FS#12494 - wiki has issues with long articles

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Samed Beyribey (ras0ir) - Thursday, 18 December 2008, 15:57 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 22 January 2009, 06:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Dusty Phillips (Dusty)
Simo Leone (neotuli)
Thayer Williams (thayer)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I've tried editing http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ba%C5%9Flang%C4%B1%C3%A7_Rehberi_(T%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e) page to change categories, but i got empty page when i saved it.
After this mess, i tried copy/paste Beginners Guide page to a new page. But i got empty page too.

By the way, im not the only one who had this issue.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61012

Steps to reproduce:
- Try editing Beginners Guide (not a section, edit the whole content) add something to the page and save it.
- Try creating a new page that uses over 102 kb (im not sure about 102, i've tried copying contents (of course, page source) to the new page.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 06:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  see comments
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 18:08 GMT
Interesting...I can reproduce this as well. I'll look into it.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 03:22 GMT
Someone may want to watch error_log on the server when trying to save a page this long and see if anything funny pops up there.

I'll take a cheap shot and also say it looks like the beginners guide is getting a bit long...
Comment by shapeshifter (shapeshifter) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 16:47 GMT
It happens in firefox, opera and arora for me as well. I just deleted the guide by accident today. Even if there is this warning about the size, the wiki software should handle it properly. "WARNING: This page is 116 kilobytes long; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections."
Well, two of the most popular browsers fail, so what use is it then.
Comment by Jules (Misfit138) - Sunday, 04 January 2009, 16:25 GMT
I agree that it is a bit long, but The Beginners' Guide is shorter than it has been in a long time; I broke it up into main article and Appendix a while back. This just started happening over the past month or so.
I am unable to add the {{i18n_entry|Nederlands|Beginners Guide (Nederlands)}} link for the Dutch page which has been requested for a while now.

Something changed...
:(
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 22 January 2009, 06:12 GMT
Fixed. PHP-Suhosin is limiting our post sizes. I've grudgenly increased it to 200000 bytes (from 65K or so) by editing suhosin.ini:
suhosin.post.max_value_length = 200000
suhosin.request.max_value_length = 200000

I will **not** increase this more. Pages are getting out of control.

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