<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>You should perhaps make a link from this page: <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Chris </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Anjana Ranganathan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anjana1@gmail.com" target="_blank">anjana1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Zeljko,<br><br></div>I would like to start a "QA/Getting started" page. I tried using this link <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Starting_a_new_article" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Starting_a_new_article</a>, but it failed me. I have the initial article ready. Please let me know how to proceed. <br>
<br></div>Thanks,<br>Anjana<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Željko Filipin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zfilipin@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">zfilipin@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Anjana Ranganathan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anjana1@gmail.com" target="_blank">anjana1@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><div><div><div><div>As a new contributor, i now know these are some steps to follow: (It took a while for me to piece this together)<br>
</div>1. Subscribe to the QA list (<span><span><a href="mailto:qa@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">qa@lists.wikimedia.org</a>)<br>
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<span><span>2. Introduce yourself in this QA list with your interests, your time zone, best way to contact you, your nick on freenode etc.There are a lot of people who will help you.<br></span></span></div><span><span>3. Familiarise yourself with </span></span> test environments at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org</a> and <a href="http://test2.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">http://test2.wikipedia.org</a> . Also create accounts on these and play with "preferences" in your account.<br>
</div><div>4. Create a bugzilla account, as this is how bugs are reported.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">If this is not already documented at wiki[1], it would be great if you would update a page, or maybe create a "getting started" page. Let us know if you do it, or if you need help doing it.</font></div>
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<div> </div><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>In addition to this, i would like to see a list of small bugs that a newcomer could look at and maybe resolve.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I keep my todo lists public (Bugzilla[2] account is needed to view the lists):</div><div><br></div><div>- list of all QA related bugs[3]</div><div>- list of QA related bugs tagged "easy"[4]</div>
<div>- list of bugs that I am currently working on[5]</div></div><br>Željko</div><div class="gmail_extra">--</div><div class="gmail_extra">1: <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:QA" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:QA</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">2: <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org</a></div><div class="gmail_extra">3: <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa&sharer_id=16205" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa&sharer_id=16205</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">4: <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa-easy&sharer_id=16205" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa-easy&sharer_id=16205</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">5: <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=zfilipin&sharer_id=16205" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=zfilipin&sharer_id=16205</a></div>
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