Forum:Move - bug reports/resolved

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Resolved issues
List of fully resolved issues. For unresolved issues, see :.

(S) = can be fixed by us (C) = needs to be fixed by Curse

Page content

 * (S) Placeholder for avatar images on user profiles needs addressing.
 * (S)  tag now requires image: or file: preceeding the file name to display the image.
 * (S) News categories need to be deleted (see here)

CSS & skin

 * (C)/(S) Current method of establishing fixed width causes issues in IE7 and below as well as in IE "Quirks" mode. Fix pending skin alteration by Curse.
 * (S) Tabs at the top of pages ("edit" etc) are hard to read.
 * (S) Sidebar, user links and footer are hard to read.
 * (S) Text on pages with syntax highlighting (e.g. Common.js) is very small. Also affects Template:Transcript.
 * (S) The underlayed images for all quotation-based templates (Template:Quotation, Template:Listen, Template:Transcript) aren't showing.
 * (C) Typos in Curse footer.
 * (C) Validation errors:
 * Missing  in Curse footer: " ".
 * Ampersands in Curse footer need to be encoded with   (without the space): " ", " ".

JavaScript

 * (S) Most scripts aren't working.
 * (S) Auto refresh script for RC not working.
 * (S) "Loading in progress" indicators used by some scripts (AJAX RC, duplicate files, ArchiveTool) aren't working. Some scripts/templates also use images still stored on Wikia.
 * (S) ArchiveTool does not work for archive numbers > 9.
 * (S) Search box: Remove "title" if autocomplete shown (or text in ), add placeholder text.
 * (C) Quite a few of the mediawiki utility scripts aren't loaded at all (which is the reason for the "no tabs on Special:Preferences" bug as well, by the way). I'd hazard a guess that "/resources/Resources.php" points to the wrong files. Possibly also affects non-core jQuery scripts; e.g. jquery.placeholder isn't working.
 * (S) Input placeholders (search box, summary box) are not removed on focus when using the Steam browser.

Misc

 * Missing extensions:
 * (C) Extension:OggHandler (used by sound files in articles).
 * (C) Extension:CharInsert (see MediaWiki:Uploadtext for an example).
 * (C) Wrong YouTube extension installed; current one has no support for resizing and positioning. Current one should be replaced with Extension:YouTube (emijrp).


 * Extensions:
 * (C) Extension:EasyTimeline does not work (install instructions). For example, Template:Timeline should be showing a timeline graph.
 * (C) Now renders the lines but still doesn't render the text.
 * (C) The CreateBox extension inserts the specified prefix twice (try creating a new forum page via Forum:Wiki discussion; the name of the new page will be "Forum:Forum:Example" rather than "Forum:Example"). Worked fine prior to December 8.
 * (C) ImageSizeInfoFunctions: 1.18-compatible version needs to be installed.
 * (C) TitleKey: Needs to be installed.
 * (C) WikiEditor: Needs to be installed.
 * Extensions:
 * (C) Extension:QuickLink: Needs to be un-installed since it's not compatible with Extension:WikiEditor and causes the latter not to work properly (due to JS errors).
 * (C) YouTube (emijrp): Extension needs modification.


 * Namespaces:
 * (C) "Portal"/"Portal talk" needs to be created.
 * (C) Namespace alias "VA" for NS_PROJECT (used by shortcuts) needs to be added.


 * Config settings:
 * (C) $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch should be set to "true".
 * (C) $wgResourceLoaderDebug should be set to "false".
 * (C) $wgPasswordSenderName is still set to "MediaWiki Mail" (should probably be "The Vault - Fallout wiki" or something like that).
 * (C) $wgFileExtensions needs to be expanded with "pdf".
 * (C) Relative links in the "forum" namespace have stopped working on December 8. For example, using /resolved on this page should result in a link to Forum:Move - bug reports/resolved, but it doesn't. Worked fine prior to December 8.
 * (C) Vector: Collapsible nav should be disabled globally.
 * (C) Enhanced RC should be enabled by default.
 * (C) Description2: $wgEnableMetaDescriptionFunctions should be set to 'true'.
 * (C) AbuseFilter: $wgAbuseFilterBlockDuration should be set to '3 days'.
 * (C) ConfirmEdit: Should be set to use either 'FancyCaptcha' or 'MathCaptcha' in order to reduce the amount of spambot activity.


