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Resolved

Talk page tab

bugzilla:2594

  • If a Talk page exists, but there's no article, the article tab is now blue--should be back to red.

Article tab blue for nonexistent articles

Sorry, I don't know if this is normal, I've just never noticed this before. When I go to a nonexistent article, like, let's say, Let's see what this looks like, the article tab on the top is blue when it should be red just like the discussion tab. Also notice when you go to the discussion tab, it the article tab is blue from there too. This appears to be true in all namespaces. --Dmcdevit 30 June 2005 05:08 (UTC)

Yup, this is a new problem and is already mentioned a little further down the page. --W(t) 30 June 2005 05:23 (UTC)

Not working: Justify text

Text no longer complies with user preference. I have the justify text alignment selected, and yet, since the conversion, it has not worked. I hate left-alignment. Can this be fixed? --File:Australia flag large.png Cyberjunkie TALK 28 June 2005 08:17 (UTC)

  • Doesn't work for me either. Firefox in Red Hat Linux. --brian0918™ 28 June 2005 21:52 (UTC)
Filed as 2609. r3m0t talk June 29, 2005 17:47 (UTC)
fixed. —kate

"You have new messages" message still not appearing

Self explanatory, really. Ambi 29 June 2005 02:02 (UTC)

I got a message alert just a while ago. Paul August ☎ June 29, 2005 22:37 (UTC)
Works for me. --brian0918™ 30 June 2005 03:45 (UTC)
Gotten a couple today, seems to be working. --Brion June 30, 2005 04:19 (UTC)

I am still experiencing this problem, so I've uncommented the section title (I'm using the classic skin - could that be the issue?) →Raul654 June 30, 2005 05:32 (UTC)

FWIW, Everyking just complained about the same problem. →Raul654 July 1, 2005 08:07 (UTC)
should be fixed now? —kate
Yes, had Nullc do a test edit on my talk page and it worked fine. →Raul654 July 1, 2005 08:55 (UTC)

Special:Blockip

bugzilla:2577

Several admins have expressed their dislike for the new pulldown menu that lets you select the amount of time the block should last, because options like '15 minutes', '4 hours' and 'until wednesday' are no longer possible. Radiant_>|< June 28, 2005 13:26 (UTC)

Moved from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) for better tracking:

There's now an option for "other". To remove the dropdown entirely, you can apparently enter a dash at MediaWiki:Ipboptions. Angela. June 28, 2005 23:34 (UTC)

Contribs invert selection

  • The "Invert" selection in user contributions only works on the first page viewed. If you go to the next page or change how many contributions are displayed, it forgets to stay inverted. - Lucky13pjn June 28, 2005 04:13 (UTC)

Images bogus size

FIXED bugzilla:2560

  • Images with a size not specified now display as 1px by 1px! It used to display the image in its actual size. For example: --> File:Show changes button.png <--. — oo64eva (Alex) (U | T | C) @ June 28, 2005 04:31 (UTC)
    • I see that as full sized. Evil Monkey∴Hello June 28, 2005 04:52 (UTC)
      • What browser are you using? I'm using Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.* I The image looks fullsize in Netscape 7. We may be looking at a new cross browser issue. Yes this is applicable to MW 1.5 because images without an explicit size showed up fullsize before the upgrade. — oo64eva (Alex) (U | T | C) @ June 28, 2005 05:22 (UTC)
        • Firefox. Evil Monkey∴Hello June 28, 2005 05:53 (UTC)
          • I confirm this bug exist on IE 6.0.2600. --Fred-Chess June 28, 2005 06:29 (UTC)
  • I think is from the image metadata update being incomplete (this is running in the background now). --Brion June 28, 2005 06:32 (UTC)
    • Ok. In any case, (and before reading your explanaition) I reported it as bugzilla:2560 to save someone else the trouble. --Fred-Chess June 28, 2005 06:53 (UTC)

Hi1 I was going to have Wilfred Benitez nominated for feature articles when I discovered his photos had dissapeared just like Scooby Doo when he sees a ghost! I need to recover the photos posted on the link. Can someone help? Thank you and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Boo!!!! Martin

This is addressed in #Images bogus size below. --Fred-Chess June 28, 2005 09:35 (UTC)
  • Navigation pane in toolbar was changed from #p-nav to #p-navigation over the upgrade process, breaking many user styles in the process. It would be nice to change them back. kelvSYC June 28, 2005 03:53 (UTC)
    • Due to the way the new sidebar works (generating id's from MediaWiki: messages) this could not be done cleanly. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason June 28, 2005 17:28 (UTC)

Rollback on diff

Rollback button seems to be missing from 'current rev' diff (or am I hallucinating) (sp?)? Niteowlneils 28 June 2005 03:47 (UTC)

