Brion, that's just brilliant. But wouldn't the extension need to be
installed on each Wikipedia for the module to be available?
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:12 PM Chico Venancio <chicocvenancio(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Brian,
No, and I always felt there was a better way to do this. I'll look into
that, thanks,
Chico Venancio
2017-04-07 15:45 GMT-03:00 Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Friday, April 7, 2017, Felipe Schenone
<schenonef(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all! I'm the main developer of the ProveIt gadget
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ProveIt>, a reference
> manager for Wikipedia. The code is tracked via Phabricator, reviewed
via
> Gerrit, and served to the various Wikipedias
from Commons. Each wiki
has
a
unique initialization code
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js> that sets
some
local config and then requests the main code from
Commons (JavaScript,
CSS
> and JSON). Every time I merge a new change via Gerrit, I need to
manually
> update the Commons pages so that the
Wikipedias have the latest code.
>
> This is sub-optimal. Ideally, the Wikipedias should request the code
> directly from Diffusion, so that when developers merge new changes,
they
are
immediately available (and we don't need interface rights or manual
work in Commons). However, when I go to the Diffusion of the gadget
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/1884/>, click on the main
proveit.js file, and click on "View Raw File", I get to a URL like the
following:
https://phab.wmfusercontent.org/file/data/iapd7kogqo5x2naywwlq/PHID-
FILE-dkxynh42aocsg5gmepxw/proveit.js
> The URL of the raw file changes with every click and doesn't have the
> proper MIME type header, so it's useless for serving the code.
>
> I think it would be very useful, for my case and others, to have a
stable
URL that
serves the latest code with the proper MIME type heading. In
other
words, a CDN, which may or may not be integrated
with Diffusion.
Thanks!
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Hmm, we should do something better for this. In the mean time, have you
considered packaging the javascript as a mediawiki extension that just
adds
it as a module? Then the gadget could simply be a
mw.loader.load(
moduleName ) call.
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bawolff
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