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Popular page statistics pages should exist for all WikiProjects

As one can see from this old post (and I also posted again here), there is a desire to have these sorts of popular page statistics to help WikiProject prioritize their focus (WP:MED500 is one example of a popular page report). Because effective WikiProjects help the productivity of Wikipedia, could anyone from the WMF try to help this along? I don't know why this has stalled, but this website says "new requests for the popular page systems are not currently being accepted. This will be fixed with updates to the program that should be completed by November." Is this, or could this, be a priority for anyone at the WMF? Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 21:07, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I totally agree, even in other languages sister sites. It 'd be of a great help figuring out the popular topics. -- ɑηsuмaη ^{« ৳ᶏ ɭϞ »} 05:56, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Tracking vandalism

Does anyone from the WMF have an interest (or duty) in quantifying vandalism? Discussion thread here. I'm wondering how we as Wikipedians would know whether or not the vandalism problem was getting better, getting worse, or staying about the same. Biosthmors (talk) 05:16, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

• This is a question you should be asking at User talk:Mdennis (WMF) or emailing to liaison@wikimedia.org (unless of course you're just coming up with random questions to try and make it look like this board is being used). Sven Manguard Wha? 00:08, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks. I'll email and ask that the reply be placed here for all to see. The interest is genuine. Biosthmors (talk) 01:38, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Real-time collaborative editing?

Is anyone at WMF are currently working on the software challenges behind shifting Wikipedia to a real-time collaborative editing structure? The last I've seen on this possibility was here. I'd like for edit conflicts to be gone away with, of course. Biosthmors (talk) 00:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

• This is a question you should be asking at User talk:Mdennis (WMF) or emailing to liaison@wikimedia.org (unless of course you're just coming up with random questions to try and make it look like this board is being used). Sven Manguard Wha? 00:08, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks. I'll email and ask that the reply be placed here for all to see. The interest is genuine. Biosthmors (talk) 01:38, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• Are you subscribed to any of our Mailing lists? There are usually updates about these sort of things on some of the mailing lists, and there is a monthly Metrics and activities meetings that you can watch live-streamed on YouTube or catchup with afterwards that gives an update on what the WMF has been doing for the past month. I believe that the long term plan is that VisualEditor will have some of these features that you're hoping for, but it's not likely to be implemented soon, as the team is working on building out core features first. Please see their latest presentation on Commons. The latest YouTube recording isn't available yet as it's being processed, but when it is, please be sure to check it out for a presentation by Roan at about the 15 minute mark if I remember correctly (see the Agenda for the meeting).

• The engineering team also publishes a detailed monthly report, the latest of which is at mw:Wikimedia engineering report/2013/January about their activities and even mw:Roadmap of things they're presently working on, and planning to work on in the future. All this information is freely available and distributed (through mailing lists, a dedicated Tech blog etc.) if you look for it, and people that are interested in it should be able to find it easily without another noticeboard requiring tech staff's time to answer questions. Thehelpfulone 10:34, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the links. I think the idea of signing up for a mailing list will be made partially redundant by this noticeboard, because I think it's a good plan for me to sign up for every one and post anything that relates here. This place is meant as a centralizing place for discussion, and I will include some of those links in the header so that they appear above, thanks. I don't want tech staff to have to answer any more questions they already do. I just want the answers (that relate to English Wikipedia) to be easily accessible here. Biosthmors (talk) 21:37, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Proposal on meta about Webcite

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WebCite and some discussion at WP:VPM. Biosthmors (talk) 16:56, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

• This is a question you should be asking at User talk:Mdennis (WMF) or emailing to liaison@wikimedia.org (unless of course you're just coming up with random questions to try and make it look like this board is being used). Sven Manguard Wha? 00:08, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• I don't think so, because that wasn't a question, but more of a notification for those who wish to discuss it, though those most important to the issue are hopefully discussing via email. Biosthmors (talk) 01:38, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

• Substantive comment there, FYI. Biosthmors (talk) 02:40, 13 February 2013 (UTC)