Last modified: 2011-02-08 21:56:33 UTC
The Wikipedia page for Stanley O'Toole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_O'Toole) does not display properly when you go to it from a Google search and other certain links. The page displays a single line of text, and the rest of the page is "broken", almost as if the css file is faulty. For example, the "Read", "Edit", "View History" and Search bar all appear at the bottom of the page. The only way I've found to remedy the problem is to do a further search for "Stanley O'Toole" within Wikipedia (rather than using a different search engine). I have tried clearing my browsing history + cache etc..., and that does not seem to work.
Can you provide a screen-shot? Which browser are you using and do you have any browser-extensions or wikipedia gadgets?
I've had this too. It's got to do with the roll out of the Vector skin. Clear your browser's cache (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Clearyourcache ) and visit the page again. Your browser might have some outdated files in it's memory.
Created attachment 7485 [details] Screenshot of layout bug when Vector is half loaded in cache https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24049
Created attachment 7486 [details] Screenshot of the page
That seems to be the problem. I have emptied the cache but it still doesn't work (using Google Chrome) Also, does this affect everyone who looks at the page, and why does it only apply to some pages on Wikipedia, and not others? Thanks
Another thing - how come the full text in the article is not displaying (only the first line is)? Do you think it is displaying an old version of the page? If you look at the page as it is supposed to be, there is quite an extensive article and 'filmography'. Thanks :)
I have done an article purge, that should put a new version in the squid servers. Please try shift refreshing the page again in Google Chrome.
No it does not affect everybody that looks at the page. For example, the page you linked to in your opening post looked fine to me from the beginning I read this bug. The version you saw in the cache was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stanley_O%27Toole&oldid=366630808 So there is no porblem with content being partially displayed. You just saw an older version of the article.
This is a known bug that only affects anonymous users. This happened because there was a 10-minute gap between me deploying the new Vector code and deploying the new CSS that goes with it: in the interim, broken pages like these were generated and were being cached in Squid. Apparently some of them are still around; purging those pages (with action=purge) should fix it. Marking as FIXED since the bug cause was fixed 10 minutes after it was introduced, you're seeing the last traces of it in Squid.
