MediaWiki 1.9
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Wikia was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.9 on 20 March, 2007.
See New toys to find out all about the new features this upgrade brings (and New features for the detailed technical release notes). Please report any problems with the upgrade on this page.
Fixed bugs have been moved to MediaWiki 1.9/Fixed.
Please add all new bugs in a new section.
[edit] Image problems
[edit] SVG with imported pixel images
It worked with the early version of 1.7 but now you can only see the rendered vectors - not the imported pixel image.
If you'd like to compare - Orlands Klasse bei Wolf 359.svg old one - uploaded with MW1.7 (right after upgrading) new one - uploaded with MW1.9 (today) : [ defchris ] : [ leave-a-message ] : 15:26, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Interface problems
[edit] Interface messages/translations
- Have parts of the interface become wrong since the upgrade? Please report those here.
- In Spanish (es), "Mis preferencias" now is shown as "My preferences", without translating. MediaWiki:Mypreferences is missing.
- In Brazillian Portuguese (pt-br), "What links here" should be should be "Artigos Relacionados" not "Artigos Relacionado". MediaWiki:Whatlinkshere is wrong.
- In French (fr), MediaWiki:Categoryarticlecount is wrong and causes empty categories to claim they have one article. (Maybe change the default - see this message)
Possible reason (example). MediaWiki:Blockedtext should have a $5 parameter now. But has not been updated. Maybe the messages need to be rebuilt? --Splarka (talk) 02:39, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- Many things on my french wiki have returned to english text. But, there was many things not translated when it was created. So i did not note them all. But some i did not translate back already. Like, "Watch this page" that's suppose to be "Suivre cette page" and "Toggle Enhanced Recent Changes" that is not part of the AllMessage special page. Want me to report any more i find ? § TůζipVõrζąx Discuter 05:19, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] MediaWiki namespace not taking effect
- Reported on bic, autism, diabetes, zelda, aselia and yugioh
Hi, the wiki I started, Battlefield Intelligence Collaborative, has suffered some odd organizational error possibly from this update. The last I checked the site, a few days ago, it was fine (everything as I left it), but today (probably the first day since the update I've checked it) the sidebar links I had are missing, yet they are still listed when I go to MediaWiki:Sidebar. Also, the main page's contents have been reverted to the first few weeks the wiki was alive: last July! The page history and the page itself is as if the last eight months' content has disappeared. All the content from the other pages is still there (as checkable by searching and using the random page button), but there are no convenient sidebar links. Please help. --WerdnanoslenTalk 03:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- OK, I've fixed the main page on my own, but the sidbar links that I added some time ago still won't appear. --WerdnanoslenTalk 14:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- A convenient link straight to the sidebar source code. --James 17:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I know how to get there, but those links won't show up on the actual sidebar. They were there before, so I don't know exactly what happened to them. --WerdnanoslenTalk 00:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- A convenient link straight to the sidebar source code. --James 17:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Right, sorry I forgot to mention that when I went to the page via favorite link (went to this page) its main page was how it should be, but the sidebar was not right. When I used the 'main page' link or the link in the logo, it went to this page where both the main page and the sidebar were incorrect. I then changed the main page's content on the the same page to reflect the changes I had made up to now (mostly site announcements). Not sure if this affects the issue at all, but this change came before the sidebar error occured. --WerdnanoslenTalk 22:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
UPDATE: Ok, odd as it is, my sidebar is just fine now. Everything is how it's supposed to be, and I'm not sure what happened. I haven't made any edits that should have triggered something, nobody else has made an edit recently, and I don't know if anyone's fixed this problem somewhere outside the B.I.C. I've checked the other sites listed as having the same problem, but they don't seem to have been fixed yet. --WerdnanoslenTalk 21:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
UPDATE: The sidebar issues you were seeing stem from the caching that MediaWiki does. I was having the same problems with some of my sidebar edits not showing up on the main page. Try doing a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5 for IE and Firefox) and that may clear things up more quickly in the future. --Michael Cross
[edit] Style, CSS, JavaScript, HTML
[edit] XHTML validation errors
Failed validation, 20 errors. - Sikon 16:14, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Problems on Arsmagica.wikia.com
- The edit summary and save page/preview/show changes buttons beneath the edit window are now out of alignment and overlapping the text there. FIXED
- In IE only, the content window overlaps the adverts.
- In IE only, the tab bar is now overlapping graphics that previously lay above it, rendering the tabs unreadable.
Thanks, --James 06:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- I don't know all the issues, but I'd like to note that during the update a div was placed around the ul in the tab bar. So if any of your css used #p-cactions > ul then it'll half to be changed to #p-cations > div > ul that's one of the changes which I ran into issues with when it came to the tabs. ~Dantman(talk) Mar 22, 2007 @ 08:21 (UTC)
- The code which targets #p-cactions UL or LI still seems to be working fine. In terms of positioning things at the top of the document, we have:
.portlet {
position: relative;
top: 28px;
#p-cactions {
position: absolute;
top: 25px;
#column-content {
width: 100%;
padding-top: 23px; /* For Firefox */
#content {
position: absolute;
top: -10px;
- I played with some settings earlier, but they only seemed to be affecting Firefox.
