Brion, that's just brilliant. But wouldn't the extension need to be installed on each Wikipedia for the module to be available?
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:12 PM Chico Venancio <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian, > No, and I always felt there was a better way to do this. I'll look into > that, thanks, > > Chico Venancio > > 2017-04-07 15:45 GMT-03:00 Brian Wolff <[email protected]>: > > > On Friday, April 7, 2017, Felipe Schenone <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all! I'm the main developer of the ProveIt gadget > > > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ProveIt>, a reference > > > manager for Wikipedia. The code is tracked via Phabricator, reviewed > via > > > Gerrit, and served to the various Wikipedias from Commons. Each wiki > has > > a > > > unique initialization code > > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js> that sets > > some > > > local config and then requests the main code from Commons (JavaScript, > > CSS > > > and JSON). Every time I merge a new change via Gerrit, I need to > manually > > > update the Commons pages so that the Wikipedias have the latest code. > > > > > > This is sub-optimal. Ideally, the Wikipedias should request the code > > > directly from Diffusion, so that when developers merge new changes, > they > > > are immediately available (and we don't need interface rights or manual > > > work in Commons). However, when I go to the Diffusion of the gadget > > > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/1884/>, click on the main > > > proveit.js file, and click on "View Raw File", I get to a URL like the > > > following: > > > > > https://phab.wmfusercontent.org/file/data/iapd7kogqo5x2naywwlq/PHID- > > FILE-dkxynh42aocsg5gmepxw/proveit.js > > > The URL of the raw file changes with every click and doesn't have the > > > proper MIME type header, so it's useless for serving the code. > > > > > > I think it would be very useful, for my case and others, to have a > stable > > > URL that serves the latest code with the proper MIME type heading. In > > other > > > words, a CDN, which may or may not be integrated with Diffusion. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > Hmm, we should do something better for this. In the mean time, have you > > considered packaging the javascript as a mediawiki extension that just > adds > > it as a module? Then the gadget could simply be a mw.loader.load( > > moduleName ) call. > > > > -- > > bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
