On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Special pages are nice because they have a base class with lots of
> features. They are flexible and easy to add.
>
> The main problem with actions is that most of them are implemented in
> that horror that is Article.php.
This is from a devel
On 04/01/11 12:12, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> On 01/03/2011 11:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:23 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
>>> It looks like a nice usability fix. :-) (Now to get Special:MovePage turned
>>> into ?action=move)
>>
>> I'd do the opposite -- stop using actions ot
On 01/03/2011 11:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:23 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
>> It looks like a nice usability fix. :-) (Now to get Special:MovePage turned
>> into ?action=move)
>
> I'd do the opposite -- stop using actions other than view, and move
> everything to special
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:23 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> It looks like a nice usability fix. :-) (Now to get Special:MovePage turned
> into ?action=move)
I'd do the opposite -- stop using actions other than view, and move
everything to special pages. (Of course we'd still support the
old-style U
On 11-01-03 03:59 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> On 01/03/2011 07:23 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
>> I assume you're referring to these revisions:
>> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/79398
>> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/79399
>>
>> It looks like a nice usabilit
On 01/03/2011 07:23 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
>
> I assume you're referring to these revisions:
> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/79398
> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/79399
>
> It looks like a nice usability fix. :-) (Now to get Special:MovePage turned
>
Daniel Friesen wrote:
> 1.18 has a new feature now. From a special page you can call
> $skin->setRelatedTitle and $skin->setRelatedTitle. Calling
> setRelatedTitle will mark a title as relevant to the current page, doing
> so will cause some parts of the ui (namely the page tabs) to display
> thing
The way you completely lose your page tabs when switching to
Special:MovePage has been a bother to me for awhile... it's bad
interface design to have a set of tabs linking to other pages with the
same set of tabs, but to have a single one of them strangely point to a
page where those tabs compl
