(07-17-2026, 02:31 PM)robkelk Wrote: Some of our work pages (for example, our page for Oliver Twist) have "Infobox book" on them, and some of those infoboxes have entries in the fields "wiki URL" and "wiki name". The new "Work" header has fields for "fanwiki" and "fanwikiname". We should move the data from the infobox to the header template... and I suspect that this is something that a bot could do.
No rush, even though this would show off some of the new header's functionality. We would have to identify which infoboxes have the data present before moving it from template to template, after all.
A bot could do it, but we could also be lazy and have have the Infobox template write the tabs to the Bucket, then at least the subpages would have the tabs.
By the way, Special:WhatLinksHere/The Wiki Rule is a new todo list.
In other news, I did some research on writing an extension to copy short descriptions into category display, and it seems pretty easy. I have a couple pages of untested code that I think will do most of the work, and I just have to write some boilerplate and test it. I'm sure I could harass someone to do security review for 70 lines pretty fast.
The main idea on all of that was going back to how TVT did categories in the old days. (I have no idea how they do it now; I have not been on their site in over a decade, and have thus never agreed to any new ToS there.) It used PmWiki traces, which is basically a template that added every link therein into a category in order. I suppose with things like Bucket and a bunch of time, I could reimplement precisely this, but it's not really in the thought model for MediaWiki itself. It's a little spooky-action-at-a-distance, and a little DB intensive. But a plain list of links in a category is also not informative. Say I'm looking for a trope in Category:Heroic Sacrifice Tropes and I'd like to know at a glance what is the difference between Stupid Sacrifice and Senseless Sacrifice?
Does the page popup help? Well, kinda, but not really. (I may also change the code to the page popups, but that's another thing.) But having summaries here would be great. For places where you don't need to explain why it's a member of a category, just what it is at all. Like, it's not useful to explain why Love Hina is in Category:Shonen Demographic -- the reason for genres is always "this work uses a set of tropes common to the genre, which are listed on its trope page, and the tropes themselves are probably enumerated on the [genre] tropes category". But it would be useful to describe the work itself here a little.
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