Ho-ho-ho, yes, it's a little early, but the presents I bring are not completely finished either. My test site [1] now features three features that will, hopefully, ease some of the pains of reliability and every-day work at wikipedia. The first one you know, the validation feature, in its current incarnation. It has already been pre-field-tested by some people from the German wikipedia. The other one we talked about, the "stable version". This is a currently a very basic implementation, and will be overhauled by me to add some usability and reduce confusion (e.g., clicking "edit" on the stable version page). The third one I talked about, but noone saw it yet, so here it is: Task management! (you gonna love this!) First, I made some screenshots [2] for the people who don't have time to read boring text or try it live :-) Still with me? Great! The task management feature is intended to replace both the category-and-template based tags like "cleanup" or "wikify", and the very-long-page-based things like AfD. (Please, don't start yet another thread about keep/turn off AfD here!) If you go try it out, better get a user account; so much more fun (can't change tasks as an anon). Executive summary: * Article sidebar ** All open tasks for a page will be displayed in the sidebar of the article * New tab "Tasks" ** Create new tasks, look at and modify existing tasks for that page ** "Create" ("please create a blank page for a poor anon") and "Write" ("Requested articles") tasks available for non-existing articles ** Tasks can be closed ("closed" or "won't fix") ** You can assign yourself a task; it will be marked as such, so no more double effort and edit conflict :-) ** Every task, for every page, can have its own discussion page, in a "Task:" namespace. On these pages, there's backlink and info for the task * New "Special:Tasks" page ** List your own assignments (so you won't forget them :-) ** Search for (open) tasks After a long, *long* weekend with little, *little* sleep, resulting in more than 1000 lines of code for this feature alone, I hereby declare it "running" :-) Once I'm rested again, I'll look into additional functions: * Search for tasks concerning pages in certain categories (yes, that will include "parent" categories, I hope!) * Auto assignment: You can sign up for "wikification duty"; a "wikify" task will be assigned to you, and once you did it, as a reward, you'll get the next one :-) Emerging into coma right about ... now! :-) Magnus [1] http://www.magnusmanske.de/wikipeerdia/index.php [2] http://www.magnusmanske.de/tasks/