Better dependency tracking tools for modules and templates
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	Amire80
	Nov 15 2019, 4:02 PM

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The first version of this task is a draft, created as a follow-up to T234661. Please feel free to edit it and flesh it out.

At T234661: Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 Session: Developer Productivity & onwiki tooling, the topic of the lack of sufficient tools for dependency tracking tools for modules and templates came up several times.

The current tools for this are:

Some other proposed ideas:

Have a list of extensions that are needed to render a given page. For example, if a page has <ref> tags (directly or through a template), then Cite is needed.
T238503: Enhance GlobalUsage extension to show usage of modules and templates
Add here

What else is needed?

Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open	Feature	None	T66475 Make crosswiki bits and pieces truly global (tracking)
Open		None	T176787 Automatic infobox implementation
Open		None	T121470 Central Global Repository for Templates, Lua modules, and Gadgets
Stalled		None	T52329 We need a common repository for Scribunto modules and templates
Open		None	T41610 Scribunto should support global module invocations
Open	Feature	None	T6547 Support crosswiki template inclusion (transclusion => interwiki templates, etc.)
Open		None	T238412 Better dependency tracking tools for modules and templates
Open		None	T238503 Enhance GlobalUsage extension to show usage of modules and templates