Wikipedia:Bugzilla

Equation Editing

I found some nifty software that converts TeX equations into real HTML like this:

å p(xi )logq(xi ) - å p(xi )logp(xi ) = å p(xi )log q(xi ) p(xi )

Unfortunately, as you can see, the wiki software seems to be munging the HTML so that things don't come out right. Also, as you can see, the results have the potential to be FAR nicer than the hand-typed alternatives.

Does anybody understand what is happening and how to fix it? Having the ability to insert real equations using HTML only would be a god-send on many topics.

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Redirects and canonized names: (fixed for next release)

I think maybe the redirect might not be canonizing capitalization. See for instance Computer games, which when I looked at it pointed to computer game and went to that page - not to Computer game, which it should have.

At this time (March 31, 2001) the canonization code is very incomplete on Wikipedia. This is one of the unhandled cases. The fix for this and several other cases is in the development UseModWiki code, which I hope to release (as 0.92) by mid-late April 2001 (CE :-). See Wiki Canonization for more details. --CliffordAdams

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Insecure logins

I don't know if you would call this a bug..but it sure is an [Identity Crisis] because I am not CliffordAdams.. Not to mention an authorship problem...CliffordAdams.

I don't see a problem. --Napoleon Bonaparte  :-)

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Links that do not work:

OK - this is weird. I fixed the American football link in Johnny Unitas, it forwards to the new page, but it will not show up as a link.

Right now (April 4, 2001), you have to use the same upper/lowercase letters in free links as the target page. (The first letter can be lowercase, but all the others must match.) This means that American Football (capital-F Football) will not currently match American football (lowercase f). This is considered a bug, and it will be fixed in 0.92 (sometime in April 2001). --CliffordAdams (ID 1675. I am not a free man--I am a number!)

There is also a caching problem where links sometimes do not show as active although there have been articles written for them. To make the links show up, make a change to the page that the link is on and then save the edit. Changes that merely add or remove spaces do not work, but any other edits do. But please do not convert the spaces in the link to underscores, as doing so prevents that linked term from showing in a search. (That is, if you're searching for references to "Puerto Rico," the search results will not include any occurrences of "Puerto_Rico.")

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More links that do not work / more canonization problems

(BTW (Parentheses work well..))

I dont know if its a problem of canonization but

I typed 'Städte in Deutschland', and this created 'Städte In Deutschland'

and didn't link to it. I had to relink it with Städte In Deutschland. (In capitalized)

StefanRybo

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No "Random Page" link

I have "Show Random Page Link" set in my preferences, but the link shows up on same pages and not in others. I can't find any pattern; it seems to be missing about a third of the time.

This is related to the caching problems above. The caching code is extremely simple--it just prints a complete HTML page saved by a prior user. If the first user (who generated the cached copy of the page) didn't have the random-page option on, the cached copy will not contain the random-page link. Hopefully this behavior will be improved in a future release. --CliffordAdams

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Slow searches

I'm wondering: just why is Wikipedia so slow, anyway?

(The above might also be discussed on Wikipedia-L.)

Given the brute-force searching done by the code, I'm rather impressed with the speed of Wikipedia. --CliffordAdams

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Pages without the standard bits at top

In the last two days, I've had three pages display with no "HomePage | RecentChanges | Preferences | Random Page

You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project" at the top. The pages open with the title of the article, which you can click on to find occurrences of that word in other articles, followed immediately by the article's text. The pages that have displayed like this so far are Abdul Alhazred/Talk on June 5 at ~8:18a.m. Wikiserver time, Mathijs on June 6 at ~6:35 a.m. Wikitime, and Abdul Alhazred/Talk again at the same time. Just wondering what's going on. It may not be a serious problem but it's clearly a bug. --KoyaanisQatsi

It happened again today, June 13, at ~1:40 pm wikitime on the Explorers page. I've since alphabetized that page and the headers have reappeared, so I'm guessing it's some sort of caching problem. But I did try the page in Netscape, IE, and Opera before editing it, and all three showed the same page, so it's not browser-specific or a caching problem on my end. --KQ

Also it's happened to Vesalius, Boerhaave, Mondino, and Dejima Thurs June 28 8:59 a.m. wikiserver time--four of the five pages added between 7:30 and 8:00 that morning by Mathijs--what kind of configuration error in the server might cause that? If you edit the page and save, the error corrects itself. I haven't done it yet. But Siebold shows up fine. Go figure. --KQ

This is probably the same kind of problem explained above in the "No Random Page Link" section. --CliffordAdams

You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project

This line is missing in the German version on top of the page.

Maybe its better for people to have it on top - esspecially in this build up phase.

Or have set up preferences wrong?? --StefanRybo

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Example: Nitroglycerine. Compare the source with the appearance. Is something wrong. (At the time i make this complaint, there is no such article. This may matter.)

This is intentional. The first letter of all pages (and the first letter of subpages) should be capitalized, and the wiki should force capitalization if it is entered in lowercase. Unfortunately, the 0.90 version has a few ways that lowercase pages can slip in--they are fixed in 0.92. (All pages will be capitalized when the conversion occurs.) --CliffordAdams

Is REDIRECT lowerCase one of these, since I've had the odd bother with this (as opposed to REDIRECT LowerCase)