User talk:Yaron Koren/Archive 2011 to 2012

What is your timezone?
I'm in Brazil and need to know the times convenient for me communicate with you.

Answer me through my talk page please. Ha! See "notes for my work" at User:Alexandre. Utils categories...

Alexandre 19:51, February 2, 2011 (EST)

Read, pls
Sorry Mr. K., for my strong expression, shouldn't have been on your site. Of course, your service is not bad, but me (and some other users probably, too) are a bit irritated from your lag of replying and hope to read more of you in the future. I know that managing a site such as referata AND coding semantic extensions is a hard job, but there are lots of open requests where you have not even replied to. I hope you now understand what was going on, that had no bad meaning, not to you and not to wikiworks. --Dennis07 14:55, February 15, 2011 (EST)


 * Hi - I'm sorry about not responding to stuff; I do feel bad about it. In general, I haven't responded when I couldn't think of any specific thing to say about the question or request - but still, I should at least acknowledge that I read it. I'll try to do that more. Yaron Koren 16:29, February 15, 2011 (EST)


 * Thx ;) --Dennis07 21:39, February 18, 2011 (EST)

Question about loading speed of my site
Hello Mr. Koren, can you tell me why my site most times is loading and loading ut could not be accessed? This happens only with the mow-wiki not with my wiki-database or with the referata main site. I know that my site is one of the most visited (if not even the most visited) referata site, but is there a way to improve the loading speed of it? I thought this had been over since you booked new traffic space to your website, but as it seems, this is not over. My site only has got ~37K Pageviews per week, this should be no problem for a normal website. Other wiki farms do not have this problem but they have ads, thats why i have chosen referata. But it is the wrong decision while my site is unavailible for the users and for me. I hope you are able to solve it soon. Cheers; --Dennis07 06:15, February 21, 2011 (EST)


 * The number of page views doesn't affect it - that is, traffic affects all the wikis equally. It could have been slower because you have some images and widgets and such - although now it looks like the speed is fine; maybe it was just a temporary issue. Yaron Koren 15:06, February 21, 2011 (EST)


 * Yes, its temporary, but it seems to be nearly every day several times for some time... And widgets i have pugged in only one in each page, but thx. --Dennis07 12:32, February 22, 2011 (EST)

Problem with Time-Zone on all Referata.com Sites
Hello Mr. Koren, Since (I think it was near the time you...) ugraded MediaWiki to 1.16.1, there is a problem with the time zones:

Every Referata-Site is fixed on the time zone of your server, thats why it is allways called EST in signatures. Most sites, especially international ones run with GMT, not with any US-American time.

Also if the wiki user uses GMT+0 and the wiki admin defined an offset of 0 from the GMT, there is allways this EST in signatures. This is very misleading because the page history tells another story than the signature.

Could the be fixed, pls? ;) --Dennis07 14:15, February 23, 2011 (EST)

Merge users please
Hello! Merge user "Alexandre" with user "Alexandre Magno" please. I am they. I want "Alexandre". Alexandre Magno 21:33, February 28, 2011 (EST)


 * Yaron can only rename a user account, he is not able to merge multiple user accounts on one site. --Dennis07 07:19, March 1, 2011 (EST)


 * Hi - actually, I can do a merge - I think I just did it. Yaron Koren 11:45, March 1, 2011 (EST)


 * Sorry, Mr. Koren, but how did you do that, if I can ask? Sorry, I did not know that is possible... --Dennis07 17:15, March 1, 2011 (EST)


 * There's an extension on Referata that allows it - you can get to the page by clicking "Merge and delete users" from the "Admin links" page. Yaron Koren 18:30, March 1, 2011 (EST)


 * Ah... I saw that... But what I do not understand: There are 2 Logs: User Merge Log and Merge Log. What is the other one good for? --Dennis07 12:20, March 3, 2011 (EST)


 * That one I don't know. Yaron Koren 12:44, March 3, 2011 (EST)


 * You mean you do not see it or that you do not know what it is good for? Bacause maybe it as a faeture of another entension which we have not noticed... I will browse for that ... cheers; --Dennis07 22:33, March 5, 2011 (EST)

Skins question
Hi Yaron. I'm just wondering if we can make our own custom skins (as in, completely from scratch, like this wiki's). Or is that something only you can do? Also, would it be possible to get the because the code that User:Heecf wrote on your page appeared in there. Thank you Takharii 00:13, March 8, 2012 (EST)
 * Hello Takhari, this user (Heecf) is alsready blocked for some time because of a spam attack. Please notice that "suspicion of spamming" is not a reason for a permanent ban, but as the user was already involved in an self-caused attack, he is permanently banned. If you are not sure whether a user is alsready banned you may look up in the public public logs, on the contributions page or on the user page. Please report any spam-concerning stuff to me, not to Yaron who is mainly occupied with other things of Referata. Thank you; --Dennis (Administrator) 17:10, March 12, 2012 (EDT)

UTC

 * what not use UTC in the default?--Msnhinet8 08:35, March 12, 2012 (EDT)
 * Hello Msnhinet, I and probably all others are unable to understand your question. --Dennis (Administrator) 13:20, March 20, 2012 (EDT)

MediaWiki update to v1.18.2
Hello Mr. Koren, A new version of MediaWiki is availible for download. It is a security release which solves several problems and lags with the software. Thanks; --Dennis (Administrator) 05:52, March 23, 2012 (EDT)


 * Thanks for letting me know about that - I just updated the software. Yaron Koren 23:52, March 26, 2012 (EDT)

Files
Just making sure you get the message that when I attempt to upload files on my wiki I get an error "error storing file in '/tmp/php9iPgb1.png': upload_directory_missing; /home/yaron57/public_html/w/images/tennis-info". I did also leave a message on Talk:Main Page. Afro 08:52, April 9, 2012 (EDT)


 * Yeah - I just responded there. Yaron Koren 20:02, April 9, 2012 (EDT)

File

 * I choose Basic service,The one wiki how much upload file?--Msnhinet8 04:29, April 14, 2012 (EDT)


 * 100 MB altogether. Yaron Koren 20:19, April 24, 2012 (EDT)

No, the limit is 100 MB. Yaron Koren 10:47, April 25, 2012 (EDT)
 * so upload file is unlimited?--Msnhinet8 02:21, April 25, 2012 (EDT)
 * ok,I known,thanks.--Msnhinet8 20:38, April 25, 2012 (EDT)

User talk timezone by default

 * Please set the timezone of my wiki to be CST timezone by default.--Msnhinet8 01:37, April 15, 2012 (EDT)
 * Thank you.--Msnhinet8 01:37, April 15, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi - sorry for the delay. You can set that for yourself in "Site settings", in the field "Hours offset from GMT". Yaron Koren 20:18, April 24, 2012 (EDT)


 * ok,i,know.--Msnhinet8 02:14, April 25, 2012 (EDT)
 * Thanks.--Msnhinet8 02:16, April 25, 2012 (EDT)

MediaWiki update to v1.18.3
Hello Mr. Koren, There is a new version availible with fixes some bugs.

Cheers; --Dennis (Administrator) 15:53, April 26, 2012 (EDT)


 * Thanks for letting me know! I just upgraded the code. Yaron Koren 22:40, April 29, 2012 (EDT)

Namespace creation request
At some point, I would like to create several new namespaces on WikiSevton, which I just started about two hours ago. Character:, Place:, Brand:, Word:, Phrase:, Family: and Paragraph: are the initial fields that fall into the scope of this project.

