Wikipedia

I use Wikipedia a lot, yet for the past 2 days I have not beeb able to enter their sites with Blackberry's message saying http error 500 Internal server problem Be grateful if anyone out there can help Paul

Same issue. As a temporary fix, I am using Wapedia, which is very good. I would prefer though for Wikipedia to open in the browser as they always have instead of having to open Wapedia and search what I want.

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I have a Macbook Pro that I bought in June 2010, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 4 GB memory, Snow Leopard OSX (of which all may not be relevent) but recently I've been having possibly the WEIRDEST issue with wikipedia. I just go to the site, and a split second after it loads the main page, part of it becomes blue almost like it's highlighted. You may think this is just me being stupid and highlighting text but believe me I've tried to deselect and it isn't any use...I don't even think it's highlighting the page at all. Frankly, I don't even know what it is. here's a screenshot:
http://s1165.photobucket.com/albums/q597/wmblair/?action=view&current=Screenshot 2012-04-16at44957PM.png
I highlighted part of the body of the article to show that it's something weird with wikipedia and not just me selecting something...I mean, at least one other person must've had this problem at some point, RIGHT? It really looks like I'm highlighting it but it isn't possible to highlight those two specific parts of the article at the same time. Hopefully I don't sound crazy, but this has been a puzzling mystery for me for weeks now.
Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on what could've happened? Obviously it didn't use to be like this.
Thanks,
Will

wmblair wrote:
It really looks like I'm highlighting it but it isn't possible to highlight those two specific parts of the article at the same time.
I cannot find a way to select two different chucks of text in safari, chrome, opera or omniweb. In firefox however, I can use the command key to select additional text. So that implies its a function of the browser implementation.

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I hope that the picture has been uploaded, because in the last 10 minutes that I've spent writing this the square picture where the uploaded file should be has been loading all the time. Even now it is saying ""Uploading "Firefox Problem 3.png"... """ .
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
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Safari, Wikipedia and strange characters

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I'm have a problem at work with Safari. Some webpages with odd characters and are totally unreadable. For an example go to
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As I said this only occurs on my work computer and my colgeaues have the same problem. But at home on my G5 it displays fine. Any ideas chaps?
Cheers in advance
Thom

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