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The heading on the Main Page versus WN:Water cooler and WN:Newsroom

Why is there a flash of the heading on the two project pages I linked, but not on the Main Page? — JJP_Master (she/they) 19:38, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Can you reword this? I don't have any idea what you even mean and can't seem to reproduce whatever it is you're experiencing. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:41, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Koavf, when I go to WN:Water cooler or WN:Newsroom, the title of the page (e.g. "Wikinews:Water cooler") can be seen for a brief period of time as the heading. The Main Page does not have this--"Main Page" never appears above the content of the page. — JJP_Master (she/they) 19:46, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Gotcha. That is because MediaWiki:Mainpage-title is set to a hyphen to deliberately not display. This is a feature of MediaWiki software. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:53, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Koavf, okay, thank you! — JJP_Master (she/they) 19:58, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

i see it as a heading anyway, it does not disappear for me? Gryllida (talk) 23:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Is it me?!

'Make lead' has been acting weird for me lately -- what gives??--Bddpaux (talk) 18:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

I just saw your message. I've used it recently and didn't notice any issues. what issues are you seeing? I typically only use it to generate Lead 1 and then I manually move the rest using source editor. It's tedious and I don't know an automated way to do it other than to use the ML tool five times. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 17:31, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

I had previously proposed a script that allows for the auto sequential shuffling of all lead templates. It also provides an option to specify a custom shuffle pattern, if required in any case. Just to clarify, I did not intend for this to be considered as an alternative to Make Lead. I originally developed it for Bengali wikinews and later adapted it for here. Asked42 (talk) 18:08, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Updating our image uploader tool

I was about to upload an image locally today and noticed that our file uploader page is in need of updating. For example, the list of available licenses needs to be expanded to include public domain, CC-BY 4.0, as well as newer licensing methods available at Commons such as for AI-generated images.

Who is responsible for our local file uploader tool? —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 17:28, 20 January 2025 (UTC)