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Contents 1 Redirects 2 Problems moving a page. 3 Problem concerning a specific page that does not have a corresponding "talk" option 4 Skill icons disappearing 5 Loss of session data errors. 6 What's going on in this wiki?! 7 Feedback is gone 8 Grasping Mask image cache 9 BLOCKS

Redirects

When redirecting images to a contributions page (as seen unintentionally here), one cannot access the "source page" of the image, as no direct link appears at the top like a normal redirect. I tested it with my user page backround, and it appears to do the same thing; link to the contributions page with no way to access the image source page. This is bad when the image in question may be missing categorization. The process, as far as I can tell, is not reversible (meaning I can't undo the change). Am I missing something obvious, or is there something bug-wise going on here? -- Wandering Traveler 06:06, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, the backlink is not visible as it is not a article page; to access the image simply open the url of that image with ?redirect=no at the end of the url: click poke | talk 07:23, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Had a feeling I was doing something wrong. I do wish there was a way to make that a bit more...visible, I guess. Ah well, Thank you poke. -- Wandering Traveler 14:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

There's another, kind of round-about, way of doing it - go to the transclusion list, click history, edit. -- Brains12 \ talk 15:46, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Problems moving a page.

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I tried to move File:Simzy_sig.png to a more correctly named location (being File:Truesimzy_sig.png), but I was provided with an error. "Error:could not submit form. The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title. It may contain one or more characters which cannot be used in titles." I'm not sure why this is, I tried clearing my cache, deleting cookies, I checked the location, I made sure the naming was correct and didn't contain any improper characters. So, could an admin please move this to the correct location, and try to figure out why I encountered this error? Thank you. Ryuu - talk 02:46, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

File:User_Truesimzy_Simzy_sig.png, it seems the user uploaded the image to a more correct location themselves, but that isn't the location I was trying to upload to, so I still don't understand the error. I'm adding a delete tag to the incorrectly named one, but I'd still like an explanation of this, if possible. Ryuu - talk 02:49, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Unless they added support for it in a later mediawiki version, moving images is unsupported. — Galil 17:53, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Or it's related to this; https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709 — Galil 17:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I think it has to do with the feature still being experimental, sometimes it fails for no reason. (Ok, of course there is a reason, but they haven't been able to solve it yet). - anja 18:09, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

That error you were receiving is the normal error when image moving fails for whatever reasons. We had that more often at the beginning but it calmed down quite well. In that case, just upload the image manually at the new location (and name the original author). poke | talk 18:49, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I was the one who uploaded it and i did also correct it after the first mistake so you might have been trying to fix something that i had just done maybe a minute or so before you, who knows Simzy 18:39, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Problem concerning a specific page that does not have a corresponding "talk" option

The login buttons, and retreive password buttons are so close together, and look so similar, that I have found myself getting new passwords sent to me on several occasions - - sorry, it's me who is making the mistake- but that page could be modified a tad to make login, and the hastle of retrieving creating a new password easier. Currently, it's an accident waiting to happen - and i frequently fall prey to it - especially when i'm in a hurry.

There is probably a better page to put this, but I'm so new to this that I didn't know where to go other than bug report. Thank you for your patience, Remoteluxuries 00:21, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

In all the browser I know of, you can press Enter to login while your cursor is in one of the text boxes. Hope that helps -Smurf 05:13, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Are you talking about Special:UserLogin? As far as I know, that is integral to the wiki software, and would require coding changes to the actual software, though it is feasible, I'm not sure how high a priority ArenaNet might give it. If you use the same computer, I would simply check the Remember Me box, and then you wouldn't have to log in each time you come here. -- Wyn talk 05:55, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Regarding his complaint about the two buttons close to each other and looking similar, we can easily add custom CSS to MediaWiki:Common.css to modify the appearance if we want to. -Smurf 06:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

True, and I'm hoping poke takes a look at this :P I suck at css. -- Wyn talk 06:43, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Skill icons disappearing

Is anyone else getting a problem with skill icons from the {{Skill Icon}} template not showing up? Here's a screenshot; the source page is here (scroll down to the Strength section). This is with Firefox 3.5.3 on WinXP. -- Hong 07:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm not having any problems. However, I do have this problem from time to time, I think it's a cache problem. - Mini Me 13:23, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Huh, clearing the cache seems to have fixed it. Move along everyone, nothing to see here.... -- Hong 18:17, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Loss of session data errors.

