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Neat idea. I wonder if Flow will help with some of this.

I also wonder if it makes sense to tackle individual problems first before trying a unified system. Years ago Werdna (who's now doing Flow work...) wrote a prototype MediaWiki extension that focused exclusively on (voting) deletion processes. Taking discrete manageable bites like that might be a better path forward here. For example, a global gadget to allow for easily speedily nominating a page for deletion (or protection) is probably easy enough to implement. It requires a sane localization system within JavaScript and the ability to have global gadgets. We're... half there! Building on overall architecture (i.e., making something that can scale) such as global gadgets seems like it would indirectly move ideas like this forward. In other words, give people better tools and they'll make better products. Focus on the building blocks rather than the building.

Meanwhile a system for tracking voting deletion (or protection) discussions might involve aspects of Flow, Echo, watchlists, and other new technologies, probably more in PHP/SQL rather than in JavaScript.

Breaking down the overall communications problem discussed in this RFC into smaller bites seems like a better approach here, I think.

Krinkle: Any thoughts on next steps here? :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 02:22, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A gadget like that exists on Commons. The problem with that is that it will always be based on wiki pages. Which are tolerable when input is through a different interface (gadget), and tucked away in templates. But when it comes to consuming the data (searching, discovering) or when trying to use it (e.g. assign status open/closed) or re-use it (e.g. display oldest open tickets for an admin to deal with, or show that a file is nominated on the File page itself) it hits a wall (you'd have to physically add it to those other pages where you want to display it, and have to do so at creation time, and remove it afterwards). This is a typical case where we've gone very far already within wiki pages (see Commons, Wikipedia). I agree that deletion is a good one to tackle first and build from there. However I think this is a perfect example of where the first step towards improvement is making it an actual process and not more wiki pages. Krinkle (talk) 18:44, 9 October 2013 (UTC)