[Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. I want to have an extra tab for a specific type of article that shows some additional information about this article. This view is per article. It does

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
Can it not in some way be included in action=info ? DJ On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. I want to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Can it not in some way be included in action=info ? In this case: no. That is however sidestepping my question :) Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 23.04.2013 14:46, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. I want to have an extra tab for a specific type of article that shows some additional information about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Chad
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. I want to have an extra tab for a specific type of article that shows

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
Here's my take on it: From the design perspective, SpecialPages are superior. It's one of the most mature controlling units in MediaWiki, primarily because current special pages do so many complex things there has developed a need for abstraction that handles many use cases. Actions, on the other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:46:31 -0700, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. So is one approach preferred? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:07:15 -0700, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: On 23.04.2013 14:46, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. I want to have an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/23/2013 09:58 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: Mind pointing out what is messy about special pages? If you've got an actual issue with them some of us would probably like to actually fix it. Cause actions were in fact the older interface. Till one or two people attempted to bring them up to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:07:20 -0700, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 04/23/2013 09:58 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote: Mind pointing out what is messy about special pages? If you've got an actual issue with them some of us would probably like to actually fix it. Cause actions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Perhaps I have some misconceptions here, but was the Action class not recently (~1.18) introduced, and is it not required to use actions to specify behaviours for alternate content models? Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:02:56 -0700, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Perhaps I have some misconceptions here, but was the Action class not recently (~1.18) introduced, and is it not required to use actions to specify behaviours for alternate content models? Cheers --