Topic on Talk:Compact Personal Bar

Currently disabled, until at least phab:T85541, phab:T66862 and phab:T67073 are fixed. Per phab:T86831 and m:Tech/News/2015/05.

Due to resourcing the compact personal bar beta feature will be removed from sites within the next two weeks. This does not mean that the learning and data gained from the experiment is lost. The Design and Product teams will work to either find new resources to update the feature in future, or take the learnings that we gained from the trial and apply them to new features and enhancements to the sites.

The outstanding development tasks for compact personal bar are available on phabricator here if community developers would like to work on the code there will be staff members availbe to help review.

Thank you for everyone who participated in the experiment, and for all of your feedback.

It was more than an experiment, disabling it broke many users' workflow.

So this is why my bar suddenly vanished a few minutes ago! I really liked it...

I liked it too!

It's a useful tool, why stop it?

This is very unfortunate. Instead of just immediatly clicking the little star to go to my watchlist, I now have to scan a lot of (mostly useless to me) words to find it.

)-: It was very useful! :-(

I liked a lot, too, and I found it useful. Do you have at least one picture showing how it was working?

I really liked it, too. I hope it will be possible to use that bar again soon.

It was really useful and I liked it. I hope the idea will not be forgotten.

It was quite useful and well recieved by community. As sysop, I've got few requests by users today, asking what happened to it. I think it should stay in our plans, though I can't commit to development myself at the moment.

it was usefull. Why disabling, it was working perfectly.

I can also state that this was serving its purpose very well in its current format - Wikipedia is FAR behind in replacing long text for simple, intuitive icons (a design omnipresent in virtually every common piece of software or OS). This was particularly needed because the site is so very text heavy; in this respect it was a great improvement, visually and functionally. The links I most used were the ones displayed. I infrequently used the hidden ones. I do not even consider this a beta feature at all. I would happily advocate for the release of this as a gadget, and even as a default on Wikipedia!

I really liked it too. Hope it will come back soon.

Thanks everyone for the great feedback, many of us here also like the feature. However even we acknowledge it was not yet perfected. As of today it has 19 outstanding bugs, including 2 critical ones related to echo notification and language tools. Until those bugs are resolved I think it is unwise to release, either as an extension or gadget.

If you are a developer I would urge you to take a look at the open issues on phabricator related to the feature. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/979/ I'm happy to work with any community developer who would like to work on the feature.

Since it worked fine for many of us, can't we have it back as a Beta or even Alpha gadget? If it clearly says that it's not supported by the WMF and might not work (or break further in future versions), this should be fine.

+ 1 Cirdan.

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As I stated in my below reply, you can force enable it by adding the line "mw.loader.load("skins.vector.compactPersonalBar");" (without the outer quotes) to your vector.js.

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Please, where can I find all icons used by the Compact Personal Bar? Some oh them are in commons:Category:Wikicons, but Beta icons doesn't exit for example. Thanks in advance.

here

Anyone who's interested can force enable it by adding the following line into your vector.js:

mw.loader.load("skins.vector.compactPersonalBar");

Not working for me on eswikipedia.

Please hurry up to bring it back to us! It is - thanks to Gparyanitalk - a very useful feature. And it also made a small design step in the very right direction.

I've added a summary at the top, explaining why this was temporarily (we hope) disabled. It was breaking the language selector at various wikis. See phab:T85541 for details, and phab:T86831 and m:Tech/News/2015/04 for background and the announcement. Sorry it wasn't announced more clearly, early, and widely.

It was very useful, when will we see it again? Allready 7 months we are waiting!

I don't want to add anything in anything since i'm not a developer but author for Wikipedia. this feature worked fine for many of us, and it was in my opion one of the very few things that the WMF got done that actually helped my workflow instead of disrupting it like with MV and the like ... it is a declaration of bankruptcy for the WMF and its developers that they can't maintain a by many editors well-received tool.

Should this maintenance level update please also be mentioned on phab:T46448 and mw:Compact Personal Bar?

Done and done.

I really enjoyed this tool. Will it come back?

It's still there. Just follow my above advice to force-enable it.

In case anyone is missing it since like ten days or want to install it now but don't get it to work: The code has been removed. :(

That is very sad :(

What a shame... I really love this tool and now even the JS code doesn't work...

Why? :,(