I'm not sure how to go about it myself, though; there's no indication of such a process on the main Referata itself. Or do I have to wait on the developers/admins? --Routhwick 06:18, May 1, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi Routhwick, You cannot create own namespaces on Referata sites at the momment. This issue has been asked to be introduced several times, but there is not ability yet to create custom name spaces. --Dennis (Administrator) 09:16, May 1, 2012 (EDT)


 * Sorry, it will be possible soon or users interested in such have to post a specific request? Tx, --Nevinho 11:09, May 1, 2012 (EDT)


 * Thank you, guys. Special:Namespaces is not only showing up on my site, but also on another that I checked a few minutes ago.
 * At the same time, though, the Project: prefix keeps changing from its native name to another in Referata's network. Did the shake-up bite into it? Not that I'm complaining much. --Routhwick 18:48, May 1, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi - yes, prompted by this little flurry of requests, I finally tried to install the SpecialNamespaces extension yesterday. It did create the Special:Namespaces page, but it didn't actually work - creating new namespaces with that page didn't seem to have any effect on the set of namespaces within the wiki. And it had the strange and unfortunate side effect of changing the "Project:" namespace alias, as Routhwick noticed. Given both of those things, I decided to disable the extension earlier today. I'll try to look into it again, but I'm not that confident about being able to use this extension on Referata. Yaron Koren 09:12, May 2, 2012 (EDT)

Error
I'm getting a huge error when it comes to my Flag templates. Afro (talk) 15:15, May 4, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi, yes - there's been a problem with the display of images since the upgrade of Referata to MediaWiki 1.19 last night - I hope to have it fixed soon. Sorry about that. Yaron Koren (talk) 15:22, May 4, 2012 (EDT)
 * It appears to be fixed soon. No worries. Afro 13:41, May 5, 2012 (EDT)
 * I still get an error, and also as seen here the system seems to create some kind of extra border around some of my images. Afro 21:05, May 13, 2012 (EDT)


 * I assume you're talking about the missing "N/A" image? Which images have a border around them, though? I don't see any. Yaron Koren 11:30, May 14, 2012 (EDT)
 * All those images have a border around them. usually its just a light line around the image as shown on Metz, but for some reason this comes up as a purple thicker line, like it has 2 borders around it. Afro 13:51, May 14, 2012 (EDT)


 * Just to clarify - is it just the border around the "N/A" image that's a problem, or also the border around the "Metz" image? Yaron Koren 13:51, May 15, 2012 (EDT)
 * I added the Metz as an example of what it usually looks like, sorry for the confusion. Afro 14:55, May 15, 2012 (EDT)


 * Okay. It looks like your file "Flag of None" was accidentally deleted, probably during the failed upgrade. Sorry about that. I would recommend re-uploading that file, if it's not too much trouble; I think that will fix the display. Yaron Koren 15:33, May 15, 2012 (EDT)
 * It's not file specific though, it was the quickest example I could find on my wiki. Afro 03:14, May 16, 2012 (EDT)
 * Seems all my files were lost in the move. Afro 03:15, May 16, 2012 (EDT)


 * Yikes! I'm very sorry about that. The aborted changeover to MW 1.19 caused some images to be deleted on some wikis, though I didn't realize it had happened to all of yours. It looks like the thumbnails are almost all still there, though that's not entirely the same. I hope that this doesn't cause a major problem. Unfortunately, I don't think the deleted images can be restored. Yaron Koren 14:48, May 16, 2012 (EDT)
 * To correct it was most images, about 100 images were deleted, which are now sorted and the purple border still remains, so the deleted images weren't the cause. Afro 17:06, May 16, 2012 (EDT)
 * By the way it isn't just limited to one page For example the border around Sweden is purple. Afro 18:45, May 19, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi - I'm not seeing a purple border around the Sweden flag, on any of the browsers I tried on Windows. What browser are you seeing it with? Yaron Koren 10:15, May 21, 2012 (EDT)
 * I'm using Chrome, and this is what I see as a comparison clear different border around the first. Afro 13:15, May 21, 2012 (EDT)

SMW messages aren't displaying any links
I've already customised a handful of system messages on WikiSevton relating to the SMW system. But one of them, Anoneditwarning, is now irking me the most. Though it displays correctly on edit forms like this one (when viewed by visitors), the wikilinks and external links will refuse to do so in this semantic form.

