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The Fox
May 29, 2008, 7:22am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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I don't know about search engines being flummoxed but according to my computer the site has been renamed over night.  According to the bar at the bottom of the screen I am looking at Home Page - Farm Wiki!
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May 29, 2008, 8:28am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Don't know if browser or settings make a difference, it's not something I generally bother about, but the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen should show relevant information for whatever the mouse pointer is over - when such info is available - so will (or should) change as you move your mouse around the screen.

However, I can't make it show that anywhere in either browser, so can't offer a suggestion as to what you're looking at, or why you're seeing that title
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The Fox
May 29, 2008, 12:04pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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I am looking at SecSco as usual but it still insists that the page is Home Page - Farmwiki.
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May 29, 2008, 2:42pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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You've mentioned Farm Wink and [/i]Farmwiki[/i]... is it showing as one or the other, or both?

SeSco is actually a field within a larger wiki farm, but that's nothing new (as in last night) and it's been that way for years now.

Are you changing skins now, and if so, does it happen with one, or both that have been released?

monobook should be largely as before, there are some subtle changes in the appearance on trial which are more in line with Wikipedia, but nothing in the addressing (as far as I can see); Triad works very much "Out of the box" with no significant changes on my part, but it does clearly work in a somewhat different and more featured way that monobook, and may show different status texts.

Offhand, I'm struggling to think of anything coded to show Farm Wiki deliberately - I've simply not seen the code since it was set up way back in the past, and is really organisational stuff, rather than display.

I'm intrigued that you see it, and I don't, but since it's not breaking anything, will just be looking at it's novelty value at the moment, but still need any feedback that's on offer.
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The Fox
May 29, 2008, 3:44pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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At the top of the screen, beside the favouite buttons  and when I am on the Home Page it says

FarmWiki-http://secretscotland.org.uk

At the bottom of the screen next to the Start button it says   " Home Page -Farmwiki-...

When you hover the mouse it expands to

Home Page FarmWiki://httphome.uk.netscape.com/uk/
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The Fox
May 29, 2008, 3:48pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Changing the skins still seems to make no difference to the appearance nor to the FarmWiki.
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May 29, 2008, 3:51pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Same wording at the bottom of the screen on Firefox except when you hover the mouse it reads

FarmWiki- Mozilla Firefox
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May 29, 2008, 5:13pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Are you clicking on the two links - rather than retyping them - I've just tried them, and both work fine for me.

Remember that to the site, there's no difference between your browser and mine, so we should both see the same, unless we type something different, or have different settings (or Microsoft is sticking an IE7 proprietary spanner in the works). And, believe me, I'm using both and IE and Fx to look at the skin operations, so there's no difference from that quarter

If anyone else reading want to try two different site appearances, and let us know what you see of course, these are the links to follow (I have just used both of these to prove they work before releasing them):

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Main/HomePage?setskin=triad

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Main/HomePage?setskin=monobook

Going back to the strange naming, I did find a line that I couldn't work out - the name it controls isn't in any of the site control pages. It occurs to me it might be redirecting the tab name. I will dive in later tonight and remove it, and we'll see what effect, if any, it has. It certainly wasn't affecting the displayed page. And, now that you've pointed to the spot, I don't like what it's doing if it is the cause, even if it is mimicing Wikipedia, so it will go if it is the source.
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The Fox
May 29, 2008, 5:26pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Ah! Now Triad is vastly different but I'll settle for the monobook I have got used to.

The FarmWiki thing is not causing any problems with the site operation as far as I can see, it just looks strange.
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Triad lets you hide the menus left and right, and get more real estate for the business of reading, and the embedded map, plus revised font sizes, and even a special big view for folk with problems.

There's also the bigger, and some say, more friendly editing area too.

And you get to pick all sort of weird and wonderful colour schemes from the config option at the foot of the page. Actually some of them grow on you after a while. I'm using chocolate at the moment and liking it a lot, even though I hated the first time I saw it.

I just killed the "mystery" line, and it looks like it was indeed wasting the browser title feed. Things look better now. Should've twigged what it did when I didn't recognise the name at first, and couldn't find it used anywhere.

It's not something I would have seen for ages, as I throw away the Start menu as it's just a waste of screen space.
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The Fox
May 29, 2008, 6:20pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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It must have been the cause as it is all hunky dory now.  Thanks.
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You get the thanks this time, since this particular item appears in something I normally never even see, it would have persisted unbeknownst to me, and maybe never reconfigured the way it should be.

It wasn't an error or a fault as such, just the result of a line someone had written in the days before we farmed wikis. I dare say the line could be rewritten to update it, but it's not really necessary since the title seems to work just fine the way I have things set up anyway, so there's no real merit, or point, in fixing something that's not broke, simply by adding some additional code and complexity for the sake of it.
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