User:Noreplyz/UCP

The Unified Community Platform (UCP) is a new technology platform using an upgraded instance of MediaWiki, the software powering all wikis.

Bugs
List of specific issues, errors or faults with the new platform.

Users

 * Staff reply User preferences are incorrectly changing when changed on a UCP wiki
 * Staff reply The preferred editor preference was successfully transitioned to handle the two modes of the 2017 Editor, rather than the discrete editor options of the legacy platform
 * Signatures are truncated to 256 characters
 * Staff reply User edit count doesn't sync with either local or global edits.
 * When an account is globally blocked, the message on their contribs page is missing.
 * The user masthead is lazy loaded and causes jumping.
 * Changing the user masthead on UCP wikis won't refresh the cache on non-UCP wikis.
 * The "Free form" bio is not so free form: All newlines are collapsed into a single line. File:2020-03-12_12-2525_grim.png
 * Staff reply By free form, I meant not constrained by a specific field question, not put it in literally whatever format you want. That's what your About page is for.
 * User pages aren't auto-created when you join a UCP wiki.
 * Disabled account message does not appear in contribs page of disabled account (MediaWiki:Edit-account-closed-flag).
 * User mastheads often don't appear, see here.

Editors

 * Staff reply Adding a video to an article from the editor is not implemented.
 * Categories are not shown in Visual editor unless you go to Categories UI from menu.
 * Source Editor
 * The source code editor is not sized correctly when editing in the User: namespace File:UCP_Source_Mode_vs_Wiki_Source_Mode.jpg
 * Categories and images do not auto fill anymore in source code editor.
 * Source editor has to be continually selected
 * Staff reply We're working on getting the preference fixed to work with the change from discrete editor options to mode selection.
 * Categories don't appear for Source Editor in preview.
 * Show changes is difficult to discover and takes extra steps, because you need to click SAVE CHANGES... first.
 * A help notice for links is never permanently dismissed in the Source Editor nor the Visual Editor.

Templates

 * Global template transclusion (e.g. from Community Central) is not working.
 * The UCP VisualEditor doesn't support the preloadparams [X] url parameter, see Thread:1828522 for specifics.
 * There seems to be an issue where the same infobox gets listed multiple times as an option in the editor's visual mode. It is not yet clear what triggers this. See Thread:1839523.

Images and videos

 * Staff reply The full range of copyright scenarios for image uploads does not display, making "This is my own work" the only option.
 * Creating images with vignette links, like https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/1/19/Getting_Started_icon.png/revision/latest/smart/width/53/height/53?cb=20190606105944 doesn't work, shows up as a link instead of an image
 * Uploaded images can't have transparency. Thread:1828128
 * Staff reply This is a known bug — there is a ticket and a fix is presumably in the work.
 * Videos in infoboxes: when a video is put in an infobox, the play icon is enlarged and moved down, nearly doubling the size of the infobox, File:Screen_Shot_2020-03-15_at_8.05.30_PM.png
 * Videos in galleries have messed-up images File:Screen Shot 2020-03-15 at 8.07.42 PM.png
 * When trying to scale images past their actual size, instead of becoming larger they just get a white background where there should be an up-scaled image.
 * Adding a YouTube video can fail when the description includes content blocked by the global spam filter. An error appears in the top background: "Fatal error: bit&#46;ly (Block #471260)"
 * Non-UCP wikis currently ignore the filter when adding the video, but that code to bypass it is missing from UCP wikis.

Admin actions

 * Bureaucrats can't create Discussion Moderators, Chat Moderators, and Rollbacks.

Interface and design issues

 * On screens smaller than 761px the global navigation becomes unusable, with search, user dropdown, and notifications disappearing. File:Screenshot_2020-03-11-14-51-20.png
 * Special:Contributions looks much messier than it does on non-UCP wikis:
 * The fieldset in Special:Contributions (or "Activity") is not modernized.
 * The "Related Wiki" thing that shows up when using Special:Search is going off the edge of the page, File:2020-03-12 20-1126 grim.png
 * Special:ListUsers has a very different interface (less options; drop menu rather than checkboxes and no filter by edit count) than legacy wikis.
 * The little caret thing when you go to create a link in VisualEditor isn't positioned correctly, File:2020-03-11_12-4138_grim.png.
 * The toolbar is collapsed on every new wiki you enter.
 * The editor uses  instead of   like it should as a text editor
 * There seems to be less room between paragraphs.
 * Profile editor on UCP interacts badly with dark themes
 * The word "community" is added top every wiki.
 * Staff reply Per the answer you got on Discord, no to the community thing.
 * is missing the oasis-dark-theme class on dark themed UCP wikis
 * The search bar semi-uncollapses when on your message wall page.
 * Staff reply A bug ticket has been filed, thanks for reporting this.
 * New UCP wikis are missing the Main Page link on Discussions.
 * Notification bell (for Discussions follows and likes) drop down has larger icons and text, but drop down rectangle is same size, so less entries are visible than previously.
 * Staff reply A bug report has been filed. Whilst the icons are larger, this does not mean that less content fits within the box as reported.
 * Changing the border style for gallery images does not work. By default, it is set to small, but it never updates when changed. https://prntscr.com/rw4az7
 * Administrator's Tasks
 * When requested to "Upload Video" as a task, the interface displays a page which only allows image uploads. Uploading an image does not dismiss the task.
 * The save dialog contains a copyright notice. This notice links to a local page that is not created automatically and therefore shows as a redlink. This issue was first raised in this thread.

