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Code review...

Would love to hear any thoughts you may have on this discussion: Module_talk:Location_map#Proposal_to_refactor_the_way_Template:Location_map_works_in_Infoboxes. Trying to solicit feedback and a code review. I know you've been active with Module:Infobox mapframe... Please share any thoughts you have! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:56, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

refresh.js

I am big fan of your refresh.js script, but it seems to be broken last few weeks. I am getting error "Error fetching page titles: http!". It seems that script does not like Cyrillic pages anymore:

index.php?title=User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:116 {action: 'query', formatversion: '2', prop: '', generator: 'transcludedin', titles: 'Шаблон:Хесен', …}

index.php?title=User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:118 {xhr: {…}, textStatus: 'error', exception: TypeError: Failed to execute 'setRequestHeader' on 'XMLHttpRequest': String contains non ISO-8859-1…}exception: TypeError: Failed to execute 'setRequestHeader' on 'XMLHttpRequest': String contains non ISO-8859-1 code point.
    at Object.send (https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=sr&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core&skin=vector&version=m2tg6:128:985)
    at jQuery.ajax (https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=sr&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core&skin=vector&version=m2tg6:124:475)
    at mw.Api.ajax (https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=sr&modules=mediawiki.api&skin=vector&version=1tiw2:4:740)
    at mw.Api.get (https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=sr&modules=mediawiki.api&skin=vector&version=1tiw2:2:472)
    at getList (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:117:7)
    at HTMLLIElement.<anonymous> (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:217:5)
    at HTMLLIElement.dispatch (https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=sr&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core&skin=vector&version=m2tg6:65:20)
    at elemData.handle (https://sr.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=sr&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core&skin=vector&version=m2tg6:61:754)textStatus: "error"xhr: {readyState: 0, getResponseHeader: ƒ, getAllResponseHeaders: ƒ, setRequestHeader: ƒ, overrideMimeType: ƒ, …}[[Prototype]]: Object
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:118
(anonymous) @ jquery.js:3223
add @ jquery.js:3282
getList @ index.php?title=User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:117
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:217

Ђидо (talk) 04:17, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

@Ђидо I think I fixed it, but I can't test it because I believe it's your Cyrillic username that is causing the issue. Let me know if it works now. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 05:08, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes, you fixed it! Thanks :) Ђидо (talk) 05:19, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

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Protist classification WP:PEI stuff

Hello, I'm quite confused about exactly what issue you are trying to prevent in the Protist classification article. I am not well versed in templates so I would like to understand. Also, does that issue appear because one clade template was too large, or because there are too many clade templates in the same page? — Snoteleks (talk) 18:52, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

@Snoteleks Wikipedia counts each level of nested templates twice towards the WP:PEIS limit, and after the limit is reached templates will no longer display. Since {{Clade}} calls {{#invoke:Clade|main}}, anything inside it gets double counted. When you have several clades nested within each other such as {{clade|1={{clade|1={{clade|1={{clade|1={{clade|1=Foo}}}}}}}}}}, Foo actually gets counted 10 times (twice for each template call), whereas calling the module {{#invoke:clade|main|1={{#invoke:clade|main|1={{#invoke:clade|main|1={{#invoke:clade|main|1={{#invoke:clade|main|1=Foo}}}}}}}}}} Foo only gets counted 5 times (once for each module call). --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 19:16, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

I see, thanks. Does the WP:PEI limit also account for the number of templates? — Snoteleks (talk) 19:35, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

@Snoteleks Not the number, just the total amount of text produced by templates (without the aformentioned double counting for nesting). --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 19:39, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

@Ahecht Does that include the use of {{small}} or {{au}} templates? I have been wondering if that's causing more lag than necessary and whether I should have used the HTML <small></small> instead. — Snoteleks (talk) 20:04, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

@Snoteleks Yes, but the impact of those templates is relatively minor compared to templates that call Lua modules (including things like {{cite web}}) or that use complex table formatting (such as {{clade}}, infoboxes, navboxes, etc.). If {{small}} were nested within several layers of {{clade}} it would make a bigger difference, but in general I don't worry about those too much. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 14:29, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

I see, thanks for informing me — Snoteleks (talk) 14:50, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

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