Reported as bugzilla:2562 Gdr June 28, 2005 10:29 (UTC)
Fixed in CVS --Zigger «º» June 28, 2005 21:30 (UTC)
Seems to be fixed. Rollback link is there again when you are looking at diffs from History or Contributions. Evil Monkey∴Hello June 28, 2005 23:21 (UTC)

Disappearing images

bugzilla:2583

where has Image:USA transport corps steam loco 5820.jpg gone? Dunc|☺ 28 June 2005 10:48 (UTC)

A number of other images have also disappeared: Image:Reg.jpg (from My Night With Reg) and Image:Pictograms.png (from Toilet), to name just two. <KF> June 28, 2005 12:39 (UTC)
See further up the page at #Images bogus size. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 28 June 2005 12:42 (UTC)
Thanks. I just fixed the image at My Night with Reg, but I must say this is rather a disturbing feature. <KF> June 28, 2005 12:48 (UTC)

No, it's not that it was appearing at 1x1 pixel size. It's gone completely off the wiki. The image description tag remains, but the image itself has vanished. Like someone had deleted it, and then restored the image description page, but the deletion log shows nothing. The question is, how many and which ones has this happened to and where can they be retrieved from? (it ought to be in the database dump of a while ago?) Dunc|☺ 28 June 2005 14:17 (UTC)

I had the same problem with Image:BN 251 IL Eola.jpg, but since I was on the computer that still had the original at the time, I just re-uploaded it. slambo June 28, 2005 15:53 (UTC)
It's not in the upload log either. When did you upload it? Here or on commons? When did you see it last? --Brion June 28, 2005 15:35 (UTC)

It was uploaded to Wikipedia around or just before 10 September 2004. I think I saw it last Thursday which was 23 June 2005. However, [1] indicates that I created it on 21 June 2005, though I may have edited the page then, I certainly uploaded it earlier. Dunc|☺ 28 June 2005 16:39 (UTC)

Some images were missing their entries in the database, and 1.5 is more strict about that than 1.4 was.
Such images probably were victim of one of the following old bugs:
  • An upload 'warning' displayed (large, name modified, etc) and the uploader didn't actually click through the OK
  • Image deletion failing to remove the image.
I've run a script to crawl through the directories and create new database entries for images it found; they'll be marked as uploaded by 'Conversion script' with a comment of '(recovered file; missing upload log entry)'. --Brion June 29, 2005 02:03 (UTC)
Does this apply to Image:Grand_Duchy_of_Poznan.gif? Superm401 | Talk June 30, 2005 02:46 (UTC)
Since it doesn't match the characteristics I described above, no. That image looks like it's just been sitting there fine. --Brion June 30, 2005 08:08 (UTC)

Missing "move" tab

Not that I want to move the Asperger's syndrome article, but the "move" tab is missing from the article page, while it is not missing from the discussion page. ‡ Jarlaxle June 29, 2005 22:43 (UTC)

Not a bug, it's protected against page moves. --W(t) 29 June 2005 22:50 (UTC)

Special:Blockip no longer transcludes Mediawiki:Blockiptext

  • The blocking page no longer includes the useful text with the table of AOL/NTL IPs. - David Gerard 30 June 2005 23:39 (UTC)
    Looks OK now - David Gerard 1 July 2005 06:48 (UTC)

Please test these

I edit using the cologne blue skin, and the Browse section (equivalent to 'navigation' in the monobook skin), is mysteriously empty of content. This is presumably do to the software update. Can we get this fixed? Ingoolemo talk 2005 June 28 03:51 (UTC)

I've filed this as bugzilla:2557. --Brion June 28, 2005 04:33 (UTC)

I use the "Classic" skin, and about 90% of the items in the top section of the sidebar are gone. --Carnildo 28 June 2005 03:59 (UTC)

I've filed this as bugzilla:2557. --Brion June 28, 2005 04:33 (UTC)

I'd like to say that I'm disappointed that, after yesterday's software upgrade, the option "Random page" seems to have been deleted. I used it a lot, and more than half my many many edits were the result of hitting "Random page" a few times (and then following links of interest) until I saw something that I could clean up or otherwise improve. I already left a note to this effect on Jimbo's user page, but I'm not sure that was the best place for it. DS June 28, 2005 14:20 (UTC)</a>

Still there for me in the MonoBook skin. Filiocht | Talk June 28, 2005 14:23 (UTC)
Ah, it's back now. DS June 28, 2005 15:31 (UTC)
If you ever need to find it, it's at Special:Randompage - listed on Special:Specialpages. r3m0t talk June 29, 2005 17:30 (UTC)

