On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 08:59 -0500, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Brian, would you take a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and maybe update it
to clarify what sorts of information to try to hold on to for debugging
purposes?
I'd like to keep How_to_report_a_bug a
I've just had a colleague send me links to a couple of English
Wikipedia articles that were displaying as complete garbage - it
looked like corrupt character encoding or something (there was no UI -
just a page full of random characters and boxes). Running
?action=purge on them sorted it out, but
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 12:08 +, Thomas Dalton wrote:
I've just had a colleague send me links to a couple of English
Wikipedia articles that were displaying as complete garbage - it
looked like corrupt character encoding or something (there was no UI -
just a page full of random characters
On 20 February 2013 12:11, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 12:08 +, Thomas Dalton wrote:
I've just had a colleague send me links to a couple of English
Wikipedia articles that were displaying as complete garbage - it
looked like corrupt character encoding
On 20/02/13 23:30, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 20 February 2013 12:11, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 12:08 +, Thomas Dalton wrote:
I've just had a colleague send me links to a couple of English
Wikipedia articles that were displaying as complete garbage - it
On 20 February 2013 12:43, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It's not a test case after you've run action=purge on it.
Which is why I didn't bother including the URLs in the initial report.
If you want
to report things like this, it's best if you don't run action=purge,
or even
Brian, would you take a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and maybe update it
to clarify what sorts of information to try to hold on to for debugging
purposes?
On 02/20/2013 07:50 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 20 February 2013 12:43, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
Hi Thomas,
On Feb 20, 2013 8:59 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
My top priority was helping the person that reported it to read the
page they wanted to read.
A little gratitude to someone trying to help you fix a problem
wouldn't go amiss...
Thomas, thanks for
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Brian, would you take a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and maybe update it
to clarify what sorts of information to try to hold on to for debugging
purposes?
What sort of debugging
On 20 February 2013 16:32, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote:
A little gratitude to someone trying to help you fix a problem
wouldn't go amiss...
We appreciate the bug report, we just can't do anything about it
without more information. To give a (not entirely fair) comparison,
imagine
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Brian, would you take a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and maybe update it
to clarify what sorts of information to try to hold on to for debugging
purposes?
More to the point (this is a list for developers, after all), if you're a
developer
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