On 1 January 2011 03:03, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
On this note, MTV Networks (my previous job) switched from using Mediawiki to Confluence a couple years ago. They mainly cited ease of use and Microsoft Office integration as the reasons. Personally I hated it, except for the dashboard interface, which was pretty slick. Some Wikipedia power-users have similar dashboard style interfaces that they have custom built on their User Pages, but I think it would be cool if we let people add these sort of interfaces without having to be a template-hacker.
The sort of interface I'm talking about would include stuff like community and WikiProject notices and various real-time stats. If you were a vandal fighter, you would get a vandalism thermometer, streaming incident notices, a recent changes feed, etc. If you were a content reviewer, you would get lists of the latest Featured Article and Good Article candidates, as well as the latest images nominated for Featured Picture Status, and announcements from the Guild of Copyeditors. The possibilities are endless.
Ryan Kaldari
So, what stop people from writing a "dashboard wizard" that let people select a predefined one?