Though I've tried getting around it with several parser tweaks, and looking at the page's source code with IE's F12 tools, I don't understand why all that raw code must taint the page. I really don't know why. Can you give an explanation (and hopefully a solution)? --Routhwick 19:23, May 11, 2012 (EDT)


 * That definitely looks like a bug. Let me put on my developer hat, instead of my administrator hat, and ask you to please submit a bug report about this at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org - it will make it easier to keep track of and ultimately fix this bug. Yaron Koren 23:08, May 12, 2012 (EDT)


 * I've gotten to that now. --Routhwick (talk) 02:28, November 30, 2012 (UTC)

New pages
Hi Yaron, What do you think about creating seperate pages for bug reports and questions about referata? That would keep your talk page clean of general stuff and it would increase the overview and research of information and help for users. What do you think about that? --Dennis (Administrator) 03:54, May 21, 2012 (EDT)


 * That's a good idea - a "Bug reports" page would be great, and a "Questions" page might make sense - though for the second one, maybe Talk:Main Page already works for that? Yaron Koren 10:18, May 21, 2012 (EDT)


 * Yea, "Talk:Main Page" is definitely the current "Questions" page, even if there are also other kinds of issues. Normally I would say this is an abuse of the talk page, because it is for the Main Page by default, but I dont see a reason to change that, either. The Main Page is protected and there is no reason for a user to talk about the page itself. By the way - I will improve the FAQ page this weekend, if I get time for that. There are some infos missing which might interest users. Cheers; --Dennis (Administrator) 08:32, May 24, 2012 (EDT)

I can't login
Hi!

Some months ago I changed the configuration of my site, now I can't login anymore to my account. It says "the site allows only OpenID Logins".

My site is: http://latinopedia.referata.com

--Andrey 15:44, June 3, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi - I just changed your site's registration back to the default, so now you should be able to log in normally. Yaron Koren 10:25, June 4, 2012 (EDT)

Thank you! :D --Andrey 14:13, June 4, 2012 (EDT)

Last revision
Is there anyway to get a list like Pages with Fewest Revisions together to show you when the last edit on a certain page was? Afro 12:19, June 14, 2012 (EDT)
 * Nevermind I just found it. Afro 12:25, June 14, 2012 (EDT)

Error on the statistics
On Oldest pages it says I have 5320 pages. On my statistics it says I have 4824 pages, why does this error appear? Afro 17:56, June 16, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi - that's because MediaWiki has a different counting for "content pages"; it doesn't count pages that are very short, including redirects. Yaron Koren 11:02, June 17, 2012 (EDT)
 * Ok, well no redirects should be listed there anyway, what does it count as "very short"? any specific number of bytes? Afro 16:14, June 17, 2012 (EDT)


 * This page provides more explanation - I guess it's not based on the length. Yaron Koren 16:26, June 17, 2012 (EDT)
 * Thanks for the info, I know at least how to add a minor improvement now. Afro 17:04, June 17, 2012 (EDT)

Mass Deletion
Hey Yaron, I'd thought I'd let you know that there are a few pages up for deletion Thanks, LoopyMan56 12:14, July 28, 2012 (EDT)


 * Hi, Thanks LoopyMan. I posted on the author's talk page to force him moving his work to Scratchpad. I suggest to report vandalism and spam to me (using my talk page), this will make the software send me an email about changes there. It is difficult to watch this site continuesly, and Yaron does not have time to fight vandalism so often. Thank you! --Dennis (Administrator) 16:58, July 30, 2012 (EDT)

TOC
What's happening with the Table of Contents, usually it'd be spread out according to how long the longest header was but nowadays for example here it seems to condense the first sign of a space. Afro 23:41, August 2, 2012 (EDT)


 * That sounds like just a change in MediaWiki - I don't have any control over that sort of thing. Yaron Koren 10:06, August 3, 2012 (EDT)
 * Ok was just running it by you. Also I know it was a while back I mentioned it but I found a way to show and hide tables in case any other users you come across are interested Manual:Collapsible elements, since I remember you saying you didn't know of any way to do it. Afro 11:36, August 3, 2012 (EDT)

Problem
Hi Yaron, I seem to be having some trouble. When I choose to change my site name, my new site's images don't work properly. Like this:

celebimail.referata.com (changed to) fanstuff2.referata.com

The images at celebimail work, but not fanstuff2. Here is the error I get.

