RexxS

Lua error

Hi RexxS, I am occasionally getting "Lua error: Cannot read a valid page: first name is ." from a random biography call on Portal:Underwater diving. Is this likely to be a format error in the list of articles, or something more complicated? It is intermittent, at low frequency, leading me to suspect one of the {{Transclude lead excerpt}} parameters is the culprit, but don't really know. Will try to isolate. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 09:25, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Dont worry, I found the error. One of the templates had a missing parameter. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 10:07, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Accessibility assistance reqd with module

Hi, please use your Lua and accessibility expertise to make the text emitted by {{BSto}} readable. Example: Template:Wherry Lines, the pairs of lines directly below the words "Norwich", "Whitlingham" etc. which are only 8px in MonoBook skin. Vector gives just over 10px but it's barely readable. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:00, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

@Redrose64: The smallest text needs to be increased by 35% to meet the minimum size allowed by MOS:FONTSIZE. There are two ways of doing this:

The simpler way is just to scale up the table holding the two lines

Line 887: local result = ' <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size:108%; font-weight:inherit; color:inherit; background-color:transparent; margin-top:-2px; margin-bottom:-2px; display:inline-table; vertical-align:middle; text-align:'..align

Change the font-size:80% to font-size:108% (a 35% increase) – this affects both BSto and BSsplit.

Or the more complicated, but flexible way is to alter the fontsize scaling

Line 1025: return base(args[1],args[2],args[3],nil,nil,args[4],nil,args[5],args.align,args.style,args.bg1,args.bg2,args.line,'105%','92%','0.9',nil,nil,nil,'to')

The '105%','92%','0.9' are the values for the first line fontsize, second line fontsize, and line height, so it would allow the lines to be scaled up individually, perhaps scaling up the larger first line by less than 35%. This only affects BSto; the line for BSsplit is 1034.

I've implemented the first solution (and the second, but I rolled it back to the simpler one) in Module:Routemap/sandbox. The results can be seen in Template:BSto/sandbox, Template:BSsplit/sandbox and Template:Wherry Lines/sandbox. Of course, updating the Module:Routemap from the sandbox is just a copy and paste, but I guess you ought to get consensus before doing that. I'm pretty certain you'll get pushback because the first line is now too big. Well that can be fixed by the second method, but you might keep that in reserve as a compromise for IDONTLIKEIT brigade. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 22:23, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello RexxS, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

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Nomination for deletion of Module:Carousel

Module:Carousel has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 23:11, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

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Talk page comment indentation

I recall that you once created (in your talk space?) an annotated demonstration of how bad comment indentation harms accessibility - but I can't find it. Do you recall where it was, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:29, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Hehe, Andy, you're asking a dinosaur who can't even remember what he had for breakfast. I've done some searching and it's not in in any subpage, so we must be thinking about talk page archives. I've found a thread at User talk:RexxS/Archive 19 #Threaded discussion, which refers to a discussion at Joseph A. Spadaro's talk page. That latter one might be what you're thinking of. Or maybe not? I have a dim recollection of another example I wrote out, but I've not found it yet. --RexxS (talk) 15:57, 13 June 2018 (UTC)