespace where transclusion is common, but visual editor is not enabled. Really we are trying to get visual editor to do a task it was not designed for. You could try filling a bug at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ but I would not be optimistic about getting it fixed. A better solution might be to move the common text to the template namespace. This would prevent the Visual Editor from messing things up.—Salix alba (talk): 18:41, 1 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• So how do we fix it? I always get the same problem and its incredibly annoying 71.208.32.185 (talk) 13:13, 9 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bum_Phillips&action=edit
You have the wrong date of death. It is 2018 not 2013.

172.58.102.158 (talk) 06:47, 12 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music_Album_(TV_series)&action=edit&oldid=977404083

2601:500:C280:6720:2021:DBC0:914:CBAF (talk) 03:43, 16 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brandonbott111?action=edit&veswitched=1

Hi, I’d like to change the title of the article but it is defaulting to my username which is «User:Brandonbott111.» I’d like to put the actual company name there but it is not letting me, please help! Thanks.

Brandonbott111 (talk) 04:39, 22 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The page looks like it might be self promotion and might not meet the notability standards for an article in the main encyclopedia, see WP:COISELF and WP:ORG. As such you should submit the article to the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process, and if an independent editor finds its notable enough they will move it to article space. To do this add the template {{subst:submit}} to the top of your article. You will need to do this using the normal editor and not the visual editor. —Salix alba (talk): 09:02, 22 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 22:12, 23 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despina_Stratigakos?action=edit

Loriannbrown (talk) 14:54, 29 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Sandbox&veaction=edit

The citations are not showing up…please help. Thank you!

ALLBN (talk) 18:09, 29 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stance_(journal)?action=edit
I am unable to «move» this page and change the title of it. Could I permission?

Mariahbowman (talk) 19:53, 29 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_(business)?action=edit
I would recommend that the implementation section has more information and articles that can help readers take the information in the article and use it in the business workplace. By showing examples, previously used forms and information on how to deal with conflict regarding diversity. NeumeyerL (talk) 03:37, 4 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leela_Majumdar&action=edit&section=6

45.112.242.4 (talk) 02:14, 11 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_J._Dorgan&action=edit

Mtm10647 (talk) 18:16, 15 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007?action=edit

Richblox999FX17 (talk) 15:03, 16 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Adding More Cast Members to Jurassic World: Dominion

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Ariana Richards as Lex Murphy
Joseph Mazzello as Tim Murphy
Julianne Moore as Dr. Sarah Harding
Vince Vaughn as Nick Van Owen
Vanessa Lee Chester as Kelly Curtis
Peter Stormare as Dieter Stark
Harvey Jason as Ajay Sidhu
Richard Schiff as Eddie Carr
Thomas F. Duffy as Dr. Robert Burke
Pete Postlethwaite as Roland Tembo
Arliss Howard as Peter Ludlow
Richard Attenborough as John Hammond
Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Arnold
Wayne Knight as Dennis Nedry
Ty Simpkins as Gray Mitchell
Nick Robinson as Zachary «Zach» Mitchell
Irrfan Khan as Simon Masrani
Lauren Lapkus as Vivian
Katie McGrath as Zara
Judy Greer as Karen Mitchell,
Andy Buckley as Scott Mitchell
Vincent D’Onofrio as Vic Hoskins
Brian Tee as Hamada
James Cromwell as Sir Benjamin Lockwood
Toby Jones as Mr. Eversoll
Rafe Spall as Eli Mills
Ted Levine as Ken Wheatley
Geraldine Chaplin as Iris
Peter Jason as Senator Sherwood
Camilla Belle as Cathy Bowman
Jerry Molen as Dr. Harding
Miguel Sandoval as Juanito Rostagno
Martin Ferrero as Donald Gennaro
Bob Peck as Robert Muldoon
Alessandro Nivola as Billy Brennan
William H. Macy as Paul Kirby
Téa Leoni as Amanda Kirby
Trevor Morgan as Eric Kirby
Michael Jeter as Udesky
John Diehl as Cooper
Bruce A. Young as Nash
Taylor Nichols as Mark
Mark Harelik as Ben Hildebrand
Julio Oscar Mechoso as Enrique Cardoso
Blake Bryan as Charlie

Nick Ferrante 02:38, 18 October 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NickF4401 (talk • contribs)

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=7_World_Trade_Center&action=edit

100.34.202.120 (talk) 20:45, 19 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MiCorr/citing_sources?action=edit&veswitched=1

MiCorr (talk) 08:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

2400:AC40:705:E082:B4A9:F41F:48B9:9877 (talk) 16:58, 31 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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I love this BECAUSE i THOUGHT THAT I COULD NEVER EDIT IN GOOGLE BUT I CAN EDIT IN GOOGLE

182.77.39.13 (talk) 07:23, 2 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

He was not killed in Jasper, Tx. Only the trial was there, as it is the county seat. He was murdered near the Harrisburg, TX community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C5:4300:7280:A845:6546:6422:C8FC (talk) 15:44, 5 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_10_(toy_line)&action=edit

4″ Alien Collection Battle figures image have to be modified as Wildmutt is missing from it and Cannonbolt figure is the one from the previous wave. I made an updated image but I can’t upload it.

