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Prevent loading Gadget code for temporary accounts
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Currently, anonymous users cannot use MediaWiki-extensions-Gadgets, as these are available to logged-in users only. Temporary account users are logged-in, but will not be able to access their preferences to enable/disable Gadgets, including ones that are enabled by default on a given wiki (marked with default on e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition)

In BeforePageDisplay in GadgetHooks, we should check if the user is a temporary account, and if so, prevent loading the gadget code.

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kostajh created this task.Jan 8 2025, 12:25 PM
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kostajh added a parent task: T326816: [Epic] Update features for temporary accounts.Jan 8 2025, 12:26 PM
SD0001 subscribed.Jan 8 2025, 12:42 PM

Default gadgets work for unregistered users, who have no way to turn them off either. Why should they not work for temporary accounts?

kostajh closed this task as Declined.Jan 8 2025, 12:48 PM
In T383214#10440562, @SD0001 wrote:

Default gadgets work for unregistered users, who have no way to turn them off either. Why should they not work for temporary accounts?

Ah, I misunderstood. I didn't realize that default gadgets were enabled fro anonymous users. From the extension page:

Enable the gadget by default for everyone (including IPs). Registered users can still disable it in their preferences.

In that case, we don't need to do anything here.

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