On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:46:31 -0700, Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. So is one approach preferred?
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --
Make a SpecialPage.
Actions only exist for legacy reasons. There is no reason to create anything as an action anymore. In fact there are some of us that want to eliminate the action system entirely. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41836 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Drop_actions_in_favour_o...