[Wikimedia-l] Info action

[Risker]

Concur with Philippe.  Thanks for letting us know about this.

Risker

On 22 October 2012 17:59, Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation <
pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Now that's just cool...
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> Philippe Beaudette
> Director, Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc
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> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:41:21
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> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Info action
>
> Hi.
>
> This is just a heads-up that you'll start seeing a "Page information" link
> in the sidebar (under "Toolbox") in the coming days on Wikimedia wikis. It
> is deployed now to a few wikis already. This "Page information" link leads
> to a newly reimplemented info action:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info
>
> Many, many years ago, the info action was added to MediaWiki, but due to
> performance issues, it was quickly disabled by default and was mostly
> forgotten about. This year, with the wonderful help of Madman, Krenair, and
> others, we have reimplemented the info action to provide an information
> dashboard of sorts about a particular page title to users.
>
> This dashboard includes a variety of metadata about the page, including the
> page's protection status, length, default categorization sort key, internal
> page ID, templates used on the page, and more. The content is somewhat
> dynamic: for some pages it will omit certain irrelevant fields and for some
> users (such as administrators), certain additional fields (such as the
> number of page watchers) will be displayed. This will slowly allow for the
> deprecation of outside tools that currently provide information of this
> nature.
>
> The hope is that this action will evolve over time to become a valuable
> resource for users. If you can think of data points that are missing from
> the current action's output or have other ideas to improve the info action
> (it desperately needs a little design love), please feel free to e-mail
> this
> list or file a bug at <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>.
>
> MZMcBride
>
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