RolePlay onLine RPoL Logo

, welcome to Technical Discussions

16:25, 28th March 2024 (GMT+0)

Can't Edit Game Wiki.

Posted by LonePaladin
LonePaladin
member, 516 posts
Creator of HeroForge
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 02:26
  • msg #1

Can't Edit Game Wiki

One of my games has a wiki (via the Game Wiki link), and it has a LOT of information in it for players' reference. Today, though, I can't do anything with it. Several pages are coming up blank, and the bottom line of all of them say
quote:
Last edited by LonePaladin,

and nothing else. Not editing links, no option to see prior versions.
PsionicFox
member, 63 posts
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 05:24
  • msg #2

Can't Edit Game Wiki

All of the wikis I can see have the same issue that LonePaladin is having.
Morgan Coldsoul
member, 220 posts
25+ years experience
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 05:45
  • msg #3

Can't Edit Game Wiki

Same. Every single one of my games are experiencing this. :( The only pages I can see are the landing pages.
Lt Gargoyle
member, 8 posts
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 10:52
  • msg #4

Can't Edit Game Wiki

Is there a way to fix this? Or are we having to wait for site programmers to do it?
bigbadron
moderator, 15193 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 11:25

Can't Edit Game Wiki

I believe the Site Admin will need to take a look at it, as and when he gets time.
Aminethia
member, 3 posts
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 13:08
  • msg #6

Can't Edit Game Wiki

Just throwing my hat in on this problem. I am brand new and thought that maybe I had broken the wiki! Plus I was Never able to make multiple pages... just the one page. But I only started trying to fill that page when I joined about two weeks ago. I would really like to have that feature back!
bigbadron
moderator, 15194 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 14:01

Can't Edit Game Wiki

As I said above, it will be fixed as soon as the Admin gets a chance to deal with whatever is causing the issue.
Skald
moderator, 734 posts
Whatever it is,
I'm against it
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 14:39

Can't Edit Game Wiki

Just a thought from someone who knows nothing about Wikis ... could the problem be related to special characters in your text ?  Something similar to the problems reported here: link to a message in this forum

If that's the case, then removing the special characters (and replacing them with their keyboard equivalents where you can ie normal hyphen instead of em or en dash; normal single/double quote instead of the curly/angled variety) might resolve.
Aminethia
member, 4 posts
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 16:57
  • msg #9

Can't Edit Game Wiki

In reply to Skald (msg # 8):

Nope I dont use special characters usually and I double checked none of the stuff I put up would have had any. I thought I broke it by sheer volume of text on a single page.
Shannara
moderator, 3677 posts
Whatever you do,
DON'T PANIC!
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 17:22

Can't Edit Game Wiki

Please note that 'special characters' in this case also can mean any punctuation mark at all, if you composed the text on Word or any other program and then copy/pasted it into the Wiki.
Lt Gargoyle
member, 9 posts
Fri 14 Oct 2016
at 18:34
  • msg #11

Can't Edit Game Wiki

Im not able to edit mine. A few of the pages open up. But most are blank.
LonePaladin
member, 517 posts
Creator of HeroForge
Sat 15 Oct 2016
at 02:27
  • msg #12

Re: Can't Edit Game Wiki

Skald:
Just a thought from someone who knows nothing about Wikis ... could the problem be related to special characters in your text ?  Something similar to the problems reported here: link to a message in this forum

If that's the case, then removing the special characters (and replacing them with their keyboard equivalents where you can ie normal hyphen instead of em or en dash; normal single/double quote instead of the curly/angled variety) might resolve.

Not in this case. Any special characters I've used are either for formatting, creating wiki links, or otherwise kosher. Anything like an em dash was made by using an Alt code entered manually, so it's the equivalent of pressing a key. No bendy quotes unless the " key did it itself.

There was not copy-pasting on my part, so everything was entered manually. The pages worked fine before.
Shadowsmith
member, 146 posts
Born in Wisconsin,
I escaped into the World.
Sat 15 Oct 2016
at 02:36
  • msg #13

Re: Can't Edit Game Wiki

Unfortunately from the behavior of the Character Description fields right now, entering the Alt code for a special character does indeed break something. And, yes, such characters as Alt+0193 for "Á" worked just fine up until recently in the Character Descriptions but no longer.
Aminethia
member, 5 posts
Sun 23 Oct 2016
at 14:25
  • msg #14

Re: Can't Edit Game Wiki

In reply to Shadowsmith (msg # 13):

Anyone heard any news on this issue?
bigbadron
moderator, 15203 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Sun 23 Oct 2016
at 15:28

Re: Can't Edit Game Wiki

Not yet.  As mentioned previously, as soon as jase gets a chance to look at this, he will.
Sign In