Certain pages on the wiki appear blank when I load them. Refreshing the page doesn't help, and only editing and saving the change seems to fix this problem. In case the page is visible to others, ehre are some screenshots of the problem
Certain pages on the wiki appear blank when I load them. Refreshing the page doesn't help, and only editing and saving the change seems to fix this problem. In case the page is visible to others, ehre are some screenshots of the problem
I've seen this many times, though I can't tell you exactly why this happens (perhaps the server fails to load the previous revision), but I can tell you that to fix the problem all you need to do is make a null edit (an edit in which you change nothing and publish).
This is a known bug, and has been documented on several wikis. We're not entirely sure what causes it. However, we know it can occur on regular pages, templates, and User_blog index pages.
Like the others have said, it's a known bug that randomly occurs, and the only solution is to NullEdit the page.
You can
I actually put up a button for myself (didn't make it) that adds a "NullEdit" option in the dropdown list next to the edit button. It's quite handy.
Purging, null edit - same effect, both work just the same.
Note that if this "blank page" occurs during saving the page, instead of saving an edit you actually end blanking the entire page. This happened to us a couple of times.
This bug happens since 2013 (we have a script to report that to wikia) and Wikia doesn't seem to care about this at all :S