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Editing and viewing abstract pages do not work
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Essentially the title. To reproduce, go to, say
Q319
. Notice you cannot use it (it just displays JSON), and when you try to edit it, the same JSON is shown and editable. I'm sure the team is aware, just writing this down.
Feeglgeef
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18:58, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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User:Jdforrester (WMF)
notes that abstract articles are being created in the wrong namespace, which seems the likely cause.
Feeglgeef
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19:00, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Function links are 404s
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27 days ago
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If I click from
to the function view
I get a 404 error. That seems to be true for all the "Z" links.
Eloquence
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23:17, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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This also seems to happen if you click "Read".
Tenshi!
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00:29, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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It seems to try and view functions in Abstract Wikipedia when the functions are on Wikifunctions instead.
is where the link should go.
ChaoticVermillion
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00:42, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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Fix underway in
T420666: Our /view/ URLs aren't working on abstract.wikipedia.org, so we're generating links for users that don't work
. Sorry for the disruption.
Jdforrester (WMF)
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12:43, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
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Note: This part is fixed; the second part is
T420670: from Abstract Wikipedia, links to ZIDs should go to Wikifunctions
which will get deployed next week.
Jdforrester (WMF)
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16:42, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
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Search not working
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27 days ago
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Whne I search, say Canberra, which has an Abstract Wikipedia article, the search bar takes me to
Not Found
, with an error. It should go to
Q3114 - Abstract Wikipedia
ChaoticVermillion
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00:31, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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Fix underway in
T420666: Our /view/ URLs aren't working on abstract.wikipedia.org, so we're generating links for users that don't work
for this one too. Sorry for the disruption.
Jdforrester (WMF)
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12:43, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
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This fix is now deployed. Sorry for the disruption!
Jdforrester (WMF)
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16:42, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
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Undo not working
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30 days ago
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When I try to "undo" from history, it doesn't show the revert screen, but only shows the edit screen of the latest article. Maybe the same reason of mis-created namespace...
Higa4
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06:45, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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Filed as
T420915: Attempting to undo an Abstract article edit appears to fail, and opens the editor with the current revision
Jdforrester (WMF)
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12:48, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
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Special:CreateAbstract with an argument
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Steps to reproduce:
Go to
Special:CreateAbstract/Q123456
Add some content
Try to publish
Error message:
The value of the 'qid' property ('Q0') does not match the page title 'Q123456'
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh
00:38, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
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I got this same error message when trying to
Special:CreateAbstract/Q151
(of course with it saying Q151 rather than Q123456). Also occurred when I tried to create a blank page.
dot
23:43, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
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Filed as
T420916: Direct browses to Special:CreateAbstract/Q123456 don't work on publishing, attempt to publish to Q0
. Thanks for the report!
Jdforrester (WMF)
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12:49, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
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This fix is now deployed. Sorry for the disruption!
Jdforrester (WMF)
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16:43, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
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Pages can't be viewed
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When trying to view pages longer than a sentence that aren't hard coded copies of articles from enwiki, I get "Reached max retries. Try again later." Is this expected behavior?
MetalBreaksAndBends
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13:59, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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ex:
Q213
MetalBreaksAndBends
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14:00, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Yes it's a bug. Tracked in
phab:T420630
GearsDatapacks
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contribs
14:09, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Is there any progress on this bug being fixed? I think it is the number one issue keeping this wiki from being easily readable
Immanuelle
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23:36, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
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Z26095
not working
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28 days ago
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Hello, I could just file a task on Phabricator but checking here first. For some reason, I can't find
Z26095
in the list of functions.
FantasticWikiUser
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17:33, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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FantasticWikiUser
: Z26095 outputs a "
Monolingual text
" item, not a fragment of HTML, so it won't show up in search except in places you can use a monolingual text item, like as an argument to a Z32234 call.
