Back in December, there was discussion about needing a better method of
identifying disambiguation pages programmatically (bug 6754). I wrote
some core code to accomplish this, but was informed that disambiguation
functions should reside in extensions rather than in core, per bug
35981. I abandoned the core code and wrote an extension instead
(https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/41043/). Now, however, it has been
suggested that this code needs to reside in core after all
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated#Extension:Disambiguator).
Personally, I don't mind implementing it either way, but would like to
have consensus on where this code should reside. The code is pretty
clean and lightweight, so it wouldn't increase the footprint of core
MediaWiki (it would actually decrease the existing footprint slightly
since it replaces more hacky existing core code). So core bloat isn't
really an issue. The issue is: Where does it most make sense for
disambiguation features to reside? Should disambiguation pages be
supported out of the box or require an extension to fully support?
The specific disambiguation features I'm talking about are:
1. Make it easy to identify disambiguation pages via a page property in
the database (set by a templated magic word)
2. Provide a special page (and corresponding API) for seeing what pages
are linking to disambiguation pages
3. Assign a unique class to disambiguation links so that gadgets can
allow them to be uniquely colored or have special UI (not yet implemented)
Ryan Kaldari
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