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Author: wikipediauser7

Description:
Gif of twinkle stopping at "data loaded..."

Appears that Twinkle and Friendly have completely broken on en.wp sometime in the last 24+ hrs.

Error: form is null
Source File: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:AzaToth/twinklewarn.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Line: 1363


Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Twinkle#Twinkle_stalling_during_User_Warn

Attached:

error.gif (102×486 px, 4 KB)

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Reference
bz27672

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:31 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz27672.

wikipediauser7 wrote:

Was doctype recently changed to HTML5? Someone is mentioning that may be causing the problem - similar to 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_67#Twinkle_stalling

alexsm333 wrote:

Yes it was changed: "15:39 ... 'Enable $wgHtml5 on all wikis'"
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log

(In reply to comment #2)

Was doctype recently changed to HTML5? Someone is mentioning that may be
causing the problem - similar to 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_67#Twinkle_stalling

See also Bug 27478.

Stop screen scraping!

It's the devils work!

Reverted to Html4 for now. We probably want to set a date for when a new switch is attempted. Advertise the date, warn the scriptwriters, summarize which techniques are likely to break, provide them with a link to a testing environment for their scripts.

Awaiting inevitable recurrence after we execute bug 27478 again, but fixed for now..

thambaru wrote:

I'm reopening this to report the same bug which appears in our si.wiki (Sinhala-Sri Lanka)
We've added Twinkle to our common files, but now it isn't working. As same as user:7 said, it get stuck at "Data Loading.."
It worked well before few months. But now, something went wrong.

Thambaru: I'm pretty sure it's not the same reason in the code, so I'm closing this ticket again. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Twinkle#Bugs_and_feature_requests for where to file Twinkle bugs. If it is clear (means: reasons) that this is a bug in MediaWiki code or the Wikimedia server configuration, please file a new ticket in bugzilla.wikimedia.org. Thanks.