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For some reason, MTS Oceanos is cascade-protected, so I cannot edit it. I don't think OTD pages are usually protected (Battle of Evesham, also OTD today, is not). Could someone please figure out what happened? The lead of MTS Oceanos contains a chonker of a run-on sentence that I'd like to fix. Toadspike [Talk] 05:26, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
- Fixed the OTD coding so MTS Oceanos is no longer protected. * Pppery * it has begun... 05:29, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
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I figured this well get noticed quickly, but it's 10am where I am - the current page (1st August) has the article written as [[SMS Hindenburg|SMS Hindenburg]] as though the code was written in the visual editor. -- NotCharizard 🗨 00:15, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- Fixed. Just so you know, in the future, these kinds of issues should be raised at Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors instead of here. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:32, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- I've checked ahead as far as we are scheduled and I've fixed the one time this might pop up again, and will keep an eye open as we continue to schedule.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:17, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think we want categories on the main page, not even hidden categories, so I added
nocat=yto three other uses of {{lang}}.[1] This issue is hard to spot in advance because the category is only added in mainspace. Here is a link showing how Wikipedia:Main Page/Tomorrow will render on Main Page. It would have shown the Hindenburg rendering error yesterday, and if "Show hidden categories" is enabled at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering then it would have shown the hidden category I removed. Should we add the link to {{Main Page toolbox}}? PrimeHunter (talk) 01:39, 1 August 2025 (UTC)- Yes, that sounds like a great idea to me. {{lang}} isn't the only template that adds categories only in mainspace; recently {{m}} caused a similar issue on ITN. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:45, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- It was my understanding that we should avoid using templates in TFA blurbs anyway? Wehwalt (talk) 01:46, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- I think lang templates may be a slightly special case, since (I'm told, anyway) they make sure that screen readers pronounce the words correctly -- in the case of replacing a convert template with a plain text of the conversion, there's no trade-off for the (slight?) performance boost of not making the system load the template, but for a lang template there may well be an accessibility cost. Ditto, perhaps, those which explain abbreviations like "circa" -- where we gain performance, we lose accessibility/comprehensibility. I know there's been previous discussions that I haven't been in, so apologies if I'm just retreading old ground. UndercoverClassicist T·C 18:31, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not certain. I've removed several from upcoming TFAs including the one you asked me about. Since it's been some time since we've had a discussion on this, can someone more technical than me make it clearer what templates we should be avoiding in TFA blurbs and which to leave alone? Wehwalt (talk) 18:40, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- I think lang templates may be a slightly special case, since (I'm told, anyway) they make sure that screen readers pronounce the words correctly -- in the case of replacing a convert template with a plain text of the conversion, there's no trade-off for the (slight?) performance boost of not making the system load the template, but for a lang template there may well be an accessibility cost. Ditto, perhaps, those which explain abbreviations like "circa" -- where we gain performance, we lose accessibility/comprehensibility. I know there's been previous discussions that I haven't been in, so apologies if I'm just retreading old ground. UndercoverClassicist T·C 18:31, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think we want categories on the main page, not even hidden categories, so I added
- Thank you! I was confused about where to raise it so just did my best chance at the time. Good to know in future though. -- NotCharizard 🗨 03:11, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- I've checked ahead as far as we are scheduled and I've fixed the one time this might pop up again, and will keep an eye open as we continue to schedule.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:17, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
Supporting Wikipedia with a Monthly Donation
I have a small amount, of a Gifted Monetary Fund, to Wikipedia, from my Bank Account, every month since 2023. I am retired; a former Art Conservator in my area. And live on Very little revenue. I just wanted you to know; I give to Wikipedia, without assessing this to my annual Taxes. My way of saying- “ Thank you, to Wikipedia “ for your service of Information. Happy Summer, Kindly, artrestore9 Artrestore9 (talk) 20:31, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- You should assess it to your taxes, no reason not to 🇪🇭 Easternsahara U T C 13:35, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
Supporting Wikipedia with a Monthly Donation. Not tax on my 1040 Taxes Artrestore9 (talk) 20:33, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for donating. This isn’t the right place to comment about that, Artrestore9; this place is for discussing the main page (or home page). Are you ok if we move this comment to your user page? Schwede66 20:42, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Your user page User:Artrestore9 is copied from meta:User:Artrestore9 where it could be added. Leading spaces cause special formatting in our software so we don't use it to start paragraphs. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:11, 3 August 2025 (UTC)