Unblocking users

bugzilla:2579

Looks like there might be a problem trying to remove blocks. First, I tried unblocking User:195.93.21.67 because its an AOL proxy. The unblock got listed on the block log but the expiry time on Special:Ipblocklist did not change. Next, ABCD test blocked himself for one hour, but neither him or I could remove the block before it expired. Again, they got listed on Special:Log/block [2] but no changes on Special:Ipblocklist. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 28 June 2005 16:48 (UTC)

  • I also tried removing the autoblock caused by ABCD's test block, but again it got listed on the block log but no changes on the expiry time on Special:Ipblocklist. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 28 June 2005 16:50 (UTC)
  • There's a serious database locking problem with the ipblocks table, we've disabled deletion of blocks until it's resolved. Sorry for the suckage. :( --Brion June 28, 2005 17:50 (UTC)
    • Any thoughts on when this might be back in order? -- Infrogmation June 29, 2005 16:15 (UTC)
  • Reported fixed at 2579. --Zigger «º» 29 June 2005 16:56 (UTC)

"Editing an out-of-date revision"

No idea whether this has been discussed somewhere else or not, but let me just mention it here: When you look at the edit history of a page and click on the most recent date (on top of the whole list) you are now told (wrongly) that this is not the latest version of the page.

Also, could it be that some images are just not shown? <KF> June 28, 2005 06:42 (UTC)

I'm guessing that may be to do with how under 1.5 the current revision is given an id like old revisions of the article. Evil Monkey∴Hello June 28, 2005 07:07 (UTC)

Reported as bugzilla:2564; a related problem is bugzilla:2565. Gdr June 28, 2005 10:40 (UTC)

This is related to the problem mentioned below when trying to Rollback: #Newer edit link on last diff goes to bogus diff --brian0918&#153; 28 June 2005 14:48 (UTC)

2564 is resolved as fixed. --Zigger «º» 29 June 2005 17:08 (UTC)

Left-hand sidebar

(Posted a version of this at the "Help desk" following the "software upgrade", but no reply so far, so am trying again here). Using Opera (and the default skin) the left-hand toolbar/panel (containing Navigation - Search - Toolbox - In other languages, i.e. everything below the Wikipedia logo) is now being forced to the very bottom of each page - making en:Wikipedia a bit of a misery to use..:( Would just like to know if anyone else has experienced this (i.e. is it a bug we can expect to see fixed in due course?) or is it something wrong at my end? -- Picapica 29 June 2005 19:22 (UTC)

Aargh! It's happened to de:Wikipedia as well now! -- Picapica 1 July 2005 11:22 (UTC)

BTW, the bottom panel appears wrongly too, but I'm less bothered about that, since, unlike the left-hand panel, it's rarely needed... Picapica 1 July 2005 11:54 (UTC)

Edit conflicts not working anymore, and section edit broken

So, I was happily adding my latest comment here, and I got an edit conflict. Before saving, I took a look at the page's history, and found out it had been saved even with the software returning the edit conflict screen. And, of course, by doing so, it removed a comment another admin left on another section different from the one I was editing. --cesarb 28 June 2005 14:14 (UTC)

Reported as 2572 and 2573. Note: A lot of comments on this page might have been lost in the history; they should be reinstated after the problem is fixed. --cesarb 28 June 2005 14:38 (UTC)

Three times today have I seen comments and votes accidently removed when there is an edit conflict. [3], [4], [5]. Has anybody else noted trouble with this? Sjakkalle (Check!) 28 June 2005 13:08 (UTC)

I noticed that my edit had removed this one — a neat bit of irony. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 28 June 2005 13:41 (UTC)
yes, I am having the same problem. In rapid successions of posting, people overwrite each others' comments without noticing! dab (ᛏ) 28 June 2005 13:27 (UTC)
Replacing this, I was hit by a protracted case of the preview-instead-of-edit bug. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 28 June 2005 13:41 (UTC)

Yes I've just experienced this bug. Paul August ☎ June 28, 2005 14:30 (UTC)

  • This edit [6] shows my apparently reverting some changes to this section. I'm pretty sure I made my edits to a fresh copy of this page after getting an edit conflict. Let's see if someone else mentions similar oddities. (SEWilco 28 June 2005 05:31 (UTC))

Edit conflict resolution was badly broken -- it tried to load the original text the wrong way, and thus ended up thinking it had successfully merged edits by totally overwriting it. It should be fixed now, and behaving at least as well as it did on 1.4 --Brion June 29, 2005 01:22 (UTC)

No section edit on comparison page?

bugzilla:2614

Am I the only one seeing this? When I do a comparison between 2 versions to see what changed, the current page displays below the comparison as before but there are no edit links on the sections so I have to use Edit this page or make another step & go to the article w/out the history or comparison and then use the section links. Elf | Talk 29 June 2005 17:07 (UTC)

