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Please report bugs in the [[wikipedia:PHP script|Wikipedia software]] here. This is not the place to point out mistakes in a Wikipedia article (you can do that by simply editing that article), nor is it the place to request new software features (you can do that at [[wikipedia:Feature_requests|Feature requests]]).
Add your new report at the top, with a '''bold''' title and a date
Make sure that different bugs get different titles. Or, if your problem is related to a bug already reported, add your description to that bug's section. If an issue has been resolved, move it down to the "Resolved issues" section. == Unresolved Issues ==
'''Parser does not recognize mailto: URL scheme''' (2002/02/20)
The link parser seems not to recognize the mailto: URL scheme ([http://www-old.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/rfc2368.txt RFC 2368]).
This prevents a user from creating a clickable e-mail contact point in his user page.
*Actual results: [mailto:tepples@spamcop.net Mail Damian] produces no link
*Expected results: a clickable link that opens the user's MUA with a new message addressed to tepples@spamcop.net
--[[user:Damian Yerrick|Damian Yerrick]]
'''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. [[JHK]]
▲'''Wrong links with cross-language links 2002-02-05'''
On pages with cross language links, like [[Table tennis]], all the links on the page show as external links, even though they're to Wikipedia articles.
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<b>14 Feb</b> I add the name [[Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov]] to <b>Major figures of World War Two</b> on the [[World_War_II]] page, hit save and scroll down to check it is there, it isn't, I hit refresh and I get a edit conflict.
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It seems the wiki parser goes into "table mode" when it sees a <table> and exits table mode when it sees a </table>. Instead it should increment a table nesting integer for each <table> and decrement it for each </table> so that it can keep track of nesting levels. --[[user:Eob]] Example:
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:Just your luck, I'm rewriting the HTML-munging code at this moment, and the new code shows your table perfectly. Ought to be in place in the next day or two, along with some other bug fixes. --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
'''Can't edit a redirected entry'''
I cannot edit the link for [[Juggler]]. It gets redirected to [[Juggling]]. On the Juggling page I click on the (redirected from [[Juggler]]) link but end up on the same page. Could someone try this out and let me know if the problem is specific to my OS/browser combination (MS/IE6)? --[[user:MarkReid|MarkReid]]
:I get the same, with Linux/Mozilla. To actually edit the page, click the "redirected..." link, then edit the URL to change "/wiki/Juggler" to "/wiki.phtml". --[[user:Carey Evans|Carey Evans]]
I tried [[user:Carey Evans|Carey Evans]] suggestion and was able to bring up an edit box for [[Juggler]]. I changed the redirect to [[Juggle]] but every time I go to save it I get an '''Edit Conflict'''. Very frustrating. --[[user:MarkReid|MarkReid]]
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::Ack! That's the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do. Expect this to be fixed sometime soon... [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] 2002/2/10
'''Most Wanted''' (2002
A third of the articles listed on [[special:WantedPages]] already exist. Clicking on the link to regenerate the page doesn't make them go away.
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::The timestamp is incorrect and needs to be fixed by someone with access to the database. --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
'''Tarballs''' (2002
The tarballs don't have the date as part of the filename, so there's no way to tell what version they are. Also, it isn't clear what the difference is between wiki.tar.gz and wiki-pl.tar.gz. The latter is 1/10 the size. Is it missing something?
'''ISBN numbers with check digit of X''' (2002
ISBN numbers with a check digit of "X" like ISBN 1-55634-399-X are not linked correctly to Pricescan - the numeric part is linked, but a space is inserted before the "X" and it is not included.
--[[user:Carey Evans|Carey Evans]]
'''RFC auto-linking no longer works''' (2002
I seem to recall that writing, say, RFC 1519 in an article would auto-link to a repository of RFC's. This no longer seems to work.
:IMHO, that's a feature, not a bug. --[[Robert Merkel]]
::However, the loss of a feature that once existed is a regression on a feature request. Are those bugs? --[[user:Damian Yerrick|Damian Yerrick]]
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'''HTML named entities not working while previewing''' (2002
HTML named entities are escaped while previewing and because of that they don't work (e.g. ° becomes & d e g ;). See [[Jupiter]] for an example. --[[user:Uriyan|Uriyan]]
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:They're only escaped in the preview render; in the article text they remain correct, and will be shown properly after saving. Should be fixed soon... [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
'''DIFF corrupts the database?''' (2002
The (DIFF) links seem to have several problems. I've noticed that if I click on the first (DIFF) link on either the history page for an article, or on that article's listing on my watchlist, then it refuses to show the difference. When I tried several of the diffs for one article, it actually corrupted the database, I think. As of right now, if you go to [[Raven_paradox]], you'll see what looks like a DIFF page for an old version of the article. But if you click on "edit this page", it brings up the text for the current version of the article. Something must be inconsistent in the database right now.
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'''Capitalization problem''' (2002
In putting titles of plays into the [[Pulitzer Prize]] page, some of the letters which are capitalized on the editing page appear in the final text as being uncapitalized. The example I noticed was for <i>[[Angels in America: Millennium Approaches]]</i>, in which the first two capitalized A's are not capitalized in final text even though they are capitalized on the editing page (as is true on this page as well}.
