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Issue with userpages

Not sure if this is a bug. So, if you see this user’s page, it says: image1020×291 35.2 KB They are on wikiHow for only 9 days. If you take a look at their talk page, image964×358 61.5 KB It says “36...

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Edits reverted in RCP remaining in the recent changes queue

Sometimes when I revert an edit via the RCP function, the original edit will remain in the queue for traditional patrolling. I can’t see any particular pattern to when this does or doesn’t happen. The...

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Bug with patrolling

So, some days ago I saw that I had patrolled. I thought it was an error, and left it. But, I’ve recently been seeing this bug many times this week, so I thought I could ask about it. It shows I had...

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We seem to have lost a directions guide in-tool link for an NAB-Admin tool

Over the last few months, I’ve been routinely going into the Manage Suggested Topics tool and helping clear out. However, as of the time when it got a responsifying update, I had noticed that...

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You Have to Skip a User Twice in Welcome Wagon

In the Welcome Wagon, if you want to skip a user, you need to skip it twice. If you just click it once, then the same user will come up. I am seeing this on Mozilla Firefox 85.0.1 on Windows 10 20H2....

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Recent Changes to Patrol Widget Broken

It looks like currently the recent changes to patrol widget is broken. Nothing is showing up on it. Here is an image: 5 posts - 3 participants Read full topic

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Asking for another User who lost their New Topic button

I was just approached by @AmongUsIsC00l that they seem to have lost their “New Topic” button, and since that would prevent them from creating a forums post, I thought I’d ask about that myself (and...

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No Content Article Bug

image683×594 62 KB Except the article looks like this. I noticed this im not sure what’s wrong but it could be an engineering thing so im going to ping @JayneG. 3 posts - 3 participants Read full topic

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Spellchecker doesn't Work for Logged Out Users

The spellchecker tool does not publish edits made by logged out users. It is accessible to logged out users (I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be), but the edits do not go through. When I made a...

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Issues with Link Weaving?

Potential bug here - for the past few days, the little web icon on the advanced editor hasn’t been working. Simply put, when I highlight text and click the icon, nothing happens. I’m not sure if this...

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MediaWiki Maintenance Categories Show up in Category Guardian

I was using Category Guardian, and I noticed that it asked me if some articles belonged in the “Pages using ISBN magic links” category. This category is a maintenance category that is added...

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Protected Pages can be Edited Through the Spellchecker Tool

The Spellchecker Tool brings up protected pages to correct spelling on. For example, it came up on “How to Deal with the Coronavirus Outbreak: Your Most Common Questions Answered”, which is fully...

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Spellchecker tool counts math equations as spelling mistakes but can not fix

I’m not sure if this is a bug, but while I was spellchecking there is a math article with equations that I needed to “check spelling” but when I clicked “yes I’ll fix” nothing in there is editable....

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RC Patrol not working

Hi everyone. I don’t know about you all, but the RC Patrol tool isn’t working for me anymore. I have tried refreshing the page many times, going into a new tab and trying again, etc. Anyone’s thoughts...

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Manage Related wikiHows Tool Displays HTML Code Instead of Link on Protected...

This appears to be a minor bug, but it could be confusing if someone encounters it. If you try to use the manage related wikiHows tool on a protected page, it displays a warning telling you that the...

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Top Quick Editors list in the RC patrol not working

I was patrolling recent changes when I first saw that the list of Top Quick Editors wasn’t working. It said updating in 6 minutes. Between then and the time it was going to update, I made a quick...

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Reeaaaalllyyy awkward article thumbnail formatting when looking at article diffs

I was reviewing an article diff in RCP a minute ago, and noticed that the article thumbnails looked a little…weird: image1920×1080 317 KB As you can see, the article thumbnails of the related articles...

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Bug with lists in Discourse

Ever since Discourse forums server was released, I’ve been utilizing it’s features. BUt there’s one I really can’t stand. Vanilla was so much better with handling. Generally when you make bulleted or...

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Discourse quirk: Editing the first post - even if done from a Vanilla post a...

Last weekend, I ended up adding another bullet point to a post I created a pretty long time ago about UIB categories and gave another example. It had been non-bumped and stayed below the standard....

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Getting logged out

I keep getting logged out of wikiHow, and the forums. I don’t log myself out ever, it just randomly logs me out. Why does this constantly keep happening? 6 posts - 4 participants Read full topic

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