Hi. During Wikimania 2010, I learnt about a feature installed in Polish an Russian Wikipedias: a link on the left sidebar to report errors. I liked it, so we installed it in Spanish. You can see how it works in this article for example (look at the left sidebar "Notificar un error"). It opens a window where the user can explains the error. Then, the error is sent to a common page es:Wikipedia:Informes de error where wikipedians read and work on them. It would be nice add it in English. The code is here: es:MediaWiki:Wikibugs.js. We are receiving tons of reports per day. This is an amazing tool to involve casual readers (which don't know how to edit a talk page, more, they don't know the about talk pages) in Wikipedia community efforts to improve the encyclopedia. Regards. emijrp ( talk) 09:53, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
importScript('MediaWiki:Wikibugs.js');
into common.js. You could try that by copying it into your personal .js to see if it works, and see what wording you'd want in English.
Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556
> haneʼ
18:02, 8 August 2010 (UTC)This seems potentially fruitful and helpful, but I can't help wondering if the link shouldn't just go to the relevant talk page (to keep relevant discussion in one place, plus educate people about talk pages), with the talk page added into a maintenance category so on low-traffic pages people will be able to find it and respond. The "edit request" system of MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext could probably be used as a model. Rd232 talk 09:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Support This sounds like a great idea, Sadads ( talk) 16:43, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Support - it sounds great. Kayau Voting IS evil 09:36, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Update: I've gone ahead and done most of the work, and left a message at MediaWiki_talk:Common.js#WikiBugs asking for someone to do the final step of putting it live. Rd232 talk 08:52, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Lee los <a href=" http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a> y la <a href=" http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a>. It means "Read our Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy".
If the report is put on the problem article's talk page, the system can automatically add a template Template:Error reported which'll put the talk page in the category Category:Error reported. That way fixers can check the category, it won't flood any boards, it's in the right place from the start, and makes it easier to see an article's history of errors reported by people scared of reading the HowTos. Since fixers would've had to edit the thread on the board anyway to say it's been fixed so that someone else doesn't think they still need to fix it, they'll now just edit the talk page and remove the template or change it to Template:Error fixed. -- Jeandré, 2010-08-28 t15:13z
Per this discussion at VPR, on adding a "Report an Error" feature to the sidebar, I've
MediaWiki:Bug in article already exists, so the final steps are
I'm reluctant to do this myself in case I mess something up or simply am not aware of unwanted consequences. If it seems OK, would someone more experienced do it? Rd232 talk 08:50, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
importStylesheet('MediaWiki:Wikibugs.css')
, we hide the link using document.getElementById('n-bug_in_article').style.display = 'none'
?
emijrp (
talk)
14:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
While I think the name "wikibugs" is kind of cute, it's very similar to wikibugs-l, the mailing list that accompanies a Wikimedia bug tracker called bugzilla.
It's kind of common for features like this to be referenced directly (in documentation, in talk page conversations, etc.), so I think it's kind of important that it use a less confusing name. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:57, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
A discussion at MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive 18#WikiBugs was archived before the agreed "Report an error" feature could be implemented. Can this please be revisited and the feature implemented? Fences& Windows 23:11, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi!
The script was updated recently on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias, and is now compatibly with ResourceLoader. You may want to re-translate/configure your copy taking one of the following as basis:
Best regards, Helder 15:51, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
OTRS isn't likely to be the best place to send this stuff. At one point info-en was linked to {{ BLP}} and we were inundated with e-mails reporting all sorts, completely outweighing any benefit because we were unable to handle the backlog. A "report issues" link would probably be even worse; though, possibly, a separate queue would be an option. PeterSymonds ( talk) 22:03, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
This is kind of a neat idea from WordPress.org: < http://wordpress.org/extend/kvetch/>. Perhaps this could be made into a MediaWiki extension. Hmmm. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 16:02, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. During Wikimania 2010, I learnt about a feature installed in Polish an Russian Wikipedias: a link on the left sidebar to report errors. I liked it, so we installed it in Spanish. You can see how it works in this article for example (look at the left sidebar "Notificar un error"). It opens a window where the user can explains the error. Then, the error is sent to a common page es:Wikipedia:Informes de error where wikipedians read and work on them. It would be nice add it in English. The code is here: es:MediaWiki:Wikibugs.js. We are receiving tons of reports per day. This is an amazing tool to involve casual readers (which don't know how to edit a talk page, more, they don't know the about talk pages) in Wikipedia community efforts to improve the encyclopedia. Regards. emijrp ( talk) 09:53, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
importScript('MediaWiki:Wikibugs.js');
into common.js. You could try that by copying it into your personal .js to see if it works, and see what wording you'd want in English.
Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556
> haneʼ
18:02, 8 August 2010 (UTC)This seems potentially fruitful and helpful, but I can't help wondering if the link shouldn't just go to the relevant talk page (to keep relevant discussion in one place, plus educate people about talk pages), with the talk page added into a maintenance category so on low-traffic pages people will be able to find it and respond. The "edit request" system of MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext could probably be used as a model. Rd232 talk 09:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Support This sounds like a great idea, Sadads ( talk) 16:43, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Support - it sounds great. Kayau Voting IS evil 09:36, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Update: I've gone ahead and done most of the work, and left a message at MediaWiki_talk:Common.js#WikiBugs asking for someone to do the final step of putting it live. Rd232 talk 08:52, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Lee los <a href=" http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a> y la <a href=" http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a>. It means "Read our Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy".
If the report is put on the problem article's talk page, the system can automatically add a template Template:Error reported which'll put the talk page in the category Category:Error reported. That way fixers can check the category, it won't flood any boards, it's in the right place from the start, and makes it easier to see an article's history of errors reported by people scared of reading the HowTos. Since fixers would've had to edit the thread on the board anyway to say it's been fixed so that someone else doesn't think they still need to fix it, they'll now just edit the talk page and remove the template or change it to Template:Error fixed. -- Jeandré, 2010-08-28 t15:13z
Per this discussion at VPR, on adding a "Report an Error" feature to the sidebar, I've
MediaWiki:Bug in article already exists, so the final steps are
I'm reluctant to do this myself in case I mess something up or simply am not aware of unwanted consequences. If it seems OK, would someone more experienced do it? Rd232 talk 08:50, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
importStylesheet('MediaWiki:Wikibugs.css')
, we hide the link using document.getElementById('n-bug_in_article').style.display = 'none'
?
emijrp (
talk)
14:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
While I think the name "wikibugs" is kind of cute, it's very similar to wikibugs-l, the mailing list that accompanies a Wikimedia bug tracker called bugzilla.
It's kind of common for features like this to be referenced directly (in documentation, in talk page conversations, etc.), so I think it's kind of important that it use a less confusing name. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:57, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
A discussion at MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive 18#WikiBugs was archived before the agreed "Report an error" feature could be implemented. Can this please be revisited and the feature implemented? Fences& Windows 23:11, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi!
The script was updated recently on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias, and is now compatibly with ResourceLoader. You may want to re-translate/configure your copy taking one of the following as basis:
Best regards, Helder 15:51, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
OTRS isn't likely to be the best place to send this stuff. At one point info-en was linked to {{ BLP}} and we were inundated with e-mails reporting all sorts, completely outweighing any benefit because we were unable to handle the backlog. A "report issues" link would probably be even worse; though, possibly, a separate queue would be an option. PeterSymonds ( talk) 22:03, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
This is kind of a neat idea from WordPress.org: < http://wordpress.org/extend/kvetch/>. Perhaps this could be made into a MediaWiki extension. Hmmm. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 16:02, 11 April 2013 (UTC)