Last modified: 2013-06-18 16:21:52 UTC
Forking (cloning) this bug from bug 11586, as bug 11586 was marked as invalid. The underlying issue here is that on sites such as <https://en.wikinews.org/> there is an "Opinions" tab on individual news articles that leads to a Comments namespace page for each article. For example, <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Israel_launches_airstrikes_against_Gaza_Strip,_kills_Hamas_commander> has an "Opinions" tab at the top of the page that leads to <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Comments:Israel_launches_airstrikes_against_Gaza_Strip%2C_kills_Hamas_commander>. This tab is currently implemented using JavaScript when it should be available in the native HTML output of the page. JavaScript should not be necessary to add this tab to the interface. I'm marking this bug as "easy" as it really shouldn't be more than an hour's worth of work to get this extension fixed up and ready for review and deployment. If anyone is looking to get his or her name on "Special:Version", this is your chance! Source code is here: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/CommentPages.git;a=summary>.
> I'm marking this bug as "easy" as it really shouldn't be more than an hour's > worth of work to get this extension fixed up and ready for review and > deployment. If anyone is looking to get his or her name on "Special:Version", > this is your chance! > > Source code is here: > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/CommentPages.git;a=summary>. The skinning system has changed significantly since then. The work required may be a "rewrite" of the extension, not a minor bug fix. Nonetheless not a huge amount of work and I agree with your assessment that this is an "easy" bug. A main benefit to an extension (over current situation) would probably be not having an extra ajax request to determine if the tab should be red or not on almost every page view.
(In reply to comment #1) > The skinning system has changed significantly since then. The work required may > be a "rewrite" of the extension, not a minor bug fix. Nonetheless not a huge > amount of work and I agree with your assessment that this is an "easy" bug. Yes. And perhaps a more abstract approach would make sense here. Extension:AddTab or something? An entire extension for a single tab (use-case) like this feels a bit yucky. > A main benefit to an extension (over current situation) would probably be not > having an extra ajax request to determine if the tab should be red or not on > almost every page view. Good point. The current JavaScript implementation of this feature is here: <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Comments.js>.
Yes definitely. Additionally an extension would be much easier to deploy to other languages. It is a mess whenever some other lang wikinews wants the other tab.
A previous bug with an old patch is bug 13228 (with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Svippong/AdditionalTabs - it uses a core solution with a general approach). Maybe that or this bug should be marked as a duplicate of the other one?
Yes, I figured this was a duplicate. I couldn't find it. Thank you. Okay, here we go... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13228 ***
