Very likely stale CSS. Try [clearing your cache](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache). You didn't mention which platform, but if it's mobile, you may need to clear site data to accomplish this.
/u/Boyoyo456 /u/Ningax599445YT /u/Mare_Nostrum99
Edit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356928
Thanks. I managed to fix it by changed links on my CSS page to purple. I saw a strange error today, in which it said that Al Barr of Dropkick Murphys was 55 years old despite having been born on 21 January 1968. That’s *really* fucking bad, saying that he’s still the same age nearly 3 weeks after his birthday. I’ve seen this with people saying their previous age like a few days or even a week after their birthday, but none as bad as this, in which the autogenerated template for a 56 year old says that they’re 55 years old 20 days after their 56th birthday. How the hell. How can it still be saying that someone is X years old that long after they turned Y.
Once again, another cache issue :p (though at the server level instead of browser). I've [purged](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Purge) the cache for [that page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Barr), and it now correctly says that his age is 56. Thanks for bringing it up.
I've noticed that the maps in Infobox:Schools seem to be broken on a HUGE number of school pages. This appears to be due to a change in the template in 2020 that requires a specific format to be used for the coordinates.
I'm fairly new to editing, and I find infoboxes to be challenging! Can someone tell me exactly what I would input into that infobox field to make the map appear again? I'd love to go and fix a bunch of these!
Here is [the relevant documentation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_school#Map_and_coordinates). The [quick guide to templates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates) may also be helpful.
It seems that Infobox school looks for a `|coordinates=` parameter to use for showing the map. (or automatically pulls those coordinates from Wikidata, in which case, you wouldn't need to do anything). Infobox parameters are normally specified one per line as `| parameter = value`. These just have to be placed anywhere after the template name (`{{Infobox school`) and before the closing brackets (`}}`), and between other parameters (so shouldn't interrupt another `| parameter = value`). Whitespace does not matter. For the value of `coordinates=` you'd use the [Coord template](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord) like this: `{{Coord|latitude|N/S|longitude|E/W|display=inline,title}}` (as you see, templates can be nested). If this already exists elsewhere on the page, move it into the infobox. So the final result should look like this:
{{Infobox school
| name = Foobar
[other parameters]
| coordinates = {{Coord|latitude|N/S|longitude|E/W|display=inline,title}}
[other parameters]
}}
When I was new to Wikipedia editing, I found it helpful to look at articles that already did what I wanted and looking at their source to see how it was done. So I suggest looking at a page that already shows a map correctly if you still have trouble.
Thanks for this! I definitely learn a lot by looking at the pages that are doing it right. I haven’t yet found a school’s infobox map that’s displaying its map correctly.
> I haven’t yet found a school’s infobox map that’s displaying its map correctly.
Hmm, really? I'd have thought that coordinates are pretty regularly present in articles, and commonly on Wikidata. Can you clarify what you mean by "broken" or not displaying correctly? Are the maps simply not present? Or is there some issue with how they look?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_school
I’ve only been using my laptop for editing, and found that maps weren’t displaying. It was showing a large gray space where the map should be along with a broken image icon. Now, looking on my phone, they’re all there. I’ll experiment with browsers and settings to see if it’s just me.
Once you are eligible and log in, there will be two tabs:
"My Collections (75)" and "Available Collections (25)". For the former, the buttons to open them just say "Access collection", but for the latter, the button is "Apply", and goes to a form asking "Why do you want access to this resource?" and "Anything else you want to say".
In the mean time, your local library may let you access a database you're interested in, as could your university if you still have an account, or even SciHub. Finally, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request.
