Author: brian.mcneil
Description:
Image of how recent updates break vital reviewing tool
Sometime after 1800 UTC today, an update was applied to the software which has broken vitally important local functionality on English Wikinews, and - presumably, any other language versions of Wikinews which make use of the same tools.
- EzPR.
This is a Gadget which is in-use to carry out independent peer-review on articles submitted for publication. It allows a great deal of data input, writes out the review results on the talk page of the article, and can carry out the multiple steps required to publish an article.
The form simply cannot be input, and a screenshot shows how it is currently displayed.
- Our WN:MAKELEAD tool is also broken.
This usually allows easy maintenance of the lead articles displayed on the main page.
Without access to these gadgets, only a small subset of contributors know enough of the technical steps carried out by these tools to process articles submitted for review and maintain the leads on the main page.
This is a critical problem for, at least, English Wikinews (but, what's being tried looks purty).
Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: critical
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