Since returning to my favourite website after breakfast, I've seen no properly displayed "facts" articles. Looked at several and seen what looks like a jumble of templates etc.

Even a "/tree" page is garbled. Here's what I see for Byrd Webb (1802-1889)/tree:

{{#show:Mabel Marvin (1869-aft1930)|default=|?Ahnentafel=}}
{{#show: strings:fr |link=none|default= |?fm-tab main= }}
{{#arraymap:|,|฿|
{{#show: strings:fr |link=none|default= |?fm-tab ฿= }}
|}}

{{#show:Byrd Webb (1802-1889)/sensor|default=|link=none|?ancestors=|format=template|template=Template:Showfacts_tree02/table }} 

Byrd's article starts like this:

{{#show: strings:fr |link=none|default= |?fm-tab main= }}
{{#arraymap:|,|฿|
{{#show: strings:fr |link=none|default= |?fm-tab ฿= }}
|}}
{{#declare: baptism_date-approx=baptism_date-approx {{#declare: remains_date-approx=remains_date-approx {{#arraymaptemplate: |Template:showfacts person/aux1|+|}} 

and goes on for screens and screens.

I've checked the wiki "recent changes" since I was last active here last night. No changes to templates. It must be a Wikia software problem affecting our key templates.

I've sent the following to "Contact Wikia" under the heading "Bad problem with display of most Familypedia articles":

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Wikia software appears to have changed something that has a disastrous effect on the majority of Familypedia's articles - those that use the standard templates and can be created using Form:Person or a related form.

Please see http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Robin_Patterson/Sudden_problem_with_article_display for an introduction to the problem.

Have you upgraded to a new version of Semantic Forms, maybe?

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And it's not a language problem. Switching my preference between French and English made a slight difference to some of the templates but no appreciable difference to the overall result. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:21, November 13, 2010 (UTC)