Making gadgets working better globally got 1st place on the 2016 community wishlist done by the community tech team.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
So many of us within the movement also agree helping communities with less or no tech support is key.
James
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:40 PM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2017 at 14:32 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent to see.
Absolutely.
This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar
Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble
pulling
the year of publication based on the ISBN.
Possibly, but not from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Gadgets are, by design, community-written and community-supported. The English Wikipedia community has a large number of technical experts who might help out in improving, or replacing, that gadget for the 2010-era wikitext editor. Most other wikis have no internal technical support; it's important that we ensure that we give help to those communities.
J.
James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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