[Mediawiki-l] Severe paring problems in private wiki

[Boris Steipe]

Did you consider the possibility of *cached* pages from your old  
installation not being correct for your new installation as a  
potential source of the problem?

B.

On 3-Nov-07, at 12:09 PM, Jorge Candeias wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a wiki at http://bibliowiki.com.pt that has been  
> experiencing for
> the past week severe (and increasing) parsing problems. It started out
> last saturday as an occasional and apparently random glitch that  
> seemed
> to turn off the handling of template syntax, wereas tables instead of
> showing the values turned up full of {{}} thingies with the variable
> names inside.
>
> This wiki had been transferred in mid September from my previous host
> (which didn't have PHP5) to my current one (which has), and therefore
> its version was pretty outdated: 1.6.X. It was working fine till last
> saturday, though, so as I have been pretty pressed with time, I kept
> postponing the update. When the trouble started, though, I was told a
> few times (in #mediawiki, for instance) that the version of mediawiki
> might be the culprit, so I finally updated a couple of days ago. The
> update went fine, and, apart from the issue, the wiki is working now
> properly in version 1.11.0 (PHP is 5.2.2 and MySQL 4.1.22-standard- 
> log,
> by the way).
>
> The issue, however, remains, and seems to me to be getting worse. When
> it struck only sometimes a few days ago, now it seems to be striking
> almost constantly, and any sequence of clicks in "Página aleatória"
> (portuguese version of "Random article") will almost certainly be
> showing broken tables. Also, other variables, such as the {{SITENAME}}
> one that exists in the login page, also started to show up instead of
> their values from time to time. As an example, the stats page I have
> opened right now, reads exactly as follows:
>
>>>> Há actualmente um total de {{PLURAL:11 251|*11 251* página|*11 251*
> páginas}} na base de dados. Isto inclui páginas de "discussão",  
> páginas
> sobre o projecto ({{SITENAME}}), páginas de rascunho,  
> redireccionamentos
> e outras que provavelmente não são qualificadas como páginas de
> conteúdo. Excluindo estas, há {{PLURAL:8 62[[:Predefinição:*8
> 622*]]icheiro foi carregado|ficheiros foram carregados}}.<<<
>
> Sometimes, adding "?action=purge" to the end of the page's URL helps,
> but that's perhaps only 40% of the times.
>
> The thing gets stranger still. My content is mostly within tables  
> (it's
> a database; I chose the wiki approach because of its greater  
> openness to
> unexpected details compared to the predefined and closed nature of
> traditional databases... and my data does show a naughty tendency to
> turn up surprises), and these tables are defined in simple templates,
> only with the template name and their variables. One would expect that
> if the software failed to recognize the variables, it *totally* failed
> to recognize them, right? Wrong: typically, the first variable in the
> template is properly shown, sometimes the second one also gets shown,
> and only the rest is garbled.
>
> *And* it comes and goes. A few minutes ago, I had the result I'm  
> quoting
> above in the statistics page; just now, a sequence of random pages
> showed them all perfectly fine. I'm totally lost as to what might be
> causing this, and, which is worse, the guys at the host are too,  
> and not
> even the three or four devs I talked to in #mediawiki were able to  
> come
> up with an answer.
>
> Please help...
>
> Jorge Candeias
>
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