Board Thread:Script Suggestions/@comment-1158325-20160320103956/@comment-24757753-20160320115739

Here are the Special:Contact messages, just in case I've misunderstood something. I assume Wikia would have no issue with them being posted here?

Onetwothreefall, Mar 14, 3:46 PM:

Hi there,

I was wondering if the Gadgets extension (http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Gadgets) is something Wikia still offers communities for use. Over on LyricWikia, we've been working on a few scripts to help people out with editing and some other things, and it'd be much more user-friendly to have them easily selectable via a list of gadgets in the user prefs, rather than fiddling with common.js pages, import statements, and the like.

Thanks in advance for your reply!

Tim Quievryn, Mar 16, 10:22 PM:

Hello,

Thanks for contacting Wikia.

Wikia is no longer supporting Gadgets on Wikia. Security concerns raised last summer mean that the Gadgets workflow no longer matches the verification workflow Wikia's JS Review process goes through and its architecture is increasingly buggy as our platform continues to evolve differently than the Core MediaWiki process. We will be removing that help page when we finish migrating the handful of communities that use it to a more MediaWiki JS-based solution.

Timothy Quievryn Director of Technical Support Wikia Community Support Team

Onetwothreefall, Mar 17, 3:16 AM:

Hi,

Thanks for the confirmation on this - I guess we'll have to find another way to have optional/configurable site-wide scripts. Regarding security, I would've assumed Gadget-related JS pages would go through the same review process as all other MW namespace JavaScript pages, no?

Also, you mention "a more MediaWiki JS-based solution": are you referring to MW:Common.js/MW:Wikia.js/etc. here, or is there perhaps a new feature for this on the horizon?

Thank you!

Tim Quievryn, Mar 19, 8:30 PM:

Hello,

I am referring to MW:Common.js and MW:Wikia.js. Gadgets requires full access to the MediaWiki namespace, which currently isn't possible because we only have editing access whitelisted at this time.

Timothy Quievryn Director of Technical Support Wikia Community Support Team

Regarding a replacement: I was thinking along very similar lines - have a MW:Custom-* JSON page (I haven't used Gadgets before, so am not familiar with their format) listing available scripts (with descriptions, etc.), and allow people to use Special:BlankPage to make an importArticles statement for them to copy-paste. I very much agree on the hackiness of such a system though…