Editing Encyclopedia:Parser bug reports (section)

=== Case-insensitive wiki's ===
(2002/5/30) I note that the [[ sytax for internal links requires proper capitalization. I like my capitalization to be "proper" and thus use the | syntax all the time to allow the link to work. This is all the more frustrating because many of the entries have incorrect capitalization.

This could all be fixed if the wiki's were case-insensitive in the same way the search is. Or am I missing something obvious?

MSM

:I copied this to bug reports, because I'm ''pretty'' sure it's new behaviour. -- [[user:Marj Tiefert|Marj Tiefert]], Thursday, May 30, 2002

:No, it's always worked like that so far as I know. Some of the non-English wikis have been on a really ugly system whereby Every Word In A Title Had Its First Letter Capitalized Like This Which Is Really Fricking Annoying And I Am Really Glad That We're Getting Rid Of It There Because Oh-Man-Oh-Man It's Ugly Isn't It? But we haven't had that here on the English wiki, thank goodness; it's case-sensitive except for the very first letter of a title, which is always capitalized in the title and can be either way in a link (ie, [[Asteroid]] and [[asteroid]] are the same article). Certainly it's been that way at least since mid-January when I got here. If you want your capitalization proper, please fix the articles that have inproper capitalization. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]

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'''Backslashes don't display''', Wednesday, May 29, 2002

See [[Blackboard_bold]] for two examples. This is a new bug, since they used to work. --[[user:Zundark|Zundark]], Wednesday, May 29, 2002

:This is an instance of the cache bug: the displayed page was not the current page, but an old cached version. Re-saving the page fixed the problem. [[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]], Wednesday, May 29, 2002

::[[ASCII]], on the other hand, is an actual instance of backslashes not displaying. I've fixed it twice now. Each time, the backslash displays immediately after saving the page, but if I then reload the page the backslash goes away again. [[user:Bryan Derksen|Bryan Derksen]], Wednesday, May 29, 2002

::I can't find a description of the cache bug at the moment, but your (Axel's) description appears to be wrong. Re-saving the page had no effect, it only made it look as if the problem was fixed because you were no longer seeing a cached version. Reload/refresh the page and the backslashes will disappear again. See [[Eigenvector]] and [[Matrix]] for some particularly obvious examples. --[[user:Zundark|Zundark]], Sunday, June 9, 2002

:::Correct, saving a page in cache stripped backslashes. It's now fixed in CVS. [[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]], Sunday, June 9, 2002

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'''Several asterisks in a row will prevent linewraps (or increase the linewrap length considerably?)''' [[user:Koyaanis Qatsi|Koyaanis Qatsi]], Monday, April 8, 2002

See the history of [[Talk:Terrists]] for an example.  I doubt this is a common issue, though, since most of us use four dashes.  :-)

:This is not a bug, so I'm going to move this to the "fixed" site.  Asterisks at the start of a line are used by the wiki software to make bullet lists, which can be nested.  A row of, say, 20 asterisks is asking the software to make 20 nested bullet lists, and it does so correctly.  It fails to wrap lines because bullet lists are indented, and when you ask for 20 indents, that line becomes very long to accommodate them, and it takes the rest of the page with it.  In short, DON'T DO THAT, because it's not ever going to change. -- [[user:Lee Daniel Crocker|Lee Daniel Crocker]]

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'''Table positioned between two paragraphs displays at bottom of page'''<br>
''(possibly related to above bug??)'' Wednesday, April 10, 2002

If you look at the table in [[Talk:High_German]], you'll see that instead of appearing between the two paragraphs of my note, it leaves a "close table" tag where the table belongs and puts the table at the end of the page.  I've double-checked my table code for errors, and can't find any.  I've also tried just making one big table, with the first and last paragraphs in their own table rows, but the problem persists.  Is this a bug, or am I having a Stupid Attack™? [[user:pgdudda|pgdudda]]
:You're missing a &lt;/center&gt; tag; it looks okay after I added that in. But that did trigger a bug in the parser that caused it to eat the table instead of the center tag... I'll try to fix that, but in the meantime, uh, don't do that. :) [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Wednesday, April 10, 2002

::Oh, so I *was* having a Stupid Attack&trade;, but at least my Stupid Attack helped uncover another bug.  Thanks!  :-)  [[user:pgdudda|pgdudda]] Thursday, April 11, 2002


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'''Linking error 2/25/02'''

Oregon consititution had several articles with multiple spaces in them - so the link was [[Article II  (two spaces before this) title here]] instead of [[Article II title here]] and the link resolves to different locations.
[[justrob|Rob Salzman]]
:Hmm, I think this is semi-fixed. Anyone still seeing these kinds of errors? [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Friday, April 19, 2002
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