User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Drax Cave/@comment-2164182-20140405190038/@comment-188432-20140406190310

Hi :) This is an issue that was reported back in Thread:148894. However, the connection between that notification and your problems with the iPad is a little obscure, so I'm glad you've given me the opportunity to amplify the point.

Basically, once Mavericks hit, problems on the desktop side became problems on the iOS side and vice versa. The fact that there's a problem in Safari 7.0.1+ means (almost of necessity) that there's a problem in iOS 7.1.

The problem on the iOS side is a little more severe, though, because all iPad/Phone browsers — and not just Safari — are affected. So it's currently impossible to get some page histories, both here at Tardis and all around the Wikia network, on iOS.

It's a very tricky problem. Wikia staff have spent several months just defining the problem with data — because it's so odd. And that's what we're continuing to do. One thing that we're watching with interest is the release of the next major version of Mavericks, 10.9.3, which is likely within the next month. It might well be that this release (which will trigger an iOS upgrade as well) will solve things. It might not.

Either way, this is something Wikia are very concerned about, and we're literally adding more information about this issue every day. If you want to help in those efforts, fill out this form whenever you discover a special page that won't load.

Recapping, for those who just like to skip to the bottom of posts:
 * The issue only affects special pages. Normal articles, forum threads, MediaWiki articles, File pages and others load just fine.
 * The issue only affects some special pages. Finding a solution for the issue is difficult precisely because it doesn't affect every special page.  It's not all revision histories.  Only some of them.  It's not every page listed at Special:SpecialPages, just a few of them.
 * It's not just you, nor the way you personally have set up Safari. We've eliminated a lot of possible causes and discovered that it exists even in a brand new installation of Mavericks where the very first page one surfs to with a brand new installation of Safari is http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor?action=history.
 * It can be easily reproduced.
 * Only Safari on the desktop side is affected, and only if you've upgraded beyond version 7.0.0.
 * All browsers on the iOS side are affected, once you upgrade to at least iOS 7.1. So it's not just Safari on iPad, but Firefox, Chrome, Apollo, Puffin and a ton of others.
 * Nothing produced by Apple prior to Safari 7.0.0 or iOS 7.1 is affected.