User talk:Quiddity

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a small bag of holding[edit]

This yellowing sack, woven of bananafibre and buckypaper, currently contains:

  • one copy of this week's newspaper
  • two photographs of cat noses
  • the susurrus of neglected conversations ...
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"Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent making mistakes
is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." – George Bernard Shaw[2]

Thanks and another question[edit]

Dear Quiddity,

Thanks for your help at User talk:PleaseStand/User info#Question about using. As you suggested, I've removed the code at Simple English Wikipedia and English Wikipedia and moved it instead to m:User:Msannakoval/global.js. It seems to be working just fine on all projects checked. Thank you!

Another question: At simple:User:Msannakoval/common.js, I still have the importscript code for Wikipedia:Metadata gadget from User:Pyrospirit/metadata.js. That page says the code has moved to MediaWiki:Gadget-metadata.js. But there's a lot of code there! Am I supposed to add it all? And if so, should I do so at m:User:Msannakoval/global.js or must it be done project by project, for example, here on English and at Simple, etc.?

Thanks so much for all your help. It's much appreciated. :) Msannakoval (talk) 12:01, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

@Msannakoval: The metadata script/gadget won't work at Simple at all, because they don't use the same talkpage banner "quality assessment" system that Enwiki does.
The gadget works, simply by reading the templates at the top of talkpages, e.g. at talk:monkey it reads {{WikiProject Primates|importance=top|class=start}} and thus it labels the article monkey as "A start-class article". Whereas simple:talk:monkey doesn't have any quality-assessment at all - that system isn't used there (afaik, and I checked a few recent FA articles to make sure). This is a 'brute-force' way of dealing with it, and has no caching, so couldn't be turned on for everyone (e.g. IPs).
In the future, hopefully phab:T124749 et al will make a more scalable and performant solution, which will then also be more easily adopted by other languages/wikis, and integrated more easily into other tools. HTH! Quiddity (talk) 22:26, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, Quiddity, for explaining. I understand. It's disappointing. But given the much smaller size of Simple, it's not surprising. Would be great if one day this functionality were built into all Wikipedias by default. All the best, Msannakoval (talk) 10:53, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

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