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[edit] 100 results instead of 10

Hello. I would like the ability to return 100 results (or more maybe?) instead of 10. I don't want to register, could you do this with a cookie like Google? Thank you! 63.3.15.130 04:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Added to list --Balinny 14:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No preferences saved with out logging in

Hello! I would like to use your search without logging in. Why is it necessary to log in in order to use preferences? Why is this superior to Google? Why did you not choose to save preferences using a cookie? I don't really understand the need to register. Please change or explain if possible. Thanx. 63.3.15.130 04:57, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Those preferences are specific to the wiki. You don't need them in order to use the search engine. Closed. --Balinny 14:09, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] no way to log in...

i'm registered, my mail is daniele_will[at]reborn.it receiving the confirm mail

1) i choose daniele_will as username, but wikia system change it to "Daniele will" without any advice...

2) i tryed to login, no success :) requesting password by mail i discovered what is my "new user name" using it with tha new system pass... i try to register a new password...

3) lets login now! ... no way :(

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daniele will (talk • contribs).
Point 2: The system automatical replace spaces to _ ;)
version history shows that you was logged in --Cyruz 17:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Errors of importing less than 20 email contacts

Hello dream team,

I'm sorry to observe that I had regular errors when importing less than 20 email contacts from gmail. I can't invite any of them in wikia search. I will try later...

Have a nice day,

Daniel

Added to list --Balinny 14:24, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mailing list error

When I tried to enter your mailing list from the search.wikia page, I received the following:

  • Mailman CGI error!!!

The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to find group name for GID 501. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper to be executed as group "www", but the system's web server executed the wrapper as GID 501 for which the name could not be found. Try adding GID 501 to your system as "www", or tweak your web server to run the wrapper as group "www".

I know that somewhere in the support info there are instructions about mailing lists but I would have expected guidance here. Ipigott 16:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean the left link to http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/search-l ? I don't get that error / It has been fixed. If it's still happening please report. --Balinny 14:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tranparencies and background

You guys miss a default background in your stylesheet, or some transparency in the logo. I have set my browser's default one to gray, and the logo on the home page looks a little, umm, pre-alpha.

Added to list. Thanks for your report. --Balinny 14:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mini Article Collapse link should be on top

Mini Article Collapse link should be on top, so one needs not to scroll down the whole article to collapse it, when it is not as "mini" as expected.

Added to list --Balinny 14:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Non-JavaScript votes can be done using iframes or linking with target=hiddenframe

Non-JavaScript votes can be done using iframes (containing the stars) or linking with the Attribute target="hiddenframe" (of course a hidden frame taking the votes needs to be implemented).

The function clickVoteStars seems to be doing it with POST. Fixed. --Balinny 14:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The pages are not valid (X)HTML

The pages are not valid (X)HTML! This may brake compatibility with (future) browsers.

Known bug --Balinny 14:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "contact us" and "terms of use" don't work

Hi, with Mozilla Firefox 2 both links only add a "#" to the current page which is not what I expected...

Know bug --Balinny 14:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Doubled search

When I search anything, I get 2 lists of sites exactly the same, even with the "Results 11 to 20" doubled.

Added to list --Balinny 15:26, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] bug

on the main page of wikia search if i make a search pressing enter it does'nt work, only works if i click in "go"

It is working now. Please repost providing your browser if you still experience problems. --Balinny 15:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Problem in link "Contact Us" in the bottom of the page

Hi there, first of all, congratulations in the launch of wiki search ;)

I wanted to write a message to know if the mini articles i put is not spam and i cannot find how.

The link " Contact Us" doesn´t work...

If the mini articles i put are spam, please forgive me. I don´t understand very well the diference...

Best regards and good luck. Seal

Known bug --Balinny 15:28, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] recover password functionality not working, or at least not user-friendly

Initially i thought that my Wikipedia login would work, so I tried to login and was unable. I tried to recover the password and constantly got the login screen. I was however able to create a login with the same username afresh.

It shows an error "There is no user by the name Foo". Maybe related to search:Unresolved issues#IE login not working ? Closed. --Balinny 15:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] infinate expanding buttons

when searching for "dark and white trailquest" (incedently, trying to find the website darkandwhite.co.uk which does not seem to be in your database) the expansion button at the bottom of the page ("click for results 4 to 13") just seems to duplicate itself rather than open any further results. This seems to happen with every click, having reached 7 instances of the button and no further results i decided it was probably stuck in a repeat and not working correctly.

[edit] First result on search for fopen doesn't even include "fopen" in it's contents when using whitelist.

I was trying to find info on the C command fopen.

It isn't crawled yet. It will appear. --Balinny 15:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] White Board

why doesn't white board come up with wikia search - shouldn't there be info. about and how to use white board on wikia search! alpha or not.

Please explain better. --Balinny 15:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Skin footer links

Links to (About Us, Contact Us, ... ) do not link anywhere but to the current page with # appended. This navigation doesn't work in firefox. -- 69.66.38.203 20:37, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Known bug --Balinny 15:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Error with spaces in search terms - from search-bar in Firefox

Wikia search doesn't correctly execute queries with spaces when activated from the search bar on Firefox 2.0.0.11.

Using Firefox 2.0.0.11 and searching from the search bar, Firefox substitutes +'s for spaces in the URL when "URL encoding" the {search terms} element in an Open Search XML description file. Wikia search considers shaojun+wang (http://re.search.wikia.com/search#shaojun+wang) to be different than shaojun%20wang (http://re.search.wikia.com/search#shaojun%20wang), which is probably correct, but traditional behavior is otherwise (see Google, Yahoo).

Added to list. Thanks for your report. --Balinny 15:45, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] your sign up page is blank-- can't sign up -- why??

I searched for my site & found it wasn't there so I wanted to write a mini article about it but couldn't until I signed in.. bummer,,,,,, Karen from Mymarketingadvisor.net

There were problems with IE. It has been fixed --Balinny 15:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Search for ebay

When you search for ebay, www.ebay.com isn't even in the top 50 results

[edit] back button after exploring link > 11 return only results 1-10

IE7 WinXP

When

1. search for any item and select "Results 11 to 20" 2. select any search result link greater than 10 to navigate to the page 3. select the "back" button on the browser to return to Wikia Search results page 4. observe the search results displayed

expected result: the search results page would be the same as when I left it, displaying results 11-20

actual result; the search results page only shows results 1-10. This is also true if I view any search result in group 21-30, 31-40, etc.

I know the display of additional links is faster the way you built the page, but it is frustrating if you are working through high number search results and have to re-expand each time you return...

Added to the list. Thanks for your report. --Balinny 15:51, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Case sensitive search

Searches seems to be case sensitive, which is a real drawback. I just entered a mini article for "SED TV", and it shows up with a search for "SED TV", but not for "sed tv"... It is unreasonable to have to enter the same article for every case of case...

It's worse than you think. You probably also need Sed TV and so on. With multiple terms, including the names of people, you sometimes need to copy the mini several times, with and without capitals in various positions. Furthermore, if you use the keywording option for highlighting multi-word expressions, you will find you need to use an underscore instead of a space for them to fuction properly (e.g. Wikia_Search instead of Wikia Search, plus the same in lower case, etc.). This wastes a lot of valuable time in writing effective new wikis. We also need better guidance and help functions on this. Ipigott 08:13, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Also, if I e.g. search for "sed tv review", I think that the mini article for "SED TV" also should show up. This means that several mini articles could potentially be shown for a single search.

I think that you should actually SEARCH the mini articles, not just do a simple matching of the exact search phrase...

When I think about it, I should have entered my mini article not for "SED TV", but for just "SED". There should be a way to change this in a simple way (maybe there is, I haven't checked this actually).

Sorry if this is more suggestions than bug reports.

The right behaviour has to be determined. Added to the list. --Balinny 15:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Searching for Companies doesn't give the base-URL as first result

When typing "Microsoft" the first result should certainly be a link to http://www.microsoft.com or a similar base-name-startsite.

Currently you won't find any similar (to microsoft.com) result under the first 50 results...but links to nearly every subpage of microsoft.com featuring every product and service. Pages that are base-urls should be weighted statistically higher in the search-algorithm.

In my opinion a much needed change to improve the quality of the search.

Greetings


Simon.lynen 08:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

The index improves each day. Now microsoft page do appear :)

[edit] Gmail invitation

I'm sorry to observe that my gmail invitation seems still not working : there no message "OK" from your website. And I invited less than 20 contacts. Bye

search:Unresolved issues#Email_imports --Balinny 15:58, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Error by pushing the results button - it comes and comes again although there are no more results

Image:Wikiasearching.JPG

if you push the results button, the button comes and comes again. (Although there are no more results).

wish you a nice day mike

Known bug --Balinny 15:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bug of display of my friend Sylvain Henry

Sylvain doesn't apear in the list of my friends. But I am in his list of friend...

[edit] if a special char like / \ or : is in the search string discuss link fails

if i search for something like test/. click on the discuss Button brings a 404 Error.

Not any more. --Balinny 15:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Goodbye to Netscape

Goodbye to Netscape, so sad. Hello Wikia search! so happy.

[edit] Language

It's good that you have links to sites with other languages, but I suspect that the majority of users want to have the results of their search show up in their own language first. I can't read either Dutch or Italian, but my search for "workflow" resulted in Dutch and Italian links on the first page of the search results. Didn't seem very useful.

This email a friend is hard to work I cant even send the darn email. I think best will be comma or one email per line

Added to list --Balinny 16:05, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] bug SHOWING RESULTS 37 TO 46

After a search with www.instructables.com and not getting a satisfatory result i started expanding the serch results. It went OK until RESULTS 37 TO 46. By click the botton it only showed another "RESULTS 37 TO 46"'s botton.

Known bug --Balinny 16:05, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] cannot log-in

Tried to log in but was denied log on due to "incorrect password".

reset password and logged in with the temporary, then changed the password (back to what it was in the first place), but again denied log on due to "incorrect password".

The password I was typing was correct, so there is definately a major bug in your user verification system.

My user name is Oneness.

You should discuss that with Wikia Staff. Maybe there were special characters and there was codification mismatch? --Balinny 18:16, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] star rating system

Hi,

I think the star rating system could be interesting. But you should explain it's purpose and it's functionning on your site.

Best regards,

Cyrille

Added to list. For now, stars do nothing. --Balinny 17:02, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] redirect in search mini article box

i searched form slawistik(a german word) and get a redirected article in the mini article box. This gives no information to the seeker. The content should be replaced with the content of the redirected article --Cyruz 15:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Known bug --Balinny 16:10, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] images in mini arcticle

hello out there, i searched for book and get a mini article with an image inside. the miniarticle box is not expand and you can see a half image. You can see it here: http://re.search.wikia.com/search#book greetz --Cyruz 18:11, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Added to list --Balinny 17:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] mini-articles

The second line of the mini-article is cropped along the bottom.

cheers

Added to list --Balinny 17:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Results 9 to 18 does not work

Results 1-10 of approximately 19for niederlandeweb shows 8 (!) results

Click on [Results 9 to 18] gives me only another button with [Results 9 to 18], but no more results.

Known bugs --Balinny 17:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 'Contact us' and 'Terms of Use' links not working.

Just now neither the 'contact us' nor the 'terms of use' links worked. I have just seen the BBC interview with Jimmy Wales at http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7200000/newsid_7209200?redirect=7209210.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1 and it appears that Wikia Search is a for profit project. I have no problem with Jimmy getting a good living from the project, but getting mega rich from it makes me reluctant about the time and effort I have so far and intend to put into the project. I am concerned that when it reaches a mature stage it will get compromised by advertising.

Known bug. The process should make easy enough to anyone else to compete to discourage that. Anyway, you're welcome to discuss that on the mailing list. --Balinny 17:09, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] selecting more frm the 31-40 option

I searched for something and I click 31-40 and then under it it says 31-40 again. Basically, it seems to display 10 results for 31-40 and then has the heading again and displays 31-40 again.

Known bug --Balinny 17:09, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] logo

In order to continue with your excelent work, change the logo now... Looks like a fart.

A cloud would have less lines.

Regards.

I agree, it's a bit cr*p.... The symbol for Wikipedia is like a globe of puzzle shaped letters. Perhaps wikia search could be like a solar system of letters connecting. Just an idea, trying to maintain theme.

Try to discuss that on mailing list or a Forum. --Balinny 17:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] OpenSearch profile

There doesn't seem to be an OpenSearch profile configured for http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ . This is the little bit of HTML & XML magic that lets Firefox and IE7 add a new search engine to the search bar.

There's also, confusingly, an OpenSearch description for http://search.wikia.com/, but I think that's from MediaWiki, and I don't think it will work to search the search engine (rather than searching the MediaWiki instance... yes, I realize it's a fine distinction). --Evan Prodromou 00:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Added to list --Balinny 17:23, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure if the correct etiquette is to "vote" for bug fixes here, but please fix this because I'm not going to use a search engine that isn't in my search toolbar. I'm sure others would be the same. It's a really simple thing to do. Just a little XML file and a link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" ... tag. --Rjmunro 23:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] edit profile

I can not access to my profile. Even I am login on correctly I can not edit my profile because system tells to me than my Name and password don't match. Any help?

[edit] Sign Up

Hello,

I am trying to Sign Up but it only shows the title of the page. I can see any registration form on the page when I click on "Sign Up" on the above the Search Wikia main page.

Please email me the instruction to sign up to Wikia Search at anjiyoung@bs21.net

thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.174.185.196 (talk • contribs)

Fixed search:Unresolved issues#IE login not working --Balinny 17:24, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Add "wikia Search" to Firefox Searchbar missing on Alpha-Frontpage

Add "wikia Search" to Firefox Searchbar missing on Alpha-Frontpage (Add "wikia Search" to Firefox Searchbar missing on Alpha-Frontpage)

greetings Lukas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.72.28 (talk • contribs)

Added to list --Balinny 17:26, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] login with under line does not work

I created a login for example "nome_ab" (with under line). When I login in the Wikia, my "login name" (with under line) does not work. I need to use my login name without under line (like "nome ab") to have access. I try to change to "nomeab" (simple and easier) but I did not find how. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Carlos hb (talk • contribs).

From wikia:Forum:Rename user tool for Bureaucrats there are so many wiki on Wikia that it is impossible for a user to be renamed --Balinny 17:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Login

'sup? Just registered a nickname with a very long password with random characters. And now I can't login. Is it possible to have a password with 31 random special characters? If not, heck, warn the user. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.224.246.251 (talk • contribs)

Yes. Maybe a problem with special characters? Anyway, you can request a temporal password to login if you provided an email. --Balinny 17:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why my post is not here?

I´ve posted informations about any sites, but i don´t see now. What is happening? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.103.55.63 (talk • contribs)

[edit] hittites

Comparing Wikia Search with Google, so far I see little improvement in the handling of junk websites. For example, doing a search for Hittites produces a URL that is third from the top on the first page, a URL to a website that is to a large extent cut and paste, lifted from Wikipedia by a psychic pretending to be scientific and passing it off to many people as her creation - Crystalinks.com. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fsmitha (talk • contribs).

Wikia Search is still being born :) --Balinny 17:30, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] log in

On clicking for new registration or create user name from any page the form for registration

is not opening


Amit khare - Bangalore,India

It's an IE bug which has been fixed. search:Unresolved issues#IE login not working --Balinny 17:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I keep getting logged out!

Hi, everytime I do a search and click on a link or edit my profile I keep getting logged out. Love the concept, I know Wikia will be huge.

Wikia search is slow. Please try to improve the speed of this web application.

Thanks, R.S.NAIDU

[edit] Fault results

It is possible to click more than once "Results X to Y" - but there are coming up only empty results ;-(

Known bug --Balinny 17:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Login issue

Full name is said to be optional during signup, but i will not login properly without one. When I added a fullName, then I'm asked to fill in more personal questions —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alkemyst (talk • contribs).

Added to the list --Balinny 17:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Logged out

After loggin in, when searching, i appear as logged out —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alkemyst (talk • contribs).

There're two different logins. To the search engine and to the wiki. search:Unresolved issues#Unified login --Balinny 17:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cant sign in to create an account

Hello, I wish to create an acount, but when I click on the link, it takes me to a site but nothings happens, no sing in page, neither sin out!!!

Regards, Javier

Go to http://search.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup. You should see a form to fill out with your username, password. If that doesn't show please report which browser and OS you're using. You can also try with another browser, we have received error reports with Internet Explorer not showing it. --Balinny 11:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Grub crawler

Is the grub spider server currently down?

I am receiving primary status with server failed error messages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.116.208 (talk • contribs)

The server is now up. Whatever happened. --Balinny 17:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Privacy.

There doesn't seem, at least it is not clear, an option in privacy to make what you're searching for private. So that others can't see you as one of the people searching for such and such a thing. If there is an option for that, it should be titled more clearly.

Not sure if this is a bug, but I cant see how to add an article to a category. As well my article ( fireworks) did not fit any categories and I was unable to create one.

Kind Regards Anthony Lealand —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daemonax (talk • contribs).

[edit] Result count misleading

In a search, I am given "Results1-9 of approximately9for trainsem"

but at the bottom of the list I see the button marked "Results 8-17". Clicking it just adds an identical button and clicking it does the same...

Known bug --Balinny 17:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Although it says that giving the real name is optional, I cannot log in and always get the message: "Your wikia account does not have the real name field populated. Please, click here to add a real name to your wikia account." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crm911 (talk • contribs).

Added to the list --Balinny 17:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Font size in firefox 2.x

When searching anything, if you set higher font size then some of the texts will be cut off.. like that mini article box. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.166.236.128 (talk • contribs)

Added to the list --Balinny 17:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 800x600 header width?

The front page (alpha.search.wikia.com) seems designed for 800x600, however with FF 2.0, the "hello/logout" buttons on the top right do not fit within the 800x600 window frame. Would make sense to move them slightly over to the left since the space is available.... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ackkster (talk • contribs).

Added to list --Balinny 17:47, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Link back to home page

Clicking on the "Wikia Search" icon on the top of any of these wiki edit pages should take you to the "home" page, however that is defined. Right now, it just links to whatever page the user is currently viewing, which is fairly useless...

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ackkster (talk • contribs).

Added to list --Balinny 17:44, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unable to create new account on IE 6 on XP

I was unable to create a new account because on the sign-up page the special tab is hiding the sign up form information and fields. I was unable to close the special tab or re-size the screen in order to see the fields and complete the sign up form.

Here is a screen shot.

Image:Wikiasearch-unable-to-login-ie6.JPG

P.S. I was able to get a new account by using the mini-browser on my windows smart phone...

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gentry (talk • contribs).

Thank you very much for your screenshot. It allowed me to better understand where the problem was. It's now fixed. Enjoy. --Balinny 12:30, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] search results

e.g i have 14 search results of which only 5 appear on the frist page. when i try to view the second page it doesnt appear.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.212.140.101 (talk • contribs)

There wasn't any more. Known bug --Balinny 17:49, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Login/Password Reset

Hi, can't login with my password. After e-mail a new password from you, i put an new one, this was accepted, but if i go then to another button on our page, login page appears, and the new password is not accepted.

Username: sunny_ps

Greating

Sunny

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sunny ps (talk • contribs).

You added this logged in. Were you logged on both sites? --Balinny 17:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Real name should be optional

Clicking on profile and trying to log in, it disallows me because I do not have my real name filled in. The real name is supposed to be optional.

I do not want my real name used in attributions. Therefore I will not fill it in. (Though this insistence on real name makes me lean towards becoming Herbert Goldthwait the Magnificent Heir of Seven Kingdoms whose fame is matched only by his obscurity.) BrotherE 20:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

BrotherE, if you have legitimate reason to hide you can use a pen name as long as you stick to it and only you know it is not your real name. Real names and realistic pen names respect readers and authors alike. This is a requirement of mature writing, appropriate to Wikia Search and more fun. A pen name that pokes fun at your reader is disrespectful and unsuitable. --Rogerhc 06:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Known bug --Balinny 17:49, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong search widget on the main page

When you are on the main page for wikia search, Firefox notices that there is a search widget available (it shows up on the drop down menu on the upper right with a W icon and the text Search(English)). However that search widget does not activate wikia web search - it searches the wiki instead.

20:51, 31 January 2008 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BrotherE (talk • contribs).

Added to list --Balinny 17:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Guys! Wikia search is a really great projects! Unfortunately the login procedure is very bad! I have to login again and again. Often I get an error and additionally it is said every time that i didn't define a real name. Yes I know, but I don't want to tell everybody my real name!! And one more thing: While clicking on "contact us" nothing happens! Nevertheless, thanks for your great work! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ubuntux (talk • contribs).

You need to login twice (there're two places). You can use a fake real name. We know all three bugs. Glad to see you happy nevertheless :) --Balinny 17:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] how come search wikia doesn't list wikipedia sites/articles?

wiki entries could/should be auto included esp. for search wikia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.184.30.236 (talk • contribs)

They're crawled like anything else. Be patient. --Balinny 17:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] repeating 'more results' button for searches yielding few results

with a search that only produces 3 results, I still get a button at the bottom saying 'results 3 to 12'. clicking on this generates another button saying '3 to 12', clicking on that generates another, and so on.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.107.22.57 (talk • contribs)

I have experienced this; on one search I had a button for results 20-29, but instead of results I received another button.

Brydend 09:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Known bug --Balinny 17:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] nl:Mini namespace on Wikia Search

Go to http://search.wikia.com/index.php?title=Mini:Zeeland_%28province%29&diff=42332&oldid=42322 and observe that while [[de:Mini:Zeeland (Provinz)]] works (shows up as an interwiki link on the lower sidebar) [[nl:Mini:Zeeland (provincie)]] does not. Fred 17:54, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Has been fixed. --Balinny 17:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The * bug

See how http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Mini:Chemical displays with respect to links beginning with * which under the usual wiki syntax should indent the line. Fred 01:44, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

The floating wikipedia box was being included as element content broke visualization. - Fixed --Balinny 12:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Links not working

Hi the links on the Wikia home page for "Contact" and "Terms of Use" do not work.

Debbie

Known bug --Balinny 17:56, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adding friends

There is no transparent way to add someone as a friend or even find their profile. Profiles are identified only by a number in the url, not by their user name. Fred 16:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Added to list --Balinny 18:06, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Double search results

Hi there, if your search for Graphviz you get these both relsuts:

http://graphviz.org http://www.graphviz.org

and some other sites.

These both links are, as you can see the same.

Greets form germany.

Doesn't show double any more. There was some work on detecting double pages. --Balinny 18:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Log in / create account page does not display properly.

Using Internet explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 Page http://search.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup

1. could not see form to input user account data 2. on mouse hover it did however change for text input 3. links were still active "special account" even if not visible

Cheers hope it helps

Hi,

I'm having trouble this morning (2/5) creating a user name/log-in/account. I get to a "Log in/create account" page, but there is just an empty tab displayed. If I move my cursor across the "empty" tab, it changes to an I-bar in some places as if there were a field there, just not visible. I'm using IE 6, WinXP.

Scott

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Resolved fixed. --Balinny 12:28, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Status time

when I change my status, the time have to be my location time, and not server time!

[edit] Login redirect and login timer

The login page redirects the user to his profile with no way to return to the article that was being edited without losing login (hitting back and reloading loses the session). Also, the timer is far to short for login timeouts, as I was editing fairly consistently and took a minute to write new content and was logged out. -- 70.185.113.153 00:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Hit back and preview. You can also hit back, copy to clipboard, reload and paste if you prefer. Timer is sometimes a bit odd. Probably has to do with php session garbage collector. --Balinny 18:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Footer links broken

The links in page footers are broken. "Contact Us" and "Terms of Use" are broken on the http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ page. On the wiki http://search.wikia.com/wiki/ all the footer links are broken. Hmm

Known bug --Balinny 18:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] while requesting email for verification: mailer error

I do not get a verification mail!

Go to Special:Preferences and request a new one. --Balinny 12:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interface BUG - bottom links 

About Us  Contact Us  Terms of Use   Help Us Make it Better

site footer links at bottom of page are broken! (I'm browsing with Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Ubuntu 7.10) --Rogerhc 17:24, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Moved from search talk:Mini article/Policy discussion -- Bantab 16:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


Known bug --Balinny 18:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unable to search

I enter the search term in the bar and the same page reloads with no results. By default, I don't accept cookies or execute Javascript. Even after turning Javascript on, there was no change in behavior. I'm not sure if this is a Javascript issue or a beta code issue, but either way I'd like to be able to search without having to modify my default settings.

Allow javascript and reload the page. I'm afraid it doesn't work without JS. It also needs AJAX. --Balinny 12:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Additional clear you browser cache and disable the firebug(if using firefox and firebug enabled). AJAX Webpages sometimes(i dont know when) have some trouble with Firebug. Best regards --Cy 20:42, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interference of nicknick name with links

I selected a nickname, but now the signature ~~~~ does not include links to my user or talk page. Fred 12:05, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Can't reproduce. Maybe you checked Raw signature? It should be unchecked to auto-link (or you can have it checked and manually include the linking wikitext). --Balinny 18:10, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your profile bugs.

There are following bugs in "Your profile":

  1. It asks again to enter username/password even after successful login in "Wiki log in".
  2. It does not work when correct username/password is supplied.
  3. Also it seems during registration I typed lowercase username, but later first letter has been changed to be upper case.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Decandent (talk • contribs).

  1. You need to login twice. search:Unresolved issues#Unified login
  2. If it doesn't work, it isn't so correct...
  3. First username letter is always shown uppercase (just as page names).
--Balinny 22:23, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sign up page error

Using mozilla firefox, i could not sign up to the service, the captcha box dint appear on the page.

[edit] 'Bad title' error when creating mini-article

I get this message when I try to create a mini article for a web site of which the title contains brackets "[" and "]"

The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title. It may contain one or more characters which cannot be used in titles.

To generate the error, search for "the huntington project." Click the short description under the first result title to feed the title back into the search. Now click the link for "starting" this article. You will see the error.

[edit] Go Button with Internet Explorer

Hi,

Just noticed an issue with "Go" button. On the following URL

http://alpha.search.wikia.com/

If we leave the search text box blank and click on the "Go" button we received the following error message:

"Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet sire http://re.search.wikia.com/search Operation aborted"

The URL would be redirected to "http://re.search.wikia.com/search". I tried this on Internet Explorer 6.0

Good Luck!

--Aman speedbug 19:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)Speedbug--Aman speedbug 19:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Can't confirm. Maybe some paranoid security configuration? --Balinny 14:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] can't display the page

In the link http://alpha.search.wikia.com/index.html, if we press go button without entering a any data string i am getting the error "Internet Explorer can't open the Internet site http://re.search.wikia.com/search." " Operation aborted".

If i click ok then i am getting page can't be dispalyed.

