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I don't know whether this is the appropriate place to note this; if not, please direct me to the appropriate site. The download tool for English Wikisource (ws-export.wmcloud.org) is not working. I have tested this using the EPUB download links for several texts ([1] [2] [3]) on several different browsers, both mobile (using iOS 7.4.1) and desktop (using Windows 10), and according to [4] other people have been seeing the same problem for almost a month now. On a mobile browser, the export site doesn't load at all; on a desktop browser it returns either a 503 Service Unavailable error message, or an Anubis bot-checking page which does nothing for about 20 seconds before giving a 503 error, or sometimes the message "This web service cannot be reached. Please contact a maintainer of this project." However, the site does seem to work for the Wikisource wikis in at least some languages other than English; in some cursory testing I saw it work for Polish [5] and Latin [6] but not Greek [7]. This problem has been noted on English Wikisource's main talk page (as linked above) around the beginning of this month, apparently without anyone noticing; I am reposting it here so that whoever is responsible for maintaining Wikimedia wiki software will know that this needs to be fixed. - LaetusStudiis (talk) 22:37, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

@LaetusStudiis The person to contact about this would be @Samwilson. Sohom (talk) 21:09, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

@LaetusStudiis and Sohom Datta: Thanks for the ping. This is a known issue, indeed. I've got some ideas for how to improve things, and am hoping to make some progress soon. Sam Wilson 02:05, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

https://imgur.com/a/GARH0kq Does MediaWiki have a virus? I downloaded it directly from the website https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.1.zip ~2026-49761-6 (talk) 11:00, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, this page is for Wikimedia wikis. For MediaWiki, please ask at mw:Project:Support_desk, and include basic information (what does your screenshot show exactly? Where does your screenshot come from exactly? What "virus"? How could someone else reproduce what you see?). Also, please upload images in a better place - visiting imgur.com requires dozens of clicks in their dialogs (which do not offer a 'Refuse all' button) not to sell my data to their ~250 advertisement company partners. Thanks. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:22, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello I was looking through the voting ages for countries on your wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority and it seems that the age of voting for Canada is wrong. It is not 19 but 18 instead for itself and all of it's provinces. Thank you for your understanding and hopefully you can fix this typo soon. ~2026-59577-5 (talk) 18:47, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, please bring this up on the discussion page of that article itself, or in an English Wikipedia discussion forum on English Wikipedia. Thank you! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:55, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi there, I am in contact with a sysAdmin from a big open data project who told me that in the last 48 hours there has been a massive uptick in bots scraping his websites. We are talking about more than 300,000 residential IP addresses. I was wondering if Wikimedia has been experiencing the same issues recently. If so, who could I talk to for more information? Thanks y'all! Amotaouakkil (talk) 18:27, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Is there a way to change my default signature on all wikimedia wikis? It isn't in Special:GlobalPreferences but if such a feature exists I would find it very helpful. Thanks. lp0 on fire () 22:20, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

@lp0 on fire I don't believe that there currently is, no. (In case you're interested, there's a Phabricator task requesting that feature at phab:T188200.) Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 22:36, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Oh well, it was worth a try. lp0 on fire () 22:37, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Also, thanks for making the effort to put my username in lowercase; I appreciate it :) lp0 on fire () 22:39, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

• example url: https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2 * मोड्यूल:Citation/CS1/Utilities was last updated 3 months ago by user @Angpradesh (sysop) (https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B0:Angpradesh) seems to be mia
• the situation is aggravated (https://anp.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE&diff=22772&oldid=22764) by InternetArchiveBot edits

কল্কি (talk) 13:51, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

What is the name of the right to delete sitewide JavaScript? Juandev (talk) 16:32, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

w:Wikipedia:Interface_administrators --A826 · ✉ · © 16:35, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Interface administrators, assuming that this is not about English Wikipedia. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi!

I'm an admin on pt.wikt and we noticed that recently (in the last week or so) the Citations tab disappeared from its usual place at the top of the page and is now hidden under the More tab. We would like to have that reversed, because the Citations tab needs more visibility than that.

Where should I go with such a request and who should I talk to?

Thanks.

ValJor (talk) 16:43, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

For the records, that "Citações" item is custom on-wiki code defined via pt:wikt:MediaWiki:Common.js, and I guess that docs like mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#addPortletLink are relevant. This page (Tech on meta) is a good place for such a request, as this is about on-wiki code. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:05, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi AKlapper!

Thank you for the quick reply.

The JavaScript page you mention hasn't been modified since 2023, so that cannot be the cause of our current problem (that started just this week). Other than that, I can only see the contents of the page, not edit it.