Fatal error: Call to a member function setFile on a non-object in /home/yaron57/public_html/w/extensions/WikiGarden/includes/WG_Utils.php on line 233

Same thing happened to my referata site.   16:20, August 12, 2012 (EDT)
 * Never mind. It's back to normal. yay!    23:20, August 17, 2012 (EDT)


 * Yeah, that was a temporary problem in the code - sorry about that. Yaron Koren 21:21, August 19, 2012 (EDT)

MediaWiki Upgrade
Hi Mr. Koren, I see that Dennis reminds you of updates for Referata, and I found that MediaWiki version 19 is available now, so I decided to tell you that. Thanks,    11:24, September 5, 2012 (EDT)


 * That's right. Thank you, Loopyman. I haven't visited the MW site for a couple of months, so I did not know about the update. Cheers; --Dennis (Administrator) 15:01, September 5, 2012 (EDT)

Spam
Hi Yaron, there is more spam... Celulareswiki    23:34, September 16, 2012 (EDT)
 * Hello Mr. Koren, there is more spam... If it is the same IP address for all this spam, maybe you can block it.    11:16, September 18, 2012 (EDT)
 * It's not the same IP address, but I'm trying out some different anti-spam approaches; hopefully something will work. Thanks for your help! Yaron Koren 16:40, September 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * Your welcome!    16:47, September 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, sorry for my inactivity in the recent past, I had to do a lot of work. I just found some time to eleminate the left spam elements and all later spam attampts. I hope this will bring us some break now... cheers; --Dennis (Administrator) 12:21, September 25, 2012 (UTC)

can't site
I can't success create a site,what' happen?--Msnhinet8 00:43, September 25, 2012 (UTC)
 * You can watching my wiki this:電視--Msnhinet8 00:45, September 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * What happens when you try to create the site? Yaron Koren 02:16, September 25, 2012 (UTC)
 * Create wiki, the view garbled.--Msnhinet8 04:02, September 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Msnhinet8, When you create a new site, this site has to be initialized by Google first. This may take up to a few days since the Google bot has to create a copy of the site on the Google servers. If your site is not visible correctly within the next days, you might contact Google support. --Dennis (Administrator) 12:16, September 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you paste here the text of the error message you get, instead of doing a screen shot of it? Yaron Koren 13:46, September 25, 2012 (UTC)
 * ok,I can.--Msnhinet8 03:06, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much.--Msnhinet8 03:07, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * but,I can not enter I create good new wiki.--Msnhinet8 07:43, September 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * You can help me?--Msnhinet8 07:44, September 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * You need help on creating a new wiki? See this page. --Dennis (Administrator) 12:46, September 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 我是說我無法進入我已經申請好的wiki，我一開啟我一申請的wiki，首頁就什麼都沒有，就連新wiki的首頁也無法進入. -- Msnhinet8 13:00, September 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * Is there an error message? Yaron Koren 13:42, September 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes.--Msnhinet8 23:42, September 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * 我進入我的wiki時它出現了這個:糟糕！ 此連結已毀損. --Msnhinet8 23:44, September 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * So, do you mean that when you type the URL for your wiki, you get a 404 error?    23:59, September 27, 2012 (UTC)
 * yes.--Msnhinet8 00:06, September 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm... I can't think of why that is happening. I visited your wiki, and it came up. Are you typing "www." before the url for your wiki?    01:36, September 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, try visiting your site again. This error happens with my wiki too some times. When it happens wait like 2-5 minutes before refreshing. I think it has to do with the servers.    01:41, September 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * 不好意思LoopyMan56我不太懂英文，sorry,I can little english.--Msnhinet8 09:46, September 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * 这没关系. 但是，如果我理解正确的话，你可以不告诉我说英语. 幸运的是，我有一个自动翻译. 这可能听起来切碎了的，但希望你能得到点. 下面是我上面贴的消息：

