Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing

The WP article states that Jimmy Wales (who everyone already knows co-founded the platform we're on now) remained on this farm's staff as late as 2018. Per [https://about.fandom.com/about Fandom's own About page], just wanted to make sure if he's still with them in the current TPG era. (H/T [https://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Why_we_left this overview at Shout's Anti-Wikia Alliance [AWA]].)

(DISCLOSURE: This contributor was a former Wikian, but has long since moved on{{sup|[https://constantnoble.miraheze.org currently on Miraheze]}}.) --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 21:10, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

= June 3 =

I have recently swapped to Duckduckgo as my browser. It took me a while to get it to even run an automatic spellcheck on what I typed, and I'm not sure now how I achieved that. Now though I want to add words to the spellchecker's dictionary. How can I do that? HiLo48 (talk) 01:48, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|HiLo48}} Which spellchecker are you using? Duckmather (talk) 04:43, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

::Duckmather I have no idea. How do I find out? (I haven't found the Settings part of Duckduckgo very friendly or intuitive at all.) HiLo48 (talk) 04:48, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

:::@HiLo48 You might do better to ask in a specialist forum, such as [https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/] Shantavira|^{feed me} 17:02, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 6 =

Hi!

A few years ago, I tried to promote a YouTube video using its integration with Google Ads. However, a technical issue made that impossible. It was not possible to complete the process to the payment stage (page simply not loading or showing error messages).

I tried again a week ago, and on my second attempt, it worked. So now money is being taken from my credit card while the video is being promoted.

However, in the Google Ads web UI I cannot see the active campaign. I can see all my account details, the billing data, but no active campaign.

I do get a lot of email messages from Google Ads suggesting that I fine tune my campaign, but when I click the links in the message, I am met with a page telling me that I have no campaigns.

Interestingly, if I search for "Google Ads" in Google, I see a summary of my campaign at the top, before any WWW search results. But when I click a link there, I am taken to a Google Ads page telling me that "an error occurred".

I have been in contact with Google Ads support, and they tell me repeatedly that there is no technical issue, but that I am confusing the "Overview" page with the "Campaigns" page, even though I have even sent them a video showing me trying multiple times to access any information on the Campaigns page.

Is this just me being stupid?

Here's a video of me trying:

https://privat.rejbrand.se/GoogleAds-bug-demo-hb.mp4

Any other Google Ads user out there that can confirm my stupidity or the presence of a technical issue?

--Andreas Rejbrand (talk) 16:36, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

:I can confirm that you have not made any mistake, and Google customer support is being terrible and ignoring what you say, per their usual business strategy. You must search for information unassisted. The word "showing" seems to be a poor search term because hundreds of sites want to answer the question "why aren't my ads showing up?", so a narrower search is necessary. Searching support.google.com for a thread with a topic like "Campaigns not listed" may be informative.  Card Zero  (talk) 18:09, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

::Thank you, I'm glad to hear that I wasn't missing something obvious. --Andreas Rejbrand (talk) 19:29, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

= June 8 =

The 5G service where I'm now living is almost nonexistent, and I'm wondering whether I can switch to using 4G.

I'm using an iPhone 5s as I can't afford a newer one.

Various sources tell me to go to the Cellular or Network menu under Settings, but those don't appear to exist!

Would I have to get a different SIMM? Rojomoke (talk) 10:10, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

:The iPhone 5s is not 5G capable in the first place, so there is nothing to switch. See the "compatible networks" in iPhone 5s or Apple's [https://support.apple.com/en-us/111973 Technical Specifications] page for example. Alpha3031 (t • c) 10:56, 8 June 2025 (UTC)