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'''This is an archive only of bug reports from Phase II of the Wikipedia software (used before [[June 20]], [[2002]]). Please see [[Wikipedia:Bug reports]] for instructions on adding bug reports for the current system.'''
*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'''
I just attempted to edit the Talk page on the article, [[Masculism]]. It brought me to a blank screen in which I wrote my comment. I previewed it, and hit the save button. I didn't think anything of the fact that there was nothing else except my text shown, until afterwards. Mine was the only comment remaining. [[user:Rgamble|Rgamble]]
=== Editing is not atomic ===
2002-06-02<br>I enter a new article and hit the Save button. It times out. I hit Save again. It comes up with an edit conflict in which the existing article is empty and what I tried to enter is full. This indicates that the timestamp is updated before the article. I then copy the text to the top text box and hit Save again; this time it has an edit conflict in which the existing text and the text I am trying to enter are identical. -[[user:PierreAbbat|phma]]
More on this bug: I looked at [[Family (biology)]] and noticed that "genuses" should be "genera". So I fixed it. Just as I hit the button, I noticed that "taxonomic" was misspelled, so I hit edit again. It gave me "genuses", and when I changed "taxanomic" to "taxonomic" and hit save, I got an edit conflict with the "genera" version. -phma
== Mysterious edit conflicts ==
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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
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'''"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
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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
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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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'''Editing new pages'''
When I follow a link to a new page, instead of being greeted with the edit box, I get a page that appears to already exist, with the text "Describe the new page here.".
I know what to do -- click on "Edit this page" -- but this is doubtless quite confusing to newbies. I think that we should either go back to the old system or make the default text explain the new system instead of the old one. -- [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]] 2002/05/15 :Correction: This only works incorrectly when following a link to a nonexistent talk page. So it's a namespace bug. -- [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]], Thursday, May 23, 2002
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'''Redirects creating Protected Pages'''
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]]
:That's the first thing I checked (since that recently came up), but Karen's redirects included a space. They look just fine, and identical to the ones I put in that worked. So I'm a bit stumped for now... [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
:Wait, wait... Karen, does the problem look the same as from this redirect page: [[Devangari alphabet]]? (That is, it takes you to a page entitled <nowiki>"#REDIRECT [[Devanagari]]"</nowiki> or similar, *with* the "#REDIRECT" and brackets in the title?) The redirect there looks fine, with a space and everything; I suspect an endline character weirdness or something... Possible fix now in CVS. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Friday, May 17, 2002
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'''Weirdness after editing a Talk page'''
After I save an edited Talk page (and only then - not when I look at one), there's this error message on top:
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 215
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 219
The page itself looks fine if you leave and then look at it again (I didn't try what might happen if I immediately reloaded the page.) I only noticed this happening as of today. -- [[user:Marj Tiefert|Marj Tiefert]], Friday, May 17, 2002
:This happens whenever you save a new page for the first time; it does seem to be new (within the last few days). I'm not quite sure what's wrong, but it looks to be related to the bit that checks for pages that link to the new page and clears their cache. It's mostly harmless; it just means that links to newly created pages might continue to look like nonexistent links for a while. I'll try to fix it... [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Friday, May 17, 2002
:Got it; coupla one-character typos in the code. Sigh. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Monday, May 20, 2002
<span style="color:red;">STATUS: FIXED IN CVS as of 2002-05-20</span>
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=== No minor edits possible ===
When editing some pages (including this one), I cannot use the "minor edit" checkbox anymore, while it was there when I created a new page. May, 23, 2002, [[user:jheijmans|jheijmans]]
:I had the same problem several hours ago -- however before saving I looked up and instead of seeing my user name on the login panel I saw my IP address. But when I saved, the save was logged as being created by my user name. Everything is OK now. --[[user:maveric149|maveric149]]
:This is a symptom of the same long-suffering(-causing) cookie path problem that makes http://www.wikipedia.com/ not appear as logged in. (Users who aren't logged in can't make minor edits, so the check box is missing from the edit page.) A fix for this is in the development version; once it's installed, you can log out and log back in to fix your login cookie. In the meantime, you can manually fix your cookie. (If you're using Netscape or Mozilla this is easy; I don't know about Internet Explorer or Opera or other browsers...) First, close your browser so it doesn't write over your changes. Now, edit the cookies file (cookies, cookies.txt, or some freaky collection of a million files as in IE) and find the cookies for www.wikipedia.com named WikiUserID, WikiLoggedIn, and (if you checked the 'save password' box) WikiUserPassword. There should be a "/wiki/" in the list of cookie goodness for each of these; change it to "/". Save, close, open up your browser again, everything should work.
:If you're not brave enough to mess with your cookies, just hit the "preview" button before actually saving; it'll come up with you logged in still, and you can check the minor edit box there. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Thursday, May 23, 2002
::This isn't much of a solution. Basically, it means that the only times I can use the "minor edit" box are (a) when I'm creating a completely new article and (b) when I do a preview first. In other words, it only appears on the two occasions when I am least likely to want it. [[user:Deb]]
:Did you skip the part where I explained that the problem is already fixed (for the future) in the development version, and that you can fix it yourself to work properly NOW by editing your cookies? If you're neither patient nor willing to tinker yourself, well I'm very sorry, but there's not much I can do about it. --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Monday, May 27, 2002
::FWIW, I edited my cookies and the problem is still there. I'll have to take a closer look (at the files on my computer, that is — the programme code is your end). But in the meantime, I'd like to strongly suggest that one ''always'' press <code>Preview</code> before pressing <code>Save</code>, no matter how minor the edit — better safe than sorry. Given that, you just need to get into the habit of marking your edit as minor towards the end of the editing process rather than towards the beginning. (Also a good idea, since I've noticed that sometimes minor edits end up not being so minor once I'm through with them!) — [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]], Tuesday, May 28, 2002
: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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