Talk:Technical Team

Interwiki map
The interwiki map does not seem to work yet. For example, fr.be:Accueil should link to http://fr.wikinations.be/Accueil, but doesn't. This is a big problem for the Luxembourg wikicity, where interwiki links are used extensively. Thanks in advance.Pcarbonnelle 12:40, 23 Dec 2004 (PST)


 * I've copied this to bugzilla. See Bug:53. Angela 18:23, 23 Dec 2004 (PST)

GFDL text
The GFDL text at the bottom of the page seems to have suddenly disapeared. Is it a bug ?--youssef 04:01, 29 déc 2004 (PST)
 * I guess so. Angela

Section edit
Section edit removes other sections. Conan 03:12, 1 Фев 2005 (PST)
 * This is a MediaWiki issue. See bugs 1181 and 275. If you have "Show preview on first edit" selected in your preferences, please disable it. That ought to solve it. Angela 07:27, 1 Feb 2005 (PST)

WikiMac (Italian) has taken over all Wikicity redirections
The Wikicities now have a new and serious bug, which should be easy to correct:  Whenever I get redirected (such as after logging in, or after adding a page to my watchlist), I end up in the Italian WikiMac Wikicity, no matter which Wikicity I was browsing before. --Verdlanco 08:29, 5 Feb 2005 (PST)
 * http://wikicities.com/ and http://www.wikicities.com/ also redirect to the Italian WikiMac... And I also get redirected to the italian WikiMac when my edits are saved (for example, when I save this I'm taken to http://it.mac.wikicities.com/wiki/Discussione:Technical_support#WikiMac_.28Italian.29_has_taken_over_all_Wikicity_redirections). – Jello 08:33, 5 Feb 2005 (PST)
 * Ow... this is gonna hurt WikiMac more than you think. I'd better request a name change to Bill Gates. ;-P


 * Seriously, I'll go on IRC real soon and ask for it to be corrected. Mi dispiace, I'm sorry. --DavidFeng 08:43, 5 Feb 2005 (PST)


 * The problem seems to be that $wgServer="http://it.mac.wikicities.com"; had been added to localsettings.php. I have no idea why that was added, but it's commented out now. Angela 09:32, 5 Feb 2005 (PST)


 * Thank you, Angela! :-)
 * --Verdlanco 09:36, 5 Feb 2005 (PST)

dememoryalpha with DB-errors
Hi, this is Florian from the german version of Memory Alpha. Since a day or two we have database-error when updating articles, which read as follows:

Es gab einen Syntaxfehler in der Datenbankabfrage. Die letzte Datenbankabfrage lautete: REPLACE INTO `searchindex` (si_page,si_title,si_text) VALUES ('5639','sovermaschinen',' der maschinenraum der sovereign-klasse sovereign -klasse - bildparamount ') aus der Funktion "SearchUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL meldete den Fehler "1016: Can't open file: 'searchindex.MYD'. (errno: 145) (localhost)"

Looks like there are problems regarding the searchindex-table. Thanks for hep in advance. -- Florian -     23:25, 2 Mar 2005 (GMT)


 * I've had a few problems with Memory Alpha today as well, and have already emailed Jason about this. It seems to be very temporary though, unlike last time. If you refresh the page, it will probably load successfully the second time. Angela 23:55, 2 Mar 2005 (GMT)


 * Thanks for your fast feedback! Updating is not the problem, though. Although the error is shown, the data is updated properly. The real problem is based on the searchindex-table, which can't be updated. No wiki-search is possible due to this, too. Let's say, this wiki working but limping. -- Florian -     13:20, 3 Mar 2005 (GMT)

Works again, fine and smooth! Thanks a lot! -- Florian -     12:37, 5 Mar 2005 (GMT)

How did you fix this???

Again a similar mysql problem
Hi i moved my wiki to a new server, I installed phpdev423, then i created a database using phpmyadmin from an exported wikidb.sql from the other machine. The other machine was running same version of phpdev and was working fine. Then i copied the contents of mediawiki-1.4.6 into the install folder, and used the web installer. It seemed to all work well. I then copied my old images folder and localsetting.php into the new install. Then the wiki worked fine, apart from edits/seraches/random page... When you click save page it flashes up with the error mentioned above

"SearchUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL meldete den Fehler "1016: Can't open file: 'searchindex.MYD'. (errno: 145) (localhost)"

this one but in english. As above the update is still commited but the error is still happening. How do i repair the searchindex.MYD ???

Vbulletin seems to suffer from a similar problem and they also seem to have a repair script in their admin. Does anyone know how to fix this? please help. thanks --Caspar 10:32, 15 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * This page is for problems with Wikicities. For general MediaWiki help, it's best to ask at the mediawiki-l mailing list. Angela (talk) 02:27, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Similiar Problem on Uncyclopedia

 * A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:


 * INSERT INTO `objectcache` (keyname,value,exptime) VALUES('uncyclopedia:messages:Sitenotice','+�2�RR��\0','2005-06-15 13:22:42')


 * from within function "MediaWikiBagOStuff:_doquery". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'uncyclopedia:messages:Sitenotice' for key 1
 * (brussels.wikia.com)".

