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Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Tesco is closed/"A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software."

Description:

http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Tesco is where the problem lies. When going on it I get an error "A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.". I have no idea how this happened.

Using Windows 7, Opera 23 (I think) (Numbernoid (talk) 12:26, 2 July 2014 (UTC))

Appears to be caused by Extension:AJAXPoll, since there's a poll on the page and it quits doing that when there's no poll on the page. Legoktm says he'll look at it after he eats food. And man, 'poll' is a weird word. Also thanks. Also what a weird word. -— Lyrithya 22:24, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Fixed.  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Jul 3 '14 0:36 (UTC)
Resolution: AjaxPoll did not update properly. Legoktm fixed it manually. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Jul 3 '14 0:36 (UTC)
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Jul 3 '14 0:36 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Database error when restoring file

Description:

Trying to handle the request in Forum:"Image:3buses.JPG" but got a database error when restoring File:3buses.JPG:

A syntax error has struck the database. There may be a bug in the software. The last query asked to the database was:
(SQL query hidden)
from the function "LocalFileRestoreBatch::execute". The error code "1048: Column 'img_major_mime' cannot be null (localhost)" was given.

I don't think this was covered before anywhere. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 06:49, 7 Apr 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia

It's kinda been covered; I've run across this several times with images that were deleted when we were still on Wikia. A lot of deleted images have missing metadata in the DB because of the move, and MediaWiki doesn't handle the errors very well. Its error handling kinda sucks. Your best bet is to recover the image, either from the old site or the mirror, reupload it, and then attempt to undelete old revisions. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngMon, Apr 7 '14 8:36 (UTC)
Resolution: Not really resolved, but there's nothing we can do about it, I think. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Jun 6 '14 22:42 (UTC)
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Jun 6 '14 22:42 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Block boxes in contributions showing the wrong block entry

Description:

When you look at a blocked user's earlier contributions - when you click on 'older 50' or whatever - the entry in the 'this user is currently blocked' box is an earlier entry than the latest one, possibly the entry associated with the time period of the contribs you're looking at. For example here. Wikipedia doesn't seem to do this [1] so it's our problem, and that means we should be able to fix it. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 06:11, 30 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia

It would appear this is only happening with Aimsplode? (If not, please link me to the others.) I'll take a look in the DB, but Aimsplode's block log isn't exactly high-priority, unless I find out this is indicative of a bigger problem (which it often is). ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 30 '14 17:22 (UTC)
No no, here are two other examples: [2] [3]. It seems to do this when you go to 'oldest' (i.e. when there's a &dir=prev in the query string). – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 17:31, 30 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia
And some more: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] And compare: [9] [10] [11], which are earlier sets of contributions but that do not involve dir=prev, which reinforces my point above. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 17:37, 30 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia
Oyyyy. You sure do know how to find bugs. Just when I'd cleared another one off. Mind if I ask how you found those? ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 30 '14 23:30 (UTC)
I don't know, I just poked around for examples of blocked users, and I was looking at Aimsplode's contributions for some reason when I noticed that and remembered seeing it before. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 02:22, 31 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia
Ok, legotktm figured this one out; it's a known bug in MediaWiki and was fixed in 1.22. So it should go away when we upgrade. Yay! ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngMon, Apr 7 '14 0:31 (UTC)
Resolution: Fixed in MW 1.22, will work right when we upgrade. I will keep my eye on this after the upgrade to make sure it's resolved. If I remember.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Apr 8 '14 4:28 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Invalid Pages from a long ass time ago

Description:

There are any one of a number of titles that are bad and so the contents were unreachable on the front end such as [[Talk:Talk:Main Page]] Notice how I didn't use <nowiki> there. I'll work on compiling a full list here. Mike the Great (talk) 23:18, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Shit, I didn't include redirects in my scan. If you guys wipe out those pages I'll do another scan to include them. – Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike the Great (talk • contribs)
WHATTTTTTTTTTTT? Is it Mike the Great? From ED? --— Capitalis quadrata Y.SVG (talk) (contributions) 22:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
So this is fixed, or at least partially resolved. See here for details. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 30 '14 23:30 (UTC)
Resolution: Fixed server-side
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 30 '14 23:30 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Japanese interlanguage links broken

