Help talk:Wiki Update

Stealthexternallink

Karek said:

Fairly certain this was a user made CSS change, it is not present in the new CSS import from MediaWiki that came with the update.

I think you're right about it not being present in the import but it has since been added back to common.css. It works fine now with skins other than default. ~ _{22:10, 22 April 2011}

Ok, probably a waste of time but ok. Every time we update, however rarely, this will continue be an issue. Seems like it'd be simpler just to try and keep up with MediaWiki's version of it but hell, whatever works. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 22:30, 22 April 2011 (BST)

I'm really not against changing all stealth externals to plainlinks if we can isolate them. I've already begun on some of my projects. I just don't want it to turn into "we don't need to worry about urbandead skin because we fixed all the class id issues". I'm also not all that confident in the new search just yet. When looking for townBox yesterday, search didn't even find your user page. Stealthexternal is a popular id and some are likely to slip past. ~ _{23:49, 22 April 2011}

Start at templates: and move down by namespace? Also, we can fit stealthexternal and such into Mediawiki:urbandead.css, so long as you can explain what the visual differences are from what it used to be I'm sure we can figure out how to fix them but, there shouldn't actually be any with the current version. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 04:58, 23 April 2011 (BST)

I'll give it a go. There are quite a few things, though. RC looks totally different. Red exclamation marks for non-patrolled pages (sysop only) are screwy. Gray boxes at the bottom of uncategorized pages. That's to name a few. ~ _{17:11, 23 April 2011}

The gray boxes probably has something to do with the lack of a .js for the urbandead skin and possibly the lack of code for hiding it in common.js if I had to guess. It's for Categories but the other skins don't show it when it's not in use afaik(I use MonoBook pretty exclusively). Don't know about the RC issue without having buttans. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 02:48, 24 April 2011 (BST)

Some sort of an update yesterday?

The wiki was down a few hours yesterday for maintenance, and following that, it appears that some of the data may have been corrupted ever-so-slightly. For instance, every single em dash ("—") I've seen has been replaced with "—", including in the history of the pages. It's a simple matter of fixing it, and I've already replaced a few templates where em dashes appear, but we'll likely need to be on the lookout for more stuff that has changed. —Aichon— 16:46, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

My games are an inconsistent mess. Sigh. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 19:38, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Looks like additional characters were added all over the pace. Hundreds, probably thousands, of broken links. Its proper fucked. Look as Sexual Harrison's user page, The Fortress Recruit ad, and any page that has Yonnua Kopponen's signature for just a few hundred examples. ~ _{04:36, 20 February 2014 (UTC)}

Looks like that's because "‎" is inserting itself into seemingly random places where previously there was either a space or no text at all. I actually first saw the issue because my signature was screwed up. Anyway, I'm just correcting the issues as I see them. Umbrella Corporation had a piece of hover text that was screwed up too. Might be worth making an announcement on the wiki news. —Aichon— 04:51, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I'm thinking we may want to have a reference for later use, since this is clearly a widespread problem, so here's a list of what I can see has been swapped:

• é in place of é
• ê in place of ê
• Ã in place of Ä?
• „ in place of Ä?
• ‎ in place of an invisible character that was there before?
• — in place of —
• … in place of …
• ’ in place of ’ (note: smart apostrophe, not to be confused with ')
• “ in place of “ (note: smart quotation mark, not to be confused with ")
• †in place of ” (note: smart quotation mark, not to be confused with ")
• • in place of •
• ➤ in place of ↳
• ↵ in place of ↵
• Â getting inserted before a load of characters, including º, ·, ±, §, ¡, ¿, ¶, ¼, ¾, £, ¥, ¹, ², ³, ½, ¤, ¢
• â–ˆ in place of ▋
• Ω in place of Ω

Feel free to edit my comment to add any others you find, that way we can keep this useful for later wiki editors who stumble upon these issues and wonder what the original was supposed to be. I'm basing most of this off of AHLG's ongoing work. —Aichon— 06:17, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Also, what the hell do we do with this? —Aichon— 06:34, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Uh, pretend we didn't see it. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 15:18, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm with AHLG. Maybe a notice at the top by a sysop that points to this conversation and on the off chance they come back to the wiki, they can fix it accordingly. Also, I'm not sure this has anything to do with this, but since when did UDWiki have a skin named swearcheck? I don't recall ever seeing it. It just appears to be a Vector based skin and doesn't seem to do anything special. ~ _{01:57, 21 February 2014 (UTC)}

Oh that's what was I'd thought I just went insane :P --Storm 02:21, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

The DangerReport system seems affected, but I'm not familiar enough with it to tackle the problem right now. Examples: Shuttlebank#Resource Locations and User:DangerReport/DangerCenter. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 22:16, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Well I guess it's this. I'm not sure what kind of symbol ▋is supposed to be. I can't remember what things looked like before. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 22:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

▋ is ▋. That's what it's supposed to be. ;) Anyway, I'm on it. Got the DangerReports mostly working again for the stuff you pointed out. Working on DangerCenter now. —Aichon— 22:26, 24 February 2014 (UTC)