On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM, jayjg <jayjg99(a)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.