Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Users should have the ability to directly report a bug, from the user interface
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Users should have the ability to directly report a bug, from the user interface
- Problem: Bugs occur; some are trivial to fix, others are longer. I think what would be important is to have a menu item, that allowed to directly report a bug. This would cause a wizard to pop up, and the user could enter more infos about the bug; perhaps a screenshot could be added. In any case, the source page, from where the bug was reported, would be stored.
- Proposed solution: Bug-reporting wizards as described. More bugs reported, more fixed, more stable software
- Who would benefit: Users, developers.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Eptalon (talk) 21:21, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- Surfacing "help me, where do I tell someone something broke" does seem like something that could be generally improved about the wiki UI. --Izno (talk) 23:05, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
- Absolutely agreeing with this. We cannot expect new users to create a Phabricator account and create/follow a thread. It is quite surprising that there is no button at the bottom of each wiki to alert about interface problems. Xavier Dengra (MESSAGES) 00:10, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
- We tried this with MediaViewer and it didn't work well - most bug reports weren't useful. (T111112) It's kind of the equivalent of allowing everyone to upload photos they took with their mobile phones - sounds nice in theory, but lowering barriers is not automatically a good thing. It might be fixable with better UX but certainly not as simple as just putting up a dialog window. --Tgr (talk) 23:54, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- Support —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Bristledidiot (talk) 19:01, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Femke (talk) 19:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Strong support --Kusurija (talk) 21:16, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Izno (talk) 23:35, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daud Iffa (talk) 00:21, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 01:53, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Lectrician1 (talk) 01:55, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Klein Muçi (talk) 01:56, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Betseg (talk) 02:10, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ottawajin (talk) 05:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Šedý (talk) 11:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support It should be easier to report bugs. Phabricator is only suitable for experienced users. Meiræ 12:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Aca (talk) 13:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support — SHEIKH (Talk) 13:53, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support —Bruce1eetalk 14:10, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:32, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Nw520 (talk) 23:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 ℣ 23:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
Rolviki℟ 16:38, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ali Imran Awan (talk) 07:13, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Wotheina (talk) 15:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Dreamy Jazz talk to me | enwiki 14:46, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Thingofme (talk) 15:53, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support IAmChaos (talk) 21:27, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 22:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rotavdrag (talk) 11:34, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support WikiAviator (talk) 15:44, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rzuwig► 12:16, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support ·addshore· talk to me! 22:55, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support - Darwin Ahoy! 02:09, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(Talk) 05:48, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support RG067 (talk) 11:48, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 04:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 06:47, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Voice of Clam (talk) 10:45, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support — DaxServer (t · c) 21:32, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Grillofrances (talk) 05:43, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support paul2520 (talk) 14:47, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support ~Cybularny Speak? 20:50, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 14:15, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Asukite (talk) 00:02, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Phab is way too complicated even for the average editor, who is not the average reader Nosebagbear (talk) 21:24, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support --evrifaessa (talk) 16:04, 11 February 2022 (UTC)