Wikinews:Tech

Welcome to the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology Center.

Places to go

 * Google Code Project - This is where our SVN repo is
 * Wikinews-tech-l - Mailing list
 * live chat at Libera.chat IRC network, primarily #wikinews

Projects
Please leave feedback for any of those at the personal talk page of the author.
 * Reading, authoring and reviewing tools
 * WN:Dialog -- dialog tools, work in progress
 * Author: Pi zero
 * What does it do?: Create wizards for reading, authoring, reviewing, all directly in wiki markup
 * How to use it?: various places at this web site including the 'submit for review' button, category pager
 * Written in: JavaScript
 * How to help: test the existing wizards; propose new wizards; learn to write your own


 * MediaWiki:Gadget-easyPeerReview.js EasyPeerReview-button.png), last edited in 2016; used by reviewers every day
 * Author: Bawolff
 * What does it do?: adds review tab
 * How to use it?: click 'review' and fill in the form to submit your review
 * Written in: JavaScript
 * How to help: make it harder to lose the review comment written in the box; make it available to non-reviewers in some form (discuss how first!)


 * Android Reader, read Wikinews at Android; last edit in 2010Wikinews_Reader_(Android).svg
 * Author: ShakataGaNai
 * What does it do?: adds 'read wikinews' icon to your mobile
 * How to use it?: click the icon and scroll the headlines, tap to read a news story
 * Written in: ???
 * How to help: test it in this decade; make it possible to write news too?
 * Reader Server, server for the Android Reader


 * User:Gryllida/welcome a bit -- notifications tool to engage readers and authors in reading other articles and drafts
 * Author: Gryllida
 * What does it do?: Allows you to sign up to receive nearly instant notifications of new drafts in your topics of interest. THey are delivered to the wiki talk page or to your e-mail.
 * How to use it?: Click the link and there the 'Sign up' button.
 * Written in: JavaScript and Perl
 * How to help: test it out, ask friends to test it out, suggest how to make it more discoverable. Check its talk page and implement features for the next release.

* wmf4.me, URL shortening service -- no longer in use as of 06:13, 28 May 2021 (UTC).
 * Utilities
 * Pitsilemu (under code review as of August 2015)
 * gpy (http://gpy.nongnu.org)

Other Documentation

 * Eclipse SVN
 * Git
 * Domain Names
 * User:Gryllida/Tasks