Wikidata:Report a technical problem/Help with Phabricator

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On this page, you will find an overview of Phabricator and useful related links.

What is Phabricator

Phabricator is the web-based development collaboration tool mostly used to manage MediaWiki software projects including Wikidata. A short summary about Phabricator for newbies including tutorial videos is on the main Wikimedia Phabricator page.

How to find Wikidata-related tasks

• Overview of tasks on the Wikidata Boards
• Search Phabricator using the "tag". Example Wikidata related tags include: Language codes, Wikidata Lexicographical data, Citoid, etc.

Create a new task

• Search Phabricator if a task for the problem you’re reporting or the feature that you’re requesting doesn't already exist
• To create a new ticket, Go to Project Management --> Tasks and Bugs on the left sidebar and then click on Create Task under the search bar.
• It's important to add the Wikidata tag to ensure that the task is discoverable as related to Wikidata
• We strongly recommend that you use the prefilled bug or feature report templates.

Tips to use Phabricator

• Search
  • Use the Advanced search to filter for more options.
• Languages
  • Change Phabricator UI languages: Settings --> Account --> Language
• Follow discussions
• Other
  • Upload files by going here or simply dragging and dropping the file when you’re on the Phabricator main page