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Fixed bugs and resolved issues
The colours are all wrong as of this morning. View source on Netscape shows the BODY HTML tag has `textcolor=" TEXT" " BGCOLOR"' suggesting that a string hasn't been properly substituted for a variable somewhere. On my Netscape browser, it interprets the bgcolor command as dark green, making the black text difficult to read, and the blue links even harder. Changing skins makes no difference Malcolm Farmer, Thursday, May 9, 2002
The link parser seems not to recognize the mailto: URL scheme (RFC 2368 (http://www-old.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/rfc2368.txt)). This prevents a user from creating a clickable e-mail contact point in his user page.
STATUS : Solved in CVS; working on Wikipedia as of 2002-5-14
Bangs in links in tables wreck the table Koyaanis Qatsi, Sunday, March 31, 2002
Observe: the following table is coded properly, but displays incorrectly (as you'll see in the second row, if you view source). Piping the link so the bang displays but isn't linked to corrects it:
Vivement dimanche![?] | Confidentially Yours[?] | 1983 | W | D | ||
Vivement dimanche![?] | Confidentially Yours[?] | 1983 | W | D |
Text between a pair of links sometimes omitted from displayed page
For an example of this, see the 14 April 06:28 version of the Leigh Brackett page. The three apostrophes don't put her name into bold properly; and chunks of text between some links are being omitted. The links in the edit text look perfectly normal, with no funny characters. Inserting a carriage return just before the omitted text seems to fix the problem, so it looks as if there's something odd happening in the function that parses the wiki text. Malcolm Farmer, Monday, April 15, 2002
I've had this problem show up a few times, and can't really be sure whether it's from the system or my own machine. Most recently it has shown up in famous women in history. On the edit page there is text between Mildred Zaharias and Margaret Thatcher, including a section heading - but when saved these two names appear together on the same line without even a space between them. Eclecticology
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 88
appears once or more times on the very top of many pages (even before the ordinary "HTML" tag in code) . Only thing that differs is "line 88" that can be "line 86". I've seen this on MainPage, BugReport and others.
This is new (since late this afternoon, Pacific Time). The top of pages has this:
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 86
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 88
The "Recent Changes" page doesn't have these lines, but pages that I get to by clicking their names in the Recent Pages page do. Redirected pages have each error message twice. -- Marj Tiefert, Tuesday, May 7, 2002
wikiPage::load()
on mysql_fetch_object()
and mysql_release()
calls when grabbing data out of the unlinked
table. Unfortunately, the developer's database access function is still disabled, so I can't test the query manually to see what's going wrong... I haven't seen any similar errors from the preceding query on the linked
table.) Brion VIBBER, Tuesday, May 7, 2002
I'm getting the same error on almost all screens of the wikipedia. Yesterday it was reporting errors in lines 84 and 86 and refusing to load screens at all. Today the error has switched to line '99' with this showing up at the top of virtually every screen I got to: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 99 ~KJ Wed 8th May 2002
STATUS : Fixed in CVS; fixed on Wikipedia as of 2002-05-14
If an article is replaced with "Describe the new page here." the next person who accesses it will be greeted with an edit window.
Deleting all the text in an article and replacing it with "Describe the new page here.", pesents the page it as if the page NEVER had any content -- thus promting a sysop, like me, to delete the page. If a page and its history exists, then it shouldn't ever automatically show up in an edit window. maveric149
STATUS : Fixed in CVS; on live Wikipedia as of 2002-05-14
International links do not display in "Cologne Blue" Skin: There is no link to the other international wikis, other than in the meta tags. Change to Cologne Blue and go to say Algeria. 2002/04/08 user:Dze27
STATUS : Fixed in CVS
Orphans page broken 28.02.2002 12.45GMT
I get this error:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 613
Pages that link here (2002/02/26)
The "Pages that link here" link no longer works properly. It lists only a tiny fraction of the pages which actually do link to the page in question, and often none at all. --Zundark, 2002 Feb 26
This user's contributions
(3/4/2002) Contributions aren't listed if the most recent edit (not the only edit) made by the user is a minor edit.
