Right now basically every portlet link in the toolbar is just grouped under the "general" heading. This makes navigating to the correct link a bit annoying. Could these be grouped into tabs based on their functionality?
Happy to do this myself, if someone can tell me where I can find the code that adds the links. Searching for uses of "addPortletLink" only returned mediawiki/resources/src/mediawiki.page.ready/toggleAllCollapsibles.js, surprisingly.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T381231 Group Toolbox portlet links by topic | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T333211 Reconsider position of special pages link, currently in the page tools |
@JScherer-WMF This sounds like a design decision that might require your attention and help in triaging. Thanks!
Oh, no worries, I don't want to waste any of their time! They should probably be working on something more useful than adding section headers :)
Maybe the toolbox tools could sorted into tabs that look like this:
That seems to handle the left sidebar, but not the assignment of toolbar links to different tabs on the right-hand side? Or at least it looks that way in enwiki's settings—there's nothing listed under TOOLBAR. But I might be wrong.
The menu code is relatively convoluted, links outside the Sidebar are arranged typically by order of execution and by the extension adding the link.
T333211: Reconsider position of special pages link, currently in the page tools for which a patch is welcome, might be a good undertaking to make progress in this area and give you an understanding of the challenges of moving just one link if you are interested!