Wikipedia:Database reports/Redesign
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Some notes about redesigning the database reports project.
Goals
[edit]- allow on-wiki localization of report description text and table headers
- need to be sure that localization doesn't break "data as of" magic (or that magic needs to be re-implemented)
- this means better abstraction in the code and some template magic, presumably
- allow on-wiki customization of link formatting and output (appending edit/hist/etc. links); this is already somewhat done with {{dbr link}}
- shared functions in a dbr module
- calculate_replag()
- post_results() — for single pages
- post_paginated_results() — for paginated results
- switch to use cronsub — svick has already started on this
- licensing
- strongly in favor of making all of this PD; not enough creativity in any of this anyway
- single AUTHORS file
- clean up shebang in the files to use generic Python instead of 2.5?
- switch to a multi-maintainer project/tool on the Toolserver
- people who should have access:
- svick
- mzmcbride
- dispenser
- bjweeks
- tim1357
- need to pick a name, "reports" is already taken
- people who should have access: