Description

The BookMaker tool (https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book) is thoroughly broken and has been for years.

It's cluttering up the enWS sidebar and making the new WS Export links harder to find (and those links do produce useable export output, including print-ready PDFs).

Can we have this turned off entirely, or should we just kill the links where we find them with CSS?

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Disable Collection sidebar link on English Wikisource	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+1 -0

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T358437: Undeploy Collection extension (BookMaker) from English Wikisource and other possibly interested Wikisource language projects

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Inductiveload created this task.Aug 4 2021, 12:30 AM

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Inductiveload updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 4 2021, 12:36 AM

I think $wgCollectionDisableSidebarLink = false; would do it. That way if people still want the tool they can use it, but it's not advertised everywhere and taking attention from the better WS Export links.

Sounds sensible to me.

Change 711248 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samwilson; author: Samwilson):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable Collection sidebar link on English Wikisource

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/711248

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 11 2021, 2:20 AM

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I've scheduled this for deployment at 2021-08-11 11:00 UTC.

Change 711248 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Disable Collection sidebar link on English Wikisource

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/711248

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-08-11T11:06:39Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Config: [[gerrit:711248|Disable Collection sidebar link on English Wikisource (T288021)]] (duration: 01m 14s)

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Looks good to me!

ldelench_wmf edited projects, added Community-Tech (CommTech-Sprint-7); removed Community-Tech (CommTech-Sprint-6).Aug 16 2021, 1:48 PM

ldelench_wmf moved this task from Ready 🎬 to QA 🐛 on the Community-Tech (CommTech-Sprint-7) board.Aug 16 2021, 1:50 PM

Verify that book marker can be disabled on enwikisource
url: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
Below user is able to disable book mark via: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book
Then click "disable" link, Book marker link is no longer showing on main menu dropdown