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Inthis 2020 edit, the Shortdesc helper allowed the insertion of an invalid invisible non-breaking space character. I fixed it with this edit, replacing the character with a normal space.
With this gadget enabled, whenever I load a page, its content jumps downward a few seconds later. This is because the shortdesc is inserted into the page when the shortdesc itself has loaded, which requires making space for it. This is extremely annoying. Is anyone else having this issue? Does it seem like it would be easy to fix? jlwoodwa (talk) 02:31, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This happens with all javascript elements, in my experience. I have a bunch of gadgets and scripts installed, and page elements jump around like baby kangaroos while the page is loading. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, this gadget already uses the "hidden css peer gadget" technique mentioned above. It's possible the hidden css peer gadget is broken and needs fixing, or that you just have other gadgets and user scripts pushing things around in the same area. Is anyone else (who has very little installed except Shortdesc-helper) having this issue? –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I couldn't find anything on the topic, so I figured I'd ask: Is there a reason for the comma in the comment? Currently shortdesc helper creates a comment like this (sorry for the german language example, but you should get the idea):
Beschreibung für [de] hinzugefügt: Gebäude in St. Gallen, (Shortdesc helper)
With a comma right after the new description. Which to me seems more confusing (Did I accidently place a comma?) then helpfull. And - at least in German, I assume English is the same - in front of brackets it's even wrong. Is there a case I miss when they are needed? Windharp (talk) 08:45, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I opened an issue on github, but I am assuming that the github is not very active since there haven't been any new changes in six months, so here's a very minor technical issue that stumped me for a while.
In policy w/ WP:SDNONE, many articles do not qualify to have proper short descriptions. However, adding { {short description|none} } to a template does not register on the editor, making it seem as if it has no short description instead of a "none" short description.
Article that looks like it has no short description,
[1]
except it has an infobox that does,
[2]
and search results show it has a short description.
[3]-1ctinus📝🗨00:41, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To be clear, it appears that everything is working properly from a Wikipedia standpoint, but the SD gadget is showing the Wikidata description instead of showing the correct "This page intentionally has no description." Is that the bug? – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:58, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
However, it appears that the gadget has also changed since 2022. From the talk page giving a reason why it doesn't do that,
It would help if the SD helper could detect that the page would have the SD set (to none or otherwise) by a template, but that would involve an additional API call to check the evaluated output of the page as well as a check of the page source