Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2017/April

JavaScript not working for one account
Personal JavaScript is not working when I use user:acagastya. Even HotCat is not working. But it is working for user:Agastya. What could be the reason? acagastya 07:12, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
 * (Note: As I recall, this was resolved by removing customized javascript, some of which had broken, I think due to changes to the software platform.) --Pi zero (talk) 22:49, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Template:Picture Select
Hello, i'm from the Dutch Wikinews and have troubles to introduce the "template:picture select" on that language version (it's nowadays a test-project in the incubator but not for long anymore). To be honest, I have copied the template from the French Wikinews (see here the template). The problem is that the "tabs with numbers" to switch from image to another image are not showed. I don't know what is missing, but maybe someone from here can help me?

--> Our template= SEE HERE

Thanks in advance, greetings, --LIVE NIEUWS (talk) 22:41, 9 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Greetings. It looks as if that template uses tabber.  That's a bunch of javascript in our MediaWiki:Common.js, which I admit I know little about.  In fact, looking at the page, it seems as if tabber is more than half of it.  You'll find some unnecessary try blocks around parts of our Common.js, which I put in a while ago for debugging purposes and never removed.  If I were setting up a new project, I think I would put the tabber code into a mandatory gadget (and eventually I may try to do that here, in fact, but javascript is such a finicky language I hesitate to tamper with something that works).  --Pi zero (talk) 22:57, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Also try to install the template at some point in Spanish Wikinews without success. The configuration of this template should require something more complex for its operation and that until today I have never been able to find out. —Alvaro Molina (✉  - ✔ ) 23:03, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much and  for your help! I will wait a little bit until de Dutch Wikinews is out of the Incubator, so it has its own Wiki. It will be easier to try to fix this and create a MediaWikiCommonjs. Hopefully it works then. --LIVE NIEUWS (talk) 10:24, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

User:Pizza1512
This user's (not me) user page waits for deletion since 2011. 83.24.204.147 (talk) 11:09, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

How do I add to the "sources" for an article that I myself contributed some content?
I am a complete newbie. I didn't even know this place existed until yesterday when a Wikipedia request showed "sister" projects. After reviewing I found very, VERY few articles, so I decided to write one. It's now waiting for review, but in the mean time I have realized that I myself contributed a few small bits of data to the article and I'd like to "do it right." However, it's not at all clear to me how I can add myself as a contributor to the story.

For those interested, the article is titled "Vintage VW Enthusiasts Converge At Kelley Park in San Jose, CA" and my contributions were that I attended one of the events cited and am familiar and can confirm the various small comments about such things as "Red Barn" which are not contained in either of the two sources I cited.

Rtroy (talk) 17:50, 22 April 2017 (UTC)


 * I think you are talking about original reporting (OR). You might want to read about it, before someone explains you about it in detail. acagastya 17:58, 22 April 2017 (UTC)