It would be great if this bug could be solved by having a configurable Contributions page, getting to list/sort by minor edits, pages created, and pages edited. --The Cunctator
This User's Contributions does not seem to be working... 2002/03/07
Just checked a couple of User contribution links, and the changes from the past few days don't seem to be there -- thought you might like to know -- love this feature, BTW!! JHK
It seems to me that the Contributions page shows the articles only if you were the last person edited it. If someone else added something after you did, it is no longer your contribution.
Ampersand in URLs
(2002/1/27) URLs containing ampersands should have them escaped as an entity reference, i.e. & a m p ;. This seems to be the only problem stopping the pages from being technically correct HTML 4.0 transitional. --Carey Evans
When one is redirected to another page, there is no easy way to access the revision history of the redirect page. For example, (redirected from Marseille (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?action=edit&title=Marseille)) allows you to edit the redirect easily enough, but there's no link to click on to get to the revision history of the redirect. This makes it easy to "hide" an old article version if you want to vandalize stuff subtly. Bryan Derksen
Edit conflict on re-direct to nonexistent page (2002/02/04)
Actual behavior: When I #REDIRECT
to a not-yet-existent page, I get an Edit Conflict™.
Expected behavior: redirect to target page with "Describe the new page here." like usemod did. --Damian Yerrick
(2002/02/19) I tried Carey Evans suggestion and was able to bring up an edit box for Juggler. I changed the redirect to Juggle[?] but every time I go to save it I get an Edit Conflict. Very frustrating. --MarkReid
Default number of Recent Changes lines
(2002/03/10) Along the same lines, I am unable to alter the default number of changes shown to me. I have Recent Changes set to show me 500 changes in my preferences, but this has no effect on the actually Recent Changes page, which shows me 50. --Stephen Gilbert
My new page was given the wrong title
2002/03/23: I just created the page (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/inverse%0D%0Atransform+sampling+method) but it was given the wrong title: it was titled "Inversetransform sampling method" instead of "Inverse transform sampling method". Can someone fix this???
Cross-language linking
The cross language linking does not really work because once you click the link, you cannot do anything on the next language's wikipedia. Take for example the page of Table tennis: as soon as you click on the link to Esperanto, if you try to edit that page then Wiki.Cgi will appear as the title and this is clearly a bug. Can this be fixed soon? It should just be a simple tweak in the web server's config files. --Chuck Smith
Watch Page Links - creates new page
If you view a special:Recentchangeslinked page and then select the watch this article link at the top of the page it sends you to a new article page named Recent_changes_on_pages_linked_from_xxxx rather than adding something to your watchlist like you would expect. Trelvis
Watchlist at "History of..." I just visited the article on the anti-globalization movement. Thinking that I would be interested in watching the subject I proceded to put it on my watchlist. Erroneously, I clicked on that link when I was at the associated "History of ..." page. The bottom of my watchlist now shows that I am watching the non-existing article [History of Anti-globalization movement], but there does not appear to be a way to delete a non-existing article from the watchlist! Eclecticology
Truncated Page
It looks like the conversion script chopped off most of the article analytic geometry. The article is now very short, ends in mid-sentence, and has no history except for the conversion by a script. It needs to be resurrected from whatever archives exist. I wonder if any other articles were similarly damaged. 2002/03/26
Tarballs (2002/02/10)
The tarballs don't have the date as part of the filename, so there's no way to tell what version they are. Also, it isn't clear what the difference is between wiki.tar.gz and wiki-pl.tar.gz. The latter is 1/10 the size. Is it missing something?
