Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-10-12/Bing search


 * I'm sorry. I typed "ship" into Bing and nothing came up but the same old references. I am sure I do not know what you are talking about. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:41, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Try it on the reference search page.--ragesoss (talk) 02:21, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * GeorgeLouis, some but not all hits on a Bing search return an "Enhanced View", which can be a link to a Bing rendering of deeper pages, like Wikipedia.
 * A simple appeared to be transcribed correctly but more complicated Reflists get the Bing rendering of "Cite error: Invalid tag; no input is allowed. Use " . (Try clicking on a citation link to see the problem.) I saw this on Bing's version of scientific method, which works correctly in the Wikipedia original. There isn't a talk page in the Bing version to point out the message, so I put it in the general mailbox at the top page of the Bing site, which is probably being overwhelmed right now. One clue might be that I recently converted the footnotes in the article to the new system described in Help:Footnotes  --Ancheta Wis (talk) 09:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * interesting -- the new method is made possible by a cite.php hack, and it's apparently breaking whatever script they use to render the articles. I wonder if that's true for other reusers, as well. Something to test/consider possibly before converting articles on a large scale. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I initiated a test using the scientific method article to check whether the footnotes are getting updated in new Bing enhanced views of the article; thus far, changes to this article have not yet propagated to the Bing enhanced view, thirty-six hours after a change to the Wikipedia source article. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 03:40, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The Bing version has updated to the current version of the article from Wikipedia as of 18:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC). By the tenets of the method of the article, it appears that the Reflist macro used by Bing does not currently accept the additional argument used in Cite.php to localize the citation information in the article. But at least Bing now renders the article footnotes for its readers. --Ancheta Wis (talk) 18:53, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


 * ISBN references are returning a 404 message in the Bing rendering of the wikipedia link to Special:Book Sources. example --Ancheta Wis (talk) 10:04, 13 October 2009 (UTC)