Mario99marian (talk) 23:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I use Mac. I regularly use Command + Enter as the shortcut for publishing an edit after writing an edit summary, and find it really useful. Having burnt that pattern into my brain, I now routinely press it while editing a page in VE, expecting it to take me to the edit summary box, and am disappointed that it doesn’t work. I would find this a useful shortcut while editing pages. Popcornfud (talk) 16:14, 1 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Humbly requesting this again, as I continue to press Cammand + Enter automatically when trying to save edits. Popcornfud (talk) 16:23, 12 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Haloila&veaction=editsource

Hi,
Haloila pages needs to be moved to Signode Finland

Haloila (talk) 11:52, 17 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ricardus_Cibarius/sandbox?action=edit
Dialog box does not provide the option to upload an image file from computer

Ricardus Cibarius (talk) 14:00, 20 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:IleRosario/sandbox?action=edit
I’ve attempted to save my work by clicking the «Publish changes» button and absolutely nothing happens. I do not want to lose my work.

IleRosario (talk) 05:41, 26 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Why does the Visual Editor screw around with the text before blockquotes?

For example, while editing in the Visual Editor, go to Adaptation (film), go to the Production section, and select the text above the blockquote («Kaufman said»). The text is uneditable, and has to be edited instead inside the quote template, in the «content» field. This is apparently not a normal part of the quote template; the Visual Editor appears to be injecting something weird into it.

Does anyone know what’s going on here? It’s been annoying me for months or years now. Popcornfud (talk) 10:59, 30 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uee&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template%3ABLP_editintroywywee e

2001:4455:46A:CC00:F85E:2A3A:88F5:6376 (talk) 11:15, 2 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The dialog for inserting a citation has a short menu of attributes that includes year but does not include date, making it necessary to use the search dialog. I have two suggestions:

1. Provide an option to do a source edit of the generated {{cite}}
2. Include all of |date= |edition=, |publisher= and |work= in the short list.

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 19:17, 2 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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How do I add a Rhodes Scholar who is omitted from the list?

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Rhodes_Scholars&action=edit

Chekeditor (talk) 21:37, 2 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

One problem I have is to operate splits/mergers of whole columns. The process cannot be automated, and one has to split or merge every column’s cells one by one.

It is still possible to resort to an external automation program. However, there is no keyboard shortcut for ‘merge cells’ or ‘split cell’.

Either one of the two should be done, and for programmers, it seems a shortcut is by far the easiest to implement.

Kahlores (talk) 06:06, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

(suggestion related to Popcornfud’s)

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Woshiyiweizhongguoren&action=edit

2603:8000:F93C:4114:7C74:F24A:434:D5C (talk) 21:10, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Foreign_Manufacturers_Certification_Scheme_(FMCS)?action=edit

article in showing in draft mode and if possible please edit into article mode

Dheeraj budhori (talk) 08:03, 19 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:National_Defense_Authorization_Acts&action=edit&redlink=1

I recommend adding a preview button or menu option, for both visual editing and source editing (2017 editor). If the button already exists, consider making it more prominent, because I can’t find it.

–Novem Linguae (talk) 06:46, 24 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A facility that I have found very useful in other editors is changing case, e.g.,

• Change to lower case
• Change to upper case
• Change to sentence case
• Change to title case
• Invert case

I’d like to see icons and keystrokes for at least those. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:54, 24 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Greetings! This site is extremely secure and should not be deleted because it has sufficient resources as well as information

Shkupi Kumanova 1234 (talk) 21:47, 25 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Shkupi Kumanova 1234, multiple editors have tried to communicate with you already on your talk page and have replied to you when you reached out to them. Please review their comments, and contribute to the article draft at Draft:Adem Kastrati. Once you properly cite claims in the article with inline references and remove promotional language, you can resubmit the draft for review. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:09, 25 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Motizin/sandbox&action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template%3AUser+sandbox%2Fpreload

I’ve been editing this page. When I returned to this page I got a message asking if I want to resume editting. I confirmed that I want but no page came up, so I restarted the sandbox. It was empty. There was history of previous deletions or transfers but not any mention of my last edit. Looks like the contents is lost. Why?

Motizin (talk) 15:09, 26 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]