On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > At the risk of starting an emacs vs vim like discussion, I'd like to ask if > I ought to be using a SpecialPage or an Action in my use case. I want to > have an extra tab for a specific type of article that shows some additional > information about this article. This view is per article. It does not allow > for making modifications to the article. Registering either an action or a > special page will result in much the same behaviour for the user, with the > exception of the URL structure, which is slightly different. For me as a > developer there also is little difference, either I have some thing derive > from Action and have 3 lines of code in it or from SpecialPage and have the > lines here. Furthermore I've seen both approaches taken, and have taken > both myself. So is one approach preferred? >
Special page, special page, special page. Actions suck. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
