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Wikipedia:Database reports/Redesign

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Some notes about redesigning the database reports project.

Goals

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  • allow on-wiki localization of report description text and table headers
    • need to be sure that localization doesn't break "data as of" magic (or that magic needs to be re-implemented)
    • this means better abstraction in the code and some template magic, presumably
  • allow on-wiki customization of link formatting and output (appending edit/hist/etc. links); this is already somewhat done with {{dbr link}}
  • shared functions in a dbr module
    • calculate_replag()
    • post_results() — for single pages
    • post_paginated_results() — for paginated results
  • switch to use cronsub — svick has already started on this
  • licensing
    • strongly in favor of making all of this PD; not enough creativity in any of this anyway
    • single AUTHORS file
  • clean up shebang in the files to use generic Python instead of 2.5?
  • switch to a multi-maintainer project/tool on the Toolserver
    • people who should have access:
      • svick
      • mzmcbride
      • dispenser
      • bjweeks
      • tim1357
    • need to pick a name, "reports" is already taken