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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]]

Also, we probably have no need for .exe or .mp3 files--do we?

: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 (كاس العالم 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]]

== Statistics ==

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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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Orphans.

:This should be fixed if the proposed Islands page (showing all pages unreachable from [[Main Page]]) is implemented.

For some time I've noticed that the year pages for 803 to 809 keep appearing on the orphan list. Yet when I go there and check out the links they do have links, even if only to each other. Maybe somebody with a better understanding of the site's innards can have a look at this. --[[user:Eclecticology|Eclecticology]], Wednesday, June 5, 2002

== Most wanted ==

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== All pages ==

=== Page is enormous ===

This page is rather large, it took my Mozilla 1.0rc3 about 5 minutes to display it after download. How about splitting it alphabetically into 26 pages, plus another for numbers and non-alphanumerics? There's a long tradition of encyclopedias coming in alphabetical volumes, anyway. [[user:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]]

== Random Page ==

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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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:No problem, Eclec; just do what I did: By this point, all articles on your watchlist that don't belong to the blank namespace are listed at the bottom of your list as "non-existing [''sic''] articles". Next to each is the link "Stop watching this article for me" -- this does not work properly due to a cookie bug (I assume), so don't click on it. Instead, follow the link to the article itself. (If the article is ''really'' nonexistent, then you will now have to manually edit the URL to remove the <code>&amp;action=edit</code> at the end of the URL before the next step.) Now click on "Stop watching this article for me". This will remove the page from your watchlist and at the same time remove from your watchlist every other page with the same name but in different namespaces. If you don't want to watch any of these, then you're done; else, click on "Watch this article for me". You are now watching all of the articles with that name, in whatever namespace, but there will be no spurious entries on your watchlist. You say that you want to watch the main article but not the talk page? Tough beans, that is no longer an option (unless there's something that I don't know about, which is always possible). FWIW, I did all this on [[March 21]], just in case this trick has been ruined by an update since then. -- [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]], Thursday, May 23, 2002

::Thanks Toby - it seems to work; now I can do some real housecleaning! [[user:Eclecticology|Eclecticology]]

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'''Can't watch <nowiki>[[User Talk:]]</nowiki> pages'''

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 occurred to the talk page since then, so that I failed to realise until now that he answered me the very same day.

&mdash; [[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 ==

Voting for a page to be deleted logs that vote under [[Wikipedia:]] rather than [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]]. [[user:Koyaanis Qatsi|Koyaanis Qatsi]]

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'''History of vote pages misses many edits'''

See comment in [[Wikipedia:Bug reports/History]].

&mdash; [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]], Tuesday, June 25, 2002