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Contents 1 Editing problems 2 Vandalism and more Vandalism 3 Featured article incorrect 4 lamers 5 Feedback 6 featured article 7 favicon 8 New Design

Editing problems

Recently for some reason or another I have been having problems editing certain pages on this site. I'll go into the edit menu, make some changes and after I click submit it will then send me to another edit menu only it is a completely blank page. No fields or any other sort of information. At the end of the URL on all of these pages is "&action=submit". I'm assuming that this is supposed to be some sort of automated page that would normally forward you back to the page being edited but doesn't.

See [1] for a screenshot of the issue.

Any thoughts? Cbale2000 13:15, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

I am having issues editing my team's page (151) as well, I need to update a table and the only way of getting there is to edit the entire page, but when i do this it just blanks the page when I hit save. It's really annoying. Doshindude 01:07, 26 February 2008 (EST)

The issues is now known as the editing glitch. There are many pages around the site that have this problem, eventually we plan on finding someone who can fix the issue. The problem seems to be limited to the main edit button, so unfortunately this means no table changes untill it gets fixed or another user who is not experiencing the issue can edit it.

Please report any occurances of this glitch at the following page: FIRSTwiki:Uneditable_Articles. Thanks. Cbale2000 19:20, 26 February 2008 (EST)

Will upgrading to the newest version of MediaWiki (version 1.11.x) solve this problem? Here's our current version. Nlaverdure 13:02, 27 February 2008 (EST)

Wow, we are a few versions behind aren't we? Guess it wouldn't hurt, assuming we're not going to loose pages or anything like that. Of course who we would need to contact to actually update it is beyond me. Cbale2000 23:36, 27 February 2008 (EST)

Upgrading to Mediawiki 1.11. Looks like we'll need access to the site at the server level. Nlaverdure 18:20, 29 February 2008 (EST)

No surprise, guess it's time to email one of the Cheif Delphi guys. Cbale2000 14:08, 3 March 2008 (EST)

I have the same problem, and I have found that it's a limit on the characters. I tried adding a bit of my team's page one at a time, and it wouldn't let me save the last little bit. That means there is a limit of characters you can use. What I did was split my team's page in half, put the two halves on different pages on my userpage (User:MindstormsKid/Team page 1st half and User:MindstormsKid/Team page 2nd half). I then put the following on my team's page:

 {{FLLteamtable|
 |name=Team Terastorm
 |color=blue
 |image=[[Image:TeamTerastorm.jpg|314px|Team logo]]
 |yearfounded=2007
 |organization=Chattanooga Engineers Club
 |city=Chattanooga
 |stateorcountry=Tennessee
 |website=[http://teamterastorm.googlepages.com/ Team website]
 }}
 {{User:MindstormsKid/Team page 1st half}}
 {{User:MindstormsKid/Team page 2nd half}}

It worked. Note: Be sure to put the FLLteamtable template ON THE ARTICLE PAGE, not a different page. MindstormsKid 13:56, 15 March 2008 (EDT)

It isn't necessarily a character limit, some pages have very little content and still have this problem. Cbale2000 16:42, 17 March 2008 (EDT)

A few articles that have this glitch are:
151 ("edit this page" button)
Website Design Award (anywhere on the page) Doshindude 07:42, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

Vandalism and more Vandalism

Just got done fixing some Vandalism from 88.226.134.138

I don't really understand the logic behind "hacking" a wiki that anyone can edit. Sounds like something an 8 year old would do to get a few laughs to me. I doubt whoever keeps doing this will see this or care, but what the heck. Cbale2000 16:55, 2 March 2007 (EST)

Well, yet more Vandalism from 85.103.149.187 this time. Can someone block these guys or something? This is ridicules. Cbale2000 13:04, 6 March 2007 (EST)

More Vandalism from 85.99.29.44 this time. Are there any Admins on this site anymore? This is out of control. To the Hackers: You know, is clearing out ONE talk page on an underused Wiki really worth the effort? Especially since I just revert it the next day! If you really have that much time on your hand go get a job or something; you're only wasting everyone else's time. Cbale2000 11:51, 8 March 2007 (EST)

Just unvandalized page done by 81.213.196.194... RoboCats 16:32, 10 March 2007 (EST)

Featured article incorrect

I would just like to point out that the information on the Featured Article page is incorrect. It says Taurus (1073) was from the game FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar but clearly shows an image of a robot from Triple Play and the Taurus article agrees. I'd change it myself but I don't know how or even if I can. If someone would inform me on how to (again, if regular members have permissions to do so) I would gladly update the Featured Article section myself (and even change it once in a while to show some variety). Cbale2000 15:02, 15 February 2007 (EST)

• Never Mind, I figured out how to edit it. ^_^ Cbale2000 13:56, 21 February 2007 (EST)

lamers

Someone seems to have gone and deleted all the articles that are important, the index of people for example and the community portal there are several hundred pages by several very similar ips in a few minutes, all over anyone able to revert stuff please? And it seems that anything that has a few top level links seems to have had it happen to such as the hitchhikers guide to robotics. even this page sad people

