Forum:Moving in/bug reports

Welcome user tag
On the tag on the front page whenever I log on it shows up and says that I have a gift request for "-1 gifts". - S.B.44   [Talk] |undefined 01:30, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Okay, that is weird. I'll need to dig into it &mdash; please remind me on IRC about this so that I don't forget. --Jack Phoenix 06:40, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Same issue for me now. I received a gift, then sent a gift, and now I have -1 gifts and can't get rid of the message. -- 18:17, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Steve fixed this particular issue (see Halopedia:Developer log), I committed his fix (improved it a bit to add checking for user messages and awards too) to upstream in r75010 and applied r75010 to Halopedia today. --Jack Phoenix 06:00, 19 October 2010 (EDT)

User page
Uh, for some reason my user page is only saying 1 edit, when I had at least a thousand before the swap. Is this normal at first, or is something wrong with it? Blade Bane 03:02, 18 October 2010 (EDT)Blade bane
 * Captain Blade bane, I'm seeing "Edits 831" on your userpage as of now. --Jack Phoenix 06:40, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Odd, must just be a display thing then. However, my halopedia mainspace edits was 1035 according to special:editcount, but over here it only has it as 694. Shouldn't my overall be higher? (Don't mean to be sounding like an edit whore, just curious is all). Blade Bane 06:47, 18 October 2010 (EDT)Blade bane
 * Yes, we're looking into what might be causing this and seeing how we can resolve this issue. --Jack Phoenix 08:31, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * There's a few missing revisions from some of the articles. We're waiting for an updated wikia dump so we can have those imported soon. Nicmavr 08:33, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Yeah, Jack, the full MediaWiki dump wasn't actually complete. Some pages only have one revision from an older dump, which is why edit counts are down. And when a new user logs in from Wikia, aka "registers" here, Special:UpdateEditCounts needs to be run or they'll only have one edit. -- 11:28, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Could something be done to make the edit counts update automatically? I don't mind having to use that tool every now and then, but an automated process could simplify things a bit. Nicmavr 11:50, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Sounds like epic hack time...maybe a hook in MediaWikiAuth.php and a hooked function or just plain copypasta from SpecialUpdateEditCounts.php to MediaWikiAuth.php. Either way, the database queries need to be performed in MediaWikiAuth::initUser, probably after updating the user's info in the database (it needs to be done before the extension tells Snoopy to log out from the remote wiki). Doable, yes, but also a bit complicated. --Jack Phoenix 06:18, 19 October 2010 (EDT)

My user page is destroyed, darn. Also my sig is back to default and I don't know how to fix it anymore. Galacticdominator 17:43, 26 October 2010 (EDT)

Move Article
Apparently, that function is denied to a rollback user. I tried to move Team beta to Beta Red, and it denied me permission to perform the function. --  Specops306   Autocrat     Qur'a 'Morhek   04:16, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * You need to be autoconfirmed (in the autoconfirmed implicit group) to be allowed to move pages. We have altered $wgAutoConfirmAge and $wgAutoConfirmCount from the software defaults; I'm sure that you'll pass $wgAutoConfirmCount, but maybe you don't pass $wgAutoConfirmAge &mdash; we all know that you've been around for a long time, but maybe MediaWiki thinks that your account is "new", because technically speaking, it was created when you first logged in with your Wikia credentials. --Jack Phoenix 06:40, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Do we know what the edit limit is? -- SFH 21:14, 21 October 2010 (EDT)
 * The edit requirement is quite low. The account age is what's limiting everybody right now, and in a few days everyone will be autoconfirmed. -- 21:40, 21 October 2010 (EDT)

Youtube Videos
I'm not sure if it was like this before the move or not, because I just recently joined, but I found that the Youtube videos on the Halo 3 cutscene page weren't working I assume that they won't be working on other pages, but haven't looked into it yet. -- Andrew996 18:02, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * They seem to be working now actually. My computer might have been doing something or it might be an on/off kind of thing. sorry for using your time if it turns out to be nothing. --Andrew996 18:08, 18 October 2010 (EDT)
 * I modified the page. -- 18:17, 18 October 2010 (EDT)

Era template
I don't think the era template is showing up on the pages. Is that just the skin? pestilence  Phil,  pestilence!  21:04, 18 October 2010 (EDT) Same goes with the ratings template. pestilence  Phil,  pestilence!  21:13, 18 October 2010 (EDT)


 * Yep, era icons indeed weren't showing up. They should show up now. If they don't, purge your browser's cache (CTRL+F5 works for IE8 at least). Thanks for the report! --Jack Phoenix 06:18, 19 October 2010 (EDT)

NO PICS
When i was looking on the landmine article, it didnt show the picture, just the file nameLars99 15:15, 19 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Galleries require the "File:" prefix before the image name here. -- 15:32, 19 October 2010 (EDT)
 * It seems this is the case in with a lot of images. Any idea why and how to solve? - Major.png Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 05:24, 23 October 2010 (EDT)


 * Galleries in standard MediaWiki require the File: prefix, Wikia hacked their MW not to require this. The solution is to find the pages that use the gallery tag and change 'em. There's no simple solution to this. --Jack Phoenix 08:07, 23 October 2010 (EDT)

This isn't really a bug but more of a question
I follow A LOT of pages on wikia. So I was wondering if there was a way to transfer my watched pages from Wikia to Halopedia?!?!?! Vegerot ( talk )  18:08, 19 October 2010 (EDT)?!!!!!


