Hello
1. "Feature Request" feature: I have had a very difficult time finding a "Feature Request" feature on Wikipedia. It should be easy to find. The "Feature Request" part of the "Bug Report" page doesn't seem to exist. 2. "Page Change Alert" feature: I would like to receive an email alert when any pages I have marked for tracking are editing.
Thanks
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On 26/07/05, johny why johnwhy@bluebottle.com wrote:
"Feature Request" feature: I have had a very difficult time findinga "Feature Request" feature on Wikipedia. It should be easy to find. The "Feature Request" part of the "Bug Report" page doesn't seem to exist.
The bug tracker for MediaWiki (the wiki software) and also for "low level" configuration/administration of the site is at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
In Bugzilla, a feature request is a bug with its "severity" marked as "enhancement".
"Page Change Alert" feature: I would like to receive an email alertwhen any pages I have marked for tracking are editing.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enotif for an extension to the software (built directly into the software as of 1.5, I believe) that does exactly this. However, I think there is some resistance to turning this feature on for Wikimedia projects.
Timwi wrote:
johny why wrote:
- "Feature Request" feature: [...] It should be easy to find.
No way. We'd be swamped by the requests.
*agree*
The best feature request comes with a patch :)
Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
The best feature request comes with a patch :)
No, not really. Features can be incredibly bad ideas -- coding them doesn't change that. The implementation can also be bad. It is desirable for requestors to attach a patch, yes, but the best feature requests come from thorough, thoughtful analysis of the requirements of the community of users. Developers do not tend to be the right people for this kind of analysis.
Timwi
On 29/07/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
the best feature requests come from thorough, thoughtful analysis of the requirements of the community of users. Developers do not tend to be the right people for this kind of analysis.
And neither do random people, thus no obvious link! :)
Tomer
what about an RRS for "my Watchlist" or is there a problem with transmitting the cookies ?
Flacus
http://www.flacus.de/wikipedia/Interwiki-Link-Checker/index-en.html
On 29/07/05, FlaBot flabot@googlemail.com wrote:
what about an RRS for "my Watchlist" or is there a problem with transmitting the cookies ?
See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471 (And yes, cookies are the problem - most RSS readers probably don't support them, let alone provide any way of accessing the login page to create them)
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