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Hi, your new template Portal:Current events/Monthly Intro Text looks fine on the front end, so I'm happy. On the back end, maybe try an optimization pass, for performance reasons, before deploying to many pages. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 03:43, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Matt Fitzpatrick: Thanks. I've tried to make the logic as shallow as possible, reducing the nested logic and trying to use binary if/thens and avoiding any Lua modules. The maths for the leap year are the most complex. If there was an equivalent of a SWITCH block, I could reduce the total number of branches. Can you suggest the names of any Template wizards I could consult? — RossO (talk) 17:07, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

{{#switch:}} could be an option. Not sure how fast it is though, would need testing. Another trick I sometimes see is concatenation, i.e. instead of testing if A equals 1 and B equals 2, testing if AB equals 12. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 22:42, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Would you mind changing Portal:Current events/January 1997/CalendartoPortal:Current events/December 2016/Calendar to invoke Module:Current events calendar like you did for 1996 and 2017? GeoffreyT2000 ^{(talk, contribs)} 01:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GeoffreyT2000: Yes, I will do that, over the next week or so. — RossO (talk) 16:36, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GeoffreyT2000: I have updated all of the Januarys for those years. Would you take some time and double check that they are rendering correctly? (FYI, the Increment and Decrement bookmarklets makes it easier to navigate the years.) — RossO (talk) 17:04, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@GeoffreyT2000: Januarys through Decembers are now updated. I should have caught all of them. Please review as you have time. — RossO (talk) 19:05, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just a reminder that the day should not have a leading zero: Portal:Current events/2003 January 2 not Portal:Current events/2003 January 02. If you create them with a leading zero, they don't get displayed on the month page. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:15, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @John of Reading: I just started in on February and will make sure to take this into account in my scripts. Thanks for already having moved the Jan 1 - 9 day pages. — RossO (talk) 06:19, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Newsletter • February 2018

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

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Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

• Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
• I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
  • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
• Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Newsletter • June 2019

Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.

There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:

• A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
• We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!

Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:

• Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
• WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Newsletter • September 2019

A final update, for now:

The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.

Regards,

-— Isarra ༆ 19:23, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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