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Is there a technical help forum, or a template help forum?
For example; see this post:
--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)
- I've created Commons:Template requests now and will add unsolved template requests as I find them. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:13, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:14, 2 November 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)
Search help pages doesn't work
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)
- {{Edit protected}}
- The current workaround to phab:T404955 is to set parameter
searchengine=searchin <inputbox>. Please add this here too to make the search work again. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:21, 2 November 2025 (UTC)
Done, thanks for figuring it out! Note that, at least when testing it in the preview, I had to use searchengine=Searchto get the desired result. --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:23, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
- See Commons:Village pump/Technical#<inputbox> is directing search queries to Special:MediaSearch. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:29, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 19:40, 3 November 2025 (UTC)