Xenharmonic Wiki:Bugs

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Needs Changing

Scala file pages

• Pages that are scala files need to be wrapped in code blocks and have extra line breaks removed. (EDIT: yes, I will be doing this automatically -- stay "tuned" :) )Mike Battaglia (talk) 17:27, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
  • There are a whole lot of these pages! Is there a way to do this (semi-)automatically? Or at least to generate a list of, say, all pages that contain ".scl"? To complicate matters further, some pages contain multiple .scl files (and no other content). Another option (not sure if better or worse) would be to transfer these .scl-only pages to actual files. Thoughts? I'm happy to help, just not sure of the best way to proceed... Spt3125 (talk) 03:19, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
    • Yes, I'll be doing this automatically, it's on my list -- no way we're doing this by hand and this is a simple regex job. Edited above to make clearer... -- Mike Battaglia (talk)
    • These pages have use in people clicking Random page and seeing random interesting tunings. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 04:22, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
      • It may be worth looking into excluding the Scala files from Random page results, maybe using something like Extension:ExcludeRandom. --Tyler (talk) 13:03, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
        • But whyyyy? The fanmade tunings only make Special:Random even better, inspiring people to use the tunings! PiotrGrochowski (talk) 13:05, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
          • Heh, if you *like* having the Scala files in random pages, might as well keep them. But, just thinking, maybe we could create a "Random tuning" link right below it... :) Mike Battaglia (talk) 13:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
            • How could we have split random page generators in MediaWiki? PiotrGrochowski (talk) 16:27, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
              • We could put them in a category like "Scala files", as User:Spt3125 suggests, and then there are MediaWiki extensions like this that let you get a random page from a category. Mike Battaglia (talk) 06:23, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
          • Sorry, I misread your comment and thought it was a complaint. Ignore me. Tyler (talk) 13:51, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
      • Excellent, thanks Mike! If that regex job can include adding a category such as "Scala files" or "scl" to those pages, that would be very useful i think. Some pages already have these ("tags" from Wikispaces), but many do not. Spt3125 (talk) 00:44, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
• Random thought: what about moving them to, say, scl.xen.wiki? Not sure if this would be good or bad...? Spt3125 (talk) 00:44, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Making a whole new wiki would be a lot of infrastructure work - would be much easier to just make a category for them, as you mention. Shouldn't be too difficult with regex, just a lot of other stuff to get finished first... Mike Battaglia (talk) 06:23, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
  • If we want to go this route, maybe it makes more sense to remove them as pages, and upload them as files? Essentially these .scl things are config files for Scala, not wiki pages. There could be a wiki page which contains a directory of uploaded .scl files including descriptions, related pages, etc. Someone can always make a wiki page about a scale which links to an .scl file, if they want to. Tyler (talk) 12:51, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
    • Whatever we do, I think the main use case should be on making it easy for people to create and add new Scala files the "right way" (whatever we decide that is), in the future. Mike Battaglia (talk) 16:17, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
• Organized thought: how about handling of .scl in a way similar to .svg, and have a way of rendering it in-browser as a text list (and maybe even eventually audio clips)? This is also a vote against having .scl-only pages, and instead converting those to files. Xenjacob (talk) 21:06, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
  • We could do both of those. Automating audio will be more difficult, but possible -- I wrote a JavaScript MIDI library once upon a time I could dust off for this. We could also use the "subpage" feature and put them all at pages like scala/something.scl. Then we could create templates for the rest: so at the top of the page we put something like {{scala-start}} and at the end we put {{scala-end}}, and then create those templates to have whatever markup we like. Mike Battaglia (talk) 22:17, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

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Move Spanish pages to es.xen.wiki

• Páginas_en_español - i rounded up all the es pages i could find (not many) and linked them all here. Perhaps these could be moved to es.xen.wiki? Spt3125 (talk) 01:30, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Also: 日本語のページ_(pages_in_Japanese) Spt3125 (talk) 01:59, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
    • Yes, we mentioned this on the Facebook forums here. Basically, the Spanish pages should be spun off and merged into es.xen.wiki. It would also be good to move the "Purdal" pages from purdal.xen.wiki into es.xen.wiki. The Japanese pages should also be spun off into jp.xen.wiki. But we will need someone who speaks these languages to lead the process; I know no Japanese at all and only know basic Spanish. If you would like to help with this, we would be very grateful! Mike Battaglia (talk) 06:30, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
      • I'm happy to help, but would need some guidance on the best way to proceed (not sure how to move a page, etc.) I can read Japanese just enough to do something basic like this; Spanish a bit better, but i'm far from fluent in either... Spt3125 (talk) 02:12, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Re-add organizers

• Organizers need to be put back from the old Wiki. We're working on this now as people sign up, but wanted to make a note of it. Mike Battaglia (talk) 06:51, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

