stevewoods1986 wrote:I tried all the minor edits and things. It still doesn't work, not even changing a link on another Wiki page (I'm planning to make changes to that as well). What should I do?
OK, that's pretty serious, especially if it is the sort of server configuration issue that link describes. I will leave it up to the admins to look into that.
I do have a few other things to try in the meanwhile, though I doubt they will help since it does sound like it is on the server end. Still, it would be better than just waiting, and might rule out some causes. I don't know which of these you've already tried, so bear with me as some of them are going to seem fairly obvious, but my experience as both a user and a tech tells me that the obvious things need to be positively ruled out, as people often overlook them for being so obvious.
First, if you haven't done so already (I am guessing you have), try logging out of your account and then log back in. That should unequivocally clear any session data on both the server and the browsers.
Second, log out again, clear your browser's cache, history and cookies (though you probably don't need to clear out the saved passwords), close and re-open the browser, then log in and try again. If there is a state issue with the browser, that may clear it. Again, I don't know if you tried this already or not.
Try logging out and then logging in using a different browser, and if it works on that browser, then check the configurations on the first browser.
Next, shut down (not reboot, shut down, for at least 15 seconds) and restart the system to see if there is some odd state going on with the OS or the network hardware. It's a long shot, and something of a cliché as a lot of help desk techs have customers do this in order to buy time to think about a problem (and also because it really does clear a lot of inconsistent state issues, even if it doesn't find the cause of them), but if you haven't done it already, it is probably worth a shot.
Finally, try logging out on that machine, and if you can, log in on a different system, preferably one on a different network entirely such as one at a public library or an Internet cafe. If you still can't save any edits, that would narrow the problem down to something server-side, either with your stored account data or with the wiki in general.
Actually, you should probably do them in reverse order, as that would make it a strictly narrowing and partitioning search of the problem space. However, that may not be practical in this instance.
There are several possible causes for a problem in the database, the wiki configuration, or the wiki's runtime state; that's just the nature of complex systems like these. The more you can narrow down the problem for the mods, the easier it will be for them to troubleshoot it.
