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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Monday's FL

(May 4)

Wednesday's FL

(May 6)

Friday's FL

(May 8)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

Notice to administrators: When fixing POTD errors, please update the corresponding regular version (i.e. without "protected" in the page title) in addition to the Main Page version linked below.

Today's POTD

The picture is again missing its credit (to User:Bgag). I reported a similar problem yesterday and it was fixed: apparently a problem with another template, so perhaps the underlying issue is still there? Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:30, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

I've fixed this manually, but I'm not sure what the underlying problem might be. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 12:11, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Yesterday, Chris Woodrich said "The credit field was malformed on the unprotected version, which means that the protected template never created the field for the main page." I don't know the technical details. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:46, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

• The "Credit" field has no equal sign, which means that the template is not reading it as a field, but just a string of unparsable text. When that happens, the Protected template generates without a credit. I suspect that Amakuru had been working based off an incorrect template, and this carried over from day to day as they used the same template. I'll skim ahead and see if the error is on future dates as well. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:54, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Nope, future templates look to have the equal sign. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:56, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

General discussion

Trigger Warning Type Scenario?

It seems that convention is becoming (in at least U.S. English use) to say that one "dies by suicide" as opposed to "committed suicide." It might be relevant in the context of the date in history segment. Balancedternary (talk) 03:07, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

There has been no consensus to change MOS:SUICIDE on multiple occasions, so how one describes suicide is a normal editorial decision for editors to debate. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 03:38, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Contradicting information

Hey, according to this mainpage there are about 270,000 active editors on the English Wikipedia. According to the Wikimedia Statistics there are only about 40,000 active editors on the English Wikipedia. On Wikimedia Statistics, 270,000 is the number of editors.

Counting 1 edit in the last 30 days versus counting 5 edits in the last 30 days.

Can this contradicting information please be fixed? WikiPate (talk) 18:32, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

That link says the graph is of editors with "five or more edits" and the main page link says that is for editors with "an action" in the past 30 days. Maybe that's confusingly presented, but it doesn't sound like a contradiction. It's easy to imagine that of 270k acounts with an action in the past 30 days that only 40k had five or more edits in that timespan. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 03:45, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

the link says:

• 40,000 active editors
• 270,000 editors

the main page says:

• 270,000 active editors

that it is counted differently is written in small letters. WP belongs to Wikimedia. Having two widely differing numbers for the same KPI is unprofessional. WikiPate (talk) 08:20, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

@WikiPate I'm not sure this can be fixed by us. Special:Statistics seems like a MediaWiki thing and it does not include any 40k figure بادهای شمال ❄️ (talk) 13:50, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

The problem isn't that the two have different values, it is that YOU are not paying attention to the definitions that each is using. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 13:58, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

So for every term on Wikipedia, the reader always needs to check which definition is used for it this time? Again: Unprofessional. WikiPate (talk) 14:09, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

No, but when looking at two different things (WP and WM), you need to make sure that they are using the terms the same way. Not checking that is unprofessional on your part. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:16, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

WP belongs to WM. Having the same definition for active users is self-evident here.

I wouldn't mind if a newspaper would count it differently, because a newspaper and WP are not the same organization. WikiPate (talk) 14:22, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Lots of companies measure things differently in different parts of the organization, so I fail to see how it is "self-evident". --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 16:06, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

I think the underlying issue is that you may not understand how Wikipedia organises itself, Khajidha. All the 346 language editions of Wikipedia make autonomous decisions how to do that. And that seems sensible. I could not see the point that everything across all languages needs to be coordinated and fully aligned with what the Wikimedia Foundation does. It would be a logistical and administrative nightmare trying to do so. As volunteers, surely we have better things to do than trying to nut out tiny details like what defines "active". As long as it's stated how things are measured and reported on, the interested reader can find out. Schwede66 21:01, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

I think you meant this for the other guy. I'm the one who actually does understand this.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 23:34, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Ha, indeed. Sorry for that. It was WikiPate who I was intending to ping. Schwede66 05:29, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

You only "actually understand" your point of view in a discussion where there can be different opinions. WikiPate (talk) 12:23, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

I could not see the point that everything across all languages needs to be coordinated and fully aligned with what the Wikimedia Foundation does.

I didn't write that everything needs to align. It's just that a metric on the main page of the English Wikipedia is widely different to the official statistics website of Wikimedia. That should be fixed. WikiPate (talk) 12:09, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

We have no control over the Wikimedia Statistics pages. The metrics they use are likely chosen for a particular purpose, which may not be the same as the one we use here. CMD (talk) 13:44, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Different entities (even those that are linked) can and do utilize and present data differently. This is not a problem.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:27, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard § Main page featured article Crusading Movement is a contentious topic that doesn't follow WP:NPOV

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard § Main page featured article Crusading Movement is a contentious topic that doesn't follow WP:NPOV. Lijil (talk) 06:23, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

"On this day" May 1st

I think that it's biased to write about Loyalty Day but not about International Workers' Day. Since these holidays are counterparts, we should either include notes about both of them in that column or not include either of them. Sknerus MacKwacz (talk) 12:26, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Feel free to participate in the processes that determine what appears in OTD. See WP:OTD. 331dot (talk) 12:29, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

There are already a lot of events that take place every May 1. International Workers' Day was on OTD last year, as well as 12 other occasions before that (many alongside Loyalty Day, which only has 11 appearances to date). -- Reconrabbit 17:33, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Linking to sections

Is it possible to link to sections in the main page? I've tried "Main Page#Did you know..." but it does not work. Could we add this functionality if it does not yet exist? Panamitsu ✨ 07:45, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

• Main Page#mp-tfa-h2
• Main Page#mp-dyk-h2
• Main Page#mp-itn-h2
• Main Page#mp-otd-h2
• Main Page#mp-tfl-h2
• Main Page#mp-tfp-h2
• Main Page#mp-other
• Main Page#mp-sister

These links are relatively stable, but they are not guaranteed to work in the future – they might stop working if there is a redesign of the main page.

The anchor (aka hash, aka fragment) for each link can be found in the wikitext of the main page in the "id" attributes of h2 tags. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:44, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, forgot that it's the IDs that are used instead of the names of the headings. Panamitsu ✨ 10:59, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

In regular ==section header== wikitext, the generated ID is the heading, e.g. #Linking to sections and #"On this day" May 1st. In rare cases when characters <>[]{|} are used in the section heading, percent-encoding is required. E.g. Talk:Main Page/Archive 78#{{permprot}} ???? has the anchor %7B%7Bpermprot%7D%7D ????. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:08, 2 May 2026 (UTC)