Wiki not resolving templates.

[ceselb]

Wiki is broken.
Example: http://www.cantr.net/mwiki/index.php/Coal_oven is not showing the trowel template inline in the infobox anymore, it's just blank.
http://www.cantr.net/mwiki/index.php/Template:Trowel

[Chris Johnson]

A user seems to have accidently created a Template:If which breaks the If| |then construction used in Infoboxes - Deletion of this tenmplate still breaks this I will try to rollback all edits made by the user to see if that clears things up - In the mean time I've removed the If construction for the Infobox:Manufacture Tools section which fixes this for Objects but the same contruction is used in many other Infoboxes - All now broken

[Chris Johnson]

This doesn't clear the issue

I will have to restore the wiki database files back to their state on 25th July - This will not be done for a few days .

[sem]

How will that affect the 'Recent Database Changes' pages? Will the information be lost, or will it be regenerated?

Just curious.

[Chris Johnson]

They will be saved and then re-edited

I will also post a copy of all Recent changes which will be lost (just the titles as on the Recent Changes not the actual changes)

[Tangential]

=\ i have a feeling that Chris's message at the top of wiki has been tampered with..

[ceselb]

Yes, someone is spamming heavily.

[Chris Johnson]

Noted .. I've tracked the user and will send them an in-game message

[ceselb]

Great. Further, how can a template suddenly become corrupt like this?
Is it a db issue that corrupted the history and prevented rollback?
Is it vandalism or user error? (In that case why can't it be rolled back)?
If neither, why is it happening now and not before? What can be done to prevent this from happening again?

EDIT: Oh, and will the changes be kept or should I copy the ones I made yesterday to a textfile on my end or something?

[Chris Johnson]

The wiki has now been rolled back

The issue is the Mediawiki software which corrupted the database - it was not vandalism , nor the database server itself . because of the nature of the corruption and the way in which the Wiki software precaches and re-analyses existing entries meant that the only only rollback possible was the full rollback to a date before the corruption - a rollback individual edits was tried but did not fix this issue.

We can look to upgrading the s/w to a higher version - but I have found no indication that this issue has been fixed yet.

A list of missing edits has been posted on the wiki for reference