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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors with "In the news"

In the "Ongoing" section of In the news, the part where it says "War in Sudan (timeline)" should be changed to "Sudanese civil war (timeline)" in accordance with the page moves from 18 May and 26 May. Or at least change the links so that they don't need to redirect. Alisperic (talk) 11:47, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

The redirect had already been fixed. I’ve updated it to display the page name, however an argument that "War in Sudan" is more concise can easily be made. Comments welcome. Schwede66 17:26, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "Did you know ..."

Current DYK

There is a discussion at WT:DYK#Queue 5 on if Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud should run on the Main Page. I encourage editors to join the discussion. Z1720 (talk) 03:39, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

The "trial from hell" DYK states that "Matthew Charles Johnson and his co-accused hurled abuse at the judge and threw human excrement at a member of the jury". The Johnson article cites two sources for the trial, neither of which states that Johnson threw anything. Instead, the second source explicitly names another of the accused, Jason Paisley, as being responsible for the excrement throwing (neither source says it was human excrement for that matter, though that is a minor point). Can anyone explain to me how what appears to be a clear violation of WP:V and WP:BLP got onto the main page? AndyTheGrump (talk) 10:55, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @GMH Melbourne, PCN02WPS, and PrimalMustelid:.--Launchballer 11:08, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I found this which says that the human excrement was thrown by someone else. I'm not sure how this made it through. SL93 (talk) 11:15, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

So, is anyone going to do anything about this? AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:10, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I have edited the hook to more precisely reflect the article content. —Kusma (talk) 14:26, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Maybe should have gone with "Johnson passed wind into a microphone, and Paisley and Wenitong bared their buttocks in the dock"? DYK can be a mucky place. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:52, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in "On this day"

Tomorrow's OTD

• 1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly for the number of Indigenous Australians to be included in population counts for constitutional purposes and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit.

Two suggestions for this hook:

1. "for the number of Indigenous Australians to be included in population counts" feels clunky to me, I would suggest "to include Indigenous Australians in population counts"

2. I would also change "and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit" to "and to allow the federal government to make special laws affecting them in states" (much closer to the article's wording). As this section points out, although the intention of the change may have been exclusively to benefit them, that was not part of the wording of the law and not always how it's been applied. And as it also mentions, the government already had this power in territories. And thirdly, the referendum simply gave the government the power to enact such laws rather than directly forcing the creation of any like the current wording implies.

-Elmer Clark (talk) 17:09, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(May 31)

Monday's FL

(May 27, tomorrow)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Tomorrow's POTD

• "Van Gogh saw plowing, sowing and harvesting symbolic to man's efforts ...". I think there needs to be an "as" before "symbolic". JMCHutchinson (talk) 17:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

General discussion

header broken in monobook

Resolved

 – Primary issue resolved, minor tweaks may be possible still. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:40, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T363597

2024-05-23 problems

Haven't been able to check this yet, possible WP:THURSDAY issue? In monobook, the page layout is broken now, see example - with the "welcome to wikipedia" being moved, a "," on a line by itself, bad font/size as well. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

@Izno: just in case you are working on this via Wikipedia:Main Page/styles.css. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:35, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Fixed the comma break by moving the comma in to the h1 element; not seeing that causing breaks on vector or vector22. The h1 styling here seem to be the primary problem now. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Seems to be styles associated with the mw-heading1 div around that h1.. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:11, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm seeing the same issue - it looks very ugly. Thanks for looking into this! Modest Genius ^talk 11:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

The gap between Welcome to Wikipedia and "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." is too big on Monobook. The line at the top cuts off the bottom of the P. I suggest you do "Welcome to" in smaller letters at the top and then just Wikipedia in large. "Welcome" looks a bit silly being that big.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

• Getting these reset may be enough:

body.page-Main_Page #mw-heading1
border-bottom: none;
margin-bottom: none;
font-size: 100%;

— xaosflux ^Talk 12:02, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... font size fix first, waiting for sync. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:30, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done font size fixed in MediaWiki:Monobook.css; margin/border to do. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:36, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... border/margin - waiting for sync. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:24, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done I'm not sure I love these CSS hacks though. Suggestions for improvement (here or upstream) are more than welcome. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Specifically I'm not liking that the parser is building the ID from the content and including "," in the element id now. (That is the one thing that will affect all skins). — xaosflux ^Talk 13:31, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Xaosflux Fixing this in Monobook.css was not appropriate (fixing it in WP:Main Page/styles.css is sufficient), nor was I believe moving the comma necessary. The relevant change is phab:T363597. It will be coming to the other skins Soon so we will need to fix it for all skins. Please remove the Monobook.css styles and revert your main page change so we can fix this correctly. Monobook being broken for a day or two is not a reason to... hack. Izno (talk) 16:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

@Izno looks like phab:T363597 is going to be 2 weeks out? Do you have a fix for /styles.css ready to go, in which case certainly we can pull this out of monobook.css. Also, do you know what the "breaking" change # is for reference? — xaosflux ^Talk 17:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I do not have such a change. I'm not going to work on it until you revert yourself. It's a pain to sort things out when you're starting from the wrong state. Izno (talk) 17:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

And no, it is definitely live in Monobook. Izno (talk) 17:30, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

@Izno OK, I've restored the broken version - we certainly shouldn't leave this broken for weeks though. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I will take care of it today. :) Izno (talk) 17:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Semantically, not sure about that comma - it is floating between the header and the end of a div that encompasses the header - certainly not a big deal other than the header handling breaking it there. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

This is fixed. Padding/margin between the top of the box and the welcome line looks off so that needs some investigation. I'll take a look later to see if that's just my imagination.

The comma is outside for the same reason you felt gross about it being on the inside earlier, except it matters for screen readers. IDK how the comma inside would even sound but it would probably be awkward. Izno (talk) 17:40, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I got here from T363597 – looks like this was resolved in this edit: [1]. Thanks for fixing it. Matma Rex talk 18:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)