Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages/Kiwik template - Ping projects/limited workflow/Proposal/en

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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)
    1. 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
    2. 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}}
    3. Optional: Synch changes, handle deletions and archives, and handle fixing link rot on talk archives
    4. Optional: white list for projects to allow them to opt.
  • 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)[reply]