Searching for Otto Dix yields no results
... but if you try to create a new entry for Otto Dix, you will find an article. --
plural links to singular articles
(8 Mar 2002) - I thought one of the improvements was that you could use a plural word (e.g. plants) to link to an article with a singular name (e.g. plant), that is, that the final s could go within the square brackets instead of outside and that you didn't have to use the | syntax either. But this is no longer working. (Or was I dreaming that it ever did work???) -- Marj Tiefert
MAJOR Can't edit a redirected entry (2002/02/12) I cannot edit the link for Juggler. It gets redirected to Juggling. On the Juggling page I click on the (redirected from Juggler) link but end up on the same page. Could someone try this out and let me know if the problem is specific to my OS/browser combination (MS/IE6)? --MarkReid
I went to preferences to hide minor edits after somebody decided we all needed to see every bloody automated conversion. I ticked the appropriate box. Hit save. Didn't see anything happen. Hit recent changes link (in top frame, not on side) got the following:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_key_exists() in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/special_recentchanges.php on line 152
Tried to get to recent changes again from side bar. same error
What's with the new page colors? Will there be an explanation of the color coding somewhere? And PLEASE make the colors a lot lighter - they're too harsh and require too much eye-adjustment for those of us who are over 40... ;-) -- Marj Tiefert
If you check the history or diffs of this very page, you will always get "no changes, this is the first version", even though it isn't. --AxelBoldt
Ruby HTML codes 2/26/02
The Ruby HTML tags stopped working since wikipedia switched to the new system. When I view the source code, I notice that the tags are converted to <ruby> instead of the original <ruby>. These tags used to work before at least in Internet explorer 5.5.
I seem to be getting into regular edit conflicts with myself! I start editing a page and it throws up the edit conflict dialog, but top and bottom boxes are identical and contain only my immortal prose. a second "save" usually fixes this, except, it seems, when I am working on a redirect, when I end up in an infinite loop of edit conflicts. user:clasqm
This happened to me too. It doesn't seem to happen as much anymore, though...maybe it has been fixed? Dreamyshade (2002/1/31) seems as it has been fixed -- ChaTo
I seem to recall that writing, say, RFC 1519 in an article would auto-link to a repository of RFC's. This no longer seems to work.
Also, some HTML in page comments is not being escaped out - for example, put &amp;lt;p&amp;gt; in a page comment, and see what happens. -- The Anome
The parser treats white space as significant, which is undesirable. For example, "=== Header ===" will normally produce a level three header line, but if it is followed by whitespace, it will produce a level two header line surrounded by equal signs.
Furthermore, the new parser treats equal signs as a header line even if they occur in the middle of some other text. They should only be treated as a header line if they occur on a line all by themselves. AxelBoldt
The Formula One page has some problems with the section headings (with the equals sign) -- Jheijmans
There are similar problems at Surreal numbers when the string "<=" is used. -- Jan Hidders
There are also issues with the processing of '==' in this example. See also Fermats little theorem for another example of layout damage caused by over-aggressive matching of pairs of '=' characters to generate markup. -- The Anome
I dont think the '====' surrounding the first word of an article works right. Maybe nobody uses this any more? It was in the how to edit a page page. Also, doing the '===' surrounding subsections works some of the time. shhhh don't hack my ip! BF *)
Lower case user names
Not sure how many other people are affected by this, but my "Contributions" page is totally empty. Since the changeover I have edited over 30 articles and started several new ones. You can see what I mean at http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=special:contributions&amp;theuser=Maveric149 (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=special:contributions&amp;amp;theuser=Maveric149). --maveric149
BTW, http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=special:contributions&amp;theuser=maveric149 (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=special:contributions&amp;amp;theuser=maveric149) this works. --Chuck Smith
Yep, second link does work. The only difference is that my user name is lower case in Chucks example. I created my account with a lowercase "m", and that is how I log in - yet when I click on "This user's contributions" in my default userpage, I get zip. Thanks for the info Chuck! --maveric149
If a all lowercase string is input into the "UserName" field in the preferences page, the first letter of said string is capitalized.
I have a similar problem - there's a user jheijmans (small j) and Jheijmans (capital J); both user pages link to the same page, but the contributions page does not - can this be merged into one user entry? -- Jheijmans
'New separators: Horrible'
(2002/2/7) Just noticed a black line separating page's parts. I think it's horrible, i prefer without that. Maybe we need a option for that. -- Tuxisuau
A third of the articles listed on special:WantedPages already exist. Clicking on the link to regenerate the page doesn't make them go away.
(2002-02-12) By now, over 70 percent of the Most Wanted pages have been filled. When I tried to refresh the page to bring in more entries, I got the following error:
There appear to be a lot of articles listed in "Most wanted" which actually do exist. For example, Year in Review/Guidelines, 1, 2, 3, etc.
