Users have requested that we add a link to XTools for a given user in the menu for the UserInfoCard feature
We should add a config flag for "wgCheckUserUserInfoCardShowXToolsLink", and set this to true for WMF wikis, but false by default.
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| CheckUser UserInfoCard: Enable XTools menu link on SUL wikis | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +3 -0 |
Location of the code for anyone interested: modules/ext.checkUser.userInfoCard/components/UserCardMenu.vue file (gh mirror, line linked) in the mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser repo.
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Change #1195017 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: 3MindedScholar):
[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] CheckUser: Add optional "View XTools" link in User Info Card menu
Patch has been merged, we don't have QA capacity in Product Safety and Integrity so will move to Done and resolve
Actually we will need to set $wgCheckUserUserInfoCardShowXToolsLink = true; on WMF wikis. I will make a patch for that now
Change #1196914 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] CheckUser UserInfoCard: Enable XTools menu link on SUL wikis
Change #1196914 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] CheckUser UserInfoCard: Enable XTools menu link on SUL wikis
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-21T12:38:35Z] <dreamyjazz@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1197278|Define CheckUser Suggested Investigations event stream (T404177)]], [[gerrit:1196914|CheckUser UserInfoCard: Enable XTools menu link on SUL wikis (T406012)]]
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-21T12:42:57Z] <dreamyjazz@deploy2002> dreamyjazz: Backport for [[gerrit:1197278|Define CheckUser Suggested Investigations event stream (T404177)]], [[gerrit:1196914|CheckUser UserInfoCard: Enable XTools menu link on SUL wikis (T406012)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-21T12:50:17Z] <dreamyjazz@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1197278|Define CheckUser Suggested Investigations event stream (T404177)]], [[gerrit:1196914|CheckUser UserInfoCard: Enable XTools menu link on SUL wikis (T406012)]] (duration: 11m 42s)
Verified this worked on testwiki where the wikiversion is deployed that has the code. Resolving this ticket
No problem, @kostajh. Open source is all about providing meaningful contributions, and I learned a lot of things.