Last modified: 2014-04-15 20:14:20 UTC
Created attachment 12552 [details] Screenshot of the issue 1) Go to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB 2) Click edit section for Add/update your LocalSettings.php Observed: Page scrolls up and some very different section is hihglighted. No editor chrome is shown. (Is there a bug for this?) 3) Scroll down back to the section named above Observed: Cannot edit the syntaxhighlighted block Observed: Editor chrome appears 4) Click beta on the toolbar 5) Click leave feedback Observed: page is dimmed and otherwise unfunctional and nothing can be done. See attached screenshot.
The proximate cause of this is that the (MediaWiki core!) feedback tool is pointed at a page that is protected, and it doesn't fail nicely. More generally, the problem is that the target page is an LQT page, and LQT doesn't intercept section=new through the API, only through the skin interface, so these feedback items are mis-directed. See 41276. I'm unprotecting the target LQT section header again, though this is not very much more helpful for all concerned. :-(
(In reply to comment #1) > The proximate cause of this is that the (MediaWiki core!) feedback tool is > pointed at a page that is protected, and it doesn't fail nicely. > You're sure that that is MediaWiki core. /me is unaware of any feedback tool in mediawiki core.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > The proximate cause of this is that the (MediaWiki core!) feedback tool is > > pointed at a page that is protected, and it doesn't fail nicely. > > > > You're sure that that is MediaWiki core. /me is unaware of any feedback tool > in mediawiki core. MediaWiki/core.git -> /resources/mediawiki/mediawiki.feedback.js: https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/6a3bc6294a1b5b42a4d0f7062152d892e0aed1d3/resources%2Fmediawiki%2Fmediawiki.feedback.js Always surprised how few people know about it, given how key it was for the Vector roll-out.
With precisely 0 uses in core :P
(In reply to comment #4) > With precisely 0 uses in core :P That's Platform's call, not mine. :-)
(In reply to comment #3) > Always surprised how few people know about it, given how key it was for the > Vector roll-out. For the records, <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vector#How_can_I_give_feedback_about_the_new_skin.3F> I guess. The feedback page(s) had a mere hundred edits? It's not surprising they weren't noticed <http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl?lang=meta.wikimedia&page=2010+Wikimedia+design+and+feature+change%2FFeedback> (And I now see I even helped process the feedback there...)
Can't see the beta button no more.
(In reply to ganeshaditya1 from comment #7) > Can't see the beta button no more. Yes, the 'beta' button that this referred to last June no longer exists, but you can still get to the feedback form inside VE from the 'help' menu.
