Thread:Talk:QA/Weekly goals/Article feedback new features testing/reply (4)

Thanks. I should probably try to clarify my previous comment: When I added my comment I had bug reports like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37426 in mind which refer to a specific URL (in this case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-crowned_Sparrow?aftv5_form=1&aftv5_link=E ) that passes some URL parameters, in this case aftv5_form=1 and aftv5_link=E. These parameters might not be active anymore in the server configuration of en.wikipedia.org, as can be seen in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Technical_Design#Query_string_options : Currently on en.wikipedia.org, only aftv5_form=6 and aftv5_link=X are active. So it is required to know this when triaging such reports or trying to reproduce other issues on en.wikipedia.org: Using a non-active value intentionally will not provide the expected results anymore due to changes to the server configuration in the meantime (values not active anymore, while values were active when the bug was reported). This means that any results of retesting such a bug report might NOT be due to a software bug in the codebase of AFT, but due to server configuration. I hope this comment makes sense and is understandable. :)