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Ad bug
Image:Wizardboy Ad Bug.jpg. It appears that a banner ad is appearing where the google ads normally would. Most of the ad gets hidden behind the page body. You can see the html used to generate it in the firebug window in the picture, if that helps.  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 01:56, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this still happening? I can't seem to replicate the bug anymore. --KyleH (talk) 17:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Did you know....
That $("wikia_header") is null? Because firebug yells at me about it on basically every page :(  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 09:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll file a bug report on that. It probably has something to do with GuildWiki's custom version of Monobook. --KyleH (talk) 17:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I also occasionally get an error saying that "this._getCurrentBrowser is null". It usually doesn;t show up immediately - I only seem to have it show when I've been looking at the same page for a while.  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 23:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Second ad in page body on long page
The Championship Trophy page has a google ad at the top and another one down at the Wintersday Tournament Trophy, which totally messes up the layout there (I have a screenshot, but I'm not logged in atm). I thought there was supposed to be only one ad per page in the body? --mendel @ 84.128.228.43 17:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * On longer pages, there is a second ad at the bottom of the page (and occasionally one below the fold on the sidebar). The second ad can be either a box ad or a banner.  If it's a box ad, it appears after the last section header.  If it is a banner, it will appear below the content.  The collision detection should, however, prevent page-breakage ... on that page, it should have created a banner instead of a box.  I'll pass that info along to the tech team. --KyleH (talk) 17:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah yes, right now it's a banner, not the box, but where that was is Winterfest Championship Trophy . Not nice at all. Does that mean we have to add a dummy section header to each page now? The banner ad adds its own header to the page, which is not nice at all either. --84.128.228.43 17:17, 29 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I saw the box too ... that shouldn't be happening because of the "This trophy is no longer on display." box which conflicts with it. I'll check to see why that is happening.  We added the dummy section header based on community feedback--to make it clear that the advertisement is separate from the rest of the content.  Is that not preferable?  That can be styled using CSS if you want it to appear differently (or not at all). --KyleH (talk) 17:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

HTML errors
The page Template:Valid_XHTML_1.0 was valid when I wrote it. It no longer is.

Even on Monobook I get 27 errors, many of those on lines that have wikia-ads.wikia.com on them. Could you pass a hint to your web designers that URLencoding URLs is a good thing?

Monaco is, of course, beyond the pale with more than 100 errors. --◄mendel► 17:37, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Holy shit, my userpage got 104 errors from the ad code. That's insane.  [edit] Oh, guess I should check it with the correct skin - only 27 on Monobook, but still...  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 17:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

load time
Load time for pages and saving pages is agonizingly slow lately. Especially at night. Its frustrating enough that I'm tempted to switch over to the other wiki when I need info while doing missions in PvE. And if I'm having issues, so must other users. What's up? &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 08:32, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I've been getting that too, as well as a lot of "Database locked" errors for the slaves to catch up to the master. I had never seen that before a couple days ago, and now I'm seeing it at least twice a day.  Definitely something Wikia's sysadmins should look into.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 15:09, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * More than weeks ago, the database got locked so the slave servers could catch up ,too. Highly annoying :< --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]]-- (s)talkpage  15:20, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

strange, FAIL bug
I keep trying to SUBST: Warwick onto Template:Warwick for a test, and it saves, but the edit I made refuses to show up in RC, the history, and it still doesn't exist. Bug imo. &mdash; Warw/Wick 18:29, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * What is the exact wikitext you are trying to save into the page? It could be that after it subst:s everything, the final product has 0 difference from the previous version and it gets treated as a null edit.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 19:20, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * try, it wont work D:. &mdash;[[Image:MaySig.png]] Warw/Wick 19:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)