<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Renuka Alurkar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renukaalurkar@gmail.com" target="_blank">renukaalurkar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Zeljko, Thank you for approving my email. <br>
</div><div>Chris, Quilm Thank you for sending me other helpful links. I read about manual features testing, browser testing using cucumber, and about saw the video about the new tool article-feedback. I find both browser testing and article feedback interesting. Well, I do not have any experience with cucumber, but I would love to learn it through browser testing on wikimedia. At the same time, I would like to test the article feedback tool too. </div>
<div>I do not exactly remember how I came to know about how one could contribute as a tester to wikipedia, but there is a possibility that I read about it at <a href="http://thesocialtester.co.uk/volunteering-a-good-way-to-learn-testing/" target="_blank">http://thesocialtester.co.uk/volunteering-a-good-way-to-learn-testing/</a> !!</div>
<div>Well, let me know how and when I can start!!!!!</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Renuka, </div><div><br></div><div>Article Feedback is an interesting feature, but unfortunately you are a bit late. AFT is no longer under active development and is only in use in some limited circumstances. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Since you've read up a lot about what we do, let me suggest a few areas in which to concentrate: </div><div><br></div><div>Our new search engine called "CirrusSearch" is available for testing right now on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org">https://www.mediawiki.org</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/">http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/</a>. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Some general notes about testing it are available at <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CirrusSearch">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CirrusSearch</a>, and some previous mentions here on the QA list are at <a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2013-August/000354.html">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2013-August/000354.html</a> and <a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2013-August/000358.html">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2013-August/000358.html</a>. The automated tests we have may or may not be passing right now. They may not be too easy to read, but you can get an idea of what sort of thing we're testing for with them <a href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-CirrusSearch/tree/master/tests/browser/features">https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-CirrusSearch/tree/master/tests/browser/features</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We'd like to hear what you think about the test we have and the testing we should have. </div><div><br></div><div>The UniversalLanguageSelector (ULS) is a tool that allows users to manipulate the languages in which wikis appear. It is considered stable right now, but in the near future it will need to interact with our new VisualEditor. ULS is available in two ways: in the environment at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/">http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/</a> it is represented as a "cog" icon (looks like a wheel) in the left-side "Languages" panel. In the environment at <a href="http://test2.wikipedia.org/">http://test2.wikipedia.org/</a> it is available as a link in the upper-right corner of each wiki page, and also as a small typewriter icon in every input box such as Search. The automated tests we have for ULS are <a href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-UniversalLanguageSelector/tree/master/tests/browser/features">https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-UniversalLanguageSelector/tree/master/tests/browser/features</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>VisualEditor is our new WYSIWYG editor under development. It is available on every wiki, including in production on the English Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">http://en.wikipedia.org/</a>. (If you edit in production, do it on your user page or your user talk page, don't pollute real articles). As Amir noted earlier, some attention to non-Latin scripts in VE would be useful, as would an investigation of how cursor movements and such are working. Bugs in VE are very important right now. For now at least, the automated tests we have for VE are at <a href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-VisualEditor/tree/master/modules/ve-mw/test/browser/features">https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-VisualEditor/tree/master/modules/ve-mw/test/browser/features</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Finally, we are just beginning a big new feature called "Flow" that will be a new messaging system for the wikis. It is early enough in development that Flow is not implemented anywhere yet, but you can read about it at <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow</a> and you can watch for when it becomes available here: <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53061">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53061</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-Chris </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>