Hey,
Just wanted to bring in few points.
If its in core it would be easy tackle bug [1] (note the votes it has) and
more that may come up.
Somewhat related, I think MediaWiki should automatically create
disambiguation pages [2].
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3483
[2]
Hello,
My own preference would be to have this in the core for several reasons.
It seems that it makes some existing core code simpler. There's
already some code dealing with disambiguation in the core
(Special:Disambiguation, ...).
Several external tools, including my own WPCleaner [1], are
Hey,
From a technical point of view it's nicer to have it as an extension as it
prevents feature bloat in core. OTOH the lack of extension distribution
mechanism is an argument against.
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw
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Le 16/01/13 02:58, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Back in December, there was discussion about needing a better method of
identifying disambiguation pages programmatically (bug 6754). I wrote
some core code to accomplish this, but was informed that disambiguation
functions should reside in extensions
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
To me disambiguation seems like a common problem of wikis and thus
should be a core feature.
On a wiki about people, people share the same name
On a wiki about cities, cities share the same name
etc etc you get the idea.
Nicolas Vervelle nvervelle at gmail.com writes:
My own preference would be to have this in the core for several reasons.
[...]
Yes, the core code already handles disambiguation pages specially in some
ways (Special:Disambiguations, MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage). But it
treats them as
Back in December, there was discussion about needing a better method of
identifying disambiguation pages programmatically (bug 6754). I wrote
some core code to accomplish this, but was informed that disambiguation
functions should reside in extensions rather than in core, per bug
35981. I
To me disambiguation seems like a common problem of wikis and thus
should be a core feature.
On a wiki about people, people share the same name
On a wiki about cities, cities share the same name
etc etc you get the idea.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Personally, I don't mind implementing it either way, but would like to have
consensus on where this code should reside. The code is pretty clean and
lightweight, so it wouldn't increase the footprint of core MediaWiki
I agree with extension. For example, my school's IT department uses a wiki
to collect information about common computer problems, and on a wiki about
computer problems, none of the issues share the same name.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer
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