Path of Exile Wiki:Troubleshooting known issues

Issues on this wiki that are known to the admins/sysops and possible solutions on how to fix it. Consider the talk page if you want something added.

Mediawiki

Page is not added to transcluded categories from pages with <includeonly>

The symptom is generally that the page shows the category correctly at the bottom, but is not actually added to it.

Solution:

• null-edit the page the category is transcluded to

Extensions

Scributo (Modules/Lua)

mw.text.split is very slow

Solution:

• If possible use string.split instead

Semantic Mediawiki

Query depth

There is a limit on how large and complex SMW queries can be; you can use format=debug to get an idea what is happening with the query.

Some ways to solve this problem:

• reduce the number of conditions in the query
• reduce the number of subqueries (i.e. <q></q>
• summarize common conditions into a concept
• use a lua module for further iteration purposes

Redirect pages may cause issues with properties

Can occur due to:

• moving pages (with properties) and leaving a redirect
• editing redirect pages
• deleting pages that contain redirects

Solution (steps):

1. validate the properties on the real page are set as they should
   1. if missing or incorrect properties are present, null-edit the page
   2. if this is still the case, do a minor edit on the page such as adding a space

Text search not working properly

Causes and solutions

1. Text after 72nd character is not searched
   • Try limiting your search to the first portion of the text
   • Use other means of searching (i.e. other properties)
   • When working on template make sure the characters intended for search are not too long
2. Text may include HTML/wikitext
   • In case of wiki links screwing search up consider searching for words only, e.x. ~Life*Leech

Properties or values were changed in a template but they don't show up in the properties

Such changes generally take a while (up to several hours) to go though, esp. on templates that are used in many places.

Solutions:

• Just wait it out (preferred)
• perform null-edits (edit with no changes) on all pages using the template