Concur with Philippe. Thanks for letting us know about this. Risker
On 22 October 2012 17:59, Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation < [email protected]> wrote: > Now that's just cool... > ----------------------- > Philippe Beaudette > Director, Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: MZMcBride <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:41:21 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List<[email protected]> > Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Info action > > Hi. > > This is just a heads-up that you'll start seeing a "Page information" link > in the sidebar (under "Toolbox") in the coming days on Wikimedia wikis. It > is deployed now to a few wikis already. This "Page information" link leads > to a newly reimplemented info action: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=info > > Many, many years ago, the info action was added to MediaWiki, but due to > performance issues, it was quickly disabled by default and was mostly > forgotten about. This year, with the wonderful help of Madman, Krenair, and > others, we have reimplemented the info action to provide an information > dashboard of sorts about a particular page title to users. > > This dashboard includes a variety of metadata about the page, including the > page's protection status, length, default categorization sort key, internal > page ID, templates used on the page, and more. The content is somewhat > dynamic: for some pages it will omit certain irrelevant fields and for some > users (such as administrators), certain additional fields (such as the > number of page watchers) will be displayed. This will slowly allow for the > deprecation of outside tools that currently provide information of this > nature. > > The hope is that this action will evolve over time to become a valuable > resource for users. If you can think of data points that are missing from > the current action's output or have other ideas to improve the info action > (it desperately needs a little design love), please feel free to e-mail > this > list or file a bug at <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
