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| These are the very highest priorities for new features on Appropedia, in rough order.
| | ''The following list is transcluded on the [[Appropedia:Site development/Desired features|Desired features]] page and [[Appropedia:How you can help]].'' |
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| '''If you can help with any of these, please add your name next to the one you can work on (if you can commit to working on it). Or leave a message on the {{talk page}} here, or on the talk page on one of the admins that deal with tech issues ([[User talk:Lonny]], [[User talk:Curtbeckmann]] or [[User talk:Chriswaterguy]]).'''
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| Note: New features are tested first on the [http://whatissustainability.org/ development site], so don't worry - you won't risk crashing Appropedia.
| | == High Priority == |
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| (Note: the following list is transcluded on [[Appropedia:Desired Features]] and some other pages, to draw attention to these requests.)
| | All our highest priority tasks and all new tasks are placed at BetterMeans - see the [https://secure.bettermeans.com/projects/181/dashboard "Appropedia Tech" dashboard] for a listing of tasks. Look for higher priority tasks, i.e. with a red arrow pointing up, to the right of the "start" button. See also the [https://secure.bettermeans.com/projects/181 latest changes] and check the sub-workstreams. |
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| | Some older tasks remain on this page, but eventually all should be transferred. |
| ''Out of date'' - working on this now. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 05:01, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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| There are many features that would be nice to have (see [[Appropedia:Desired features]]). Our current priorities,, are:
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| # WYSIWYG editor - FCKEditor looks very close, but not ready yet. We need a replacement for Uniwiki, which is proving to be a problem for some editors, and which clashes with Mediawiki 1.14. So either we work with wikiHow on accelerating the implementation of [https://svn.wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/Wysiwyg/ Wikia's WYSIWYG editor code] (which contains a lot of wikia specific hooks) or we find an alternative interface (any suggestions?)
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| # New [[Appropedia:Skin|skin]] - very important to make Appropedia an enjoyable and usable site for visitors.
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| # Social features: better integration with network sites such as [http://www.wiserearth.org/ WiserEarth] and [http://www.globalswadeshi.net/ GlobalSwadeshi], and better ways of monitoring activity and engaging with people in Appropedia - [[mw:Extension:SocialProfile]]?. (Also: better display of RSS feeds, so people can display their blogs in their userspace; [[Appropedia:Desired features #Fan mail|Fan mail]]; OpenSocial)
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| # Adding semantic features without some of the non-user-friendly aspects of [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/ Semantic MediaWiki]. How does SMW work with FCKEditor? Which features of SMW should we turn on? (Off: Inline semantic information is probably confusing to newbies unless handled very cleverly in WYSIWYG. On: Allowing users to view the intersection of categories would be a very useful feature. On: Project tracking.)
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| # Fix RecentChanges so it's possible to view more than 14 days.
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| # A box on the navbar letting people easily email friends about the page they're viewing. "Tell a friend about this site. Email addresses will not be saved or used for any other purpose."
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| # Map/geotagging features. (What do we want? Allow searching by distance from location...)
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| # Develop a plan for grading articles and flagging them according to accuracy, reliability, usefulness. This raises many issues, including the weighting given to ranking by regular users compared to "expert" users. The ''Flagged Revisions'' extension is likely to be important, and so is the voting extension used on http://usability.wikimedia.org/ .
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| # [[mw:Manual:wgForeignAPIRepo]] - allows us to specify another wiki to pull images from.
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| # [[mw:Extension:MultiUpload]] - speed file upload.
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| # ParserFunctions - the extension, or whatever gives Wikipedia the logical functions in templates, that we don't have.
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| | * [[Appropedia:Site development/dev site status]] |
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| Our current main priorities are:
| | === Extensions === |
| * Setting up a test site, for checking new features and settings and making sure they don't break the site, before running them live. This will be MediaWiki, with all the extensions and settings we have now, then adding new features to see if they work. We've been promised help with this, but if you are able to assist, that would be fantastic.
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| * [[Appropedia:Skin]] (including a [[Appropedia:Desired_features#Add_bigger_edit_toolbar|bigger edit toolbar]])
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| * A new, simpler, navigation-focused main page. See [[Appropedia:User experience]] and [[Main_Page_tests]]. The test page is currently a construction site - feel free to edit. We need suitable open licensed photos (the community and food pics aren't properly licensed) and they need to be cropped square (or at least all cropped to the same ratios).
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| * [[Appropedia:Desired features#Banner for visitors from partner sites|Banner for visitors from partner sites]]
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| The next rank of issues include:
| | * [[mw:Manual:wgForeignAPIRepo]] - allows us to specify another wiki to pull images from. |
| * [[Appropedia:Desired_features#Search_improvements|Search improvements]] including [[Appropedia:Desired_features#Custom_searches|Custom searches]]. | | * FCKeditor has a [[Appropedia talk:Village pump#How is the rich editor?|few problems]] - can you help us to identify the areas of problem code, or even solve any of them? |
| * <s>[[Appropedia:Desired_features#Special_license_namespace.28s.29|Special license namespace(s)]]</s> - we decided to use the mainspace, but add the {{tl|open access}} notice (or other relevant notice) to the top of each page that doesn't fit the [[Appropedia:Copyrights|Appropedia license]]. | |
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| Previous list of priorities
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| * blog (set up [http://blogs.appropedia.org/ here] but skin needs tweaking)
| | # <s>newsletter with MailPress (I tried but couldn't get mail servers set up. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 21:25, 24 February 2010 (UTC))</s> getting close now. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 06:19, 26 March 2010 (UTC) |
| * forums (on hold - [http://www.globalswadeshi.net/ Global Swadeshi] is performing this role for now.)
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| * [[Appropedia:Wikilink bot|wikilink bot]] - kind of working. [[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] got this working to a degree, but as at early 2009, nothing has been done for some months.
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| * [[Appropedia:Desired_features#Special_license_namespace.28s.29|Special license namespace(s)]]
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| (priorities suggested by [[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] · <small>[[User talk:Chriswaterguy|talk]]</small> 00:43, 5 November 2007 (PST) and updated 23:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC))
| | == Archive == |
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| | Old items (resolved or moved elsewhere): |
| | * [[Appropedia:Site development/archive (Admin tasks) #Misc old issues]] |
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| There are ''many'' priorities - these are a select few. Only add or remove items here by consensus or after discussion with an admin.
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| Please add other priorities to [[Appropedia:Desired Features]] in the appropriate section, using the standard template there.
| | ''Also search for the word ''high'' on the [[Appropedia:Site development/Desired features|Desired features]] page to see other items marked as possibly "high priority".'' |
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
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| * [[Appropedia:Tech team]] | | * [[Appropedia:Site development]] |
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