On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Subject was: Update Gadgets extension on WMF wikis
This part of the thread is hereby forked to discuss MediaWiki:Common.js. I do not believe MediaWiki:Common.js should be deleted (atleast not yet), I'm merely curious what usecases people have for it which may or may not be useful to be taken into account during the upcoming revision of ResourceLoader and Gadgets.
In general, modular gadgets will be a better way in the future to create, maintain, share, and re-use client-side code components, as it will provide better infrastructure for doing those things versus manually cut-and-pasting a few bits of code.
At the moment, we're only partway there; sharing things from site to site is still awkward, and there's not a good management interface for site admins to work with.
Obviously MediaWiki:Common.js won't be removed in the short term (and may stay around for compat for a long long time).
-- brion