Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages/Kiwik template - Ping projects/limited workflow/Proposal
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- Problem:
- Editors get overloaded with communication as all messages/watchlist are addressed to individuals, when some messages would be better directed towards another article talk or a project
- Many workflows involve manualy updating a second page. kiwik would be the first step towards a simple workflow
- wiki is great for discussing an issue, but not necessarily great at providing a synopsis, or linking multiple conversations.
- Userboxes can not be used to ask for expertise due to concerns abut spam
- Proposed solution: Creating a two-way communication between any two pages (e.g. article talk <-> project talk)
- On the New York City Subway page, say you add a template like
{{kiwik|Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains|help on XYZ}}
to a discussion topic T - A bot will notify related WikiProjects, such as WikiProject Trains and WikiProject New York City, with a kiwik pointing in the opposite direction like
{{kiwik|Talk:New York City Subway|help on XYZ|Topic T}}
- Optional: Synch changes, handle deletions and archives, and handle fixing link rot on talk archives
- Optional: white list for projects to allow them to opt.
- On the New York City Subway page, say you add a template like
- Who would benefit:
- Editors - Alternate to long watchlists, and spreading of workload
- Projects that are inactive. Maybe a hashtag feed would give them a purpose, as people could help in their area of interest.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Wakelamp (talk) 13:01, 5 February 2023 (UTC)