Talk:Main Page

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Per en:Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 40#Proposal 3: Add quizzes throughout the Main page & en:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#TemplateScripts = Templates + JavaScript, proposals have been made to introduce Quiz to enwp main page. I would like to test it and propose a working version to th WP community. Thus, requesting that MW:Extension:Quiz be installed here for experimental purposes. Thanks!

Maybe try http://beta.wmflabs.org/ ? Sungodtemple (talk) 14:41, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Please add {{Not a test page}} to the main page and all pages that aren't test pages. Message shown depends on the namespace of the page it's being used on. See documentation or source code for details. Thanks!

Adding the template to Main Page ends up with text that says the main page is a policy, which it's not. The template seems a little wacky. Since Main Page is protected, why is this needed?

Agreed, I don't think it's needed for the Main Page, but possibly other places could do with a local version?

I checked whether this page was a sandbox or not, and after getting confirmation, I am being bold and hiding a large number of test posts. If this is a problem or I accidentally hid non-test posts, let me know.

There are only nine threads to hide though?

@Jdforrester (WMF) There were about 20 testing threads (things like "FooBar" and "Testing"), but I hid them.

https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit

says<br>

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:

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i ''know'' the reason is that i'm not signed in (need an account to do that), but not everyone who visits will realize that, and the Edit page doesn't ''say'' that's the reason, or any reason at all, despite saying it says what the reason is. Just FYI.

~~~~

Semi-fixed by editing a simple message into MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext. Cheers!

Special:NewPages now has edit links

Today is Thanksgiving day in the United States.

--~~~~ does not work on flowboards.

Test

Test

So you cannot sign your signature. The only way to do it would be copy and paste, which is too complex.

@Arlo Barnes: Would you like to chat in this topic room?

Sure! If ~~~~ doesn't work, perhaps ~~~~~ does? ...no.

~~~~~ doesn't work either.

This is a flow-board, not a regular wikitext format. Some of the things that don't work include the signature, and most notably, the redirect function does not work. A soft redirect must be used instead.

That's why some things don't work as expected :)

It makes sense that text for discussion might be desired to be more limited than for articles, transcriptions, etc.

Yes, but the good thing is that I think changes go live. This namespace was previously installed on English Wikipedia, but uninstalled after being rejected by the community.

It's been five hours from now. There are 29 days left until Christmas, and 34 days left in the year.

Test edit

hello?

Hey there! Would you like to chat with me?

yeah, maybe when i'm free. I'm working in Vietnam and work in UTC+7 timezone.

Xin chào rất vui được gặp bạn! I would love to chat with you.

yup

How are you right now?

BrUh, still fine

Test edit:

{{Topic:Vyi20hmbufec83dt))

BrUh does this board flow?

What do you mean?

I said: Does this board flow? A lot of new comments and it isn't flow

I don't know. I do know that transcluding this page (as in {{Topic:Vyi20hmbufec83dt}}) will not work yet. Redirects are also impossible.

I edited the description and am hiding test edits.

The description seems to imply that this isn't, but it has been used as one.

Obviously main page is not a sandbox

I mean, is this talk page a sandbox?

No

I think the description should be more clear about that then, because this talk page has a large number of test edits.

Done

Can somebody please update the MediaWiki logo at the bottom?

Done. :)

Solved

How can I generate tests for Wikimuseum? There are someone interested in helping me with this?

Hey, this is a test wiki, mainly for scripts and stuff. You might get a good answer over at the teahouse.

Thanks

Done (by Artix Kreiger)

Hi,

I appreciate it if you could remove User:CES1596/common.js. It imports wrong setting of User:CES1596/space removal(.js), which replaces '/' with '' and makes page editing impossible. Thank you in advance.