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Hi. Not sure if this is still maintained as is shown in the Gadgets section, but for some reason, the text looks very squeezed in.1989 (talk)03:04, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I haven’t looked at it for a while. I’ll see if I can make some time to investigate. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)10:26, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I ran into the same issue. Width of the main content is capped so it shows about 35 characters per line. It may be related to the newish vector-2022 skin. I'm not sure if that was enabled automatically or if I did it at some point.Matthias Winkelmann (talk)05:28, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Sticky table headers not working on iPhone is looking for someone who knows things about iPhones and web development.Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)02:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see your notifications are disabled.Template talk:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles2.css#Missing borders on sticky row headers could use your help again, especially with the browser issues on Apple products.Jroberson108 (talk)14:12, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. Any ideas on the part about some borders missing between random sticky row headers?Jroberson108 (talk)16:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, TheDJ. I've been having a problem I don't understand gettingTemplate:Unicode blocks to initially appear in collapsed state, and I noticed you recently made some changes to the template.

I've been trying to makeUnicode character property a little more readable by having a couple of very large tables come up in collapsed state by adding a|state=mw-collapsed parameter to the templates that generate them. This works fine for theTemplate:ISO 15924 script codes and related Unicode data invocation[1]. However doing the same to the Unicode blocks template[2] has no apparent effect; the table still appears in expanded form.

I have no idea if my edit would have been equally ineffective with the template version before your edits or not. It could be that the state parameter never worked on this template. Unfortunately I'm not too knowledgeable about template coding, so maybe you could take a look at the issue and tell me if there is a way to get the table to initially appear collapsed. Thanks, --R. S. Shaw (talk)00:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That was my bad, I broke something. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)10:16, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just happened across the deprecation notice for the tiles.wmflabs.org service that you added back in Jan 2022, and wanted to drop a note of thanks for your long and hard work on that service (and OSMdb), as well as give people looking at this talk page a pointer to some of theotherdiscussions about it. Thanks again.JesseW, the juggling janitor03:03, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Derk-Jan, I am a PhD candidate at Columbia looking to use the dataset from Jean Perrin's 1909 paper which is depicted in the .svg file you had originally uploaded to the Brownian motion Wikipedia page.

Would you be able to point me to where this data was originally sourced from as I am looking to analyze it for my work but cannot seem to find it anywhere online. Also, I apologize if this is not the right place to message you, I am new to interacting with users on Wikipedia.

Thank you very much, KiranKDGauthier (talk)17:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It was an svg that someone had uploaded on top of the original gif file. On that day, this broke the image because an svg file was no longer allowed to have the fileextension gif, so i split it off into a new upload and deleted the offending file revision in the .gif entry. See also the log here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=File%3APerrinPlot2.gif

