Hi Jon, You might want to discuss this project here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council
You could also discuss this with the WikiProject X team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I am writing to invite you to preview and hopefully contribute to > Gather [1], a new MediaWiki extension that allows users to create, > share, and discover lists of articles. Gather is currently available > for all users of the mobile site who have opted in to beta. This > launch was primarily for the community to test it and to pardon the > pun... gather... some data. We would love for you to try it out and > share your feedback with us. > > The best way to explain what Gather lists are is to contrast them with > existing facilities for grouping articles: categories and list > articles. Categories and list articles exist in subject namespaces, > and their goal is to provide navigational links for articles whose > subjects share some common, defining property. Gather lists have a > similar goal of facilitating content discovery but differ in that they > allow users the ability to group articles on the basis of any > criterion, whether this be overtly subjective and irreverent > ("articles I enjoy"); curated on the basis of cultivated tastes and > informed opinions ("the most groundbreaking discoveries in > chemistry"); educational at a more localised level ("Pages that Mr > Robson's A-level chemistry students should read") or simply a > personal todo list ("articles i want to edit/read today"). > > The Gather lists you create are currently your own [A] and you decide > whether or not they are visible to others [B]. > To see some example lists check out: > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gather/by/Jdlrobson/23 > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gather/by/Jdlrobson/35 > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gather/by/Sonasonic/71 > > If you want to have a go at making your own lists you have two options > (both require a mediawiki account): > 1) Opt in to mobile site beta: > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions&returnto=Serge+Gainsbourg > and then interact with the watchstar > 2) Try it out on Vector [C]: > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/vector.js > > To build this we have looked at the existing watchlist code, the > Collections extension, the multiple lists in core RFC and the many > feature requests around watchlist that span the lifetime of this > project. Apologies in advance for lack of documentation, sometimes > talking and back and forth over IRC/coffee is more productive then > writing extensive documentation, but I promise you the team has been > listening to all sorts of use cases. > > As a result I think now we have the first essential building block - > the ability for a user to store and access a structured public or > private list. > > We have APIs that will allow you to: > * create new lists that are private or public > * edit lists > * add and remove pages to those lists > * query lists > * moderators to hide troublesome lists > * manipulate the watchlist which has special handling to turn it into > a collection > > Next up on the immediate roadmap for those that are interested: > * Fixing up API bugs, missing documentation > * Pagination was sorely missing from the first release. Code for that > has merged so that's coming soon. > * Polishing the existing user experience and working out how to port > that to desktop > * Improving on moderation tools > * The ability for multiple users to share and manage a list > * Combining the data inside a list with other data e.g. recent changes > to make multiple watchlists. I have a first version of this patch > ready for review [3] and working towards the goal of public/private > watchlists [4]. > > We have a long way to go and I guess this is the main reason I'm > writing this mail - I'm hoping to collect more help from across our > community. > > If you are interested in helping feel free to reach out to me off list > on irc (user jdlrobson) or poke around Phabricator [5]. > > Thanks for the read! > Jon > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gather > [2] > http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=editlist%7Cquery+listpages%7Cquery+lists > [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/200181/ > [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9467 > [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/gather/ > > [A] In the future we would love to support collaborative editing of > collections. Any one interested in helping? > [B] ... Although currently the UI only supports public lists... API > supports both. Help us build that out. > [C] Highly experimental - this is still a WIP and may have lots of > kinks. I would love a volunteer full time to help me with the desktop > experience. It should be noted that the Gather extension works on > desktop, but we've de-scoped the work there whilst UX standardisation > is ongoing and to limit the workload so we can actually get things > done quickly. There is currently a dependency on MobileFrontend for > convenience but we hope to drop that very soon > (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94100). > [D] (albeit badly documented - patches welcomed! > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
