Dear all,
The GlobalWatchlist extension[1][2] is now deployed on testwiki. If you're interested, feel free to try it out.[3] It will be deployed to metawiki on Thursday[4] for general use.
I developed the extension to replace a user script I wrote[5], funded through a grant from the WMF[6], and the deployment to meta follows 8 months of work on the extension, and an additional year of work on the script.[7]
Please report any bugs found on phabricator.
Thanks, -DannyS712
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalWatchlist [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/GlobalWatchlist [3] https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260862 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DannyS712/Global_watchlist.js [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DannyS712/Create_a_global_wat... [7] I started the user script on 14 June 2019, with the first working version published on 21 June. I began work on the grant on 10 June 2020.
Hi,
On 2/9/21 4:44 PM, Danny S wrote:
I developed the extension to replace a user script I wrote[5], funded through a grant from the WMF[6], and the deployment to meta follows 8 months of work on the extension, and an additional year of work on the script.[7]
This is awesome, thank you so much for working on this! I can remember using Luxo's "gwatch" system on the Toolserver and then later crosswatch on Toolforge to get this kind of functionality, so I'm very excited we'll now have something that's (hopefully) sustainable and built into MediaWiki properly.
-- Legoktm
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