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'''Bangs in links in tables wreck the table''' [[user:Koyaanis Qatsi|Koyaanis Qatsi]], Sunday, March 31, 2002
Observe: the following table is coded properly, but displays incorrectly (as you'll see in the second row, if you view source). Piping the link so the bang displays but isn't linked to corrects it:
<table>
<tr>
<td>[[Vivement dimanche!]]</td>
<td>[[Confidentially Yours]]</td>
<td>[[1983]]</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>D</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Vivement dimanche|Vivement dimanche!]]</td>
<td>[[Confidentially Yours]]</td>
<td>[[1983]]</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>D</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr></table>
:Looks like a bug in the reject-bad-links code. I'll work on it... [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Sunday, March 31, 2002
:Got it. Fixed in CVS, wait for Jimbo to upgrade. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Tuesday, April 2, 2002
::Has that been upgraded? It quit linking but the two rows in the table should be exactly the same except for that? [[user:Koyaanis Qatsi|Koyaanis Qatsi]], Sunday, April 7, 2002
'''Ampersands in links surrounded by italics cause words to drop and the end italics tag to be ignored'''
Not a common problem, I'm sure. But go to the history of [[talk:Osama bin Laden]] and you can see what I'm talking about. The ampersand in the former ''<nowiki>[[Roger & Me]]</nowiki>'' was the culprit. [[user:Koyaanis Qatsi|Koyaanis Qatsi]], Sunday, April 7, 2002
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'''Several asterisks in a row will prevent linewraps (or increase the linewrap length considerably?)''' [[user:Koyaanis Qatsi|Koyaanis Qatsi]], Monday, April 8, 2002
== Parser ==
'''Parser does not recognize mailto:, news:, ftp: 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]]
* See [[Urban legend]] for an example of news:; what had been a working Usenet news link now shows up as [news:alt.folklore.urban] [[user:Malcolm Farmer|Malcolm Farmer]]
*See [[VIM]] for an example of ftp:.
:Fixed it in CVS. We'll have http, ftp, news, mailto. I don't remember if I added gopher as well ;) --[[user:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]], Sunday, April 14, 2002
<font color=red>STATUS : Solved in CVS</font>
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'''Last line link in list'''
:This was caused by Bad Table Code in the article. There was no closing TR tag for the last row in the table, and an extra open TR tag after the end of the table. I've fixed the article... The parser could probably be made to be able to normalize these things, though (ie, remove table-ish tags not inside &amp;amp;lt;TABLE&amp;amp;gt;...&amp;amp;lt;/TABLE&amp;amp;gt;) --[[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion Vibber]]
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'''Text between a pair of links sometimes omitted from displayed page'''
For an example of this, see the 14 April 06:28 version of the [[Leigh Brackett]] page. The three apostrophes don't put her name into bold properly; and chunks of text between some links are being omitted. The links in the edit text look perfectly normal, with no funny characters. Inserting a carriage return just before the omitted text seems to fix the problem, so it looks as if there's something odd happening in the function that parses the wiki text. [[user:Malcolm Farmer|Malcolm Farmer]], Monday, April 15, 2002
:The missing text after BAD LINKS is an old bug that was fixed a week or so ago, but the fix hasn't been installed yet. The links in question are bad because they have line breaks *in* the links! A line break is not a valid character in an article title. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Monday, April 15, 2002
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<font color=red>STATUS : Solved in CVS</font>
I've had this problem show up a few times, and can't really be sure whether it's from the system or my own machine. Most recently it has shown up in [[famous women in history]]. On the edit page there is text between Mildred Zaharias and Margaret Thatcher, including a section heading - but when saved these two names appear together on the same line without even a space between them. [[user:Eclecticology|Eclecticology]]
:<font color=red>STATUS: DUPLICATE BUG, SEE NUMEROUS REPORTS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE ABOUT MISSING TEXT AFTER LINKS THAT CONTAIN INVALID CHARACTERS</font>
:Thanks! Perhaps someone with more experience in these matters could start a "troubleshooting" page with step-by-step instructions for fixing this kind of bug on a page.
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This is new (since late this afternoon, Pacific Time). The top of pages has this:
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 86
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 88
The "Recent Changes" page doesn't have these lines, but pages that I get to by clicking their names in the Recent Pages page do. Redirected pages have each error message twice. -- [[user:Marj Tiefert|Marj Tiefert]], Tuesday, May 7, 2002
:Yes, I'm seeing that now too... (Note to other developers about this bug: the running version of wikiPage.php is, I believe, [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wikipedia/phpwiki/fpw/wikiPage.php?annotate=1.112 1.112 from 2002-04-02]. The errors are coming up in <code>wikiPage::load()</code> on <code>mysql_fetch_object()</code> and <code>mysql_release()</code> calls when grabbing data out of the <code>unlinked</code> table. Unfortunately, the developer's database access function is still disabled, so I can't test the query manually to see what's going wrong... I haven't seen any similar errors from the preceding query on the <code>linked</code> table.) [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Tuesday, May 7, 2002
I'm getting the same error on almost all screens of the wikipedia. Yesterday it was reporting errors in lines 84 and 86 and refusing to load screens at all. Today the error has switched to line '99' with this showing up at the top of virtually every screen I got to:
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wiki-newest/work-http/wikiPage.php on line 99
~[[user:Karen Johnson|KJ]] Wed 8th May 2002
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The colours are all wrong as of this morning. View source on Netscape shows the BODY HTML tag has `textcolor=" TEXT" bgcolor=" BGCOLOR"' suggesting that a string hasn't been properly substituted for a variable somewhere. On my Netscape browser, it interprets the bgcolor command as dark green, making the black text difficult to read, and the blue links even harder. Changing skins makes no difference [[user:Malcolm Farmer|Malcolm Farmer]], Thursday, May 9, 2002
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It's always a positive sign that somebody is working hard to improve a system when brand goofy new bugs start to appear. I just put together a new preliminary subject outline for [[philately]] with a certain amount of bulleted text. Now, when I enter a new first level bullet after a line with a second level bullet, that first level bullet doesn't appear in the article. [[user:Eclecticology|Eclecticology]], Thursday, May 9, 2002
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