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Links to Japanese Uncyclopedia are broken – for some reason, MediaWiki still thinks it's at ansaikuropedia.org which may no longer exist. In the meanwhile, I did a Google search for my Pokémon articles and found that Japanese Uncyclopedia has moved to ja.uncyclopedia.info. 。◕‿◕。 23:21, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Someone needs to go into Special:Interwiki and change the target of the ja: prefix, then. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 23:26, 19 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia
So ja: should link to ja.uncyclopedia.info? I can do that, yeah. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Mar 20 '14 5:53 (UTC)
Resolution: Appears to have resolved itself.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 30 '14 4:03 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Links being tagged as redirects when they're really not

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This is a very small issue, perhaps a non-issue, but it does bother me since it's misleading, and it certainly would seem to be a bug. Some links pointing to pages that are not redirects are being tagged in the html with the class mw-redirect, for example User:ChiefjusticeDS, and I only see this because my common.css file highlights a.mw-redirect to help me pick out redirects - so I end up seeing 'redirects' that really are not redirects. Most of the time it works ok but sometimes it has this bug. Don't recall seeing it on the Wikimedia wikis, some of which I've also enabled redirect highlighting on, so it seems to be our problem. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 23:24, 19 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia

I have no idea wtf is up with this. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Mar 20 '14 10:32 (UTC)
I believe I've fixed this -- page.page_is_redirect was spuriously set for about 1213 articles. Not really a big deal, but could be confusing on special pages (or possibly even in dpl queries). Let me know if it pops up again. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 30 '14 3:51 (UTC)
Resolution: fixed server-side
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 30 '14 3:51 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: TheHappySpaceman's user page

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  • My userpage is all screwed up. Not only does the sigexpand code not work, but a few of the images don't seem to have been transferred properly. ~[ths] UotM My Farticles. Qaplá'! Gobshite of the Month March 2012 Magician of the Month March 2012 Uncyclopedian of the Month November 2012 01:50, 01/08/2013
    @Dan: Since nopony wants to answer your question, I'll answer it: you're screwed. Ha ha! --PERVY July 2012 Кıяву Тαгк Сойтяıвs 2013-01-11T01:20
    If it's still broken, I'm afraid you'll have to try to update the code yourself to use the current formatting and such. If you notice any wider issues that might be causing trouble in general, in particular on other pages, please report those as well. (I couldn't find any, but didn't look too hard.) -— Lyrithya 18:18, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
    Oh nonononono, you don't understand. My userpage used to only display the menu at the upper right hand corner of the screen when hovered over, but now it displays it all the time. DO NOT WANT. And many of the images have somehow stopped working. DO NOT WANT. Not only that, but I found a bug on this page that I also found on the "Redundancy" page: the fake edit buttons on the side of <h2> tags have stopped working. DO NOT WANT. And I have no idea how to fix any of this, and the bug still isn't resolved. So in other words, I'm moving it back to "Current Bugs" until it is fully resolved. ~[ths] UotM My Farticles. Qaplá'! Gobshite of the Month March 2012 Magician of the Month March 2012 Uncyclopedian of the Month November 2012 21:19, 01/12/2013
    I can probably fix that for ya THS, but I've got a shitload of other stuff what needs a-doin' first, so it may be a while. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Jan 13 '13 22:15 (UTC)
    Okay, for the record, many of the issues I've brought up have been fixed (thanks, Lyrithya). The only one that hasn't was the fake "edit" button that is still a problem on my userpage and on the Redundancy page. ~[ths] UotM My Farticles. Qaplá'! Gobshite of the Month March 2012 Magician of the Month March 2012 Uncyclopedian of the Month November 2012 22:25, 01/19/2013
    Redundancy mostly fixed. It had a shitload of bad code. As fer yer user page, ...dude, fix that yerself. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Mar 20 '14 10:32 (UTC)
Resolution: Yay! Somebody fixed this after a year.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Mar 20 '14 10:32 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Collapsible boxes slightly broken

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The ones with the [show]/[hide] links, like with Template:Britain. At least for the ones that start collapsed, the link doesn't start out saying [show] but rather says [hide], and when you click it, it then says [show] but doesn't expand, and you have to click it again for it to expand. From there onwards it behaves normally. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talkcontribslogs) 04:59, 18 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia

This issue is with NavFrame boxes which somebody wanted to keep hidden until activated, so they used "display:none" on the NavContent element. There should be documentation on this somewhere, but the long and the short of it is, if you find a NavFrame-classed box with a NavContent child element that has a style rule "display:none", remove that and add the class NavClosed to the NavFrame element, like so: class="NavFrame NavClosed"
Resolution: bad coding
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Mar 18 '14 5:59 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: {{C}} broken on mobile, so is .sighidden

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In a nutshell, CSS :hover just isn't cut out for mobile devices. Is there a workaround someone can do to create a similar effect? 。◕‿◕。 10:38, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

I suppose one could use Javascript. However, I'm not sure how difficult that would be. Are you just talking about stuff on this site which uses the sighidden CSS class? ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngMon, Aug 19 '13 3:49 (UTC)
Yeah. I mean Puppy used to complain about sighidden not rendering on his iPhone. If we change the behavior of it for @media handheld, ... 。◕‿◕。 11:31, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Hmm. I'll look into it. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Aug 27 '13 4:43 (UTC)
For anybody who cares, I may have come up with a resolution to this issue, several months after it was raised: add a cursor: pointer rule to whatever html element you want to have onHover css effects. This apparently works on iPhone/iPad; I have not had anyone test for Android/Windows 8. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Jan 12 '14 6:28 (UTC)
Resolution: Fixed both! Kinda.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Jan 31 '14 5:10 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Imagemagick rendering contrast issues

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Apparently it's mishandling some png thumbs, possibly just grey files - see File:Sophia-Loren.png (RGB) and File:Sophia-rocks.png (grayscale). And yeah, I'll probably wind up having to fix this myself, but at here's a note, either as a reminder or in case someone else wants to look into it. -— Lyrithya 02:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Okee dokee. We know we have an issue with imagemagick, and we're working on it. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSat, Mar 16 '13 22:37 (UTC)
Resolution: Pretty sure this was fixed by changing the imagemagick version. Unless it wasn't.
Closed by: -— Lyrithya

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Image error (possibly related to the issue Special:UnusedFiles)

Description:

File:FF popup.gif is showing a weird error that prevents it from being displayed. The error message is unreadable on the file page but you can see the some text on here:

"Error creating thumbnail: convert: malloc.c:2451: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2]))"

In addition, unused files I've deleted continue to show up on the list even after the cache is updated. MadMax (talk) 21:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Have no clue what's up with that image; let me know if you see any more like it. I'm going to attempt to fix it.
On the unused files still showing up... I'll check it out. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Apr 30 '13 2:17 (UTC)
File:BFF4EVR.gif is also generating a similar error code: "Error creating thumbnail: convert: malloc.c:2451: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed." MadMax (talk) 18:26, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Resolution: Apparently this was fixed by somebody (don't know who) by doing something with ImageMagick (don't know what). So, yeah.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Jan 12 '14 6:22 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: I can't remove

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...The contruction tag off my Kobayashi Maru page. Can anyone help me? Lord Scofield Stark 17:23, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I've had this problem too while going through the backlog at Category:Work In Progress. MadMax (talk) 01:05, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, me too. IFYMB! Talk to me baby! 01:07 1 July 2013
This may be an abuse filter. I'll check, and by that, I mean I'll have somebody check. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Jul 2 '13 1:59 (UTC)
Sorry, this was my fault. It should be fixed now (for a few days now). Legoktm (talk) 01:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngWed, Jul 17 '13 1:56 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Minor issue in SpecialPages, broken interwiki links

Description:

There's some HowTo and UnBooks talk pages listed on Special:UncategorizedPages. Did You Know was also uncategorized. I also ran across some articles from 2005 and 2006 though I just re-redirected them again. I'm also seeing the occasional red link to foreign uncyclopedias. MadMax (talk) 12:23, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I noticed the interwiki red link problem too, on Esperanto for example (check the recent history) --Littleboyonly.jpg TKFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFUJewriken.GIFCK Oldmanonly.jpg 15:14, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
MadMax: what do you mean you "ran across some articles from 2005 and 2006"?
On the interwiki issue: it is being dealt with (very, very, verrrrry slowly, mainly because I'm the one dealing with it). See Carlb's comments on it above, and the two forums about them. And also my talk page, Carlb's and Cartoonist Henning's.
If you see an interwiki link that is broked, get back to me on mah talk page. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Jan 13 '13 22:32 (UTC)

Specifically, I redirected:

  • Samuel L. Jackson, a page I originally redirected back in 2006. The original one-liner was there even though my edit was still in the history. I did the same thing with Playstation.
  • iPods, a quote written by Famine from 2005. I merged it with iPod though it was most likely redirected to that article on the old site.
  • Suxx0r, a quote written by Codeine from 2005. I merged it with Ancient Leet language.
  • Quotes4, Quote37, and Quote38 were Oscar Wilde quotes from 2005 that I assume were from the old Wilde project.

