Bugzilla



All bugs in the MediaWiki software should be reported at bugzilla.wikimedia.org. This is also the place to request new features or enhancements to the software.

What is Bugzilla?
For more information, see the Wikipedia article on Bugzilla.

Bugzilla is an online bug-tracking tool, developed by the [http://www.bugzilla.org/ Mozilla Foundation], and is the system we use to track all open issues with MediaWiki.

The reason we use Bugzilla is that it allows the developers to easily find, track and discuss issues, to spot duplicates and ultimately to resolve them.

Wikimedia's bug tracker is usually referred to as "Bugzilla". Older references may call it "MediaZilla".

Reporting a bug or requesting a feature
Please see Special:MyLanguage/How to report a bug.

Comments
Bugzilla comments are plain text; you cannot use HTML. However, Bugzilla will automatically make hyperlinks in these ways:

Link to:
 * Bug report: 


 * Comments: . Can also be combined with bug: 


 * Attachments: 


 * SVN commits:  (link to the revision shown in Code review (through Special:Code/MediaWiki)

The recognized format for changeset number is. Newlines added by bugzilla break the autolinking, as usual. Technical details: [https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/bugzilla/bugzilla-4.0/extensions/Wikimedia/Extension.pm?view=markup see rules ].
 * Change sets in Gerrit:

More info: [<tvar|hintsandtips-url>http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.2/en/html/hintsandtips.html</> Hints and Tips]. From [<tvar|bugzilladocs-url>http://www.bugzilla.org/docs</> The Bugzilla Guide]. Go there for latest version.

Full URLs
Websites: <tvar|fullurllink></>

MediaWiki-style internal links
They are supported. By default they point to English Wikipedia. Interwiki prefixes are supported as well and work as usual, starting from en.wikipedia.org: will link to the German Wikipedia, and so on.

Using pipes for a different label does not work. For example;  is not supported and won't create a link.

Section links work too, but you need to insert them correctly: the simplest way is to copy the URL from the location bar of your browser, and add brackets around the part of it after </> will result in <tvar|bztemplate-example2></>. In some wikis, you can use <tvar|tracked-example></> (shown to the right), and also <tvar|resolved-example> </> when the bug report has been marked as fixed.

What do the <tvar|field-rpiority>priority</> and <tvar|field-severity>severity</> fields mean?
See Bugzilla/Fields and Bugzilla/Fields.

What does the <tvar|field-status>Status</> field mean? (NEW, RESOLVED, etc.)
See [<tvar|field-status-url>https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status</> the field description]. NEW is also one of the statuses that an open bug might have.

How can I see bugzilla attachments properly?
Currently we override your browser settings, so PNG attachments are downloaded instead of being displayed in your browser etc. A [<tvar|attachment-extension-url>https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=13980</> modified inlinedisposition extension] is available for Firefox users: it restores normal behavior on our bugzilla, without affecting other sites.

Queries
List open Bugzilla tickets by number of votes ]
 * [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?columnlist=opendate%2Cvotes%2Cbug_severity%2Cpriority%2Cop_sys%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc&field0-0-0=votes&list_id=3144&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&type0-0-0=greaterthan&value0-0-0=2&order=votes%20DESC%2C&query_based_on=