Very often gadgets are not just JavaScript pages. They very often depend on other templates and styles that exist in a wiki, and very often reflect a policy or a common practice that is specific to a given wiki, that does not necessarily fit another. For example, the Twinkle gadget has useful tools for the English Wikipedia, but it is bound very tightly to English Wikipedia's deletion policies, warning templates, etc. It may, theoretically, be adapted to other projects, but the workflows may be very different, so it won't be enough to just copy the JavaScript.

That's the kind of thing that Priyanka Nag is working on in the OPW program, and I'm sure that she'll have a lot more to tell.

-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari harshkothari410@gmail.com:

Hi Amir

Yeah :)

But I will Explain all the steps in one mail for admins.

They have to copy paste the code and follow the steps. Just easy. You already know more then me on that :)

But this thing will help to grow editing experience of editors.

Thanks Harsh

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Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.

On 19-Mar-2013, at 6:16 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari harshkothari410@gmail.com:

Hi All

If someone localize the Gadget from English Wikipedia and works fine on one

Indic wikipedia should port in every Indic Wikipedia. So that every Indic

wiki can use that particular feature. That helps a lot to Editors on Indic

Wiki.

Porting Gadget will take 2 to 5 minutes for admins.

Well, theoretically. Reality proves that it may take much, much more than 5 minutes.

-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

You don't exactly need to be an admin to port gadgets. Bring it up to Translatewiki.net and trust me, the community will be more than happy to bring it out ion every possible language out there.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Harsh Kothari harshkothari410@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Amir

You are right about heavy template based gadgets. Twinkle can't adopt directly on any wiki.

But see Reference Tooltips , Popups , Hotcat will work on every wikis. They are very useful Gadgets.

So I am referring that type of low weight useful gadgets :)

Thanks Harsh

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Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.

On 19-Mar-2013, at 6:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

Very often gadgets are not just JavaScript pages. They very often depend on other templates and styles that exist in a wiki, and very often reflect a policy or a common practice that is specific to a given wiki, that does not necessarily fit another. For example, the Twinkle gadget has useful tools for the English Wikipedia, but it is bound very tightly to English Wikipedia's deletion policies, warning templates, etc. It may, theoretically, be adapted to other projects, but the workflows may be very different, so it won't be enough to just copy the JavaScript.

That's the kind of thing that Priyanka Nag is working on in the OPW program, and I'm sure that she'll have a lot more to tell.

-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari harshkothari410@gmail.com:

Hi Amir

Yeah :)

But I will Explain all the steps in one mail for admins.

They have to copy paste the code and follow the steps. Just easy. You

already know more then me on that :)

But this thing will help to grow editing experience of editors.

Thanks

Harsh

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Harsh Kothari

Research Fellow,

Physical Research Laboratory(PRL).

Ahmedabad.

On 19-Mar-2013, at 6:16 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

2013/3/19 Harsh Kothari harshkothari410@gmail.com:

Hi All

If someone localize the Gadget from English Wikipedia and works fine on one

Indic wikipedia should port in every Indic Wikipedia. So that every Indic

wiki can use that particular feature. That helps a lot to Editors on Indic

Wiki.

Porting Gadget will take 2 to 5 minutes for admins.

Well, theoretically. Reality proves that it may take much, much more

than 5 minutes.

--

Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי

http://aharoni.wordpress.com

‪“We're living in pieces,

I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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