The following appeared on the [[Wikisource:Scriptorium]] (out Village Pump:
"What is Wikisource?"http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_is_Wikisource%3F Doesn't exist as of five seconds ago, according to my browser. This is bad, since it's linked from http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page:English . I apologize that I'm a new user and don't yet know how to make intrawiki links. Phthoggos http://sources.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:Phthoggos&action=edit 04:41, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The Danish and French versions (Wikisource:Hvad er Wikisource <http://sources.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikisource:Hvad_er_Wikisource&action=edit> and Wikisource:Qu'est-ce que Wikisource <http://sources.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikisource:Qu%27est-ce_que_Wikisource&action=edit>) are gone as well. The histories of these pages have also disappeared. They don't show in the deletion log, so they have not been deleted the ordinary way. I have no idea how these pages have disappeared.Christian S 05:39, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Has anyone been working on the software in such a way as to inadvertently cause this problem.
Ec
Ray Saintonge wrote:
The following appeared on the [[Wikisource:Scriptorium]] (out Village Pump:
"What is Wikisource?"http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_is_Wikisource%3F Doesn't exist as of five seconds ago, according to my browser.
This is an old escaping problem rearing its ugly head yet again. It should be fixed soon. Note that the page exists, as does its history, it's just the rewrite rule for /wiki/ pages that is broken. You can reassure yourself by viewing it with the following URL:
http://sources.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikisource:What_is_Wikisourc...
-- Tim Starling
Tim Starling wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
The following appeared on the [[Wikisource:Scriptorium]] (our Village Pump):
"What is Wikisource?"http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_is_Wikisource%3F Doesn't exist as of five seconds ago, according to my browser.
This is an old escaping problem rearing its ugly head yet again. It should be fixed soon. Note that the page exists, as does its history, it's just the rewrite rule for /wiki/ pages that is broken. You can reassure yourself by viewing it with the following URL:
http://sources.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikisource:What_is_Wikisourc...
Thanks for your help, Tim.
I always feel diminished when I need to seek help from a higher power to get something like this fixed. Is there a better way for us ordinary mortals to deal with this kind of problem? When a question is raised by another user I prefer attempting to answer it to the best of my abilities, but often those abilities are insufficient to the task.
Would a "Bug report patrol" be a useful idea? In this all developers together would divide the task of patrolling the bug reports on all the Wikis where they would attempt to deal with the questions that are raised there. In many cases a simple answer to a person's question may be the only thing needed. In the more intractable situations it may give rise to a "Super-bug report page" that is circulated among the developers. I know of the recommendation to put things on Sourceforge, but to many people that opens new problems around dealing with the culture of an entirely different site.
From what I've seen of bug report pages, the material that is there often stays a long time and leaves the impression that nobody is looking at it.
Ec
Ray Saintonge wrote:
From what I've seen of bug report pages, the material that is there often stays a long time and leaves the impression that nobody is looking at it.
That it stays a long time is *exactly* why things need to be reported there. Problem reports on wiki pages get lost and forgotten.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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