Wikipedia:Editing bug reports: Difference between revisions

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*sometimes a protected page still says "edit this page" when you first view it.

:This is probably because you followed a redirect to get to it: the redirect isn't protected. --[[User:Maveric149|mav]]

'''Edit replaced entire text of a Talk page 2/26/02'''

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While I was working on the [[Complete list of encyclopedia topics]] pages, I was getting mysterious edit conflicts. I believe that this was due to the enormous size of the pages and Wikipedia's extremely sluggish response time; I would hit "save", and then wait half an hour(!) for the page to finally refresh. It would indicate an edit conflict, but my changes would be saved anyway. Perhaps the software was timing out and retrying the same edit after it had already gone through? [[user:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]], Friday, April 19, 2002

:Yeah, that sounds likely to me. The solution is simple: get other people to stop using Wikipedia so there's less strain on the system for the rest of us. :) [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Friday, April 19, 2002

<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">STATUS: WAITING ON VARIOUS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS</fontspan>

'''"Go back to edit some more" doesn't work'''

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'''Clicking on link in Recent changes takes me to edit box for that link'''

2/19/02 6:27 ish PST. Clicked on Boleslav II Smialy in Recent Changes to see what Mr. Parker had done with the article. Got the edit box for the article, which contained a redirect to an appropriately titled page. Tried to save it as I found it, got an edit conflict. Repeatedly tried to remove what "I" had added to the lower box, and then save, got continued edit conflicts., Finally just backed out. [[User:JHK]]

:Is this kind of thing still going on, or has it been resolved? [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Friday, April 19, 2002

<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">STATUS: UNKNOWN</fontspan>

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The ~ is not uncommon in ASCII art such as in [[Stimulated emission]], and should be left intact inside pre and nowiki areas. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] 2002/03/12

:Fixed it. Will now be replaced on preview, and is left unchanged in nowiki and pre tags. --[[user:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]], Sunday, April 14, 2002

<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">STATUS : Solved in CVS</fontspan>

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'''Konqueror 2.1.1 with KDE 2.1.2 cannot render any edit/add page.''' 2002-1-1

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I've been transfering user information to user pages using a redirect, but now it creates a protected page and won't let me add any information to it. I'm not sure whether it's the redirect command at fault, or the user: command or the combination, but it's paralysed the transfer of user info out of the mainspace. ~ [[user:Karen Johnson|KJ]] 17th May 2002

:I just redirected [[User:Chris Markides]] (while logged in) and [[User:Stephen Rapley]] (while not logged in) and had no problem with either. Could you try leaving one of these bad redirects in place for a bit so I can examine it? [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Friday, May 17, 2002

I think the redirect only work if you leave a space between the "REDIRECT" and the link you're redirecting to. This wasn't the case before, was it? [[user:jheijmans|jheijmans]]

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:Got it; coupla one-character typos in the code. Sigh. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Monday, May 20, 2002

<fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">STATUS: FIXED IN CVS as of 2002-05-20</fontspan>

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:Thank you for your helpful responses, gents. I had understood the "explanation" above to mean that, if one logged off and then logged on again, the problem should be resolved - evidently it meant something else. I also didn't realise that the words, "some freaky collection of a million files" were designed to enable me to find the cookies in order to edit them. Bravery doesn't come into it.

[[user:Deb|Deb]] Tues, May 28, 2002

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=== I want to edit it and it answers back ===

Whoever did this had some skills and nothing better to do with them. I edited "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back". After that, I try to edit it a second time, and instead of the text, I find a smart-ass reply in the editing box. I didn't try to edit it again, I was too pissed off. I don't know if it would do the same think to you, try it out yourselves.

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004

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