Bug management/Feedback sources

Wikimedia has many wiki pages (forums) where users provide feedback.

For average wiki users Bugzilla is often hard to use, and developers cannot be expected to regularly take a look at all these forums. Anybody can help here by forwarding well-reported valid bugs from the forums to Wikimedia Bugzilla. This helps other users see that reporting issues in Bugzilla is one important way of getting issues addressed.


 * Watch input sources such as forums, Village Pumps and specific feedback pages for products.
 * Copy issues when it looks like they are a bug in the software and when they have good instructions how to reproduce.
 * On many wikipages you can use the {{Tracked|123}} template to visibly link to the Bugzilla ticket 123. This raises awareness and avoids duplicated reports in Bugzilla. In normal text you can use  to link to bug report 123. On some wikis it may be necessary to import the [ exported Template:Tracked].
 * To mark problems as FIXED, you can change the aforementioned template to on many wikipages.

Some Feedback Sources

 * on English Wikipedia
 * on Commons
 * on English Wiktionary
 * on Arabic Wikipedia
 * on German Wikipedia
 * on Spanish Wikipedia
 * on French Wikipedia
 * on Hebrew Wikipedia
 * on Hindi Wikipedia

For a complete list of wikis, check out the targets list for Global message delivery.

Translation Tools
Sometimes using a translation tool like Google Translate, Chrome's Page Translate or gTranslate is very helpful.

Acknowledgment
Mark Hershberger's initial work on this topic