index(1).php error causing editors not to contribute?

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Greetings all,

First of all, I am way impressed by the new, simple toolbar atop this input box. Just as I had dreamed years ago, there is now a simple interface, with an advanced tab. If only all software came like this.

Also, I am aware that the deadline has passed here. But I came here in my search for an easy to find project dealing with Wiki errors, and have yet to find anything. As I am a journalist with online search experience going back to 1996, I am fairly practised at hunting stuff down, but the Wiki errors project eludes me, apart from an apparently nascent effort ... in Polish ... called www.wikierrors.org. I wonder how widespread my own particular experience is? Anyhow, to my error. This page is one of the few that I have been able to access. Mostly, clicking on edit results in a PHP file downloading from the various Wiki to my computer. The file always reads thus:

index(1).php

If I click again I get

index(2).php and so forth.

I have not been able to edit my own profile for years now. Some pages let me in, most don't. My edit history will attest to the former. But probably won't show up the PHP incidents. Suffice to say, the same error occurs across browsers, computers, locations, cafes, universities, etc etc.

I have previously raised this with another editor Grey_Knight but have not been able to move beyond initial discussions:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Avaiki#.22index.php.22 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Grey_Knight#wikipedia_index_php_error

Many other topics to raise, but for now let's keep this a single issue post and see where we go from here.

thanks a plenty,

jason

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Dear Jason,

I would advice you to ask for some help on either IRC or the different Wikimedia mailinglists.

Best, Diederik