Edits aren't working

It's been happening to me too.

I think the glitch is limiting the amount of text you can input. Not sure if its the cause or a symptom.

edited 28th Apr '13 7:17:29 PM by lrrose

All I was doing was slightly changing the names of wicks, and it still wasn't taking it.

That part of the glitch might only be affecting the forums. A somewhat large post I made about my thoughts on tonight's Game of Thrones got eaten by the glitch.

edited 28th Apr '13 7:21:02 PM by lrrose

This is not a 100% of the time thing (in case anyone hadn't already noticed). I've edited a few laconic pages (dewicking) and it (seems to have) stayed. But then I edited an older wick and it didn't even show up in the history.

Basically, only a few characters more than the laconic ones. Changed "GreekMythology" to "[[ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]" at first and that worked, but then I tried changing "IgnoredTheResearch" into "[[ArtisticLicense Ignored the Research]]". The first time, I did not add a edit reason, the second time, I did.

edited 28th Apr '13 7:26:07 PM by DunDun

Well, at least the changes remain in your edit history, so you can easily copy them once this is fixed.

They did not for me.

Some save, some don't, and I'm tempted to think it depends on the time it's made. Mine were made recently and didn't save anywhere, but someone else's did in history, and were made earlier this day.

Edits should be reliably back on, now. One of the history archives ran out of room. The edits that were failing were on older articles.

History will be incomplete on certain articles.

edited 28th Apr '13 7:37:25 PM by FastEddie

Uh... does this imply anything going forward? If an archive ran out of room, it seems likely that it will happen again unless something changes. I'm not familiar with the architecture here, but wouldn't you have to either add more room or delete data from the archives?

It seems that we can post again, although some of the threads have responded weirdly and started new pages erratically. There's one in the RP section that only has two posts on one page before starting another, and said page starts at #56

All my thanks, Eddie. I can now get back to wick cleanup.

We're running out of memory. To free some back up, we'll be purging old Forum threads, starting with Yack Fest threads that have not had a new post since December 31, 2011. Please see this thread for complete information.

Thank-you.

I've taken care of the people wondering about this on discussion pages and directed them here for if they still have problems.

Thank you for that.

Can't you purge the Morgue, too?

I was wondering about that...

The morgue is one of the last places we'll purge, since they are directly related to the wiki's mission and their purging would disrupt it far more than the other fora.

That. I dunno about TRS, but pages that have had IP work done reference their related thread(s) in the morgue; removing them removes the history of the work on the page.

edited 29th Apr '13 12:16:03 PM by Willbyr

The whole reason the Morgue was established was that the last time we had to purge old threads, TRS and IP were purged right along with everything else. And then we found ourselves swamped with threads suggesting changes that we knew had already been decided against before, but we didn't have the old threads to point to and say "This is why it's like that. You'll need to come up with reasons that weren't addressed before if you want that decision changed."

Purging them of old threads defeats the whole purpose of having them in the first place.

Is a memory upgrade an option, or do we not have the funds for that?

We are actually doing it now, that is what the new headline is about.