Odd, so I just did a comparison on THIS page and the section edit links are there. But yesterday & before just now today, not there on several articles. Elf | Talk 29 June 2005 17:23 (UTC) Ha! OK, I think I got it--if I click "Last" on the most recent history entry to compare to the previous--no edit links. If I click "cur" on something further down the history list to compare to the current--edit links. Elf | Talk 29 June 2005 17:26 (UTC)
Fixed this a bit ago. --Brion June 30, 2005 08:06 (UTC)

Editing a category goes to "preview" screen

reported as: bugzilla:2618

Trying to edit a category brings up the preview screen. Paul August ☎ June 29, 2005 20:30 (UTC)

Fixed this. --Brion June 30, 2005 08:12 (UTC)

reported as bugzilla:2620 Subpages have a useful backlink at the top of subpages (for example, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buckingham Palace/Archive 1 has links at the top back to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buckingham Palace and Wikipedia:Featured article candidates).

This kind of backlink used to appear in page diffs (e.g. [7]) before the upgrade but they are not there any longer. I'm using the classic skin, IE6, WinXP. -- ALoan (Talk) 29 June 2005 16:33 (UTC)

Fixed this a bit ago. --Brion June 30, 2005 08:14 (UTC)

Reported

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

Spam sucks

  • FWIW, I stopped entering Wikipedia bugs when the tracking system switched to one that displays 'spammer-scrapable' email addresses. Niteowlneils 2005-06-28 04:39:38 (UTC)

Mystery history

bugzilla:2559

  • There seem to be a lot of History entries like "00:11, 28 June 2005 MediaWiki default"--[8]
All pages created since the upgrade seem to have a similar entry in the history, with some random text supposedly contributed at that time?!?[9]. Niteowlneils 28 June 2005 05:11 (UTC)
  • This is an artifact of a bit of the update that didn't work quite right. They're harmless, but I'll make a note of it and clean them out in a bit. --Brion June 28, 2005 06:32 (UTC)

Watchlist Problems

Not working: Bolding in watchlist

Despite my watchlist saying "Pages which have been changed since you last visited them are shown in bold", I have yet to see anything in bold. Note that I have "Enhanced recent changes" checked in my preferences, and can do such things as edit a page by double-clicking. I've tested it in the latest Firefox on Windows and Red Hat Linux. --brian0918&#153; 28 June 2005 14:39 (UTC)

I have the same issue both at work and at home. Work uses IE (for some reason...) and I use Safari at home. Dismas 29 June 2005 05:24 (UTC)

Not working: "Hide my edits" in watchlist

  • Hide your own edits on watchlist seems to be broken. — Trilobite (Talk) 28 June 2005 04:00 (UTC)
Seems to change display to 'display 1 hour'!?! Niteowlneils 28 June 2005 04:04 (UTC)

The "Hide my edits" feature seems to do nothing in my watchlist. Tested in Firefox in Windows and Red Hat Linux. --brian0918&#153; 28 June 2005 14:45 (UTC)

Same results in Safari 1.3. —Michael Z. 2005-06-28 15:03 Z

This functionality is either not working properly or wasn't implemented well (no offense! it's still handy with a bookmark.) The problem is that it only lasts for the length of time spent viewing it, and that it destroys any other watchlist settings you currently have. E.g, if you are viewing a specialized length of time and then click "Hide my edits", it hides your edits, sure, but you are no longer viewing a specialized length of time... Probably it should be a user preference. I never want to see my edits...I solve this at home with a bookmark that has my preferred settings built into the url...but when i'm on the road that won't work. --Alterego June 29, 2005 16:14 (UTC)

Watchlisting of pages do not propagate to talk pages

I have Wikipedia:MediaWiki 1.5 bugs, which didn't have a talk page, on my watchlist. When creating the talk page, the "Watch this page checkbox" wasn't checked; after saving, I had a page which were on my watchlist, but with its talk page not on my watchlist. That shouldn't be possible, as it's confusing. I confirmed the watch/unwatch tabs weren't lying by looking at the recent changes on the watchlist; a recent change to the page was listed but the edit to the talk page wasn't. --cesarb 28 June 2005 17:07 (UTC)

Reported as 2580. --cesarb 28 June 2005 17:11 (UTC)

"Mark all pages visited" button

It was there, now it's gone. I didn't even get to press it. Josh Parris ✉ 29 June 2005 04:05 (UTC)

Can't stay logged on

bugzilla:2590

On this (quite extensively shared IP address) nobody can remain logged in for more than a page click. 217.33.74.20 28 June 2005 07:51 (UTC)