- Thanks, --James 17:37, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Your only rule that put background in that region (aside from under de personnal links) is that one :
.firstHeading
{
position: relative;
left: -3px;
margin-top: 0px;
width: 100%;
clear: both;
padding: 23px 0px 10px 3px; /*top padding so text doesn't overlay bar*/
background-color: transparent;
background: transparent url(http://images.wikia.com/arsmagica/images/b/b8/Bar.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: top left;
color: #532900;
font-family: "Century Gothic", "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
/* font-size: 1.5em; */
text-align: left;
border: none;
}
- Simple examination of the image in this rule show this (when pasting URL of it in new browser window or tab) :
- So, that is the rule that need tweaking. But cant do that for you. Take note of the comment that say : "top padding so text doesn't overlay bar". And even so, it is overlaying it. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 02:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Simple examination of the image in this rule show this (when pasting URL of it in new browser window or tab) :
[edit] Youtube "thumbcaption" code
The style of the code has changed and not for the better. Instead of the greyed box around centered text, the text now just sits alone to the left of the vid. http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round
[edit] space under actions tabs
Under non selected tabs. I check in Firefox and Opera, it only does this on IE (i have IE 7). Maybe there's a way i could edit my user monobook.css so that annoying black line disapear, but it seems i'm unable to find it.
But now that i know it's just IE fault (as always, i should i've known and never tried to correct that in the global monobook.css for w:c:fr.guildwars), i'm a little relief and might be able to "go on". It will remain annoying but it's not harmfull. But tell me of any CSS trick you think can do what i want.
§ TůζipVõrζąx Discuter 00:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Does this happen on every Wikia wiki or just on guildwars? Does it happen on Wikipedia too? --Splarka (talk) 06:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Looks like the gap is there on Wikipedia, but it's 1px (2 on guildwars) and it's less visible because of the choice of tab and background colours -- Sannse 07:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- With sannse's help, we were able to figure out that some styling to portlet ul's was causing half the problem (the actions are a portlet too). Fixed that bit, the last is a problem in IE7, not sure what to do for it (several tests did nothing progressive). --Splarka (talk) 08:31, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- The line is thinner. But i think i'll try to reduce it enven more with my user CSS. Note that your change put bullets on TOC. I've add a rule to get rid of them. Thanks to both of you. — TůζipVõrζąx Talk 13:34, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] main.css
A little thing: In http://www.wikia.com/skins/monobook/main.css?42b line 1678
* html div.editsection {
float: right;
margin-left-value: 5px;
}
@ Chixpy 09:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Extensions and special features
[edit] Cross-wiki talk page notification
Just the other day I changed the message that pops up when I post on someone's talkpage. But now it's not showing.
I wasn't sure if this was something to post here, but the guys at the "Live wiki help" said to post it here.
So I am.
Thank you.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 03:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Assuming you mean cross-wiki talk page notification, not shared messages (where templates work across wikis), that will be re-enabled. Angela talk 17:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
References (using the <ref></ref> and <references /> tags) seem to have broken in an odd fashion. While viewing the page with references, it appears to be fine (see WhiteWolf:Template:March 23), but when included as a template on another page, each footnote mark seems to indent the text further (see WhiteWolf:March 23). --Ian talk 12:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Search
[edit] Search plugin feature
The line:
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/opensearch_desc.php" title="Wikia (English)" />
Is setup on wikia which allows browsers to download a plugin that takes advantage of mediawiki's built in search feature (Which is something Leon was wanting) But when I let my browser try to set it up I get this error:
Firefox could not download the search plugin from:
http://www.wikia.com/opensearch_desc.php
Perhaps it could also be duplicated so users may download 2 plugins. One which uses the MediaWiki search engine. And another which uses wikia's special search engine. Perhaps ones for Google, Yahoo, and MSN would be nice to. It dosen't take much to alter one to create the others. ~Dantman(talk) Mar 21, 2007 @ 10:11 (UTC)
- Same here on The Film Guide (filmguide) —B e H E 15:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other bugs
[edit] False "New message" notification
A random message of new messages appeared in a page when I was browsing requests.wikia... but there weren't. The link was a link to that page with a no redirection parameter, and when I tried to look the diff it appeared this:
- La base de datos no encontró el texto de una página que debería haber encontrado, llamada "User talk:Nethac DIU (Diff: 0, 0)".
- Esto es causado usualmente por seguir un enlace a una diferencia de páginas o historial obsoleto a una página que ha sido borrada.
- Si esta no es la causa, puedes haber encontrado un error en el software. Por favor, informa de esto a un administrador, incluyendo el URL.