(2002/1/26) The "Most wanted" page indicates that a whole bunch of pages want a "Year in Review/Guidelines" page, but that page already exists. Upon poking around a bit more, I found that all of the pages who supposedly had a link to the non-existant page had links with a trailing space, and this was being considered different from the link without a trailing space. For example:
(2002/1) The "wanted" page considers the second link to point to a non-existant page. At time of writing, the "most wanted" page contains a lot of Year in review[?] pages that do actually exist. example: 12 and 17. clasqm
HTML named entities not working while previewing (2002/02/09)
HTML named entities are escaped while previewing and because of that they don't work (e.g. &amp;deg; becomes &amp; d e g ;). See Jupiter for an example. --Uriyan
: in page titles (2002/02/08)
In putting titles of plays into the Pulitzer Prize page, some of the letters which are capitalized on the editing page appear in the final text as being uncapitalized. The example I noticed was for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches[?], in which the first two capitalized A's are not capitalized in final text even though they are capitalized on the editing page (as is true on this page as well}.
Recent changes shows previous edit (2002/02/09)
Edit a page, and recent changes shows it as the previous edit; I noticed this when I'd apparently just edited a page I hadn't touched for a week; someone else had just edited it, buit it appeared in Recent changes as my previous edit, complet with summary.
Just submitted this edit, and the edit shows OK. Looks as if the sequence is actually: someone creates a new article; No problem. Someone comes along, edits the new article, which has had no revisions yet, and then recent changes reports that edit as the original creation of the article instead...
Unable to edit large pages )2002/02/09)
when I open to edit any of the larger pages (eg Nuclear Weapon, Wikipedia: Bug reports) I am unable to type any characters in. I can move the cursor and cut-paste but I cannot type.
(2002/1/27) Check the History link for this page... -- user:Derek Ross
Timestamps for previous version links in a page's History are off by one and the first two are therefore set to the current time.
Bad search results This probably has been said already somewhere by somebody, but I'll put it here. If I search for example for 'Rome', I get a lot of results, begining with AIDS (syndROME), Alfa ROMEo and AndROMEda. while Rome, the city, would be an exact match. Could it be made that exact search results are listed first, or maybe there can an approximation measure for the matches? user:Jheijmans
The search engine does not generate any results using Netscape 3.0 and junkbuster. GWO
Wiki.phtml pages
I accidently created a wiki.phtml page with IP address 130.94.122.xxx after hitting a []? link. there are a number of other examples of this: September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/wiki.phtml; English language/wiki.phtml;
Complete list of encyclopedia topics/wiki.phtml.
Love the new functionality, but I haven't been able to contribute nearly as much as I would like because the pages come up at a sub-glacial speed (very often). Have broadband &amp; fast computers at home, work and school and I have the same problem (every other webpage I go to zips and zings --- including heavily hit and often
Character 0 vanishing (2002/02/07)
The second line of http://wikipedia.com/wiki/Geologic_timescale starts off with " 0 ". The 0 is simply disappearing in the displayed output. I put in an extra space to make the page look closer to right. I'm reasonably sure the 0 was being displayed two weeks ago.
Bogus Logged IP (2002/02/09)
It's really easy to log a fake IP address, see [1] (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Carey_Evans&amp;amp;action=history) for example. I'm not going to just explain how here, though; anyone who knows how the previous logged IP address problem was fixed should be able to figure it out, or can email me. --Carey Evans
You don't even need to fake it, Wikipeida is logging me as 213.105.195.101, while the reality is 62.62.253.xxx.
It seems to be fixed now; presumably it now takes the correct host from X-Forwarded-For if more than one is there. --Carey
Full IP address in page history (2002/02/09)
Although the last octet of the user's IP address is xxx'ed out on Recent Changes, the page history now shows the complete IP address. --Carey Evans
(2/13/2002) The Recent Changes page is much better fast, but it's fast because it's cached. It should be fully updated with the last edits made; the current lag is pretty extreme. --The Cunctator
Edits when not logged in are considered "minor"? This, in my mind, is a horrible idea. I hope that's a bug, not a feature. Koyaanis Qatsi
Cookie problems
Hey, Jimbo -- I log in, hit 'preferences' and it tells me I am not logged in. So...I'm not going to preferences for a while! JHK
I have this same problem, no matter what I hit after I log in. It doesn't seem to recognize my login. Cookies are enabled on my browser. RjLesch.