其实，再次尝试访问您的网站. 发生此错误与我的wiki过一些时间. 当它发生时，如2-5分钟刷新前. 我认为这是做与服务器.   15:40, September 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * 瞭解，可是我不知道Yaron Koren先生會不會修復並處理這一方面的問題耶?--Msnhinet8 00:47, September 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Stop that! Only speak English here! Noone here can read Chinese, so please stop writing it. --Dennis (Administrator) 20:31, September 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * ok,I Understand ,thanks.--Msnhinet8 00:06, September 30, 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki update 1.19.2
Hi Yaron, A new version of MediaWiki, not to say even several new versions of MediaWiki have been released since the last update. I suggest to update MediaWiki soon to version 1.19.2 which is the latest release. Cheers; --Dennis (Administrator) 12:37, September 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * That's a good idea, and it's definitely on my to-do list. Yaron Koren 13:47, September 25, 2012 (UTC)

Speecial:Export
Hi Mr. Koren, I am the only one at my wiki, and I want to disable Special:Export so that only administrators can export data, so that somebody doesn't come along and steal all of my hard work. (So that they can't make another wiki and just import everything). Do you know how to do that? Thanks,    17:48, September 25, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello LoopyMan, you cannot restrict special pages without editing the page source as requires FTP rights, not granted for Referata users (not even for me ;[, that's why i always have to ask Yaron to update the software and cannot do that by myself^^). All you are able to do is to hide it in the list. First, remove any links to it from anywhere (ie. the sidebar). Then edit the MediaWiki:Common.css page and add the a certain code. Another idea would be the installation of Extension:DisableSpecialPages by Yaron, but this seems almost impossible to get (if you want to suggest that, feel free in doing it here). See also: Manual:Preventing access#Restricting exporting. --Dennis (Administrator) 18:42, September 25, 2012 (UTC)

Free unlimited image hosting
Could you please change it to that? Other wikis (Wikipedia, Wikia, etc.) play it like that... Diddy Kong Pilot (talk) 14:22, October 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, both of those sites have a lot more money than Referata does. :) Yaron Koren (talk) 17:19, October 7, 2012 (UTC)

Interlanguage

 * How can I Interlanguage in my wiki?--Msnhinet8 (talk) 06:16, October 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * Do you mean, have links like in Wikipedia, that show up in the sidebar? Or something else? Yaron Koren (talk) 16:13, October 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes,links like in wikipedia,that show up in the sidebar.--Msnhinet8 (talk) 01:23, October 18, 2012 (UTC)
 * How can I do?--Msnhinet8 (talk) 10:14, October 18, 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Trouble
On the Homestar Runner Fanstuff Wiki 2 (a Referata wiki I'm on), whenever I try to see a userpage or a talk page it says: Fatal error: Cannot access protected property LocalFile::$url in /home/yaron57/public_html/w/extensions/WikiGarden/includes/WG_Utils.php on line 244 &mdash; Yummy Fruit  Salad  23:51, October 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oops - this was due to the recent upgrade to MediaWiki 1.19. I believe the issue is fixed now; thanks for letting me know. Yaron Koren (talk) 02:23, October 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yup, the problem is fixed now. &mdash; Yummy Fruit  Salad  22:11, November 1, 2012 (UTC)

