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The new MediaWiki upgrade has rolled out! There are some neat new features, and - like with any update - also some bugs! You can help us fix them by reporting them here. The engineers are working hard to fix all the bugs they can, as quickly as they can, but to do that they need as much info on each one as possible. Before you file any bug though, please force refresh your browser to make sure you have a current copy of the page. Here’s how to do that: http://www.wikihow.com/Force-Refresh-in-Your-Internet-Browser Also please check out your preferences, because many things that might seem like bugs in relation to your watch-list, editing, etc, might be due to preference changes: http://www.wikihow.com/Special:Preferences If you do find a persistent bug, please fill out this form to explain the issue, with your browser information and a screenshot/screencapture: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1APSqPyTd_uLZy-E4A6VZIBDagslKL6K4iRii1y9AB_I/viewform Let us know what you’re coming across - both bugs and new features! There are some parts of the upgrade that even we haven’t discovered the full functionality of yet, so if you spot something cool, please share it!:slight_smile:

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Here are some options for screenshotting/screencasting: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screen-Shot-(Screen-Capture) http://www.wikihow.com/Share-Screenshots-Using-Jing http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Screencast http://www.wikihow.com/Record-a-Screencast-with-Screencast‐O‐Matic Also, one RC/RCP feature we know about - where you see the diff appear after you rollback, is a new MW option, but if you don’t like it, you can turn it off by going to your preferences and checking this box: http://screencast.com/t/BRJtHD67tAop http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Special:Preferences&success=1

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Anna totally stole this thread idea from me:wink:

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Hah - great minds think alike, right Jamie? Thanks for moving your thoughts over here – it’ll just help us keep everything organized and get fixes more quickly if the bugs are in the same place:slight_smile:

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A little heads-up: RCP needs some fixes to make sure everything is working smoothly, so for a little while, the RCP tool is being taken out of commission, while it’s getting fixed. You can still patrol from http://www.wikihow.com/Special:RecentChanges With one other little bug heads-up there for traditional patrolling: if you click directly on a brand new page from special:recentchanges (a new article or new user page), you may not see the mark/skip buttons. But if you start on a diff-style edit and then get to the new pages through the RC “flow”, you should see the buttons and be able to patrol them! Thanks for bearing with us through the fix – we just want to make sure the tool isn’t accidentally letting any low quality edits through without the patroller’s knowledge. 'Cause – that would be no good!

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By the way, if anyone uses an Amazon Kindle Fire (or Kindle Fire HD) to force refresh, turn off your Kindle completely and turn it back on. Open Silk and try again. There’s no shortcut to that type of option except doing the “refresh” that way.

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It seems like there is a button in preferences as to whether to display patrolled new pages, and since clicking it, the new articles are showing the mark as patrolled/skip options on new pages. This does make it easier to get through the edits without having to back up.

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Ok folks, RC Patrol is coming back online! The engineers have been up to their knees in the bug fix all day, and we’ve just been testing it and the issues seem to be fixed. Fingers crossed! Please do let us know in the bug form if you’re still seeing problems. Also, a heads-up: we think that RC coach may be running more frequently for some people right now. Please bear with us on that issue – at least too much coaching is better than not enough:slight_smile:(Also, for admins and boosters, remember you can turn this off in your preferences if need be!) Thanks for your patience with the tool today! We definitely wanted to make sure it was in tip-top shape, and hopefully it’s back to that now… Let us know if you see anything buggy coming up!

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Here’s a funky one: No Rollback button in RCP on article page. I used the Undo button, but, (with loosing my NAB rights) I got the Patrol Coach idiotic thing saying I did wrong. It was in response to http://www.wikihow.com/Annotate-a-Book http://screencast.com/t/axBVontR

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No worries @Byankno1 - what you did was totally a-okay! A skip or opening the article diff/history is still a “pass” on that kind of test (the only “wrong move” would be marking it patrolled if it’s an iffy edit). You’re totally right that there should be a rollback button, and this is one of the things we’ll be looking into as we figure out what’s going on with the Coach! In the meantime, if you see something like that that should be rolled back (but you don’t see a rollback button), go ahead and open it up for undo/rollback the manual way (or skip it, if you don’t want to edit it), and we’ll get the rollback button and Patrol Coach details hammered out next week. Rest assured that even though the Coach gives some feedback in that kind of instance, it’s not being held against anyone! Thanks for the screencast, and your patience!

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I don’t know if I’m totally right here or not, but you can always “un-tick” the column “Enable the Patrol Coach diffs in RC Patrol” in My preferences under Recent changes. Does that help in any way?

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It’s only for boosters and admins.:frowning:

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Heads-up that RCP seems to be throwing out a few error messages out here and there - sorry about the hitches! If you’re getting lots of buggy behavior, then until we can get a fix going, you might find things go more smoothly with traditional patrolling: http://www.wikihow.com/Special:RecentChanges Again, unless you find that BR’s preference setting change (above) works for you, just avoid entering the RC “flow” from a brand new article/user page (i.e. click first on a diff, rather than a new page), and you should see the mark/skip buttons appear as they should as you click through the changes. Thanks for bearing with us! The engineers have described the whole upgrade process to me as “trying to swap out the foundations on a house while people are still living in it” – in other words, a huge and complicated task! So some of these glitches are unfortunate but inevitable. But I know bugs can be frustrating, so we really appreciate your patience! Aside from seeing any errors, I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far:slight_smile:

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On occasion, when I move from article-to-article in Special:Recentchanges verson of RCP, I end up getting this funky error (fatal error). It happens pretty often, when I “skip” a diff. Fatal error: Call to a member function getFullURL() on a non-object in /opt/wikihow/prod/extensions/wikihow/rcpatrol/RCPatrol.body.php on line 368 in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

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@Connor-Fleming , Oh, thanks for reminding that!

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@Byankno1 Yeah, I’ve seen that too – it’s high priority for a fix. Thanks for letting me know you’re seeing it as well! If you have particular diffs that it’s persisting on (i.e. even if you refresh), can you email them to me? They’d be good debugging fodder for the engineers – And either way, thanks for the help!

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No problem.:slight_smile:

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Had some issues editing via topic, I was unable to publish the edit in the tool so I had to manually add it here: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Make-a-Bank-Transfer-Payment&diff=prev&oldid=12508559 I also have several edits which I can’t skip or patrol meaning I can’t patrol well:confused:

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Mainly user edits like the one for http://www.wikihow.com/User:SergioGutteridg and some other new accounts which I can’t do anything with. If it helps I’m using internet explorer.

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After I have saved a quickedit in RCPatrol, on occasion, I am unable to go to the next edit by marking or skipping. (However rollback, quickedit and quicknote buttons function properly.) Browser info: https://aboutmybrowser.com/xXyYJHSl