 * I don't think it works that way. You would need to add them manually back to your watchlist.
 * I think this can be removed by tomorrow. Not really helpful if it's not a bug. :P -  5 əb'7 aŋk (7alk ) 18:33, 19 October 2010 (EDT)


 * You could just select the "Edit raw watchlist" option at the other wiki and copy-paste the full list here. That's what I did, anyway. --Jugus (Talk  | Contribs ) 18:38, 19 October 2010 (EDT)

I didn't see that option! Vegerot ( talk )  21:35, 20 October 2010 (EDT)!

Edit Count
Similar to the above problem, my received points and edit count seems to widely vary. I had just become a Gunnery Sergeant back on the OLD Halopedia, the move cut me back to Sergeant by about 200 points, but that's understandable because the 2 week gap. But yesterday, I had 14,500 points listed, now it lists me as Sergeant with only 7,500 points. I check and all my contributions are still there, but maybe the amount of points given per edit is being reduced, but even then I should still be JUST about at Gunnery Sergeant, not lower. Anyone else? Tuckerscreator (stalk ) 18:56, 20 October 2010 (EDT)
 * The reason for the recent drop is because we just changed the setting to only count main namespace edits instead of all edits. Not all pages have their full histories, which I am slowly importing, so the edit counts will continue to gradually go up. -- 19:07, 20 October 2010 (EDT)

Ah. Does it also change the amount of points received? Since just yesterday I made several additions that were numbering well into the thousands, now a similar sized edit still gives only 50. That also part of it? Tuckerscreator (stalk ) 00:52, 21 October 2010 (EDT)
 * You receive 50 points for each mainspace edit you make. Any such edits under your name that's imported in the meantime will also count towards your point count (we're using a tool at the moment that automatically updates edit and point counts when new content is imported) - Major.png Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 09:33, 21 October 2010 (EDT)

Point glitch?
When I'm logged out and view my profile, it says that I have 90,800 pts, but when I'm logged in, I have 69,600. Does anyone know why this is?  / / STRYKER    [  COM  |  LOG/M  |  LOG/S  |  AAU/HUM  ]  19:58, 21 October 2010 (EDT)

It was in a weekly update. Basically, when you're online you have 100 times more ways to earn credits but offline your only have 4. So they make it harder online since it's easier and harder offline since it's easier. Vegerot ( talk )  20:57, 21 October 2010 (EDT)!!!!

Logged-out users see cached pages, and the cache had not updated since we changed the points system to only count main namespace edits. It's good now. -- 21:34, 21 October 2010 (EDT)

Boards
I'm not sure what you can do about it, but the message boards are rather slow. Someone will send me a message and I will get alerted about it an hour to two hours later. The same goes the other way around, people don't recieve my messages until like an hour later. The messages are around, they just don't show up where you would normally look. pestilence  Phil,  pestilence!  16:30, 24 October 2010 (EDT)


 * Maybe Steve knows more about this, I haven't paid that much attention to the time, I usually read my board messages like a few days afterh they've been sent to me. ;-) --Jack Phoenix 09:41, 25 October 2010 (EDT)


 * I've had back-and-forth conversations with people and didn't notice this issue. -- 10:38, 25 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Ditto Steve. Do you perhaps have a slow connection? I recall this happening back on halo.wikia due to laggy connections of a sender or receiver. They're working fine for me atm. - Major.png Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 10:48, 25 October 2010 (EDT)

Redirect Function
Using the redirect button on the editing page simply produces, for example, #REDIRECTCovenant agricultural support ship rather than #REDIRECT Covenant agricultural support ship. Not a major thing - it's not as if people redirect pages these days anyway, they just slap the delete template on it. --  Specops306   Autocrat     Qur'a 'Morhek   21:42, 24 October 2010 (EDT)


 * I'm not seeing a redirect button on ?action=edit... --Jack Phoenix 09:41, 25 October 2010 (EDT)


 * I think he's referring to "#REDIRECT " in Edittools and Newarticletext.-  <font color="#FF4F00">5 əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7 aŋk (<font color="#FF4F00">7alk ) 18:14, 26 October 2010 (EDT)

OpenSearch
Please enable the dark magic of MediaWiki's OpenSearch functionality (which should be enabled by default, but somehow isn't enabled here right now,) so we can make awesome use of the Firefox search bar. Thank you! --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 12:16, 27 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Firefox gives me the option to "Add Halopedia (en)" in the search bar drop-down menu. Is this what you're talking about? -- 13:03, 27 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Yeah, that. It's not showing up for me, though. Weird. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 13:17, 27 October 2010 (EDT)
 * OK, I found out the reason: I had the h.w.c's search installed, and apparently, Firefox will not show the add link if a search engine with that exact name already exists. So I guess it's a Firefox bug, not really MediaWiki/Halopedia's bug. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 13:22, 27 October 2010 (EDT)