Topic on Talk:Wikimedia Apps/Reading list browser extension

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Task T197822

While the extension is mainly for allowing users to bookmark wikipedia sites, the extension request permission to access data of non-Wikipedia sites such as wikivoyage, wikibooks etc. Why does it need permission to access non-Wikipedia sites' data?

Further, the extension seems to too lousy in that it even allows me to add Commons user pages to the Wikipedia reading list. Not only that it even allows to add Special:Preferences and every single page which makes no sense to add to a Wikipedia reading list.

Hi Kaartic!

To answer your question: the extension (and the Reading List Service) were actually designed to support bookmarking content from any of our projects. So this is indeed a feature, not a bug :)

As far as not blocking the bookmarking of special pages: we did not want to be prescriptive to users and tell them which content cannot be bookmarked. This is of course something that can be refined if there are good reasons. If you think we should disallow bookmarking of certain namespaces or other pages, please file a ticket and we will review:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2726/

Thanks for the feedback!