Denman 09:47, 10 Oct 2005 (EDT) edit it seems that this is the list of stuff as they left behind a signature hackedpages

• Man I'm disappointed in the admins here. The vandalism/spam I removed was on the site for over two months. --141.212.50.143 00:15, 13 December 2005 (EST) (SirNuke Wikipedia User Page, former 1014 member)

I'm offended! I've been working my tail off trying to keep the spam out. And frankly, just the new stuff is enough to keep me busy. --Astronouth7303 07:57, 13 December 2005 (EST)

Feedback

Very interesting wiki site!... Thanx! --213.228.84.66 17:58, 15 Oct 2005 (EDT)

featured article

Please update the main page... The same featured page for two years is getting old ;). If there are no newer pages that are interesting enough to be featured we have failed as wikipedians.

Any suggestions? --Astronouth7303 00:08, 5 January 2006 (EST)

Text in the area where the featured article would be doesn't even make sense... "Recommend and article!" WTH? This site needs new management. Nothing seems to of been updated for nearly a year now. The logo is old and ugly.. just seems like everyone is generally lazy. --Hobo 11:20, 15 January 2006 (EST)

There really is no management to blame. I am the leader of this project, and there are 6 other sysops (of which maybe 2 are still active) but we don't really exert any great control over what happens. There is only so much effort we can put into it and there is absolutely no way "the management", in their spare time, alone can create a website that will hopefully swell to 5000+ pages. So, if you are disappointed with it, get more people involved. If you are disappointed with a particular part of the site, take it on as your duty to be "Curator of Featured Articles". Regardless, thanks for your contributions so far, and I hope to see you and team mates editing more in the future. --Max [1257] 13:34, 15 January 2006 (EST)

If you don't like the logo, we can go back to the old one. ;) This is a wiki. If you don't like something, fix it. If it lacks something, add it. If you see spam, remove it. If you see misinformation, change it. Be bold! --Astronouth7303 15:23, 15 January 2006 (EST)

Ehh... sorry for ranting before as I was upset for various reasons... I apologize to the management as I just simply haven't seen this site change at all in a year. Perhaps just frustrating that everyone spends time on CD instead of here ;). Anyway, I would be happy to design a new logo, but with all the rules that FIRST has with usage I highly doubt we would be able to get it approved. Anyway, sorry about before, and I wish you all the best of luck this season. --Hobo 17:07, 25 January 2006 (EST)

• I updated the Featured Article because no one else has done anything to the site and I'm trying to get the main page to look right. If there is a problem with this, feel free to take it down. - Hollis1138 11:12, 11 July 2006 (EDT)

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favicon

A favicon would be nice as well...

feel free to make one. --Astronouth7303 17:52, 29 January 2006 (EST)

New Design

I don't know how many people read this or visit the site, but the main page could use some work. I have experience with wiki formatting and I'd like to help improve it, but it's locked. -Hollis1138 13:50, 28 June 2006 (EDT)

• I've done a lot of work lately on my prototype new front page, please look at it HERE. Perhaps we can replace the existing page with the one I've made or at least with parts from it. Let me know what you think, thanks. - Hollis1138 14:42, 7 July 2006 (EDT)
• To be honest, I think there are some things that need change with the new design. It doesn't seem to have any logic to it. There is a section called "navigation" yet 2 other sections certainly fall under that category and they are not grouped together. Additionally, Removing the color differences made it harder to quickly find things on the page. I do like the new header though. It is certainly clearer, but I think we should revert the rest of the page unless you have something better. --Max [1257] 17:15, 11 July 2006 (EDT)
• Sure, do whatever you think is best. - Hollis1138 09:42, 12 July 2006 (EDT)
  • I reverted back to the previous version but the new header, how does that look? - Hollis1138 14:08, 12 July 2006 (EDT)
  • I like it better like this. I wasn't saying that you had to revert it. I don't want to be the "boss" of the website even if I do hold the keys, so to speak. I was just stating my opinion. But, yes, I do prefer it this way. I'm thinking about putting navigation above the featured article or something like that? What about the message at the bottom? should we incorporate into the top one? The part about community info seems pretty relevant.
    • I think putting the navigation above the featured article is a good idea, but I also think it should be reorganized to be more concise and aesthetically pleasing. I can incorporate the bottom part of the main page into the header too. Please feel free to look at / edit the development front page. - Hollis1138 10:33, 13 July 2006 (EDT)
      • I've made my own design, based on Wikipedia's. It's User:MindstormsKid/Main Page. It's more compact, and has a lot less things than the version now. I think it needs some more, but I can't figure out where.
        • Well this is sort of a dead topic so I don't think you're going to get very far with it. I personally like the current setup as it assists in navigating to some of the most important FIRST topics. Cbale2000 15:35, 19 July 2008 (EDT)