All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part III

[robkelk]

Although the wiki seems (for the most part) functional, for some reason the home page persistently displays multiple copies of the following message:

This is a cached copy of the requested page, and may not be up to date.

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Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Cannot contact the database server: No such file or directory)

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You can try searching via Google in the meantime.

Note that their indexes of our content may be out of date.

EDIT: Would it be safe to assume the ongoing updates are also responsible for pages that briefly load and then refuse to display under IE, causing the browser to put up an "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error page instead? A good example is http://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail, which displays just fine under Firefox but throws the error in IE.

For Want of a Nail also has the "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. / Try waiting a few minutes and reloading." error, at the bottom of the page. If you look closely at the page while it loads, you should see the strip of links along the top display as what you'd see if you weren't logged in, then that strip is replaced by the links you see when you are logged in.

Some longer pages only load partially - I don't have an example at hand. I'm assuming these are all due to the upgrade work.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012