The proximate cause of this is that the (MediaWiki core!) feedback tool is pointed at a page that is protected, and it doesn't fail nicely.

More generally, the problem is that the target page is an LQT page, and LQT doesn't intercept section=new through the API, only through the skin interface, so these feedback items are mis-directed. See 41276.

I'm unprotecting the target LQT section header again, though this is not very much more helpful for all concerned. :-(

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The proximate cause of this is that the (MediaWiki core!) feedback tool is
pointed at a page that is protected, and it doesn't fail nicely.

You're sure that that is MediaWiki core. /me is unaware of any feedback tool in mediawiki core.

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The proximate cause of this is that the (MediaWiki core!) feedback tool is
pointed at a page that is protected, and it doesn't fail nicely.

You're sure that that is MediaWiki core. /me is unaware of any feedback tool
in mediawiki core.

MediaWiki/core.git -> /resources/mediawiki/mediawiki.feedback.js:

https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/6a3bc6294a1b5b42a4d0f7062152d892e0aed1d3/resources%2Fmediawiki%2Fmediawiki.feedback.js

Always surprised how few people know about it, given how key it was for the Vector roll-out.

With precisely 0 uses in core :P

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With precisely 0 uses in core :P

That's Platform's call, not mine. :-)

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Always surprised how few people know about it, given how key it was for the
Vector roll-out.

For the records, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vector#How_can_I_give_feedback_about_the_new_skin.3F I guess.
The feedback page(s) had a mere hundred edits? It's not surprising they weren't noticed http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl?lang=meta.wikimedia&page=2010+Wikimedia+design+and+feature+change%2FFeedback
(And I now see I even helped process the feedback there...)

ganeshaditya1 wrote:

Can't see the beta button no more.

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Can't see the beta button no more.

Yes, the 'beta' button that this referred to last June no longer exists, but you can still get to the feedback form inside VE from the 'help' menu.

Tested on test.wikipedia.org
It now properly adds a closable dialog with the error: "No response from API", probably this ticket was fixed due to some cleanup and refactoring to the promises api that we have been doing throughout core over the year.

I've made a few small improvements to the error handling, so that we at least have a log line reporting the error, but that's even outside the scope of this ticket to be honest.

Change 178178 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ):
mediawiki.feedback: improve error handling

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/178178

Patch-For-Review

Change 178178 merged by jenkins-bot:
mediawiki.feedback: Improve error handling

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/178178