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Stopping spammers from finding my e-mail address at Bugzilla

Is there a way to prevent Bugzilla: from reporting my e-mail address for everyone to see? I figure spammers will find it fast. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:11, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

There's lots of services out there that offer throw-away email addresses. — Edward Z. Yang(Talk) 05:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Moving to meta

Any reason the bulk of this documentation shouldn't be moved to meta? the wub "?!" 16:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

If you checked the page history, you'll notice that a long time ago, this page was used as a dumping ground for random bug reports and feature requests from English Wikipedia, much to many developer's dismay. Anyway, there was substantial opposition to nuking the page, so I rewrote it pointing users to the right place.
In short: probably not. — Edward Z. Yang(Talk) 21:18, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Pah, I don't need to check the page history - I remember those days. It certainly doesn't seem that long ago... am I turning into an "oldtimer"? Anyway great job on the rewrite, I just think it should be on meta to avoid duplication. the wub "?!" 00:24, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

cookies logging in

i know this isnt where im supposed to be with this, but i dont know where i am supposed to be, and bugzilla isnt opening. but i cant log in to wikipedia cause it says i have cookies disabled, which i have not, this problem keeps coming back from time to time. what could i do? lygophile 15:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

The appropriate place to ask a question like this is not this place or Bugzilla but Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). I'm sure some folks over there will be able to help you. Be sure to also say what your browser is. — Edward Z. Yang(Talk) 17:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Cancel the account

Hi. I may want to cancel my account. Can I do it? Jet (talk) 22:14, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Merge

I've noticed that Wikipedia:Bugzilla and Wikipedia:Bug reports seem to cover the same information. Anyone opposed to a merge of these or have another idea? --- RockMFR 07:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Support merge. Certainly, GDonato (talk) 21:53, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Why not. Since Bugzilla seems to have been around longer, we should probably use that one as home-base. — Edward Z. Yang(Talk) 00:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I support merge. RS1900 06:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
I wouldn't suggest doing the merge as the Wikimedia bug reporting and Bugzilla are two completely different subjects which just happen to be about the same program. The Wikipedia:Bugzilla page should only be used to address information relating to the program itself, while the Wikipedia:Bug reports page should be used to address information regarding the bug reporting process for wikimedia projects.
--Knightcon 22:39, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Special:Suffixindex

There is a request on talk page of Special:Prefixindex for Special:Suffixindex. I have to second that request. This will be invaluable for finding the noun part of names that have various adjectives. I'm thinking "X logic," "X philosophy," etc.

This may not be the right place to request this, however, this is perhaps the appropriate audience? I was recommended to this area. Be well and thanks for your work. Greg Bard 03:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) is a good place if you want fast feedback. You should also file a bug at Bugzilla. --- RockMFR 03:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Wikimedia.de grep is a recently improved tool that allows you to search text strings anywhere they appear in the article name, or the title in any name space. GregManninLB (talk) 15:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Sulfuric Acid

It shows "한국어" under pages in other languages like 6 times.--§ Eloc § 22:27, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. --- RockMFR 23:31, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Login not working.

At first I thought I forgot my password. I put my login name in the field as instructed,

"If you have an account, but have forgotten your password, enter your login name below and submit a request to change your password."

but then it says it is not a valid email address. I put in my email address and reset the password, but it still won't work. --Gbleem 08:57, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

It would be great if the current logo had an image of a bug - see locust - added to it (to look like it was eating the flower). Drum guy (talk) 16:58, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Or Image:Empis livida (aka).jpg. Drum guy (talk) 23:07, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Why are Bugzilla email addresses public?

I, and many others, can't report bugs because we don't want our email addresses public. I don't want my real name public either. Every Bugzilla report or comment shows the email address of the poster. Why can't bugzilla.wikimedia.org use unified login instead? It is a wikimedia.org site.

Some people say that we can use a throwaway email address and a fake Bugzilla login name. I already use several email addresses. One for email lists, one for personal use, and one for Wikipedia and other activism. I only check the email list one a few times a month or less. I check the personal one once a week. My friends mainly contact me through the email address I use for Wikipedia and other activism. My relatives use the phone mainly, and occasionally my personal email address.

I don't want a throwaway email address just for bugzilla because I will rarely use it or check it. So what good does it do for me or Bugzilla?

Why not use anonymous login? Wikipedia succeeded when it went from "expert" editing (by people using their real names) to broad editing by anyone whether logged in or not. Bugzilla will do better too with unified login or other anonymous login.

I use the Firefox browser. I have the same bug-reporting problem with Firefox. They probably did not hear about many problems with the beta versions of their Firefox 3 browser due to using bugzilla as their main form of bug reporting. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org

I have not upgraded to Firefox 3 due to problems they introduced with Firefox 3. I use Firefox 2 still. I have tried reporting the problems on their forums, but just like at Wikimedia one has to use Bugzilla if anyone is to pay some real attention.

I appreciate that the developers have limited time, and that some are unpaid, but I also have limited time, and work on this unpaid. We are in this together, so let's work together better. Please let me report bugs, suggestions, and possible solutions. --Timeshifter (talk) 00:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Strongly agreed. I appreciate the tip, tho, and will use a throwaway email address. --Chriswaterguy talk 19:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm wondering: What problems did you identify in Firefox 3? Maybe it's something that I could vote for on the Mozilla Bugzilla for you. —Remember the dot (talk) 19:48, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't see your reply sooner. I am "penlamp" in this Mozilla forum thread that covers the various slow bookmarking problems in Firefox 3:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=718355
See also the linked threads.
There are some reports on Mozilla bugzilla. My impression from reading the MozillaZine forums and Bugzilla is that the new database-driven Firefox 3 bookmarking software (SQLite) is unbelievably buggy. Reminds of why so many websites are going back to plain HTML from database-driven and/or dynamic websites. --Timeshifter (talk) 04:55, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

(unident) Here is a MediaWiki-related bug reporting system that does not expose the email addresses. See:

It links to:

and the account registration page:

Both name and mail are optional on that registration page.

MediaWiki+FCKeditor is a WYSIWYG text editor for wikis, and is in beta-testing at Wikia and elsewhere. See:

Sorry but ...

I'm not going to create a bugzilla account just to tell what I hope you already know. Especially if you're going to expose my email address and name.

So PRINTING ISN'T WORKING - if I print preview a page, I see a single blank page. If I select the printable version, I see what I'd expect, but again, if I print preview it, I see a blank page. I discovered this at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Member_State_territories_and_the_European_Union&printable=yes and tested on another random page before reporting.

I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.5.0.10-0.2 Firefox/1.5.0.10. Yes, I know it's old but (a) it used to work fine and (b) this is such a major breakage. FWIW, I'd guess it's some CSS change you've made; it usually is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.85.79 (talk) 08:57, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Assyrian Syriac Wikipedia problem

Hi every one i have a problem with the documentation green box in our wikipedia it's not working properly for some reason i have tried so many things you can see it her http://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/ܩܠܒܐ:Documentation/core . our problem is with green box and the border of fmbom aswell. thanks every one for the help in advance. Man2fly2002 (talk) 02:49, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Please ask in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical) if this is still a problem. --Malyacko (talk) 17:01, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Sandbox for Bugzilla comments

Bugzilla:39828 - Sandbox for testing links, including MediaWiki-style internal links, within Bugzilla comments. Tests have been done there for various link formats. You can see for yourself what works by clicking the links there and seeing where they go.

Do not add more comments to this Bugzilla thread unless absolutely necessary. Add new comments only to test types of links not already tested in the Bugzilla thread. For more info see:

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