  • Same here... and in my case, I'm only signing as this IP address because every time I log in under my registered name, I get logged out a few screens later. What's going on?--141.156.178.155 28 June 2005 20:51 (UTC)
    • I too have been having this trouble, especially annoying as it interferes with admin powers, although it seems to have cleared up now. Rje June 28, 2005 23:49 (UTC)
      • Nope. I had this problem five minutes ago. --84.153.163.14 30 June 2005 23:15 (UTC)
I've had this problem off and on during my whole tenure at WP, but not in a while--until after the update, when ist started happening almost constantly. I finally gave up and wwent into my browser and deleted all my cookies. I haven't had the problem since, but I don't know what other sites Ill now have to reset my prefs for. Elf | Talk 1 July 2005 00:10 (UTC)
  • Print tab is evil! It appears to duplicate the job already done by CSS, but the pages produced are not quite the same. Example: the one generated by the print tab has a sans-serif font (generally easier to read on a screen but serif preferred on paper). This whole function appears to be redundant because of our stylesheets, which strip the menus and make everything appropriate for printing by themselves. I guess this was implemented after calls from people who thought normal pages weren't printable to bring back server-side generation of printable versions. Perhaps the print tab should just lead to a big notice directing people to use the print function of their browsers. — Trilobite (Talk) 28 June 2005 04:14 (UTC)
Previously discussed at bugzilla:1577 and duplicates. --Zigger «º» 28 June 2005 21:49 (UTC)

Nonprinting characters allowed again

bugzilla:2593

You've allowed characters like soft hyphen (&shy;), which allows vandals to create accounts with very similar names to already new ones. 24.224.153.40 28 June 2005 22:14 (UTC)

Submit goes to Preview screen instead

bugzilla:2603

Most of my edits so far have done this: when I click submit, it goes to the preview screen instead. I click submit again, it does it again, and again, and again. Note, I do not have this option checked: "Show preview on first edit". --brian0918&#153; 28 June 2005 13:35 (UTC)

I've had the same problem. Just noticed it this morning when I was trying to edit a user talk page. Finally gave up after about a dozen tries. Kaldari 28 June 2005 13:42 (UTC)
I am having the same problem NoSeptemberx 28 June 2005 13:42 (UTC)
Same here. I've been NPOV'ing parts of the House of Orange-Nassau article, and when I wanted to submit the edits, I kept on getting the Preview screen. Aecis 28 June 2005 13:42 (UTC)
Forget what I said before (which apparently someone erased??); I am getting the same problem. using show changes and then save page seemed to work both times I did it Brighterorange 28 June 2005 13:48 (UTC)
This bug apparently happened when TimStarling was tinkering with the software. He reverted the changes. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 28 June 2005 13:48 (UTC)
  • This does happen when there is a database lock or if someone else tries to edit at the same time. It's easy to miss the message at the top (since there's normally useless info there); are you sure there's nothing? Brighterorange 28 June 2005 13:44 (UTC)
I was editting a page no one else has editted in a long time, it is not an edit conflict situation. NoSeptemberT]] 28 June 2005 13:52 (UTC)
  • The reason your edit was erased accidentally is mentioned 2 topics up on this page (edit conflict). NoSeptemberT]] 28 June 2005 13:57 (UTC)
Ditto here. OpenToppedBus - Talk June 28, 2005 14:02 (UTC)
This happened to me when using Mozilla Firefox but disappeared when using Internet Explorer. David File:Arms-westminster-lb.jpg | Talk 28 June 2005 14:04 (UTC)
  • Seems to be fixed. Tim Starling was apparently tinkering with the software. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 28 June 2005 14:09 (UTC)
  • It just happened to me thrice in a row on the same article. This bug isn't new to 1.5. I had experienced it under 1.4 before. And is happening to me while trying to submit this text. Cburnett June 28, 2005 18:13 (UTC)
    • It continues to happen and quite consistently now. It's not an edit conflict. My recent edit to Talk:Green Day took 8 clicks. Cburnett June 28, 2005 20:27 (UTC)
      • Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I can't tell you how frustrating this bug is. I'm having to edit one article, start editing another, then edit a third, then cycle through all the tabs and try saving. I'm spending more time trying to get it submited than I'm editing. Cburnett June 29, 2005 20:08 (UTC)

Is this bug of 1.5 ?? I am from czech wikipedia and we werent upgraded but this problem also reported few editors. --Li-sung 28 June 2005 18:58 (UTC)

