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[edit]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
whats wrong with being craaaaaaaaazyyyy, hmm donoughts and cream.....:-)--MarkTalk to me 14:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
ok i can do that AND its CRAAZY!!! Image:Old pony by the solent.jpg--MarkTalk to me 14:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
hehhe im sorry :-). your an admin so block me (joking} :-) --MarkTalk to me 23:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

technical stuff[edit]

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

improved rss[edit]

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)[reply]
  • Todo: If the toolserver thing is real, and is good enough for use, link from portals and categories via js

A custom skin[edit]

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)[reply]

better search[edit]

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

rdf[edit]

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

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

better stats[edit]

how to? Bawolff 02:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

earthquake bot[edit]

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)[reply]