User blog comment:Kirkburn/Introducing the Community Page - a hub for community info/@comment-3474542-20160630044753


 * It would be really nice to have MediaWiki:Community-corner show up somewhere on Special:Community, instead of being pushed all the way to the bottom of the right rail by all the other modules on the Wiki Activity page. This would also give admins a place to customize and highlight areas of the wiki that they feel are in need of attention.
 * It would also be nice if there was a section linking to highlighted forums/threads/system messages, etc (*HINT*, *HINT* announcements about server maintenance/scheduled downtime *HINT*, *HINT*).
 * It would be nice to be able to either rank or turn specific special page modules off. For example, some wikis may want to highlight double redirects, others may want to highlight pages without images. Having something that worked like MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation using modules might be the easiest way to handle it.
 * The Contributors/Admin module needs some work.
 * For general users, it is typically important to encourage quality edits over quantity of edits. Otherwise, you have things like one page edited a million times with a person adding or removing a single character. If you're going to rank people, give us a way to mark their edits as good/bad/neutral.
 * Different admins have different strengths & weaknesses. Some admins are great at the tech stuff and horrible with the social stuff (and vice versa). Some are just overworked. We need to be able to manually make a particular admin visible/invisible (without them having to resort to using a sockpuppet). Perhaps instead of the "active admins", you could make it a link to a separate page on the wiki (where it could show more details about the various admins).
 * It would be nice to be able to see an admin's area of expertise. Perhaps a small dialogue box or checkbox menu editable by the individual and other admin/bureaucrats? (e.g. - User:Jo12345 "wiki code", "social media team"; User:Jan98765 "arbitration", "social media team"; User:Monkey241 "wikicode", "CSS" & "JavaScript", "social media team")
 * As a temporary fix, it would be great if there was a way to manually over-ride this module allowing wikis to choose which admins/users get shown.
 * I +1 the opinion that we need a link to history (instead of or in addition to edit) for trending pages.
 * I'd like to +5, or even +1000000000000 the comment about renaming "Wanted pages" to something else that acknowledges the fact that the wiki may not want that particular page made (typo, duplicate page, wrong namespace, spam page, etc). "Red links" may not be the most accessible option, but it's a lot better than "wanted pages".
 * I like the fact that there is a help module on the page. It would be nice if it was slightly more prominent. Perhaps as part of the Welcome module.