Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2026/January

Article marked not ready (because stale) on 16th of December? The "not ready" template has not automatically marked the news article as "Abandoned"?

Last actual edit of article was on 13th of December? Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport man dies after being struck by snowplow

Please look into how the template works and whether any improvements can be done.

Thank you! Wikiwide (talk) 10:11, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

hi @Asked42 this looks like possible bug, recently some templates were changed to auto-tag article as abandoned after some time. the 'not ready' template should do that too. could you please add this change? please let me know if this is not the case. thank you! Gryllida 04:32, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

The not ready template is not supposed to automatically tag the article with the {{Abandoned}} template, in its current form. There was a discussion about making it auto tag, but that module was never implemented on any templates. So that won't work without using the module (or some other approach). Also, many of these templates are protected, so I am not able to make changes to them. -- Asked42 (talk) 08:08, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, I will request for consensus, and then will get back to you about the modifications. Thank you! Gryllida 10:17, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Review about some code in MediaWiki:Common.css

General CSS

Please remove this wikitable CSS code because it interferes with dark mode:

/* Standard table formatting */
/* <pre><nowiki> */
 
/* wikitable class for skinning normal tables */

table.wikitable {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
}

table.wikitable th {
  background: #f2f2f2;
}

This following code should probably be removed because some title letters go below the line in Vector 2022:

/*
/* Interlining in titles. To prevent title overlap. Not sure if should be in monobook.css as this is diff in diff skins. yell at me if this breaks anything in any of the skins. */
 
h1.firstHeading { line-height: 1em; }

Main Page

This code can be adjusted for the Main Page:

/* Stuff only for main page. Do not use [[MediaWiki:Common.css/Main Page]] (flash of unstyled content). */
body.page-Main_Page #footer-info-lastmod,
body.page-Main_Page #mw-revisiontag, #mw-fr-revisiontag,
body.page-Main_Page #catlinks {
    display: none;
}

/* This is for edit the templates, not the leads. */
body.page-Main_Page .editor a {
    background: none !important;
    padding: 0 !important;
    display: none;
	/* To turn the edit links back on, add the following to your personal CSS: 
    .editor a { display: inline !important; }
    */
 }

/* Make a border when write an article is linked to */
body.page-Main_Page #writeAnArticleCell:target {
    border: black medium solid
}
/* End stuff for main page only */

#firstHeading should be removed from the CSS because it is possible to remove the Main Page heading by setting both MediaWiki:Mainpage-title and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin to blank. Thoughts? Codename Noreste (talk) 01:35, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Asked42 may have a better understanding of this. They've done CSS work in the past.Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:23, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I was going to make the first change above, in section titled General CSS but I don't have access. It may require @Asked42, who is an interface admin.Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:26, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions. I have implemented the changes, which remove #firstHeading as this will not cause any issues with the main page heading being hidden. -- Asked42 (talk) 15:45, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

ezpr2 bug report it does not add note to article talk when article is published

https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Domestic_call_in_Rochester,_New_York_leads_to_three_police_officers_being_shot&action=history

article was published but no note was left at article talk page - is this a bug

please check, thanks Gryllida 04:30, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

@Gryllida: Hi, could you clarify what you mean by the note? If you are referring to the review result added using the peer review template, then that has been added to the talk page. I don't recall anything else being added to the article's talk page in either EzPR or the new EzPR 2025. In both scripts, only the review result is added to the talk page, and that has been done on the article that you mention by the EzPR 2025. Please let me know if you are referring to something else. -- Asked42 (talk) 08:01, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I misread. I thought that long passage was a not ready comment. Thanks, there is no bug then. Gryllida 10:10, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Interesting reading

This suggests that Google may be continuing to shift attention away from traditional news publishers, which likely affects Wikinews as well:

Is Google Prioritizing YouTube and X Over News Publishers on Discover? (Slashdot)Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:39, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Hence the request for news schedule posted elsewhere. This could include X and YouTube... Gryllida 13:43, 31 January 2026 (UTC)