I wanted to edit the lead section of an article just now, so I tried the standard trick of editing the first section and then changing §ion=1 to §ion=0. But then three weird things happened:
1. I got redirected to §ion=0#892555963146827592. 2. I got a "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" message and a blank edit box instead of the lead section I expected 3. I got a message from [[NoScript]] saying "NoScript filtered a potential cross-site-scripting attempt from [chrome:]."
I know some sweeping preprocessor changes were rolled out recently -- would they have affected section 0 editing?
(The specific article this happened on was [[Calliope (music)]], id=183157865.)
On Jan 29, 2008 11:30 PM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
I wanted to edit the lead section of an article just now, so I tried the standard trick of editing the first section and then changing §ion=1 to §ion=0. But then three weird things happened:
- I got redirected to §ion=0#892555963146827592.
- I got a "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" message and a blank edit box instead of the lead section I expected
- I got a message from [[NoScript]] saying "NoScript filtered a potential cross-site-scripting attempt from [chrome:]."
I know some sweeping preprocessor changes were rolled out recently -- would they have affected section 0 editing?
I just tried this myself on WP and WB, and there is no such problem. Methinks you have a virus.
--Andrew Whitworth
Andrew Whitworth wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008 11:30 PM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
- I got redirected to §ion=0#892555963146827592.
- I got a "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" message and a blank edit box instead of the lead section I expected
- I got a message from [[NoScript]] saying "NoScript filtered a potential cross-site-scripting attempt from [chrome:]."
I just tried this myself on WP and WB, and there is no such problem. Methinks you have a virus.
Well, I seriously doubt it's a virus. (It's a ridiculously specific and nondestructive thing for a virus to do!) But I'm willing to concede I may have a bug. The other weird thing is that editing [[Calliope (music)]] section 1 gives the title
Editing Calliope (music) (section)
as you would expect, but editing section 0 (after the strange redirect to §ion=0#892555963146827592) says
Editing Calliope music (section)
In fact, it has something to do with parentheses in the title: the problem does not show up for [[Smee]] (the first multi-section article that Special:Random gave me), but it does show up for [[C (programming language)]]. Very strange.
Steve Summit wrote:
I wanted to edit the lead section of an article just now, so I tried the standard trick of editing the first section and then changing §ion=1 to §ion=0. But then three weird things happened:
- I got redirected to §ion=0#892555963146827592.
- I got a "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" message and a blank edit box instead of the lead section I expected
- I got a message from [[NoScript]] saying "NoScript filtered a potential cross-site-scripting attempt from [chrome:]."
I know some sweeping preprocessor changes were rolled out recently -- would they have affected section 0 editing?
(The specific article this happened on was [[Calliope (music)]], id=183157865.)
No problem here. Have you checked that your user scripts (monobook.js or maybe greasemonkey) aren't interfering with the page editing?
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