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village pump is used to discuss technical issues
about Wikipedia. Bug reports and feature requests should be made in
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how to report a bug). Bugs with
security implications should be reported differently (see
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If you want to report a JavaScript error, please follow this guideline. Questions about MediaWiki in general should be posted at the MediaWiki support desk. Discussions are automatically archived after remaining inactive for five days.
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| No, we will not use JavaScript to set focus on the search box.
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This would interfere with usability, accessibility, keyboard navigation and standard forms. See task 3864. There is an accesskey property on it (default to accesskey="f" in English). Logged-in users can enable the "Focus the cursor in the search bar on loading the Main Page" gadget in their preferences.
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| No, we will not add a spell-checker, or spell-checking bot.
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| You can use a web browser such as Firefox, which has a spell checker.
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| If you changed to another skin and cannot change back, use this link.
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| Alternatively, you can press Tab until the "Save" button is highlighted, and press Enter. Using Mozilla Firefox also seems to solve the problem.
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| If an image thumbnail is not showing, try purging its image description page.
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| If the image is from Wikimedia Commons, you might have to purge there too. If it doesn't work, try again before doing anything else. Some ad blockers, proxies, or firewalls block URLs containing /ad/ or ending in common executable suffixes. This can cause some images or articles to not appear.
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