Forum:Several problems

I have several problems on my Wiki: Any help would be appreciated. --Crazyswordsman 18:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) The ad on the right side sometimes blocks up the article text and edit box, making things difficult to read
 * 2) Sometimes when I go to edit a page or save an edit, it says "Database locked" and then says someone's performing "routine maintenance."  It's happening all too often and it's driving me nuts.
 * I'm having troubles at the Final Fantasy Wiki as well. That Database Locked message is troublesome (what's a "slave server"?), and it usually only lasts for about five seconds.  But that is just a minor annoyance, my real problem is that often when I'm just browsing around, I get linked to some nonsense page that doesn't exist (googlesyndication.com).  It even happens when I try to edit pages.  I'll start editing, then get linked to a "sorry, we couldn't find www.blahblah.com" page, and all my work will be lost.  So can anyone please help?  --BlueHighwind 21:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

This is what it says:

"The database is currently locked to new entries and other modifications, probably for routine database maintenance, after which it will be back to normal.

The administrator who locked it offered this explanation: The database has been automatically locked while the slave database servers catch up to the master "

It has to be stopped. I don't want to have to deal with this more than once because Firefox is running so damn slowly. --Crazyswordsman 02:21, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I would say Wikia is slow with IE7 too lately. — TulipVorlax 08:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

HEY WIKIA! I'm not going to be too civil, because I am not in a good goddamn mood. What the Hell are you doing? I was in the middle of something - a big, juicey, several thousand byte edit that I was working on for the better part of an hour, when you idiots decided to close the database just when I click "Save Page". Here's when things get funny. All the work I was doing was lost. Gone with the fucking wind. I want an explanation. Stop locking the damn database every few hours. This is intolerable. --BlueHighwind 00:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry that happened -- you're right, that's a huge pain, and I don't blame you for being mad. If you've still got the browser open, you might actually be able to page backwards and find your work still there... When there's a problem like that, you can usually hit the back page button, and you'll find that your edit is still there in the edit window.


 * The tech folks have been working on tracking down these database problems. It's actually not a person who's locking the database every few hours -- it's a bug that's giving that as an automatic message. So there isn't anybody who's trying to lock you out. Tech folks are working to fix the problem.


 * I know how frustrating these problems are; I'm feeling it too. Please leave a message on my talk page if there's anything I can help you with. -- Danny (talk ) 00:23, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, if we are lucky, going back restore our text... But, most of the times where i did not think of doing CTRL+A, CTRL+C (or selecting the last few lines i add in talks) before clicking Save, i've lost my things. Funny enough, it's really mostly when i forget to "play safe" that i loose things.
 * But when i do very long edits, i save it to a .txt file on my desktop... — TulipVorlax 01:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Tme most safe solution to save your work is to hit "F5" key if the database was locked when you hit "save" or "preview". The browser prompts you if you want to reload the page, resending the POST data in teh form. Because this is what you want, select "yes" and the data will be submitted again, so no work is lost. That only works, of course, if the database istn't locked again, but you could hit "F5" until the database gets unlocked and your work saved.

If you go back and forward, at least in Internet Explorer, your work will be lost, so be careful!. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 12:35, 23 February 2008 (UTC)