Village Pump (technical)
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (see also: Wikipedia:Technical FAQ) |
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| If something looks wrong, purge the server's cache, then bypass your browser's cache. |
| This tends to solve most issues, including improper display of images, user-preferences not loading, and old versions of pages being shown. |
| Font size changed unexpectedly? |
| You may have accidentally changed the font size on your browser for a particular website by pressing a shortcut key or scrollwheel without realising it. Try resetting the zoom with Ctrl+0 (typing the digit zero while holding down the control key) or adjusting the zoom with Ctrl++ or Ctrl+-. Alternatively, look for the View option on your browser's menu and reset it to 100%. |
| No, we will not use Javascript to set focus on the search box. |
This would interfere with usability, accessibility, keyboard navigation and standard forms. See bug 1864. There is an accesskey property on it (default to accesskey="f" in English), and for logged in users there is a gadget available in your preferences. |
| No, we will not add a spell-checker, or spell-checking bot. |
| You can use a web browser such as Firefox, which has a spell checker. |
| If you have problems making your fancy signature work, check Wikipedia:How to fix your signature. |
| If you changed to another skin and cannot change back, use this link. |
| Alternatively, you can press Tab until the "Save" button is highlighted, and press Enter. Using Mozilla Firefox also seems to solve the problem. |
| If an image thumbnail is not showing, try purging its image description page. |
| If the image is from Wikimedia Commons, you might have to purge there too. If it doesn't work, try again before doing anything else. Some ad blockers, proxies, or firewalls block URLs containing /ad/ or ending in common executable suffixes. This can cause some images or articles to not appear. Also, it's surprisingly common for people to accidentally block the image server (upload.) on Firefox. |
| Some pages show visible HTML markup in the title. |
For example Doctor Who or My Watchlist. This is normally caused by the StumbleUpon browser extension. If you have that installed, there's a checkbox in options under "Search & Tagging" that says "Highlight recommended results." Uncheck that, and the problem is fixed. |
| Numbers listed in parentheses in the "Recent changes" section, on history pages and in your watchlist are the number of added or removed bytes. |
| Questions and suggestions related to the www.wikipedia.org portal should go to Meta. |
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Famous quotes containing the words village and/or pump:
“The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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