What is the next step?

Thanks again.

ValJor (talk) 11:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

It looks like that tab is there when using the Monobook skin, e.g. on https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/descangar?useskin=monobook, and not when using the default Vector skin, e.g. on https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/descangar?useskin=vector. I didn't spot anything mentioned in latest Tech/News but I could vaguely imagine this to be an intentional change to have a more standardized interface (that is just a personal guess though). I assume the mw:Readers/Reader Experience team might know best what may have happened here. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:18, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Change p-namespaces to p-associated-pages. Wargo (talk) 21:33, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi!

Can someone do the proposed change? I don't have editing permission on that file.

Thanks.

ValJor (talk) 19:33, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

@ValJor Per Interface administrators, see https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/Especial:Lista_de_utilizadores?username=&group=interface-admin for a list of local users who have permissions. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:40, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

The problem is now fixed, this item may be closed. Thanks for all your help.

ValJor (talk) 10:01, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. lp0 on fire () 22:38, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Türk Hava Kuvvetleri'nin armasını güncelledim. Ancak güncel resim bağlantı yüklenmesine rağmen ön resim eski haliyle kalmaya devam ediyor. Sistem Türk Hava Kuvvetleri'nin resmini değiştirmiyor. Bu konuda yardımcı olmanızı rica ediyorum. Güncel ve doğru resim bağlantısını " https://dosya.hvkk.tsk.tr/Uploads/Hvkk/hvkk/LOGOLAR/LOGOLAR/HVKK%20Logo_PNG.png " arz ederim. Qletisim (talk) 07:05, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Every night, I use the Action API to fetch the categories for 50 articles. Around 27 February, the API stopped returning the "continue" element.

For example, this query would previously return a continue element, which I could use for follow-up requests to ensure all categories had been fetched for all articles.

But now no continue element is returned (example response). You can see that many articles are missing their categories (these articles definitely have many categories in reality), so a continue element is needed to fully populate them.

I also note that cllimit appears to be 500 (see the limits element in the response) but only 374 categories have been returned.

Continuations still appear to work when requesting redirects or other props - just not categories.

If there is a different place to raise issues with the Action API, please advise. Many thanks. Matthew at catfishing (talk) 15:00, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

It's probably based logged in phabricator, but based on the timeframe, deployment etc, phab:T405812 seems relevant, and this would likely count as a regression.

See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1241311 for the suspected code change. Reedy (talk) 15:29, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Duly logged at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419563 Matthew at catfishing (talk) 15:54, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

I just added a second German translation to „recumbent“. It was registered under   — en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:~2026-17487-01 but not for me.   (I didn't log in).

That's no problem, is it?

McMiil McMiil (talk) 12:54, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello everyone,

This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as Module:Itemgroup/list).

The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property P1846, combined with the qualifier P180: Q19571328.

We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property: P14226.

What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from P14226 instead of the old P1846 + P180 structure. A list of pages was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.

Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on P1846 to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old P1846 statements will be removed after May 1, 2026. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.

Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help! ZI Jony using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:09, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Die Seite uedemersv.de läßt sich nicht mehr öffnen Folgende Fehlermeldung MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: [afDHXulJcqPZLFp1Z3WccgAAABs] 2026-04-28 14:42:38: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnectionError"

Exception caught inside exception handler.

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

Bitte prüfen. Wermey287 (talk) 14:46, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

@Wermey287 I hope you are wrong here. You need to go to Mediawiki instead. NDG (talk) 15:00, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Beim öffnen der Seite uedemersv.de wird folgende Meldung angezeigt.

MediaWiki internal error. Original exception: [afImp0how9K234-_Nr5ftwAAAAc] 2026-04-29 15:41:27: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnectionError" Exception caught inside exception handler. Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

Ich weiß nicht wie ich die Meldung weg bekomme.

Können Sie nicht Media Wiki ganz entfernen.

Lizenznummer:ZP15X-UHHH-2PTS-T4G8-F2MC-MU0F-THEM-G0MWQ0

Vielen Dank Wermey287 (talk) 15:46, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Wrong place. See above: "Tech-related questions about third-party wikis should be asked at mw:Project:Support desk." We have nothing to do with uedemersv.de. We have no "Lizenznummer". See mw:Manual:How to debug how to find out what the problem is. Thanks. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 20:22, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Hallo, ich hatte mehrfach das Betriebssystem gewechselt. Seitdem bekomme ich bei der Anmeldung jedesmal diese Meldung; "Du musst deinen Anmeldeversuch verifizieren. Ein Verifizierungscode wurde an deine E-Mail-Adresse (g***@***.***) versandt. Bitte gib hier diesen Code ein." Lässt sich das abstellen? Die Anmeldung selbst klappt. Vielen Dank. Gruß Georgfotoart (talk) 16:18, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Hey @Georgfotoart, it sounds like you're facing this problem way more frequently than most users. That's unfortunate. Here you will find the full answer. As a solution, you can set up 2FA. If you add passkeys, you'll be logging in faster than usual, when there's no verification code. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 11:16, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

I tried reporting a bug in a gadget to Phabricator and they said they don't support gadgets because gadgets are local content. Is this the way to report it?

