User talk:Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)

Your draft article, Draft:WikidataCon 2017

Hello, Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE). It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "WikidataCon 2017".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 14:30, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JMHamo and Fastily, I'm sorry? What did the draft contained? How should anybody do anything if you give people literally one hour (!) before you ditch something you know nothing about. I assume it was an empty page created by accident, but as I said: I can not tell as I am not an administrator and can not look into deleted pages. Please review your process. --Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 10:48, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

After six months stale Drafts are eligible for deletion under WP:G13, as far as I remember, this was a test page that was no longer needed. Fastily, will be able to confirm and WP:Userfy it for you if you want the contents. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 10:55, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure you got the point. Do you actually expect people to react within 60 minutes? If your goal is to invite people to become contributors then please review this process and give them at least a week before you delete their drafts. If this is not your goal, you can as well save your time and skip the step that involves copy-pasting non-personalized messages like the one above, as it is not helpful. Most of what is said in the message does not even apply the moment the draft is deleted. --Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 11:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

All deleted Drafts can be restored at WP:REFUND. Sorry if you didn't get a chance to review it before it got deleted. JMHamo (talk) 11:31, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want it restored. I just want to know what it contained. --Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 11:03, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am not an Admin. @Fastily: can you please help here? Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 11:06, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE): Here's a temporary pastebin with the content of the deleted page: [1] -FASTILY 07:22, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. So it was a temporary construct created for technical reasons raised by [2]. Do you understand how helpful it would have been to know this? --Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 08:28, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Help with bug regarding references not showing in article preview?

Hi Thiemo,

as you have edited Mediawiki's Cite extension quite heavily, you are probably deeply familiar with it. Some months back we observed that the "automatic" preview of defined references in preview stopped working; the references don't show any more.

As this is quite inconvient in particular in conjunction with list-defined references, I wonder if you could perhaps have a look at this. I guess, for someone familiar with the code, it should be easy to track down the cause and devise a fix. Relevant links:

Thanks for your time and greetings --Matthiaspaul (talk) 18:42, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I responded in phab:T245376. --Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 11:24, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		Thank you very much for fixing the bug. Much appreciated. :-) Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:42, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The ticket still seems to be "open", but apparently the fix was rolled out anyway - at least list-defined references started to work again somewhen yesterday. Thanks. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:42, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]