On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
Ctrl-F5 didn't work for me. I tested it in the latest versions of IE and Firefox. I asked to other editors to test it, and they had the same result as me.
It still works fine for me in Chrome 4.0.302.2 dev, and in Firefox 3.5.7, both on Ubuntu 9.10.
Can you explain what you mean by "the effect is due to enwiki styling, not MediaWiki"?
MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia, which can be obtained from http://www.mediawiki.org/. One feature of MediaWiki allows administrators to add custom styles, at special pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css. The feature where cite links get highlighted when you jump to them is due to the following rule on that page:
/* Highlight clicked reference in blue to help navigation */ ol.references > li:target, sup.reference:target, span.citation:target { background-color: #DEF; }
The original version of this rule was added by Omegatron on January 16, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&diff=101105777&oldid=99596083. Since the feature was added by a local administrator, not a MediaWiki developer or Wikimedia sysadmin, you should ask local administrators about it. Devs/sysadmins can't fix it even if they knew what was wrong, except if they happen to be enwiki sysops (which most aren't). So you should ask at [[MediaWiki talk:Common.css]], or maybe [[WP:VPT]], not here. This list is for MediaWiki development and Wikimedia systems administration.