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Hi all, the old system for this page has been moved to Project:Support desk/Flow. Topics there can continue for another week, at which point they will be frozen. Please create any new topics on this page.

For background information on this process, see Structured Discussions/Deprecation.

Thank you again for your patience with this process, and a big thanks to the many folks who are assisting.

P.s. As a reminder, the DiscussionTools system that is now working on this talkpage, provides a menu link at "Tools → Subscribe" that enables us to be notified for the creation of new Topics (documentation at Help:DiscussionTools#Page subscriptions). Some folks watching this page, might like to use that system instead or in addition to the watchlist. Hope that helps! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:03, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Infobox not displaying NEXT to the lead section

Hi everyone,

After importing the templates from Wikipedia, everything seems fine. However, there is one small issue. Doesn't matter what infobox I add to my wiki, all infoboxes display below the lead section. An infobox on a Wikipedia page always displays next to the lead section, so the text and the infobox in the same line.

I've copied the CSS from Wikipedia. I'm curious what I'm missing that should fix that small issue. Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Mitakcor Mitakcor (talk) 11:15, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

If they don't, then that means that the float css statements for infoboxes are not being applied. The exact cause for that is difficult to determine, without seeing the actual website. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 13:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Now I know it's about the float css statements, I found something wrong and fixed it. Thanks a lot! Mitakcor (talk) 17:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

foutmelding bij aanmelding of registratie bij onderwijsconceptenwiki.nl

Ik krijg bij aanmelding of registratie op onderwijsconceptenwiki.nl die ik heb gemaakt steeds dezelfde foutmelding: "Er lijkt een probleem te zijn met uw aanmeldsessie. Uw handeling is gestopt uit voorzorg tegen een beveiligingsrisico (dat bestaat uit mogelijke "hijacking" van deze sessie). Probeer het formulier opnieuw te versturen." Wat kan ik doen? Prjsimons (talk) 12:17, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

See Special:MyLanguage/Manual:How to debug/Login problems, or contact the owner of onderwijsconceptenwiki.nl. Malyacko (talk) 13:36, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

External image sizing

With the removal of the IMG tag what option is left for sizing embedded external images (via $wgAllowExternalImages)? Some of the help pages I've seen suggest using CSS transform or setting the width/height, the question is, where do we set these when all we put in is an URL and the software opaquely replaces it with the image? I've tried simple things like wrapping a DIV around the image but that doesn't seem to have any effect. Ham Pastrami (talk) 09:33, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Maximum Template Import Size is 20kb

I am trying to import the Template:Infobox template from Wikipedia to my mediawiki. I have solved all the issues with extensions not being installed and now the error that I get is this:

Import failed: The text of the revision with ID 1251300982 exceeds the maximum allowable size (20 KiB)

How do I change the maximum allowable size? BenRaz.dev (talk) 13:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

See Manual:$wgMaxArticleSize Malyacko (talk) 16:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)