https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33220
Krinkle changed:
What|Removed |Added
Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC||krinklem...@gmail.com
Resolution||WONTFIX
--- Comment #2 from Krinkle 2012-01-02 15:50:51 UTC ---
Marking WONTFIX per concerns raised by Rainer in comment #1.
Gadgets are created by the community. Although great things have been created
through that system, they are still not as safe or stable as native
functionality that has been through extensive cross-browser testing, code
review and security checks. And as such they should not be promoted mixed
without the ability to distinguish them.
The Gadgets extension already has the feature of "categories", so one can have
a category "Edit gadgets" (instead of adding it to the native "Editing" tab.
If something created as a gadget turns out to be suited as something that would
belong in another tab and is stable enough to be as such, then I think the
proper procedure is to have it be part of core MediaWiki or an extension. - in
order words, request the feature in BugZilla and link to the gadget resources
as "patch".
Gadgets are kind of a labs environment, once it's grown stable and useful
enough for general MediaWiki use (not just Wikimedia wikis), then they are
probably suited to become part of core.
For example, ajax watching has been in core for a while now. If I recall
correctly that once was a gadget.
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