Talk:Talk pages project/Replying
Newcomer to Wikipedia discussions
I've recently been invited to join in Wikipedia discussions but I really don't know anything about the process. How can I learn how to join in and share the information I've learned? Topdogrex (talk) 01:17, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- What exactly have you been invited to discuss? Michael21107 (talk) 11:07, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
Templates / quotation formatting
Considering how common and useful quotation formatting (like this) is, and since currently a template is necessary for that, it seems absurd to me that neither you can use templates in the visual reply editor, nor they are autocompleted in the source one. In source editor, a simple template like the quotation formatting even prohibits going back to the visual one. Michael21107 (talk) 11:02, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Michael21107 Have you tried using the WikiEditor extension? Its toolbar includes a template button (looks like a jigsaw puzzle piece).
Rootsmusic (talk) 02:43, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Quick reply changes
(Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this.)
I've been away for a few days, and came back to find that the quick reply function has changed. Coinciding with that, my browser (Vivaldi) has also gone up a major version update, so I don't know what's causing the following new features (?) of quick reply:
- I can't see the real-time preview of what I'm typing anymore.
- When I type '[[', "Add a link" box pops up, which I'd like to turn off if possible.
- The return key seems to add more vertical space than before.
Firstly, are these intended features, or is it more likely that my browser is messing things up? And can I toggle these settings somewhere, to go back to the way things were? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:43, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
- PS: I only now realised that when the "Add a link" thing comes up, I can escape it, but the link I go on to add gets wrapped inside nowiki. Please someone tell me there's a way to stop this happening? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:11, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
- PPS: Okay, it seems the quick reply feature either defaults, or I've accidentally switched it, to visual mode. (Duh!) As long as the solution is to switch it to source mode, and it hopefully stays that way, then we don't have a problem. Phew. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:47, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
关于讨论页工具的语法高亮
讨论页工具的语法高亮不会在直接编辑时自动加粗体的地方加粗体。例：cm-mw-template-bracket。 Pawsdt (talk) 09:30, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
Reply bug -- reformatting a previous comment
In a long threaded discussion at the English Wikipedia, I made a brief reply using the reply tool. But it didn't just add my reply, it also reformatted a previous reply of mine earlier in the thread, getting it wrong. I'm not sure whether this was due to the complexity of the discussion or due to my use of the tqb template to quote a thread from another page. The quoted thread used indents and bullets too and so this may have caused confusion. Here's a diff which shows an example. Andrew Davidson (talk) 10:21, 3 August 2026 (UTC)