Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Edit requests

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Creation of WikiProject

Pinging all editors involved in proposal discussion: Sdrqaz, Z1720, P,TO 19104, Sphilbrick, WWB,Mary Gaulke, DGG. I have gone ahead and created this WikiProject. I've never set up a WikiProject before, so please let me know if I did anything wrong. We can continue the discussions we were having on the propsal page here. We should also advertise the WikiProject now that it has been created. Thanks, Sam-2727 (talk) 04:52, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently MaryGaulke had an extra space in their signature. Repinging with correct username. Sam-2727 (talk) 04:53, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the initiative Sam-2727! I'm afraid I'll be on Wikibreak until the end of March so cannot be too active here for now (if you see me being active on Wikipedia in general feel free to trout me etc), but will be ready to dive into edit requests after the break is over. Good luck! Sdrqaz (talk) 06:18, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sam-27272: I have went ahead and created the wikiproject talk page banner. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 13:02, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, P,TO 19104 and Sam-2727! I very much appreciate your taking the initiative. I must admit, in all my years I have never been involved in the creation of a new wikiproject, so I'm open to suggestions on where my time can be best put to help get things off the ground. For convenience, here is the consolidated list of ideas from the initial discussion at WP:VPIL. Per the current task list on the main page, I believe two umbrella tasks are a) to help COI contributors write better requests, and b) to improve the infrastructure around the edit request system, and a big part of that would be integrating the Edit Request Wizard with the current Edit Request queue. I am by far the most qualified to work on the first of these, but very interested to contribute to the others. I'll think on it and follow up, early next week most likely. WWB (talk) 16:54, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request Wizard Reforms

One of the largely noncontroversial reforms I think would be welcome is a rewrite of the edit request wizard in javascript (so make it similar to the current file upload wizard). This would allow people to submit edit requests without having to learn wiki syntax. Of course, this would make follow-ups very difficult on the part of the submitter of the edit request, but hopefully once the reply functionality is implemented that will change.

I'm happy to work on this, but it will take me a while due to my limited understanding of javascript. Does anybody here have a decent understanding of javascript, in particular in the mediawiki environment? If not, no worries. Also let me know if you'd be interested in working on this rewrite in general and I'll be sure to include you on the discussions. Sam-2727 (talk) 04:58, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

regardless of what else we do, this would be a helpful improvment. DGG ( talk ) 07:26, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]