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	2006…2012

Move to phabricator

Bugzilla has been replaced by Phabricator, so all languages need to reflect this. --Vera ^(talk) 22:24, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Apparently all languages use phabricator: now, thanks. –Be..anyone (talk) 09:54, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:45, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Just curious

Why does the Help link on the sidebar bring to mw.org, rather than here? --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 15:29, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Filed as phab:T143564 --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:46, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Had just a similar idea as this answer would likely have also helped Valereee... in 2022. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 18:30, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: That bug has been fixed within one week after this topic has been started; now the help link does point to this page in all languages. I don’t know what you mean by this answer having helped Valereee. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 11:55, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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Is there a technical help forum, or a template help forum?

For example; see this post:

• Template talk:Categorise#Need help with Category:Economic inequality and Category:War casualties

--Timeshifter (talk) 04:09, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, there is Commons:Village pump/Technical. As for edit requests for templates, I think a new page could be useful – e.g. Commons:Template edit requests linked from Commons:Templates. This would be useful because some users are very skilled and experienced with editing templates and other users have change requests that would be often too complex to do on their own. Please comment here if you or somebody else created such a page. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:59, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

@Prototyperspective: That looks like a good idea.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:07, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Making mobile friendly

I want to make this page more mobile friendly. I'm sure people here are more skilled at MediaWiki editing than me so was hoping one of you could help.

The main things I was thinking were:

• Hiding the "other languages" box on mobile
• Having the yellow and blue boxes laid out vertically on mobile

There's also a little discussion at https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/2145

Domdomegg (talk) 11:15, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes this is super important if we want Commons to survive in the mobile age. Please someone make the yellow and blue boxes responsive. Thanks! Syced (talk) 04:45, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

WP Commons - insertion of "View" and "Sort by" comboboxs as in the [loc.gov.

Two brief improving suggestions:

• Wikimedia can introduce on WP Commons categories two users'option for visualization and sort by relevance and othere criteria indicated in the following lonk: [1]. It can improve furthermore the Readiness of WP Commons.
• On images -and expecially art images- users can benefit from a layout like El Prado Museum gives

It rightly works now and can improve WP:Accessibility for people with disabilities or visual impairments. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 94.38.238.48 (talk) 19:32, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Not sure where to actually ask for help?

I've screwed up a crop and overwritten accidentally at [[2]], can anyone reverse? I can't figure out how. Thank you! Valereee (talk) 23:04, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

My closest guess would be at the Commons:Help desk. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 18:56, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

@Valereee: Your crop was reverted thanks to Jmabel.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 04:07, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle and Jeff G.: this was almost a year ago, and as Jeff notes, I dealt with it. - Jmabel ! talk 04:28, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! I'd forgotten about it, but glad to know my screwup got fixed! Valereee (talk) 10:03, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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Search help pages doesn't work

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T399476

Hello, I'm trying to search a template using the "Search help pages" at the top of the Help:Contents page, but it doesn't search for text and pages in the NS of Help, it is searching through images. Instead, it should produce a result like this one. I think this is a bug, can you confirm? Una tantum (talk) 10:22, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

the button launches the search in Special:MediaSearch instead of in Special:Search. Una tantum (talk) 10:53, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

See Commons:Village pump/Technical#<inputbox> is directing search queries to Special:MediaSearch. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:29, 28 July 2025 (UTC)