Proteopedia:Openfox
Open issues
in the new production system at proteopedia.org 2026. Please number each issue reported, and lets keep those numbers intact. Type ~~~~ (four tildes ~) at the end of your report to sign it.
1. Entering a name in the search slot (Sussman, Prilusky, Theis) I am unable to find the user page, despite the User namespace being present in the "Search In" list. Eric Martz (talk) 17:14, 7 February 2026 (IST) FIXED.
2. As the person moderating the creation of new accounts, in the past, the number of pending email-confirmed requests was displayed at the top of any page I viewed in Proteopedia. This was a useful alert that I needed to act. That alert is gone. Eric Martz (talk) 17:28, 12 February 2026 (IST) Ignore this request for now. We have 12 confirmed fake requests now out of >200 in the "open requests" box. The alert will not be useful unless we can stop the fake account requests. Eric Martz (talk) 21:06, 15 February 2026 (IST)
3. Javacript error "Parse error: Unterminated string on line 472" occurs when loading any page, both seeded and human-authored. Eric Martz (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2026 (IST)
4. Javascript error "targetSfx 1" occurs six times on seeded pages, and also on human-authored pages that include JSmol. Eric Martz (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2026 (IST)
5. We are getting many fake requests for accounts every day. After a week of openfox being public, we have over 200, after I gave up manually deleting them as too time consuming. We can live with this rate of spam, but it would be good (low priority I guess) to delete all "open requests" that are older than 7 days to avoid having thousands pile up. Eric Martz (talk) 21:02, 15 February 2026 (IST)
Issues that remained open at the end of Openfox development
Issues marked as to be made to work by the Weizmann Team, after OpenFox becomes the production system
See Proteopedia:Openfox/Final Setup
Issues marked as solved: see Proteopedia:Openfox/Solved
Moved to Proteopedia:Openfox/Solved
(Might need a quick additional verification before swapping sites)
Left Aside Issues
(solve these if possible)
- Is there a mechanism to prevent two users from editing the same page concurrently? This seems important to me, especially for collaborative student projects. Eric Martz 17:42, 29 March 2025 (UTC) Please put an answer here. Eric Martz 17:47, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- In summary, no; the 2nd user trying to save changes will have to solve the conflict using help provided. See explanation at MediaWiki docs --Angel Herraez 18:00, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- The font used for the titles fails to distinguish zero from letter oh. This leads to serious confusion/errors. The title font in public proteopedia is not much better. This title font should be changed to one that has a line through zero to be unambiguous. Compare
- https://proteopedia.openfox.io/w/7k0x
- https://proteopedia.openfox.io/w/7kox
- https://proteopedia.openfox.io/w/7v0o
- https://proteopedia.openfox.io/w/7vo0
- Eric Martz 17:36, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- And there is also the problem between number one and lowercase L.
- Maybe Atkinson Hyperlegible Font; it's SansSerif, not monospaced as most with dashed zeros are (not nice for regular text titles). Donwload web font.
Another candidates: Go Font Finlandica GoogleFont
Angel_Herraez 16:58, 12 August 2025 (UTC) - Current font is better, but not very good:
--Angel Herraez 11:58, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors (what is this?)
Eric Martz, Joel L. Sussman, Jaime Prilusky, Karsten Theis, Yitzhak Krumbein, Angel Herraez
