Re: [EE] Tracking article issues

Dario Taraborelli, Steven Walling, James Forrester had a discussion about how we can make article issues ("needs copyediting", "needs more references", etc.) more accessible to software like GettingStarted, Mobile, and VisualEditor. The categories that some of the templates already use work for simple cases (such as one language, one project), which is how GettingStarted currently works. However, different languages have their own categories and conventions for issue templates. Another issue is that it's not always clear whether the issue applies to a single section or the article as a whole. And some templates are used on the article, and others on talk. Mobile is moving the article issues to a separate area (with a pointer to that), which requires identifying which templates identify issues. An initial solution we discussed, with the goal of making the GettingStarted extension cross-wiki, is using a Wikidata Q-item to identify a cross-wiki maintenence category. An example is "Category:All articles needing copy edit" (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8235695). We also discussed how Wikidata could be used further. They are already planning on having badges (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Sitelinks#Badges), which describe aspects of a page (such as Featured Article), rather than the real-world concept. This could be extended further to include properties for issues with that page as well (needs copy-editing: true). A possible way to populate those Wikidata properties is by adding Lua calls to existing templates. We hope this can eventually make possible a lot of interesting ways to see, work on, and flag article issues. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ EE mailing list EE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee