Also, we should mention that most of the work for Gadgets 2.0 was originally done by Timo and Kunal and they have been a huge help getting us up to speed on it. We should have a demo up on Labs soon for people to play with.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, here's what the Community Tech team's been up to lately. > > * Community Wishlist Survey: we've been running this survey to identify > the most important features and fixes to work on in 2016; you might have > heard about it because we've been spamming mailing lists and village pumps. > If you haven't checked it out yet -- the voting phase ends on Monday, > please come and vote for the proposals you want to support! There are a lot > of proposals, and many of them are awesome. > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey > > * Gadgets 2.0: A new Gadget Manager has been in the works for a long time, > to replace Mediawiki:Gadgets-definition as the interface for managing > gadgets on a wiki. Community Tech is helping to complete the feature -- in > November, we created new Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and > content models, and we're currently working on the Gadget Manager itself. > For more info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0 and > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31272. > > * GadgetUsage: We made some improvements to the Special:GadgetUsage > report, filtering out removed gadgets and adding a recently active users > count. You can see the improved report at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage, and it'll roll out to > more projects next week. > > * Citation bot: We've been working on getting Citation bot into shape; > check out https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108412 for more. > > In December, we've got more work coming up on Gadget Manager, Citation bot > and storing WikiProject article assessment metadata. Plus come and vote in > the Wishlist Survey so that we have interesting things to work on in > January. Thank you and good night. > > DannyH (WMF) > Community Tech > > > > (cross-posted to Wikimedia-l, Wikitech-l and WMF staff lists, sorry for > the duplication) > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
