Wikipedia talk:Twinkle

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Bugs and feature requests

Bugs and feature requests can be reported at https://github.com/azatoth/twinkle (you will need to have a github account). This will probably result in the issue being noticed sooner, as an e-mail is sent to all Twinkle developers. Alternatively, start a new discussion on this page. Possibly slower service, but you will be able to gain consensus, etc., if you need to.

Discussion

Stopping Twinkle users adding talkback messages to my talk page?

I have a prominent edit notice on my talk page requesting people not to leave {{talkback}} messages on my page, but it appears that TW users don't see the edit notice. Could some feature be added so that either TW users see the edit notice, or that I could put some piece of code on my talk page to prevent TW users leaving a talkback message? Thanks. --NSH001 (talk) 23:41, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

I'll consider it. However, I think this has been turned down in the past. It might be worth checking the archives. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:01, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I found this in the archives. Maybe Twinkle could check for the existence of an edit notice, and display it as part of a confirmation dialogue? That would be good enough for me. --NSH001 (talk) 07:42, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Rather than declining this feature, it looks like Amalthea simply didn't get around to coding it.

The easiest approach would be to require inclusion of the template {{No automated talkback}} on your user talk page. If the page is loaded, the CSS class would be detected; if the page is not loaded (e.g. posting talkback when viewing the page history), a lean-and-mean API query (the response is less than 200 bytes in practically all cases) could be used to check for the presence of this template. If found, the user would be alerted and asked whether they wish to continue adding the talkback template.

I may be able to find time to do this soon. — This, that, and the other (talk) 01:45, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

• Excellent, thanks. Your template is a good solution, as it enables other automated tools to also recognise the request. Let us know when this has been done. --NSH001 (talk) 08:31, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
• This isn't the only request that could use configuration on the recipient's side though, I can remember two more:

• WT:Twinkle/Archive 23#.7B.7Bwhisperback.7D.7D and .7B.7Btalkbacktiny.7D.7D
• WT:Twinkle/RFA/Archive 2#Opt out

Debatable whether they are really that important, but it may prove useful to keep the recipient-side configuration flexible.
I like your API-query, but a drawback I see is that this will require one template per option ({{Twinkle/Talkback/Template/Whisperback}}, …). There is other more flexible meta information that could be queried through the API, like external links, but that's a bit of a hack. Cleanest option may be to have recipients create a dedicated and brief options subpage that is parsed as needed.
Amalthea 10:16, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I like keeping the recipient-side config flexible. I think it would be best to do it in such a way as to make it easy for other automated tools also to recognise the same request(s). --NSH001 (talk) 14:11, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Bug in filenames with apostraphe

When using the delink-batch option, it goes and says it's searching first to see if the page exists. If the page has any apostrophes in it, it comes back and says the page doesn't exist. I'm quite positive that this is a bug, as I've seen it occur on about a dozen different images. I do not want to create a github account so I'm reporting it here. Magog the Ogre (talk) 01:03, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh I forgot to mention: if the page is the first in the list of delinked pages, it doesn't just say that the file doesn't exist: it puts the JavaScript into an infinite loop and freezes the browser window. Magog the Ogre (talk) 01:04, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, I'll check this. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:01, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

As far as I can see, this is working fine for me. Can you provide a scenario in which this happens? — This, that, and the other (talk) 23:57, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

mergeto bug

When selecting the mergeto tag in Twinkle, when it asked me to enter the name of the article to merge with, I clicked cancel and it did not cancel the action, instead it put the template on the article without any parameters other than the date [1]. Could that be fixed? Thanks. Usb10 ^{plug me in} 01:27, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

It sure could. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:02, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Actually, this shouldn't happen. Which browser are you using? On Firefox this works as expected. — This, that, and the other (talk) 23:53, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Twinkle localization to Bengali Wikipedia

Hi, I am from Bengali Wikipedia , We were using Twinkle with your old script. I want to start implement with updated present script in our Bengali wikipedia. Could you please help/guide me for that. Are there any planning for Twinkle localization to other project?-- Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 12:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

To start with, it is best to find a JavaScript-savvy user on your local wiki. If that is you, then you could potentially ask Siddhartha Ghai (talk · contribs), who has localised Twinkle for the Hindi Wikipedia, or Jimmy xu wrk (talk · contribs), who has done so for Chinese Wikipedia. The source code is available at http://github.com/azatoth/twinkle. — This, that, and the other (talk) 23:37, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank You all. Lets try it my wikipedia.-- Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 04:12, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

  mw.loader.load(['ext.gadget.Twinkle']);

not working for Bengali wikipedia. Is it a bug for Bengali wikipedia? It means when I am trying to configure TW manually from

importScript('User:jayantanth/twinkle.js');

, No TW tab appear. But TW is working fine and appear tab TW from my preference tab in Bengali wikipedia. The issue is manual configure is not working.

