Help:Testing

This is a copy of the master help page at m:Help:Testing. Do not edit this page. Edits will be lost in the next update from the master page. Either edit the master help page for all projects at Meta, or edit the project-specific text at Template:Ph:Testing. You are welcome to copy the exact wikitext from the master page at Meta and paste it into this page at any time.

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Before commiting to a change, one should test it first.

Changes to a page

There is a preview button near the submit button. One should check to make sure that the links are correct and the spelling is correct

Spelling

linuxquestions.org appears to have a spelling checker in their modified version of MediaWiki, one can use Konqueror or Firefox with a spelling check extension to check spelling within the browser window.

Testing features of existing software on one of the regular projects

This applies anyway for tests that depend on settings which are different per project, such as:

• interlanguage links (software feature)
• case-sensitivity of the first character
• character encoding
• enabling of embedding images in other projects and images outside Wikimedia
• MediaWiki:Monobook.css, etc.
• tests depending on other content, such as templates, images
• tests depending on project-specific variables such as namespace prefixes

It can be done:

• in special pages such as Wikiquote:Sandbox
• on user pages and subpages
• using Preview - this can not be used to test how a change in a page affects another page, such as when changing a template; when used to test automatic conversion of wikitext it only shows the rendered webpage, not the new wikitext itself, except for automatic conversion of special characters to their decimal numeric codes.

A test involving variable {{PAGENAME}}, e.g. a link to an image or another page with a name containing {{PAGENAME}}, can be done on the Talk page, since the value of the variable is the same on that page.

Sysops testing the available links and how things work for ordinary logged-in users can log in under another name, or in a project for which they are not a sysop.

See also

• m:MediaWiki test script

Wikiquote-specific content

Edit this Wikiquote- and subject-specific template

Links to other help pages

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External Links

• Special page on the Wikipedia