Mandate and Plus are also 2005 articles. I don't know if there's an expanded version of these on the old site.

I've seen more than a few pages now with red interwiki links. Is this something that will eventually be fixed or should I remove them when I see them? MadMax (talk) 12:39, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Here are some other odd pages that are listed:

MadMax (talk) 13:03, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Aww, the duplicates can't actually be accessed? They were this funny thing that came with the dump off wikia - multiple page ids to a single title, so to import them we renamed some of them to 'title (duplicate)' and... damn. Would have been funnier had they actually wound up accessible. Guess someone will have to look into those on the database end again. -— Lyrithya 21:36, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
The "Video ######" rubbish seems to have been from a kaltura.org extension which Wikia installed in 2008, even though we never wanted it. There was a short-lived namespace created for these at one point. We never used it and these can be safely deleted. Articles starting with it: and eo: conflict with language prefixes (Italian, Esperanto). Italian was one of the early projects moved to a separate Wikia (these mostly fall between June 2005 with fr: as the first "other language" spinoff and April 2006 when languages with existing pages like pt: and zh-tw: started being moved from en:'s Babel: namespace to non-Wikia *.uncyclopedia.info domains instead of created as Wikia with incompatible licenses) and eo: was likely a little more recent. The articles with it: and eo: were likely created before these existed as seperate wikis (or at least before Wikia got around to creating the interwiki links). bg: is Bulgarian and was one of the more recent additions. Not sure what's up with the ones with (duplicate) in the titles? Carlb (talk) 16:27, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Fixed the broken interwikis; fixed the bg:, eo: and it: titles (I think) by having someone move them to my userspace; I also fixed the "* (duplicate)" titles in the database (their names were using spaces instead of underscores). Someone should get on that. God, but I would love to close this bug report. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, May 3 '13 2:15 (UTC)
Closed by: I'm marking this resolved because it pretty much is, and also I'm tired of fucking looking at it. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, May 10 '13 21:29 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Missing contributions from Wikia

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I have edits to this article that aren't showing up in my contributions page. Is there some sort of process I have to do to link my .co account to my Wikia account to confirm that I'm the same person before the edits will show up on my contributions page? Tepples (talk) 21:53, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

This site is its own site (not a mirror), and the last mass-imports from the old Wikia site were done in January. If you made edits to the Wikia site, you can manually copy-paste them over here, or ask someone to import them for you (I can do it, if you tell me which edits you'd like to be imported.)  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Apr 30 '13 2:05 (UTC)
I cannot copy and paste them because the article in question is semi-protected and my edit count from Wikia did not transfer. --Tepples (talk) 16:10, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, this definitely seems like a big bug. Sorry I didn't see what you were getting at. I'm looking into it. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, May 7 '13 23:18 (UTC)
Ok, fixed now, I believe. This was related to a MWAuth bug from back in January. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, May 10 '13 21:24 (UTC)
Resolution: Fixed server-side.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, May 10 '13 21:24 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Autoconfirmed requirements

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Help:User access levels#Autoconfirmed users says it takes four days to earn autoconfirmed. I have edits on my contributions page that are more than three months old, but I still don't see "Autoconfirmed users" in Special:Preferences. Is autoconfirmed functionality broken, or is the help page broken? Tepples (talk) 21:53, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

I think you also need to hit a minimum edit count to earn it now. ~Sir Frosty (Talk to me!) Proudly bogan 23:10, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
Minimum edit count of 10 required before getting autoconfirmed status. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Apr 30 '13 2:17 (UTC)
I have updated Help:User access levels#Autoconfirmed users to clarify that activity prior to the fork is not counted. --Tepples (talk) 16:10, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Actually, activity prior to the fork *is* counted. Apparently it isn't. Who knew? ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, May 10 '13 21:25 (UTC)
Resolution: See above bug report
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, May 3 '13 2:15 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: PF4Eva has issues

Description:

Taken from elsewhere:

I am having a strange problem. When I connect to Uncyclopedia's new home, the page loads very slowly and indefinitely. I tried diagnosing my problem with DownforEveryoneorJustMe and WhyDown and they both claim that the site has no problems.

