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Wiki not resolving templates.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:43 am
by 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
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:57 am
by 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
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:05 pm
by 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 .
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:53 pm
by sem
How will that affect the 'Recent Database Changes' pages? Will the information be lost, or will it be regenerated?
Just curious.
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:27 am
by 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)
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:14 am
by Tangential
=\ i have a feeling that Chris's message at the top of wiki has been tampered with..
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:57 am
by ceselb
Yes, someone is spamming heavily.
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:30 am
by Chris Johnson
Noted .. I've tracked the user and will send them an in-game message
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:51 am
by 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?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:19 am
by 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