Wikipedia talk:Troubleshooting

Reloading cached pages
I am unable to access the following areas:
 * Clermont County, Ohio
 * List of Montana counties
 * The main page of www.wikipedia.org

I get various errors, all php related. Some are missing files, others are too many files open, and the like. The Clermont County one has been like this for days. What is happening here? -- Ram-Man

This is probably due to general heavy traffic loads from readers and very heavy edit load from me and especially you. ;) --mav

Shouldn't this clear out? Why has it been hours or days (in the case of Ohio) like this? -- Ram-Man

Clear your browser cache, hit reload, try again. Especially if you're using Internet Explorer, which seems to jealously preserve failed page loads. --Brion 03:18 Sep 29, 2002 (UTC)

I concur. Although I am using a Netscape version rather than Explorer, I too find that the error messages comes back if I go to the same page again, but then disappears when I hit 'Reload'. Andre Engels

Clearing the cache fixed my problem. Thanks! -- Ram-Man

''Incidentally, one way to force Infernal Exploder to refresh is to hold down the Ctrl key while clicking the refresh icon. Which reminds me of a joke: "Only women refresh; men reload." -- NetEsq 20:10 Sep 29, 2002 (UTC)''

If 'reload' also doesn't work, try to manually change the URL from www.wikipedia.org to www.wikipedia.com; rest unchanged. That should get around any caches that just keep acting on reload.Andre Engels 23:25 Oct 2, 2002 (UTC)

Perhaps the problem here is that, although we normally send pages set to expire immediately, so that there will be no caching, perhaps no such expiration is set when we send errors.

Well, we generate the errors here on our server, so surely we can send such expiration commands then too?

Programmers: Am I right?

&mdash; Toby 05:26 Sep 30, 2002 (UTC)

If you're getting one of the errors described above, our script probably isn't even getting a chance to run; if it does, the error messages usually come up before we have a chance to output the custom headers, and you can't output headers after content has started. So, um, prolly not. --Brion 05:31 Sep 30, 2002 (UTC)

Saving Changes Weirdness
Weirdness is afoot. I can't save changes in Konqueror at all and Mozilla tries, seems to fail, displays an error message saying there is no data in the page but then I see the saved edit in RC. --mav


 * same here. Chimera mac os. -- Tarquin


 * Same with me with IE. It gives me an error saying it can't find the page, but the editing is done anyway, according to Recent Changes.  -- Zoe


 * same here with NC4.6 changes are added, but with message no data in page. User:TeunSpaans

Better now? I was about to restart the web & database servers when it suddenly started working smoothly a few minutes ago. (Lee, did you do something?) --Brion 22:59 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC)


 * Hmm, well I can read pages but I do get the error on saving. Weird. --Brion 23:00 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC)


 * I think I got it; when it doubt, clear the PHP script cache. --Brion

Brion, I just installed your patch and upgraded PHP to 4.2.3 while I was there. The process may have been a bit bumpy... --66.216.68.43

Save Prompts
Whenever I access any Wiki page, I am prompted to save that page. Why is this? 67.188.172.165 15:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I do not appear to be having the problem anymore. Never mind. 67.188.172.165 16:49, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Need Help displaying picture
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Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont has a redlink Category:County, Vermont appearing on it, and I'm unable to locate where this code has been applied in order to delete it. It's not present on any other Vermont-related article, so it doesn't appear to be coming from a template, but I can't find it on the article, either. As it's an inappropriately named category, it shouldn't be there at all. Can somebody help me figure out where the hell it's coming from? Thanks. Bearcat 02:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind. Found it. The way the Vermont City Infobox is structured, one has to repeat the county name in a "county" field, because the template looks for this to automatically complete a "(County Name) County, Vermont" category. So a blank or absent county field generates an unnamed "County, Vermont" redlink. Jeepers. Bearcat 02:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Problem at Category talk:People from Minnesota
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Non sense attack
What should be my behaviour towards a guy named Darkness Shines that accused me in wrong way to be a sockpoppet?How to react?It disturbed me a lot.I was just registered.Thanks.GLawrence1972 (talk) 18:35, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

About Malayalam
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