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Did You Know
edit| “ | The whole misbegotten idea of using templates for the nom discussions was one of the stupidest design blunders ever on Wikipedia (and that's saying a lot). Anything you can do clean up the bizzarro things related to that is welcome. But there may be hidden reasons and side effects lost in the mists of time, so be very careful in testing, and we all must be high alert for unforeseen ill-effects for a few weeks after such a change is installed. | ” |
| — EEng , WT:DYK, 21 June 2019 | ||
You literally can't touch anything in the DYK process or the whole thing breaks. Here's a running tally of things in the DYK process that I have broken so far.
Templates
edit- {{DYK top}}
- {{DYK bottom}}
- {{DYKsubpage}} (depends on the previous two, yet does not follow the same naming conventions)
- {{Did you know/Clear}} (mistake on my part to be fair)
Modules
editBots
editThat time I broke almost all of Portal:Contents
edit- I closed a move discussion that suggested moving all of Portal:Contents to Wikipedia:Contents and only after starting did I realize that not only did I need
+sysopto move the fully protected pages, but I also kept hitting the rate limit. It took two sysops and a couple hours to clean up the complete mess I made. See User:Wugapodes/Wikipedia contents cleanup for the early tracking of the cleanup.
- Who knew that rebasing and then attempting to merge 13 patches would lock up MediaWiki's development infrastructure for two hours?