Forum:"Problem Report" feature

Forums → Ten Forward → "Problem Report" feature (reply • watch)

This page was started as the problem report page for problem #6837 (apparently, as the feature doesn't seem to work too well). -- Cid Highwind 11:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Regarding #6837

That is real world information you aren't going to find on Memory Alpha, as it doesn't pertain to Trek canon and wasn't stated in canon. If you look at the Wikipedia article, on the other hand, it has information. The name comes from its location in the Orion constellation, being a contraction of Arabic words that mean "Left Foot of the Central One". --OuroborosCobra ^talk 03:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, whoever has the power to can change this from "pending" to "solved". It wasn't really a bug or problem report to begin with. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 03:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Other than going through recent changes, I don't even see where this page links to whatever page you are talking about, nor to I even see where to report or resolve a problem (aside from the link to wiki on the left). --Alan del Beccio 03:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, noticed that after I tried to help solve this one. Um, is this some new feature that wasn't very well thought out? For the most part, it just seems to be a second place to look for things when article talk pages already did the job, and at least with talk pages you are given an idea of what the blazes someone just "solved". --OuroborosCobra ^talk 03:38, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Maybe we should move this to forums, but I think found one what you were looking for. Special:ProblemReports. It gives you the options (at least for me) for changing it to "fixed", "closed", "need staff help", "pending" (which is the option chosen for this one). It's hard to tell what to do with the reported problem if the message is left blank, so I have no clue what needs to be "fixed", at least in bp's vodka report. --Alan del Beccio 03:48, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Feature discussion

So... what exactly is this Special:ProblemReports page. In any case, it doesn't really work as expected. I'm not able to change the status from "pending" to anything else, and the fact that it shows other Wikia problems in the list makes it even less useable.

Does anything see a need for this feature, or should we ask for it to be deactivated here? -- Cid Highwind 11:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I support deactivation - I don't see how useful it will be, and the interface appears to be b0rked anyway. I thought we had already turned it down when it was offered, but apparently not. -- Michael Warren | Talk 11:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

As it's the most useless shite out there... wait... not true... but since it's utterly useless to us... let's get rid of it ASAP. -- Sulfur 12:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)