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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:39:20 +0200
From: Niklas Laxstr?m <niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] 2012 Q1 Extension Page Review Drive
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On 21 January 2012 05:21, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com> wrote:
WikiProject Extensions is presenting our first
ever "Extension Page Review Drive" -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiProject_Extensions/Projects/Page_…
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outdated and seems a lot of work for little benefit.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
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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