Will the error mention to users they need to use the hook and point them to a wiki page for more information?
Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:52 AM Léa Lacroix <lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello all, > > This message is important for people who still use the config value > mw.config.get( > 'wbEntity') in their tools or scripts. This value, deprecated for two > years, will be completely dropped on July 24th. > > The config value mw.config.get( 'wbEntity') has been deprecated in order > to improve the page load time, especially on large Items. Currently, a > significant proportion of the HTML on every entity page is generated by > this value. Dropping wbEntity completely will make the first paint (time > needed to load the page) faster, and will better utilize the server and > client cache. > > If your code is still using > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85499#5330372> mw.config.get( > 'wbEntity'), you can replace it by the hook > wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded (see an example here > <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Wikibase/blob/47952b3b22a4550f3b2677b96c820e559123864c/repo/resources/wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded.js#L13>). > > > On Wednesday, July 24th, we will drop mw.config.get( 'wbEntity') from > Wikidata’s codebase and calling the value will result in an error. > > If you have any questions or need help, feel free to leave a comment under the > related task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85499>. > > Thanks for your understanding, > Cheers, > -- > Léa Lacroix > Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt > für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > wikidata-t...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech >
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