MediaWiki 1.19/Feature test charters

Apropos of 1.19 and MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap

This is subject to revision and expansion:

Mediawiki1.19 Acceptance test/regression test charters

• Check skins that use common*.css files
• Check skins in general
  • Available existing skins are selected under "My preferences/Appearance".
    • "Simple" skin busted
  • The documentation under http://<host>/wiki/Skins should be correct.
• Check that default user signature contains working "talk" link and also "user" link.
  • Leave a signature by editing a page or Talk page while logged in using "~~~~". Resulting signature should have active link both to user page and user talk page.
    • OK in FF, Chrome, IE7
• Check that time zones in user preferences are recognized correctly.
  • Time zones are available in "My preferences/Date and time".
    • Not sure what's supposed to happen here, seeing no changes from 1.18 to 1.19. I did check the code at line 587 in Preferences.php and it looks reasonable.
• Check that page difference display is appropriate for colorblind people, not red and green.
  • is yellow+black on left, blue+black on right, seen in FF, Chrome, IE7
  • Available under "View history". Current diffs are yellow+red on left, green+red on right.

Check interwiki links in general, reading and creating.

* Examples of interwiki links are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:InterWikimedia_links

International test charters

• Check logs and user lists for (in)appropriate use of gender.
  • Users have grammatical genders
  • PLURAL and GENDER support in JavaScript

• Check for Canadian English language selection.
  • Language selection is available under "My preferences/User profile", eh.
    • Canadian English exists and is selectable

• Check that if page content is in one language, the wiki aspects of pages are also in that language.
  • Create a page in a language other than the default selected language and save the page.
    • HOW IS PAGE LANGUAGE RECOGNIZED?
  • What is this I don't even. Reedy 21:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

• Check bi-directional language support. For details see Directionality support.
  • • • adding Hebrew characters on a non-Hebrew pages goes right-to-left as expected

Administrator tests

Check UX for searching blocked usernames in block log.

• • • • Search for blocked usernames succeeds only with full match to full username. Searching with partial match (including first word) returns no results.

Developer tests

• Check that Mediawiki extensions can now participate in the extraction of titles from URL paths.

• Check that API and Interwiki extension have access to the interwiki links table when interwiki cache is used.
  • Probably the easiest way to fix this, is to make a faux interwiki code, and only load it into the interwiki cache, not into the interwiki table also
    • • Seems to be OK linking test2 to mediawiki

Tests for installs not deployment

• MySQL version should be 5.0.2
• Check command-line installer for supported RDBMSes

Specific to 1.19

These were cherry-picked from the 1.19 Release Notes (see link above) as being particularly worth investigating. Subject to review and change.

Config checks

• registered users can move files
• login cookie is now 180 days
  • • • Checked, UserId cookies is 180 days
• large jpeg files subject to max area restriction $wgMaxImageArea
• special pages (Whatlinkshere) display max 50 items $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit

New feature checks

• all unicode space characters treated equally
  • • • checked text in http://test2.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_characters vs TextMate, seems OK
• check includable special pages
  • • • {{Special:Allpages|namespace=2|from=Alfonso Louise|to=Mattias Pasta}} works as expected
• 255-byte limit on page titles, Special:Move
  • • • • 270-byte title returns "Bad title" special page.
• Magic words (time and number-formatting ones, plus DIRECTIONMARK, but not NAMESPACE) now depend on the page content language instead of the site language.
• pageid removed from page_props table upon delete: 30450 and 30451
• generating sitemaps
• checkered background on hover on images
• language converter depends on page content language
• [[Special:ActiveUsers/username]] sets username on input field
  • • • ActiveUsers and Listusers honors /username and starts lists from value of /username
• new JavaScript variable wgPageContentLanguage
• new debugging toolbar, enabled with $wgDebugToolbar
• Special:WantedFiles has link to pages with broken file links
  • • • Special:WantedFiles exists on 'Special Pages' list. strikeout links and redlinks are correct

Bug fix checks

• previewing user JS files appear correctly
• importing a new version of a protected page not allowed
• file names restricted to 240 bytes on upload (and move?)
  • • • • 270-byte title returns "Bad title" special page.
• summary when undoing revision
  • • • works as expected (actually I saw this work correctly on enwiki, not sure why that would be)
• gender for Usercreated msg
• don't display long text for new pages in Recent Changes
• interpret dots in URLs correctly (security)
• error msg. on bad URL when moving page
  • • • Special:Permanentlink with no args shows "No such target page" error page. Special:MovePage with no args shows "No target"
• search blocked users
  • • • Special:Logs has fields "Performer:" and "Target (title or user):" now. (seen on enwiki, not sure why)
• non-English sorting
  • • • need a bigger wiki than I have to test this one
• View History display (browsers)
  • • • 'View History' tab re-appears when page is made too narrow and then re-expanded.
• create new section only
• internal error for nonexistent user name
  • • • This page seems fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:213.253.39.xxx
• block yourself
• News icons correct
• IE bug
• HTML tables fix: Bugzilla:33434 and Bugzilla:30485
• HTTPS always on HTTPS-only sites
  • Cluster doesn't use instant commons
• consistent file size display
  • • • small files use "bytes", bigger files use KB and MB correctly
• user/timestamp preserved on null edit
• URI encoding error
• display summary of Uncategorizedpages
  • • • http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Uncategorizedpages-summary exists

via irc

Install checks

• warning from installer when mod_security is present
• add option for DB prefix

Wtf is a charter?

• w:Session-based testing#Charter