Kerbal Space Program Wiki:Migration problems

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After the recent update of the MediaWiki software to 1.24.2 some problems have been introduced and not addressed yet but please don't annoy Squad employees.

Current status

Apparently these issues are due to the fact that the wiki currently resides on a temporary server. It's planned that it'll be moved to the final server in the week starting with May 18th or May 25th. With that move these issues here should be resolved. As soon as more information comes available this section will be updated.

Issues

File namespace

the problems with the File namespace have been getting worse. It is now not possible to upload and move files. It also seems that it can't create new thumbnails (already existing ones work) like in technology tree. N.B. it's not just images using "thumb", it's all image resizing, making it completely impossible to use anything other than existing cached images at existing cached sizes (i.e. the 50px / 100px /etc option is totally broken if the requested size was not in the cache before the server broke).

Math tag

Previously a <math>-tag could be used to nicely print formulas using TeX but since the update an error appears:

Job queue

There might be an issue with the job queue either not running or being extremely slow to run.

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics&format=jsonfm

The number of jobs doesn't seem to be counting down as it should be. Subtle things seem to not catch up properly, such as category membership and "what links here". It's not something that will be immediately noticed in terms of viewing the site, as it doesn't block every category update, or every update of "what links here", just things which only ever occur as a background task and will never get triggered via other mechanisms. It is stuck at "jobs": 5662 at the time of posting this issue, and has not changed for a good 5–10 minutes, where the expected behaviour is that it should be steadily counting downwards (except when an edit causes new tasks to be added to the queue). It's not an issue of the API page getting cached, as "views" is correctly updating with every reload of that URL.

Resolution

This problem can only be fixed by someone who has access to the server this software is running on which are only Squad employees. Sysops like me (XZise) have no access to the server itself but just via this software interface.

If you find technical issues other than these two please contact XZise or ALeXmOrA (although I'm not sure if this page is checked by them).