I've also had this problem sporadically before the upgrade. -- grm_wnr Esc 29 June 2005 10:58 (UTC)
Having made some 2000 edits with IE 6.0 I have never experienced this problem. However, the browser is fond of crashing on some pages, both when pressing preview and when pressing submit. --Fred-Chess June 29, 2005 11:10 (UTC)
I never had this problem before the upgrade. It's currently making editing virtually impossible. I'm writing this message in IE since I have been unable to save an edit in Firefox in more than 15 minutes. However, I certainly won't start using IE for actual editing. -- Visviva 29 June 2005 13:25 (UTC)
  • I'm experiencing this problem as well; its taking anywhere from 2-15 clicks of Save page before it correctly saves instead of giving me the preview. No edit locks/conflicts going on.(Firefox 1.0.4) .:.Jareth.:. babelfish June 29, 2005 15:42 (UTC)

This has been happening while, but apparently more since the switch to 1.5. I attempted to install a patch to fix it, which was flawed and instead caused it to happen for every edit, for a few minutes. I reverted it immediately, and on later discussion with Brion, we decided that my approach was insecure anyway. I installed an error log which showed that the failures were essentially random, not confined to any particular server. Brion has now experimentally switched session storage from memcached to NFS. -- Tim Starling July 1, 2005 12:33 (UTC)

What happened to the red links?!?!?????

What happened to the red links???? --Hottentot

Using the classic skin, all links show up as unbroken, instead of with the correct broken indicator (a question mark after the wikilink). I checked my preferences, and it says they are supposed to show up with the question mark afterwards. — Frecklefoot | Talk June 28, 2005 14:18 (UTC)

Are you using Internet Explorer? Filed as bugzilla:2596 --Brion June 29, 2005 00:15 (UTC)

The "article" tab for non-existing articles and the "user page" tab for non-existing user pages are now showing up as blue instead of red. ‡ Jarlaxle June 29, 2005 22:48 (UTC)

this particular issue is fixed. —kate

Clicking on "section edit link", edits wrong section

bugzilla:2607

I've experienced the situation where clicking on a section "edit link", edits wrong section. See for example this page. It has three "sections", the first section being a table. Clicking on the first "section edit link" for the table brings up an edit window for "section two", clicking on the second "section edit link" brings up an edit window for "section three", clicking on the third "section edit link" brings up a blank edit window. Paul August ☎ June 29, 2005 16:06 (UTC)

Image stretch isn't proportional

reported as: Bugzilla:2616

The image within the infobox on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Garrett is smaller than the infobox's standard 280px wide. The infobox stretches it sideways but doesn't stretch it vertically by the same proportion like it did before the upgrade this week. It appears that the troublemaker is the "none" modifier in the image tag.

The following code in the Wikipedia Sandbox demonstrates the issue:

[[Image:John W. Garrett.jpg|none|280px|John W. Garret]] <!-- distorted --> [[Image:John W. Garrett.jpg|thumb|280px|John W. Garret]] <!-- proportional resize -->

slambo June 29, 2005 20:32 (UTC)

Tested on SuSE Linux 9.0 (with current updates), using Firefox 1.0.2 and Konqueror 3.1.4. slambo June 29, 2005 21:23 (UTC)
Looks bad on Red Hat Linux with the latest Firefox. --brian0918&#153; 29 June 2005 21:54 (UTC)
Tested and confirmed on Firefox 1.0 and MSIE 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.050301-1526; Windows XP. slambo June 30, 2005 01:16 (UTC)

Link to subsection goes to article but not subsection

reported asbugzilla:2611

I've noticed subsection links don't seem to work anymore. Reported as bugzilla #2611. -- Rick Block (talk) June 29, 2005 18:39 (UTC)

No toolbox on my user page

reported as bugzilla:2612 I just noticed that I have no toolbox on my user page. This seems very strange, because it appears on other people's pages and my talk page. I'm using the latest IE. -- Samuel Wantman 29 June 2005 18:41 (UTC)

Reported as Bug 2612 -- Samuel Wantman 29 June 2005 18:56 (UTC)
Now that I reported it, it seems to be working! -- Samuel Wantman 29 June 2005 18:58 (UTC)

E-mail notifications (enotifs) are not sent in the recipients user interface language

Move rollback

reported as bugzilla:2621

  • Page move rollback does some odd things. I moved a page, checked my contribs, and there were two rollbacks: one for the target which when clicked didn't seem to do anything, and the other for the newly created redirect, which when clicked reverted to a MediaWiki default that read "Confirmation e-mail sent." [10] — Trilobite (Talk) 28 June 2005 04:14 (UTC)

reported as bugzilla:2622 When paging through diffs, the "Newer edit" link on the last diff goes to a bogus empty diff. --cesarb 28 June 2005 14:11 (UTC)

  • The same happens to me. When I try to rollback a vandalism, it says "Rollback failed", then when I try the diff of the latest version in the history (the latest version being the vandalism), it claims there is a newer edit, but the newer edit is a bogus ghost edit, claimed to be by the same vandal. I am then unable to rollback anything. --brian0918&#153; 28 June 2005 14:43 (UTC)
    Is this still a problem? Can you detail what exactly you're clicking, from where, in what sequence? --Brion June 30, 2005 04:37 (UTC)


