Quick question, is there a way in the API (other than action=edit) to add/remove categories from a page? Because that seems to be one of the main things that would be holding this back from becoming an extension proper.
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 jul. 2013, at 00:25, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "If people don't want to put their code through review this is scary to > me" > >> > >> They do get their code reviewed. The rules are however usually simple > 'it needs to work'. Not everyone has time to spend a gazillion hours on > getting familiar with git, gerrit, jshint, git-review, resourceloader, > i18n, l10n, the actual review lag, the deploy lag and I don't know what > else. > >> > >> Some ppl just want to edit categories super fast NOW. That's how these > tools start and then these people are usually done. A bit of required > maintenance, but that's it, they are editing/reviewing/categorizing again. > Look at navpopups. With minor changes, that thing has been able to run > basically unsupervised since 2006 and it is one of the most popular tools. > > > > This seems like a bad habit to have got ourselves into... > > All it takes is a trailing comma somewhere and a gadget could take out > > a whole browser. > > Likewise a bad usage of a css transition can completely kill site > > performance and make everything laggy. > > I'm not disagreeing that this workflow gets results - it obviously > > does - but I think we should be striving to identify good Gadgets and > > giving them love and attention for the good of everyone. > > > Like I said, I just don't think that Extensions and our current Developer > workflow are a good fit for that love and attention. > > DJ > _______________________________________________ > 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
