GuildWiki talk:Software & Technical Issues

The Look
MediaWiki's user interface isn't exactly perfect, and to be honest, pretty dull. I've enabled user stylesheets, mess around with them all you like. If you come up with something good, it just might make it into the site proper. I'd really like to spruce the place up, and have been privately tinkering with the stylesheets and HTML skeleton to try and optimise it a bit. Suggestions/comments/hate/etc. Gravewit 18:26, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)

Upgrading
I've wanted to put together a solid upgrade schedule/policy on GuildWiki's mediawiki guts for some time. So, let loose with any ideas/complaints/etc you have on the subject. I'm shooting for this weekend to make changes, so there may be some downtime (it's unavoidable, but should be short). I'd like to put us on 1.5.0, but that would undoubtedly mean some quick security patches very quickly, which could mean more problems. Discuss. Gravewit 15:14, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * My thoughts:
 * Let's announce the time on the main page in a special box so people can see it.
 * Is 1.5.0 the latest version or is there later?
 * Can we also discuss a schedule for backups? How frequently do we backup currently? And where are the backups placed?
 * Thanks. --Karlos 15:47, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * 1.5 is the latest stable release, moved out of beta a few days ago. There's the 1.6 alpha (perhaps moving to beta now, I don't keep up with MediaWiki development) which is run on all the large/famous wiki sites.  I'd guess it would be a lot of effort for Gravewit to run 1.6, since he would have to (or, at least really should) keep up with changes and fixes, which isn't a problem for the large sites.  --Fyren 20:10, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * Whilst you're upgrading could you look into this please Talk:Main_Page =) Skuld &Dagger; 17:28, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * Actually we've been messing with that off and on for quite some time. If you hit up the Wiki at all during the day and get a 404 or other error, that's why. The 6th month anniversary of the wiki is on the 7th of November, and I'm trying to get it all sorted by then. Gravewit 18:20, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * At the moment, EVERY page needs to get purged. All links are going to /guildwiki/* and are broken.  After an edit/puge, a page's links are "corrected" and don't have the guildwiki/.  Alternatively, you can make it so /guildwiki/* still works.  Some pages have been edited since the change and so would need a purge to go back to the old links even if you set things back to how they were before.  --Fyren 19:22, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * Looks like you were hitting the site as I was setting up the pretty URLs. I actually did both, for the sake of any outside linkage that might not be working. Gravewit 20:30, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)

Keywords
I notice that almost any given article does not have the phrase "Guild Wars" anywhere in its html source. I suggest adding to the KEYWORDS metatag of every page:

In includes\OutputPage.php, change $wgOut->addMeta ( 'KEYWORDS', $a.) ; to $wgOut->addMeta ( 'KEYWORDS', $a.', Guild Wars, GuildWars') ;

I want that toy!!!
Well, first of all, I would like interwiki links to meta be enabled, so I can use DynamicPageList to point you all to the toy I want. DynamicPageList, I think, will solve all our woes of planning category-intersections, by NOT creating new intersecting categories, but use the dynamic page list to generate list of articles that are in the intersection of categories. -PanSola 12:27, 9 April 2006 (CDT)

Interwiki links
Can interwiki maps be set up to Meta and Commons? -PanSola 11:41, 12 April 2006 (CDT)

yes for #1 195.137.4.228 09:08, 2 July 2006 (CDT)

Bug reporting
Is it just me that's getting a blank page? Looks like the target page isn't being generated or just doesn't exist. I get the problem with quite a few pages, but there's no real theme to which ones.

Yeah get that on every Non-Discussion Site -84.112.37.174 08:29, 2 July 2006 (CDT)


 * I'm having the same problem, while logged out.
 * Whenever i'm trying to save anything while being logged in i get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function memsess_key in /usr/home/guildwiki/public_html/includes/User.php on line 1695 Warning: Unknown: write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct in Unknown on line 0
 * i also get below EVERY PAGE while being logged in.

Warning: Unknown: write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct in Unknown on line 0
 * This is both with FireFox 1.5.0.4 and IE6
 * And it's not my cache, since i have that explicitly disabled
 * trough 194.151.136.154 on 09:14, 2 July 2006 (CDT)
 * It works fine on Intersex Exploiter, but not Firefox. --62.255.32.17 09:26, 2 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Try logging in ;) and reply ;), also since 12:31 there haven't been any logged in contribs!!! trough 194.151.136.154 on 09:38, 2 July 2006 (CDT)
 * I'm having the same problem, obviously. Also, browser doesn't matter here, since it's clearly a server error judging by the errors.


 * Also, I just got an empty page, but not til I logged off, and only talk-pages... through 217.208.26.95 09:49, 2 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Edit: Nope, just happened to a normal page too. at 217.208.26.95 09:52, 2 July 2006 (CDT)

As if this wasn't enough, the edit spam protection (asking of the answer of calculations) appears an infinite amount of times. You fill it in once, and click Save Page, and it will ask you for a different answer, over and over again. at 217.208.26.95 09:58, 2 July 2006 (CDT)


 * I'm not really knowledgable on servers and running wikis, but it looks (from the errors) like the memory is full. Maybe rebooting the server would solve it?


 * This part:

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct in Unknown on line 0
 * Makes it sound more like the harddrive where session data is stored was full (most likely), or unmounted (not very likely). &mdash; Galil  18:51, 2 July 2006 (CDT)