I love this @FNavas-foundation, and as we previously discussed, I can see how this could open up many exciting opportunities. I'll share some below:

Use Case for a Country-Level Filter
During vital knowledge research with Wikimedians from Singapore, an interesting need arose:
The team pointed out that filtering by language alone (e.g., English Wikipedia) does not effectively capture local or national coverage in multilingual contexts. Singapore, for example, has** four official languages—English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil—and relevant coverage of local events may be distributed across multiple language editions.A country-level filter would allow chapters and communities to monitor how breaking news about their region is covered across all relevant wikis, not just a single language version.

This need extends beyond Singapore. Many regions use colonial or transnational languages (e.g., Spanish, French, Arabic), where content about a specific country is scattered across several wikis. A country filter would significantly improve local monitoring and shepherding efforts.

The infrastructure for a country-level filter already exists in other Wikimedia tools, such as the Content Translation Tool (see screenshot below), so this valuable addition may be feasible?

Additional Community-Driven Opportunities

Beyond the filter, opening the code could enable further community-led improvements, such as:

• Pairing the tool with a list of hot topics that are not yet covered in specific wikis, helping communities identify coverage gaps. Perhaps in partnership with
• Building on existing WMF research into topic attention and social media traffic (e.g., Social media traffic report), to better align breaking news with local relevance.

Opening the tool for community use would empower volunteers to implement these and other enhancements, turning the Breaking News tool into a more adaptable and locally useful resource.

@SEgt-WMF

we're going to deploy the open source version of this very soon, which will mean we need to deprecate hosting it on our side around March 1. Do you think that's enough time for anyone using it to deploy their own version? Open sourcing will, of course, give folks the space to adjust it as it useful to them and they can host it on toolforge.

if there is anyone in particular interested you can @ them here.

I discussed this with @Robertsky, so I’m adding him here for visibility — but Robert, please don’t feel any expectation to take this on. Just a heads-up that the Breaking News tool will be open to anyone who’d like to make adjustments.

I would want to see the source code first, but we can nominally have it deployed at toolsforge or wmcloud.org if the requirements can be met.

@Robertsky here is the github - https://github.com/wikimedia-enterprise/breaking-news-poc

@FNavas-foundation there is no open source license indicated in the README.md or package.json, can you add the license to either file or update the repo settings accordingly?

@KMontalva-WMF could you add the license as per @Robertsky

Ah thanks for pointing that out, added LICENSE.md with license Apache 2.0.