Guild Wars Wiki talk:Reporting wiki bugs

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1 Discussion
2 Namespace?
3 Process?
4 Permission problems to page http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Chilling_Winds
5 image not updating
6 New bots
7 Semi-Protect?
8 I can't edit my User Page
9 Fixed or not fixed

[edit] Discussion

I moved the "report a bug" section out of the talk page and into the article space ... the way it was setup originally, there was no place to discuss the page! (it was a redirect from the article space to the talk page). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 01:12, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I strongly believe that the article name should be something more specific. I think if the article was something like "Bugs on the wiki" then there would be less mistaken posts. Although there might be occasional ants. LordBiro 19:07, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Reporting wiki bugs for a more formal title encompassing the main words bugs and wiki?

Speaking of ants, Gares' advice for the day: Never pass out drunk next to a fire ant hill. Ouch — Gares 19:34, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I have no argument with using the name Guild Wars Wiki:Reporting wiki bugs. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:08, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Namespace?

Shouldn't this article be in the "Guild Wars Wiki" namespace? --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 12:56, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I think so. Maybe "Guild Wars Wiki:Reporting bugs"? (I prefer non-imperative ~~article names~~ names for non-policy articles.) --Rezyk 16:25, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I think we need to be careful to specify that this section would be for wiki-related bugs and not in-game issues. Regardless of the name of the page, I'd caution to put a notice on the page explaining this fact, and pointing the reader to a game-support page. --Emily Diehl 17:15, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I added some additional instructions to the page. Provided the user reads it, the additional information should point them in the correct direction if it's not a wiki bug. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:30, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I made the title a little more distinct and added a commented line so users do not overwrite the description when editing. — Gares 17:37, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Good idea. I was also considering making the header information a template, similar to what is used on Guild Wars Wiki:Sandbox, so that the header information is less likely to be accidentally edited. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:44, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

I was just looking at that when I hit the edit button. It would look a lot less "cramped" if it was just one line, i.e. template. — Gares 18:01, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Process?

Originally posted on article: How are bug reports handled? Once a bug is fixed, or it is known as in this case to be an request for features, is the article edited? Does an Administrator archive the request, does the "owner" stirke out the request? Is there more detail on how to process/edit the article, or do we need to write that article?--Glamtre 12:03, 15 March 2007 (EDT) This is a good question ... we don't really have a process yet as far as I know!
For now, I'll start a precedent by archiving issues once they are resolved. But, I think we should flesh out the procedure a bit more here. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 12:26, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Permission problems to page http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Chilling_Winds

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wiki/Chilling_Winds on this server.

[edit] image not updating

my image is not updating @ http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Image:User_Fred_K_Avatar_Fred_K.jpg
no matter how many times i upload a new version, it stays as the old one, or revert either ~ Fred K 06:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

ok nevermind it finally happened, after like 15 uploads and revisions, is this something that does not update immediately or something on wiki? ~ Fred K 06:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Something that doesn't update immediately. In the future, either give it about 10 minutes, or if you go to the edit page, in the address bar change "edit" to "purge" (in this case it'd be http://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Image:User_Fred_K_Avatar_Fred_K.jpg&action=purge ), and that should force it to update. - Tanetris 06:27, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, &action=purge often won't work with images not updating, as the caching problem seems to be further on the server side, not MediaWiki. If an image is not updating, quite often you may have no other option but wait for a bit until the server decides to show the right picture. --Dirigible 12:46, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

But if you use a resized image on a page this will show the new version immediately. poke | talk 13:14, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Would it be possible to add a big flashy sign on the upload page saying that this problem can occur? I think it will help other users like Fred K to understand that they don't have to upload images 10+ times for it to show. --

(CoRrRan / talk) 17:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New bots

It just me, or does this page get alot of those new bots on it?--§ Eloc § 16:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

It's not you. (At least, I hope not! ;-) ) I've noticed the increase of these as well, but besides using the ConfirmEdit-tool, I'm not too sure what we can do about it... --

(CoRrRan / talk) 16:03, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Ya, also check out GWW:NOTICE as I've looked at several of them to see their pattern.--§ Eloc § 16:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-Protect?

Think we should semi protect this page as it seems to get vandalized by the new bots quite frequently? Like, why not make it so that IP Adresses can't edit it?--§ Eloc § 23:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't think this page is being targeted by spam bots any more often than any other pages. Reporting bugs is something best unprotected because we don't want to prevent anon users from letting us know if there's a bug when you're using this wiki while not logged in. -- ab.er.rant

01:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I can't edit my User Page

← moved to Guild Wars Wiki:Reporting wiki bugs

[edit] Fixed or not fixed

I wonder if we could have the checkmark and X for fixed and not fixed issues. It would help archiving wise, plus it would help us figure out if its; reported (white checkmark), fixed (green check mark), not fixed yet, but reported (both white checkmark and X). Anyone support this/think its good? Dominator Matrix 05:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Something like:

for reported but unalbe to fix at this time, for fixed stuff and for reported? --Shadowphoenix 05:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)