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I get these all the time when i save the edits i do. I have to do all the edits twice to get them through. It started right after the wiki update. Anyone else having problems like these? - J.P.Talk 19:22, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I get the same. I also get 'logged out' occasionally; after refreshing, it sometimes 'logs in' again. -- Brains12 \ talk 19:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

I got logged out once too. - J.P.Talk 20:04, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm having the same problem, it also sometimes says 'Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be recorded in this page's edit history.' occasionaly, although restarting firefox has fixed it for now C4K3 Talk 20:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Edit: It just logged me out while editing this page, so forgot about restarting firefox C4K3 Talk 20:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

I've never had them before, and I read this when I came on...Then when editing a page it decided to log-me-out-while-i-was-still-logged-in. ~Celestia 01:53, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm sure this has to do with the upgrade to 1.15.1 that was done. I have been able to resolve it by simply hitting my back button and retrying my save. -- Wyn talk 11:16, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

What's going on in this wiki?!

Some images won't upload propelly... Or is it just me? - J.P.Talk 19:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

My sig image seems to have disappeared :o --pling  19:58, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

(Or at least it did before I reuploaded it.) --pling  20:00, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Feedback is gone

Something has happened to the feedback namespace. The Feedback portal leads nowhere and all of the pages have been moved to the main namespace, with a colon preceding them. I tested this a few different ways, so I'm pretty sure it's not me... I would leave a message for Emily since this seems kinda high-priority (half the wiki is gone) but somebody protected her page.  :/ –Jette 17:28, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

That's because the namespace settings are gone. That way "Feedback:PAGE" is treated as a page inside the main namespace with the title "Feedback:PAGE", but in the database it only exists as "PAGE" in the Feedback namespace. So the pages are not lost, but just not accessible. poke | talk 17:41, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean "gone"? Any idea how it happened?

Note for Wyn: I'm not here to rush anyone, i'm just curious. - J.P.Talk 17:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Gone like gone :P Somebody has removed it, or uploaded an older file or commented it out or whatever. The settings are just gone :P poke | talk 18:01, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I'll have to make fun of Emily after it's fixed.  :3 I don't think the data is gone, though; I can see all the page data properly with the [diff] button. I assume something screwy happened and can be easily fixed, not a database corruption or anything. –Jette 18:18, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi guys! I'm escalating this now. Some changes were made to the site this morning to enable .svgs, so it's possible something else could have changed too. I'll keep you updated. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 19:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh great, it's my fault.  :/ Thanks though, now I can go dig up those old profession icons. –Jette 19:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

It's fixed. poke | talk 19:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Yep, sorry about that, guys. The issue came from a problem with one of the other extensions (so it actually technically wasn't all your fault, Jette :p), but it's been resolved now. If anyone notices any issues, please let me know right away. We apologize for the downtime...thanks for being patient :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 20:23, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Grasping Mask image cache

Hi, I've ran into a problem while moving images. I moved File:Grasping Mask default front.jpg to File:Grasping Mask m front.jpg and thought everything was fine, until Wyn told me that their was a problem with the cache and to try it later. I tried it again but got "Could not find file "$1". So I tried it again and now it's "A page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid. Please choose another name." but the page shows nothing but then the page says "No file by this name exists, but you can upload one" and the history shows that Wyn and I moved the pages (but recent changes and the move log don't). Wyn suggested to report it here and have the IT crew clear it. Alternatively I guess I could just upload the file in the new space and not bother the IT crew. Thanks! Wiki-username: Mystical Celestia (the top of the page told me to say it!) ~Celestia 04:51, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

That's a common error with the image moving tool, we cannot really avoid. You can easily identify it, when the actual content revisions were moved to the target page, but the source page still has all file revisions. If you see it happening, the only possibility to fix it is by re-uploading the file to the target page stating the original uploader in the upload text. Afterwards just tag the old page for deletion. poke | talk 14:15, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

BLOCKS

On my account there seems to be an annoying bug. Whenever someone gets blocked I seem to be affected by the block as well (the block is not intended for me). Seems that the IP gets blocked and I am unable to contribute properly. There was a discussion a while back but there hasn't seem to have a solution. Any idea?----Xtreme 17:36, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I thought this problem was on PvX, not GWW? -- pling 19:03, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes it is but I thought GWW was having the same problem..if not maybe they could help out anyway----Xtreme 20:30, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

This problem was fixed for us some time ago. I haven't seen any recurrences. -- Wandering Traveler 20:33, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

"I am unable to contribute properly" I lol'd. ---74.55.165.162 20:38, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

What was done to fix it?----Xtreme 21:17, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Please don't use this page if you don't actually report bugs about this wiki. If you have problems with pvx, you should rather get the system adminitrators on Wikia review your problem because the described problem is a server-side problem. poke | talk 22:19, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Okay thank you have a nice day----Xtreme 11:24, 10 November 2009 (UTC)