Errors
I noticed this morning a few of my files went missing and some of my maintenance pages don't work. Afro (talk) 18:02, October 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, that was an upgrade issue. There is almost no way to get your file(s) back which were lost by that. I had the same problem several times. I recommend to store all files of your wiki seperately on another website or at your PC, until this bug is solved. --Dennis (Administrator) 19:57, October 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * There were problems with some accidentally-deleted files a few months ago, but it shouldn't be happening any more. What are the files? Yaron Koren (talk) 01:17, October 28, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, I always get this problem on my site after a software update. I think it has to have something to do with it. I got this problem several times, an example would be ease to find on my site, as for example this file. If you try to access the link where a preview normally should appear, you get on this page. That's only an example of a recently-lost file, about one month ago or so. There are older examples of that, but it should be enough to show you. I think Afro has the same problems on his site. --Dennis (Administrator) 03:13, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
 * I mainly host flags on my site so they are easily retrievable, but I lost 4 as recognized by a Black square of the previous version. It's worrisome when I see a Flag like The British one disappear which is featured on over 2000 pages. Jordan and Serbia/Montenegro were the other 2 if you were wondering. Afro (talk) 05:15, October 28, 2012 (UTC)

Change with TOC
Is the auto collapse apart of the update? is there anywhere I can alter the TOC without forcing it? Afro (talk) 19:50, November 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Whatever appeared to make the TOC auto collapse has gone. Afro (talk) 19:50, November 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, on my sites, the toc is not automatically-collapsed. Maybe you modified the MediaWiki:Common.css? --Dennis (Administrator) 19:32, November 5, 2012 (UTC)

Database error
I've got database errors for my maintenance pages and can't add new articles because I get a database error. For Maintenance page A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: SELECT page_namespace AS namespace,page_title AS title,page_len AS value FROM `page` FORCE INDEX (page_redirect_namespace_len) WHERE page_namespace = '0' AND page_is_redirect = '0' ORDER BY page_len DESC LIMIT 50 from within function "LongPagesPage::reallyDoQuery". Database returned error "1176: Key 'page_redirect_namespace_len' doesn't exist in table 'page' (localhost)". For new pages A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: SELECT group_id,group_name,group_categories,group_namespaces,group_properties,group_concepts,group_custom_texts FROM `swl_groups` from within function "DatabaseBase::select". Database returned error "1054: Unknown column 'group_custom_texts' in 'field list' (localhost)". Afro (talk) 09:15, November 15, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that! It's fixed now. Yaron Koren (talk) 12:05, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * I still receive the error for my maintenance pages. Afro (talk) 16:26, November 15, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oops again - I didn't realize that you were talking about two different errors. The first one is now fixed as well. Yaron Koren (talk) 18:28, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's fixed now, thanks. Afro (talk) 18:34, November 15, 2012 (UTC)

Yaron, can you share the solution to the 2nd error (1054: Unknown column 'group_custom_texts')? I'm updating my wiki to SMW 1.8 and received the exact same message when trying to run the refreshData script. Christofer Garner (talk) 16:12, December 3, 2012 (UTC)


 * That one is actually coming from an upgrade of the Semantic Watchlist extension. You can fix it by calling this:

ALTER TABLE swl_groups ADD COLUMN group_custom_texts BLOB null


 * Yaron Koren (talk) 19:59, December 3, 2012 (UTC)


 * Worked perfectly. Thank you. Christofer Garner (talk) 21:10, December 3, 2012 (UTC)

PHP errors
I got a bunch of ugly PEAR/PHP errors when I just signed up for an account. Also, the confirmation e-mail never made it to me. Ijon (talk) 00:54, December 4, 2012 (UTC) Like this: Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/yaron57/php/Mail.php on line 154

Strict Standards: Non-static method Mail::factory should not be called statically in /home/yaron57/public_html/w/includes/UserMailer.php on line 245

Strict Standards: Non-static method PEAR::isError should not be called statically in /home/yaron57/public_html/w/includes/UserMailer.php on line 246

... Ijon (talk) 00:57, December 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that - I temporarily enabled the display of those warning messages, which are better left undisplayed. Those actually shouldn't have affect the sending of the email, though - could it have ended up in your spam folder? Yaron Koren (talk) 04:47, December 4, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It was indeed classified as spam for some reason. Ijon (talk) 20:52, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