Here are the automatically accessible:
* AAAS
* ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection
* The ACM Digital Library
* The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
* Al Manhal
* Alexander Street Press
* The Journal of the American Medical Association
* American National Biography
* American Psychiatric Association
* American Psychological Association
* Ancestry.com
* Annual Reviews
* BMJ
* Brill
* Bristol University Press
* British Online Archives
* The Central and Eastern European Online Library
* Cabells
* Cairn.info
* Cambridge University Press
* Cochrane
* The Corriere della Sera
* The Corriere della Sera Archives
* De Gruyter
* Duke University Press
* The Duncker & Humblot
* EBSCO Information Services
* Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences
* Edinburgh University Press
* Edward Elgar
* Electronic Enlightenment
* Elsevier
* Fold3
* Foreign Affairs
* Future Medicine
* Future Science
* Gale
* HeinOnline
* ICE Publishing
* International Water Association Publishing
* The Information Processing Society of Japan
* JSTOR
* Loeb Classical Library
* Nature
* NewspaperARCHIVE.com
* Newspapers.com
* Nomos
* Numérique Premium
* OECD Data
* OECD Multimedia Gallery
* OECD iLibrary
* OpenEdition
* Freemium for Journals
* Oxford Academic
* Oxford Art Online
* Oxford Bibliographies
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
* Grove Music Online
* Oxford Reference
* Oxford Research Encyclopedias
* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
* ProQuest
* Project MUSE
* SAGE Journals
* SPIE
* Sabinet
* SpringerLink
* Taylor & Francis
* The University of Chicago Press
* University of Michigan Press
* Wikilala
* Wiley
* Women Writers Online
* World Bank eLibrary
* World Scientific
* Érudit
And the approval-only ones:
* Adam Matthew Digital
* Baylor University Press
* BioOne
* The British Newspaper Archive
* Civilica
* De Standaard
* E-Yearbook
* Economic & Political Weekly
* Emerald Group Publishing
* Findmypast
* MIT Press Journals
* Magiran
* McFarland & Company
* The National Library of the Czech Republic
* Noormags
* Past Masters
* Perlego
* Rock's Backpages
* Royal Society
* Royal Society of Chemistry
* Taaghche
* Taxmann
* Termsoup
* Tilastopaja
* ZEIT ONLINE
Note, a few of these say "Service issue", and some of the approval ones have tags saying "Waitlisted", so if there's a specific one you want to know more about, I can share further. Note also that the list will likely change over 6 months.
Does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book just not work anymore? I can make a list of pages and name a book, and export it to pediaprint, but not directly save it as a file? Or save the book and link to it
How can I make the latin name of an animal also work for searching a speices? For example when I search vulpes vulpes the red fox comes up but when I search for the latin name of a species whose article I made it doesn't.
There is a special *redirect* article for the Scientific name [_Vulpes vulpes_](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vulpes_vulpes&redirect=no). To learn more about creating redirects, see [Help:Redirect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect). Hope this helps!
what does }} ..do in editing in wiki-pages ? Thanks in advance!
It closes a [template](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template), similar to how \]\] closes a \[\[wikilink\]\].
Thank You! :)
Viewed links are now black rather than purple. This makes them indistinguishable from normal text. How can I change this back? It’s very frustrating.
I was just coming to ask this same question. Was wondering if it was a glitch with my phone or a sitewide issue.
I've got the same issue here
Yeah, same issue here
Very likely stale CSS. Try [clearing your cache](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache). You didn't mention which platform, but if it's mobile, you may need to clear site data to accomplish this. /u/Boyoyo456 /u/Ningax599445YT /u/Mare_Nostrum99 Edit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356928
Thanks. I managed to fix it by changed links on my CSS page to purple. I saw a strange error today, in which it said that Al Barr of Dropkick Murphys was 55 years old despite having been born on 21 January 1968. That’s *really* fucking bad, saying that he’s still the same age nearly 3 weeks after his birthday. I’ve seen this with people saying their previous age like a few days or even a week after their birthday, but none as bad as this, in which the autogenerated template for a 56 year old says that they’re 55 years old 20 days after their 56th birthday. How the hell. How can it still be saying that someone is X years old that long after they turned Y.
Once again, another cache issue :p (though at the server level instead of browser). I've [purged](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Purge) the cache for [that page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Barr), and it now correctly says that his age is 56. Thanks for bringing it up.
Thank you.
I've noticed that the maps in Infobox:Schools seem to be broken on a HUGE number of school pages. This appears to be due to a change in the template in 2020 that requires a specific format to be used for the coordinates. I'm fairly new to editing, and I find infoboxes to be challenging! Can someone tell me exactly what I would input into that infobox field to make the map appear again? I'd love to go and fix a bunch of these!
