How much effort would it be to make it a browser based application?
It would enable me to maintain the entries from different locations without leaving putty credentials on every computer.

Robih, i have added a fixed, rudimentary version of the old WSA.

It is linked in your home dir as just "wsa", so it does not start automatically as before to also give you the shell option to mysql but you can start it with:

./wsa

basic features for mediawikis table should work, but it will still have bugs:

1. OK - Refresh Mediawiki
   1. OK - Delete Mediawiki
   2. DISABLED: Blacklist Wikia
   3. OK: Change Mediawiki URL
   4. OK: Change Method
   5. DISABLED Change Wikia URL
   6. DISABLED Add Wikia
   7. DISABLED: Refresh Wikia
   8. ???: Wikisite special link handling
   9. DISABLED: Delete Wikisite
   10. OK: Add a Wiki
   11. DISABLED: Incubator: Change method
   12. DISABLED: Incubator: Change URL
   13. DISABLED: Incubator: Move to Mediawikis
   14. DISABLED: Incubator: Delete
   15. OK: Check version of a Mediawiki
   16. Exit

tell me about the Incubator stuff. shall we stull use it? i would have to look more closely to even remember how it worked exactly.

Incubator was a temporarily needed feature that is not needed anymore.

Talkong about disabled Wikia Features: It seems that the Wikia Update keeps being stalled:

http://wikistats.wmflabs.org/largest_html.php?sort=ts_asc&th=10000&lines=90

Removed upon request

Raising priority as it blocks several requests for updates in the component https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&query_format=advanced&component=wikistats&product=Wikimedia%20Labs according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:RobiH&diff=5083836&oldid=5082573

meanwhile we do have yet another new script called just "wsa" , as /usr/bin/wsa on the instance, but it needs some fixes

Did RobiH migrate from BZ to phab? It seems not, which is unfortunate.

Since i did deploy a replacement for WSA but i doubt anyone uses it, i'm tempted to close this here.

Could we have a WSA running on Phabricator instead of on Shell?

In T38287#1179860, @RobiH wrote:

Could we have a WSA running on Phabricator instead of on Shell?

Could you clarify? How would that look? You mean just dumping actions here on tickets and making people do them? Forms?

also let me ask separately: isn't this task resolved? or if not, which feature is the current WSA missing that would make it not count as replacing the old one.

It's not about features, it is about availibility from mobile. Forms would be fine.

@RobiH ok, i don't think that's related to phabricator though. that would have to be a standalone thing on the labs instance and it would be outside the scope of this task. it changes it from "replace old script" (which imho has happened quite some time ago) to "write a completely new user interface".