https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47812
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Bug ID: 47812
Summary: Create Mediawiki:Group-user.css to allow content
differentiation for logged-in editors versus readers
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Skin and page rendering
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Presently, Mediawiki provides the system messages:
Mediawiki:Group-sysop.css
Mediawiki:Group-sysop.js
Mediawiki:Group-checkuser.css
Mediawiki:Group-checkuser.js
etc.
Such that most user classes can have specific CSS and JS associated with them.
See also: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_group_CSS_and_Javascript
As written, the code explicitly excludes the ability to manage content based on
membership in the "user" group of logged-in editors. Is there a good reason
for this?
If there is not a specific reason for prohibiting
Mediawiki:Group-user.css
Mediawiki:Group-user.js
Then I would suggest that they should be added.
Such a mechanism would provide a natural way to differentiate some content for
logged-in editors vs. readers. For example, many message boxes and error
messages can be rather cryptic or unhelpful for readers, and it may make sense
to provide readers with a more general explanatory statement while showing
editors a different and more specific "how do I fix this" kind of message.
Obviously any such differentiation would have to be mindful of the fact that
IPs can be editors too, but I think decisions about if/when message
differentiation is appropriate is more a community issue than a technical one.
So, if there isn't a technical reason that would block this, can we add "user"
to the set of classes that can have class-wide CSS and JS pages?
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