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RSP restructuring demo

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources (RSP) — English Wikipedia's index of ~500 frequently discussed sources — has outgrown MediaWiki's technical limits. The table's templates exceed the post-expand include size (PEIS), so entries past the cutoff silently fail to render, and the list grows by ~50 entries a year. A 2025 RfC reached consensus to restructure RSP into a searchable index plus one standalone page per source.

This site is a working preview of that restructuring. A parser reads the live RSP tables into structured data and re-renders every entry as a standalone candidate page, previewed here exactly as it would render on Wikipedia:

Open format1/ — it lands on the generated Index page (T414753): a links-only, letter-grouped index with search.
The color-coded index lists every assessment with the status shading and icon from the original RSP table.
Sources with multiple assessments by time period or topic (CNET, Fox News, …) are merged into one page per source (T414766); the merged sources demo shows each source's original table rows next to its merged page.
Click any source to open its candidate page; view wikitext shows the raw mediawikitext it was rendered from.

Work is coordinated on the english-wikipedia-rsp-restructuring Phabricator workboard; the parser and renderer live at gitlab.wikimedia.org/tmoney/rspdemo. Candidate pages are drafts for community review — statuses and consensus summaries come verbatim from the live RSP table.

Demo mechanics

Each generated page injects a <script>var data = {...};</script> block with the parsed row — open devtools and poke data.
Refresh data re-runs the parse/render pipeline against live Wikipedia. It is fire-and-forget and rate-limited to once per 2 minutes; the banner at the top shows the last refresh time.
The hosted demo intentionally has no Wikipedia token, so refreshes never write back to Wikipedia.