Extensions/feature issues

 * The Recent Wiki Activity module shows UTC time only.
 * The Discussions activity feed doesn't work on UCP, it renders as plain text instead of creating the feed.
 * No founder tag for founders
 * Cross wiki links using  sometime go to international version of wiki (maybe only Polish?) and not one without language code specified. i.e.   (Diomedéa) goes to https://animanga.fandom.com/pl/wiki/Diomed%C3%A9a instead of https://animanga.fandom.com/wiki/Diomed%C3%A9a?redirect=no
 * Message Walls
 * All links pointing to Message Wall:Username are redlinks since those pages don't seem to actually exist anymore.
 * Adding  causes the masthead and profile tabs to completely break (when on your user and activity pages) and nothing whatsoever to show up on your Message Wall page.
 * The Message Wall toggle in the AdminDashboard didn't immediately take effect
 * Staff reply Bug report filed.
 * After the Message Wall feature is Off the Message Wall tab on the profile is gone but is not replaced with a User Talk tab like with what happens on non-UCP wikis.
 * Message wall notifications from UCP only appear on UCP wikis and do not appear on non-UCP wikis.
 * The "User talk" namespace no longer redirects to the "Message Wall" namespace.


 * Notifications
 * The notifications dropdown is absurdly wide.
 * The message in the notification dropdown puts a white line between the "X has written a message on your wall" (or whatevs) and the title of the post.
 * Special:ListUsers lists all users globally, rather than users who have edited on the wiki


 * InfoboxBuilder
 * After following the flow to create an infobox (Press "New Page" button, input "Template:TemplateName", Select template type as "Infobox") you get taken to the Special:InfoboxBuilder/Template:TemplateName but the infobox builder never loads.
 * Staff reply Bug report filed — thanks.
 * When modifying Section Headers the text explaining Collapsible Section Headers is duplicated, File:2020-03-26_10-4031_grim.png
 * Staff reply Bug report filed — thanks.


 * Syntaxhighlight does not actually color the text and adds the page to Category:Pages_with_Syntax_highlighting_errors. This issue was raised by this thread.

Missing features
Some features that exist on non-UCP wikis are not currently available on the new platform, and are listed below.


 * Chat
 * Achievements
 * Wiki Activity
 * Staff reply See Thread:1828522.
 * Article comments
 * Staff reply Article Comments are not yet enabled.
 * Per previous blog posts, Article Comments are being rebuilt to not rely on retired code. They are not currently on new UCP wikis, as they were not deemed critical for this stage of Phase 1.
 * Custom JavaScript and CSS
 * Staff reply See Thread:1828522.
 * Global and personal scripts and CSS are not imported.
 * Staff reply We do not have JS Review in this release, which is why you're seeing the JS issues.
 * DPL Forum
 * Staff reply Since the Forums retirement has not happened, DPLForum was not sized as a Day 1 requirement.
 * Ace Editor
 * Staff reply CodeEditor is dependent on the 2010 WikiEditor, which we are currently exploring to see if we can refactor into the 2017 Editor
 * Welcome messages
 * DisplayTitle magic word
 * Only formatting changes (such as capitalization) are allowed, likely due to the MediaWiki $wgRestrictDisplayTitle flag being automatically enabled in new wikis.
 * WikiFeatures
 * Polls
 * Blogs
 * Staff reply Blogs are still being evaluated. We've heard a lot of great feedback regarding their role in different communities and we have not come to a final decision on blogs yet.
 * New Image Galleries
 * Message Wall Greeting
 * Loops
 * Staff reply I am seeing Loops as slated for full rollout of the platform, which will be later in Phase 1. No ETA on when that release will be, as it has many dependencies.
 * FlaggedRevs
 * Global Lua Modules in Scribunto
 * Staff reply Loading global modules from the legacy platform will fail.
 * Mobile editing
 * Staff reply A specific editor for mobile users is coming!
 * Special:Templates
 * MediaWiki:Newarticletext
 * Staff reply I can confirm that it will support it.
 * Shared Help
 * Example: Help:Vandalism appears on classic wikis, but not on UCP wikis (as of April 8, 2020).
 * Help:Getting Started, Help:Contributing, Help:Community Management, Help:Contents, and Help:Index all go directly to their respective pages on CC w/o even a redirect. Any custom Help pages go to the proper location. Even if you manually create one of the above pages any links that would lead there instead lead to CC. So your wiki's Help:Rules (or whatever your wiki names their rules page) is ok, but if your wiki has a Help:Contributing they're out of luck and will need to move the page so links can point to the correct spot.(see Thread:1840882).

Known changes
Some changes are not bugs but intentional changes, and are listed below.


 * Staff reply Localization strings have changed from custom Fandom translations built up over years on the forked 1.19 platform to the standard MediaWiki translations on 1.33, so some of the terms which non-EN users see will have changed.
 * The masthead doesn't include other details like location, birthday, occupation and gender. That's by design. We switched to a freeform bio with the Profile changes.
 * Special:WhatLinksHere does not work on Message Walls
 * Per our discussion earlier this week, that is not a bug. It is due to the new Message Wall design no longer being MediaWiki custom code.
 * Wikis are now based on a different 'Starter' wiki
 * Staff reply The old starter wiki is NOT the source of new wiki spinup.
 * The starter for the new UCP communities is in a private database. It's not accessible by outside users. Shortly before feature releases for UCP, I will add any relevant additions that capitalize on newly available tools.
 * New Tags appear in Special:Contributions and Special:RecentChanges.