[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, It's been some time since we launched tool labs and there is incredible number of tools now. They all however have 2 major problems. Every tool has own, different layout / css style (which may be confusing the users of these tools) and every developer of these tools probably have to reinvent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread svetlana
In my view, if a Labs tool is a success, it should be written as a wiki Extension and deployed to relevant wikis. What you're saying essentially means that there is a need to make the wiki truly extensible without much pain. - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI for example, but people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread James Forrester
On 8 December 2014 at 13:10, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI for example, but people insist it's not ready for production and is internal to Visual Editor folks. Quoting James: OOUI is not stable enough to encourage people to use it full-tilt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Brian Wolff
On Dec 8, 2014 5:10 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: In my view, if a Labs tool is a success, it should be written as a wiki Extension and deployed to relevant wikis. What you're saying essentially means that there is a need to make the wiki truly extensible without much pain. Thats

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia tool framework (php)

2014-12-08 Thread Magnus Manske
Just to chime in here, my tools (the ones that generate HTML from PHP, that is) are all based on the same style code, so it would be easy to change them centrally. That said, much of the per-tool styles are based on bootstrap, so using something else would mean changing a lot of them. I just hit