Message: 2 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:39:20 +0200 From: Niklas Laxstr?m niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] 2012 Q1 Extension Page Review Drive Message-ID:       CAAVd=jayU7VGxAJ4yNRSjMMOLB37Uxp-qPMkKQqKw6B1k6UGMQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

On 21 January 2012 05:21, Gregory Varnum gregory.varnum@gmail.com wrote:

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WikiProject Extensions is presenting our first ever "Extension Page Review Drive" - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/Projects/Page_D...

I'm not convinced that the practice of listing all hooks used by the extension in the extension page is useful. It's bound to be always outdated and seems a lot of work for little benefit.

Apart from that I updated one of my extensions and will probably do few others :)

-Niklas

Niklas Laxstr?m

Personally I can of like it when extensions list their hooks. The extension gets sorted into categories based on that. From there its easy to see: *Typical ways extensions use that hook (useful if you plan to modify something related to that hook. OTOH no replacement for just grepping through all the extensions) *Roughly how popular that hook is *A lot of places to find examples of how to use such a hook (useful if you're a newbie)

Of course for things like FlaggedRevs with 2 million hooks, that starts to become impractical.

-bawolff