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Fields required in a wrap-up report: - Project description (as you would explain it to a layman who has no clue about MediaWiki). Please include screenshots with description - explaining how exactly the tool/extension works. - Missing features/known bugs. Add links to phabricator tasks for the same and leave a short explanation. - Demo server link - Resource links (Project in gerrit/github, extension link on wiki etc.) - Anything else you can think of, which can make contributing to this project easier for newcomers. (Please edit this task itself to write your report. Make sure you complete it by 21st of August when end-term evaluations start.)

**Project description** https://tools.wmflabs.org/crosswatch is a cross-wiki watchlist for all WikiMedia wikis. The goal of the project is to help editors who are active in several wikis to monitor changes and generally to provide a //better// watchlist for all editors. Among other things, crosswatch includes cross-wiki notifications, dynamic filtering and the ability to show diffs for edits. As an external tool which uses OAuth to retrieve the watchlists on behalf of the user, it doesn't have the same constraints as MediaWiki and can experiment with the design and functionality of a watchlist without breaking existing workflows or code. It's design is much more similar to the mobile watchlist than classical MediaWiki watchlist layout, there is however an option to use the traditional layout. Crosswatch can show a unified watchlist for all wikis or a watchlist subdivided into wikis. {F1996588,layout=left,float}{F2018589,layout=left,float}{F2018437} One of the predominant features which users used to the MediaWiki watchlist will notice is the native support to show a diff for an edit. The diff will be shown if the user clicks on a watchlist entry or automatically if specific criteria are met. Currently, automatic diffs are show if the edit is unreviewed (for wikis wich use the [FlaggedRevs extension](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs)), or if [ORES](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service) predicts a revert. **Missing features and known bugs** See #crosswatch for a full list of missing features and known bugs. To list a few features which the MediaWiki has but crosswatch hasn't: * {T108000} – crosswatch is currently not optimized for mobile which results in some visual collisions and bad performance. * {T109200} – //redlinks// are currently not shown, mainly for performance and stability reasons. * {T107844} – site/watchlist announcement are currently not shown as there is no trivial way to implement it. * {T104608} – often requested, main problem is adding the day changes subheaders for the unified watchlist There are also many feature wishes for crosswatch, a limited selection: * {T107836} – would be very nice, e.g. hide a currently very active page for 5 days from the watchlist * {T108476} – main problem is not to cause inadvertently scrolling * {T107736} – often requested, currently not implemented due to upstream bugs and the difficulty to do incorporate it with the framework * {T100158} – so that users could watch their favorite article in all languages for changes **Weblink** : https://tools.wmflabs.org/crosswatch **Resource links**: [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crosswatch | Documentation on Meta ]], [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/labs/tools/crosswatch | source code ]] I want thank my mentors @yuvipanda and @legoktm for helping me throughout the project. Special thanks to @KasiaWMDE and @Bmueller for helping to spread the word and making crosswatch better known.

Fields required in a wrap-up report:**Project description** https://tools.wmflabs.org/crosswatch is a cross-wiki watchlist for all WikiMedia wikis. The goal of the project is to help editors who are active in several wikis to monitor changes and generally to provide a //better// watchlist for all editors. Among other things, crosswatch includes cross-wiki notifications, dynamic filtering and the ability to show diffs for edits. As an external tool which uses OAuth to retrieve the watchlists on behalf of the user, it doesn't have the same constraints as MediaWiki and can experiment with the design and functionality of a watchlist without breaking existing workflows or code. It's design is much more similar to the mobile watchlist than classical MediaWiki watchlist layout, there is however an option to use the traditional layout. Crosswatch can show a unified watchlist for all wikis or a watchlist subdivided into wikis. {F1996588,layout=left,float}{F2018589,layout=left,float}{F2018437} One of the predominant features which users used to the MediaWiki watchlist will notice is the native support to show a diff for an edit. The diff will be shown if the user clicks on a watchlist entry or automatically if specific criteria are met. Currently, automatic diffs are show if the edit is unreviewed (for wikis wich use the [FlaggedRevs extension](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs)), or if [ORES](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service) predicts a revert. - Project description (as you would explain it to a layman who has no clue about MediaWiki)**Missing features and known bugs** See #crosswatch for a full list of missing features and known bugs. Please include screenshots with description - explaining how exactly the tool/extension worksTo list a few features which the MediaWiki has but crosswatch hasn't: * {T108000} – crosswatch is currently not optimized for mobile which results in some visual collisions and bad performance. - Missing features/known bugs.* {T109200} – //redlinks// are currently not shown, Add links to phabricator tasks for the sammainly for performance and leave a short explanationstability reasons. - Demo server link* {T107844} – site/watchlist announcement are currently not shown as there is no trivial way to implement it. - Resource links (Project in gerrit/github* {T104608} – often requested, main problem is adding the day changes subheaders for the unified watchlist There are also many feature wishes for crosswatch, a limited selection: * {T107836} – would be very nice, e.g. hide a currently very active page for 5 days from the watchlist * {T108476} – main problem is not to cause inadvertently scrolling * {T107736} – often requested, extension link on wiki etc.)currently not implemented due to upstream bugs and the difficulty to do incorporate it with the framework * {T100158} – so that users could watch their favorite article in all languages for changes **Weblink** : https://tools.wmflabs.org/crosswatch - Anything else you can think of**Resource links**: [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crosswatch | Documentation on Meta ]], which can make contributing to this project easier for newcomers.[[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/labs/tools/crosswatch | source code ]] (Please edit this task itself to write your reportI want thank my mentors @yuvipanda and @legoktm for helping me throughout the project. Make sure you complete it by 21st of August when end-term evaluations start.)Special thanks to @KasiaWMDE and @Bmueller for helping to spread the word and making crosswatch better known.