"IMPORTDEBUG" category - changing external images

• MediaWiki doesn't quite support external images in the same way that Wikispaces did. There are a few pages with external image links that need to be changed. More on the situation here: Category:IMPORTDEBUG - Change External Images - 07:23, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Calculators/JavaScript is broken

• Pages like Just Intonation -- EDO calculator render catastrophically incorrectly. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 15:56, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Hi PetrPiotr - yes, unfortunately MediaWiki doesn't support JavaScript. There are three or four "calculator" pages that have broken as a result. We may be able to add some of this back in using Templates, but for now, this is unfortunately one of the (few) things that Wikispaces was able to do that MediaWiki doesn't support. Mike Battaglia (talk) 16:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
    • Why did you misspell my name, ... MiekMike? PiotrGrochowski (talk)
      • Oops - was talking to someone named "Petr" on Facebook at the same time, and I got my Petr's and my Piotr's mixed up... :) Mike Battaglia (talk) 16:51, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
    • The talk page has a link for a webpage that almost works, but fails when numbers are entered. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 18:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
      • If someone wants to create a version of this that works as a standalone page, maybe we can host it and then link to it from the wiki. Tyler (talk) 13:34, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
      • @Piotr - Yeah, this is because there's no JavaScript, since MediaWiki is HTML only. I think this "Widgets" plugin is what we will need. I'm not sure if Templates will also work, but maybe. Mike Battaglia (talk) 16:00, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
        • Did you see that webpage in Talk:Just Intonation -- EDO calculator with the "almost working" behavior? That's a copy of the HTML code given. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 16:06, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
        • Page backups are done, https://web.archive.org/web/20180920184047/http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Interval%20calculator?responseToken=05777b0c767eb7f0d7338c241de5ac1ff , https://web.archive.org/web/20180920184435/http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Just%20Intonation%20->%20EDO%20calculator?responseToken=09b43236460272dc924467493160c31d5

any more?

Imagine what would happen if FREEZE rendered the Acid3 test. Have you tested this? How about the Acid1 test or the Acid2 test? PiotrGrochowski (talk) 06:42, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Old/For Reference Only

ReplaceText blasts away the recent changes

• Uhhhh... yeah. Oops. If we use this again, probably better to have it not add the changes to the recent log. We now have like 250 ReplaceText entries from me trying to make the Talk archives clearer. Sorry about that -- you can still see changes from before this if you scroll down. Yikes... Mike Battaglia (talk) 07:03, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
  • FWIW, you can see the RecentChanges if you set it to show the last 500: [1] Mike Battaglia (talk) 07:05, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Maybe you can run ReplaceText as a bot user? It's really easy to hide bot changes when looking at Special:RecentChanges. I think they are hidden by default. Tyler (talk) 13:24, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Map

• What's up with "Map"? Spt3125 (talk) 02:09, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
  • A placeholder article that happened to emphasize on showing what links to it. Redirects to special pages do not have reversing links, so a depressed person can have their talk page say

    #REDIRECT [[Special:BlankPage]]

    . PiotrGrochowski (talk) 04:28, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
    • Piotr: I think the page on Mappings you are looking for already exists, it's here: Mappings Mike Battaglia (talk) 06:25, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
    • I created a redirect from Map -> Mappings, since this is what I think was intended... Moving this back to "Done" Mike Battaglia (talk) 06:33, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Flawed Languages links

• In the Deutsch version https://de.xen.wiki/w/Willkommen, the left Languages links link to websites that are out of tune. PiotrGrochowski (talk)
  • The English link is slightly out of tune, linking to Home instead of the actual Main Page. The Xenharmonicの世界へ 日本語 link is very out of tune, being a broken link. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 18:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
    • Working now - Mike Battaglia (talk) 22:32, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
      • The "Xenharmonicの世界へ 日本語" link is still very out of tune, being a broken link. The Español links are weird: they link to pages in en.xen.wiki, while es.xen.wiki has no Languages links. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 04:36, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
        • Huh? The Japanese link on the German wiki works for me, it goes to [2]. Maybe it reloaded in the background and hasn't changed for you yet? Sometimes caching issues can lead to your browser (or the site) displaying an older version of a page. Mike Battaglia (talk) 13:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
          • It works because you fixed it! PiotrGrochowski (talk) 16:43, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

SVG broken

• SVG's not displaying correctly. Got this working before, let's see what I can do... Mike Battaglia (talk) 17:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Now works. Mike Battaglia (talk) 17:27, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

"Content Pages"

• "Content page" count is wrong: Special:Statistics Mike Battaglia (talk) 15:51, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Now works. Mike Battaglia (talk) 17:27, 18 September 2018 (UTC)