Wikipedia:Village pump

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File movers group

A File movers group with the right "Move files (movefile)" has been created on English Wikipedia. I propose that we create one here, to allow testwiki to better reflect the current state of English Wikipedia, and to allow testing on testwiki before admins on English Wikipedia start granting the right. See also: bugzilla:27927, m:w:User talk:NuclearWarfare/Archive 30#Closing_Filemover_Proposal, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:NuclearWarfare&oldid=417730429#Closing_Filemover_Proposal , http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29&oldid=417733334#Transferring_over_.22filemover.22_tool , and m:w:Wikipedia talk:File mover/proposal.   — Jeff G. ツ 22:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

• Support Sounds as if it would be helpful because: "The Wikipedia Test Wiki may also be used in a classroom environment for teaching basic Wikiediting [...]" (WP:NOT). --Trevj (talk) 11:26, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
• Support  Hazard-SJ  ±  22:38, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support as well. Can someone file the bugzilla request if there are no concerns? A7x (talk) 00:45, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Bug submitted.  Hazard-SJ  ±  01:40, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Y Done  Hazard-SJ  ±  20:58, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Testing a bot?

Dear friends, I am not sure, but it seems to me that it wouldn't be a problem to make some small-scale testing of my bot. Nevertheless I would love to have an approval before I would ever start. So? Or there is some better MediaWiki wiki to do it? Thanks a lot. Okino (talk) 17:19, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

There isn't really a bot policy here, so go ahead, but don't be outrageous ;). On a side note, you meant Wikimedia wiki, right? MediaWiki is the software...  Hazard-SJ  ±  22:28, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Well, thanks a lot. On a side note, I did not mean Wikimedia wiki, as I know hundreds of Wikimedia wikis (which are not test wikis), but the bot is more or less a MediaWiki thing than a Wikimedia thing, so for a bot there can be a better MediaWiki test wiki than this Wikimedia MediaWiki test wiki ;-)))) Okino (talk) 01:16, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I think what Okino might have been referring to was MediaWiki.org. In any case, have fun with the testing. —stay (sic)! 00:57, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikisource development

It would be useful to have a place where development of the ProofreadPage Extension and associated modules could be tested, as well as to test the use of the index space templates (these are heavily dependent on js and css that are difficult to test without having likely negative effects on the presentation of works across a live project). We relied for a long time almost solely on ThomasV's brilliance and time. Unfortunately, he ran out of the latter. Would it be possible/appropriate to do this development here and if so, should we request bugzillas to have the appropriate extensions and namespaces added? Alternatively, should Wikisource consider having it's own development wiki?--Doug (talk) 17:37, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Is there a specific time period for this?  Hazard-SJ  ±  01:33, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand the question. I guess the answer is no, I'm not aware of any proofreadpage devs with great ideas an no place to test them; because nobody is developing ProofreadPage now. All of Wikisource depends on ProofreadPage these days and it's extremely easy to break. The recent problems with line breaks could possibly have been worked more effectively (or at least by more people) if there had been a place to do it. Advances on proofreadpage or new wikisource processes entirely are just not happening. Without a place to try out changes and show them to the community before they're fielded, it's unlikely that anyone is going to take this up. So, no, we don't have a deadline, or even a target, but we would like to find a place that we could develop things that are wikisource specific. I'm not sure that this is the right place to do it, I just ran across this place and thought "hmm, I wonder if this is what we need".--Doug (talk) 12:24, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Please see Wikisource:ProofreadPage.  Hazard-SJ  ±  21:56, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I'm aware of that page and have edited it before. That's just a place where we track issues and try to work out the js and css problems we find - after a release, it is maintained mostly by User:Phe who is not developing extension:proofreadpage; nobody is. There is nowhere on wikisource.org to test possible changes to proofreadpage nor to test the performance of proofreadpage under the changes of an upcoming release.--Doug (talk) 00:59, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

. . . and there won't be, it's a live wiki. ;-) Which is kinda the point to this post.--Doug (talk) 01:11, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Parsing/Rendering Test Page

Is there a test page or set of pages that includes every possible kind of Wiki markup that developers can use to test their parsers and renderers? Here or on Wikipedia? --Tymcode

Report an error

The link in the left menu leads to a deleted page. Bináris (talk) 07:03, 24 March 2012 (UTC)