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Please remove the popup

It obstructs the page every time I open a Wikipedia page. 89.245.206.250 12:34, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

You need to allow cookies. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 22:51, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Supporting non-article namespaces

I noticed the tool is limited to the main (article) namespace, but I often want to use it in the Wikipedia namespace in order to see when was a certain part of a guideline text added. People usually monitor changes in policies rather strictly, but I've noticed guidelines get rewritten without that much oversight. It'd be very useful to actually know whether a guideline is long-standing, or just the result of a random bad rewrite from last year.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333038 is a request to enable WWT for all namespaces, but nobody's reacted much to that.

Are there significant technical obstacles to analyzing page history in other namespaces? --Joy (talk) 13:09, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Seconding this! It would be particularly helpful for analysing the history of policy pages across all projects (which are usually under "Wikipedia:" pages). Curious to hear the team on what are the possible drawbacks and technical barriers to implement this. Parzeus 14:48, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Down?

Giving me errors the ~5 times I try it today. RememberOrwell (talk) 09:02, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Same here. Firefox Firefox 133.0/Macbook Pro+macOS 13.7.1. --Omotecho (talk) 15:20, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Can confirm. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0. Kline (talk) 19:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Just tried to install it, and it isn't working. However, XTools' "blame" is also down, so I suspect this is a problem with Wikiwho rather than this extension specifically. 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 20:26, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, https://wikiwho.wmcloud.org/ gives 502 Bad Gateway. Who’s responsible for WikiWho? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:23, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

WWT not working (April–May 2025)

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T394517

WWT not working on de.wp with Skin Monobook and Vector 2010

After switching to the new Vector 2022 skin on the german wikipedia few weeks ago, the WWT add-on no longer works in the following skins on german wikipedia (de.wp):

• Monobook
• Vector 2010

In the new skin Vector 2022 it works on de.wp.

Interestingly, WWT is still functional on the English Wikipedia (en.wp) in the Monobook skin.

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox with the current WWT add-on, change the skin to Monobook (or Vector 2010) under Settings, select a random article page on de.wikipedia.org and try to activate WWT.

PS: I don't have access to Phabricator (looks like because of IP range blocks) to report this error on Phabricator too.--Wdwd (talk) 14:33, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Does not work for me in de.wp with Vector 2022. Any hints what's going on? ---<(kmk)>- (talk) 01:13, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Sorry about that! This is fixed in version 0.22.3, which is already live on the Firefox web store, and should go live on Chromium-based web stores soon. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 22:51, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Problems on en.wiki

I uninstalled it from Chrome to test what was causing problems. When I reinstalled it it no longer works. Another user is also having problems. See [1] Doug Weller (talk) 19:09, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Yes, the addon is also broken for me on Firefox. As I said in the linked thread, I didn't uninstall it, it just noticed couple days ago that it's no longer loading. AstonishingTunesAdmirer (talk) 19:18, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Sorry about that! This is fixed in version 0.22.3, which is already live on the Firefox web store, and should go live on Chromium-based web stores soon. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 22:51, 16 May 2025 (UTC)