Message: 1 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 23:35:00 +0300 From: Strainu strainu10@gmail.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] Need some help with a problem with the Cite       extension To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: BANLkTik6Lbr=oC1sgCpbMhY0QJnWt6MJTQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi,

Today, some users on ro.wp reported that the citations used more than once in the text had changed appeareance. Instead of "^a,b", we now have something like "? 34,0 34,1". This was considered disturbing by some users. Furthermore, the backlinks from the notes section to the article are not functioning. This does not happen on en.wp or other wikis. See http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorin_Goian vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyozellus

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From [[Special:Version]], I checked that the versions of the Cite

extension were identical, then I searched for a relevant bug in bugzilla, both at the "Site requests" and at the "Cite extension", but I could find nothing. Does anybody know what is the matter with the links? I did not file a bug report because I'm not sure if this is a php problem or some setting on ro.wp which makes the extension misbehave.

Thanks a lot for any pointers,  Strainu

From what I can tell, it seems as if a wrong version of

[[ro:mediawiki:cite_references_link_many_format]] somehow got cached somewhere. It was changed to its current value in April 2007. However, it was showing the wrong value in [[special:allmessages]]. Anyways, after purging that page (or perhaps this is all a big coincidence), the right version appeared in Special:allmessages and the correct behaviour was observed on [[Dorin_Goian]] (after purging that page too to get rid of the parser cached version of it).

So I'm not sure what the deal with that was, but it seems to be a one time issue. (Or also entirely possible, it fixed itself well I was looking at it, and I just think purging the page had something to do with it, where really its all a big coincidence).

-bawolff