Community Tech team/All Our Ideas

The All Our Ideas Tool Survey was a survey conducted of the English and Spanish Wikipedia communities in 2014 to collect and prioritize ideas for improving the tools used by those communities. The results of the survey can be seen at the following URLs:
 * http://www.allourideas.org/wikimediagadgets/results (English)
 * http://www.allourideas.org/wikimediaaccesorios/results?locale=es (Spanish)

While preparations are being made for a cross-project technical request survey, the Community Tech team has begun working on the requests identified by the community as high priority in the All Our Ideas survey. The Top 10 requests from both the English and Spanish surveys are combined below. (There are less than 20 listed because some appeared in both languages.)

For details about the process used for organizing work on this page, see /Process.

Investigation and discussion
Questions to answer:
 * Are there high priority bugs or features that the Community Tech team could address in a short period of time (within a month or two)?
 * If so, is the maintainer amendable to working with the Community Tech team and is the code publicly available?
 * Would this be a good tool to convert into a MediaWiki extension or add as functionality to an existing extension?

Copyvio Detector
Scores: 69 (English), 60 (Spanish)
 * Documentation
 * Interface

Reflinks
Scores: 75 (English), 54 (Spanish)
 * Documentation
 * Interface

Discussion
Discussing with Dispenser (maintainer). Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Twinkle
Scores: 64 (English), 62 (Spanish)
 * Documentation
 * Code repo
 * Issues list

Hotcat
Scores: 59 (English), 66 (Spanish)
 * English Wikipedia documentation
 * Commons documentation

Revisionjumper
Scores: 67 (English), 57 (Spanish)
 * Documentation
 * Gadget code

Page stats
Scores: 65 (English), 53 (Spanish)
 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics
 * X!’s articleinfo

Quick Intersection
Scores: 48 (English), 54 (Spanish)
 * Interface
 * Code repo

Spell checking
Scores: 69 (Spanish)

Checklinks
Scores: 65 (English)

Discussion
Discussing with Dispenser (maintainer). Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 02:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Dab Solver
Scores: 63 (English)
 * Interface

Discussion
Discussing with Dispenser (maintainer). Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 02:44, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Locating usable images for Wikipedia on Commons or Flickr
Scores: 60 (Spanish)

Discussion
It looks like this request may already be covered by Magnus's FIST tool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php Ryan Kaldari (WMF) (talk) 02:29, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Fix or replace Citation Bot
Scores: 81 (English)
 * Documentation
 * Bug reports and discussion about replacing it
 * Usage instructions
 * Source code (PHP)
 * Interface

Analysis

 * Support: Very High (This was the highest ranking request on the English survey. There is also discussion on-wiki about this needing to be fixed.)
 * Feasibility: Good
 * Impact: Medium
 * Risk: Low

Priority: High

Improve FlickrFree search results
During the FlickrFree investigation, Magnus went ahead and rewrote the search code so that now it consistently returns the last 500 free-license uploads, rather than all the free-license images within the last 1000 uploads (which could be zero).

Fix thumbnail display in FlickrFree
Fixed the thumbnail display so that they are no longer squished in Chrome and Safari.

Syntax highlighter
This has been referred to the WMF Editing team, per their request.

Get Hovercards to feature parity with Navigation Pop-ups
We will be collaborating with the WMF Reading team on this one.

Cite4Wiki
This is a Firefox add-on. Unfortunately, no one on our team is familiar with Firefox add-on development so we feel that our efforts would be better directed towards other tools.