Login problems: I can successfully log in, but as soon as I go to another page (for instance, the preference page), the system thinks I'm not logged in. --Robert Merkel (whose ip address starts with 144.132.75)
Here's the scenario. I had a password for my account saved to cookie with the checkbox on the log in page. I then changed my password to the old admin password (so now you techies know what my password is) and now when I try to login (again with cookies on) it says that I successfully login, but when I try to do anything, it shows that I'm not logged in! HELP!!! --User:Chuck Smith
Feb 2, 2002: On Linux/Debian with Netscape 4.76, after logging in, it forgets that I'm logged in immediately after I change to another page from the login page. This happens whether I check "Remember my password with a cookie" or not. Maybe it is related to the next bug below? AxelBoldt
Nested tables don't work (2002/02/23)
While trying to come up with a template for the table to be used in all chemical element entries, I discovered that the wikipedia software appears to deliberately break table code that should work just fine. I was attempting to create a table that had 2 columns in the top half and 6 columns in the bottom half, with the 6 column half handling its internal layout independantly of the 2 column half; to this end, I created a 6-column table and nested it inside the 2-column table. It worked just fine when I tested it outside of Wikipedia. However, upon testing it in wikipedia, I got the following:
General | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Name | Beryllium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Symbol | Be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series | Alkaline Earth Metal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group, Period, Block | 2 (IIA), 2, s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
3rd ionization potential | 14848.7 kJ/mol (153.893 eV) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Isotopic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It appears that the second set of &lt;table&gt; tags got escaped.
Wrong links with cross-language links (2002/02/05)
On pages with cross language links, like Table tennis, all the links on the page show as external links, even though they're to Wikipedia articles. --Carey Evans
(2002/1/27) Too much HTML is let through unchallenged. For example, try the following link not to my user page, <span style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;" onclick="alert('Whoa.')">Carey Evans</span>. HTML 2.0 plus tables should be enough for formatting Wiki pages, though I'd prefer to be able to do everything without HTML at all. --Carey Evans
Here's another example of evil javascript I found over in the Goatsec.xs article. It used to lead to the web page in question, but I've rewritten it to spare your eyeballs. Just move your mouse pointer over the link and then without clicking it move your mose pointer off of it again. http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Goatse.cx
(2002/1/29) See http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Christopher_Tolkien for example. This shows up in the recent changes, where the html is rendered if the page is edited. Can do some nasty stuff with unclosed tags. This is in konqueror 2.2, maybe the effect is somewhat different in other browsers.
(2002/1/29) The preview of a page which has HTML entities inside a &lt;pre&gt; environment differs from the rendering of the saved page. Specifically, if the page contains the text &amp; a m p ; (without the spaces) inside a &lt;pre&gt; environment, then the preview will show this as &amp; a m p ; while the saved page will render it as &amp;. This is an issue when editing the "Character Formatting" section of How to edit a page. --AxelBoldt
ISBN numbers with a check digit of "X" like ISBN 1-55634-399-X are not linked correctly to Pricescan - the numeric part is linked, but a space is inserted before the "X" and it is not included. --Carey Evans
Edit Conflict! with myself! and creation of new, incorrectly titled pages (2002/02/10)
When I try to redirect, I get an edit conflict BUT, just to make it interesting, I'm also somehow creating a new page. Here's what happens:
BUT -- a new page has been created, with a funny Bpagename/b rest of pagename as the title.
This isn't good. Checking now to see if it works if i remove all content first...
Nope -- still happens -- Creates a new page which comes up correctly under search (where the bolded part shows bold), but the tags remain in the actual page title.
(2002/2/12) On the edit conflict page, the the text you submitted should be put in an textarea box, but it's not.
DIFF corrupts the database? (2002/02/08)
The (DIFF) links seem to have several problems. I've noticed that if I click on the first (DIFF) link on either the history page for an article, or on that article's listing on my watchlist, then it refuses to show the difference. When I tried several of the diffs for one article, it actually corrupted the database, I think. As of right now, if you go to Raven_paradox, you'll see what looks like a DIFF page for an old version of the article. But if you click on "edit this page", it brings up the text for the current version of the article. Something must be inconsistent in the database right now.
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