So there was originally a gif uploaded in 2007 by a user Kraus, who retrieved it from a page on the paper (http://www.matpack.de/Info/images/Thermodynamics/PerrinPlot2.gif ) then in 2009MiraiWarren created an svg based on that gif, in 2010 i split it off into a separate entry and in 2015 the file was moved to Wikimedia Commons. That is as much as i know of it. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)18:23, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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(if you've ever seenLast Week Tonight, feel free to imagineJohn Oliver's voice as you read this.. I think it helps)
I generally respect you. You are a good contributor and knowledgeable. Like any human, I get things wrong sometimes. Misjudge. Phrase an opinion more harshly than necessary. Usually it's deserved, but sometimes in hindsight I could've held back a bit more. It's a thin line to walk, but I don't always err on the side of caution. Those who do are often walked over. Simply dampening criticism across the board always makes things worse. So, and this applies to any situation, humanity has to try and reason with one another, as long as the other party is willing to listen, accept constructive criticism and -when appropriate- apologize.
If you know me at all, you'd know I readily admit my mistakes and poor word choices if I'm made aware of those. Misinterpretation of my words happens every once in a while. If something turns out to be open to interpretation I'll often clarify or adjust them.
I'm not easily offended. Some random anon calling me a cunt (it has happened) doesn't bother me, it makes me laugh. Even if a respected user would say something like "I hate your style, I think you're a cunt." I wouldn't be overly concerned. It's unfortunate, but only an opinion, and you can't always please everyone.
And because I respect you, I'm actually offended by your triple-word order without punctuation. Phrasing it as an order -who are you, my boss?- is already severely disrespectful. Using only three words, not even attempting to engage in any meaningful constructive criticism is, whether you intended that or not, a recipe for escalation. Trolls often do it as a tactic to evoke a response. I'd have thought you knew better than that.
But the icing on the cake is to do it with no punctuation whatsoever. Do you thinkthat little of me? You can't be bothered to press shift or enter a period? If you want to criticize my actions or even my personality, put in the bloody effort. Be creative. Explain in detail how much you hate my guts. So please, if you must, just vent that anger and we'll both feel better. And now, this.—Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me)16:05, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I ain't got time to be creative right now (burying a familymember today). I'm often critical of the foundation and there are many ways to do so. Yet these personal attacks are just you pushing people's buttons out of frustration in hopes of triggering a response. It's unnecessary and only further sours the relationship between employees and community without actually fixing problems. If I see this kind of behavior towards ppl who I consider to be friends, I damn sure will call it out and I don't care about you wikilawyering your way around it. My respect goes to people who build others up, and my respect is extremely quickly lost when ppl punch down at ppl who aren't free to respond to their attacks. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)07:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(if you feel this is TLDR, at least read the last paragraph)
I'm sorry for your loss.
And, well, not a John Oliver fan I presume. I'm disappointed with your use of "ur", "u" and "r" in that reverted edit summary, but then again, you are saying clearly that you simply don't respect me and since I told you I don't like that sort of thing (outside memes) I guess I gave you free ammunition there so understandably you used it.
I don't need people to respect me to respect them. I still respect your knowledge and contributions to the project. On a more personal level, I respect people who engage in conversation, who try to understand each another, who try to keep an open mind. There's no requirement to agree there, I can completely disagree with someone's opinion while respecting their point of view. Or the opposite: to agree with someone while thinking the way they arrived at their opinion is completely backwards.
You are simply trying to protect friends from what you perceive as attacks. That's completely understandable. Whether they actually need or want your protection is an open question, but regardless, understandable. But even if you'd be right and I am simply the villain who has to be stopped (you wouldn't be unique in that), throwing in triple-word orders without punctuation isn't going to help. Or more accurately: that trick only works once. Because with it, you've largely burned my respect on the personal level.
WMF employees would have to be more careful when responding, but they most assuredlycan respond to attacks. Dealing with criticism and even attacks is par for the course if you work for the WMF. And certain responses to such "attacks" can definitely earn my respect. I'll hardly ever say something that should be taken personally anyway.
I suppose that's what disappoints me the most: you took all this personally. Your decisions here may or may not be affected by your loss of a family member. If you even suspect your grief may be affecting your decisions here, I'd recommend staying offline for a few days, or at least away from forums/social media/wikis/etc. Not for me, for you. Talk with family/friends, maybe read a book, take a walk, listen to music that matches how you feel, or just sit in a room quietly. Or if you just feel like punching a pillow.. do it. If the latter is what you feel like, don't hold back. I don't know how you feel right now. But whatever works to process your emotions, you should do. I'm only suggesting, just giving advice. One thing I do know: wiki is rarely a good place to be when you're dealing with emotions.—Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me)16:05, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that!I've included a brief summary and linked the article, which I think is probably better than quoting it to the point that people don't go and read it. Is it bad that of the "well-known names" I only really recognise half of them? And I was active back then, so you'd think I would.Adam Cuerden^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of allFPs}04:36, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've been trying to put together a basic overview of how the Signpost works on a technical level, and have noticed you in the edit histories of many of the templates, fixing stuff that's broken and removing stuff that doesn't need to be there. Good work!jp×g06:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thx. I’ve made three distinct changes changes in the past. First, I implemented the new design a couple of years ago (2015?). This is the bigger changes I made to the templates. The interesting part here is that they had to be made in a way which would keep those templates working in older versions of articles. This is why sometimes you’ll see v2 templates in use (because changing the original version would break the old articles. I also made most pages mobile responsive. Things like the headers footers etc were all fixed width for a long long time. And then I’ve converted large parts to templatestyles, which simplifies the templates a lot compared to the earlier inline styles. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)07:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As a follow up toWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Obsolete Reference desk subpages, I've nominated sandbox page that you've created –Wikipedia:Reference desk/header/nav/aux/sandbox – for speedy deletion. —⁠andrybak (talk)11:12, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, and thank you foryour contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to givePage consisting solely of closing a div tag, created in 2016, and not linked to from anywhere a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, intoWikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-canvas-end. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits thepage history, which islegally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to bemoved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account isfour days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the"Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may behidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates aredirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions atrequested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them atWikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you.jp×g05:27, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-end, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated fordeletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments atWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-end and please be sure tosign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content ofWikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start-end during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.jp×g00:05, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I had to turn off theresponsiveContent gadget. It caused me problems when working on desktop. I had to disable it since when it was enabled, I was unable to correctly select wikisyntax (I'm usually directly editing the code). Blank space was selected and when I tried to delete it, the wikitext was deleted instead. --TadejM^{my talk}21:01, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm not using it myself these days, so it's been a while since I checked it over. I'll take a look this weekend. Thx for the report ! —TheDJ (talk •contribs)08:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi DJ, could you please possibly have a look at this? Thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk ·contribs ·email)21:59, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Day/Mar-Dec has beennominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion atthe entry on the Templates for discussion page.Gonnym (talk)09:19, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for going the extra miles in your response to my request for review of the relevance ofWikipedia:Article size. You get this goat in reward. I'm sure your time and effort seems more than worth it now 😉

