Module talk:Val
Error in Basque Wikipedia
I have just copied this module and the /units module and I get this error:
Luanda errorea in Modulu:Val at line 267:attempt to call local 'lookup' (a nil value).
You can see live at: eu:Protoi
- Well, solved! It called to Module:...." and it should be Modulu:...." as in basque language Wikipedia. -Theklan (talk) 20:17, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Theklan: No, that's not it—there must have been some other issue, perhaps the fact that the page was displayed before all the modules existed and you saw a cached copy of the page that had the error. The system software (MediaWiki) understands a generic name for each namespace as well as the local name. That means "Module:" works on all WMF projects. Here are two examples to demonstrate:
- eu:Module:Convert and eu:Modulo:Convert are identical
- bn:Module:Convert and bn:মডিউল:Convert are identical
- Further confirmation is that if you search Module:Convert for "Module:" you will see that it requires eu:Module:Convert/data (and more)—convert is very complex and it is not as easy to see as in eu:Module:Val, but it is there. If you undo your edit to Module:Val you will see that it still works. Johnuniq (talk) 01:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Theklan: No, that's not it—there must have been some other issue, perhaps the fact that the page was displayed before all the modules existed and you saw a cached copy of the page that had the error. The system software (MediaWiki) understands a generic name for each namespace as well as the local name. That means "Module:" works on all WMF projects. Here are two examples to demonstrate:
Replace warnings with errors
I plan to remove all warnings and replace them with errors as discussed here unless someone can provide a good reason not to. In short: these warnings are often overlooked by editors, which cause the pages in which they are introduced to contain incorrect information until somebody notices and fixes it. Over the past few weeks this has happened about once every two weeks and it can take up to a week for somebody (other than me) to notice and fix it. By replacing these hard-to-notice warnings with clearly visible errors, I expect editors to detect and fix their mistakes themselves almost immediately and prevent Wikipedia from having incorrect information up to half the time. Unfortunately, I have little time at the moment and no working knowledge of LUA, so I cannot commit to a date for this change at this point. If you are able to make this change, I would appreciate if you would go ahead and do so at your earliest convenience. — SkyLined (talk) 11:06, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
- I made the change to the module so it will now always show errors. See my new comment at Template talk:Val#Warnings. Johnuniq (talk) 00:24, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you! — SkyLined (talk) 07:58, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Unicode Thin-space
There is a discussion at the Template:val talk page about the width of the space between digit groups. The module currently uses 1/4em but it seems most external sources suggest using 1/5 or 1/6em. I support this change for that reason. I was looking at how I might implement it when I noticed that the module currently uses an empty <span> element with a 0.25em width to add the spaces. This seems overly complex and the code does not provide a reason for this. If I am correct, I suggest we replace this <span> element with a Unicode &thisp;. — SkyLined (talk) 08:16, 7 September 2018 (UTC)