Doing a solo evaluation, cause it's a straightforward idea that we've talked about a bit.

Support: Medium
Feasibility: HIgh
Impact: Medium to High
Risk: Low

Making this an investigation card. We should figure out what some other use cases would be, and talk to people about how they would use it, before we go ahead and build a new page.

Why can't this be as simple as doing the following on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:WikiProject_Foo_articles?

• Check a new checkbox named "Reveal associated pages" (since this recent changes page will only have talk pages -- this would show the associated subject pages)

I modified the above as the first change actually didn't make sense because 'all' shows all.

Highly related task: T105747

I built transcluding changes should be good enough until its implemented in MediaWiki.

In T117122#2011491, @Dispenser wrote:

I built transcluding changes should be good enough until its implemented in MediaWiki.

Note that this doesn't work for projects using the WikiProject United States template. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It takes:

• 50 seconds to get 420,000 article transclusions
• 8 seconds to mirror for talk pages
• 10 seconds for read link lookups

So over a minute which is comparable to doing the same with Related Changes.
This could be sped up to 5 seconds by using my existing pre-computed projectbanner table, but would require a separate code path and wouldn't show any new pages between the weekly updates.

Hi everyone, I wanted to add one more use case and also "bump" this task in case anyone was interested in taking it on. I'd like to patrol Wikipedia's "vital articles", which are in Category:All Wikipedia vital articles, containing about 35,000 pages. The problem is all the pages in that category are in the Talk: namespace, because (I think) the category is populated automatically based on the talk page having the WikiProject template. So, if I put Category:All Wikipedia vital articles into Huggle, it'll only check the Talk pages, and not the associated mainspace pages. It seems there is no way to set Huggle to patrol vital articles. I could see this feature being useful not only for patrolling vital articles, but also for patrolling articles associated with any wikiproject. Thanks in advance to anyone taking this on.

Since namespaces can be filtered out with other options, couldn't we just always join on the associated page? I can't think of a situation where you'd only be interested in the linked page and not the associated page (that couldn't be solved by filtering all namespaces).

I think this ticket would greatly improve WikiProject collaborations and encourage more people to watch recent changes.

Adding another use case to this, it would be useful for creating a "go to random vital article" button, which I don't know of a way to code otherwise.

I'm making an extension which will hopefully make this work. This is the first time I've done any hacking of MediaWiki itself, though, so I can't promise it'll be perfect!

I do have a working version of this at the moment (place a tag on the talk page, the corresponding page is categorised), but I need to test it - and it'd be good to get someone more experienced than I am in extension dev to review it, especially in terms of performance.

I've started a discussion on the enwiki Village Pump about (eventually) implementing my extension to categorise pages from their talk pages - which would be a way of resolving this issue - to try and gather consensus at this early stage. Comments and feedback would be appreciated. You can find the discussion here at VPT.

@Naypta: Hi! This task has been assigned to you a while ago. Could you maybe share an update? Do you still plan to work on this task, or do you need any help?
Also, as this is tagged with MediaWiki-extensions-CatTalk (requested a while ago) I'm wondering if there is a code location to link from the extension home page? Thanks!

Any recent progress on this? I recently came back from a hiatus, and I'm still having to manually regenerate a list of all a project's pages for project change patrol purposes. It would be nice to no longer have to do that.