Talk:JavaScript

There's a template on this page (template:JavaScript), with more content than the actual page! I've made it uncollapsed by default now (it was autocollapsing, which seemed illogical).

It's not used elsewhere. But it seems like potentially good content?

Either: it should be a proper navbox that is used on multiple pages (for navigating between them, or perhaps for finding the right page if your search arrived at the wrong one, as I often use them for),

or instead it could be converted into content on this page, which thus becomes a standalone index/hub/disambig.

Thoughts? :)

[context/tangent: I arrived here, because I had stumbled upon w:en:User:Cewbot which updates w:en:Wikipedia:Vital_articles frequently, and I thought it interesting, and I wondered if the code for that bot was already helpfully listed anywhere useful on mw.o, and if not then where it could/should be listed...? (I'm still not sure. Maybe at Manual:Creating a bot#JavaScript or at API:Client code#JavaScript? Although it's also not clearly-licensed code AFAICT which complicates things..>.<)]

I'd recommend using it as a navbox on multiple pages.

Pages about a programming language like this one can be used as landing pages for people interested in that language and its use in MediaWiki / Wikimedia project. The idea is simple: "I know JavaScript: what can I do?". Then we can link these pages from very visible spots like the homepage or the Developer hub.

This is why a link to Limn makes also sense, since that is a JS project looking for contributors.

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.