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1. PHP ERRORS

   If you see lines on the top of the page like PHP Warning or whatever, be a dear and copy/paste that for us along with what page you saw that on and what you were doing at the time so we can better look into the issue.

2. "Array to string conversion ...on line 1522"

   If you are getting this notice, that's a known issue, so you don't need to post it unless the page is broken otherwise.

3. Broken redirects

   If you come across a redirect which points to a page which exists, but shows a red link, do a "null edit" on the redirect (click the "edit" tab, insert a space somewhere, click "save"). This should fix it.

4. The new edit window is "icky"!

   And I quote: "...you can turn it off in your preferences. Go to editing, uncheck 'enhanced editing toolbar' under beta features, and if you want the old one instead, make sure 'Show edit toolbar (requires JavaScript)' is checked. -— Lyrithya ༆ 16:26, 5 January 2013 (UTC)"

Current bugs

Place new bugs at the top! Just toss your bug up here like so:

{{Bug report
|header= Short description of the bug
|description= In-depth description of your bug, with your signature (~~~~)
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Bug report: 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 (talk • contribs • logs) 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) ~ Sun, 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 (talk • contribs • logs) 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 (talk • contribs • logs) 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) ~ Sun, Mar 30 '14 23:30 (UTC)

Bug report: In-page CSS not working on VFH

Description: See also here - the colours in my signature are done with a stylesheet on the page, and they don't work on vfh. This seems to be also happening on Illogicopedia; apparently it's something to do with the css and dpl extensions not being compatible - thought I'd drop it here too. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talk • contribs • logs) 04:59, 18 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia I'm inclined to label this Not A Bug, because I don't think it's technically a bug in Uncyclopedia, but rather a couple of cruddy extensions. ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Thu, Mar 20 '14 5:53 (UTC)

Bug report: Uncyc app chokes on network errors
Description: When the Uncyclopedia app is unable to download a page, it aborts and asks me to email in the stack trace. It's better to handle the exception with a "No network" or "Can't access server" message and return to business as usual. ｡◕‿◕｡ 23:08, 1 September 2013 (UTC) Will see if I can get somebody to poke the writer of our app. ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Thu, Mar 20 '14 10:32 (UTC)

Bug report: Edit window link suggestion is slow

Description: The in page search function is moving slow if at all (I don't know the tech term, it's when you do a search while editing by started it [[HowTo:Beet , and then the "off" doesn't show as an option). This goes for pics [[File:Abra , as well, although Wikia uncy doesn't in-page file pics where you can scan the pics by using the up and down aarows. I too am amazed at how much work and time a group of people have put into this, and it's lucky we have coding geniuses so interested in keeping this site afloat. Thanks. Aleister 14:17 7-1-'13 I'm not too sure how this is supposed to work, because my Internet connection is so slow that I usually have Javascript turned off, and so I've never used the feature. Could be an issue with the new fancy editor. Try Lyrithya's advice from up above: “ Alternately you can turn [the new editor] off in your preferences. Go to editing, uncheck 'enhanced editing toolbar' under beta features, and if you want the old one instead, make sure 'Show edit toolbar (requires JavaScript)' is checked. ”  ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Mon, Jan 7 '13 14:39 (UTC) If I understood you I'd do it, but I'll try it later. You've never used it? That's how I do almost all my links and used to do lots of pictures, you could get an entire list of existing pages, and used to get a list of pictures which you could schroll down using the up and down keys. Both tools are among my favorites on uncyclopedia. Thanks for doing all those in=page pop=jups yesterday, that was tedious work. I found a few more but I'll try to do them later following your code. Aleister 16:56 7--1--'13 Sometimes the options dropdown list appears somewhere else on the screen. I've noticed it. If it still isn't there, idk.--ڰโ٣ Ṗ€Áʃeɰɧĩʐʑ ďé Ňөщ Y০гk Ťá|k & ЯерlЧ Ѕтаlк 21:31, 7 January 2013 (UTC) Al: it turns out that particular feature is an extension to the software here, so I'll see if I can bug somebody who knows how it works and see if it's improperly configured or something. It does seem to act a little funky for me, as well. ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Tue, Jan 8 '13 4:39 (UTC)

Bug report: {{Logo}} issues

Description: The little green man in the top left corner of the Featured template that says FEATURED! is too far down on the page, hardly in the top left corner at all! -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 00:29, 5 January 2013 (UTC) Unless I'm mistaken the site notice is pushing that down, along with a couple other things. The colonized logo on the top of the Great Britain page, along with the page Aleister posted above are having the same issue. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 04:20, 5 January 2013 (UTC) Anything which uses "absolute position" HTML attributes to try to paste text or images over top of the page title area or the site logo is likely not working, as a position which might've looked OK in monobook is usually a wee bit too low on the page on vector. There are better ways to do this sort of thing; the 'displaytitle' function in MediaWiki or installation of extensions to override logos on a per-page basis or insert CSS into individual pages. Carlb (talk) 03:03, 5 January 2013 (UTC) I don't understand a word you're saying. Aleister 3:15 5-1-'13 A <css> </css> plugin could be useful indeed. Otherwise, there is a solution for the logo-alignment problem: use the same id, but insert different values for those same id at vector.css or monobook.css. R7 (NL) 14:32, 5 January 2013 (UTC) The <css> tag code (as used on nl: pt: et al.) was posted to mw:Extension_talk:NewPageCSS#Outputs_nonsense. There is another Extension:CSS which does the same job but with different syntax, #css: as a parser tag. Either would be useful. Carlb (talk) 20:13, 5 January 2013 (UTC) The latter is already installed, but neither, for security reasons, support image backgrounds. -— Lyrithya ༆ 02:36, 6 January 2013 (UTC) It looks like someone needs to write a js to reposition the featured stamp, since the vector skin doesn't have any good hooks for an extension to use (and skizzerz' idea of putting it in the logo image was brilliant but unfortunately just didn't work). js would work perfectly to account for the sitenotice which is added in js anyway, the main thing apt to push the stamp down, and also for long titles, though anyone with js off will still see a mis-positioned stamp for the latter. -— Lyrithya ༆ 16:01, 16 January 2013 (UTC) Now when I read about putting the featured image in the logo, I was thinking about the constructure of #p-logo, which excists out of "#p-logo" and "#p-logo a". Now, normally, the image itself is located at #p-logo a, which causes it to click on it to go to the main page. When I move this background-image from #p-logo a to #p-logo itself, and putting the featured image instead on #p-logo a, it is placed above the potato and is adjustable with (negative) margins and paddings. I think this will fix it. Only thing to rethink about is namespaces. This only does work with main-space articles. Or there must be all different sorts of templates be created for those namespaces. #p-logo { background-image: url("http://images.uncyclomedia.co/uncyclopedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.png") !important; background-repeat: no-repeat !important; background-position: 50% 50% !important; } #p-logo a { background-image: url("http://images.uncyclomedia.co/uncyclopedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Featured.png/190px-Featured.png") !important; background-repeat: no-repeat !important; background-position: -5px 40% !important; padding-left:10px !important; margin-left:-10px !important; padding-right:20px !important; } For me, this just works nice. By the way, these <nowiki>'s in the source code should be gone of course. R7 (NL) 12:11, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Resolved bugs

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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? --—  (talk) (contributions) 22:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC) So this is fixed, or at least partially resolved. See here for details. ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Sun, Mar 30 '14 23:30 (UTC)
Resolution: Fixed server-side
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Sun, Mar 30 '14 23:30 (UTC)

Resolved issue: Japanese interlanguage links broken
Description: 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 (talk • contribs • logs) 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) ~ Thu, Mar 20 '14 5:53 (UTC)
Resolution: Appears to have resolved itself.
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Sun, Mar 30 '14 4:03 (UTC)

Resolved issue: Links being tagged as redirects when they're really not
Description: 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 (talk • contribs • logs) 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) ~ Thu, 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) ~ Sun, Mar 30 '14 3:51 (UTC)
Resolution: fixed server-side
Closed by:  ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Sun, Mar 30 '14 3:51 (UTC)

Move 'em here for when things get resolved -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 03:35, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Should we start to cross out the ones that are finished? Might make it easier to look over the still-problematic ones. The Woodburninator Minimal Effort ™ 04:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

I was thinking like this -- T​K​F​​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​UU​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​U​CK 04:47, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Resolved issue: ChiefjusticeDS problem
Description: Joke ban of Lyrithya is only displayed on recent changes, but not in Chief's contributions. That happened several times recently. Anton (talk) 19:57, 26 March 2014 (UTC) That is not a bug. Logs performed by a user, such as blocks, don't show up in Special:Contributions/someuser but in Special:Log/someuser - that block should be in Special:Log/ChiefjusticeDS, and it does indeed show up there for me just as it normally should. If you don't see a log entry in the relevant log, otoh, then that's a bug. – Llwy-ar-lawr (talk • contribs • logs) 21:04, 26 Mar 2014Uncyclopedia is a community site that anyone can contribute to. Discover, share and add your knowledge! UncyclopediaUncyclopediaIllogicopediai:fr:LogimalpediePaudurapedyjaFrithchiclipeidUncapaediaAbsurdopediaScotypedia
Resolution: Not a bug
Closed by: Zombiebaron

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If I might say...

I find it astounding you managed to get the whole site moved with only this many errors. I love you guys. ---MasterWangs CUNT and proud of it! 05:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Dude, you should see the errors on the server-side. Place is like a jungle filled with rape machines. ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Mon, Jan 7 '13 13:15 (UTC)