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Cannot yet create articles with subpages

It is not yet possible to create a new article with subpages. We are still looking into this. It requires code from an ancient extension that no longer works with the upgraded software. If we cannot get that going in the near future, we will have to look into a new way of grouping the subpages for articles in the future. For now, please just wait until we figure out what to do. Sorry for the inconvenience. And it is possible to create new articles now without subpages. Pat Palmer (talk) 11:09, 18 March 2022 (CDT)

I like the new software. Keep up the good work. David MacQuigg (talk) 11:42, 20 March 2022 (CDT)

Thank you, David! Sergei Chekanov led the effort, and John Stephenson helped with testing. I'm so grateful to them both. Pat Palmer (talk) 15:29, 20 March 2022 (CDT)

Logging in: underscores required in username

When I log in, I cannot use a space character but must use an underscore in my username: "Mark_Widmer" The old site used to allow the space character. Mark Widmer (talk) 15:43, 19 March 2022 (CDT)

This is probably fixable by someone more expert than I but we'll need to live with it for now, sorry. Pat Palmer (talk) 09:06, 24 March 2022 (CDT)

images from the wikimedia commons

I found, recently, that the Citizendium will directly use images from the wikimedia commons. They don't have to be downloaded and then uploaded here. Has this always worked, or is this an improvement coming from the recent software upgrade? Should I worry about images I did import? Cheers! George Swan (talk) 07:02, 23 March 2022 (CDT)

Until now I hadn't been aware that this was possible. It turns out to be a default setting on more recent versions of the wiki software. It's called 'InstantCommons' and you can read more here. We have no rule for or against this. See also this thread. John Stephenson (talk) 07:29, 23 March 2022 (CDT)

To do it, add code like this to a page: [[File:Wikimedia-Commons-filename.jpg|thumb|Caption of a picture from Wikimedia Commons embedded in this Wiki]] Pat Palmer (talk) 09:33, 25 March 2022 (CDT)

Issues with existing subpages articles

Much of the code from the old wiki for subpages is kaput. If you want create a subpage which is currently empty, DO NOT click on the subpages header to open it. Instead, explicitly put the subpage title onto the end of the browser's the URL, like this (a link to a Related Articles subpage): https://citizendium.org/wiki/FC-MSR_nuclear_reactor/Related_Articles . I hope we'll eventually get this fixed, but please be careful in the meantime. Pat Palmer (talk) 09:04, 24 March 2022 (CDT)

• https://citizendium.org/wiki/FC-MSR_nuclear_reactor/Related_Articles or Template:FC-MSR_nuclear_reactor/Related_Articles ? I did experiment with this, and I couldn't always get it to work, and wasn't sure what I was doing wrong.

As I said before - thanks to everyone who has worked hard on the upgrade!

Cheers! George Swan (talk) 10:29, 24 March 2022 (CDT)

SubPageList3 extension enabled

You can place a list of all subpages into an article which has them. This code does it: <splist sortby=title liststyle=ordered showpath=no />. See the test article Doggie for an example. More details are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList3#Usage. Pat Palmer (talk) 10:00, 24 March 2022 (CDT)

another thing lost in upgrade: older user contributions

In case people haven't noticed, User contributions from before the software upgrade in Mar 2022 are now lost. This was unavoidable since we had to re-create user accounts. Pat Palmer (talk) 14:20, 24 March 2022 (CDT)

old server available for a limited time

The old server is up and running again, and will be available for you to look back in for a limited time at https://czold.org/. I will die sometime in May of this year. Note that the certificate is wrong, so you will need to click past the browser warnings and tell the browser to accept the risk and continue. The one thing you might want to look at in the old server is your past user contributions. For those articles you are interested in, to get them back on your watchlist, you'll need to make a tiny edit on each article here in the new server. The old server will only be up for a few more weeks. Also, watch out--certain links on the old server will send you to this new server. Pat Palmer (talk) 07:44, 25 March 2022 (CDT)