Talk:Technical communications/Status helper

API
What ever we choose lets make sure it has an API so that we can allow bots, apps, etc to both read/write this data Tfinc (talk) 20:28, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Script invocation
I realize this was clear in my mind but not clear in the specs: it would be great if the script could be invoked using custom links, besides the one in the sidebar.

We use many templates to display status updates in various places, e.g.: Some of these templates include custom edit links to edit the status or add a new one (and ideally all should). It would be great if the script could be invoked by these edit links, which could be constructed by the templates to include parameters. Here's an example of what it would look like: This would allow us to create multiple, more specific points of entry for the script. Would it be difficult to implement? guillom 09:15, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Template:Wikimedia project index line on team hubs
 * Template:Wikimedia project status line on activity pages
 * Template:Wikimedia engineering report project status on monthly engineering reports
 * The monthly report template currently uses parameters to display the appropriate update
 * That template could be modified to create a custom edit link (perhaps something like )
 * The link would invoke the Status helper which would recognize the parameters and per-fill the Project, date and monthly fields (and the status field if something already exists).