Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2025/April

Notice of change to MediaWiki:Common.js

I have added a snippet to MediaWiki:Common.js that allows users to load a script or stylesheet in the MediaWiki namespace by appending the withJS or withCSS parameter to a URL. See User:JJPMaster/sandbox for an example. JJPMaster (she/they) 10:33, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Wikidata and Sister Projects: an online event

Hello everyone, I’m writing to announce an upcoming event called Wikidata and Sister Projects that will be a mini online conference to highlight the different ways Wikidata can be connected and integrated with the other WM projects.

We are currently looking for session ideas and speakers for our program and wanted to reach out in case there were any editors here that might have a cool idea for a session proposal. Sessions can be found on the event discussion page.

As previously mentioned, we would like to showcase the relationship between Wikibooks and Wikidata, such as the storing of metadata and sitelinking between books and their respective Wikidata items. Do you have an idea for a session? We'd love to hear about it!

The event is scheduled between May 29 - June 1st, 2025. If you have any questions about the event, would like more information or have a session idea to propose, please feel free to get in touch by replying to this post or writing on the event page or on my talk page. Thanks for reading, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (discuss • contribs) 07:45, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted

The proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and the U4C Charter are now on Meta-wiki for community notice in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on the wiki page for the election soon.

Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 02:04, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[]

how frequently should I add content?

In https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=KPZ_Universality&stable=0, all of my pages were deleted. This is a long term project that I am trying to do and sometimes it might be hard to make big contributions each week. Is the minimum frequency once per week in order to keep my pages alive? Is it possible to recover my deleted pages? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkojar (talk • contribs)

@Tkojar:, from what I can see, the problem is not about activity, but that you seemed to be creating pages in the wrong location. Were the pages you created supposed to be part of the KPZ Universality book? We can indeed restore all the pages that were deleted then. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 05:40, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[]
@Leaderboard:Yes, indeed I want them to be part of the KPZ universality book. Can you teach me how to create subpages for a book? Tkojar (discuss • contribs) 18:47, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]
Is there someone I should contact to put a request about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkojar (talk • contribs)

Wikidata and Sister Projects: An online community event

(Apologies for posting in English)

Hello everyone, I am excited to share news of an upcoming online event called Wikidata and Sister Projects celebrating the different ways Wikidata can be used to support or enhance with another Wikimedia project. The event takes place over 4 days between May 29 - June 1st, 2025.

We would like to invite speakers to present at this community event, to hear success stories, challenges, showcase tools or projects you may be working on, where Wikidata has been involved in Wikipedia, Commons, WikiSource and all other WM projects.

If you are interested in attending, please register here. If you would like to speak at the event, please fill out this Session Proposal template on the event talk page, where you can also ask any questions you may have.

I hope to see you at the event, in the audience or as a speaker, - MediaWiki message delivery (discuss • contribs) 09:18, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Background color in an unbulleted list.

Hi,

For the first three names in Oberon/hall#Additional_Contributors I've attempted to apply a background color. Can my Wikitext be adjusted to make the background color appear? Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 19:13, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Done using HTML and CSS rather than MediaWiki. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:10, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[]
Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 16:15, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:34, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Another bug report: I was visiting Wikibooks:Community Portal, and in dark mode I saw this:

Oh, look, @Xeverything11 already suggested an edit at MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice#Dark mode support. Their request has not been addressed in 4 months. JWBTH (discuss • contribs) 08:35, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Done —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 14:34, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Help:Contents cut-off on Mobile view on phone

Just a quick note that when viewing Help:Contents on a phone with minerva (the mobile skin), the page is only partially shown; text is cut-off and pinch/zoom doesn't help. Commander Keane (discuss • contribs) 11:28, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Thanks for the note! Which part is cut off? The right side? —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 14:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]

You have a JavaScript error at MediaWiki:Common.js/Toolbox.js#L-183

Was just passing by, saw an error, wanna report.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Book_title&action=edit (Vector 2022 skin)
  2. Open JS console
  3. Witness an error jQuery.Deferred exception: $.eachAsync is not a function that points to MediaWiki:Common.js/Toolbox.js#L-183.

JWBTH (discuss • contribs) 08:16, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[]

@Leaderboard @JJPMaster could you investigate? Thank you!! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 14:26, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]
I'm not that familiar with JavaScript, so will leave this for JJPMaster. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 16:07, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]
 Working JJPMaster (she/they) 16:34, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]
@JWBTH, @Kittycataclysm, @Leaderboard: This should be fixed now. It looks like both this toolbox script and the special characters gadget are attempting to use a nonexistent jQuery method. After some investigation, it looks like they were trying to use a method defined in an unofficial script (this one). I have copied it over to MediaWiki:Common.js/jQueryAsync.js and imported it. JJPMaster (she/they) 17:17, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[]
Hi @JJPMaster and thank you. Unfortunately, while this error was fixed, a new was introduced: mw.hook(...).add(...) is not a function when editing any page, e.g. [1]. You are trying to pass jQuery, mediaWiki to the return value of 
mw.hook('eachAsync.ready').add(function() {
  // ...
})
which is not a function. I suggest to remove (jQuery, mediaWiki) at all since it's not used. JWBTH (discuss • contribs) 05:50, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[]
Done JJPMaster (she/they) 23:53, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[]

Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C --

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 03:40, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[]
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