Wikinews:Tech
Appearance
Welcome to the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center.
Places to go
[edit]- Google Code Project - This is where our SVN repo is
- Wikinews-tech-l - Mailing list
- live chat at Libera.chat IRC network, primarily #wikinews
Projects
[edit]Please leave feedback for any of those at the personal talk page of the author.
- Reading, authoring and reviewing tools
- WN:Dialog -- dialog tools, work in progress
- Author: Pi zero
- What does it do?: Create wizards for reading, authoring, reviewing, all directly in wiki markup
- How to use it?: various places at this web site including the 'submit for review' button, category pager
- Written in: JavaScript
- How to help: test the existing wizards; propose new wizards; learn to write your own
- MediaWiki:Gadget-easyPeerReview.js ), last edited in 2016; used by reviewers every day
- Author: Bawolff
- What does it do?: adds review tab
- How to use it?: click 'review' and fill in the form to submit your review
- Written in: JavaScript
- How to help: make it harder to lose the review comment written in the box; make it available to non-reviewers in some form (discuss how first!)
- Android Reader, read Wikinews at Android; last edit in 2010
- Author: ShakataGaNai
- What does it do?: adds 'read wikinews' icon to your mobile
- How to use it?: click the icon and scroll the headlines, tap to read a news story
- Written in: ???
- How to help: test it in this decade; make it possible to write news too?
- Reader Server, server for the Android Reader
- User:Gryllida/welcome a bit -- notifications tool to engage readers and authors in reading other articles and drafts
- Author: Gryllida
- What does it do?: Allows you to sign up to receive nearly instant notifications of new drafts in your topics of interest. THey are delivered to the wiki talk page or to your e-mail.
- How to use it?: Click the link and there the 'Sign up' button.
- Written in: JavaScript and Perl
- How to help: test it out, ask friends to test it out, suggest how to make it more discoverable. Check its talk page and implement features for the next release.
- Utilities
- Pitsilemu (under code review as of August 2015)
- gpy (http://gpy.nongnu.org)
* wmf4.me, URL shortening service -- no longer in use as of 06:13, 28 May 2021 (UTC).