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Version namespace links

It appears that the recent update has caused version pages to link back to mainspace, instead of linking within their own version namespace automatically. For example, 40d:Potash_maker links to Potash, while 40d:Potash is the expected link. --Loci (talk) 15:04, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Looks like you're correct. I'll have to investigate and see what the fix is. --Briess (talk) 20:17, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Double redirects to sections

Though the wiki software is supposed to handle double redirects, it appears to fail when the redirect is to a subsection of a page -- see calm, for instance. --Zzedar (talk) 03:40, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. I will investigate, thanks for the report. --Briess (talk) 03:41, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Looking into it a bit more, it seems there are a lot of double redirects that don't work properly, even when they're not to subsections; fishing, for instance.--Zzedar (talk) 17:17, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, Loci pointed that out, but the original discussion was archived. It's probably a problem with the cv: alias (as this revision on Fishing redirects correctly). --Lethosor (talk) 17:25, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

That's been my hunch so far, but I haven't had enough time to fully flesh out the problem just yet. Please keep me posted if y'all find any other edge cases. --Briess (talk) 17:27, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

This manual page seems to be relevant. I just tested this scenario on another wiki (1.20.2) and ran into the exact same situation (with a double redirect from page -> foo:page -> foo:page2 failing). This may be a problem with MediaWiki as opposed to this specific namespace scheme (although MediaWiki seems to discourage double redirects, according to Special:DoubleRedirects). I'll try testing on 1.20.3 next, but it probably produces the same result. --Lethosor (talk) 17:41, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Actually, no double redirects seem to resolve, according to my tests, even in the same namespace. --Lethosor (talk) 17:43, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Double_redirects seems to state this clearly. I'm not sure if there is a workaround, or what it would be. --Lethosor (talk) 17:46, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

https://gist.github.com/locriani/e43abff805d5cdd6c4ac is the current settings we use (as well as the hack to allow in-namespace redirect) --Briess (talk) 17:49, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

There are a few that work; milking does, for instance. Actually, I did some testing: making a dummy edit to the first redirect seems to fix the problem -- I deleted a space from wrestler, and now it works where it didn't before. However, null edits do not work. Update: this change fixed the trigger redirect.--Zzedar (talk) 17:54, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Dang it, I bet I know what's causing it then. There are probably bad entries in the links table,and I may have to forcibly refresh the entire table. --Briess (talk) 18:25, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I've completely rebuilt the links and redirect tables, and thing should be working as expected now, although I still need to figure out the issue causing links to not stay within the namespace. If not, let me know! --Briess (talk) 19:17, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Nope, still not working -- see marksman, for instance. --Zzedar (talk) 19:44, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Well, dang it. Going to keep digging. --Briess (talk) 19:46, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Ok, looks like it's a bug in MediaWiki that broke max redirects behavior sometime in version 1.20.x and there is not yet a fix. I will continue to look for a way to resolve it on our end --Briess (talk) 19:55, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Rating script

A few problems with the rating script seem to have popped up with the new software (these are probably more related to User:Emi, but you seem to be more active at the moment):

• jsMsg() now fades out after a few seconds, preventing the automatic tests from completing in a few cases
• Clicking a checkbox propagates up to the message box, causing it to fade out and preventing any further action (and showing it again with $("#mw-notification-area").show() doesn't work, because the text is cleared when it disappears).

The easiest solution here is probably to display the interface somewhere else, instead of using the notification system.

For the time being, I can rate articles manually, but it would be nice if someone could look into this. --Lethosor (talk) 14:51, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll poke Emily when she gets back from vacation this weekend and we'll figure out a better way to do it. --Briess (talk) 18:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Parser Functions

A recent change seems to have caused them to stop working (but they're still listed at Special:Version). See DF2012:Giant lion --Lethosor (talk) 19:24, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Oops, I forgot to clone the repo into one of the servers. Doing that now. --Briess (talk) 19:27, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Good catch! --Briess (talk) 19:29, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Categorization by template

The recent changes briefly made categorization by template work correctly. Then, another change broke it again. Category:DF2012:Flying now includes every creature page, instead of properly determining flying status from the raws. This new breakage seemed to happen about the time you resolved the parser function bug (above). --Loci (talk) 20:48, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

:psyduck: --Briess (talk) 20:49, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm going to try rebuilding ALL THE THINGS again, momentarily. --Briess (talk) 20:50, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

ALL THE THINGS rebuilt. --Briess (talk) 21:06, 13 April 2013 (UTC)