Basically: Diff 0,0 not found, probably an unexisting diff. If not that, contact an admin.
Also, the spanish no-copyright notice has a </div> tag at the end. --Nethac DIU 22:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 'mu' special interwiki link on Memory-Alpha broken
The coding for the 'mu' interwiki link is broken and no longer acts as a "regular" interwiki link. This was a special case addition on MA and needs to be fixed at some point. -- Sulfur 13:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Well, it does not appear as a "language" link but it works. : [ defchris ] : [ leave-a-message ] : 13:11, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ALLmemoryalpha: "meta" interwiki tag is missing...
A link within MediaWiki:Edit-externally-help usually links via meta interwiki link to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors - but that interwiki tag is missing so that the link appears as a.new and leads to an article Meta:Help:External editors.
I could fix it manually for the time being in dememoryalpha as I'm one of the local sysops but it would be nice if you could reestablish that meta: thingie. : [ defchris ] : [ leave-a-message ] : 02:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Self Interwiki Link Broken
- reported on stargate, creatures and anime
On the Animepedia The interwiki prefix Anime: doesn't work anymore. I know that's simply a interwiki link which leads from the project back to the project making it a little pointless. But because the Wikia Anime Project spans multiple Wikia we sometimes use Anime: on pages which are mirrored across all 3 of the wiki. This is why we originally requested the change of the sitename/project namespace from Anime to Animepedia. This interwiki link was working after the sitename change, but it stopped working after the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.9.3. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Mar 26, 2007 @ 14:13 (UTC)
- Well that would explain why. I suppose I'll half to continue work on the extension which I detailed at Forum:Wikia Anime (and Manga?) Project, installation of that and conversion of the Anime: interwiki link to become http://en.anime.wikia.com/wiki/Anime:$1 will fix the issue. Though I'll half to find a way to stop the software from using an edit link instead of a normal link. I wonder if it can be done by setting a special namespace Anime:, -3 I guess. I'll look over that and try to solve the problem. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Mar 27, 2007 @ 02:14 (UTC)
[edit] Slight flutter in "Add pages I edit to my watchlist"
When I edit my User: page or my User talk: page (and only those pages), the "add to watchlist" box at the bottom is checked by default, even though that option is turned off in my preferences. I tried logging out and logging back in, but it didn't help.
Investigating further, I find that my User talk: page has been added to my watchlist, even though said checkbox in preferences has never been checked AFAIK (if nothing else, I haven't edited my talk page since before the upgrade). Finally, although said page is the only entry on my watchlist, when I make shift to empty the list, the confirmation screen says that it contains 2 articles including talk pages. (?!?!) Ryan W 02:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone just posted to my talk page, thus re-adding it to my watchlist. Ryan W 16:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Undo button
Whenever I looked in history, I always see an undo button, whether I'm an admin/rollback user or not. I looked at my friend's, and he had it too. Silenced Nighthawk(Comlink)(Past Missions) 04:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- No special rights are required to use the undo button. It is the same as the (edit) link that appears on diffs next to the old revision. If you click it, it simply brings you to an edit window. --Splarka (talk) 06:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Plus sign
The plus sign worked in pagenames immediately after the upgrade, but not anymore. - Sikon 08:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tagline
Why can't I see the wiki's tagline here? I'm not sure if it's upgrade related. ― Thailog 08:58, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
- The #siteSub div (MediaWiki:Tagline message) is hidden by default on a mediawiki install. This should have fixed it? --Splarka (talk) 11:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Editor problems on valhalla.wikia.com
For some unknown reason, the valhalla wikia at http://valhalla.wikia.com is running on a new version of MediaWiki that allows in-situ editing. However, I found that the editor simply do not work and always show up a blank section. Can somebody help me? -- Tomchiukc 13:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Plus signs not working in titles
Plus signs didn't work in titles before this, than they did, but now they don't anymore. I can't move the plus-signed title back, and if I try to edit it it edits the title without the plus sign. If I click a diff in my contribs to that page, it checks the difference between the page and the page without this plus sign (I didn't even know that was possible). So I've got an article I can't get to and can't move anywhere :(
Look at w:c:kingdomhearts:Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix to see what I mean. The redirect from the move no longer functions, for starters. The diff thing I was talking about is here: link to contribs, click a diff and you get this diff comparing two different pages! --Scottch 02:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- The Plus works in 1.9, but not in 1.10alpha. -Afker 05:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Problem with the french uncyclopedia and interwiki links
Interwiki links to Desencyclopedie seem to be no longer working. They link to wikia's main page. That problem could be linked to another problem : www.desencyclopedie.com is also linking to wikia's main page. --PiRK 09:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
- In this wiki, but in the Doom wiki too, “<nchanges>” is written in the Recent Changes lines:
- 22:14 Modèle:Ébauche (<nchanges>) . . (-9) . . (hist) [Estonius (3×)]
- Ducon 05:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