As above refreshing the page usualy fixes it. --212.50.162.251 13:20, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

dememoryalpha with DB issues again
Sorry, it's me again. At first big THANKS for the new server achitecture. It rocks! So please excuse my complains, maybe you are already working on it: dememoryalpha doesn't connect to brussels for any reason. http://enmemoryalpha.wikicities.com/de/wiki/Hauptseite reads "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)". English and dutch versions are working. -- Florian -     17:59, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * Reported at bug 91 and also emailed to Jason. Angela 15:39, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Thanks for your reply, it is fixed. -- Florian -     03:59, 18 Mar 2005 (EST)

abi wiki is offline
Hello! Well, unfortunately, there's not much traffic in the abi wiki in general ;-), however, since some time it is completely offline ("The requested URL could not be retrieved"). Hope you can help. -- FProg (   ) 06:22, 21 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Bugzilla reports, that Bug 93 is fixed. Although, my Firefox (as well as IE 6) shows errors: "Invalid URL" (Generated Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:31:36 GMT by proxy (squid/2.5.STABLE7). Maybe it#s not only a problem of host-proxy but of client-proxy configuration? -- Florian -     10:32, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Uh... working again. However, I thought I veryfied that it was no client-proxy problem... well, don't know ;-) -- FProg (   ) 17:15, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * The underscore in the URL caused problems when we upgraded the servers. It should work ok from now on though. Angela 01:30, 23 Mar 2005 (EST)

Cookie problems at MA
Problem has emerged only in the last few minutes. Whilst logged in, attempted to carry out rollback of vandalism, only to be given the message "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please hit "back" and reload the page you came from, then try again." Did so, to no avail. Then decided to log out and log back in again, to see if that would work. Logged out fine, but when attempting to log in, message comes up "Memory Alpha uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again.", when this is not the case. Assistance, please? -- Michael Warren | Talk 10:06, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * I'm having a similar problem. When I wanted to edit a page I just couldn't exit the preview screen, hitting the submit button did always bring me back to the preview. When I tried in another browser it did work fine (without account). Now I did log out from MA and could edit the page, but when wanted to log in again, the software tells me I have to enable cookies. Apparently they are enabled. -- Kobi - (   ) 11:09, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Another interesting case: I can't log out on MA/de. Seems as the cookies were kind of read-only, so that the wiki-software can't change them. When I try to login while being logged in, I get the same cookie-warning. -- FProg (   ) 17:15, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * I am also encountering the same problem at MA, with cookies and the preview page. Even signing out doesn't fix it, I can't edit articles whatsoever. (Enzo Aquarius) 65.93.202.14 21:12, 22 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * This was a problem with the cookie domain. I had added a call to include the default globabl settings file and had forgotten that the MA sites needed different cookie domains. Jasonr (answer copied from bugzilla)

Statistics
Both the webalizer (e.g. Calgary webalizer) & wikicities stats seem to have not been updated in a few weeks. Will this be coming back soon? I do like seeing this information. -- JamesTeterenko 21:43, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)

Why do statistics number is not count exactly on the project site? such as in Thailand Queer Network--RobinTh 07:44, 16 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Can't upload files
I'm getting this when uploading an image: Internal error From Efrat Could not copy file "/tmp/phpNhyPRZ" to "/home/wikicities/cities/efrat/en/images/9/9d/Efrat_sign.jpg". --Dfink 10:49, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)


 * Same for me. Added to bug 36. Angela 12:34, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Uncyclopedia User DB seems to have got lost
It looks like the Uncyclopedia User DB seems to have been lost, I'm not sure if the move has happened yet (although the additional links in the lefthand menu suggest they have) however we now seem to be using the wikicities user DB, reason: I created User: Elvis on wikicities when I heard about the up comming change and so I could log in but my watchlist and User Contibutions have been wipped as has my newly won sysop status Uncyclopedia Report a Problem Page. --Elvis 12:35, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This was temporary during the server move and has now been fixed. Angela (talk) 00:02, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Recent Changes Related to...
The Special:Recentchangeslinked/*to some page* seem to have formatting problems. I first noticed this on the scratchpad: wikicity, but it appears to be more widespread. It's minor. --CocoaZen 22:36, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * 137

When's 1.5 coming?
Gah. I've just spent the last half-hour creating the perfect edit message for inputbox, generation, only to find code doesn't work! Gah!!! :(

It suddenly hit me that 1.5 obviously isn't running on Wikicities yet as other 1.5 things are missing too.

When will this be done by? Any ideas? Must... have... infobox! ...um, soon? :) Garrett 12:42, 13 Jul 2005 (UTC)

And 1.5 will allows Commons images to be inserted inline, right? Garrett 13:45, 13 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki 1.5 will be installed as soon as its stable. It's still in beta at the moment, and has a lot of problems. This will hopefully be no more than a couple of weeks. Angela (talk) 00:49, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, OK. Wikipedia and Wikibooks have only just upgraded, but I come here and I miss it already... :( But thanks for the update! :) Garrett 22:42, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)

College Basketball Wiki global error
I'm getting the following error message whenever I attempt to access any page on http://hoops.wikicities.com/:

Warning: main(/home/wikicities/wiki/languages/Language.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in /home/wikicities/wiki/includes/Setup.php on line 224

Fatal error: main: Failed opening required '/home/wikicities/wiki/languages/Language.php' (include_path='.:/home/wikicities/wiki:/home/wikicities/wiki/includes:/home/ wikicities/wiki/languages') in /home/wikicities/wiki/includes/Setup.php on line 224

No content, just error message. Microtonal 07:18, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. It appears to be working properly, now. Microtonal 07:22, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)

reference links acting like external links?
Hi, a peculiarity in the reference template on the Academic Publishing Wiki has just been noticed. Even though the template source comes from WP, it looks like an external link.

Compare and.

Is this a 1.4<->1.5 difference, or is it something else?

Many thanks in advance! :) Garrett 22:47, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * It's complicated. I'll reply at w:c:academia:Template talk:Ref. Angela (talk) 02:35, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Logo
Can I change the size of a picture? I have a picture I want for my logo that is way to big. Howabout1 23:31, 15 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * Well the quickest way would be to instert it on a page and shrink it. For example [[Image:Wiki.png|30px]] would give you >> [[Image:Wiki.png|30px]] << so you'd just save that new shrunken image and upload it over top of the existing one. Just set the ##px to whatever you want. Of course in some cases a professionally-generated shrunken version would be better, so you could also do this in PhotoShop etc. Garrett 10:44, 17 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * The automatic thumbnailing isn't ideal. It might be best to upload it and ask someone else to help you resize it. Asking on IRC would be the quickest way. Angela (talk) 02:44, 18 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * How does IRC work? I've never used it before. Howabout1 13:41, 21 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I figured out IRC, but I made a mistake. I upleoaded a picture a wiki.jpg. Nothing seems changed, but did I mess up anything in changeing the picture? Howabout1 18:13, 21 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Ok. It was resized to the size stated in creating a new wikicity. How do I make it my logo. Howabout1 18:35, 21 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * This is the logo now. Basically, it just needed to be saved as "Wiki.png". Angela (talk)

Uncyclopedia got DB prob's
A request for any page gives : Database error From Uncyclopedia A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

SELECT cur_text FROM ``.cur WHERE cur_namespace='8' AND cur_title='Problemreport' LIMIT 1

from within function "MessageCache::get". MySQL returned error "1103: Incorrect table name 'cur' (brussels.wikia.com)". Retrieved from "http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Report_a_problem" AACK! Sharedproblemreport and problemreport

--212.50.162.251 09:10, 19 Jul 2005 (UTC)

user blocked by SORBS DNSBL
Hi, a user of the Abi wiki reported me to be blocked by SORBS DNSBL when trying to access the wiki... Could you help, please? -- FProg (   ) 11:41, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't see any sign of a block on them on that wiki. Please can you tell me their user name and which wiki they are blocked on? Angela (talk) 15:02, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Statistics not updating
Teh stats havn't been updated since 15/8, is there a problem?--80.5.160.7 21:19, 4 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello, Hello, anyone there?--212.50.162.251 12:22, 15 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Which statistics aren't updating? I've checked a few different things, and they seem to be ok.  Some statistics such as wiki page counts do not seem to update in realtime; they take about 24 hours.  Without more information, I'm not sure what anyone can do.  Please give details - links would be useful - if you want something done.  --RJ 19:36, 15 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikistats, perhaps? 20:56, 15 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * thats the one--212.50.162.251 15:19, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice one it's working now --80.5.160.5 23:20, 29 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * It did work for one day, or am I wrong? 23:56, 9 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Bug Tracker link has been hijacked
http://bugs.wikia.com/ now links to a site called TV ClubHouse. Did someone hack your DNS server? --Dfink 14:38, 8 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Category problems
When I have enough categories on a page that the category footer must be more than one line long, the software treats categories that would run over the line-break as if they did not have the ]] link-close tags, and sticks them into the text of the article (as in ). TIA. Microtonal 00:30, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * All the category links on that page appear to be working, and category is not in the text of the article. Maybe this was a temporary glitch?  Or maybe it is browser specific?  If you are still having this problem, could you say which browser you are using, which category link this happens for, etc.?  Good luck.  --CocoaZen 04:00, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 * You refer to an old version where one category tag wasn't closed correctly. Besides this the categories are working fine. 23:37, 9 Oct 2005 (UTC)

CSS Problems
When viewing my wiki with IE 6.0 the tabs at the top of the page (edit, descussion, info etc) list vertically instead of in a tabbed fashion. Has anyone else come across this? Know a fix?