Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26937472-20160323215130/@comment-1251315-20160324112519

Dantman wrote: As for me being the one to notify Wikia, I can do that now. But if it's been like this for several months, then several months ago when it broke, shouldn't someone have pestered Wikia about it? Clearly, expecting me to tell Wikia something is broken when no-one tells me it's broken for several months isn't going to work. They already knew that Special:BrowseData was broken for months and that was fixed without any prior notification. But lists in general are just broken: in fact, it actually reached a point where one of the previous sysops here had to resort to vandalism to fix the lists, since they're so cached in the system that they pretty much don't update any more. We even have to use CSS to hide the duplicate entries that appear.

Most of the time, it was down to sysops (well a sysop, UltimateSupreme) to report the bugs to Wikia, because nobody else did. But as you've no doubt seen, there's close to nobody caring about the technical aspects of SMW here, they've mostly moved on from the wiki and aren't interested in trying to maintain such a broken feature :P

Can't DPL just be used to list things in the infobox? Simpler, less likely to break and doesn't get stuck on the same entry for months on end: a quick null edit and it's updated instantly, whereas a null edit on SMW does close to nothing these days. I use DPL for some stuff on other wiki's with categories and it works out quite well on those wiki's (doesn't require the category page to exist either).

I would recommend applying to become a Vol Dev to sort out just SMW issues. It might speed up fixes if that was the case.

Re post below: I believe it's because of Concepts. The SMW upgrade that was done many months ago was supposed to fix it, but it never did and the same bugs continued. Wikia doesn't have any priority to fix it, it took them close to a decade just to do an upgrade, which didn't fix very many things at all.