Talk:Technical Team

Previous problems
A summary of earlier postings on this page:
 * The interwiki map does not seem to work yet. Fixed (was 53)
 * The GFDL text at the bottom of the page seems to have suddenly disapeared (is back now)
 * Section edit removes other sections. MediaWiki bug 1181 and 275. If you have "Show preview on first edit" selected in your preferences, disabling it will help.
 * WikiMac (Italian) has taken over all Wikicity redirections. $wgServer="http://it.mac.wikicities.com"; had been added to localsettings.php. It's commented out now.
 * Database errors (REPLACE INTO `searchindex` (si_page,si_title,si_text) VALUES..) (INSERT INTO `objectcache` (keyname,value,exptime) VALUES... from within function "MediaWikiBagOStuff:_doquery"). Refreshing the page usualy fixes it.
 * dememoryalpha with DB issues again (Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket). Fixed (was 91).
 * abi wiki is offline. Fixed (was 93). The underscore in the URL caused problems when we upgraded the servers. It should work ok from now on though.
 * Cookie problems at MA (There seems to be a problem with your login session). Similar problem when editing a page and couldn't exit the preview screen. Fixed. See 100
 * Statistics: Webalizer and wikistats nto working. These can't be guaranteed to be up at all times.
 * Can't upload files (Could not copy file "/tmp/phpNhyPRZ"). Fixed (see 36). Please report again if this happens on any new wikis.
 * Uncyclopedia User DB seems to have got lost. Temporary during the server move and has now been fixed.
 * Recent Changes Related to... seem to have formatting problems. Fixed (see 137).
 * When's 1.5 coming? Soon!
 * College Basketball Wiki global error. (failed to open stream: Too many open files). Was a temporary problem.
 * reference links acting like external links? Compare and . Fixed. See w:c:academia:Template talk:Ref for explanation.
 * Logo: Can I change the size of a picture? I have a picture I want for my logo that is way to big. Use image software or ask someone to do it for you on IRC.
 * I uploaded a picture at wiki.jpg but the logo didn't change. Fixed - It just needed to be saved as "Wiki.png"
 * Uncyclopedia got DB prob's (A database query syntax error has occurred... SELECT cur_text FROM ``.cur). Temporary problem, now fixed.
 * User blocked by SORBS DNSBL. If the user is not using an open proxy, ask Jason to whitelist it.
 * Bug Tracker link has been hijacked. bugs.wikia.com now links to a site called TV ClubHouse. Fixed. Was a DNS issue (the same server hosts TV ClubHouse).
 * Category problems. Tags not displaying properly. Was because one category tag wasn't closed correctly. Now fixed.

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?


 * Does this happen on other mediawiki sites, like Wikipedia, or just here? Angela (talk) 02:13, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Dis/Advantages of separate wikis
I've moved this from the technical support page. It's interesting, but I don't think this was the right place for it. Angela (talk) 01:19, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Largely advantages of separate projects
 * No pagename conflicts.

Differences that can be advantages or disadvantages Separate per project are:
 * recent changes
 * status such as sysop
 * watchlist

Largely disadvantages of separate projects
 * Not possible across projects:
 * existence detection of a linked page
 * related changes
 * what links here
 * use of categories
 * message alert
 * user contributions are separate
 * searching ditto

With the new e-mail notification feature, the disadvantages of having separate watchlists, and not getting a "You have new messages" alert when viewing pages on another project, are more or less solved.