On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM, jayjg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ctrl-F5 didn't work for me. I tested it in the latest versions of IE and
> Firefox. I asked to other editors to test it, and they had the same result
> as me.

It still works fine for me in Chrome 4.0.302.2 dev, and in Firefox
3.5.7, both on Ubuntu 9.10.

> Can you explain what you mean by "the effect is due to enwiki
> styling, not MediaWiki"?

MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia, which can be obtained
from <http://www.mediawiki.org/>.  One feature of MediaWiki allows
administrators to add custom styles, at special pages like
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css>.  The feature
where cite links get highlighted when you jump to them is due to the
following rule on that page:

/* Highlight clicked reference in blue to help navigation */
ol.references > li:target,
sup.reference:target,
span.citation:target {
    background-color: #DEF;
}

The original version of this rule was added by Omegatron on January
16, 2007 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&diff=101105777&oldid=99596083>.
 Since the feature was added by a local administrator, not a MediaWiki
developer or Wikimedia sysadmin, you should ask local administrators
about it.  Devs/sysadmins can't fix it even if they knew what was
wrong, except if they happen to be enwiki sysops (which most aren't).
So you should ask at [[MediaWiki talk:Common.css]], or maybe
[[WP:VPT]], not here.  This list is for MediaWiki development and
Wikimedia systems administration.

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