The Polish Wikipedia has hacked together a neat little pop-up tool for reporting errors in articles. To see it, go to
click around, and follow the "Zgłoś błąd" link in the sidebar. If you click the middle button, it gives you a form that you can use to report an error with the page you're looking at. That report will then be appended to a problem reports page.
It clearly requires a lot of maintenance of said error reports page to pull something like this off, but perhaps it would be worth trying out for a while?
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
(Maybe I need to do something other than new page patrolling...never mind)
Emily On Aug 6, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
The Polish Wikipedia has hacked together a neat little pop-up tool for reporting errors in articles. To see it, go to
click around, and follow the "Zgłoś błąd" link in the sidebar. If you click the middle button, it gives you a form that you can use to report an error with the page you're looking at. That report will then be appended to a problem reports page.
It clearly requires a lot of maintenance of said error reports page to pull something like this off, but perhaps it would be worth trying out for a while? -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Emily Monroebluecaliocean@me.com wrote:
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
+1 for neat little pop-ups and easy error reporting. Can we also do something like this to report general interface and software bugs?
SJ
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Emily Monroebluecaliocean@me.com wrote:
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
+1 for neat little pop-ups and easy error reporting. Can we also do something like this to report general interface and software bugs?
mailto:webmaster@localhost?subject=Title_Of_Page_With_Error
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Emily Monroebluecaliocean@me.com wrote:
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
+1 for neat little pop-ups and easy error reporting. Can we also do something like this to report general interface and software bugs?
SJ
That would possibly be a bad idea for bugs, bugs should be discussed at the Village pump (or local equivalent) to see if it is really a bug so it can be discussed then someone can file it on bugzilla with the all the revelant information and make a note of it in the discussion so several copies of the same bug aren't created.
The problem with popups is that even Explorer Six can completely disable them or enable them for specific sites (my setting approves about ten sites), so I ask what is wrong with the talk page? Maybe there should be an "Add To Talk Page" button or tab on the article, so that you do not need to download a talk page that is longer than the article in order to add to it.
"Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org wrote in message news:b80736c80908061759n17c71374g9ff2b9080615b9a3@mail.gmail.com...
The Polish Wikipedia has hacked together a neat little pop-up tool for reporting errors in articles. To see it, go to
click around, and follow the "Zglos blad" link in the sidebar. If you click the middle button, it gives you a form that you can use to report an error with the page you're looking at. That report will then be appended to a problem reports page.
It clearly requires a lot of maintenance of said error reports page to pull something like this off, but perhaps it would be worth trying out for a while? -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Jay Litwyn <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
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The problem with popups is that even Explorer Six can completely disable them or enable them for specific sites.
Unlikely, it's not a real popup. They use javascript to float a div which contains a form on top of the article.
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Erik Moellererik@wikimedia.org wrote:
It clearly requires a lot of maintenance of said error reports page to pull something like this off, but perhaps it would be worth trying out for a while?
Definitely. Now, perhaps I'm too old and cynical, but with all these things, my initial reaction is "that would be great...oh wait, we have this big community of people who will come up with some reason to shout it down". Lots of the smaller wikipedias have cool features that we don't have, simply because of the difficulty of changing status quo in a consensus-driven environment.
But hey, if Erik is backing it, maybe it will get through ;)
Steve
I've wondered about this for a long time, but wasn't ever confident about the maintenance issue: it seems like it would be next to impossible to make sure that problems get consistent responses, to effectively manage the potential volume of responses, or even to deal with the inevitable bad reports (either misled or outright malicious). In extreme cases -- I'm thinking of the stuff we send to oversight or OTRS, for example -- keeping a very central, very public list of "everything that's wrong" might even attract trouble in the form of trolls or iffy responses.
Still, I'm glad to see a project finally giving this a go, and I'm very curious to hear how it works out for them. I wish them good luck.
-Luna