Editing Eurovision Wiki:Help desk (section)

== Accidentally disabled explanatory footnote/reference previews and can't, for the life of me, turn them back on. ==

Wikipedia has a feature I like where you hover over an explanatory footnote or reference and get a preview box. However, I clicked the gear icon next to one of them, and disabled them entirely in the name of "testing". Since I had so much trust in Wikipedia's UI, I thought you could just reenable them from your settings or anything like that. But no, I've tried all my settings, and it hasn't done anything. The only things that have transpired from turning this default setting on and turning this default setting off (both can't work together) are preview formats that look awful (one's ancient, the other's complicated and makes the text too small). I only remember the words "reenable them with a footnote at the bottom of the page" or something like that, which I also recall being extremely vague, so that doesn't help either. When I open Wikipedia in incognito, they show up perfectly fine, so it's an account issue; not a browser issue. I've tried resetting my Wikipedia and Mediawiki settings to defaults, but the "defaults" just disable them again. This is genuinely so frustrating because I can't afford to lose this feature. It helps me massively while editing and I won't "cope" with any half-done botched workarounds. I want this setting exactly as it was back, but I think there's a problem with the way my account itself is coded. I don't even know if someone else was dumb enough to do this and if they ever got that feature back. Please help me; I've been trying to figure it out for 9 days. I haven't edited anything since and want to go back to doing that. It's too late to abandon this account and try to make another one (and I can't even do that, since my IP is blocked). If anyone knows what the cause is and how I can fix this, I will remember you for as long as I remain on this website. Thank you for reading, and I know that was a lot of text. [[User:UltraCobson|UltraCobson]] ([[User talk:UltraCobson|talk]]) 01:37, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

:@[[User:UltraCobson|UltraCobson]], at the bottom of a page there should be a button called {{tq|Enable Reference Tooltip}} which may solve the issue. On vector 2010 and 2022, it will be next to a button called {{Tq|Mobile view}}. [[User:45dogs|45dogs]] <small> (they/them) [[User talk:45dogs|(talk page)]] [[Special:Contributions/45dogs|(contributions)]]</small> 02:08, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
::It doesn't show up for me, though. This is what the bottom of Wikipedia looks like for me:
::[[:File:Screenshot of Wikipedia Bottom 19 March 2026.png]] [[User:UltraCobson|UltraCobson]] ([[User talk:UltraCobson|talk]]) 02:18, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
:It sounds like a cookie issue if it works in incognito. Go to your browser settings and clear the Wikipedia/Wikimedia cookies. You will have to log in again, though. ~[[User:Anachronist|Anachronist]] (who / me) <small>([[User talk:Anachronist|talk]])</small> 02:30, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
::It actually worked... Thank you so much! [[User:UltraCobson|UltraCobson]] ([[User talk:UltraCobson|talk]]) 02:42, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
:::It's gratifying to be occasionally successful in diagnosing a technical problem. That doesn't happen often! ~[[User:Anachronist|Anachronist]] (who / me) <small>([[User talk:Anachronist|talk]])</small> 02:46, 19 March 2026 (UTC)