Hey gang!

Welcome to our first Release Highlights post on Discussions :)

This week, the teams mostly released bug fixes.

Performance Fixes

A number of major performance fixes were deployed on the backend, correcting some high error rates and other issues. We have more work on that currently in flight.

Video Renaming

An issue that prevented users from renaming any videos has been partially fixed. There will still be an error if the new name contains . , but renaming works in all other cases.

Syntax Highlighting in 2017 Code Editor

Syntax highlighting can once again be turned off in the 2017 code editor - a necessary fix since the highlighter could cause performance issues on long pages.

Special Page Formatting

Bullet list formatting for second level entries has been fixed for special pages, which makes them easier to read again.

Comment Display on Social Activity

An issue was fixed where legacy comments that got migrated to the UCP and then edited, or that received replies, showed in their full length on the social activity feed. Comments created on the UCP are truncated after ~100 characters to keep the feed legible. This is now applied to legacy comments that appear in the feed as well.

LinkSuggest fix

LinkSuggest in the 2010 editor works again even when syntax highlighting is enabled.

Needs More Polish, Yes?

Page titles containing Polish characters that broke post migration and rendered links invalid have been restored.

EDIT: Next Week...

We have a bunch of fixes related to galleries and images in infoboxes. They did not make the cutoff for today's release, so they'll be deployed on Tuesday.

And last but not least...

This is Louie. He lives with me now.

Because of that COPPA law?

My wiki heavily depends on the links in the main page silder but they aren't working any more.

They removed wiki activity, polls, popular pages etc. and now my right column is empty. I've tried to implement the wiki activity with dev:WikiActivity.js but it isn't working.

{|class="mp-body" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-radius: 10px; padding:5px;"|<div style="text-align:center; color:#161616"><br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="↓" data-collapsetext="↑">{{{desc|N/A}}}</div>
|}

Above is the source code for this little section "Description". Is there a way to format this particular toggle collapse button (i.e. align center) with only wikitext, and not have to use CSS? Thank you.

I dont like ucp but the thing of "STOP UCP" and "UCP IS CRAP" is getting out of hand so we have to stop it because a lot of people say that

I have an old, basically abandoned wiki I want to protect from vandalism, as its only purpose now is history/records. I think this is the right place?

I think I've said this a lot of times. But, tabber for mobile has never worked. I assume that Wikimedia Foundation or FANDOM themselves might be having a lot of trouble implementing tabber for mobile. So, any luck, or do you think I should give up editing?

I don't know why but every wiki i visit it always says Internal Server Error or Something Went Wrong :(. Is this a Fandom Problem or a Wiki Problem?

As a regular contributor and reader of Wikia/Fandom sites, one thing that slightly irritates me is that I literally never uses the mobile page of the site [the Mercury skin]. I heard that the majority browses on mobile, not sure if they even edit on the mobile site.

This is in contrast to that I still use, and occasionall even edit on the mobile site on Wikipedia and many non-Wikia Mediawiki sites. On Gamepedia, on the bottom of the mobile webpage it even says "View Desktop Site" whereas on Wikia pages, it says "View Full Site", implying that the mobile version is a stripped down version ill-suited for me.

I have already posted this suggestion a while ago; although I would still let the mobile site be as is of now, I suggest that registered users are able to default to the Desktop version whenever they visite a Wikia page on a mobile source.

So, the way we would moderate is whenever someone broke a rule, we would leave a warning template on the user's wall. We have a number of moderation templates designed just for letting users know "Hey, you did a bad, Please check the rules so it doesn't happen again." It wasn't automated by any means but it was better than having to copy/paste code every time. It also had the benefit of allowing us to know who was warned already so we could start issuing bans.

Now it looks as though wiki markup doesn't work at all on message walls. I have no idea what the greeting message is doing either. Does anyone have any idea for replacements?

Here is the link to the page in case you want to have a look at the code. Thank you in advance!

I was scrolling (with a mouse) and it zoomed in

I tried everything

It just wont work

This wiki is so cooooool

PotC Wiki does not have a discussion page. Help.

I m might be leaving Fandom. Thanks so much everyone who is part of this community. I would like to say goodbye to everyone here. Thanks to the admins for helping me and thanks to everyone else who joined. Sorry but I won’t be posting anytime soon. Goodbye. 👋

Note: I may be back in a while.

UCP

A rather old wiki was overloading their cache with some weird category issues unique to the wiki, causing their cluster to crash, which brought down parts of the platform.

That happened early morning on October 28th (US time) before the wiki migrated to the UCP and then again October 29th in the early morning (US time). We temporarily disabled the category feature that was affected on that wiki specifically and changed its cache to temporarily resolve the issue.

A thorough investigation as to the systemic cause and a resolution for it is underway with high priority. Once that fix is deployed, this wiki will never cause this issue again.

We will not be providing any details on the wiki which caused the issue or details of the cause until the fix is applied.

That was a forum post I made prior to the migration. I used <code> in the part underlined with blue and <pre> for the one underlined as green, and that's how these appear now. Is there no way to manually make specific text in Discussions posts look like these both? The preformatted text option is very different compared to them...