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It seems it's not present on mobile, at least, but on desktop there's a yellow box with an explanation. a server misconfiguration in 2013 and another one in 20
by mcpherrinm 7y ago
It seems it's not present on mobile, at least, but on desktop there's a yellow box with an explanation.
a server misconfiguration in 2013 and another one in 2015
2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_119#Edits_from_127.0.0.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...
Wikipedia appears to have a two-layer varnish cache system, and if the frontend and backend cache is the same host, the edit was attributed to localhost.
2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_142#User:127.0.0.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(techni...
A change broke Wikimedia's parsing of X-Forwarded-For and defaulted to localhost.
- jumelles 7y agoNavigation templates (seen at the bottom of many articles) are also missing from the mobile view.
- onei 7y agoThey have been for years. The issue is that they're tables, and often nested tables (there's nothing to prevent how nested afaik) which don't render that well on the mobile UI. Rather than figure out how to render them or come up with an alternative layout, they opted to hide them.