Forum:Createpage

Hey, I saw on inside wikia that Special:Createpage could have "createplates", I was told on #wikia that I had to request the feature, however. I don't know if this is the right place, but could Guild Wiki have this funtionality. Thanks RT | Talk  13:40, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Bug
As i posted over there, I have a problem with the CreatePage extension on Rose Online Wiki. I would like some help to confirm there's a problem before i use Special:Contact.

To reproduce, make sure you have the extension enable in your prefs, clic a red link. The createpage specialpage load. Now, find and clic the link to return to the normal editing mode (just above the textarea). In the normal edit page, type a fews words then clic Save.

What is happening when i do this is that it return to the createpage specialpage without keeping my text (and no page is saved). Not a so big problem to me as i prefer not to use the createpage but if it does the same for new users...

— TulipVorlax 15:57, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Could this be related to this other topic? --


 * I dont think so since the special page is there. — TulipVorlax 23:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, i'll use special:contact now. — TulipVorlax 14:11, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, I cant seem to get it to do it for me. Even following your instructions. There is still some leftover strangeness in that system. Its a fairly old system that we're not directly supporting/improving anymore. It works when it works, but there were a few bugs here and that under the right set of steps (as you seem to have found). There used to be a problem with CreatePage and the captchas causing pages to get lost, but i think that was resolved. The CreatePage system was designed to hook into the create/edit page process to allow that templated editing, but it was design based around older processes (around 1.12). Things have changed much since then and its starting to show its age even more. There are even concerns on if we're going to be able to keep it around much in the coming months as we begin to cleanup/cleanout old code/systems. I'll take a look into it some more, see if i can narrow down where the loss of data is happening, but as its not a current Wikia project, its not going to be high on anyone's systems to get fixed. We care about all bugs, but human work time is a finite resource that has to be carefully managed so that time is wisely. /hugs to all --Uberfuzzy 22:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, in that case, all i can say is that anyway i prefer another method of doing a "CreatePage".
 * You can see an exemple over there. It in french, but i could do this in any language.
 * That way is even better as any user can modify things (boiler plates) if really needed.
 * So, i wouldn't mind if the extension were removed.
 * In fact, i think i'll deactivate it in my prefs (again) and set up a working create page.
 * Oh yeah, it's not that the create page is not working but, new users could not understand why they are loosing things.
 * Do you think the browser (IE7 in my case) as anything to do with it ? — TulipVorlax 22:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC)