Bugs and problems (new threads)

Help with Xitami Web Server

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:10:40 +0000

I recently noticed an issue with the declaration in safari browser. I dont see any CSS applied to the page while using safari browser and Xitami web server, but using Apache on my localhost and it works fine. I tried to remove the declaration on the Xitami web server then the page displays all the CSS but all IE is messed up now. I used declaration and Apache, all browsers work fine. I don't what the deal is with declaration, Xitami, Safari and IE. Can anyone help me. Thanks in advance.

Bulleted lists create unwanted blank lines - parser bug?

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:29:01 +0000

Here's the link to my site: http://theinternetandbusiness.wikidot.com/outline-and-learning-outcomes#marketing_outcomes. Scroll to the bottom of the code below and you'll see the extra blank lines at the bottom and the failure of indentation.

+ Show the Broken List

- Hide the Broken List

Internet advertising
- Businesses will pay for people's attention. This is called the economics of attention.
- Many web sites earn revenue from businesses that want to get the attention of people who visit that web site.
- There are many advertising-based business models, which is one of the reasons why there is so much free stuff on the internet
- Display advertising is the the type of advertising that displays ads from third parties on web sites
  - The participants in the display advertising industry include:
    - Advertisers: the people who buy the ads (usually businesses)
    - Web site owners: people who own the sites on which the ads are displayed e.g. The New York Times. Space in which ads can be placed is called "real estate."
    - Intermediaries: internet advertising agencies that develop the ads, advertising networks that distribute the ads across many different web sites, ad servers (such as DoubleClick — now owned by Google) — companies that place the ad on the web site
  - Unlike static advertising such as that in print magazines and on television, online advertisers can display different ads to different users, based in information about the users
    - Behavioral targeting is the practice of targeting ads to users based on their online behavior i.e. the sites they visit
    - Display advertisers use cookies to target ads
    - Display advertising advantages: can promote a brand and build awareness
    - Display advertising disadvantages: just like TV ads, you don't know if the people who see the ads are interested at all in the product
- Search advertising is the practice of placing advertisements in people's search results
  - Search advertising has a big advantage over other types of advertising: you know what people are looking for by what they type into the search engine
  - Advertisers will pay a premium to get access to users who are actively looking for something
  - That's how Google makes a lot of money
  - Search advertising advantages: can target ads at people actively looking to buy something
  - Search advertising disadvantages: cannot stimulate interest of people who are not looking; cannot build a brand e.g. "Coke" using search advertising
- Search engine optimization: the art of designing your web site so it is at the top of relevant search engine results
- Viral marketing and its close relative, social media marketing use social networks to get people to share ads or product information with their friends and to gather information about the users of social networks
  - Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are the best known examples
  - But there are many others: [[social]]
  - Advantages of social media marketing: people tend to trust and pay attention to recommendations from their friends; can spread funny or interesting messages very fast (called "going viral"); can be low cost or even "free" if you post your own advertising messages
  - Disadvantages of social media marketing: some products or services may not be interesting enough to "go viral"; results are unpredictable; people may resent having their personal information used
- Email marketing is adverting in emails
  - Most useful for repeat customers, as the business already has their email address
  - Advantages: low cost; can stimulate purchase from repeat customers
  - Disadvantages: can be hard to reach new prospects (seen as "spam")
- Blogs, user forums, customer complaints
  - Blogs provide a way to broadcast information to customers
  - Customer comments on blogs can be a useful form of customer feedback
  - User forums can be useful both for solving customer problems and getting customers to help each other
  - Advantages of blogs and customer forums: low cost
  - Disadvantages of blogs and customer forums: customer complaints can be very visible to prospective new customers
- Promotion on third-party shopping sites such as Google Products, eBay, Craigslist
  - Advantages of promotion on shopping sites: much greater exposure; some listings are free (e.g. Google Products)
  - Disadvantages of promotion on shopping sites: product comparison is often by price, resulting in intense price competition

