MediaWiki talk:Gadget-revealInterface.js

Superfluous
This gadget is superfluous. It makes no sense to ban it for non-administrators. Plus, the gadget itself is meaningless, even for administrators. The only thing that needs to be done is add this text  to the end of URL. For example: Creation of a special gadget is absolutely no need for this. And even more to hide it from users. Anyone can change the language for this. ← Alex Great talk 04:59, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * If Spooky Wood full URL is, that you need only add   to the end of URL with action operator (?) like this:.
 * If some page already in "action" and it has URL like this, that you need only add   with another action operator (&) like this:.


 * Being a manually-entered URL, it's fairly non-obvious unless you stumble on it or spend some time looking for it. I'm not sure there's any reason to keep it so obscure, considering its usefulness. Useful features generally have links. As this one doesn't, probably for no particular reason other than neglect, I see no reason not to make it easier to find, and to use. It's not like this is an obtrusive feature; it's just a link, hidden in a menu.


 * One could enter lots of MediaWiki URLs manually -- they're mostly simple, but most do have interface links. You added our "purge" gadget at the Russian wiki even though that one is about as simple to enter manually . PS. Wikipedia has a similar gadget.


 * As for it being admin-only, I don't want to add anything to the interface that won't be of much utility to most of the people seeing it, and would likely confuse most of the people who have access to it. Aside from most users' inability to do anything with the info they'd gain from it (due to user rights), this is more something for the tech-savvy, and there's no reason to confuse casual readers with a link that will essentially garble the page, from their perspective. Equazcion  ( talk ) 07:00, 21 Aug 2015 (UTC)