Can "Top 25 Report" be included here?
Overall, it would be nice to see most of the random banners from the top of talk pages merged into the article history, since they tend to clutter talk pages and leaving them indefinitely at the top at some point becomes more distracting than helpful. {{Top 25 report}} is the one that I just encountered, and I can't think off-hand of any more that aren't yet included here, but I'm sure there are some others as well. –jacobolus (t) 21:57, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
Another that I proposed at some point in the past but didn't get much discussion about was adding rows for article splits, merges, page moves, etc., which sometimes otherwise sit in their own banners indefinitely. It would be nice if we could also include these in the article history list, as they help tell the story of the article's development, and one row in a collapsible list is a lot less distracting and obtrusive than a separate banner. –jacobolus (t) 22:01, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- The most recent of these was at Template talk:Article history/Archive 11#Add lines for merges/splits to the chronological history list. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:00, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, nobody at that discussion seemed to have any thoughts about whether to include merges/splits/moves, but my proposal there to allow custom entries was opposed. I also suggested we could include the info from {{EB1911}} in the history, which nobody responded to. –jacobolus (t) 23:02, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
Dates without year render as current year
I just fixed a GA date in article_history that did not include the year. To my surprise it rendered as 2025 before I fixed it. I think this is a bug -- I don't know what it should do, but rendering as the current year is definitely not the right answer. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:44, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- I think this is an inherent feature of the MediaWiki date handling code. Consider:
{{#time: H:i, j F Y (e)|2 March}}→ 00:00, 2 March 2026 (UTC). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:53, 23 June 2025 (UTC)- I think it's undesirable behaviour in this template though as in the example I just fixed it was showing 2025 whereas the date was added in 2010. Izno at VPT just posted this:
You can probably just insert around Module:Article history#L-542 some basic "does this have a 4 digit number" in the input, which is a fairly easy check (
. This seems worth adding. I'm not familiar with Lua but can try in the sandbox if nobody more expert wants to implement this. Would this make instances of this warning findable, though? That is, would I be able to do a search to find talk pages that had this warning? That would be ideal, so they could be fixed. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:08, 23 June 2025 (UTC)string.find(str, "2%d%d%d")).- This would only find the string. You would need to put some conditional in that makes the relevant block error with a category or red text or both. There is a relevant block there already, so it's a matter of adding this in the appropriate fashion. Izno (talk) 20:16, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, I did realize that! Will make the change in the sandbox when I have a few minutes tomorrow. But will it be possible to find instances of the template with invalid dates? Perhaps by adding a category in that case? Without that I don't see how I would find and fix them. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 03:20, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- This would only find the string. You would need to put some conditional in that makes the relevant block error with a category or red text or both. There is a relevant block there already, so it's a matter of adding this in the appropriate fashion. Izno (talk) 20:16, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- I think it's undesirable behaviour in this template though as in the example I just fixed it was showing 2025 whereas the date was added in 2010. Izno at VPT just posted this:
Did you know articles that are good articles
The category Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are good articles disappears when the parameter | currentstatus = GA is replaced with | currentstatus = FFAC/GA ( vs ) even though the article is still a good article. Where can the display of categories be found? Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 19:05, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
Can someone add the parameter |dykimage=?
Having this
| dykdate = | dykimage = File:Example.svg | dykentry = | dyknom =
would remove the image from |dykentry= and allow error checking to function as intended. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:26, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
- Gonna @Mr. Stradivarius, MSGJ, TheDJ, Johnuniq, Izno, WOSlinker, and Paine Ellsworth: as people that might have a clue about LUA and this module. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:29, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
- Please provide more context for Lua (not LUA!) people. I picked Talk:Kubrick stare from Category:Pages with a malformed DYK entry where {{Article history}} includesI gather that with the wanted change to the module, the wikitext for the image would be moved from
dykentry = [[File:Kubrick stare.jpg|right|60px]] ... that a '''[[Kubrick stare]]''' ''(example pictured)'' can be "invasive" and "troubling"?
dykentryto the newdykimage. If present, the module would insert that wikitext beforedykentryafter checking it? If that is the only problem with the malformed entry category, it might be better to leave the parameters as they are but changevalidationPatternGroupsin Module:Check DYK hook so it accepts[[File:xxx]]at the beginning ofdykentry. Or, add|dykignoreerror=1to the template at Talk:Kubrick stare with no change to the module. Johnuniq (talk) 03:42, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
@Johnuniq: The idea is to convert the Kubrick stare article history template from
| dykentry = [[File:Kubrick stare.jpg|right|60px]] ... that a '''[[Kubrick stare]]''' ''(example pictured)'' can be "invasive" and "troubling"?
to
|dykimage = File:Kubrick stare.jpg |dykentry = ... that a '''[[Kubrick stare]]''' ''(example pictured)'' can be "invasive" and "troubling"?
So that things display neatly, and the error checking works as intended. I don't really care about the exact look on the talk page, so just any standard layout that makes sense. {{DYK talk}} would give
New gtname parameter
Can a |gtname= parameter be added (based on the page renaming at ), so pages like Wikipedia:Good topics/WandaVision don't need a redirect created from Wikipedia:Featured topics/WandaVision? Unless I'm missing a parameter that allows that. Gonnym (talk) 09:52, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- {{FeaturedTopicSum}} could be used to detect whether it's a featured or a good topic. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:56, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
dykdate parameter adds wikilink to the wrong page
The dykdate parameter has a logic error that leads to a wikilink to the wrong page.
For example, Talk:Dianna Cowern has had a DYK entry on November 7, 2025; but the link in A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 7, 2025
should link to Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/November#8 November 2025. Since the early days of DYK, the DYK archive always lists the date when an entry was removed from the Main Page, not the date when it was added.
This is particularly relevant for entries that appear on the last day of a month, where the link leads to a completely wrong page (example: Talk:Arlington Ladies, DYK from 31 May 2010, but listed on the page for June 2010). Compare Wikipedia talk:Did you know archive/2025/March and this archived discussion about the corresponding bug in Template:DYK talk, which leads to the same problem. Renerpho (talk) 21:07, 3 April 2026 (UTC)