Last modified: 2012-10-13 14:52:37 UTC
Going to http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User_talk:Aklapper (MediaWiki 1.21alpha) the section heading icons like "File:Gnome-colors-alacarte.svg" next to "First steps tutorial" are not displayed. Works fine on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Malyacko (MediaWiki 1.21wmf1 (69cfa2e)) though. Wondering if bug 40126 might be related, or if this is a labs-only issue.
The problem here is that the images exist in production but not deployment-prep.
I see. That makes using deployment-prep to find bugs unneccessarily hard. How do I find out (for future reference) if issues are real bugs in the codebase or just deployment-prep's differing setup?
These kind of things are never a bug in any code base. MediaWiki displays a red link for images that are not uploaded to the wiki (and/or don't exist in any of the foreign repositories, if some are configured). Wikis in beta.wmflabs use their own commons, just like wikimedia.org wikis use "their" commons as foreign file repository. If templates are copied from live to beta without copying the images used, then a red link is displayed. So for future reference I'd say: * Don't import templates without importing related other templates/files/scripts/styles. Or accept that the display will be different. * Most things in wiki pages are never software bugs anyway, just content issues. For example the page [[Commons:Licensing]] doesn't exist on the beta wiki, so links to it on the beta wiki are (naturally) red links.