 * User groups & rights:
 * (C) User group "moderator" with "patroller" and "rollback" rights needs to be added for moderators.
 * (C) "Moderator" group is missing the "autopatrol" right (marks edits of moderators automatically as patrolled).


 * Cache issues:
 * (C)/(S) Broken redirects (ignore blog space redirects) and uncategorized pages not clearing.
 * (C)/(S) There seems to be an issue with redirects not actually redirecting in some cases.
 * (C)/(S) All deadend pages, uncategorized images, and uncategorized pages need null edits to clear list (purge does not work).
 * (C) WantedPages listing pages in existance.
 * Special:WantedPages still lists existing pages (e.g. Forum:Index).
 * Suggest running "/maintenance/refreshLinks.php" and/or "/maintenance/namespaceDupes.php".
 * (C) WantedFiles not clearing.
 * (C) Blog tests have created wanted categories that can't be removed.
 * (C) There are duplicates of all portal pages (whose names start with ":" rather than "Portal:") showing up in the respective categories; see e.g. here.
 * (C) Also affects a number of forum pages.
 * (C) Special:UnusedFiles and Special:UncategorizedFiles state there are more images than they show.
 * Suggest running "/maintenance/checkImages.php", "/maintenance/cleanupImages.php" and "/maintenance/refreshImageCount.php".


 * Server:
 * (C) texvc is needed for the  tags (instructions, more instructions).
 * (C) .ogg files are being served as MIME type "text/plain" instead of "application/ogg". This causes the "native browser support" playback option (which is the default) of OggHandler to fail in pretty much all browsers except Chrome, i.e. the files aren't played. Also affects other Curse-hosted wikis such as Wowpedia.

Pages which have not been imported
I appear to have lost my entire fourth talk page archive. --User Avatar talk.png 00:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- Porter21 (talk) 09:38, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Ruined highway interchange is missing entirely - wanted to import it myself but can't get import to work currently. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:38, 21 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Fixed, I imported all revisions. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 16:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

"Wanted files" not clearing
Seems this is caused by image redirects - the files on Special:WantedFiles are (as far as I can see) all caused by pages pointing to an image redirect (i.e. the pages still use the original rather than the current name of the image). Updating the pages to use the current name results in the redirect vanishing from Special:WantedFiles. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:38, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah I noticed that and I am kinda figuring it may be the same for Special:WantedPgaes (in the case of wanted pages I figure it is either the same or lack of VA alias redirect). I was wondering if there was some kind of setting that tells Special:WantedFiles to follow the redirects and report of the target location. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 20:53, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Same thing on Special:LonelyPages, but not with all pages. Olney Powerworks terminal entries and Patterson's terminal entries don't disappear even though they're both linked from Fallout 3 terminal entries. But numerous other pages disappear correctly with page being refreshed. UPD: Wow! I've liked those pages mentioned before and they disappear from Special:LonelyPages. Something must be wrong with links from Fallout 3 terminal entries. UPD2:They are linked using pagelist template. So links are not static. Maybe that's the clue. veryblackraven 22:48, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Still trying to track this down. Currently I believe the issue has something to do with links inserted through templates (as veryblackraven's findings seem to support) and/or links from certain namespaces. Hence I've made a few nonsensical changes to Forumheader in order to force the server to recache all the pages using it, and after a while the number of links to Forum:Index on Special:WantedPages started dropping (so far it's gone from 28,482 to 28,333). The number of links to the sub-forums (FO3 general discussion etc) - which are also generated by that template - are dropping as well, so I think I might be on the right track. -- Porter21 (talk) 14:28, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Looking at exactly which pages are listed there, there's only one thing I can think of which could have generated the number of links to shown next to the top 5 on WantedPages, and that's the user welcome message (which is usually substituted and not transcluded, so "links through template" doesn't apply there). -- Porter21 (talk) 14:36, 22 November 2011 (UTC)


