My gadgets.

On per-browser preferences (not relevant for library problem) I have selected:

1. X Special character input for search
2. X Links to previous and next entries
3. Language to ISO converter
4. Archive links to BP
5. Orange translation links
6. Orange language section links
7. others

Another non-functioning thing is the set of special characters appearing under the edit box. Several character sets appear, but I have to copy and paste rather than just click as formerly.

The hypothesis I've heard is that all of this is do to a "race condition", but that can't be right as some of my best friends are non-Caucasian ;-|}.

Please ask me whatever questions would help in diagnosis. My problems in principal namespace are quite intermittent. I can hope that fixing the persistent problem will fix or improve the harder-to-diagnose intermittent problems.

Persistent problems are:

1. The non-display of the {{rel-top}} "show" control on User:DCDuring.
2. The failure of the special character functionality under my edit window.
3. The non-appearance of the regex option.
4. The non-appearance of the special character option under the search box.

Okay, two bugs fixed:

• The "Show a special character input (like the one beneath the edit field) for the search field" pref hadn't been switched to use protocol-relative urls, so the recent-ish switch to https:// broke it.
• The sidebar wikis to English gadget wasn't working well with some of the slight changes in monobook that happened a while ago. This is probably what was breaking the main JS.

Some of the gadgets are in serious need of cleanup...

How many of the problems you listed are still occurring?

The most annoying persistent problems were on my user page. I think they are fixed. I guessed that nested {{rel-top}} was a possible problem and that few others have used it on a large page so such a problem might be peculiar to me. I eliminated that and eliminated some other things and the problem went away. I will trying adding back the other things to see whether they might have been the cause.

[I just realized that it may have been your changes not mine that fixed my user page.]

The special characters below both the edit and search windows and the regex are back.

Thanks for giving this your attention and for actually succeeding in fixing it (at least apparently !!!).

I will let you know if I come across any of the other problems or if anything recurs.

I guess rarely selected and used options are somewhat likely to become problems as things change.

Everything important seems fine. But I don't think that the next-/previous-entry link thing ever worked for me. What is supposed to appear where on the screen?

I think that stopped working when Hippietrail's toolserver account expired, and he hasn't renewed it yet. I think the script was supposed to make a few links appear under each language header and/or in the sidebar (or maybe under the top header?), or something like that.

Now that Translingual is "my" language I can see some value in it. It is hard to see the value for English or other "large" languages.