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:Sorry, you can't use colons (:) in page titles. The colon is reserved for special pages, like [[special:Watchlist]], [[talk:France]], [[log:Uploads]], etc. "angels in america" is getting put into lowercase because that's the way special pages are named, with the first part in lowercase. I recommend using <i>[[Angels in America - Millennium Approaches]]</i> instead to avoid this problem. (See the [[wikipedia:PHP script FAQ|PHP script FAQ]] for more about these niggling little things.) --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
'''Recent changes shows previous edit''' (2002
Edit a page, and recent changes shows it as the previous edit; I noticed this when I'd apparently just edited a page I hadn't touched for a week; someone else had just edited it, buit it appeared in Recent changes as my previous edit, complet with summary.
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:Sounds like someone created a new page that your page linked to. Known bug, fixed in CVS, fix should show up here soon. --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
'''Unable to edit large pages''' )2002
when I open to edit any of the larger pages (eg Nuclear Weapon, Wikipedia: Bug reports) I am unable to type any characters in. I can move the cursor and cut-paste but I cannot type.
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:What browser, what version, what operating system are you using? (If you're using Mozilla, try going into your [[special:editUserSettings|preferences]] and disabling the QuickBar. There's a bug in Mozilla that makes editing a text box inside a table verrrrrrry slowwwwww.) [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
'''Bogus Logged IP''' (2002
It's really easy to log a fake IP address, see [http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Carey_Evans&action=history] for example.
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You don't even need to fake it, Wikipeida is logging me as 213.105.195.101, while the reality is 62.62.253.xxx.
'''Full IP address in page history''' (2002
Although the last octet of the user's IP address is xxx'ed out on [[special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]], the page history now shows the complete IP address.
--[[user:Carey Evans|Carey Evans]]
:Bug, or feature? --[[user:Damian Yerrick|Damian Yerrick]]
'''"Orphans"''' page isn't completely correct. For instance, Godfrey_Reggio is not and never has been an orphan page; it was created long after the article for his documentary ''Koyaanisqatsi''. Similar issue with other articles listed.▼
'''"Orphans" page isn't completely correct'''
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I've noticed that "Orphans" gets confused by whether a title contains spaces or underscores between its words.
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used interchangably. "Orphans" should be updated to treat all three the same.
'''Character 0 vanishing'''
The second line of http://wikipedia.com/wiki/Geologic_timescale starts off with " 0 ". The 0 is simply disappearing in the displayed output. I put in an extra space to make the page look closer to right. I'm reasonably sure the 0 was being displayed two weeks ago.
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:Fixed in CVS; should work again when the software is next updated. --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]] 2002-02-07
'''"Most wanted" articles with trailing spaces''' (2002
A link of the form [[Kingdom of Israel | Israel]] (note the spaces in the link source) causes the Most Wanted page to think that an article called Kingdom_of_Israel_ (note the trainling underscore) is required. I have created a redirect to Kingdom_of_Israel to fix this particular case.
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'''Simple searches failing with apostrophes''' (2002
A search for 'benfords law' failed to find the [[benford's law]] article. (I put in a redirect to fix this, but this is such a common case that this is arguably a bug.)
'''Searches also fail with hyphens''' (2002
Probably related to the apostrophe above; a search on 'Kraft-Ebbing', 'Bulwer-Lytton' or 'Sacher-Masoch' comes up blank, in spite of there being articles on all these people; a search for 'Lytton' though, does come up with the correct page, so the problem appears to be the non-aphanumeric character. [[user:Malcolm Farmer|Malcolm Farmer]]
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'''Diffs of this page missing''' (2002/02/02)
▲2002-02-02 If you check the history or diffs of this very page, you will always get "no changes, this is the first version", even though it isn't. --AxelBoldt
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'''Edit Conflict! with myself! and creation of new, incorrectly titled pages''' When I try to redirect, I get an edit conflict BUT, just to make it interesting, I'm also somehow creating a new page. Here's what happens:
#I'm logged in
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BUT -- a new page has been created, with a funny Bpagename/b rest of pagename as the title.
::Does the link to your new page have <b>bold tags</b> (<b>) in it? Knowing *exactly* which pages you're talking about would be a great help. -- [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]
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:We're working on it. :(
'''Edit conflict on re-direct to nonexistent page''' (2002
Actual behavior: When I <code>#REDIRECT</code> to a not-yet-existent page, I get an Edit Conflict™.
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:Some things are not visible to new (=not logged in) users anyway, like the watchlist. --[[user:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]]
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'''Link underlining'''
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Each page should have a separator between the article and the bottom navbar. Currently, the article is flowing right into the navbar, which is very difficult to read.
There appears to be neat separation with bars all over the place when I view things with IE. But at home, with Mozilla, everything flows together, and is very difficult to get a grip on. [[user:GayCommunist|GayCommunist]] P.S. Oh, and that "insert my username as signature" automagically doesn't appear to work, at least not in preview.
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Love the new functionality, but I haven't been able to contribute nearly as much as I would like because the pages come up at a sub-glacial speed (very often). Have broadband & fast computers at home, work and school and I have the same problem (every other webpage I go to zips and zings --- including heavily hit and often
:Appears mostly fixed as of 2002/02/20. It's now much faster than [[Everything2]]. --[[user:Damian Yerrick|Damian Yerrick]]
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