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Fix the "preferences" view in the Cat-a-Lot gadget on Meta Wiki
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The Cat-a-Lot gadget is installed on Meta Wiki; but its Preferences screen doesn't appear. This has recently been resolved on WMF Wiki (see T128976).

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Krenair subscribed.

Individual gadgets are not handled centrally by the developers, admins of each wiki deal with it. As such, this request needs to go to the admins of that wiki, and I do not believe they track tasks in Phabricator.

Individual gadgets are not handled centrally by the developers, admins of each wiki deal with it. As such, this request needs to go to the admins of that wiki, and I do not believe they track tasks in Phabricator.

Some Meta-Wiki admins also use Phabricator. :-)

From https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/:

Phabricator is a collaboration platform open to all Wikimedia and MediaWiki contributors. We focus on bug reporting and software projects. Non-technical initiatives are welcome as well.

Please let me know if there's an actual issue with using Phabricator to track requests like this. Using a task manager as a task manager seems perfectly fine to me.

Please let me know if there's an actual issue with using Phabricator to track requests like this.

Yes. You don't have a project.

You don't have a project.

I think WMF-General-or-Unknown and/or JavaScript are fine to use?

I know we've previously discussed per-wiki family projects/tags, but I don't think any ever got implemented. If a new project/tag needs to be created, I guess that would be part of a separate task. (You would almost certainly know better than me!)

Will meta admins be watching those projects for tasks to take on? Or, now that you've decided that Phabricator is open for such requests, are we going to have to come and nag you to deal with each of your wiki's users who expects us (developers) to mess with your wiki's gadgets, instead of sending them to you?

Please discuss meta topics in T85433: Using Phabricator for gadget-related tasks instead to keep discussion in one place. Thanks.

Pppery subscribed.

If this is still wanted please bring it up on Meta-Wiki itself - per the status of T167983 there is no interest in tracking these things on Phabricator.

And as a Meta interface admin I'm not inclined to copy so many gadgets from another wiki. That just poor, cargo-cult-ish coding.