I used the command promt and here's what I got at line 7:

7. * * * Request timed out

I can't be the only person in the world who is experiencing problems. Apparently the problem is on my end...?

Thanks for your help. Black-2.jpg PF4Eva, the President of Imagination Vote for me My tax returns 01:21, February 13, 2013 (UTC)

The problem does appear to be with your end. I suggest you contact a doctor. MrN MrN9000SouthParksmall.jpg 01:43, Feb 13
I've been having similar connectivity issues on my end. It's intermittent, but the speed here and the speed at http://mirror.uncyc.org are not that dissimilar, and the lag appears to be more on the server side for both of those sites. Nominally Humane! 08:37 13 Feb
The mirror is much slower for me. This site loads just fine, especially on mobile devices now that we don't have a content warning. --EMC [TALK] 17:36 Feb 13 2013
Remedy: The issue is with Internet Explorer itself. While using IE9, I had to hit F5 often to navigate (frustrating as hell, lol). Working just fine in Firefox. Black-2.jpg PF4Eva, the President of Imagination Vote for me My tax returns 03:19, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Problem is probably due to our database backups, which are apparently bogging down the server for a few minutes every day. We're working on Doing It Better. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Feb 22 '13 21:44 (UTC)
Resolution: We are doing it better.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, May 3 '13 2:15 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: external links leading to Wikia

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  • Various pages are hotlinking images from Wikia or contain clickable links to point to articles left behind on uncyclopedia.wikia.com. The {{FA}} template does this and uses an absolute-position which places the image over the site name instead of behind the logo. Many signatures used [http://...uncyclopedia.../wiki/Pagename http://images.wikia.../a/ab/SomeImage.png] instead of [[Image:SomeImage.png|link=Pagename]] as the link= parameter didn't exist pre-MW1.14 or so. This may need a search-and-replace so that we are not linking to Wikia for any reason.
    Fixed {{FA}}, but you're right, there are a lot of pages with hard links. Working on a search-and-replace as we speak. Kinda. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSat, Jan 5 '13 11:54 (UTC)
    Ok, I believe it's done. There are still some hard-links that can be found via this and this and this, but they consist of either intentional links to wikia, forum pages that cannot be changed because it would "bump" dead threads, or links to archived image versions which no longer exist. There's also the list of links to the old uncyclopedia.org domain, and someone will get around to changing all of those at some point, I'm sure. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Apr 12 '13 2:00 (UTC)
Resolution: Blood, sweat and tears
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Apr 12 '13 2:00 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: external resources linked from Wikia

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  • Someone with 'l33t admin p0w3rz needs to go through Special:Allmessages and fix links to Wikia in MediaWiki: pages (the system messages). I did one just now, but quite a lot are things like site CSS, etc. and should be done by someone who knows precisely what they're doing - David Gerard (talk) 15:10, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
    Roger! That is one useful page, and I've been looking for something like it for a while. A cursory examination shows that someone else has apparently removed all of the Wikia references that aren't supposed to be there. If anybody finds any MediaWiki pages that still link to Wikia resources, please let me or someone else know. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngThu, Jan 24 '13 1:47 (UTC)
    Done! ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngWed, Mar 27 '13 2:10 (UTC)
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngWed, Mar 27 '13 2:10 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Issues with page lengths