 * The Fallout 3 terminal entries issue is in fact due to how the links are transcluded from the category, this has always been a issue here and on Wikia for that particular template. I know this from clearing out the orphaned pages a while back over there. Additionally, the only reasons Wikia doesn't add it to there lonelypages, is because they consider unused redirects or links from user pages as actual links from other articles (something I consider to be a bad practise, as it is just sweeping the issue under the carpet). As for the forums that Porter is covering as well, I am not to familiar with those, so I cant really say much. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 15:43, 22 November 2011 (UTC)


 * The number of links to Forum:Index has gone down by 6,000 and is still dropping. Fairly sure all the issues with special pages are caused by "broken" (out-of-date) internal link tracking database tables, so if we could get someone to run the maintenance scripts I mentioned in the section below the issues should go away without us having to fix things manually. -- Porter21 (talk) 19:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Seems file move ability has been disabled, I dont know if this would have a effect on wanted files. User Avatar talk.png 18:52, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems to be working now. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 19:29, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Possible fix for (almost) all current issues
I think basically all remaining issues (other than the namespace alias and the user right) are caused by the various internal link tracking tables being broken/out of sync. This can be fixed (by Curse) by running two maintenance scripts: -- Porter21 (talk) 15:37, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * "/maintenance/rebuildall.php" (rebuilds link tracking tables and search index)
 * "/maintenance/rebuildImages.php" (updates image metadata records)

E-mail notifications
I've been getting e-mails about the pages I'm watching, but they aren't the full address. For example, it tells me to click "http://www.falloutwiki.com/index.php?title=Arc_welder_(Fallout:_New_Vegas)&diff=0&oldid=1497517" to see the changes done, but only links until "http://www.falloutwiki.com/index.php?title=Arc_welder", so I don't see any of the changes, I just see the overview page (if you don't understand what I'm saying, I can forward you the e-mail). Not exactly a bug in the wiki, just with the Curse notification system. --Kastera (talk) 22:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Update: I think the issue is anything with a parentheses in the address. The same thing happened with "http://www.falloutwiki.com/index.php?title=Charon_(Fallout_3)&diff=0&oldid=1487816"; it cut out just before the parantheses, making it "http://www.falloutwiki.com/index.php?title=Charon". --Kastera (talk) 22:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure whether this is fixable - I have a hunch it might be a MediaWiki bug rather than one related to Curse. Wikia has its own custom email notification system (and hence might not suffer from this issue). -- Porter21 (talk) 13:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

.ogg files
Originally posted on my talk page:
 * I have found that gun sounds (shooting, reloading, breaking) dont appear to work at all. Just thought you should know. JASPER42 16:02, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I have tested this and it seem to only work in Chrome for native browser support player. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 16:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

This seems to be caused by the server serving the .ogg files as "text/plain" (instead of the correct "application/ogg"). Chrome probably has some sort of provision to ignore the wrong MIME type and plays them based on the file extension while the other browsers go "this is a text file, not playing this". -- Porter21 (talk) 22:10, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems to be fixed now. -- Porter21 (talk) 19:33, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Patrol
For some reason, my edits are showing up as unpatrollled on recent changes. The same goes for Scarface's edits, at least when I look at user changes. Is this a bug or did I miss something? BillyOcean 23:09, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * That's because the "moderator" group doesn't have the "autopatrol" right yet. Users in groups with that right automatically have their own edits marked as patrolled. The issue is listed at the top; the wording is probably a bit cryptic though if you're not into the technical details of MediaWiki :) -- Porter21 (talk) 23:15, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Kudos, Porter. Thanks for the quick reply. BillyOcean 23:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed. -- Porter21 (talk) 10:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

