This is a new dev who needs some help figuring out how the WMF deals with scripts. The script is described at http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ It's been released under BSD three-clause. He'd like to use it on Wikipedia. Could someone please talk to him about this?
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Tools wouldn't be able to handle the load if this were included on every wikipedia page (such an accidental DDOS has happened before). There are two basic options:
- host it on-wiki
- host it as a tool on tool labs, and make pages link to that tool
If it's possible to handle it on-wiki, that would probably be the best option, as community consensus is probably a bigger hurdle than the actual technical implementation.
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Also, Extension:Graph is already very powerful, and if the sliding thing is missing from that, I'd rather prefer someone implementing that/offering their expertise in that extension than partitioning the efforts between "timeline" and "sliding timeline".
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Closing as Declined: old ticket and possibly will never have any progress per coren above.