Fred Gandt ·talk ·contribs20:05, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I know you've been busy lately but I wanted to know if you knew of a way to correct the display of{{Non-free use rationale}} and{{Non-free use rationale 2}} in Vector 2022 in the short term, just until you're able to get round to updating the code? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk ·contribs ·email)19:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Was the problem mostly that the caption didn't look like it did before ? —TheDJ (talk •contribs)13:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, though there's also the issue of{{Non-free use rationale 2}}. I don't think they should both use the same TemplateStyles as the designs are different.This is how that template appears in Vector legacy; as you can see, the line height is reduced as well as the caption at the top. I would prefer that to be retained in Vector 2022. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk ·contribs ·email)15:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why are the designs different ? Its generally a bad idea to have multiple styles for something which should essentially be the same. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)15:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That may be, but for whatever reason, they're different and I'd rather we be as conservative as possible in preserving the design, in the absence of a talkpage consensus to change it. I personally prefer the design of{{Non-free use rationale 2}} for being more compact. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk ·contribs ·email)15:09, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Id rather we not be conservative. We've been conservative for a long time and thats part of why it's difficult to fix problems like this. We should challange past decisions and decide if they make sense. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)15:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK, well I would prefer if we could incorporate{{Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into{{Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}, if that's OK? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk ·contribs ·email)15:13, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Would that be alright,TheDJ? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk ·contribs ·email)17:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Could you disableUser:TheDJ/responsiveContent on V22? It looks rather weird as my wife just shown me 😉 (e.g. onKathe Koja). You should probably change:MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. Cheers,Nux(talk)00:52, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, I'm just following up to check whether you're amenable to incorporating{{Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into{{Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}? Please confirm, thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk ·contribs ·email)20:57, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think its good like this, someone else can do the rest. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)07:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,I was going to installUser:TheDJ/Folded_references, but there doesn't seem to thatmany users. Is it worth a try?Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk)Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk)10:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't used it myself in over 6 years, no clue. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)09:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm reaching out to you both because you're the last editor to updateTemplate:Screen reader-only and because I've seen a lot of knowledgeable posts from you on the bowels on Wikipedia's software side. I noticed a bug in that template trying to use it to improve the accessibility for{{tooltip}}. There are several different types of rendering errors when the template is used within a link.[3] I don't know if there is an easy fix for using the template within links, or if maybe it was never to meant to go inside a link and should generate some kind of warning message or category error. Regards,Rjjiii (talk)18:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AboutWikipedia:Education program/sandbox, I tried nominating it for deletion for G6, but a reviewing admin actually looked and said they are waiting for you to look at it. But thinking about it again, I wonder if moving it to user space would be a better bet. That way you can work and people won't accidentally stumble on this page.Aasim -Herrscher of Wikis ❄️02:49, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:OpenDNS IP addresses has beennominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion atthe entry on the Templates for discussion page. –Jonesey95 (talk)15:33, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, do you think maplink support type=tunnel from OSM ? I don't feel it :(

