Hello,
a user from my Wiki just noticed a strange behavior: "Special Pages" which he visits appear in his "Contributions" page even though he hasn't edited anything on these pages. The same also happens on my Contributions page.
See here for an example: http://mozilla.bric.de/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Contributions&target...
Also notice the exclamation mark in the article names, e.g.: "Das Deutsche Mozilla-Wiki:!Dead-end pages". Is this a bug or on purpose? It's a relatively new Wiki and I haven't noticed this behavior before. But that looks like a bug to us.
Thanks.
On Apr 16, 2004, at 09:31, Tom Veidt wrote:
a user from my Wiki just noticed a strange behavior: "Special Pages" which he visits appear in his "Contributions" page even though he hasn't edited anything on these pages. The same also happens on my Contributions page.
See here for an example: http://mozilla.bric.de/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial: Contributions&target=Digitus
Also notice the exclamation mark in the article names, e.g.: "Das Deutsche Mozilla-Wiki:!Dead-end pages". Is this a bug or on purpose? It's a relatively new Wiki and I haven't noticed this behavior before. But that looks like a bug to us.
This looks like the cached output storage for some special pages. Those probably shouldn't be saved with a user id attached...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
This looks like the cached output storage for some special pages. Those probably shouldn't be saved with a user id attached...
Ok, and how could I prevent them from being "saved with a user ID attached"?
On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:30, Tom Veidt wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
This looks like the cached output storage for some special pages. Those probably shouldn't be saved with a user id attached...
Ok, and how could I prevent them from being "saved with a user ID attached"?
Well, you could find and fix the bug. That would save me some trouble... ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Well, you could find and fix the bug. That would save me some trouble... ;)
Yeah, because I'm such a Wiki guru. :| It's just online for about a week, I'm already glad that I got it working so far. ;) So this isn't a more wide-spread bug with references where you could point me to? (To save yourself some trouble?)
Well, and after some testing, this bug does only occur very sporadically/randomly, it seems.
"BV" == Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
BV> This looks like the cached output storage for some special BV> pages. Those probably shouldn't be saved with a user id BV> attached...
Actually, it'd be nice never to create them in the first place.
Tom, those special pages are caches for expensive (takes a lot of I/O or processing) queries. Theoretically, if you turned off the users' ability to do these queries (see $wgMiserMode), the cached versions could be returned instead.
You can't turn the caching off right now. You can't change the attribution.
It's a relatively harmless bug. We can get it updated in the next version of MediaWiki. I've had complaints on Wikitravel about it myself.
~ESP
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