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Only Vector22 right? Is is supposed to come to Vector legacy? Sohom (talk) 14:38, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Only Vector 2022. Izno (talk) 21:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Changing the 'Did you know...' section title
I have notice that in the did you know section all bullet points start with '...that', and I personally think that the 'that should be moved to the section title, making the title 'Did you know that...' and remove the 'that's from the bullet points, streamlining the page by a slight bit and making things a tad bit less redundant. Gantnitsa (talk) 16:34, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe, but first of all, four-letter abbreviations which lack the potential to double as easy-to-pronounce acronyms are awkward at best. There's also the issue of the need for consensus-building as to how to handle it in the uncommon-but-far-from-unheard-of cases in which "that" would be less than ideal to serve as the otherwise-initial word of a hook. Again, while admittedly uncommon, it hardly seems unlikely to an extent in which consensus-building would be best addressed on a case-by-case basis. This proposal seems like a creepy, albeit well-intentioned solution in search of a problem. Joefromrandb (talk) 21:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Haven't been able to check this yet, possible WP:THURSDAY issue? In monobook, the page layout is broken now, see example - with the "welcome to wikipedia" being moved, a "," on a line by itself, bad font/size as well. — xaosfluxTalk 09:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed the comma break by moving the comma in to the h1 element; not seeing that causing breaks on vector or vector22. The h1 styling here seem to be the primary problem now. — xaosfluxTalk 09:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Seems to be styles associated with the mw-heading1 div around that h1.. — xaosfluxTalk 10:11, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm seeing the same issue - it looks very ugly. Thanks for looking into this! Modest Geniustalk 11:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The gap between Welcome to Wikipedia and "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." is too big on Monobook. The line at the top cuts off the bottom of the P. I suggest you do "Welcome to" in smaller letters at the top and then just Wikipedia in large. "Welcome" looks a bit silly being that big.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Doing... border/margin - waiting for sync. — xaosfluxTalk 13:24, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done I'm not sure I love these CSS hacks though. Suggestions for improvement (here or upstream) are more than welcome. — xaosfluxTalk 13:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Specifically I'm not liking that the parser is building the ID from the content and including "," in the element id now. (That is the one thing that will affect all skins). — xaosfluxTalk 13:31, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Xaosflux Fixing this in Monobook.css was not appropriate (fixing it in WP:Main Page/styles.css is sufficient), nor was I believe moving the comma necessary. The relevant change is phab:T363597. It will be coming to the other skins Soon so we will need to fix it for all skins. Please remove the Monobook.css styles and revert your main page change so we can fix this correctly. Monobook being broken for a day or two is not a reason to... hack. Izno (talk) 16:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Izno looks like phab:T363597 is going to be 2 weeks out? Do you have a fix for /styles.css ready to go, in which case certainly we can pull this out of monobook.css. Also, do you know what the "breaking" change # is for reference? — xaosfluxTalk 17:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not have such a change. I'm not going to work on it until you revert yourself. It's a pain to sort things out when you're starting from the wrong state. Izno (talk) 17:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
And no, it is definitely live in Monobook. Izno (talk) 17:30, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Izno OK, I've restored the broken version - we certainly shouldn't leave this broken for weeks though. — xaosfluxTalk 17:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I will take care of it today. :) Izno (talk) 17:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Semantically, not sure about that comma - it is floating between the header and the end of a div that encompasses the header - certainly not a big deal other than the header handling breaking it there. — xaosfluxTalk 17:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is fixed. Padding/margin between the top of the box and the welcome line looks off so that needs some investigation. I'll take a look later to see if that's just my imagination.
The comma is outside for the same reason you felt gross about it being on the inside earlier, except it matters for screen readers. IDK how the comma inside would even sound but it would probably be awkward. Izno (talk) 17:40, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]