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Welcome to the Technical Assistance reading room. Get assistance on questions related to MediaWiki markup, CSS, JavaScript, and such as they relate to Wikibooks. This is not a general-purpose technical support room.

To submit a bug notice or feature request for the MediaWiki software, visit Phabricator.

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There are also two IRC channels for technical help: #mediawikiconnect for issues about the software, and #mediawiki-coreconnect for WMF server or configuration issues.

Lua error displaying on gadget JavaScript pages

Some time ago, I have updated {{script doc auto}} to display better in dark mode, but as a side effect, it is displaying the following error on gadget JavaScript pages:

Lua error in mw.text.lua at line 25: bad argument #1 to 'match' (string expected, got nil). Codename Noreste (talk) 21:48, 7 September 2025 (UTC)