On 4/15/05, mbecker ™ <wikimb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When I tried to view the following page
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&targe…
I got the following error message:
Database error
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Mbecker (Talk)
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in
the software. The last attempted database query was:
That could be a transitory failure due to high server load; it happens
occasionally, probably something to do with the complex server setup
which I don't pretend to understand. It loaded for me fine.
Also, on a different page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:#20406
which is linked to by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3AIpblocklist I get the
following:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in
/usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.4/index.php on line 50
That's an illegal page name - the "#20406" part will be interpretted
by the browser as an anchor link, so the URL becomes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User: - which obviously points to
nothing. The display of the database error was just submitted as
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1899 - which appears to
have been fixed already.
The fact that the block list links there - but doesn't have a
"contribs" link, I notice - is odd, and it seems that that's not
actually the name of the account. Note that all entries listed as
"autoblocked" have "usernames" of that form - actually, I'm
guessing,
the internal ID number from the database. Looks like somebody
introduced a bug into the autoblocker code, such that it's not storing
the right information in the log.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]