The gadget is "Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page" in the main Wiki, which is enabled at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets-gadget-section-appearance.

The bug is described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426285 (closed).

Thanks, Dan Danbloch (talk) 18:42, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

This is not a bug but rather an intentional change per en:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-edittop.js#Edit request: Use new default autocomment / phab:T2156#11881517. Johannnes89 (talk) 19:58, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Right now, we're now using the old version of expiry watchlist popup feature. What happened to the one where I no longer had to disable-and-reenable a star icon? George Ho (talk) 01:43, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

You are invited to voice your opinion on a new community-proposed direction for the Community Wishlist. Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:07, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

colored scales

Display error

• use https://www.hacklily.org/ hwww.hacklily.org

it's an online editor for Lilypond where you can try out the code examples without any software. There you can see how it should looks like.

\version "2.14.2"\markup \column { %% Überschrift / Headline  \halign #CENTER {   \bold "C-ionisch (C-Form) " } \halign #CENTER {  "C ionian (C shape) " } %% Aussehen / Look  \override #'(size . 3.0) {  \override #'(fret-diagram-details . (   (orientation . #'landscape )   (finger-code . #'in-dot )   (dot-color . #'black)   (dot-radius . 0.4)   (dot-position . 0.5)   (top-fret-thickness . 6)   (fret-count . 3)   (number-type . roman-upper)  ))  %% Finger  %% Saite Bund "Intervall" Farbe  %% string fret "interval" color  \fret-diagram-verbose #'(   (place-fret 1 12 "3" black )   (place-fret 1 13 "4"  yellow3 )   (place-fret 1 15 "5" darkgrey )   (place-fret 2 12 "j7" yellow3 )   (place-fret 2 13 "1"  black )   (place-fret 2 15 "2" darkgreen )   (place-fret 3 12 "5" black )   (place-fret 3 14 "6" darkgreen )   (place-fret 4 12 "2" darkgreen )   (place-fret 4 14 "3" black )   (place-fret 4 15 "4" yellow3 )    (place-fret 5 12 "6" darkgreen )   (place-fret 5 14 "j7" yellow3 )   (place-fret 5 15 "2" black )    (place-fret 6 12 "3" black )   (place-fret 6 13 "4"  yellow3 )   (place-fret 6 15 "5" darkgrey )  ) }}\paper{     indent=0\mm     line-width=80\mm     oddFooterMarkup=##f     oddHeaderMarkup=##f     bookTitleMarkup = ##f     scoreTitleMarkup = ##f}

It's frustrating when all the work I've invested in Wikibooks is at risk. All the color scales suddenly become unusable. Pages with colored scales can no longer be edited. The previously created graphics would be be ruined. I cant continue my work with scales. --Mjchael (talk) 18:27, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

This is probably fallout from task T49578... I've file task T431021 for you. Reedy (talk) 18:40, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Just to note hacklily seems to be using an old version of lilypond, as per https://github.com/jocelyn-stericker/hacklily/issues/63 - This may be related to our own upgrade, but may not be our fault, it may be an issue with lilypond etc - task T385404 Reedy (talk) 19:05, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

It works for me once I re-add the line breaks:

You can't paste it without line breaks because the "%" introduces a single-line comment, so a comment runs from %% Überschrift to the end of the input. I don't think it's related to SVG or the LilyPond version. -- Tim Starling (talk) 23:49, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello,

is there a way to count images on a page and eventually only the ones in a specific section of a page ?

I'm using sub-pages of my User page on Commons to collect images which are of interest for me and I got curious about how many do I gathered in each page.

See this one about Carnaval for exemple :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BotaFlo/Collections/Carnaval

Or this other one about mythological fauns and satyrs :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BotaFlo/Collections/Faunes_(mythologie)

Many thanks in advance for your help

BotaFlo (talk) 09:36, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Please help me, Can someone tell where I can learn how to use the "Revise Tone" feature?

