Portal talk:Current events

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The dynamic subpages of Current events are: April 2 April 1 March 31 March 30 March 29 March 28 March 27 In the news Current events day by day Boxes in right sidebar In the news is preferably discussed in its own talk page, whereas matters in other subpages are preferably discussed here.

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Portal:Current events is a reader-facing page intended for viewing by non-editors. Please prioritize their needs when adjusting its design, and move editor-facing elements to other pages.

Not sure if this is the right talk page to post, but there's a stray "=" after "American rock climber Alex Honnold free-solo climbs the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan, becoming the first person to ascend the skyscraper in that manner, after completing the 508 m (1,667 ft) climb in about 90 minutes during a livestreamed event". Anyone able to remove? Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:05, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This was fixed in Special:Diff/1334969145. In the corresponding box on the portal page, just to the right of "January 25, 2026 (Sunday)", there are three links: "edit", "history", and "watch". Anyone can edit the news entries on the portal by clicking "edit" in the top right corner of the box for each day. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:44, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I see there's now the stray text "{{Current events|year=2026|month=02|day=1|content=" and "}}". ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:05, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This issue was fixed in Special:Diff/1336036266.

Checking the history of the subpage "Portal:Current events/2026 February 1" (the date from the stray text) is the best way of figuring out what went wrong. On the page Portal:Current events, there is "history" link in the top right corner of every box, next to "edit". —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:33, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Now, I'm not too much of a journalist or geopolitical analyst or anything, but I've got a feeling there's more important things that represent the past couple days than a creepy grin of a random politician. That's just me imagining the average reader though. <- Feel free to read that in Norm Macdonald's voice ~Sıgehelmus♗_(Tøk) 18:52, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sigehelmus, you can suggests new images for the "In the news" section of the main page at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. This is the wrong place to discuss it. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:02, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'm sorry for the pettiness. On that note, for something I've also wanted to review for ages, where can I request changes for the default Wikipedia UI? (For instance, even right now I'd like to propose the Thank ❤️ button be more prominent rather than hidden in the three dots.) ~Sıgehelmus♗_(Tøk) 19:30, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

....well this aged poorly. ~Sıgehelmus♗_(Tøk) 04:50, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Why current events are sometimes not cited in the articles related to the same current events? Examples: Akashat (Although I think the report in the news is not neutral, but it is a excellent example) Iwentirf (talk) 10:52, 12 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Since yesterday, the page for March (which used to have the events since the first day rather than the last 7 days) is blanked, showing instead the link to month inclusion. I guess something wrong happened there. G.J.S. (talk) 18:57, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

G.J.S., thank you for the report. Could you please be more specific? Please include links to where you see an issue when reporting problems. The page Portal:Current events/March 2026 looks fine to me. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:45, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see the problem now. The page is over the post-expand include limit. There's too much content, for whatever reason. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:54, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a way in which I could see the raw content or is it just a matter of time until it's up again? I used to read that every day but spent a lot of time without seeing that and then found the page blanked G.J.S. (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Checking on Special:ExpandTemplates, {{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion|2026 February}} produces 1352 lines, ~227 KB of wikitext; whereas {{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion|2026 March}} gives 1834, ~315 KB of wikitext. A solution would be to trim down the pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Current events/2026 March. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:08, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. G.J.S. (talk) 20:11, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For convenience, here are the page sizes of all 2026 March subpages:

—⁠andrybak (talk) 20:20, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have made a fix without any trimming needed.[1] Previously the content for each day was counted twice towards WP:PEIS because it was passed through a template. I transcluded the days directly instead. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that there is an intermediary template {{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion}} causes the post-expand size to be double counted? What a weird quirk... —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:56, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's documented at Help:Template limits#Nested transclusions. The main purpose of template limits is to reduce server load and I guess the server load does increase when a lot of content is passed around multiple times. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:26, 28 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The {{Current events}} template, used by each day's sub-page, accepts an alternative syntax that roughly halves the PEIS. It was missing from the template documentation. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:54, 29 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]