[edit] Search Results are not easy on the eye

Although it is not a bug, the bright blue on white used in the search results is not very user friendly, in fact it is just plain hard to read. You should look for a better colour scheme

I fully agree. In general, the screen presentation is poor. The only bright spot is the red background behind Logout! I also think the magnifying glass with the (edit) after each keyword link makes the minis difficult to read, although I do agree it would be useful to keep the (create) function (perhaps without the magnifying glass you recently introduced). By contrast, the conventional blue for the traditional mini links is fully satisfactory.--Ipigott 13:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


Greek island search. Where is http://www.greekisland.co.uk ? This is the premier authority site on the Greek islands and top in Google foe a 'greek islands' search yet doesn't appear in your top 40 while rubbish sites with commercial lists of greek cruises with no decent content at all appear in the top 10. What a crap search engine you have created. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.183.202 (talk • contribs)

It's constantly improving. Do you expect any search engine to get everything right?? Not even the long term ones do it! --Balinny 14:46, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not working properly in IE7

After clicking Go button no progress we are able to see.

[edit] Mailman CGI Error!!!

I clicked on the "Mailing list" link in the sidebar on this wiki, which goes to http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/search-l . I got this error message: 

Mailman CGI error!!!

The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog:

Failure to find group name for GID 501.  Mailman
expected the CGI wrapper to be executed as group
"www", but the system's web server executed the
wrapper as GID 501 for which the name could not be
found.  Try adding GID 501 to your system as "www",
or tweak your web server to run the wrapper as group
"www".

There has been similar reports, but can't reproduce them. Which browser are you using? --Balinny 14:48, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

I think it would be great, if Wikipedia would ALWAYS show up in the search results! For example you search Metallica, there should be one result(Metallica - Wikipedia) that is linked to wikipedia.org.

VAZZ in hurry

[edit] Case sensitivity

We need to make the mini-article results in search not case sensitive. There are not a whole lot of people who use capitalization when they make a search. And it being case sensitive is making it so people have to make tons of redundant articles. For instance if you want to write about John Smith, you might need to make duplicate articles entitled "John Smith", "JOHN SMITH", "john smith", "John smith", etc. --Mark (Mschel) 18:51, 14 February 2008 (EST)

Yes, we know. This need to be sorted out. --Balinny 14:48, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Many of us have been complaining about this relatively simple problem to solve since 7 January. It must be THE most important priority for the mini article environment and also for search as the minis will not show up until it is solved. Next on the list is REDIRECT which is closely connected with this. --Ipigott 22:22, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok, how would you fix it? Make all miniarticles lowercase? What when it has different meanings? What when the keywords are searched in a different order? Should Mini articles from different words appear when there's no specific mini? --Balinny 22:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

The usual approach in language processing lookup is:

  1. Always look for an exact match (of upper/lower case combinations) first, e.g. if their is an entry on pH and the term to be found is pH, you take pH; similarly, if there an entry on PH you take that for PH; if there is no specific capitalisation, both would default to ph.
  2. Unfortunately, it does not seem possible to write a mini article without an initial capital (which seems to be assigned automatically). This needs to be changed so that you could, for example, distinguish between Brown (proper name) and brown (colour).
  3. The guidelines seem to encourage full use of capitalisation in the minis although capitals are seldom used in search which is almost always lower case. Either people should be encouraged to use lower case in all mini article titles unless real ambiguities exist; alternatively the system should look up the term without capitals unless a separate lower-case entry already exists.
  4. The alphabetic sort for existing articles needs to be updated to ensure that upper and lower case articles are correctly sequenced. At the moment, you get all the lower case first then the upper case (see for example the articles displayed under Category US government).
  5. If the REDIRECT were to function correctly, in the first instance article creators/editors could use it to cover different combinations of upper/lower case. Better still, it could be automated to create automatically a lower case equivalent to an article with upper case in multiterm expressions. In other words Britney Spears would automatically create britney spears. Similarly britney spears could create Britney Spears. This would help with internal linking which at the moment often appears to fail although a valid article (with the wrong case) actually exists. (And this needs to be extended to keyword linking too.)
  6. Ultimately there could be a clever scan of frequent search terms and search results to identify the probable correct combination of upper and lower case in actual searches. us space program could then be correctly identified as US space program (rather than the pronoun us). But I realise this is not a priority at the moment. (BTW both Yahoo and Google extend this kind of assistance to spelling too.)

So here's something to go on. I hope there are people in the development team who can be encouraged to appreciate the importance of all this for the project as a whole. -- Ipigott 08:15, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Schriftfarbe der Suchergebnisse

Hallo, heute möchte ich darauf hinweisen, das die Suchergebnisse ausserordlich schlecht zu lesen sind. Die Ursachen sind: die unglücklich gewählten Farben helblau und hellgelb.

Dadurch ist das Lesen anstrengend und wer noch keinen Augenschaden hat --- nun, der wird nicht lange auf sich warten lassen. Außerdem wird das Auge viel schneller ermüden.

[edit] Mein Rat: 

Sucht eine andere Farbkombination der Schrift.

Liebe Grüße von

just in time —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Just_in_time (talk • contribs).

Translation: "Color choice on search result page (light blue and light yellow) makes it hard to read."
Light yellow? That may be your monitor. The background is white for me.
--Rainer 17:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Randomimage

Hi @ all, i wanted to add a randompic at my userpage. Like shown in http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Version i used the <randomimage> tag. I forgot to close the tag and get this error:

exception 'DOMException' with message 'DOMXPath::__construct() expects parameter 1 to be DOMDocument, boolean given' in /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/extensions/RandomImage/RandomImage.class.php:119 Stack trace: #0 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/extensions/RandomImage/RandomImage.class.php(119): DOMXPath->__construct(false) #1 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/extensions/RandomImage/RandomImage.class.php(72): RandomImage->removeMagnifier(' render() #3 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/extensions/RandomImage/RandomImage.php(49): RandomImage::renderHook('???de...', Array, Object(Parser)) #4 [internal function]: wfRandomImage('???de...', Array, Object(Parser)) #5 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/Parser.php(633): call_user_func_array('wfRandomImage', Array) #6 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/Parser.php(305): Parser->strip('Hello out there...', Object(StripState)) #7 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/EditPage.php(1470): Parser->parse('Hello out there...', Object(Title), Object(ParserOptions)) #8 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/EditPage.php(1063): EditPage->getPreviewText() #9 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/EditPage.php(441): EditPage->showEditForm() #10 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/EditPage.php(290): EditPage->edit() #11 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/Wiki.php(437): EditPage->submit() #12 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/includes/Wiki.php(48): MediaWiki->performAction(Object(OutputPage), Object(Article), Object(Title), Object(User), Object(WebRequest)) #13 /usr/wikia/source/releases_200802.2/index.php(89): MediaWiki->initialize(Object(Title), Object(OutputPage), Object(User), Object(WebRequest)) #14 {main}

Sure, I wrote the close tag now, but no user should see a whitescreen with an error like this. Greeting --Cy 00:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Seems to randomly fail. Email Rob Church about that --Balinny 16:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Footer crosses sideunit

It's a rare case but if no search results are found, the footer overlaps with the sideunit div. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pallepille (talk • contribs).

[edit] Search results

Many times, when performing searchs from the front page, no results are shown, althoug another page is shown. Searching again, we got the results. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.32.146.231 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Wrong nickname/Nickname rendered wrong

I have managed to get two different nicknames, and my first one is displayed on search.wikia.com and the second one are displayed here. As far as I know, it's the same account.

The real bug: On the search reasults page my nickname is displayed with a + instead of a space. ("Natanael+L" instead of "Natanael L") Over here: http://re.search.wikia.com/search Natanael L 15:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Star rating system

Not sure if this is a bug or on purpose... but the stars don't show up unless you hover your mouse over the general area of them. Guesty-Persony-Thingy 05:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Category

In categorys miniarticle are could found at M not the first letter. --A German 17:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Search results

When the search results appear there are usually less displayed then the number claimed.

There is a green panel at the bottom offering further search results but when i click it the last page is repeated and the freen panel is duplicated (once for each time I click it).

Best wishes and good luck for this exciting undertaking.

LPMCCnet 14:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plea - please open in new window!

Please can you make the search result link open in a new window so I don't lose my search results!

Preferably open in a new TAB but I don't know if that is possible yet (if it is PLEASE tell me how!)

LPMCCnet 14:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

That's not the work of the page. W3C discourages such use. Press Shift while clicking the link to open in a new window, or Ctrl for a new tab. --Balinny 21:44, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I am sure this works only fine if LPMCCnet surfs with Firefox. I wouldn't know how he should do it with IE.RobZoeker 01:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bug for redirect to wiktionary in french

It works for wikipedia not wiktionary

Wiktionary article:
Template
for the "template" article in english wiktionary
  1. Template:Wt/fr : pour l'article "Template" dans le Wiktionary en français (disponible uniquement en anglais)

[edit] articlenames in categories

Hi I changed every Mini article in the Category:City_in_Germany I added behind the Category:City_in_Germany the name of the city f.e. [[Category:City_in_Germany|Frankfurt am Main]] There is additional a Mini article Mini:Frankfurt am main which contains {{Mini:Frankfurt am Main}} In the Category:City_in_Germany the article Mini:Frankfurt am main is shown under the letter M. I think it should be under the letter F, like Mini:Frankfurt am Main. Is it my fault, what is wrong?? Best regards --