In User:jayantanth/twinkle.js, I have added mw.loader.load(['ext.gadget.Twinkle']);. Are there any other trick?

--- Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 06:50, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

You need to create some MediaWiki: pages to make that mw.loader.load thingy work. Just follow the README file in Github and it'll be fine :) Jimmy Xu (talk) 12:02, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Set up a basic help page at Wikipedia:Twinkle/Localisation. If someone is as noobish as I was when I started out, that should help out quite a bit. I've probably left out lots of technical details. TTO and Jimmy should be able to help improve it (much more than I can).--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 17:26, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you everybody for supporting me to do this. WT is working fine from "tick" from my preference in our wiki. But it it is not working or not showing any TW tab. The folloing which I have done to our wiki....

Bengali Localization of Twinkle

English	Bengali
MediaWiki:Gadget-Twinkle.js	bn:MediaWiki:Gadget-Twinkle.js
MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.js	bn:MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.js
MediaWiki :Gadgets-definition	bn:MediaWiki :Gadgets-definition
MediaWiki :Gadget-Twinkle	bn:MediaWiki :Gadget-Twinkle
MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.css	bn:MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.css
User:AzaToth/twinkle.js	bn:User:Jayantanth/twinkle.js
My personal script file	My personal script file

--- Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 09:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I see that you've currently removed Twinkle from bn:Mediawiki:Gadgets-definition. Without that, there's no Twinkle option in the Gadgets tab of preferences, and twinkle can't be used as a gadget. Re-add twinkle to it. Remove the personal twinkle import from your personal script file. Enable twinkle as a gadget through the preferences, clear your cache, and then see if twinkle tab shows up. Don't remove Twinkle from the gadgets definition even if it doesn't work (I can't test if the problem is with twinkle or just you if its disabled as a gadget).--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 11:18, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

PS:If twinkle isn't showing up for you, try disabling all other gadgets and scripts that you use, clear your cache, and then reload to check if twinkle shows up. This is to check if any of the scripts has a conflict with twinkle.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 11:57, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Siddhartha, Thank you for your response. I previously mention that from bn:Mediawiki:Gadgets-definition it works fine and shown TW tab. The issue is, I do not like to open this to tool to everyone during my testing phase. So I want to configure manually from My personal script file. Are there any tricks for manual configuration as like English wikipedia ( add importScript('User:AzaToth/twinkle.js'); to my My personal script file)?--- Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 12:21, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

As far as I know, currently there is no method for this and personal script file use (the way you want) currently doesn't work even on en-wp. If someone knows a method, I'd love to know about that myself. Though I do remember AzaToth telling me (at IRC) that Amalthea had some hackish way for doing this, but I'm not sure about that.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 12:38, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

← OK, here's what I do to load my local working copy (more or less, at least):

• I have a clone of the Twinkle Git repository on my PC
• I have set up a local webserver on my PC
• I host a PHP script local.php that combines all parts of Twinkle into one big javascript file (similar to the deployed gadget):

<? header('Content-type: text/javascript');?>
mw.loader.load(['jquery.ui.dialog', 'jquery.tipsy']);
<?
  include '/path/to/twinkle_working_copy/morebits.js';
  include '/path/to/twinkle_working_copy/twinkle.header.js';
  for($dir=opendir('/path/to/twinkle_working_copy/modules');$filename=readdir($dir);)
  {
    if ($filename[0]==='.') continue;
    if (strcasecmp(substr($filename, strlen($filename)-3),'.js')!==0) continue;
    include '/path/to/twinkle_working_copy/' . $filename;
  }
  closedir($dir);
  include '/path/to/twinkle_working_copy/twinkle.footer.js';
?>

• My Wikipedia user script file contains the line:

  importScriptURI('http://localhost:8082/enwiki/js/local.php');
  

• I similarly load the morebits.css file from the local webserver.

