The problem with those pages is that a majority of gadgets mentioned on them appear with a red link as they don't have a page yet on meta-wiki.

Looking at e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets/wikisource this seems to be created / updated by EranBot so this might require changes in Eranbot? CC'ing @eranroz as maintainer.

I think I would not fix the red links in the "Gadget" column. Either they could be turned into plain text in order to not be links to pages on meta, or the column header could say something like "Gadget (link on meta, if existing)"?

(Unrelated, but seeing https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gadgets/wikiquote/default&action=history updated five years ago it also makes me wonder if it's still up-to-date and there simply have been no changes to default gadgets on Wikiquotes, or if it's a bit outdated and could be run again. :) )

@srishakatux: I don't believe the benefits outweigh the costs. If I understand correctly this will end up in creating more (potentially unmaintained) documentation on meta for dozens of gadgets, or in maintaining for years to come a manual list for each and every gadget where to find its (more or less) canonical documentation.
(If I am wrong or misunderstand, then please do correct me.)

I agree that the mix of blue and red links in the "Gadget" column on meta:Gadgets/somefamily/default and meta:Gadgets/somefamilyisn't great.
Readers of these pages may think that a blue link means "here is the canonical source of that gadget", while the link target on meta might just be yet another outdated copy of a copy.

IMO the way ahead is to

• not have the first column be links but be plain text instead. I created a pull request in https://github.com/eranroz/wiki-gadgets-statistics/pull/2
• run the bot and update the pages on meta
• resolve this task
• in general, encourage people who copy random gadget code to always keep a comment header where to find latest, hopefully maintained, canonical gadget code.

https://github.com/eranroz/wiki-gadgets-statistics/pull/2 has been merged (thanks @eranroz!) so the items in the first column should not be links anymore the next time that the bot runs.

However it's unclear to me how regularly that bot is run (seems like November 2019 was the last time on some of the pages?), and where and how it is triggered. Maybe @eranroz could provide some background info? :)

@Aklapper I agree with the steps you have entailed, and they seem like a great way to move forward on this task!

@eranroz: Do you know how regularly the bot is run, or how to trigger it? Asking as it looks like Nov2019 was the last time on some of the pages, e.g. here or here. Thanks in advance!

it runs monthly with cronjob from toolserver - probably the session expired. Lunching now manually the default gadgets,

@Aklapper as that page will always have a limited number of gadgets chosen based on criteria, manually updating the statistics (on a yearly basis) seems like a reasonable option. I can file a task around this if it makes sense.

@srishakatux: Anything that allows remember updating (once a year or such) and does not depend on the brain of an individual person is welcome. e.g. a task. :P

Filed T267063.

Thanks @eranroz for your work on the bot :)