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  • Special:Shortpages is giving some odd results. UnBooks talk:The Old Man and LV shows up as 54 bytes, whereas I count at least 64. Editing the page (null edit) seems to have had no impact. There are other non-short short pages in that list as well. It seems to be pages that Aleister has created that are affected, so I blame his evil coding genius. Nominally Humane! 10:46 06 Jan
  • Reports such as special:wantedpages are not being generated. Carlb (talk) 21:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
    Should just require $php updateSpecialPages.php being run, however we already have a few other maintenance scripts running, so its low priority until then. This Is Not Legoktm (talk) 01:34, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
    That job is now running weekly, however this specific page is loaded dynamically. I didn't see anything wrong in the database, so its possible this is an upstream issue, though I doubt it. Legoktm (talk) 13:12, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
    The issue on Special:Shortpages has been worked out. It seems Aleister saw red-linked talk pages for a few of his articles on Moving Day, and decided to recreate them. However, the namespaces hadn't yet been set up. So, when the namespaces were set up a few minutes later, those "recreated" pages became inaccessible, but were still hanging around in the database. I solved the issue by renaming them database-side and then deleting.
    Also, the special pages which rely on cached data should be updating once a day, now. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngWed, Mar 27 '13 1:28 (UTC)
Resolution: Iss all good.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngWed, Mar 27 '13 1:28 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Special:BrokenRedirects

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Broken. MrN MrN9000SouthParksmall.jpg 04:19, Mar 8

Okee dokee. We know we have an issue with lots of pages that are labelled as redirects even though they aren't, and we're working on it. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSat, Mar 16 '13 22:37 (UTC)
"Okee dokee". Hmm... Sannse was sexier. :P ... I found some of them could be fixed by just editing the page once and saving it. Also... When you say "We know" how many of you are there? MrN MrN9000SouthParksmall.jpg 00:09. Mar 17. 2013
Well, if you don't like me saying "okee dokee", I can always get naked... and punch you in the throat.
As for how many mis-labelled redirects we have, well, judging from that page, ...about 700 or so. It's a pretty simple issue to fix, in theory. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSun, Mar 17 '13 22:43 (UTC)
Punch please. and not dokee, but donkey. ... I was not sure if it was something which could be fixed at the server side without the need to manually edit, or bot each page. I guess you are saying that it's not, so maybe I will have a go at fixing a few myself. I noticed that the page did not refresh after I "fixed" a few. Does the refresh happen at a fixed time or something? and.. also how come they all have lines through them? I figured that must be due to some server side issue. MrN MrN9000SouthParksmall.jpg 22:58. Mar 17. 2013
It is some server-side issue. First off, the data that Special:BrokenRedirects uses is cached, so it may take a while after the issue is resolved for the page to clear out. Second of all, it should be easy to fix server-side, so there is probably no need to send a bot through and do null edits (as far as I know). In fact, that might make the issue harder to resolve. Hate to be so vague, but I personally dunno what the issue is for sure, so I'm just covering up the fact that I'm completely gormless with lots and lots of pointless words, because that's what they do over at W...The Site Which Shall Not Be Named, and it seems to mostly work for them. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Mar 19 '13 0:17 (UTC)
Resolution: problems fixed server-side
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Mar 22 '13 22:42 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: stacktrace instead of thumbnail

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I have just opened the page on Saving_the_world and in the left image window a complete stack trace appeared when apparently some image magick based thumbnail creation script crashed. Like this:

Error creating thumbnail: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/convert: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x000000000063e070 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7eb96)[0x7f054de22b96]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMagickCore.so.5(RelinquishMagickMemory+0xf)[0x7f054e7bd2cf]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ImageMagick-6.7.7/modules-Q16/coders/gif.so(+0x262a)[0x7f054a8f162a]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMagickCore.so.5(ReadImage+0x190)[0x7f054e717420]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMagickCore.so.5(ReadImages+0x15b)[0x7f054e7184bb]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
and so on. This could be interpreted as a security risk. I wouldn't want those address reloc info to appear on the site. Ṁōŏṡʒ 09:40, Mar 15 09:40, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Okee dokee. We know we have an issue with imagemagick, and we're working on it. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSat, Mar 16 '13 22:37 (UTC)
Looks like this particular problem is fixed. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Mar 19 '13 0:17 (UTC)
Sure is. I just saw the picture and, well, considering the others on that page, was a bit disappointed. Ṁōŏṡʒ 08:53, Mar 20 08:53, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Resolution: Was fixed server-side
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Mar 22 '13 22:42 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Resolved issue: Gif thumbnail error

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Broken onei 20:00, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Okee dokee. We know we have an issue with imagemagick, and we're working on it. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngSat, Mar 16 '13 22:37 (UTC)
Looks like this particular problem is fixed. ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngTue, Mar 19 '13 0:17 (UTC)
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) Icons-flag-us.pngFri, Mar 22 '13 22:42 (UTC)