The web site is an important marketing tool here is the first problem — an extra blank line
- Ultimately, almost all forms of online advertising direct the user to a web site here is the second problem — indentation not working
- It is then up to the design of that web site to turn a visitor into a customer indentation still not working
- You need to understand the elements of web site design indentation still not working
You need to be able to develop an online marketing campaign unwanted blank line
- Select target indentation not working
- Develop budget indentation still not working
- Select tactics indentation still not working

However, I cannot replicate the problem with a short bulleted list:

Level 1
- Level 2
  - Level 3
Level 1

Inviting members becomes difficult since there are so many

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:48:44 +0000

If you start a new private site and want to invite members you go to the admin part. you type in a member name like lets say "steven" , I forgot his family name so I was hoping to see it, when I pressed search… The list is too long and his name was not on there… where is the rest of the list?

Provide your name???

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:34:06 +0000

I have just got this message while trying to save a page unlogged.

Don't panic, but…
Provide your name.

I really think that this message is confusing. I would suggest different message:

You are not logged in. Please, log in to continue.

Also, I would like to say that I preferred Oops message…. It was more natural than Don't panic¹

I already know that some kind of title is needed… But, shouldn't it be just Dear user?
Even Surprise, surprise! is better than Don't panic..
:D :D :D

Failure Error Code

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:29:36 +0000

Here's a first for me:

It looks like a Wikidot generated error. Anyone else ever see one like this?

-Ed

Sandbox vandalism

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:48:10 +0000

I couldn't see any post on this - but presumably people have noticed that the information pages in the Sandbox have been vandalised?

'What is a wiki site' and 'how to edit pages' have both been changed to irrelevant content.

PDF files are not displayed

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:08:28 +0000

I uploaded a .pdf file but it's not displayed as an image, contrary to what is declared here: http://www.wikidot.com/doc:wiki-syntax#images .

I read all these forum threads:

http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-81980/
http://community.wikidot.com/bugs:27
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-25250/gallery-not-displaying-pdf-s
http://pro.wikidot.com/ticket:247

However I couldn't find any answer. At this moment, it's possible or not to display new pdf files like images? I said new, because my old pages are still displaying the pdf attached to them:

http://terrasdeportugal.wikidot.com/ementa-das-almas-em-loriga
http://terrasdeportugal.wikidot.com/test:teste

Thanks,

New Account Issue?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:13:37 +0000

Just had a notice from someone trying to create a new account

Tried to join the Website ya got but it would not accept my email addy.

I use hotmail. I'll try later!

I remember some hotmail issues a couple years back but thought it was fixed. It could just be the hotmail server was down for that instant and this is nothing. Will keep you posted on when (or if) the person tries again.

Site: http://typesets.wikidot.com/

created/updtated_at problem

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:36:52 +0000

I have discovered a problem in relation to defining %%created_at%% and %%updated_at%% within a module on a _template page. You can see here, when you hover over "Customization", it shows the dates of the current page (notebook:1), but when you click on "Customization", you can see that its actual dates are different. So defining those variables in a module on a _template page only shows the current page's dates.

I've tried fixing this by including the module from a different page, but that did not work.

Is this a bug, or did I miss something?

Multiple Bugs

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:19:21 +0000

In the _template, the %%parent_category%% variable is working incorrectly. It displays %%category%% instead.
When you add/change the parent of any page, the %%parent…%% variables DO NOT update until you either:
1. Click Edit/Save on the (un)affected page
2. Make a change to the _template page of the (unaffected category)
When you set the ListPages parent attribute, if there is no parent for the current page, then ListPages behaves as though the parent attribute was ignored… (i.e. parent="=" and parent="." will still display results, even when there is no parent set)
When using the NewPage module, you can't enter "hidden pages"… i.e. if you type in "category:_template", the NewPage module will instead create the page "category:template" (with no underscore) (feature, not bug)
Page names with underscores can not use the automatic template code (i.e. /edit/true/t/4137338/title/James%20Kanjo)

The parent issues are the ones that concern me the most, because they are essential features of two new Wikidot Applications I've written.

