Last modified: 2014-09-04 04:52:23 UTC
The gadget http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Persoenliche-Bekanntschaften-GUI (I think there are more like this) cannot be activated since June 15. If you select the checkbox in your [[Special:Preferences]] tab and hit "save", the page will be reloaded with saving this flag. The flag or rather the gadget was activated before the MediaWiki-update (2009-06-15). It was turned of for all users by the update. This is not a gadget-bug, but should be a MediaWiki problem, because some of the gadgets e.g. [[MediaWiki:Gadget-contribsrange]] still work. But this gadget is not included in the HTML-code, send by the server, anymore.
It looks like this bug was introduced by a too-small up_property field. "Gadget-<gadget-name>" is limited to 64 characters, which I assumed would be plenty, but obviously not for the Germans ;) It's too late to go in and expand it right now, and this might be done with future schema changes. It's also too late to revert the new preferences code. Therefore, I recommend that this bug be worked around by shortening the name of the gadget — there should not be any need for gadget names over 50-60 characters.
Same case on http://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Traditional-simplified_conversion and this gadget could not be activated as well.
Make the path shorter as Andrew Garrett wrote it. That is the reason.
This is something that appears to be needing to be fixed but requires a schema change so I'm changing won't fix to later and adding schema-change keyword.
Reopening. up_property is 255 chars long now, we just need to enforce it in UI in some sane way. Making this a reminder for the ongoing Gadgets rewrite.
Moving bug 29398 from being a dependency to a blocker. The implementation of the gadget manager (bug 29398) automatically fixes this bug.
Reverse-dupe because the other bug (filed 10 days later) got fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19410 ***
