On Tuesday 24 July 2007 19:56:22 Brion Vibber wrote:
Aaron Schulz wrote:
As I said before, the users don't choose, the
sysadmin sets it in
localsettings.php.
There can be only one!
</highlander>
The sensible thing would seem to be to fix up the nice one so it works,
and then only have to worry about having one.
Anyways there is one specific problem we need to solve:
How to inject an item into the page caption? Currently this does not seem to
be possible as every HTML you inject there with an extension gets escaped.
This is not specific to the FlaggedRevs extension. The LanguageSelector
extension by Duesentrieb also wants to provide an item at this place with the
LanguageSelectorIntoTitle option.
So there are multiple use cases for the ability to inject an item there.
To your points with multiple GUIs:
Your thoughts aren't wrong but you aren't aware of some problems that made
this necessary:
* Almost every corner of the GUI in Wikipedia is used either by usual
MediaWiki features or some custom JavaScript/CSS (and they differ between
various projects). You simply don't want to touch this and probably b0rk a
lot of custom stuff. So the remaining options aren't so much and if you have
more than one option every project can choose the one that causes the least
adoption problems for them.
* Differrent Wikipedias want different types of FlaggedRevs. de.wikipedia
wants a super-simple two level flagging with one flag: Every autoconfirmed
user (of course a custom autoconfirmation with 30 days + 30 edits) can flag
an article revision at the "ok" level (we used the clumsy "sighted" a
bad
translation from German into English ;-) and any user that is in the reviewer
user group can perform the higher "reviewed" degree of the quality flag.
en.wikipedia in contrast (at least Erik and others) opted for a more
extensive flagging system with multiple flags that cover certain article
aspects such as "readability", "completeness"...
* The en.wikipedia approach needs more screenspace cause there is more
available information. Thus the page caption is not the ideal article status
display place for the en.wikipedia approach but perfectly for de.wikipedia.
In contrast the more verbose display option of en.wikipedia is to large for
the simple de.wikipedia aproach and as screen space isn't infinit you
necessarily want the smallest possible item size.
So yes you have indeed a very valid point but you can be sure that we did
think about this a lot (and we are very much aware that there are still
things that need to be ironed out in the GUI of FlaggedRevs).
Daniel Arnold / Arnomane