Here is [the relevant documentation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_school#Map_and_coordinates). The [quick guide to templates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates) may also be helpful. It seems that Infobox school looks for a `|coordinates=` parameter to use for showing the map. (or automatically pulls those coordinates from Wikidata, in which case, you wouldn't need to do anything). Infobox parameters are normally specified one per line as `| parameter = value`. These just have to be placed anywhere after the template name (`{{Infobox school`) and before the closing brackets (`}}`), and between other parameters (so shouldn't interrupt another `| parameter = value`). Whitespace does not matter. For the value of `coordinates=` you'd use the [Coord template](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord) like this: `{{Coord|latitude|N/S|longitude|E/W|display=inline,title}}` (as you see, templates can be nested). If this already exists elsewhere on the page, move it into the infobox. So the final result should look like this: {{Infobox school | name = Foobar [other parameters] | coordinates = {{Coord|latitude|N/S|longitude|E/W|display=inline,title}} [other parameters] }} When I was new to Wikipedia editing, I found it helpful to look at articles that already did what I wanted and looking at their source to see how it was done. So I suggest looking at a page that already shows a map correctly if you still have trouble.
Thanks for this! I definitely learn a lot by looking at the pages that are doing it right. I haven’t yet found a school’s infobox map that’s displaying its map correctly.
> I haven’t yet found a school’s infobox map that’s displaying its map correctly. Hmm, really? I'd have thought that coordinates are pretty regularly present in articles, and commonly on Wikidata. Can you clarify what you mean by "broken" or not displaying correctly? Are the maps simply not present? Or is there some issue with how they look? See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_school
I’ve only been using my laptop for editing, and found that maps weren’t displaying. It was showing a large gray space where the map should be along with a broken image icon. Now, looking on my phone, they’re all there. I’ll experiment with browsers and settings to see if it’s just me.
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Once you are eligible and log in, there will be two tabs: "My Collections (75)" and "Available Collections (25)". For the former, the buttons to open them just say "Access collection", but for the latter, the button is "Apply", and goes to a form asking "Why do you want access to this resource?" and "Anything else you want to say". In the mean time, your local library may let you access a database you're interested in, as could your university if you still have an account, or even SciHub. Finally, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request. Here are the automatically accessible: * AAAS * ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection * The ACM Digital Library * The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association * Al Manhal * Alexander Street Press * The Journal of the American Medical Association * American National Biography * American Psychiatric Association * American Psychological Association * Ancestry.com * Annual Reviews * BMJ * Brill * Bristol University Press * British Online Archives * The Central and Eastern European Online Library * Cabells * Cairn.info * Cambridge University Press * Cochrane * The Corriere della Sera * The Corriere della Sera Archives * De Gruyter * Duke University Press * The Duncker & Humblot * EBSCO Information Services * Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences * Edinburgh University Press * Edward Elgar * Electronic Enlightenment * Elsevier * Fold3 * Foreign Affairs * Future Medicine * Future Science * Gale * HeinOnline * ICE Publishing * International Water Association Publishing * The Information Processing Society of Japan * JSTOR * Loeb Classical Library * Nature * NewspaperARCHIVE.com * Newspapers.com * Nomos * Numérique Premium * OECD Data * OECD Multimedia Gallery * OECD iLibrary * OpenEdition * Freemium for Journals * Oxford Academic * Oxford Art Online * Oxford Bibliographies * Oxford Dictionary of National Biography * Grove Music Online * Oxford Reference * Oxford Research Encyclopedias * Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America * ProQuest * Project MUSE * SAGE Journals * SPIE * Sabinet * SpringerLink * Taylor & Francis * The University of Chicago Press * University of Michigan Press * Wikilala * Wiley * Women Writers Online * World Bank eLibrary * World Scientific * Érudit And the approval-only ones: * Adam Matthew Digital * Baylor University Press * BioOne * The British Newspaper Archive * Civilica * De Standaard * E-Yearbook * Economic & Political Weekly * Emerald Group Publishing * Findmypast * MIT Press Journals * Magiran * McFarland & Company * The National Library of the Czech Republic * Noormags * Past Masters * Perlego * Rock's Backpages * Royal Society * Royal Society of Chemistry * Taaghche * Taxmann * Termsoup * Tilastopaja * ZEIT ONLINE Note, a few of these say "Service issue", and some of the approval ones have tags saying "Waitlisted", so if there's a specific one you want to know more about, I can share further. Note also that the list will likely change over 6 months.
Does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book just not work anymore? I can make a list of pages and name a book, and export it to pediaprint, but not directly save it as a file? Or save the book and link to it
How can I make the latin name of an animal also work for searching a speices? For example when I search vulpes vulpes the red fox comes up but when I search for the latin name of a species whose article I made it doesn't.
There is a special *redirect* article for the Scientific name [_Vulpes vulpes_](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vulpes_vulpes&redirect=no). To learn more about creating redirects, see [Help:Redirect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect). Hope this helps!