I've noticed a few things changing in the last few days, the error messages for one. :( Maybe someone here can tell me something about them?
I had my settings set to show up unmade links in red which made it easy to notice them and to see what needs making, and now they're back to blue with a question mark even though I have 'red links' selected in my options. Has that bit of scripting been disabled/removed or is something weird going on?
Also, what does the new menu option in the sidebar mean? 'Vote for this page'. Vote for this page for what?
The 'talk' option seems to show up as a blue link on all pages now whether ther's anything on the page or not. Clicking a few links the entry consisted of the standard 'describe the new page here' only it's been saved as page content instead of just appearing in the edit window.
Finally, a new option has been added to the edit window 'automatically wikify' but when I tried it to see what it did it didn't seem to do anything... is it enabled? And what is it MEANT to do in an ideal world?
On ĵaŭ, 2002-05-09 at 03:53, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
I had my settings set to show up unmade links in red which made it easy to notice them and to see what needs making, and now they're back to blue with a question mark even though I have 'red links' selected in my options. Has that bit of scripting been disabled/removed or is something weird going on?
The 'talk' option seems to show up as a blue link on all pages now whether ther's anything on the page or not.
Magnus recently rearranged the style/skin code, and it looks like some of the bits that control link color got accidentally broken in the process. Hopefully should be fixed soon.
Also, what does the new menu option in the sidebar mean? 'Vote for this page'. Vote for this page for what?
I wish I knew, too. :) Magnus?
Finally, a new option has been added to the edit window 'automatically wikify' but when I tried it to see what it did it didn't seem to do anything... is it enabled? And what is it MEANT to do in an ideal world?
I believe it's supposed to tidy up some of the mark-up. But exactly what it's intended to touch, and whether it's safe to use at this point, I'm not quite sure about.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I just went into the "Talk" section of the main page to suggest it was time to remove the Winter Olympics from the main page, before noticing this at the bottom of the main page:
Today is Tuesday, February 12, 2002, server time (U.S. Pacific Time).
What's going on here?
I just turned on page caching. Maybe it has bugs?
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
I just went into the "Talk" section of the main page to suggest it was time to remove the Winter Olympics from the main page, before noticing this at the bottom of the main page:
Today is Tuesday, February 12, 2002, server time (U.S. Pacific Time).
What's going on here?
Vicki Rosenzweig vr@redbird.org http://www.redbird.org
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On ĵaŭ, 2002-05-09 at 17:08, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I just turned on page caching. Maybe it has bugs?
With caching disabled, the page cache hasn't been updated in three months. :)
Just clear all the cached pages:
UPDATE cur SET cur_cache=""
should do it. (Double-check that before you run it, obviously.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On ĵaŭ, 2002-05-09 at 18:27, Brion L. VIBBER wrote:
On ĵaŭ, 2002-05-09 at 17:08, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I just turned on page caching. Maybe it has bugs?
With caching disabled, the page cache hasn't been updated in three months. :)
Just clear all the cached pages:
UPDATE cur SET cur_cache=""
should do it. (Double-check that before you run it, obviously.)
CORRECTION: DO NOT PEFORM THE ABOVE QUERY!!!!!!!!!! It would reset the last edited time on every page to the current date!
Instead try:
UPDATE cur SET cur_cache="",cur_timestamp=cur_timestamp
I'm beginning to think those auto-updating timestamp fields aren't such a good idea.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Another grrr...
We seem to have lost the 'talk' page links from the pedia entirely, but I'm sure everyone's noticed it by now!
And I noticed some requests on the recent changes pages for people NOT to make 'fill in text here' the contents of a page... I just did it by accident and then I couldn't get the page to load to re-edit it. Apparantly when you create a new page by redirecting it creates the page, but instead of sending you to the edit screen it dumped me into the pageview.
The coding for the pedia seems to have suddenly gotten extremely buggy this week - maybe people should be requested to stop playing and adding info until some of these bugs can be fixed? It can't be easy to work on the coding when it keeps getting changed...
On 5/10/02 8:27 AM, "Karen AKA Kajikit" kaji@labyrinth.net.au wrote:
The coding for the pedia seems to have suddenly gotten extremely buggy this week - maybe people should be requested to stop playing and adding info until some of these bugs can be fixed? It can't be easy to work on the coding when it keeps getting changed...
Speaking of which, can we get rid of the "auto-wikification" button?
It's definitely featuritis: very prominent, highly confusing, and of minimal utility.
If we want to bring back the functionality, we can discuss a better interface first, then implement.
Anyone agree?
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