[QA] help update the QA wiki pages? (new people welcome!)

[Chris McMahon]

You should perhaps make a link from this page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance

-Chris


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Anjana Ranganathan <anjana1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Zeljko,
>
> I would like to start a "QA/Getting started" page. I tried using this link
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Starting_a_new_article, but it
> failed me. I have the initial article ready. Please let me know how to
> proceed.
>
> Thanks,
> Anjana
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Anjana Ranganathan <anjana1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> As a new contributor, i now know these are some steps to follow:  (It
>>> took a while for me to piece this together)
>>> 1. Subscribe to the QA list (qa at lists.wikimedia.org)
>>>  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.
>>> 3. Familiarise yourself with test environments at
>>> http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org and http://test2.wikipedia.org .
>>> Also create accounts on these and play with "preferences" in your account.
>>> 4. Create a bugzilla account, as this is how bugs are reported.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>> In addition to this, i would like to see a list of small bugs that a
>>> newcomer could look at and maybe resolve.
>>>
>>
>> I keep my todo lists public (Bugzilla[2] account is needed to view the
>> lists):
>>
>> - list of all QA related bugs[3]
>> - list of QA related bugs tagged "easy"[4]
>> - list of bugs that I am currently working on[5]
>>
>> Željko
>> --
>> 1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:QA
>> 2: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
>> 3:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa&sharer_id=16205
>> 4:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa-easy&sharer_id=16205
>> 5:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=zfilipin&sharer_id=16205
>>
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