That way, I always load my local working copy, with all modifications and what not, without having to commit, push, or publish them first. Amalthea 18:28, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Another issue of all dialog box

please look this image. In Beengale wikipedia we got this type of default dialog box for every command, Are are any issue our wiki? or bn:MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.css? Why extra tab is coming? - Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 13:27, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Another part I am updating https://github.com/jayantanth/twinkle-bn this and translate all command....``- Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 13:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Are you sure it isn't just you? I tried Twinkle at bn and it looks fine to me (no style errors, no huge left margin as in your screenshot). Maybe you should try disabling any other scripts you're using to check if any of them is interfering with TW.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 19:59, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Template talk:Article for deletion

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There's a proposal discussion occurring at Template talk: Article for deletion to add the {{Find sources}} parameter to the {{Article for deletion}} template. A user on that discussion page suggested asking Twinkle developers if changes proposed at the discussion page could be incorporated into Twinkle. Therefore, I have placed this query here for the hopeful perusal of Twinkle developers. For the latest revisions, please refer to the "Drafts for consideration" and "Code" sections on the template talk page. Thank you. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:41, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

NA1K, is getting along way ahead of himself, if the proposal gets consensus at Template talk:Article for deletion, then an RfC will need to follow to make sure there is wiki-wide support for this. Mtking ^(edits) 11:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Northamerica1000 has only asked for input, and I believe you requested that, no? And you seem to be in the middle of an RfC already? I'd say minor tweaks like that can certainly be decided at the respective talk page.
Anyway, not sure what input you need, I only skimmed the discussion. As long as the number of additional options for the AfD process remains reasonable Twinkle can quickly be extended to facilitate them. Amalthea 11:57, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Had not noticed the RfC. Mtking ^(edits) 11:59, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Histmerge is backwards, I think...

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Hey, I just tagged Clock Tower Ghost Head with a histmerge and Twinkle it asks for the title of the target page to merge into. The tag, however, asks the opposite, to merge the target page into the tagged page. Not a big deal, but it'd help if the article ended up at the proper title (in this case, Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within). ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 06:13, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Still the case. The text on the CSD tag and the text in Twinkle are reversed. I hope this makes sense. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 06:55, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

I have changed the wording of the prompt to "Please enter the title to be merged into this one:". Pending sync. — This, that, and the other (talk) 09:07, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 06:03, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

{{ANI-notice}} talkback

Twinkle adds two level 2 headings when placing an ANI notice: "Notice" and "Notice of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard"[2] requiring the manual fixing of such edits. —danhash (talk) 16:04, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Right, because a heading was added to the template. Which makes sense I think, most of our talk page notice templates (except the uw-type ones) bring their own heading. I'll remove the one added by Twinkle. Amalthea 16:42, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Y Done. Amalthea 16:51, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! —danhash (talk) 16:53, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Why are these warning edits marked as minor? —danhash (talk) 19:31, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

They aren't warnings.
This tool started out as a small helper to leave talkback notices. It's IMO a judgement call whether adding a talkback notice is a minor edit or not; Ioeth decided it should be default be minor, but added an option to declare them as non-minor. When the option to leave AN/ANI notifications was added during the Twinkle rewrite (those are after all only a different variant of talkback notices), this decision was not revisited, which is why they are still by default declared as minor, and the option is still available. Amalthea 20:49, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. —danhash (talk) 19:55, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Minor/Non-minor edits

Of course, a valid follow-up question to Danhash's question above (and the one I kinda was expecting ;) is whether talkback edits really should default to minor.
Currently, I believe there are the following options to define minor/non-minor edits in Twinkle:

• markWelcomesAsMinor: true
• markTalkbackAsMinor: true
• markSharedIPAsMinor: true
• markRevertedPagesAsMinor: [ "vand" ]
• markTaggedPagesAsMinor: false

What do people think, are these defaults correct? Amalthea 20:48, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcomes and talkbacks shouldn't be minor. WP:MINOR clearly lists "Adding comments to a talk page or other discussion" as an example of when not to mark as minor. Welcomes and talkbacks qualify as comments on a talk page and thus marking them as minor violates WP:MINOR.

Shared IP tagging is a gray area. On one hand, it's a post to a talk page (which I just discussed); on the other hand, it's not an attempt at direct communication with the user, but rather a general notice to anyone who comes across that page in the future. Since some users hide minor edits from their watchlist, I think the question is, "are people watching this page going to be interested in the shared IP tag?" I don't have an answer to that.

The revert default is correct as vandalism removal is always minor and content reversions never are. Same goes for tagging, which is never minor. jcgoble3 (talk) 21:21, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that welcomes certainly shouldn't be minor; I'm even tempted to remove this preference altogether and hard-code a non-minor status for welcomes. What do you think?

