[QA] help update the QA wiki pages? (new people welcome!)

Fri Nov 22 19:57:09 UTC 2013

Thats the idea, Chris.

 I want to create a "getting started" page and then have the link to that
page from the  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>wrote:

>
> You should perhaps make a link from this page:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance
>
> -Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Anjana Ranganathan <anjana1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Zeljko,
>>
>> I would like to start a "QA/Getting started" page. I tried using this
>> link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Starting_a_new_article, but
>> it failed me. I have the initial article ready. Please let me know how to
>> proceed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anjana
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Anjana Ranganathan <anjana1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a new contributor, i now know these are some steps to follow:  (It
>>>> took a while for me to piece this together)
>>>> 1. Subscribe to the QA list (qa at lists.wikimedia.org)
>>>>  2. Introduce yourself in this QA list with your interests, your time
>>>> zone, best way to contact you, your nick on freenode etc.There are a lot of
>>>> people who will help you.
>>>> 3. Familiarise yourself with test environments at
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org and http://test2.wikipedia.org .
>>>> Also create accounts on these and play with "preferences" in your account.
>>>> 4. Create a bugzilla account, as this is how bugs are reported.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If this is not already documented at wiki[1], it would be great if you
>>> would update a page, or maybe create a "getting started" page. Let us know
>>> if you do it, or if you need help doing it.
>>>
>>>
>>>> In addition to this, i would like to see a list of small bugs that a
>>>> newcomer could look at and maybe resolve.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I keep my todo lists public (Bugzilla[2] account is needed to view the
>>> lists):
>>>
>>> - list of all QA related bugs[3]
>>> - list of QA related bugs tagged "easy"[4]
>>> - list of bugs that I am currently working on[5]
>>>
>>> Željko
>>> --
>>> 1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:QA
>>> 2: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
>>> 3:
>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa&sharer_id=16205
>>> 4:
>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=qa-easy&sharer_id=16205
>>> 5:
>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=zfilipin&sharer_id=16205
>>>
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