I think that's a valuable and valid discussion. I would also argue that adding the widgets as subpages to the widget extension isn't cluttering up the wiki much - it at all. I fail to see how that would have such a drastic impact on our use of the wiki.
-Greg ____________ Sent from my iPhone. Apologies for any typos. A more detailed response may be sent later. On Sep 4, 2012, at 5:19 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey if you want to make mediawiki.org a dumping ground for anything >> mediawiki related, have fun with that. >> > > Well, the parent thread had a point. Let's discuss what's possible > rather than just downing the current work. How can we make widgets a > viable extension? Is it possible? If not, can we salvage any of the > work? Maybe the widgets could be split into maintainable extensions? > > For instance, there isn't a single usable extension for embedding > videos in MediaWiki. Is the implementation in widgets secure? Could we > break this into an actually maintained extension? I'm sure there's > other widgets that would be useful as well. > > - Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