Talkbacks probably shouldn't be minor either, although I can see why some might argue they should be minor. Shared IP tagging can stay minor; I don't think many people really care whether these are minor or not. — This, that, and the other (talk) 01:54, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: hardcoding welcomes as non-minor: I would fully support that. There's no reason to even give users an option to mark them as minor. jcgoble3 (talk) 02:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Thing is, WP:MINOR isn't a rule-type policy. Perhaps some users may want to mark their auto-welcome as minor, so I say keep as is. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 23:13, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

WP:MINOR doesn't have any sort of policy/guideline tag at the top, which is odd; I personally think of it as a sort of guideline, even though it is in the "Help" namespace. Furthermore, I don't know why you would treat an auto-welcome any differently from a manually given welcome. — This, that, and the other (talk) 23:54, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

RFPP requesting problem

I was trying to request protection via Twinkle for the page Mr. Elhoffer (notice the space) after already having done so for Mr.Elhoffer (notice how there is no space), and Twinkle decided to not work correctly and give me an error. LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 23:10, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

What kind of error? — This, that, and the other (talk) 23:57, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

CSD notifications after Chrome crash

This is a weird bit of action that Twinkle does. I sometimes manage to crash Chrome while working on hi-wp. Then I just reopen it, click on "Recently closed" and open the X tabs that were open before. But after the crash, I'm logged out of wikipedia (even though since the pages are loaded from cache, it doesn't appear so). So, I have the twinkle tab even though I'm logged out. When in such a situation I try to tag a protected/semi-protected/any other type an IP user can't edit page for CSD, since I'm logged out, Twinkle can't really tag the page for me. But what it does do is keep leaving notification messages at the page creator's talk page (not once, but in a loop; have observed it leaving the message thrice in one case). And it doesn't stop until I close the dialog myself.

Note however that it has been some time since I last observed this problem. It may have been with the older code (as of 3 June 2011). I'll try to find some relevant diffs, but it may take a while since it wasn't through my user account (and hence not visible in my contribs). Regards--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 19:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Uncategorized

I have to categorized many uncategorized articles by bot in vi.wiki. How can the wiki [mediawiki] software automatically list these articles in to [xx] category, that the bot can recognise them? Is it possible use this function? Thank you in advance!--Cheers! (talk) 06:24, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand the question. Is it related to Twinkle? Amalthea 12:00, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Warning for using multiple IPs...

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This warning is poorly written if you enter an article name that was vandalized, such as here. The wording doesn't make sense, and an extra comma appears after the article name. Is it possible that this could be changed? Calabe1992 22:23, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I have tweaked the wording a bit so that it at least make sense, but note that Twinkle only places the templates, it is not responsible for the wording. There is a Wikiproject to organize the user warning templates, but if you find a badly worded template you should be bold and improve it yourself. The name of the template can usually be found in a hidden comment after you placed it. Amalthea 22:41, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Articles for Creation

Please allow tagging and other article-related actions for Articles for Creation pages, which can be found in the "Wikipedia talk" namespace and listed at Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/. Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 00:29, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

This has come up a few times, so I will add the full article "tag" interface to pages beginning with "Wikipedia:Articles for creation/" (there are a few of these) and "Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/".

By the way, Tag is the only one eligible to be added, since PROD doesn't apply to AFC space. — This, that, and the other (talk) 01:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Cleanup deletion proposed

There's a note on Template:Cleanup saying Twinkle depends on it and you want to know about changes. There's a proposal to delete the template at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Cleanup. -R. S. Shaw (talk) 19:03, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Question: could Twinkle prompt for a reason code for this template? Rich Farmbrough, 20:22, 5 February 2012 (UTC).

It does. — This, that, and the other (talk) 04:12, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Question about dead end definition

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There seems to be a discrepancy between Twinkle's description of a dead end article and the definition at Wikipedia:Dead-end pages. Input at Template talk:Dead end#Question about template wording would be appreciated. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:54, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Replied there. Amalthea 15:53, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Heads-up

Just a heads-up: Both {{Cleanup}} and {{NOT}} are at AFD. If either template is deleted, they will have to be removed from Twinkle's coding. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 02:10, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Possible bug?

