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Bug 18778 - Divulge Bugzilla formatting language
Divulge Bugzilla formatting language
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Bugzilla (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Brion Vibber
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/page.c...
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2009-05-12 22:34 UTC by Dan Jacobson
Modified: 2009-05-17 01:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Dan Jacobson 2009-05-12 22:34:10 UTC
The bug writing guidelines (URL above) don't mention how formatting works in bugzilla.
E.g., only by accident did I discover that
 a space at the beginning of a line makes a box.
However
; a ":" doesn't do anything special there, as opposed to wikitext, etc.

Compare
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WikiFormatting which tells us how to make our reports sharp looking.

However here on bugzilla.wikimedia.org it is just hit and miss. There is no list of formatting rules.
Comment 1 Dan Jacobson 2009-05-12 22:38:31 UTC
OK a space at the beginning of a line makes NOT a box.
It is all hit and miss. With not even a Sandbox in lieu of an instruction sheet. No Previews, just one cold "Commit" button.

Please provide a formatting description.
Comment 2 Mike.lifeguard 2009-05-12 22:44:46 UTC
File it in Bugzilla's Bugzilla. AFAIK, our only modifications are to make [[wikilinks]] which probably don't need rigorous documentation.
Comment 3 Dan Jacobson 2009-05-12 23:07:05 UTC
OK https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492669
Comment 4 Happy-melon 2009-05-16 10:06:43 UTC
To save people having to follow the yellow brick road through this bug chain:

http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/hintsandtips.html#AEN2690

Plus, as Mike notes, we convert wikilinks:

[[$1]] --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1
Comment 5 Dan Jacobson 2009-05-17 01:38:12 UTC
Interesting. They say if I use '>' then I can not wrap. Let's give it
a try

This is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped; this is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped; this is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped; this is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped;

Now the same line with a ">"
> This is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped; this is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped; this is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped; this is a very long line that I predict will be wrapped;

By the way, since I gave pointer to the bugzilla people to look here: there is some junk in their source,
$ GET http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/hintsandtips.html|fgrep -c '
'
4
however invisible in most browsers.
Comment 6 Dan Jacobson 2009-05-17 01:40:27 UTC
Bonanza. I now know the Bugzilla equivalent to TRAC's {{{ }}}!
Comment 7 Mike.lifeguard 2009-05-17 01:41:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Bonanza. I now know the Bugzilla equivalent to TRAC's {{{ }}}!
> 

Could you please not spam bugzilla? The bug is marked as INVALID. Thanks.

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