⚓ T63007 Allow specifying when a gadget should load (action, namespace, content model)
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Allow specifying when a gadget should load (action, namespace, content model)
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Krinkle
Authored By
bzimport
Feb 7 2014, 2:39 AM
2014-02-07 02:39:00 (UTC+0)
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MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets
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Wikimedia-Israel-Hackers
(Backlog)
Wikimedia-Performance-recommendation
MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.28; 2023-09-26)
MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.25; 2024-04-02)
User-notice-archive
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Patch-Needs-Improvement
Referenced Files
F37752811: Gadgets-generic-negation.zip
Sep 23 2023, 1:01 AM
2023-09-23 01:01:43 (UTC+0)
F37752179: Gadgets-orig.zip
Sep 22 2023, 10:07 PM
2023-09-22 22:07:20 (UTC+0)
F37752180: new-with-negation.zip
Sep 22 2023, 10:07 PM
2023-09-22 22:07:20 (UTC+0)
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Description
Gadgets, when enabled by a user, load on all pages in all namespaces. This doesn't cause any immediate functional problems, but is inefficient. In some cases, very unacceptably inefficient, to the point that a gadget may be removed from a wiki or disabled due to performance problems. This is usually worked around in one of two ways:
The gadget is split into two parts. A part that contains the actual gadget itself (hidden, disabled by default). And a (tiny)
second
part that is loaded always and checks whether the current page is the "right" one, and then loads the other.
Downside: Two definitions instead of one.
Downside: The page will first load without the gadget, and then later the gadget gets loaded (typically between 1-10s seconds later, depending on the connection and bandwidth).
The gadget is made hidden and is instead loaded by url parameter (e.g.
/wiki/Example?withModule=ext.gadget.foo
).
Downside: Cannot be enabled on a per-user base (url parameter applies to all users). It also means the gadget only loads when the user follows a specific link, e.g. not when visiting the page through other means.
Downside: The page will first load without the gadget, and then later the gadget
We should instead add an option directly in the Gadgets extension to specify when a gadget should load (by default still everywhere).
Eg. based on the namespace, or page title, or page action, or canonical special page name.
Original request:
Author:
gryllida
Description:
We should add an option to specify what pages a gadget is active on. Many probably just do this manually, but it looks reasonable as some gadgets would only be useful for contributors' talk pages for example. This could be a namespace name, or sometimes even a glob mask (Wikipedia talk:Articles for Creation/*).
See Also
T8883: Allow page-specific inclusion of