Tech news 2026-29 references a feature "Revise Tone" indicating that, "The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias. . . .The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis,"

So I tried to find out how to use the "Revise Tone" feature, I traveled through a "maze of links" but I never found the cheese. I was not successful. I like to solve puzzles, but as usual the Wikipedia Monolith was impenetrable. (To resolve this search for hidden curious and quaint forgotten lore there needs to be a search capability that would only search through Wikipedia's technical and reference documentation. Just saying. I wonder where I could make that suggest? It would be a significant capability for editors who have not or will not memorize the total sum of Wikipediae knowledge.)

This isn't the only bit of Wikipedia Arcana I have been unable to find. I hate to complain but it seems to me that much of Wikipedia documentation for things that an editor can use is written in such a way that it seems that the tech writer was standing too close to the subject so neglects to point out some things that are obvious to that editor but is not at all obvious to me. I don't make this criticism lightly, I have extensive experience with software development in my work. I have written design specs and user manuals for many software apps, So when I comment critically, I am just speaking truth to whomever.

So, returning to my request, please help me, can someone tell where I can learn how to use the "Revise Tone" feature? (Sadly it has been referred to as a "feature", In the software industry a bug in an app that isn't going to be fixed is referred to as a "feature". I am not saying the "Revise Tone" item is broke, but calling it a feature leaving me scratching my head. Just saying.) Osomite (talk) 00:15, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

The Tech News entry linked to mw:Growth/Revise Tone which explains that this is one of the growth features (which are available via the newcomer homepage. Given your account age you need to activate the homepage manually via en:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal-homepage before you can use en:Special:Homepage. Once you've done that, select all topics and in the next step only the "revise tone" easy task to test the new feature. Johannnes89 (talk) 05:47, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

@Johannnes89:

Thank you for replying.

I want to briefly explain the level of my knowledge at the time I asked for help. I read the "Tech News: 2026-29" and which mentioned Revise Tone. Through my searching I understood that it was a "nwGrowth structured task" (so I guess it isn't a feature.) I when to the page which the "Revise Tone" link took me. I read that, a lot of good information but strangely there was nothing about how to set up to access the Revised Tone "structured task". I did find the "newcomer Homepage" article that you provided the link as "newcomer homepage". Somewhere in my search I discovered that I needed to activate the "homepage" in order to access Revised Tone. I activated my "homepage" and examining it, it did not provide any information about the "Revised Tone". After further fruitless search I decided the effort was futile. So, unable to figure out the Revised Tone Conundrum I asked for help.

Your guidance indicates that, "Once you've done that, select all topics and in the next step only the "revise tone" easy task to test the new feature."

OK. Where (what page?) do I "select all topics" so that I can proceed to "the next step". And where would this "next step" be. It isn't apparent to me that these task can be done on the "newcomers homepage".

I am not trying to be difficult, but I just can not do what you direct me to do because I do not have the necessary Wikipedia insight to understand the "where" nor the "how". I understand how difficult it is to write documentation--it was part of my job as a Systems Architect and Systems Designer in my previous life. I do appreciate your help.

Could you please give me a bit of detail on what to do.

Thanks Osomite (talk) 00:30, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

@Osomite if you open en:Special:Homepage (after enabling it in your preferences) you should see a section "Suggested edits" which asks you to "Choose some topics you are interested in editing" (this [8] is a screenshot showing the mobile view, it should look similar on desktop). After confirming your selection (you can change those topics later, if you just want to test stuff I recommend simply selecting all topics) there's a second prompt to select the tasks you want to do (looks like this [9] except that "revise tone" is now a new easy task, "add link" might not be available to you because it's limited to inexperienced users and "copyedit" has been disabled on English Wikipedia). Select "Revise tone" (and no other task) in order to specifically test revise tone suggestions (looks similar to this [10] screenshot). Click on one of the suggestions and which opens the article. You should see a pop-up giving you an onboarding before you can actually edit the article. Johannnes89 (talk) 06:35, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

This is my intended home page to cut down on repetition, however it cannot replace existing home pages. It is obvious and understandable, and the question is what are my options? Ineuw (talk) 00:33, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Ineuw, For your Global user pages to display you just need to visit a wiki for your account to be created and then not create the user page, for example you can see this already working at wikimania:User:Ineuw, For wikis where you have already created your local user page, you can ask the local communities to delete these. P858snake (talk) 02:06, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

If you have many user pages you want to replace with your global page, you can also request their deletion on Meta rather than one-by-one on the respective wikis. See Global user pages#Local user pages. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks!!! I was about to ask that question. Ineuw (talk) 06:57, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

After 20+ years, I collected many user pages. I cannot delete them. This is not a solution, unless the local sub-pages can be redirected and re-linked somehow. Ineuw (talk) 02:05, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

@Ineuw you are looking for Synchbot to delete your local user pages. Johannnes89 (talk) 05:16, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. !!!! Ineuw (talk) 08:35, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Did anybody noticed some bug on the VisualEditor. Appears to be a regression of a commit related to the tool, and as far as I know it only affects mobile, but on more than one browser and wiki:

• Open the edit button on any mainspace article, and use the Visual edit button. The next time one opens the editor again, there would be no way to use VE; if the default is VE, they would be greeted by an empty source editor that blanks the entire section. If on source editor, the option to VE is broken.
• A similar thing happens in the content translation tool; the editor fails to load the srecond time it is accessed.

A temporary solution is to refresh the page, but this is inconvenient. Need to reach out first before going to Phabricator. ToadetteEdit (talk) 08:01, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

I believe this is the same as (or related to) phab:T437828. The Editing team are looking into that. Thanks for reporting. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:29, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi. The bot that operates the daily-article-l mailing list needs a new maintainer before the end of this month. More details are available at Talk:daily-article-l. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:22, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

I have been working on my Maimai Wiki (a wiki intended to be a community-driven resource for Sega's Maimai series) on Miraheze, and I'm currently configuring interface visuals.

I've edited MediaWiki:Copyright-footer, but it affects all skins including Citizen which the wiki is also using. I want the content in MediaWiki:Copyright-footer to show fully on Vector 2022, but only show the license line on Citizen (hiding the additional Sega disclaimer).

How can I set skin-specific styles or footer content so they don't affect each other?

Here's an example of what I'm trying to achieve: https://ibb.co/Pvy3sSbC.

Thanks.

PS. And sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place.

— Chernobox (talk) 03:30, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

My domain hosting (one.com) have disabled my site, using a scanner tool that claims these files (from 1.46.0) are malware:

includes/Html/Html.php -- includes/Session/Session.php -- vendor/wikimedia/parsoid/src/Wt2Html/DOM/Processors/Section.php

Nothing can convince them that they are not malware. What should one do? Clay Camel (talk) 08:52, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

I'd start with asking them which "scanner tool" they use, and which exact "malware" that tool believes that it detected. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 10:34, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

You might want to verify that this really is a false positive first. For example, download 1.46.0 from a trusted source and compare its hash, or diff it, against the version you have installed. You can then tell your hosting provider that the files are identical at a byte level with the official distribution which might help. MarcGarver (talk) 13:13, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

I have tried asking them why their tool flags these three files as malware, but they won't say which tool they use or provide a detailed explanation. I have replaced the files with brand-new files from version 1.46.0, but they don't believe me... I suppose I have to find another domain host and move my wiki. Clay Camel (talk) 13:30, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

I am guiding French speaking visitors of my community to my supposedly bilingual global meta-wiki user page, but there is no language choice for a French speaking visitor. I use Desktop French Linux Mint, French Firefox, but all I get is : Login to change the language This is missing something, like logic. Please help. Ineuw (talk) 00:25, 27 September 2026 (UTC) P.S: Deleted all cookies, before testing this. Ineuw (talk) 00:37, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi, as you wrote "Log in to select a different language for menus", is something unclear with that message? Is this a feature request? Also note that going to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ineuw?uselang=fr is a potential workaround. AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 19:17, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

I may be missing with something you are trying to archive, but you can add {{languages}} for pages with multiple-lingual subpages when the page is not being managed by the translate extension. P858snake (talk) 19:38, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

The visitor has no Wikipedia account. How can they change the language of their choice???

and where can I upload a screenshot ? Ineuw (talk) 21:26, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

• As AKlapper wrote, you can add a link with the uselang parameter on the top of the page. This works regardless of whether the user is logged in or not. (Maybe you could create a feature request to include an equivalent of this in the language selector. uselang makes displaying a page for logged-out readers far less efficient than without uselang, so site operators may not like the idea, but maybe they’re fine with it as long as the setting for logged-out readers is only for a single page view.)
• On French-language wikis (where you don’t have a local user page) like French Wiktionary, the page should display in French by default. (I don’t see any language-dependent content on the latest version of the page, so I couldn’t test it though.)

Tacsipacsi (talk) 08:53, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for all the help from everyone. The French Wiktionary never had a home page. When created, it dawned on me and began the changes throughout. As for the language indicator, I emailed the English link beforehand to members of my French community, and then I noticed the issue. The current option is aimed at registered users, and this must be a design oversight. This doesn't serve anyone, and certainly not visitors, even with an account. Ineuw (talk) 20:45, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

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