File has gone missing
One of my files has gone missing and I'm not sure whether it's the one file or whether others are effected as well, it appears to of gone missing because of different reasons than the last few files which went missing, since the thumbnail still works on the File list. It concerns me that the error would occur on my used so I'd let you know. Afro (talk) 18:28, December 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Afro, sorry for the delay. What is the file that's missing - the one you linked to? That one is still there. Yaron Koren (talk) 22:46, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * I had to re-upload it on the 4th December right as I posted my message, like last time as indicated by the black thumbnail the file history it's gone, it links to here, where I do the same for the Australian flag and I get a link to the previous revision here. Afro (talk) 14:08, December 7, 2012 (UTC)

Mobile skin
Hello again. I've spent hours trying to ready my new Referata venture, The Dixwell Dossier, for mobile access. Not much is working, no matter how much I try to tinker around with the Common.css file. So far, this is all I have to show for it:

/* Mobile (beta) */ @media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) { body {min-width: 480px} p {font-size: 20pt} li#ca-view {display: none} div#footer {background-color: #a99274; border-radius: 15px} ul#footer-places, ul#footer-icons {display: inline; width: 100%} }

Is there any way I can properly customise it at Referata—without having to install anything locally? I've searched Google for an answer, but almost in vain. --Routhwick (talk) 07:02, December 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * So far, I see the Chick skin is the closest equivalent; another user has pointed that out, too. I'll try to see if I can get it to redirect somehow. --Routhwick (talk) 07:32, December 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, nothing's worked. Now that I think of it, I'm actually considering a solution whereupon PC users see a page in Vectorata (or a similar skin), and iPhone visitors get the Chick skin instead—not that I can get it done easily. How to go about this, then? --Routhwick (talk) 00:10, December 8, 2012 (UTC)

Site slowdown
Another concern here: I've been experiencing connection issues across the Referata network for the past few days this week. Sometimes it's on, and sometimes it can't connect. When the latter happens, I get a message on Chrome that says, "This webpage is not available: The connection to sitename.referata.com was interrupted." To the point where I have to hit Reload or F5 several times while I wait.

I wonder if the servers are having any hiccups lately? That's what I'm suspecting. --Routhwick (talk) 23:37, December 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, the server has been having fairly short (10-15 minute) outages over the last week or so. I'm hoping it's just a temporary problem, but if not, I'll look into it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Yaron Koren (talk) 23:59, December 7, 2012 (UTC)

Database error
Dear Yaron Koren, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, tell me please if I have to do it elsewhere.

Coming back to my referata site I got this error message on my sites (http://lettrures.referata.com & http://vocespaginarum.referata.com):

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE `smw_tmp_unusedprops`( title VARCHAR(255) ) ENGINE=MEMORY from within function "SMWSQLStore2::getUnusedPropertiesSpecial". Database returned error "1044: Access denied for user 'yaron57_yaron'@'localhost' to database 'yaron57_vocespaginarum' (localhost)".

This one when triying to create a template, but others similar for other operation, for instance (when trying to access some pages): CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE `t0`( id INT UNSIGNED KEY ) ENGINE=MEMORY from within function "SMW::executeQueries". Database returned error "1044: Access denied for user 'yaron57_yaron'@'localhost' to database 'yaron57_vocespaginarum' (localhost)".

Can you fix it or help me? Thanks --Cercamon (talk) 06:15, December 15, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi - yes, I'm aware of that problem; it's happening on a lot of Referata wikis now. The problem is due to a recent change in database permissions. The hosting company people have said that they'll fix it, although it's taking them longer than I thought it would. Hopefully those errors will go away soon. Yaron Koren (talk) 05:42, December 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * So, I'll wait, right? Thanks for your quick answer :-) and thanks for creating and managing this installation of Mediawiki.--Cercamon (talk) 09:43, December 17, 2012 (UTC)