Last modified: 2012-09-28 07:51:25 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/Episteme/118767 seen in Chrome and FF: content of that page appears just briefly and then disappears completely
Thanks for this excellent bug! One possible reason we can't view this feedback post on Episteme is that Article Feedback 5 is not enabled for that page. However, it appears that it was enabled at one point, because that is the only way that this feedback post could have been generated. To confirm this, I took the post number and appended it to the Central Feedback page, which displays it correctly, as so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ArticleFeedbackv5#118767 This suggests that we may need to support the display of posts for articles that no longer have AFT enabled, in the article feedback page, the permalink page, the central feedback page and the 'watched page list' -- so that feedback like this Episteme post should appear even if they are not part of the current whitelist. Would you like to re-enable AFT5 for that page? Until we are up to 100%, this can simply be done by adding this whitelist category to that page: [[Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles]]
Indeed, the reason for it to disappear is indeed that AFT is not enabled. I assume the feedback had been posted in the short timespan that we accidentally had AFT display over a wider range of articles than intended. A patch to always display the Special page, regardless of black-/whitelisting or lottery is on Gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/19734/) & prototype. This will display the article feedback page for every article, but won't change a thing for article & talk pages (that will still check for black-/whitelist & lottery)
Thanks! Do we have an error message if someone goes to the feedback page for an article that has no feedback at all? If not, let's say something like: "No feedback has been posted for this page yet. " Or better yet: "No feedback has been posted for this page yet. <Be the first to post feedback >>" This could link to the bottom of the article page, where feedback form, re-using the code from 'Add your feedback' in the article page toolbox.
As reported by Oliver, namespaces where AFT is not enabled should _not_ display any sign of AFT, including the feedback page
Pushed to Gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/21888/) & prototype - without the link to immediately add feedback (added that as in note in the other ticket about it)