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Reason for deletion missing

  • When deleting pages, the "Reason for deletion:" box no longer seems to default to the beginning of the latest content. Niteowlneils 2005-06-28 04:39:38 (UTC)
    It only does that for short pages, should be same behavior as previously. --Brion June 28, 2005 04:46 (UTC)
    I just went to San Jose, California (~75K), clicked Delete, and the Reason box was empty. Niteowlneils 28 June 2005 04:56 (UTC)
    You mean like how it's supposed to be and was previously? -- Cyrius|✎ 28 June 2005 13:08 (UTC)
    I have seen it on a short page (Paul Erdős), where the suggested reason was just "content was:". --cesarb 28 June 2005 04:58 (UTC)
    Same here This link is Broken 28 June 2005 20:36 (UTC)

Section edit bug

  • Looks like page duplication/section edit bug may be back. Niteowlneils 2005-06-28 04:39:38 (UTC)

Message alert?

Someone edited my talk page minutes ago but I don't see the new message alert. Is that a v.1.5 bug? -- Toytoy June 28, 2005 04:36 (UTC)

While you are at it, could you take a look at the two "immortal" articles at the old Category:Stub? --cesarb 28 June 2005 06:04 (UTC)
I've renamed them to The Three Musketeers (1993)/broken and Water Music (Handel)/broken. --Brion June 28, 2005 06:10 (UTC)
Seen that one too. Notice all of them have deleted histories. Also notice all those deleted histories are from 2004. --cesarb 28 June 2005 06:00 (UTC)
PS: When writing the above, I got an edit conflict with a change on another section above it. Edit conflicts are happening more often than usual. --cesarb 28 June 2005 06:00 (UTC)

More bugs

I am using the Classic skin. I also turned off TOC generation and my dead links are marked with question marks. But now the Wiki server generates TOC and the dead links are not formatted properly. -- Toytoy June 28, 2005 06:13 (UTC)

Indented bullets put blank spaces in pages

See [11] for a good example. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 28 June 2005 07:33 (UTC)

Rollback bug and box bug

At least you have a rollback. I don't - all history/diff I do have apparently lost the rollback button. Ouch. And apparently I *just* stumbled upon another bug. I have did several edits earlier, but this time (editiong the above section) I have lost the toolbar with buttons! I can't even sign...will do it manually. Note: I got it back after preview. Second note: whose great idea was to use BETA software on Wiki? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 28 June 2005 19:58 (UTC)

MediaWiki is written specifically for Wikipedia. We call a new version "beta" for third-party reusers when we're ready to put it live on our own site (which is... Wikipedia). --Brion June 29, 2005 00:16 (UTC)

Watchlist problems

  • I am working on a solution on the following identical problem reports --Wikinaut 28 June 2005 22:23 (UTC)

number of watched pages (1)

My watchlist currently reports:

You have 3,412.5 pages on your watchlist

Half a page?! So I'm watching only part of it? violet/riga (t) 28 June 2005 11:19 (UTC)

Seems to be fixed. violet/riga (t) 28 June 2005 13:03 (UTC)
  • When you click 'display and edit the complete list' on a watchlist, the number given is twice the amount of pages actually there. Radiant_>|< June 28, 2005 13:25 (UTC)

number of watched pages (2)

I aparently have 2,995.5 pages on my watchlist (though the "My watchlist" edit page says that I have 5,991). Any idea how the 0.5 comes about? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 28 June 2005 13:17 (UTC)

  • Possibly you're watching something that doesn't exist, but has an existing talk page? Or the other way around? Radiant_>|< June 28, 2005 13:25 (UTC)
    • Ah, probably, yes — thanks. I see that "Hide my edits" doesn't work; do we know when (or if) it's planned to be implemented? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 28 June 2005 13:29 (UTC)
This is because Enotif counts each page separately (article, talk page). The developers are working on that. Usually, the higher number is the correct one (if you count each page separateley, what they in fact are). --84.191.5.155 28 June 2005 22:06 (UTC)

Unremovable pages in my watchlist

My watchlist contains three pages that I'm unable to remove:

Naive cynic 28 June 2005 16:03 (UTC)

Article appearing in watchlist more than once?