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I nominated a page for AfD, and included in the AfD nomination a piped, external link like this [http://www.someotherwebsite.com/awesomepage.html|an outside link]. When Twinkle created the actual AfD nomination everything after the pipe sign was dropped. The AfD in question is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rouse Properties - you can check the history to see what happened. This has only happened to me once, but I'm not sure how to test this without creating actual AfDs all over the place, so I'll leave this in your capable hands. Livit⇑^Eh?/_What? 22:02, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

• Well, I suspect that your improper formatting might have simply broken the template used by Twinkle; external links use a space, not a pipe, to separate the URL from the display text (see my fix). That's probably what caused the problem. jcgoble3 (talk) 22:19, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
• Don't use | in the XFD reason box; use {{subst:!}} instead. This could probably be fixed (running a replace on | →-> {{subst:!}}). — This, that, and the other (talk) 22:19, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
  • It would fix that, but break any intentional substituted templates with parameters instead I think, or if the pipe is used inside a nowiki tag pair. And you could still break Twinkle by e.g. using an unclosed nowiki tag or unbalanced double square brackets like {{subst:afd2|pg=pagename|text=[[broken}}. Still, it may prevent losing the user's text.
    Amalthea 22:30, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
• (ec) That's not actually Twinkle's fault, if you had tried to create the AfD manually that way it would have happened as well.
  Heart of the problem is that you are using an incorrect syntax for external links; instead of the pipe, you should use a space (see Help:Link#External links).
  What Twinkle does when you create an AfD is, among other things, create the discussion page with {{afd2|pg=pagename|text=your reasoning}}. Since MediaWiki did not recognize your external link due to that extra pipe, it used it as part of the template syntax, and assumed that you started a new template argument. This unnamed argument was then discarded by the template substitution.
  There are other, similar ways to break twinkle functions by using incorrect wiki syntax, and I'm afraid that this is quite impossible to prevent since Wikitext is impossible to parse without knowing the whole context. We'll have to live with that.
  Amalthea 22:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh my God, I'm such an idiot... make this thread go away, please!  :) Livit⇑^Eh?/_What? 23:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

section heading cut on Template:ANI-notice

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Diff of Template:ANI-notice

And see: User talk:Bwilkins#Notice of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard.

This template should be subst'd, but it's often not and this is resulting in the [edit] link leading to editing the templates not the page the template is on; example. The template should also insist on being substed. Possibly Twinkle is doing the non-subst'g; I've not looked. As it is, the section headings are now absent on transcluding user talk pages (and, I think, archives). And see {{AN-notice}}, which is the same story. Alarbus (talk) 04:40, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. Twinkle always substitutes the template. With the header removed from the template I've made Twinkle add its own header to the notice -- or rather, reverted the change I made two weeks ago. Amalthea 13:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Which re-introduces the problem that led to the heading being added to the template anyway. Faaaaantastic. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

We should probably discuss that at the template talk page, not here. Amalthea 21:50, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Level 3 vandal template

Just a thought - is there any particular reason why Twinkle and Huggle show a different warning triangle than the one Cluebot NG uses? Twinkle and Huggle use , while Cluebot uses

. Calabe1992 15:27, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Suggestion

Seeing as though Twinkle can already complete the entire AfD nomination process in one step, I think it would be useful to implement a feature which would allow similar functionality for merger proposals, which are currently a bit of a pain. Chris the Paleontologist (talk • contribs) 22:18, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Gateway timeout error whilst contacting API

^^ is the error I get when I tried to nominate an image for deletion at PUF. Note that the deletion tool on Commons has also failed, are others experiencing the same problem? Acather96 (talk) 08:53, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm having this exact same problem when I'm trying to warn vandals. Makes it really annoying and slow, since I have to type in the warnings manually. Klilidiplomus+Talk 08:56, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Its has happened before, it seems - note message has also been posted here per instructions on Commons. Hopefully this should be fixed soon :) Acather96 (talk) 08:59, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Apparently it's because WMF are updating Wikimedia sites to the new version of Wikimedia. Acather96 (talk) 09:11, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Getting " User talk page modification: error "Gateway Time-out" occurred while contacting the API." when using Twinkle to do niceties like WP:WELCOMEs. Apologies for the pile-on, but it's not just affecting deletion notifications and suchlike. --Shirt58 (talk) 09:50, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Is this still happening? I noticed some popups functions weren't working either a short while ago, and I could trace it back to some API calls timeouting. It's working for me now though.
Root cause ist not Twinkle, if you still notice it you should probably let folks at WP:VPT know. Amalthea 09:55, 12 February 2012 (UTC)