On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:04 PM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know who we go to to get this sort of
thing added? Should be
fairly non controversial.
Twinkle and wikEd are custom JavaScript gadgets developed by Wikipedia
users. That means they're not proper extensions for MediaWiki, but
rather built on MediaWiki's facilities for writing little JavaScript
gadgets on-wiki. Any admin can take a crack at creating gadgets on
Wikivoyage, and updating the definitions here:
http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadgets has a bit more background
on how the whole system works. It's pretty hackish. Depending on how
complex and how Wikipedia-centric the code is, getting gadgets to run
on Wikivoyage may be easy or hard. Twinkle, for example, has a big
note here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle#Twinkle_on_other_wikis
"Some parts of Twinkle are easily portable to other MediaWiki-based
wikis: the revert/rollback module, for example. But most modules have
been designed only with English Wikipedia in mind. For instance, the
CSD module relies on templates which most likely do not exist on other
wikis."
Bugzilla isn't the best place for requests relating to user scripts
and gadgets, because these are developed on-wiki and the maintainers
are often not following requests on Bugzilla. It's often worth
contacting the developers directly. There's also a centralized page
for requests relating to user scripts and gadgets, here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Requests
Erik
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