Adding a Beta Feature to the Cite extension is fine. Note that there was (dormant) code in that repo to do exactly this for years, never enabled.
On 2 February 2015 at 16:49, Ricordisamoa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I've come up with a rough OOjs-UI-based rewrite of the long-standing > Reference Tooltips <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reference_Tooltips> > gadget. > I'd like to see it enabled on Wikimedia sites as a beta feature, to > ultimately replace the gadget, but I'm not sure it is worth an extension on > its own. > It could share some code with the Popups extension < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups> but, unlike the latter, > the former does not depend on neither TextExtracts nor PageImages. > The Cite extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite> is > required for references to work, so the tooltips could just be an > additional feature. However, I don't feel comfortable with embedding such > an experiment into a cornerstone of ours like Cite. > VectorBeta <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VectorBeta> includes > many features of this kind, but reference tooltips are really not > Vector-specific. > Which do you think is the most suitable repository? > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
