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This page lists bugs reported in special pages (interactive pages in the special: namespace).

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:Right! Same here. Maybe because i'm using a +8 hours offset? --[[user:Luis Oliveira|Luis Oliveira]]

::Yes, there's a bug in the time zone handling code. I am on Central time (Server time + 2h) which I set in my user preferences and I noticed that the "List only new changes" link returns something only after I wait for 2 hours, and then only those changes that have occuredoccurred two hours since I last accessed RecentChanges. [[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]]

'''minor edits showing up even if turned off''' (2002/03/05)

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== Upload files ==

The upload files page doesn't have a image uploading policy or something like that: We should not use formats like [[GIF]], with can cause patent problems, or like [[Windows bitmap|BMP]]. with are not optimal. I suggest [[PNG]] and [[JPEG]].

:Very few web browsers support MNG (the animated version of PNG). [[Mozilla]] does, but Microsoft Internet Explorer (>90% of users) doesn't. What format should we use for animations? --[[user:Damian Yerrick|Damian Yerrick]]

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:WAV is not optimal, and MP3 has patent problems. Use [[Ogg]] [[Vorbis]] instead. --[[user:Damian Yerrick|Damian Yerrick]]

2002-06-21: A file with an ampersand in its name cannot be deleted. The file is كاس العالم 01.jpg (كاسكاس العالمالعالم 01.jpg) and several sysops have tried to delete it to no avail. -[[user:PierreAbbat|phma]]

2002-06-23: Some upload log entries are missing. cutelayout.bmp was never uploaded, but it was deleted; and sxvspork.zip was uploaded and never deleted, but it isn't there. -[[user:PierreAbbat|phma]]

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[end quoted output] Current time is 9:00 p.m., EDT, on 29 April 2002 (I think that's 6 p.m. server time, but I'm not sure.) [[user:Vicki Rosenzweig|Vicki Rosenzweig]]

:Hmm.... the line numbers are in the function that checks your login cookie against the user database, which clearly has failed (error messages, and an IP address shown instead of your login name), though that should be completely independantindependent of the special page, which gets loaded after the login check. The lack of results in the article list also seems to imply that the database isn't returning results... I can access [[special:NewPages]] now, both logged in and not, and everything seems fine; my first guess is a temporary problem connecting to the database server (load-related?) -- try it again, if it's still showing the above symptoms (and is it only that page, or others as well?) my second guess would be some glitch in your login cookie; the system doesn't currently gracefully handle problems in that department. Try clearing the cookie in your browser settings and logging in again. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Tuesday, April 30, 2002

== Orphans ==

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If an article is created with underscores, but all the links to it have spaces, then it

is listed as an orphan. I've noticed that in the URLs, the strings "%20", "_", and "+" can be

used interchangablyinterchangeably. "Orphans" should be updated to treat all three the same.

Also, pages that could be usefully listed as Orphans are not, e.g.,

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== My watchlist ==

I just clicked on the "my Watchlist" link, and went to the right place (a good thing), but all of the watchlist changes are now listed under 2/25/02, 15:51 (not a good thing, since yesterday they were sorted by day and time!). Thought you might want to know! [[User:JHK|JHK]]

:This isn't a bug in "my watchlist". The problem is that the timestamp on every article got changed (which also added a few thousand pages to Recent Changes). --[[user:Zundark|Zundark]], 2002 Feb 26

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I've been watching [[User Talk:AxelBoldt]] since [[June 11]] now, waiting for him to reply to something that I wrote there.

Even though my watchlist reports every petty change to [[User:AxelBoldt]], it doesn't notice any of the 4 changes that occuredoccurred to the talk page since then, so that I failed to realise until now that he answered me the very same day.

— [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]], Monday, June 24, 2002

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'''Can't get my own <nowiki>[[User Talk:]]</nowiki> page on my own watchlist'''

I can't seem to get my user page to stick on the watchlist. I put it on, it's there for a day or two sometimes, then goes off. This week I just can't get it on the watchlist at all. The interaction seems normal, but when the page refreshes, it is still unwatched. Since this is a major means of communication, I'd like for this to work more reliably. I can watch any other page. I've tried this with three different browsers and it's always no go. Note that I live in the "Macwater". [[user:Ortolan88|Ortolan88]], Saturday, July 13, 2002

:I'll email you when it changes. ;-) I was watching your page awhile back and forgot to stop. [[user:Koyaanis Qatsi|Koyaanis Qatsi]]

Wait, is the problem your <nowiki><code>[[User:]]</code></nowiki> page or your <nowiki><code>[[User_talk:]]</code></nowiki> page?

Is this the same bug as the one just above?

&mdash; [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]], Sunday, July 14, 2002

:I can't watch my own user page or my own user_talk: page. I '''can''' watch [[User Talk:AxelBoldt]] however, so it isn't the same bug.

:When I click on "Watch this page" I get a message that the page has been added to my watchlist, then I get a new page whose title is the URL of the page I just asked to watch. I just ignore this page. This happens whether the request to watch the page works or not. [[user:Ortolan88|Ortolan88]], Friday, July 19, 2002

== "Votes for" pages ==