Make "Who Wrote That" tool and P&E Dashboard's Authorship Highlighting feature work in all languages (Community Wishlist/W503)

Description

The "Who Wrote That" tool and the Authorship Highlighting feature on Programs & Events Dashboard — which shows which parts of an article were added by which event participants — are built on the WikiWho API service. This service has a relatively small number of languages enabled, and only those languages can use Who Wrote That, Authorship Highlighting, and other tools that rely on the word-by-word attribution data that WikiWho provides.

In addition to the two widely-used existing tools, there are other in-development tools — including the Impact Visualizer being collaboratively built by Wiki Education and the Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change team — that are limited in language support by the WikiWho API. It's a broadly useful service for tool and gadget developers.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

Feature request

Tags

Bots and gadgets, Hackathonable

Affected users

Editors, Program organizers

Phabricator tasks

T372340, T414075

Other details

Created: 16:17, 30 January 2026
Last updated: 07:36, 25 March 2026
Author: Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk)

Voting

This wish currently has 12 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish

Support Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:17, 30 January 2026

Support Bluerasberry (talk) 22:54, 30 January 2026

Support Pppery (talk) 02:27, 3 February 2026

Support Nemoralis (talk) 06:35, 6 February 2026

Support Paloi Sciurala (talk) 18:32, 10 February 2026

Support Wyslijp16 (talk) 22:08, 15 February 2026

Support Red Sneak (talk) 13:36, 18 February 2026

Support Steven Sun (talk) 11:42, 8 March 2026

Support Robertsky (talk) 11:11, 10 March 2026

Support Asked42 (talk) 16:11, 30 March 2026

Support Ainali (talk) 06:22, 17 April 2026

Support , many language editions of Wikipedia still need "Who Wrote That" tool. Hakimi97 (talk) 05:04, 11 May 2026