2010/9/8 Michael Dale <[email protected]>:
> This is of course already supported, just not in 'grouped requests'.
> Open up your scripts tab on a fresh load of
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Like 24 or so of the 36
> scripts requests on commons are 'arbitrary wiki pages' requested as
> javascript:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:AjaxQuickDelete.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
>
Yeah, these should be grouped.

> Not gadgets in the php extensions sense. Ie MediaWiki:Common.js does a
> lot of loading
Yes, this is a good reason why we should support loading of arbitrary
wiki pages.

> and the gadget set is not defined in php on the server.
It's defined on a MediaWiki: page, which is accessed by the server to
generate the Gadgets tab in Special:Preferences. There is sufficient
server-side knowledge about gadgets to implement them as modules,
although I guess we might as well save ourselves the trouble and load
them as wiki pages,

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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