Forum:Tech Wishlist And Bug Reports

(Example of image page I had to create: File:Nukeit.jpg)

That means the licensing module (MediaWiki:Licenses) does not work and the license info has to be added manually.

Working on this.

Recently, on more than one occasion, I've gotten pages that say stuff like:

MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: [751de38372fc42b723a72e07] 2017-12-14 10:25:10: Fatal exception of type "MWException"

Exception caught inside exception handler.

Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information.

That means the database needs a refresh/update, and you'd have to file a Phabricator report with the guys who run Miraheze to let them know.

It's been so long. I don't remember how to file a report there.

I created phab:T2528 for ya.

Thank you.

Ooh. The "thank you" went through. I got a <flow-error-fetch-after-open-lock> at the top of the thread after submitting responding "thank you". Maybe I wouldn't have been surprised if I knew what the flow-error thing meant.

Also I forgot there was the "Thank" button. The thanks button still works, I assume.

At the risk of sounding incompetent, I'm having a hard time reporting this in the thread Void linked too. The bug is back, or at the very least a bug that looks the same has showed up.

I tried using a different browser to try to avoid the but. The bug is present for both Fire Fox and Safari.

Database issues, which presumably have been fixed.

When I try to remove a category in a page, it goes to the edit section with the error message in red:

It appears that your browser does not support Unicode. It is required to edit pages, so your edit was not saved.

This error message is incorrect, as before the MediaWiki update, I could modify categories without any problems.

What browser are you using?

I'm using Firefox and it works just fine for me.

I use Google Chrome.

Confirmed the error, it's not your browser, it's the fact we have database issues, they are screwing up page loads and saves. It still works if you force save it.

Mods of Miraheze are already working on this.

I tried to put a spoiler tag on the page for my short film A Day at Last Chance, but it won't work. Am I doing it wrong, or is the feature broken? Oh, and it looks like I can't get the link to the film's page working, either, but it's on the Proper Works page. We

Oh wait, maybe it only didn't work in the mobile version of the site that I saw on my phone. In the desktop version it seems to work. Still not sure why the link to the trope page won't work, though.

Okay, I figured out the problem with the link to the trope page. Still trying to get the hang of this.

A couple suggestions for the future, if you find yourself with the same problem:

1. MediaWiki does not use CamelCase or curly bracket links. Ever. In particular, curly brackets are used for things called "templates", kind of like functions or subroutines for pages.
2. MediaWiki links are case-sensitive. This is easier to handle on the Desktop site because you can turn on the AutoComplete function in your preferences (Gadgets tab, first item in the "All The Tropes Editing Enhancement Gadgets" section) if it's not already on. With it on, you just have to type the open brackets and the first few letters of the trope name to get a pop-up list in the upper right corner of the editor window that will offer you possible pages; keep typing until you see something that looks right, click it, and the link, properly formatted, will be inserted for you. On a mobile device, I'd suggest opening up another tab in ATT and searching for the trope you want, and copying it exactly.
3. If your question after something doesn't work is "Am I doing it wrong, or is the feature broken?" the answer is usually "you're doing it wrong". You can check by looking at other pages. If they're displaying correctly, edit the page and look at how the correctly-working example is marked up, and make sure your non-working one matches it.
4. Your edit history makes it pretty clear you came here from TVT. Have you read All The Tropes:So You're a TV Tropes Refugee? It should provide most of the information you need, particularly for links and spoilers. Help:Formatting has more detail on the fancier markup.

That said, let me just add a "welcome!" and offer thanks for your willingness to add to and improve the wiki.

Out of curiosity, what about my editing history gives away that I'm a TVT refugee?

I noticed a case where while you were coding a link with square bracket markup, you still put the page name in CamelCase, and had no vertical bar between it and the pothole text. And you corrected the resulting redlink first by changing to a different CamelCase page name, then by trying to surround the page name in curly brackets. And it still took you a couple of tries to put the vertical bar in once you had the page name worked out. And you were doing that on a trope entry for TV Tropes, for an example that was not exactly complimentary to TVT's moderators.

Elementary, really. <grin>

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Because the chat window is too narrow, the upper three images of the Captcha cut off when I try to verify it.

Sometimes I have 2 "sandbox" links at the top of the page instead of just one. Testing has indicated the one on the right doesn't actually link me to the sandbox.

That an extension misconfiguration, I'll look into problem and report a fix. For now, just ignore the busted link.

Will do.

I'm trying to replace a broken forum link, but all I get when I click the Permalink button for a thread is something like this:

{"flow-workflow":"spltets4t0xkknd4"}

I noticed that too, filing a Phabricator report.

Resolved now.

Every time I try, I always seem to have a database error. Also, I can't seem to edit other pages than the ones in my watchlist. Is there a reason why?

Seconding this. I was able to consult my watchlist about 10 hours ago as of this writing, but now I get this when I click the link at the top of the page:

Database error

A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

[b224d26ac06239ab6ec69686] 2017-01-31 13:10:20: Fatal exception of type "DBQueryError"

Is it fixed now? Works for me.

Yes, it's now working for me.

Yeah. It works for me, too.

I have four notifications that are unread, and every time I click "Mark all as read" or click each notification as read, they are marked as read, but they stay unread in the next session.

These are my notifications:

A link was made from ‪Homunculus (manga)‬ to ‪Homunculus‬.
7d

Looney Toons‬ replied in "‪Just out of curiosity...‬".
11d

New topic created on ‪Talk:Complete Monster/Video Games‬: "‪Loptr from Bayonetta 2‬".
13d

New topic created on ‪Talk:The Tomato Soup Chronicles‬: "‪Just out of curiosity...‬".
14d

I use Chrome 57.

It's a known issue, staff are looking into it.

Attempting to do either just returns an error like this:

[efd6bcc2287c11532b6661da] 2017-08-14 12:12:01: Fatal exception of type MWUnknownContentModelException

ETA: Can someone please clue me in on the proper use of Phabricator? I just registered there with the intent of reporting this, but I haven't a clue what my first step should be. Wait, no, not true. I have an idea, but I don't know if it's the right thing to do.

...And some time this morning they both started working again. If someone found and fixed the problem, thank you. If no one did... we may want to note the circumstances in case it happens again.