Should we move API:Main page to API:Action API

Since Action API is not the only API of MediaWiki. GZWDer (talk) 10:13, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

@GZWDer: That seems reasonable, though we of course have api.wikimedia.org as the main user-facing pages nowadays. I think this is something the MediaWiki Interfaces team owns, however, so I would want their opinion first. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 09:46, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Bump to prevent archival. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:17, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Pinging MWI product manager HCoplin-WMF per Jdforrester's comment above ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 09:13, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Bump. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:12, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Note that this move would require a sysadmin due to the translatable page containing more than 500 bits. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:09, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

(Restored. Would be great to get an answer on this.) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 10:31, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Fake future comment to stop archival. DoNotArchiveUntil (no talk) 12:00, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

I support moving it. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 13:39, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Should this discussion be moved to Phabricator; both so that it can be specifically tagged for the MW Interfaces team's attention, and also given that - in any event - a maintenance script run would be needed to move this page (per Pppery)? Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 17:01, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

@A smart kitten: I don't think forking the conversation to Phab is necessary. I'll ping the team again about this. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 13:42, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Template:PD Help Page in Help pages

It would be desirable that the template (or a simpler, condensed version) was part of a suitable system message so that it was automatically interted in every page in this namespace. Right now a significant number of help pages lack the template and editing them one by one to add the template is not only boring but in the case of translatable pages it gives extra work to language administrators for no real benefit. Tactica (talk) 16:31, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

If it was in a system message, presumably there'd need to be some way (from an individual page) to achieve what the |imported=1 template parameter currently does (in order to signal that some of a given page's content may not be PD). Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 16:56, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Add option to turn off Link Previews.

I use a wiki.gg page and can't find any option to turn off Link Previews. Personally I find them annoying. ~2025-16536-6 (talk) 01:09, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

I think you're talking about Page Previews. Are you trying to turn off the view for you personally or turn them off for the wiki entirely? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:25, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Machine translations

JorgeElias2302 is creating translations in the languages (de, es, pt-br, ca, it, sv, af) they probably don't know. They are doing the same thing on translatewiki.net. Nemoralis (talk) 10:43, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Translations deleted. --Clump (talk) 12:00, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-17480-0

• ~2025-17480-0 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport ----Ankermast (talk) 21:09, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 22:09, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Paninhackanpnimus

• Paninhackanpnimus (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --Leonidlednev (talk) 06:03, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Nothing new since the temp block on the 6th, But since they have performed cross wiki vandalism, Have requested a global lock on meta. P858snake (talk) 08:50, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Already reported him at m:, by the way. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:32, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:33, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Need a deletion and page content model change

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask but could some admin be so kind to delete User:tactica/global.js (which does nothing for me since I presume I lack some user right) and change the content model of User:tactica/sandbox to plain wikitext? Thanks. Tactica (talk) 09:30, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

I wasn't able to change the content model (as i'm not a Interface Admin), But did delete both so it should reset on recreate I hope, If you need any content from the sandbox archives, Please let me know and I should be able to dig it out. P858snake (talk) 09:40, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Nah, that's more than fine. Thanks! Tactica (talk) 09:43, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Re: "User:tactica/global.js (which does nothing for me since I presume I lack some user right)" -- Note that your global.js would need to be located at Meta-wiki (m:User:tactica/global.js), not on this wiki. I hope that helps! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:38, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Ah, that would explain why nothing was happening :) Ty. Tactica (talk) 20:42, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-19681-8

• ~2025-19681-8 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --人间百态 (talk) 02:42, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Done Hide on Rosé (talk) 02:48, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Language codes in Page display title translations

There are a number of Page display title translations that contain just the page's name plus the translation's language code (e.g., Extension:UploadWizard/fr). (This search should hopefully be an okay heuristic for finding some of them, though it does contain a number of false positives.)

As far as I can see (please correct me if I'm wrong!), page-display-title translations shouldn't contain the language code (e.g. /fr) at the end like this; as it isn't part of a translation of a page's title, and as it causes {{Localized link }} to include that language code when linking from other pages in the same language.

Because of this, should these translation pages be deleted/be edited to have the language code removed (or, where a previous revision exists without the language code included in the text, reverted back to that)?

Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 14:58, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Nate Oakman

• Nate Oakman (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism. special:diff/7730450 XReport --  — Jeff G. ツ 13:04, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 13:10, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Ash Loren

• Ash Loren (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Spam XReport --MathXplore (talk) 14:49, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 16:15, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Semi protection for Help:Temporary accounts

Hello, could you please semi-protect Help:Temporary accounts permanently, as this page is linked to the notice where the unregistered user try to edit (i.e. Warning: You are not logged in. Once you make an edit, a temporary account will be created for you. Learn more.). Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 06:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 11:45, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Can you unprotect Template:DB?

This template was incorrectly protected, Despite the template being "This page is protected so it can only be edited by administrators", so can you use a special page to unprotect this? ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:09, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

The link is found here:

Template:DB?action=protect ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Why? And what exactly is incorrect? --Clump (talk) 17:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

It was the template Delete because (DB), it needs to be unprotected, It says "allow only administrators", It should be "allow all users". ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:16, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Again, why? It was protected due to ongoing vandalism. There's no need for all users to be able to edit it. --Clump (talk) 17:25, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Wait, It needs to be unprotected. ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:28, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Request declined. --Clump (talk) 17:33, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-24195-9

• ~2025-24195-9 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --MathXplore (talk) 11:42, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 11:43, 22 July 2025 (UTC)