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Bug 18686 - page rendering problems at en.wikipedia
page rendering problems at en.wikipedia
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mis...
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Reported: 2009-05-05 20:30 UTC by Bill Skaggs
Modified: 2009-07-14 17:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Bill Skaggs 2009-05-05 20:30:05 UTC
Multiple people have been seeing strange stuff starting some time today.  Here is a copy&paste of the thread about this at WP:AN -- I'm filing a bug report because I expect this is caused by some very recent change in the server software.



Transient top & sidebar weirdness?

First, I am one of those oddballs who doesn't use the default MonoBook Skin -- I use Classic because (IMHO) it looks better. Anyway, twice today I've opened a page to find entries missing from the menus along the left side & at the top. The first time it was when I glanced at LessHeard vanU's talk page, which led to wonder what kind of Wikimedia wizardry had he performed there; after poking around, I refreshed his page & the weirdness vanished. I figured some vandal modified some of the base templates that are combined to create the Wikipedia pages, someone else reverted it, & I moved on. Then, just a few minutes ago I encountered this again -- & immediately had a look at the Recent Changes page, but failed to identify exactly which templates were modified. And I suspect that no one would let a vandal repeat that trick twice in a few hours. Is someone modifying these templates to fix some unreported problem? If so, I suggest they test all proposed changes against all of the standard skins to minimize user frustrations. -- llywrch (talk) 19:16, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

    I've been seeing some weird things as well in a variety of places, like my talk page, and my watch list

(diff) (hist) . . m Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia‎; 15:27 . . (-1,244) . . Drilnoth (talk | contribs | block) (etc)

would get reduced to something like

() () () (||) () ) []

is that what you are seeing as well? This probably belongs at WP:VPT, most of the clever folk watch there. –xeno talk 19:28, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

    Like File:Missing history.png? I've been seeing that quite a bit lately. - auburnpilot's sock 19:29, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

        Yes, that's the rub. –xeno talk 19:32, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

    If there ever was "wikimedia wizardry" on my talkpage, I assure you it would not be of my doing - I would be the Rincewind of any wikimedia wizard order. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

        I got it too a couple of hours ago. My guess would be that those nasty developers have introduced a server bug somewhere. Looie496 (talk) 20:13, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Comment 1 Niklas Laxström 2009-06-20 07:56:34 UTC
Is this still happening?
Comment 2 Bill Skaggs 2009-06-21 02:37:43 UTC
I have not seen it again.

  -- Bill
Comment 3 Chad H. 2009-07-14 17:36:23 UTC
Marking INVALID. Can't really see what the issue was here originally, and bug reporter has not replicated it since. Can reopen/file a new bug if this is an issue again.

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