https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70019
Bug ID: 70019
Summary: Add the ability to configure gadgets on a per site or
wiki basis
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Gadgets
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
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Something else I'd like add to the gadget feature requests is allowing users to
configure a gadget to some extent. A rough comparison might be using
$wgExampleExtensionVariable to set something in LocalSettings.php.
As an example of how this might work in a js environment, take
http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/AjaxRC which uses ajax to refresh the content of a
page. By default this loads on RecentChanges and WikiActivity (something
similar to RecentChanges made by Wikia to be more friendly to new users).
However, the pages it loads can be altered to any page imaginable. A typical
extra place for it to load might be a forum hub to track the latest changes to
threads.
Currently, the user sets the variables and imports the script. If this script
were moved to a gadget in it's current state there would be no way to configure
it unless you did something like add a site dependency and configure it in
MediaWiki:Common.js.
I think a better way would to be to add a way to set variables in a gadget
preferences page, with a form that can accept pre-determined types, e.g. string
(foo), array (foo, bar, baz, ...), number (12345), boolean (checkbox), etc.
These variables could then be set using something like mw.user.gadgetPrefs.set(
'ajaxrc-someVar' ) (possibly namespaced to the gadget?) and then accessed by
the gadget using mw.user.gadgetPrefs.get( 'ajaxrc-someVar' ) Ideally, this form
would show the default values used as well.
A couple of things to mull over if this gets implemented:
- Should we allow configuration on a wiki and/or user basis for default
gadgets? Perhaps set sub-defaults, e.g. default < wiki < user
- If global gadgets are introduced gadgets could be identified by hash values
rather than names. How could we avoid clashes where the same variable is being
inadvertently set twice or more by different scripts?
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