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    • Sami on Sun 07 Feb 2010
    • 08:42:35 PM UTC

    Problems editing Wikipedia?

    We have received two reports today that when editing Wikipedia using Firefox while the WOT add-on is installed, text from the rating pop-up is appended to the submitted article. Unfortunately, we have been totally unable to reproduce the problem and the people who reported the problem aren't very responsive. Is anyone else seeing similar problems when editing Wikipedia? Can you tell me if you are using a custom editor like wikEd or any Wikipedia helper add-ons? On which page did you see the problem (full URL to the edit page would help)?

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    • g7w on Mon 08 Feb 2010
    • 07:30:41 AM UTC

    re: Problems editing Wikipedia?

    None that I have experienced.
    FF3.6 with GreaseMonkey and WikEd enabled or disabled, editing works as intended. No extra content is appended.
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    • Sami on Mon 08 Feb 2010
    • 11:59:47 AM UTC

    Re: Problems editing Wikipedia?

    It turns out the problem was with the beta version of Wikipedia. They moved the edit field to an iframe and the add-on injected the pop-up there. Although the text was hidden, it showed up in the submitted article in Firefox. This will be fixed in a few hours for everyone, or those who suffer from the problem can fix it immediately by right clicking the WOT toolbar button and selecting "Check for updates..." from the pop-up menu.