Wikinews:Wishlist

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Right i reckon that we should have a list of things that people want to get on Wikinews and if we all put in ideas and help out on the ones we can help on then maybe we might get some new shiny stuff (like comment tabs etc).

List

• Cats bot to automatically add cats (think this was discussed before somewhere)--MarkTalk to me 17:50, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Unlikely, could you write a set of rules for categorisation for someone who didn't know English? That's basically what you're asking. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I know nothing about setting up bots, but I would have thought it's doable. Give it a list of availible categories (there's a special page that lists them all, could we run it off that?) and add the caegory if the apropriate word(s) are mentioned in the first paragraph, or if they are mentioned R number of times or in a text-to-mention ratio of Y:Z. Can that be done? Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 12:38, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

In theory yes, but I think in practice it would be inaccurate and require more to maintain a list of keywords to trigger categorisation than the actual categorisation process itself. Also liable to a lot of false positives. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Theres one on commons - i may try to contact the user about how it's done etc...--MarkTalk to me 14:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I might be able to try to make something in javascript - click a button and it magically suggests (keyword suggests) categories. (but i don't really have time to really look at doing something like that until a couple of weeks from now when my (real) life hopefully gets lets busy). Bawolff ☺☻ 03:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

• Listing on Google news. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• More contributors who aren't crazy (well, if they're crazy it should be about getting stuff up here in accordance with policy guidelines). --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

whats wrong with being craaaaaaaaazyyyy, hmm donoughts and cream.....:-)--MarkTalk to me 14:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• A new story on WIRED. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• A pony. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

ok i can do that AND its CRAAZY!!! Image:Old pony by the solent.jpg--MarkTalk to me 14:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• A tool that prevents Markie from publishing stories without categories. --SVTCobra 23:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

hehhe im sorry :-). your an admin so block me (joking} :-) --MarkTalk to me 23:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• A bit of scripting that allows me to automaticaly add comments pages to my watchlist in Internet Explorer!! Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 07:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • A bit of scripting that automatically stops people from using internet explorer ;-) (On a serious note, I'll make something soonish, it should not be very hard). user:Bawolff 10:30, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Just for you: Add importScript("User:Bawolff/sandbox/commentWatch.js"); into special:mypage/monobook.js (or whatever skin you use) and do a hard refresh. Next time you add a talk page or article, the associated comments page will be watched. If you watch a comments page, it will watch associated article or talk page automatically. Pitfalls with this: The you are now watching the comment page doesn't always tell the truth (it will call both articles and comment pages comment pages, and the sitenotice is in between it and the other watch message), this doesn't work in reverse - if you unwatch an article, you have to manually unwatch the comments. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Use importScript("Mediawiki:Gadget-CommentWatch.js"); Also testing setting the gadgets in Gadget section of prefs. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:20, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
• A new method of searching that takes into account how recent results are as well as relevence to the search terms (yeah, and I can dream on for that one!). Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 07:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
• Getting rid of the link to Comments_talk: --+Deprifry+ 12:14, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • The link has to exist because of technical limitations; new namespace means associated talk space. However, maybe a bot could automaticaly redirect these pages to the main comments pages? Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
    • thats easy enough to get rid of ( a bot seems a biut of a waste of effort though)—no technical limitation is to big for crazy javascript. - add importScript("user:Bawolff/sandbox/opinion.js"); to special:mypage/monobook.js (note the script does other things- duplicating the real opinion js somewhat, and is still in testing etc), but it does get rid of comment talk, replacing it with normal talk. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
• Some sort of Taser that will get me writing again. Jcart1534 19:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Like SIGECUTE? Bawolff ☺☻ 01:35, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Not too keen on the electrocution! Maybe more like a cattle prod? Jcart1534 03:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
      • lol. That reminds me of the computer game worms 2. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

technical stuff

This is another technical wish list of things i've collected that could possibly(but not-neccesarily) be useful

improved rss

I think the rss feeds could be improved. [[special:dpl2rss/There are no articles for this topic.]] making an rss feed (or some other sort of api.php equivelent for dpls) or maybe a query page (like special:Newpages) for category intersection. so we could have per category rss feeds, and it be on wiki so one it breaks its not a game of who currently maintains it.

• What is being done: someone (Zach?) has a toolserver thing in making for category intersection rss. I made a sort of category intersection query special page, but it is not really usable in its current form (mostly due to my lack of experiance with php). Bawolff ☺☻ 02:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
• Todo: If the toolserver thing is real, and is good enough for use, link from portals and categories via js

• Yes, it's real (all published, sports published, Minnesota published, etc) It doesn't provide full text, and relies on the toolserver replication lag not sucking (which seems to be "hardly ever" lately). (→Zachary) 02:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

A custom skin

Some people want wikinews:Custom skin. I personally feel that modern or cologne blue is good enough, and our non-skin stuff has improved so this isn't really that high a priority imho. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

better search

suggested on water cooler that we have a more google news style search. I am somewhat doubtful that is happening soon

rdf

Use mediawikis rdf features to replace the static cc rdf in the footer. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

• Not really critical or important as the footer does what it needs to (google sees it), but would be slightly better.

better stats

how to? Bawolff ☺☻ 02:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

earthquake bot

Bot to update Portal:Disasters and accidents/Recent Earthquakes

This sounds interesting and quite straightforward, I'll investigate doing this later today. Adambro (talk) 10:10, 8 July 2008 (UTC)