Maniphest T138425

wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage should be disabled on new wiki installs
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Description

This variable was supposed to be a temporary way for wikis to adjust their home page. It is badly documented and has confusing behaviour.

Let's disable this by default on new wiki installs and encourage editors to fix these issues in templates and on wiki.

Set the default to false in MobileFrontend
Any projects that are currently making use of it should override this in the Wikimedia MediaWiki config to be enabled.
Update documentation to discourage the usage of the config and encourage fixing templates to fix mobile views (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#Configuring_the_main_page)
Update internal documentation in MobileFrontend README

Details

	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+236 -68	Complete list of legacy main pages, switch default to false

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Declined		None	T208761 [Epic] Improve PHPUnit coverage in MobileFrontend to 50%
		Resolved		Jdlrobson	T186627 Remove the MobileView API
		Declined		None	T173379 Remove mobileview API call for main page
		Duplicate		None	T172525 [EPIC] Deprecate MobileView API in MobileFrontend
		Resolved		Jdlrobson	T32405 [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page
		Resolved		Jdlrobson	T138425 wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage should be disabled on new wiki installs

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Jdlrobson created this task.Jun 22 2016, 4:29 PM

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Jdlrobson mentioned this in T138129: Mobile versions of sa.wikiquote and sa.wiktionary home page only display an "In the news" section.Jun 22 2016, 4:29 PM

• Jhernandez updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 22 2016, 4:35 PM

dr0ptp4kt moved this task from Incoming to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jun 22 2016, 4:35 PM

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 22 2016, 11:53 PM

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Change 295600 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson):
Complete list of legacy main pages, switch default to false

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/295600

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 22 2016, 11:54 PM

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 22 2016, 11:55 PM

Change 295600 merged by jenkins-bot:
Complete list of legacy main pages, switch default to false

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/295600

kaldari removed a subscriber: kaldari.Jun 24 2016, 11:42 AM

dr0ptp4kt mentioned this in T138578: [Regression] en.wikipedia.org Mobile main page no longer being transformed.Jun 24 2016, 11:52 AM

Change 295926 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dr0ptp4kt):
Restore mobile formatting for enwiki mdot

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/295926

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 30 2016, 11:20 PM

Jdlrobson closed this task as Resolved.Jun 30 2016, 11:41 PM

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MBinder_WMF moved this task from Triaged but Future to 2016-17 Q1 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jul 27 2016, 5:08 PM