Talk:Wiki/Archive 13

New CAPTCHA on signup page

We've switched the CAPTCHA on Special:CreateAccount from hCaptcha to Cloudflare Turnstile, which does a better job of keeping out bots. [1] Please let one of the administrators or sysadmins know if you run into any problems creating an account. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 22:59, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Resolved: Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 07:27, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

New tools for wiki discussions

The operations team has installed the DiscussionTools extension. [2] This extension adds a number of little features to make discussions on this wiki much more intuitive:

• Start a new topic without leaving the talk page. A live preview shows you what you're about to post. The editor automatically signs your comment for you, so there's no need to correct others' comments with {{Unsigned}} anymore.
• Reply to a comment inline without leaving the talk page. The editor automatically figures out the correct level of indentation and alerts you if someone else has replied in the meantime. Find other participants to ping by typing @.
• Subscribe for notifications when someone comments on a section of a talk page. You no longer have to put the whole talk page and its article on your watchlist just to follow a specific discussion. A signature automatically becomes a permalink to an individual comment.

All these features work in the mobile skin and with the visual editor. If you prefer to talk the old-fashioned away, you can still click "edit source" like normal. DiscussionTools manipulates ordinary wikitext, so it may fail to hook into the page in some situations. The extension also comes with some special markup for enabling or disabling the features on a specific page. For example, some talk pages are "frozen" for historical reference only, while some pages in other namespaces like Proposal: have effectively turned into talk pages.

With the introduction of DiscussionTools, we're retiring the Convenient Discussions gadget that served as a stopgap, effective immediately. Although Convenient Discussions has many more features for power users, a recent security incident had us reconsider the decision to install it globally. If you prefer Convenient Discussions, you can still install it as a personal user script.

 – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 09:03, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Resolved: Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 04:16, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Incomplete display

Why only office=diplomatic + diplomatic=embassy is shown on banner on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:diplomatic%3Ddelegation ?

Template parameter has full office=diplomatic + diplomatic=embassy + embassy=delegation

Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 04:16, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Template:Turn_into_tag_link is limited to 2 args delimited by a single plus.

It's used Template:Deprecated_feature on line 27, wrapping the three mentioned tags. I don't know how it fares with the already "converted" tag-link format, seems redundant to me.

Maybe Template:Tag could do something intelligent which the turn tag into link template can use to disable itself? That's too advanced for me now.

I've simply substituted the + with + on that page as alternative – it's different, and not matched, thus remains, and the entite argument-string is kept.

That's kind of a hack though. And I think shouldn't be used in article namespace, nor be necessary for something like this.
–cyton (talk) 06:04, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Now, you do not need to replace the + with + anymore. – The Template:Turn_into_tag_link should be updated or replaced by a lua module that is capable of handling all of the variations. Maybe I'll give it a try. Help is welcome! -- Chris2map (talk) 22:57, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Just created Module:Turn into tag link to lift the restrictions of only 2 tags and the need of "+". Please tell if you encounter any (new) issue. --Chris2map (talk) 17:50, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Resolved: These pages are not broken anymore Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 06:28, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Run script to update links from map

1. In the community forum, I learned that the keys in this wiki, which are linked from the map, are defined in the following file:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/config/wiki_pages.yml [3]

Last updated of wiki_pages.yml was on March 19. Update is irregular.

2. Additionally, the links for some values likely originate from:

https://github.com/JOSM/tag2link/commits/master/taginfo.json

with the last monthly update of taginfo.json on December 21.

It would be helpful to update wiki_pages.yml as well. This can be accomplished by running the script found at:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/script/misc/update-wiki-pages [4]

Could someone kindly run this script? 99 tabazan (talk) 09:44, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

The files were unknown to me. – For what reason or purpose? --Chris2map (talk) 13:29, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Habi had pointed me to https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-to-link-a-tag-from-osm-org-to-its-wiki-page/7324 where it's explained.

People regularly contribute to this wiki and this should benefit the Map. --99 tabazan (talk) 13:35, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

This scripts may be run only by system administrators. Please contact Firefishy. Something B (talk) 13:59, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of and thought it is updating automatically like the links displayed when you edit the map (iD editor). --Chris2map (talk) 14:27, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. I sent a message to Firefishy and started checking how it looks in iD editor (wasn't aware of the use there, it's a bit different). Also, I updated 2 links above, the github I linked before might not be the one that is actually used, but the files have the same age. --99 tabazan (talk) 22:23, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

That's just plain wrong. Everyone can run the script locally, create a pull request that includes the updated yml file, and have the updated wiki_pages.yml merged into openstreetmap-website. There's really no need to bother our sysadmin with such tasks. mmd (talk) 08:37, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

I will give it a try. --99 tabazan (talk) 13:05, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

I run the perl script .. it takes about 4 hours and generates the file. I edited that to limit the update to en (as I can't troubleshoot the others). Then I tried to upload it to github, but somehow got lost in their captchas (oddly more complicated than all the other steps). Is there another place I can save to it can be integrated? --99 tabazan (talk) 23:26, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

I have no idea what funny captchas Github has added for you (I don't see any of that here). Since there was a build failure that required code changes due to a new Turkish translation for highway=primary, I have added everything here https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6696 mmd (talk) 21:24, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Hope we find a developer to merge.

The captcha puzzle is when creating an account (even after eventually getting a 6 of them right, it fails). Time for OSM to consider using another platform. --99 tabazan (talk) 21:44, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

The pull request was merged today, it might take some days until the next deployment of the website code. mmd (talk) 21:36, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

It's now active, thanks once more for this. Do you think we should mention it in the forum and ask people to check for any issues? --99 tabazan (talk) 09:25, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! I think that would definitely be a good thing. Otherwise, I suspect most people won't even notice it. And that note would also emphasize that manual action is required for this. --Chris2map (talk) 07:16, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

I just noticed that my assumption above that the links on values get updated on a monthly basis was wrong. The file mentioned above [5] and [6] get updated on monthly basis with new formatter urls, but that doesn't have any effect on what's linked at the Map or on overpass (I checked some new ones in last month's update). Any idea what's needed? --99 tabazan (talk) 18:59, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

They need an update to point to the current version.

The Map is currently from 2025.7.21 (and updated yesterday [7] probably live soon) and Overpass on 2024.05.21 [8]. I asked simon04 to look into the later. --99 tabazan (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

The links on some of the values got updated yesterday. Thanks for that! --99 tabazan (talk) 21:45, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Overpass was updated yesterday [9] and this is already live at https://tyrasd.github.io/overpass-turbo/ --99 tabazan (talk) 13:06, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

State of wiki_pages.yml: Last update 11 January 2026. (--Pablobm 26 January 2026) --Chris2map (talk) 21:23, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Resolved: This/was mostly resolved. Thanks for the help.

• Links to this wiki were updated again this week.
• tag2link no longer updates monthly, but was updated earlier this month.
• overpass update is stuck/hasn't happened. It does have problems of another scale these weeks.

--99 tabazan (talk) 08:57, 21 May 2026 (UTC)