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TOC triggers broken API requests

My example page: de:Hilfe:Suche. Move the mouse over the table of contents. This API query is requested over and over again. Note that the titles parameter is empty.

You should add two fixes:

1. If the code that triggers the API request gets an empty title it should just return and do nothing. Don't waste the users bandwidth for nothing.
2. Exclude the links in the TOC. Don't waste the users CPU time. Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 19:56, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

The first part is bug 67728 and was recently fixed. And since TOC links don't have a title attribute, they no longer generate API requests. SPage (WMF) (talk) 08:49, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Contents from wrong namespace

My example page is de:Hilfe:Suche.

1. Hover the word Hilfe in the headline of the green box on the right. This API requested is triggered but no hovercard is shown. It looks like the API module refuses to return snippets from non-main namespaces. If this is true then it's pointless to do the API request in the first place. It just wastes bandwidth and server power.
2. Move the mouse cursor over the icon next to the "Hilfe" heading. A hovercard appears, but with the wrong content. The icon links to de:Hilfe:Übersicht but the image and text in the hovercard is from de:Hilfe in the main namespace.
3. Now move the mouse back to the "Hilfe" heading. Now it shows the same wrong hovercard.

It looks like there are several bugs here: #3 looks like a misrouted cache hit. #2 seems to be specific to images. #1 could be a misconfiguration. Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 20:12, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Flow update

Please see News and Notes, for the July 3rd update, over at Talk:Flow. Feedback at that (central) page, would be most welcome. Thanks. :-) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:02, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Scrollable/extendable hovercards

How about making hovercards scrollable? Not all pages contain enough informations in first sentence, and hovercard is not enough to do obtain brief information. I would like see them with scroll option or button on bottom (activvated by hovering) which would expand to show full paragraph (or show mobile version of wiki which would fit perfetly in hovercard?) Opening links in new tabs is offen diverting attention from curently readed subject. D21d3q (talk) 11:22, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

It would be great to have a way to trigger more content, but scrolling in a floating panel is a fairly uncomfortable and unstable reaction that can't be reliable executed across browsers. Vibhabamba (talk) 18:09, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

I would like it. Ireun (talk) 11:25, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

I would prefer an extendable hovercard, the amount of information provided now does not always suffice. A great addition would be a setting of a maximum amount of characters. Additionally the font size and line spacing could be reduced a bit to allow for more text in the same box.

Still, even in this form, this is my favorite Wikipedia bèta feature. Ylandi (talk) 09:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

it's annoying and I immediately turned it off

especially useless on mobile I believe Gryllida 01:51, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Hovercards are desktop only. They don't exist on mobile - Mobile is pretty fast and hence going to another article on a small screen isn't that disruptive. Vibhabamba (talk) 23:21, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

still i turned it on at another sister project accidentally

today

i can't stand it, i have a small desktop screen (1000px x 800px) and the popup is UNREADABLE ( Gryllida 05:03, 9 August 2014 (UTC)