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: Wow. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=WikiProject+Video+games%2FReference+library&namespace=4 That's amazing]. [[WP:JSRL|Page started]]. How do you think it should be organized? I look forward to seeing what you add to it. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 01:13, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

: [[User:إلياس الجزائري|إلياس الجزائري]], thank you for adding to it. It has been expanded further. Feel free to work your wiki-magic and improve it. [[User talk:The Transhumanist|<i>The&nbsp;Transhumanist</i>]] 02:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

== How to improve the regular MediaWiki updates breakings? ==

Would it be possible for this new task force to influence the current system in order to avoid the regular massive javascripts breakings which are provoked by the MediaWiki updates for years?

Actually my personal experience about this phenomena, as an administrator of four Wikimedia wikis is a kind of traumatic.

* On Wikibooks, [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition#broken-gadgets|half of the gadgets are broken]], and they hadn't been identified during several years before my recent inventory.

* On the French Wikiversity, we have a precious partnership with a famous school from France called the [[CNED]]. We had taken a few months to authorize and install their MOOC JS system. But less than one year after this success, everything has been compromised by the MediaWiki 1.30 this week. And [[phab:T165131|no one could help us on Phabricator for now]]. The fact is, that on the average-sized wikis like this one, the administrator team is often deprived in front of these breakings. And I don't want to talk about dictatorship or sabotage but I couldn't help thinking about these words, after having spent many unplanned days trying to repair our useful scripts every year.

* These yearly mass breakings have already caused the resignation of priceless professional JS developers like [[:fr:User:Dr Brains]] and [[b:fr:User:DavidL]].

So I think about at least proposing some unit tests to the MediaWiki developers (by hooks on Gerrit?), in order limit the breakings, and a bot to identify and organize their reparations at an interwiki scale. [[User:JackPotte|JackPotte]] ([[User talk:JackPotte|talk]]) 21:20, 12 May 2017 (UTC)