Ack, I meant to send this to the tech list. Ok, this bug is getting real annoying. I just found out that it was the whole cause of why my Sync bots were not working, and I spent hours doing debugging I had no need to do.
There is a bug in the setup Wikia uses to redirect wiki. ie: language variants. For example where en.ghostintheshell.wikia.com redirects to ghostintheshell.wikia.com because the wiki was moved. The redirect works fine for /wiki urls: So: http://en.ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Characters Nicely redirects to: http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Characters But the redirect system is absolutely and completely broken for any url which uses the /index.php?title= form. So: http://en.ghostintheshell.wikia.com/index.php?title=Characters Breaks and redirects you to: http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com which leads to http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page When it was supposed to redirect to: http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/index.php?title=Characters Why is this an issue? CSS links, JavaScript links, and bot links. Lets move over to the Animepedia for an example for CSS and JS. I have a global CSS file which a number of wiki include: http://anime.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Anime-Common.css The form they import with with is: @import "http://anime.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Anime-Common.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&templates=expand";; However, this is after a move from en.anime to anime. The wiki used to be en.anime.wikia.com, and every last wiki was using the old url at that point. So the forms were all: @import "http://en.anime.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Anime-Common.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&templates=expand";; As you'll see if you go there, that now redirects to the main page of the Animepedia. What would have happened if I had not changed en.anime to anime on half a dozen wiki? Every last use of the shared CSS would have broken just because we had the url of the wiki improved to the new common format. And as for bot links... That was particularly annoying. My ghostintheshell family file was still using the old 'en.ghostintheshell.wikia.com' form, which later changed to ghostintheshell.wikia.com without me knowing at that point to change my family file. Thing is, because of this broken redirect system, every time that pywikipediabot tried to look for the MediaWiki messages at: http://en.ghostintheshell.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&redirect=no&ot=php It got the wiki's main page instead of http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&redirect=no&ot=php which it should have got. Because of this I got a message from the framework saying that it could not find any messages on the Allmessages page, and as a result my sync bot was completely broken and I had no way to find out what the issue was, short of editing the wikipedia.py file and doing a bunch if painful debugging just to find out what the output was and what it was looking for. Thing is, this should have never had happened, because the url was a good one, and should have just redirected to the correct page. -- ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com) _______________________________________________ Wikia-tech-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-tech-l
