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Posted here earlier today. In the process of starting a new Wiki at proutypedia.com. I noticed a few minutes ago that on the iPad using three different browsers, the Wikipedia logo is now showing in the upper left. Wasn't there before -- in fact, the Wikipedia logo was never uploaded to the server for use. Cleared the cache, tried again: same Wikipedia logo. Yet, on my home PC, on two different browsers, the proper logo shows up correctly.

Is this some strange iOS bug? Has the wiki been hacked? Any suggestions are welcome.

This appears to be some sort of weird-ass iOS bug. I tried deleting the (proper) logo on the server. When I refreshed the site's main page on the PC, the logo was gone. As it should have been. When I refresh on the iPad even after clearing the cache and turning the thing off and on, it's still showing me Wikipedia's logo in the upper left.

This looks like some sort of weird caching thing. But since it's on three different iPad browsers, it doesn't make much sense. Also, at least as of a few days ago, Proutypedia's proper logo was displaying fine on the iPad. Anybody else have any experience with this?

When you really think that this logo file got there on a way it should not have been able to, then check your logs and find out who actually uploaded it. As long as you don't know that you won't be able to answer the question, whether it was a legitimate upload or not.

Was never uploaded as far as I can tell. Is why I think it might be some iOS quirk. As I said above, I deleted the logo image pointed to by the code, and in iOS for some inexplicable reason, the Wikipedia logo still shows up. No image upload took place in any log. And as far as I can tell, there is no Wikipedia logo image anyone on the server. Yet when I visit proutypedia.com with three different browsers on the iPad, the Wikipedia logo now shows up.

When I visit your website I see a blue "P" logo wih with wings and stuff and the word proutypedia below it. Looks like it's OK...

It could be that for the iPad a version of the stylesheets is used, which incorrectly does not take your changed image into account; you shoud then see the MediaWiki default logo, which is not the wikipedia "W", but the sunflower, which you also see on this page here). However, I think that would already have been noticed and fixed (e.g. because the users on wikipedia complained). So I believe this is some kind of caching problem...

I am not sure if it is ether a bug in ios or in mediawiki I saw you had version 1.20 please try updating to 1.22 to see if it has fixed the issue and what version of ios do you have if you have ios 7 then please update 7.0.6 and wait for them to release 7.1 to fix many bugs.

Thanks for the helpful replies. Glad you're seeing the Proutypedia logo on your end.

It's a bit of a head-scratcher. The iPad I'm viewing on is still using iOS 5, though that will change when 7.1 comes out. Up to a day or two ago, it nevertheless showed the correct Proutypedia logo.

The Wiki is hosted on a shared server, and I believe there's no way I can upgrade the MediaWiki version myself.

As far as I can tell, no new images were uploaded to the server (including any Wikipedia logo), so I'm not even sure where that image is coming from. I took the correct logo image file that had been displaying until the other day, moved it to the public_html folder and surfed to it directly using the browser. Displays fine, even in iOS.

> The Wiki is hosted on a shared server, and I believe there's no way I can upgrade the MediaWiki version myself.

I think it is likely that you can. Go through upgrade; all you need is FTP access. That is all. Additionally having Shell access, would make things easier, but chances are it also works without. Btw: Version 1.20 already no longer is supported. It is vulnerable and should really be upgraded.

all you need to do is download mediawiki 1.22 from front page of mediawiki and extract it and then upload it to your site using the link posted abouve

The solution is taking a look at http://proutypedia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css -- if it is a copy of the one from wikipedia it will display a wikipedia logo for mobile clients. Look for the rule for "p-logo".

Yep, this worked for me.

In this case it is unlikely that updating the MediaWiki code base will fix the settings.