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Score pluggin Displays colored scales incorrectly.

colored scales

Display error

• use https://www.hacklily.org/ hwww.hacklily.org

it's an online editor for Lilypond where you can try out the code examples without any software. There you can see how it should looks like.

\version "2.14.2"\markup \column { %% Überschrift / Headline  \halign #CENTER {   \bold "C-ionisch (C-Form) " } \halign #CENTER {  "C ionian (C shape) " } %% Aussehen / Look  \override #'(size . 3.0) {  \override #'(fret-diagram-details . (   (orientation . #'landscape )   (finger-code . #'in-dot )   (dot-color . #'black)   (dot-radius . 0.4)   (dot-position . 0.5)   (top-fret-thickness . 6)   (fret-count . 3)   (number-type . roman-upper)  ))  %% Finger  %% Saite Bund "Intervall" Farbe  %% string fret "interval" color  \fret-diagram-verbose #'(   (place-fret 1 12 "3" black )   (place-fret 1 13 "4"  yellow3 )   (place-fret 1 15 "5" darkgrey )   (place-fret 2 12 "j7" yellow3 )   (place-fret 2 13 "1"  black )   (place-fret 2 15 "2" darkgreen )   (place-fret 3 12 "5" black )   (place-fret 3 14 "6" darkgreen )   (place-fret 4 12 "2" darkgreen )   (place-fret 4 14 "3" black )   (place-fret 4 15 "4" yellow3 )    (place-fret 5 12 "6" darkgreen )   (place-fret 5 14 "j7" yellow3 )   (place-fret 5 15 "2" black )    (place-fret 6 12 "3" black )   (place-fret 6 13 "4"  yellow3 )   (place-fret 6 15 "5" darkgrey )  ) }}\paper{     indent=0\mm     line-width=80\mm     oddFooterMarkup=##f     oddHeaderMarkup=##f     bookTitleMarkup = ##f     scoreTitleMarkup = ##f}

It's frustrating when all the work I've invested in Wikibooks is at risk. All the color scales suddenly become unusable. Pages with colored scales can no longer be edited. The previously created graphics would be be ruined. I cant continue my work with scales. --Mjchael (talk) 18:27, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

This is probably fallout from task T49578... I've file task T431021 for you. Reedy (talk) 18:40, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Just to note hacklily seems to be using an old version of lilypond, as per https://github.com/jocelyn-stericker/hacklily/issues/63 - This may be related to our own upgrade, but may not be our fault, it may be an issue with lilypond etc - task T385404 Reedy (talk) 19:05, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

It works for me once I re-add the line breaks:

You can't paste it without line breaks because the "%" introduces a single-line comment, so a comment runs from %% Überschrift to the end of the input. I don't think it's related to SVG or the LilyPond version. -- Tim Starling (talk) 23:49, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Counting images on a page

Hello,

is there a way to count images on a page and eventually only the ones in a specific section of a page ?

I'm using sub-pages of my User page on Commons to collect images which are of interest for me and I got curious about how many do I gathered in each page.

See this one about Carnaval for exemple :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BotaFlo/Collections/Carnaval

Or this other one about mythological fauns and satyrs :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BotaFlo/Collections/Faunes_(mythologie)

Many thanks in advance for your help

BotaFlo (talk) 09:36, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

"Revise Tone" how is it invoked?

Please help me, Can someone tell where I can learn how to use the "Revise Tone" feature?

Tech news 2026-29 references a feature "Revise Tone" indicating that, "The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias. . . .The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis,"

So I tried to find out how to use the "Revise Tone" feature, I traveled through a "maze of links" but I never found the cheese. I was not successful. I like to solve puzzles, but as usual the Wikipedia Monolith was impenetrable. (To resolve this search for hidden curious and quaint forgotten lore there needs to be a search capability that would only search through Wikipedia's technical and reference documentation. Just saying. I wonder where I could make that suggest? It would be a significant capability for editors who have not or will not memorize the total sum of Wikipediae knowledge.)

This isn't the only bit of Wikipedia Arcana I have been unable to find. I hate to complain but it seems to me that much of Wikipedia documentation for things that an editor can use is written in such a way that it seems that the tech writer was standing too close to the subject so neglects to point out some things that are obvious to that editor but is not at all obvious to me. I don't make this criticism lightly, I have extensive experience with software development in my work. I have written design specs and user manuals for many software apps, So when I comment critically, I am just speaking truth to whomever.

So, returning to my request, please help me, can someone tell where I can learn how to use the "Revise Tone" feature? (Sadly it has been referred to as a "feature", In the software industry a bug in an app that isn't going to be fixed is referred to as a "feature". I am not saying the "Revise Tone" item is broke, but calling it a feature leaving me scratching my head. Just saying.) Osomite (talk) 00:15, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

The Tech News entry linked to mw:Growth/Revise Tone which explains that this is one of the growth features (which are available via the newcomer homepage. Given your account age you need to activate the homepage manually via en:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal-homepage before you can use en:Special:Homepage. Once you've done that, select all topics and in the next step only the "revise tone" easy task to test the new feature. Johannnes89 (talk) 05:47, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

@Johannnes89:

Thank you for replying.

I want to briefly explain the level of my knowledge at the time I asked for help. I read the "Tech News: 2026-29" and which mentioned Revise Tone. Through my searching I understood that it was a "nwGrowth structured task" (so I guess it isn't a feature.) I when to the page which the "Revise Tone" link took me. I read that, a lot of good information but strangely there was nothing about how to set up to access the Revised Tone "structured task". I did find the "newcomer Homepage" article that you provided the link as "newcomer homepage". Somewhere in my search I discovered that I needed to activate the "homepage" in order to access Revised Tone. I activated my "homepage" and examining it, it did not provide any information about the "Revised Tone". After further fruitless search I decided the effort was futile. So, unable to figure out the Revised Tone Conundrum I asked for help.

Your guidance indicates that, "Once you've done that, select all topics and in the next step only the "revise tone" easy task to test the new feature."

OK. Where (what page?) do I "select all topics" so that I can proceed to "the next step". And where would this "next step" be. It isn't apparent to me that these task can be done on the "newcomers homepage".

I am not trying to be difficult, but I just can not do what you direct me to do because I do not have the necessary Wikipedia insight to understand the "where" nor the "how". I understand how difficult it is to write documentation--it was part of my job as a Systems Architect and Systems Designer in my previous life. I do appreciate your help.

Could you please give me a bit of detail on what to do.

Thanks Osomite (talk) 00:30, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

@Osomite if you open en:Special:Homepage (after enabling it in your preferences) you should see a section "Suggested edits" which asks you to "Choose some topics you are interested in editing" (this [1] is a screenshot showing the mobile view, it should look similar on desktop). After confirming your selection (you can change those topics later, if you just want to test stuff I recommend simply selecting all topics) there's a second prompt to select the tasks you want to do (looks like this [2] except that "revise tone" is now a new easy task, "add link" might not be available to you because it's limited to inexperienced users and "copyedit" has been disabled on English Wikipedia). Select "Revise tone" (and no other task) in order to specifically test revise tone suggestions (looks similar to this [3] screenshot). Click on one of the suggestions and which opens the article. You should see a pop-up giving you an onboarding before you can actually edit the article. Johannnes89 (talk) 06:35, 20 July 2026 (UTC)