Display a more informative message on [[Special:Gadgets]] if [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition]] is still empty
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	Mar 16 2012, 11:57 AM

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Currently, the same text (from [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-pagetext]]) is displayed on [[Special:Gadgets]]:

Below is a list of special gadgets users can enable on their preferences page, as defined by the definitions. This overview provides easy access to the system message pages that define each gadget's description and code.

This is not much clear on first use of the page, because at that point [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition]] is still empty, and there is no "Gadgets" tab on [[Special:Preferences]].

Maybe it should display a more descriptive message until [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition]] has some content.

See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Gadgets/Archive#No_Gadgets_displaying_after_apparently_following_extensions_installation

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz35259

Related Changes in GitLab:

Title	Reference	Author	Source Branch	Dest Branch
Update function-schemata sub-module to HEAD (c399cc8)	repos/abstract-wiki/wikifunctions/function-evaluator!258	jforrester	sync-function-schemata	main
Update function-schemata sub-module to HEAD (c399cc8)	repos/abstract-wiki/wikifunctions/wikilambda-cli!51	jforrester	sync-function-schemata	main
Update function-schemata sub-module to HEAD (cb03daa)	repos/abstract-wiki/wikifunctions/function-orchestrator!232	dmartin	sync-function-schemata	main
definitions: Add implementations for Wikidata type equality functions	repos/abstract-wiki/wikifunctions/function-schemata!162	dmartin	T370344	main

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Status	Assigned	Task
Invalid	None	T34169 Action to join scripts and styles in one file
Open	None	T110014 Make gadgets easily customizable (merge Gadgets' branch "gadgetprefs" from GSoC 2011)
Open	None	T31272 Implement Gadgets 2.0
Resolved	None	T37259 Display a more informative message on [[Special:Gadgets]] if [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition]] is still empty

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 12:11 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets.

• bzimport set Reference to bz35259.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

He7d3r created this task.Mar 16 2012, 11:57 AM

Remove blocker on 38638, there is no interface message to be improved here. The request is to add a new message that is displayed when there are no gadgets configured.

Also note, that this is already fixed in the RL2 branch.

Fixed in th RL2 branch, will be merged to master later.

Krinkle edited parent tasks, added: T31272: Implement Gadgets 2.0; removed: T20521: [DO NOT USE] System messages structure (tracking) [superseded by T40638], T37126: Gadgets issues that will be resolved in Gadgets 2.0 (tracking).Mar 15 2017, 4:12 AM

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