Rough notes
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ala Chrome market place / Firefox Add-ons
Search, Find, Inform, Install
Search:
- Search: [_____________________]
- [x] Search through descriptions as well
- Source:
-- [x] Local wiki
-- [x] Foreign repositories the site trusts
--/ [+] Add repo
- Filter:
-- [x] Only search for gadgets known to support the MediaWiki version this wiki has (''1.18.1'')
-- [x] Only search for gadgets known to work with your current skin (''Vector'')
Find:
- Search engine result pages
[ ] {Title of gadget}
[{Thumb}] from: {repo} {Category} { [+] Install gadget }
[ ] {Description (snippet)} .. ..... [{Rating}] {# users}
.... ....... ....... .... ... ....
Inform:
/head
- Title of gadget
-- Rating, Category, # users
- Authors (from repowiki)
- + [+] Install gadget
/tab: intro
- Screenshot slider
- Short description
/tab: details
- Larger description - Authors (from repowiki)
- Screenshot slider - Report bug | Support | Website
- Last updated: #date#
- Compatible with:
[\/ MediaWiki 1.20] [\/ Monobook]
[ Not officially supported] (402 people say it works, 9 people say it's broken)
- This gadget can access: (Nice to have, is this possible?, closure could include a fake window/document/mw variable to shadow the real ones)
* [ ] mw.user.options
* [ ] mw.user.tokens
* ..
- This gadget is an add-on to the following gadgets,
these will be automatically enabled upon enabling this one:
* ...
* ...
([Report abuse], reports to repo-owner)
/tab: changelog
- version, date, changes
- version, date, changes
- version, date, changes
/tab: stats
- download stats
Install:
/write to user_options.gadgets_custom_sources
["http://localhost/mw-scriptpath/"]
/write to user_options.gadgets_enabled
{
"local": {"gadgetid": false, "gadgetid": true},
"mediawikiwiki": {"gadgetid": true, "gadgetid": true},
"http://localhost/mw-scriptpath/": {"gadget.id": true}
}
Once installed, on Special:MyGadgets
- List of installed gadgets (a bit like chrome://settings/extensions)
- Uninstall / Options
/write to user_option.gadget_options
{
"gadgetid": {
"some-pref": 123
},
"gadgetid": {
"some-pref": 123
}
}
Assumed / consequence
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- Gadget IDs become hashes, no longer meaningful to human readers
- Gadgets enabling moves out of Special:Preferences
- User scripts and gadgets merge, no longer separate
- On Special:Gadgets when searching one can enter custom repositories. These are either:
- Wiki urls (e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Main_Page) in which case we auto-detect the wiki's RL repo (the way your RSS reader detects the feed from the main page, there should be a generic <link> tag to discover the main API path)
- Specific wiki repo urls that return a JSON with gadget definitions:
- Special:Gadgets action=install&repo=...&gadgetid=..., this repo is not trusted by the site, do you want to retrieve information from it? -> "Install gadget->getTitle() ?" ...
Gotchas learned from Gadgets 2.0
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- Deal with naming conflicts between gadgets from different repositories by identifying them with both the repository ID and the gadget ID.
See also
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