Jdforrester (WMF)
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19:23, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Mainspace content model
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25 days ago
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The content model of abstract articles, as reported by
{{
#contentmodel
canonical
Q1
}}
, is
abstractwiki
. Can this be changed to something else more descriptive, akin to Wikidata's
wikibase-item
wikibase-lexeme
wikibase-property
and Wikifunctions's
zobject
abstractarticle
, for example.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh
01:24, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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1 (Q199) isn't appearing when I choose it
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For some reason, Q199 doesn't show up when it is used. 2 works fine.
FantasticWikiUser
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09:24, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Example:
Q199
itself, or
Q556
FantasticWikiUser
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09:31, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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On Wikidata,
d:Q199
didn't have a special label for English, instead using the default for all languages. The
label of item reference in language
function was only able to find labels in the given language, without looking for defaults, so it showed up as nothing. I added an English label for 1, so everything should be fine now.
Chaotic
Vermillion
converse
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10:11, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Rate limits and other non-intelligible errors
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22 days ago
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I've been editing some pages here to experiment around, and the first thing I notice, aside from the very slow speed of how these very short sentences are constructed, are the constant errors I get. Some of these are:
Q711
Wikifunctions returned a failed response: Could not acquire WASI runner within time limit
Q183
Unable to render this fragment due to an unknown error.
There was also something about a rate limit for the orchestrator? Is this a problem with the WMF servers? I've never noticed these kinds of performance issues, even in wikis like en-WP which have stacks and stacks of Lua modules and wikitext templates built on top of each other!
Last
Celebration
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06:54, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
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Error: Lexeme lacks compatible representations
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19 days ago
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I have tried to create two articles using
Z29743
, one of which (
Q467
) has been successfully created. The other article was identical in structure, but linked the Wikidata items
Q9800899
Q6636
, and
Q467
. However, neither article renders anything in English or French, throwing
Error: Lexeme lacks compatible representations
. Any ideas?
JJP
Mas
ter
she
they
18:52, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
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There is a similar error at
Q111
JJP
Mas
ter
she
they
19:25, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
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I think I’ve found the source of the error, and the problem is that the English lexemes with senses linking to
d:Q80994
do not include the adjective
d:L5792
. What you get instead is
d:L5791
, but that is a noun and therefore lacks the
d:Q3482678
feature that the function is ultimately looking for. For English, we could avoid looking for that feature, but we currently don’t. Please compare
this call (with error in Details)
with
this one that succeeds
Even if the adjective were linked to the item, I think you would still fail to get the result you are looking for, because the function is not looking through the lexemes to find one that is an adjective. This is something we definitely need to do and I’m a little surprised that no one has done it yet. But only a little; there is still so much to do!
GrounderUK
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19:52, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
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GrounderUK
: I took some time to address this problem and concocted
Z33078
. It passes one more test than the previous version, but two other tests (that the other implementations also failed) timed out.
JJP
Mas
ter
she
they
05:36, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
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Neat! I have connected your implementation.
Redmin
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06:09, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contribution. The new function will naturally claim more resources simply because it looks at more lexemes. The increase seems disproportionate, however, and I haven’t investigated why that might be. (Not that I’m claiming any expertise in that area!)
GrounderUK
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09:44, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
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Unable to select the function
Z28016
while creating page
Q628
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I tried to add the function
Z28016
on the page
Q628
, but the selector didn't let me select the function, so i was forced to use the indonesian version of the function, and i think this is a bug, so i want to report it.
Mattiz6276
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19:11, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
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Mattiz6276
: The problem here is that
Z28016
doesn't return a type that can be cast as HTML raw content, but rather monolingual text. Also, it looks like you wanted
Z26570
, so I changed it to use that.
JJP
Mas
ter
she
they
20:07, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
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Hi, i haven't been active on Abstract Wikipedia for a while (i mainly edit it.wiki), so sorry to not have answered you sooner.
Thank you for helping me fix
Q628
and showing me what functions to use.
Mattiz6276
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07:54, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
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