  • I seem to be having a problem where certain articles are displayed more than once in my watchlist. Appears to be possibly related to "hide own edits" since the articles that do it are the ones that were previously edited by someone else and then later by myself causing it to show up twice ?? K1Bond007 June 28, 2005 17:14 (UTC)
  • I just noticed this too in my watchlist. Ironically, the article appearing twice is Wikipedia:MediaWiki 1.5 bugs. --brian0918&#153; 29 June 2005 13:08 (UTC)
    • Interesting. Did you have it on your watchlist while it was still called Wikipedia:MW 1.5 bugs? The page move might have something to do with the duplication. --cesarb 29 June 2005 16:16 (UTC)
      • I don't recall, but I've just tried doing that in a new article, and it didn't show up twice. I created the article, then watched it, then moved it, then unwatched the original, edited the new one, and only the new one showed up in my watchlist, only once. Maybe some other version of these steps will recreate it. --brian0918&#153; 29 June 2005 16:38 (UTC)
    • I would like to see all recent changes to the watched pages. However, it seems to happen only sporadically.--Patrick June 29, 2005 13:10 (UTC)

In my watchlist the link for editing the watchlist is usable, but the html-tags are displayed on the page. Looks like this:

42 Artikel werden beobachtet (ohne Diskussionsseiten); ... <a href='http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Watchlist&edit=yes'>komplette Liste zeigen und bearbeiten</a>. --84.173.87.177 1 July 2005 06:28 (UTC)

ok, seems to work now... --84.173.87.177 1 July 2005 08:03 (UTC)


Former search URLs no longer working

URLs such as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=example and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=peak%2520oil (generated by a web browser shortcut) used to redirect to an article page or a search result listing, but confusingly now just show a copy of the Main Page with the search field filled in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=example seems be the new URL pattern for it: there should be a permanent (301) redirect from the old to the new. (I prefer the new name, but the old one needn't stop working.)

A compatibility fix for the old URLs had been checked into 1.4 but not 1.5. Copied old fix into new code, works now. --Brion June 30, 2005 08:28 (UTC)

Background table colors do not appear in IE

Some tables I made before are now not showing the background colors for the headers in Internet Explorer (6.0.2900). I tested with Netscape and it looks fine. See here and here. — oo64eva (Alex) (U | T | C) @ June 30, 2005 00:56 (UTC)

Save no longer works

Although I have only tried to respond to comments dropped on my talk page, the "Save page" button does not work. So no more editing allowed? - Marshman 30 June 2005 04:39 (UTC) Obviously it does work on this page, so why can I not edit my own talk page? -- Marshman

The fact you posted this means save still works. There are occasional glitches though, but a retry usually solves that. --W(t) 30 June 2005 04:41 (UTC)
Yes, I just went back and tried again and got the page save through, but only after about a 20 minute period including restarting my browser once with no good effect. - Marshman

This state where trying an action would just bring you back to preview was common about a day ago, immediately after the conversion, but then it subsided and in the last day or so I've only seen it once or twice. --Joy [shallot] 30 June 2005 07:54 (UTC)

In the Hebrew Project that were upgraded to 1.5 the problem still repeating. Actually, it became impossible to save a change without click at least 10 times before on the "Save page" button. Amitayk 30 June 2005 17:03 (UTC)

It is still here, I've had to click 5 times to save an article, at which point I would get an edit conflict. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 30 June 2005 19:13 (UTC)

I've changed the session storage backend, it may or may not be more reliable now. --Brion July 1, 2005 00:55 (UTC)
Weirdly, this problem (yesterday) only appeared for me in Firefox. I switched to IE and could edit merrily without problems.Rd232 1 July 2005 07:33 (UTC)
The problem, so far as we understand it, is that login session data for particular login sessions would start going bad. Switching to another browser forces a new session cookie, so you get a brand new fresh session. It shouldn't make a difference which browser you choose, though; clearing your browser's cookies ought to have done just as well. --Brion July 1, 2005 08:50 (UTC)

Page Protection is not working

I have been able to protect pages, and the system is storing them as such. However, pages which are protected can still be edited by anyone who wants to. Rje June 30, 2005 11:59 (UTC)

The pages you've protected recently according to the log are:
These have all been protected against moves only, so anyone can indeed edit them. Did you mean to do this, or did you accidentally check the "Protect from moves only" box? --Brion June 30, 2005 17:38 (UTC)

Watchlist edit history outdated

The watchlist entry for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Norman Borlaug lists myself and Scimitar as the last editors, but the history says otherwise. Just database lag? --brian0918&#153; 1 July 2005 04:17 (UTC)

Articles disappearing from watchlist

The article Norman Borlaug has disappeared from my watchlist. It used to be down a few, then I edited it, and it disappeared. It still says I'm watching in on the article page, and the talk page is in my watchlist still. Very strange.... --brian0918&#153; 1 July 2005 13:26 (UTC)

Please file bugs at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ if possible so we can track this stuff! Thanks, --Brion June 28, 2005 04:34 (UTC)

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