News RSS
Strange but today my Google Reader notified me that there is some unread news on The Vault. I was hoping to see something about this matter. But this was the old one about All Roads. Somehow it appeared in RSS again. veryblackraven 22:43, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure whether we can do something about that. -- Porter21 (talk) 10:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

en language link
Is currently redirecting to wikia!!! User Avatar talk.png 04:50, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems to be fixed now. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 22:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, GA fixed it himself :P -- Porter21 (talk) 22:41, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Did I really? I tried to fix it last night, but it kept throwing up error messages about permissions etc. So I gave up. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 22:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, I had seen a long entry on RC that the interwiki table had been modified, so I assumed it worked. -- Porter21 (talk) 22:55, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Just checked the logs for it, and it seems it did. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 22:57, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Pages timing out
I have been trying to access Fallout: New Vegas characters for the past few days, yet it keeps timing out. Could be due to the size of the page maybe? User Avatar talk.png 23:04, 28 November 2011 (UTC)


 * FNV characters is timing out for me as well. Not sure it's due to page size though; The Nearly Ultimate Fallout 2 Guide loads fine for me and it's a lot bigger (about 8 times as big). -- Porter21 (talk) 13:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I think I may have figured it out, it seems to be the amount of images (tick and checks) on the page that is making it time out. I have implemented a version with only ticks and it works fine now, so we have a temporary fix. I don't know if it is a server limit or something else? I know wikia always had trouble and took time also loading this same page. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 22:55, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * EDIT: restore the history as well now.


 * Well done. Maybe some some sort of HTTP request limit? -- Porter21 (talk) 00:37, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I am not to tech savvy when it comes to servers and HTTP requests, packet data etc. But I am assuming such a thing would be to prevent DoS/DDoS attacks on the server. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 02:24, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Youtube
The new extension is now floating the player to the right instead of the left. User Avatar talk.png 00:28, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * (edit conflict) Don't think that's a bug - looking at the extension code, that's intended and can't be changed globally via variables. So either we have to add  to each  tag or create a template which wraps the tag in some sort of container. The latter might be easier to use in the long run, not sure. I guess we need to do a bot run either way. -- Porter21 (talk) 00:58, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Is anything else using 'object' as a holder (well any that we want to float right)?, I might suggest CSS. But other wise, it is going to be a bot job. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 00:51, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Just realised, doing that would probably invalidate the usage the of align parameter for the extension, looks like a bot job. Why on earth would they write it to float right by default? User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 00:54, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * (edit conflict) Off the top of my head, the ogg players at least use . Think a template solution might be better; I'm always wary of modifying a basic tag like that via CSS. -- Porter21 (talk) 00:58, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Or we could just modify the extension code, just let me know what to modify in it and I'll pass it on to the Curse tech folks. Ausir 01:24, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The change is pretty simple - replace: function renderYouTube($input, $argv) { //$input = "WZpeeRSk-0A" if (@$argv['align']!='left' and @$argv['align']!='right') {                       $align = 'right'; with: function renderYouTube($input, $argv) { //$input = "WZpeeRSk-0A" if (@$argv['align']!='center' and @$argv['align']!='left' and @$argv['align']!='right') {                       $align = ''; This also adds support for. -- Porter21 (talk) 01:32, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Altered the above slightly so it defaults to no alignment. With a default  it'd still float the element, causing layout issues. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:19, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * While we are at it, might be an idea to add an id/class hook to the syntax. Just in case we want to affect change globally vis CSS. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 12:23, 11 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Good idea. Added a change with that effect to the report list. -- Porter21 (talk) 12:36, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Vault alias
VA shortcuts are showing in Special:WantedPages even when created. What is more, the amount of links stated in Special:WantedPages doesn't match to those in what links here for the page. User Avatar talk.png 19:19, 26 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I think the mismatch in the number of links has the same "root" as existing pages appearing on Special:WantedPages in the first place. Special:WhatLinksHere seems to only report the links which properly register as links to existing pages, while Special:WantedPages seems to report links which improperly register as links to non-existing pages. Due to this, we can't even check which links (or links from which pages) are causing the issue. It would probably be possible to track down the root issue with database access (as you could compare which links register properly and which don't), but we don't have that and I doubt Curse would allow me to take a look (security risks etc).


