ICANNWiki:ICANNWiki Development

This meta space for ICANNWiki Development is aimed at coordinating tasks between different developers and contributors. It is not intended to be directly edited by the broader public, but all users are encouraged to follow it and provide input to the plans laid out here.

Backend development

Task	Description	Status	Owner
Extend user session login	Accounts get logged out even upon electing to keep the session logged in. This limits user engagement and should be fixed.	Prioritary	User:MarkAHershberger
Update backend to latest MediaWiki version	Get the wiki to version 1.41/1.42 (May 2024) in order to benefit from updated resources, such as new API calls, modernized skins, and bug fixes.	Not started	User:MarkAHershberger
Uninstall "Collection" extension	No real benefit in creating books and generates UI clutter.	Not started	User:MarkAHershberger
Review: Implement 'Lingo" extension	"Lingo" is a stable and well-maintained extension that enables word definition on hover for admin-defined terms on all pages. For a heavy acronym space like ICANN, this is much more desirable than forcing users to open multiple tabs to be able to read an article. Available at: [1]	Not started	User:MarkAHershberger & User:Ray
Check broken Badge functionality in the wiki	The wiki used to support Badges, but this feature seems to be currently broken and have leftover code. See: Special:ICANNWikiBadge/Main_Page	Not started	User:MarkAHershberger
Add licenses to the file uploader	Our file uploader currently doesn't have any licenses in its combo box for users to choose, which is problematic.	Not started	User:MarkAHershberger
Scope displaying a random card from ICANNWiki decks within a box	To make good use of our cards, we could display a random card at the portal towards one of the top corners, dynamically changing it with every user visit. How to execute this is unclear and will require scoping.	Not started	User:Markwd
Enable in-wiki playback of audio and video files	Incorporating more robust multimedia resources moving forward will allow us to better integrate resources that are being underutilized at the moment, including a significant amount of videos already generated by ICANNWiki. (Potentially with [2]). Update: As it turns out, we already had EmbedVideo implemented, it just needed to be documented.	DONE	User:Markwd
Fix main page for mobile view	Main page overflows incorrectly due to hard coding.	DONE	User:Markwd

Content development

For more specific tasks, see: Meta:ICANNWiki Content Planning.

Task	Description	Status	Owner
Toolset for content analysis	Set of Python tools to enable better understanding of the wiki's structure, existing content, gaps, and other useful metrics.	DONE	User:Christiane & User:Markwd
Content plan	Content plan to steer the community in a clear direction based on the identified needs of the wiki.	Ongoing	User:Christiane
Evaluate and organize categories	An excess of categories has proliferated over the years, many irrelevant or orphaned. The wiki needs to be organized in this area in order to increase its relevance.	Ongoing	User:Christiane & User:Markwd
Redesign main page	Redefine the purpose of the main page and ensure that it reflects the goals of the content plan.	Ongoing	User:Markwd & User:Ray
Rethink logo	The proportions of the current logo are arbitrary and make it difficult to integrate into layouts that expect wide or square aspects. A study needs to be carried out to define potential modernized looks.	Not started	User:Markwd & User:Ray
Celebration of 20 Years of ICANNWiki	The wiki completes 20 years of activity in 2025, making that general date perfect to carry out a campaign.	Not started	User:Markwd & User:Ray