Replicate wgUseCategoryBrowser functionality in an extension
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	Jdlrobson
	Jan 7 2022, 7:36 PM

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In T298553 we remove the wgUseCategoryBrowser functionality

We were informed at least one third-party is using this functionality (T298553#7605762) so we should provide an extension with this functionality.

https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Category:Btrfs

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Don't emit category-normal or category-hidden as skintemplate variables	mediawiki/core	master	+3 -1
Revert "Revert "Categories are modelled as a portlet""	mediawiki/core	master	+56 -6
Revert "Categories are modelled as a portlet"	mediawiki/core	master	+6 -56
Categories are modelled as a portlet	mediawiki/core	master	+56 -6

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T298553: Remove Skin::drawCategoryBrowser and $wgUseCategoryBrowser
Mentioned Here: T299352: Can't save edits via VE API on beta enwiki (Vector regression?)
T298553: Remove Skin::drawCategoryBrowser and $wgUseCategoryBrowser

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Jdlrobson created this task.Jan 7 2022, 7:36 PM

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Jdlrobson mentioned this in T298553: Remove Skin::drawCategoryBrowser and $wgUseCategoryBrowser.Jan 7 2022, 7:36 PM

Change 752216 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/core@master] Categories are modelled as a portlet

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/752216

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 7 2022, 9:32 PM

Mainframe98 subscribed.Jan 7 2022, 9:47 PM

I've got a working extension for this.
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-CategoryExplorer

It does require the above core change to work: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/752216

Change 752216 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Categories are modelled as a portlet

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/752216

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.18; 2022-01-17).Jan 12 2022, 8:00 AM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 12 2022, 8:10 AM

This is done. Documented on mediawiki.org > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryExplorer

Change 754143 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert \"Categories are modelled as a portlet\"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/754143

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 17 2022, 6:35 PM

Change 754143 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert \"Categories are modelled as a portlet\"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/754143

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 17 2022, 7:10 PM

Reverted because this broke action=parse API while using the new Vector skin (T299352#7626761). Displaying the categories in the API request now requires calling into the current skin's portlet generation code, and Vector's code doesn't seem to expect to be called in such context.

Change 754586 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert \"Revert \"Categories are modelled as a portlet\"\"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/754586

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 18 2022, 8:18 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Milestone: Separate BaseTemplate and SkinMustache code, simplify Skin class to Milestone: 1.38 release on the MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture board.Jan 18 2022, 10:09 PM

Change 754586 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert \"Revert \"Categories are modelled as a portlet\"\"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/754586

The change has been re-applied.

ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.19; 2022-01-24); removed MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.18; 2022-01-17).Jan 18 2022, 11:00 PM

Change 759512 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mainframe98; author: Mainframe98):

[mediawiki/core@master] Don't emit category-normal or category-hidden as skintemplate variables

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/759512

Change 759512 merged by jenkins-bot: