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Create a tag for commons:User:Jack who built the house/Convenient DiscussionsEdit

Hi, more and more users are using this script, and I would like to move the tag from the edit description to the correct place. You can see what I talking about here. Can you create, please? :)
MediaWiki:Tag-convenient-discussions -> [[commons:Special:MyLanguage/User:Jack who built the house/Convenient Discussions|CD]]
MediaWiki:Tag-convenient-discussions-description -> Edit made using [[commons:Special:MyLanguage/User:Jack who built the house/Convenient Discussions|Convenient Discussions]]. Iniquity (talk) 17:46, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Have you talked to @Jack who built the house about this? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:08, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF), yep, in Discord, he knows about this request :) Iniquity (talk) 18:08, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Yep. If this is possible, a tag would be useful. Jack who built the house (talk) 18:15, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Sounds great. I wish that Special:Tags were used much more often. When you finish this, maybe your next target will be Twinkle. ;-) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF), I have created phab:T282953. Iniquity (talk) 19:39, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Can anyone help with it? :) Iniquity (talk) 16:54, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Timed out connection?Edit

I initially raised the "timed out connection" issue at MediaWiki but then was told to come here instead. More than eight hours ago, I tried surfing Phabricator, Meta-wiki, Wikipedia, and other project sites, but then these sites took too long to either respond or load. Meanwhile, the Internet in my area was all right. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, the sites were able to load once again. Was there something wrong with the servers or something like that? George Ho (talk) 15:29, 11 June 2021 (UTC); edited, 15:30, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

@George Ho were you connecting from somewhere in Asia/Oceania? You probably encountered phab:T284986. Legoktm (talk) 18:30, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Neither of those regions/continents. But received reply at Mediawiki, saying that there's the server admin log. George Ho (talk) 20:07, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Module Lua errorEdit

https://mni.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%83%EA%AF%A6%EA%AF%9B%EA%AF%81%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%80%EA%AF%A3

how to correct this mni:Module:Lang Lua error at line 15 A Mangang (talk) 19:04, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

@Awangba Mangang: Hi, the complete error message is Lua error in Module:Lang at line 15: attempt to index field 'lang_name_table' (a nil value) (please always include complete error messages for anyone who might be looking at this thread at some later point). Please explain what [[List of national mottos#M|La Patria Es Primero]] on mni:ꯃꯦꯛꯁꯤꯀꯣ is supposed to do, and how mni:ꯇꯦꯝꯄ꯭ꯂꯦꯠ:Native_phrase is supposed to handle that input. Thanks, --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 17:29, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Asking About the Feasibility of Enabling Extension:Lockdown on zh.wikipediaEdit

The Chinese Wikipedia is discussing whether to set the LTA namespace (to record the activities of long-term abuse[rs]). Some suggested that the namespace should enable mw:Extension:Lockdown to prevent abusers from accessing the pages to whether avoid their editing behaviors or learn more vandalistic techniques. So I'm here to ask if the community would have a consensus on setting the namespace, is it possible for zh.wikipedia to enable Extension:Lockdown? THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR ENABLEMENT --羊羊32521 (talk) 03:35, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

In theory, yes you can request for it to be enabled. But as it is not enabled on any WMF wiki, it would require going through mw:Writing an extension for deployment#Preparing for deployment, and potentially need some remedial work too. None of that is a quick process, and is not guaranteed that it will result in deployment. Reedy (talk) 04:17, 19 June 2021 (UTC)