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Add user preference to disable limited width on special pages and for any action other then view
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Description

Please disable limited width on special pages and for any action other then view (e.g. history, edit), or add user preference for it.
Vector (vector-2022) skin
It would be very useful to read content pages with limited width and the special pages and pages with any action other then view (e.g. history, edit) with wide width.

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@Bean49: Please use the feature request form (linked from the top of the task creation page) to create feature requests, and fill in all the sections in the template instead of deleting them, as this ticket now provides no incentive apart from a vague "it would be very useful". Thanks.

A very janky implementation of this is available in form of a userscript (see section about security for a disclaimer).

The script Vectron.js can be installed by adding it to the vector-2022.js user subpage. Go to [[Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js]] and add:

mw.loader.load('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=User:Andrybak/Scripts/Vectron.js');

On English Wikipedia, importScript can be used:

importScript('User:Andrybak/Scripts/Vectron.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Andrybak/Scripts/Vectron.js]]
ovasileva moved this task from Incoming to Groomed on the Vector 2022 board.

This would make for some very hard to maintain code - the code is already pretty complex given the behaviour being different on different pages. I would prefer us to find another way to solve this problem if possible.

Jdlrobson changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Sep 10 2024, 9:56 PM

Pending engineering conversation.

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This would complicate existing logic far too much.