Last modified: 2012-12-16 08:34:11 UTC
The somewhat universal gadget HotCat doesn't interface well with the Index: page forms, in fact it basically strips it of data and applies a blank template https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Index:1800_Report_of_the_Joint_Committee.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=4174922 The form has never worked well with HotCat even back to ThomasV's efforts, but it would be useful if there was a designated interactive zone where HotCat could work. This is predominantly for maintenance work. At this point of time, enWS will probably have to consider neutering HotCat in that namespace.
I think that, if we want to make HotCat work with index pages, we will need to customize it to work with the index pages edit form. I don't want to include bad hack to ProofreadPage only to make it work with HotCat.
Okay, are you suggesting that becomes a WONTFIX here, and something that is taken back to the WS wiki(s)? It is sometimes hard to know where the Extension starts and stops with relation to Index: pages. :-)
Yes, it's what I suggest: I believe that the extension mustn't have any code relying on a gadget. But if there are issues with the current edit system of the extension, they have to be fixed in the extension. So I close as WONTFIX.
