The Disambiguator extension
(
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator) is now deployed
to all WMF wikis. This will enable us to:
1. Remove disambiguation code from core, including
Special:Disambiguations (bug 35981)
2. Stop requiring wikis to maintain template lists at
MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage
3. Add features like warning users when they are linking to
disambiguation pages (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/70564)
4. Remove disambiguation pages from things like Special:Random and
Special:LonelyPages
4. Enable the development of more powerful 3rd party tools for dealing
with disambiguation pages
There is, however, one action required of each wiki that wants to make
use of the Disambiguator extension: Every disambiguation page on the
wiki needs to include the __DISAMBIG__ magic word (or an equivalent
alias). Typically, this only requires adding the magic word to a single
template that is included on all the disambiguation pages. For example,
on Commons, this was accomplished with the following change:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADisambig&dif…
On English Wikipedia, it was a bit more complicated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ADmbox&diff=560507…
Once you've made this change, you should start seeing pages appear on
Special:DisambiguationPages within 3 days. If you have any questions or
problems, let me know.
Ryan Kaldari
Wikimedia Foundation