Map

Bouzinac (talk)12:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seemediawikiwiki:Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM#How_to_get_a_single_object_from_multiple_lines —TheDJ (talk •contribs)13:25, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I was just writing a response to the Teahouse question about a page not showing up in search results when I saw your reply, but I was about to say something totally different and wanted to make sure I was correct first. I am under the impression that pages will only index once they have been patrolled throughWP:NPP or once 90 days has passed since the creation of the article - the issue for that page is that it hasn't been patrolled, not that Google hasn't gotten around to it yet, no?Tollens (talk)07:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(I suppose it doesn't really matter either way - the editor with the question can't make a review happen any sooner.)Tollens (talk)08:12, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion atWikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles. I saw that you participated in adiscussion on a similar topic.Sunnya343 (talk)18:20, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk)08:37, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TheDJ, if you have a moment do you have any insight in toMediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages section about the storage handling/purging of the wln ID numbers. —xaosflux^Talk15:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Regardingthis comment: perhaps there should be a pool on how long until someone wonders why the image isn't visible on small screens ;-) I appreciate the effort spent to improve the layout (even if I'm unopinionated about having an image that my banner blindness will subsequently ignore).isaacl (talk)22:17, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your notice:https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Doc_Taxon&diff=prev&oldid=239243041

You say, I should replace escapeRe with a call to mw.util.escapeRegExp(), but I'm not so familiar with JavaScript. That's why I don't know how to do this. Can you help me please? Kind regards, –Doc Taxon •Talk •18:18, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki:Sandbox.js, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated fordeletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments atWikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Sandbox.js and please be sure tosign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content ofMediaWiki:Sandbox.js during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.jp×g🗯️08:36, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, to be clear, I don't actually want to delete it, I just think it should probably be userfied or something (should we have random blank pages in the MediaWiki space?) but I couldn't think of anywhere else to raise the issue otehr than MfD.jp×g🗯️08:49, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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From what I can see,this patch should obviate the need forMediaWiki:Minerva.css#L-35, since the selectors no longer apply. Is that a valid statement?Izno (talk)21:57, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Atthis edit, you changedclass="nowrap" toclass="tpl-para" at{{para}}. What does that class do? and where is it defined?

—Trappist the monk (talk)21:39, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

tpl- prefix generally means TemplateStyles, so i probably moved the styling into trmplatestyles. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)14:23, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah no, in this case, i just wanted to have it have A class, so that ppl could still target it if they wanted to. Prefixed, to avoid clashes with Classnames from other places, like headings. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)14:26, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I wondered about that. I didn't find any use of it in user namespace, likely because no one knows that it exists (it isn't documented anywhere that I could find). Because it isn't used, I'm inclined to remove it.

I wonder if 'user' classes wouldn't be better named as such:user-class-<template name> for example?

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Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines is now white text on a pale green background and is virtually unreadable. Is it related to your changes toWikipedia:Contents/styles.css regarding dark mode?Nthep (talk)15:59, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Rethis comment of yours:

Whatever you do, don't forget about dark mode whenever you pick colors nowadays. it has to be legible in both, or you need additional colors for dark mode.

I wanted to ask you how I should proceed, once the discussion closes in favour of a color. How does dark mode work and how can I make sure not to inadvertently break it?FaviFake (talk)09:37, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@FaviFake This is all described inRecommendations_for_night_mode_compatibility_on_Wikimedia_wikis —TheDJ (talk •contribs)09:56, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But more importantly. You are mostly presenting black text on light colors in the discussion. For larger areas of text, people in dark mode will likely prefer light text on a darker tint color. So you need to decide what color scheme should be used in the night mode. —TheDJ (talk •contribs)10:00, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. This seems to be covered by this code in{{Village pump page header}}

::{{Start tab:: |frame=yes |nowrap=yes:: |border=2px solid #BFBAA3 |rounding=4px:: |off tab color=#FFFBE6 |on tab color=#F2ECCE::

I'd assume that, if the colors are changed, the dark mode version will still work as intended.FaviFake (talk)10:16, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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