https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39533
MZMcBride <b...@mzmcbride.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
Resolution|FIXED |
--- Comment #7 from MZMcBride <b...@mzmcbride.com> 2012-10-06 20:42:18 UTC ---
Re-opening this for now. I'm still don't feel great about this bug.
As I see it, there are two issues:
1. The credits don't look good aesthetically when merged in to the info action.
2. Generally, I'm not sure about the value of this feature altogether. I guess
on a small wiki it makes sense, but on a large wiki, is there any value in
knowing every author of the "Barack Obama" article? Not really. And
consequently there are associated global variables ($wgMaxCredits and
$wgShowCreditsIfMax) which make knowing every author impossible. So this
feature can only really work on small pages, at which point I'm not sure what
advantage it provides over skimming the page history. It's only on large pages
(where skimming the page history is tiring and almost impossible) that you'd
need this data to be separated out, right? And those are the pages this feature
won't work with. :-/
Moving this feature to ?action=history might make sense. Keeping it at
?action=credits might make sense. Removing the feature altogether (or putting
it in an extension) might make sense. I'm not sure.
For now, given <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/26945>, I think it makes sense
to pull the credits-related code out of ?action=info until more thought and
consideration has been given here. My concern is that the feature will end up
being moved multiple times or that it'll be added and then removed (and people
will get upset).
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