Interesting idea! In one of our recent Small wiki toolkits workshops, an attendee suggested that a low-code approach to extending or customizing the Pywikibot framework be made available as the current approach is too complex for novice programmers who are heavy users of this framework. I think this might be a good use case to consider.

On a slightly different and related note, Suchakra (cc'd) and I had once proposed an idea for the Scratch platform around "Building information-rich stories with new and experimental Wikipedia blocks!" The idea was that with a new set of experimental blocks, children would be able to generate stories, animations, and games in Scratch using data from Wikipedia / Wikidata (e.g., populating a list of LEGO movie characters). Sharing here in case any piece developed as part of the project can be an interesting contribution to Scratch :) If anyone wants to chat more about this, we are happy to brainstorm.

Cheers,
Srishti

Srishti Sethi
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation



On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 4:38 AM <tim.herb@gmx.de> wrote:
Thank you for mentioning possible usecases. I am interested in defining blocks for the usecases. You can contact me on my talk page for specific questions about that. I usually get a notification when someone leaves a message. I need to understand the structure and often used functions or combinations of functions used within Abuse Filters and Lua templates before defining blocks. For Wikifunctions I plan to create blocks for the functions when new functions will be published and maybe there will be a direct support in Wikifunctions for defining functions using Snap! in the future.  At defining Workflows I also hope that I will understand this and that it will work based on blocks.
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