In addition to this bug report, I would like to suggest an improvement with the automatic template system. Instead of using a cryptic URL to identify a page, why not just type in the page in the URL??? For example, /edit/true/template/template:james/title/James%20Kanjo would make our lives much easier… we can create pages using links instead of the NewPage module, and thus the user doesn't have to type anything.

HTTP404

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:23:17 +0000

eh repeatedly tried to enter a long time and the links do not answer me pull the http404, HELP

BUG: _page/code/1

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:25:54 +0000

Some Wikidotians may remember how I always refer to code on the wdfiles domain with the /local--code/page-name/# technique, as opposed to the /page-name/code/# technique.

My defence was always “I have experienced times when this technique did NOT work, however the /local--code/ technique was foolproof and always worked”

Today I discovered the circumstances in which the technique would not work. It won't work on hidden pages, or pages within hidden categories. As we know, hidden pages/categories have the first character in their name as an underscore (_)

Proof:

hidden:page — yes, /code/1 works
hidden:_page — no, /code/1 doesn't work
_hidden:page — no, /code/1 doesn't work
_hidden:_page — no, /code/1 doesn't work

Custom Themes and External URL

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:49:42 +0000

I'm having a problem converting from "old style" custom themes to using an external theme page. Not sure if this is a bug, operator error, or a timing issue that will clear up on its own.

-Ed

HTTP 404

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:15:54 +0000

every download link shows me the message of the HTTP 404 error

All contents of a page disappear

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:52:39 +0000

The 18th revision of the page http://robo24wolverine.wikidot.com/rss-feeds caused everything on the page to disappear. There's no wikidot structure around it, there's no buttons at the bottom of the page, there's no menu at the top of the page, there's nothing left. Is there some way to get back to the previous revision?

Thanks for any help you might provide.

for perpage discussions minirecentpost now points to the discussed page instead of forum

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:27:54 +0000

this was a good idea, but the problem is, for pages that dont have the comment module on them, now you have to scroll down and click on the discusses link instead of going directly to the thread that you wanted to go to in the first place. maybe you could make it to go to the page only if the is a comments module on it.

Commented_at Formatting

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:40:20 +0000

I'm laying out a page-based forum for a (currently private) site, and I've reached a little stumbling block with commented_at — in that %%commented_at%% works, but %%commented_at|pick your format%% doesn't display anything at all, even for pages with comments. It'll give me the right %%comments%% and %%commented_by%% values, so I know it's drawing from the correct page, and %%updated_at|any given format%% works, so it's not all dates.

But then I tried the code here: http://rhapsody.wikidot.com/test:listpages… and everything worked fine. Apparently I can't duplicate the bug on a public page. I've since tried a few more permutations in the original buggy page, including copying code back out of the demonstrably-working rhapsody site… and am still at a loss.

It doesn't seem to be a function of the page source, and that's about all I can figure.

Anyone else have ideas?

Editted Page and Now Only Template Shows

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:26:20 +0000

This has happened before to me - I'll edit a page, and when I saved the page, no content displays, only the category template. If you view the page source or attempt to edit the page, the content is still all available however.

I've deleted and recreated the page to no avail. However, if you create the page outside of a category with the same content there are no problems. Its only when you rename that page to the original category that issues arise.

The page currently causing issues is: http://westernweyr.wikidot.com/dragon:damasth

Error saving - bug or identity theft?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:39:27 +0000

I use Internet Explorer (7, I think) and Windows Vista. I've not had the problem before yesterday. It has happened over and over since then. When I go to save edits, I get a wikidot security error that says something about enabling cookies in my browser (they are enabled) and that it could be an attempt at identity theft. This is of course worrisome. I don't have any personal information on my computer, but I know some people do, even if it's not advisable. Help? My page is: http://dragon-trees.wikidot.com/breeder:whoeverxwins I have used the coding in question (it varies), and it will save eventually. But I don't like the idea that someone could be targeting the wiki site. :(

iframe/javascript help

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:52:28 +0000

im trying to learn javascript, so I did the iframe thing to test some code. The code works fine in IE8 and Chrome, but for some reason in FF nothing happen and it just ask if want to print the page. Does anyone know why this is happening?