Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2020/February

Maintenance
I have long felt the usefulness of page Maintenance is limited by the fact that, although it lists lots of kinds of tasks one might undertake, it doesn't actively tell you which of those sorts of tasks actually has a queue of items waiting to be taken care of; to find that out you'd have to check them all one-at-a-time. A different approach is used at en.wn, where a template called (for partly historical reasons) votings/sorted lists all the task-queues that are non-empty, and how long each queue is. (Actually it's more sophisticated than that: the queues are sorted into three sets listed on separate lines according to theme (news production, community discussions, admin tasks); most of the empty queues are also listed but moved to the end of the list and greyed out; and some of the queues when nonempty are shaded in various colors to draw attention to them.)

I'm thinking we might enhance the usefulness of Maintenance by adding some such dynamic list up at/near the top. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:55, 4 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Pi zero well yes that sounds like a definite improvement. I'd be interested to see what you could come up with. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 12:31, 5 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I've been thinking about how this might be done. Some queue sizes can be determined using magic word , but others have no associated category.  Such as Special:Uncategorizedpages.  I was hoping to parse its contents using evalx, but the wiki platform does not allow these special pages to be transcluded. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:23, 5 February 2020 (UTC)