 * That aside, I think a run of "/maintenance/refreshLinks.php" might help solve this - the issue seems very similar to the one we had with links to Forum:Index (among others), and that one was largely (albeit not completely) solved by rebuilding the link tables. -- Porter21 (talk) 10:27, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Quest template
I am currently working to clean up We Will All Go Together and noticed that the "final reward" parameter for Template:Infobox quest doesn't seem to be working. Specifically, neither that parameter nor its assigned value show up in the infobox when defined. This is likely affecting a number of quest articles. --(talk 05:36, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Well spotted :) The funny thing is, I don't think this bug was caused by the move; rather the parameter hasn't worked for more than 2 years. Apparently it got lost when the FO3-specific quest infobox template was merged into the general one - and that was back in 2009. The documentation of the (then) two templates was merged properly, but the templates themselves weren't. I've fixed it now. -- Porter21 (talk) 11:34, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, looks good now. I'm surprised nobody caught it on the article in question, as it was created in late 2010. --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 15:18, 19 January 2012 (UTC) UPDATE: I believe this can be archived as resolved by the The Vault staff.

Fallout Extreme / Overviewintro template?
Having just noticed the new tool dropdown with the "what links here?" link, I was exploring what in namespace (Main) links to the front page. I found two out of place articles - Fallout Extreme weapons and Fallout Extreme items - that link to it by way of Template:Overviewintro, which seems to default to Fallout Wiki when it doesn't know what the game is that is being specified. This occurs on the two Fallout Extreme articles because they pass the game abbreviation of "FOX" to the template. The template page says to refer to Template:Abb for valid abbreviations, but it seems that only a subset of those are implemented for Template:Overviewintro. --(talk 22:28, 26 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Fixed. -- Porter21 (talk) 22:40, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Placeholder texts
If you're worried about user-friendliness, then how about making the word "Search" disappear from the search box and "Briefly describe the changes you have made" from the Summary box when I click them? It's so annoying having to delete the word(s) every time I want to search for or edit something! I thought maybe there might be a user peferences setting for it, but I can't find anything relevant. I haven't had this issue on a web site in years :( --(talk 23:39, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * They do automatically disappear when I select the search bar or select the edit summary. Which internet browser are you using? Hugs [[file:MadeMan2.png|20px|link=User:Scarface11235]] "Say 'ello to my little friend!"
 * Mostly using Steam's in-game UI browser, which is probably at fault since it kind of sucks. At least it lets me update the wiki while playing the game, without having to alt+tab. --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 00:18, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think that'd be your problem. I'd double-check with Ghost or Porter, though, they're the techies. Hugs [[file:MadeMan2.png|20px|link=User:Scarface11235]] "Say 'ello to my little friend!"
 * If it helps, I just checked the wikia wiki with the Steam browser and it clears the text out of the search box when I click in it, so there's definitely some way to implement it that this browser supports. --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 00:56, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Well that is interesting, since it is Javascript that both adds these elements and also removes them on focus. Javascript is more Poters area of expertises, so we will have to wait until he can take a look at it. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 01:07, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of this bug. I'll look into it, but I can't make any promises since the Steam browser does not exactly lend itself to debugging. It also doesn't help that it identifies itself as "chrome"; makes it kind of hard to target it specifically. -- Porter21 (talk) 22:06, 14 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Seems like Wikia doesn't encounter this problem with Oasis because they insert the "placeholder" tag statically in the page source, whereas in Vector (the standard MediaWiki skin) it's added dynamically via JS (i.e. the "bug" also appears on Wikipedia when visiting it via Steam browser). Long story short, it's a bug in the Steam browser; while it supports "placeholder", it doesn't remove the placeholder text when the input field is active - if the placeholder was added via JS. I've created a script which should fix the issue. -- Porter21 (talk) 14:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Meta description
Extension:Description2 is not creating meta descriptions for the main page or any page that isn't a mainspace page. This can be fixed by adding '$wgEnableMetaDescriptionFunctions = true;' to the extension, then we will be able to manually add them to the few but vital pages, like the main page and portals etc. User Avatar talk.png 15:42, 13 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Just for completeness' sake (GA already knows about this): The extension does create descriptions for non-mainspace pages - it just didn't do it for portal pages and the main page because all page content there was wrapped in tables for layout reasons. The extension excludes content in tables when generating the descriptions (in order to avoid pulling mbox or infobox text, I presume), hence there was nothing for it to generate a description from on these pages. This has since been fixed (the portal layout is no longer table-based) and now we're getting descriptions.
 * The setting GA mentioned should still be set to 'true' though so we don't have to employ workarounds for directly setting the descriptions. -- Porter21 (talk) 13:48, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Abuse filter
I posted this on Ausirs page, but I thought I might as well post it here.


