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Investigation: technical feasibility of cross-wiki worklist articles
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Description

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Background: We will let organisers and participants to add articles to the event worklist using wiki_id + page_title (T423559). This investigation asks if: is it technically possible for someone on wiki A to add entries that point to articles on wiki B, and whether / how the system can tell that a given (wiki_id, page_title) is a valid article on that target wiki.

Type of story
  • Investigation
Acceptance criteria
  • Investigate and document whether cross-wiki worklist entries are technically possible or not, in the current setup including how to check if a given article is valid.

Event Timeline

Note, some of the things I wrote in T420250#11785879, starting from «The usual MW way of entering titles» and until «custom parsing via TitleParser», might be relevant here.