 * Can we get $wgAbuseFilterBlockDuration changed from indefinite to 3 days. I have put in a filter after reviewing these logs Special:AbuseLog?title=Special%3AAbuseLog&wpSearchUser=&wpSearchFilter=5&wpSearchTitle= to auto block a persistent vandal using multiple IPs and spamming external links to 2 specific pages. I think 3 days would be more appropriate an action than the current default.

User Avatar talk.png 20:13, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Maintenance scripts
The maintenance scripts are being run now. Please report if you notice anything weird. Ausir 21:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Forum namespace oddities
Already posted this on Ausir's talk page, but I figured I'd put this here as well for the sake of completeness. Several issues cropped on December 8, all of which didn't exist previously to my knowledge:


 * Relative links in the "forum" namespace have stopped working (see the link to "/resolved" in "Forum:Move - bug reports").
 * The CreateBox extension now inserts the specified prefix twice (just try creating a new forum page via Forum:Wiki discussion and you'll see what I mean; the name of the new page will be "Forum:Forum:Example" rather than "Forum:Example").
 * The QuickLinks extension now displays forum threads as ":Example" rather than "Forum:Example".

-- Porter21 (talk) 15:22, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The first issue at least seems to be caused by the "Forum" namespace no longer being marked as a namespace which can have sub-pages. Just noticed this when looking at Forum:Move - bug reports/resolved; the is "Move - bug reports/resolved", but it would be "Move - bug reports" if sub-pages were enabled for that namespace.
 * Regarding QuickLinks, to be honest I still think we should simply use LinkSuggest instead - it's a lot better in my opinion. 15:22, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
 * With QuickLink, I just read up on it. It is supposed to suggest links when typing content, this however does not happen in chrome. I get no suggestions at all =( User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 22:10, 18 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Another reason to use LinkSuggest, I suppose. Since these issues still seem to be present - any news? -- Porter21 (talk) 10:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

New wiki forum posts are being prefixed with "Forum:Forum:" instead of just "Forum:". I suppose it's a non-issue if we deprecate this forum in favor of another solution. --(talk 16:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

More link issues
Firstly, Special:BrokenRedirects is listing a page that apparently links to itself, even though it is deleted. Since it is a portal page, I assuming the issue might stem from the moving of portal pages during the installation period where we moved them all out and back in again.

Secondly, it isnt just Special:UnusedFiles that is affected by saying X results but only displaying less than X amount. So is Special:UncategorizedFiles and Special:UncategorizedFiles.

Finally, Special:WantedPages is listing The Vault: shortcuts as wanted pages, even though they exist. Additionally, the X links states 1 figure, but when clicked on, doesn't show the full list. Example, the top one in Special:WantedPages is The Vault:P which exists, yet it suggests it dosnt and also 15 pages link to it. But looking at whatlinkshere, there are only 3.

The only reason I mention the last 2 is I can remember something about running a link rebuild script, that no longer appears on the current list of issues. So does it need to be added back in, or are these needing a different maintenance script to be run? User Avatar talk.png 21:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The script you probably mean is "/maintenance/refreshLinks.php", the one I mentioned in reply to your post in Vault alias above. Running it should fix the issues with the shortcuts and maybe the "ghost" redirect, but I'm not sure whether it'll affect the issues with the image-related special pages seeing as it was run before (as part of rebuildall.php) and the issues are still there. "/maintenance/refreshImageCount.php" might help with the wrong counts displayed everywhere, but that's just a stab in the dark.


 * By the way, I've found a way to manually get rid of the redlinked shortcuts; comparing WhatLinksHere for the redlinked pages here and on Wikia and then doing null edits on the pages which are not listed here. Cumbersome, but it works. -- Porter21 (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I was wondering why some of the pages had disappeared from the list. I can actually use a bot for this, by generating a list from Wikia for whatlinks here, but null editing or adding a single space here instead. It is part manual and part bot for the method, but at least it gets it done quicker. Might be able to do it in a night. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 20:10, 14 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, we can split up the bot work if you like (like we did with the gallery fixes). Some of the pages (like Forum:Index) will have lots of WhatLinksHere entries, doing it with one bot alone might take quite a while. Unless you plan on doing only the shortcuts, that is. -- Porter21 (talk) 20:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Already done the shortcuts, although it seems some do not want to be removed. Looks like the issue stems from a blog link, so I will try creating and then deleting them to update the links table. As for the larger ones, it would actually be easier to just run the bot at my end (while I sleep). As once I have generated the list via Wikia (that's the semi-manual part), I would then need to run the bot through the page list here to see if it exists, thus removing all the blog pages etc. to create a true list that needs working on. It would actually make more sense for me to run null edits at the same time as checking if the page exists, therefore not duplicating the workload to then split it. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 17:44, 15 January 2012 (UTC)


 * As you like :) -- Porter21 (talk) 18:46, 15 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The issue with the broken redirect of Portal talk:Fallout Online redirecting to itself seems to have been fixed. I appeared as a double redirect today, so I created the final destination page and then deleted both which cleared it. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 21:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Also I think I may know where the issues stem from, I have been running my bot the past few days to null edit as many pages as it can come across. Now pages such as this (left up to show example, but will import later on) keep showing up in the maintenance pages (had a few for some file pages as well), which seem to have failed to be copied from the fork. So I can see that the MediaWiki software is getting confused as the page should be there but isn't, hence why they don't show up on the reports, but still counts them towards the total. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 21:29, 27 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I'm suspecting the issue with wrong counts on the image maintenance pages (Special:UnusedFiles etc) stem from something like this as well. The easiest solution would be getting someone to run the SQL queries used by those pages and pass the results to us; then we could see which images have failed to transfer and fix the issue. -- Porter21 (talk) 22:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Captcha
Not really a bug, but also a bug, but something still of concern. Why are we using the simple math captcha in open text. Bot are able to read it and solve the captcha with ease. Looking at the extension, there are several options that would be better suited as a captcha test. Plus it is bugged, as it asks twice before you are able to submit the edit. User Avatar talk.png 15:34, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Also noticed it seems to ask for a captcha twice, so I don't know if there are two sets of rules generating the need for it to ask twice before submitting the edit. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 20:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Just to give a little update since we discussed this on the Wasteland Wiki; Curse is going to be testing the Asirra Captcha. -- Porter21 (talk) 11:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

QuickLink
Is this the artical for the auto change... action? If it is than this is my opinion. The auto change to the editing section alwas makes things more difficult. When I go to make a link after I write a single word it desides to add the rest in, most of the time it just changes it to some thing else, but some times it changes it from Ex. Anti-materiel rifle to Ex. Anti-Material Rifle OR Ex. Anti-material riflerial rifle]]. I belive that this feture should be removed.--Ant2242 00:39, 6 February 2012 (UTC) Anouther Ex. A Manhandled Manservanti-materiel rifle]] --Ant2242 01:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)


 * What you mean is the QuickLink extension; it's not really related to the placeholder texts (these are default texts displayed in certain input boxes like the site search). I'm not a fan of the extension myself and suggested it to be replaced, but there was little community feedback.


 * If you find it that annoying though, I can suggest a workaround for the time being. You can disable it via the "Editing" tab of your preferences by unticking "Show edit toolbar (requires JavaScript)". This has the drawback of also disabling the edit buttons (the blue ones above the editing area), but at least it gets rid of the suggestions. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:59, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

QuickLink isn't compatible with the new editor, hence I've requested it to be disabled. It's causing JavaScript errors which in turn cause the insert buttons in the new editor's toolbar not to work. Just a heads-up. -- Porter21 (talk) 12:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)