MediaWiki talk:Gadget-extlinks.js

Hostname Portability

Using window.location.hostname instead of defining the hostname used in the check on line 12 will allow this gadget to be loaded as a user script on other wikis. Jkmartindale (talk) 09:35, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

@Jkmartindale: I see the same gadget (without the futile surrounding try block) occurs on en.wb with "wikinews" replaced by "wikibooks" [okay, the shoe is on the other foot, this is a modified copy of that]. What you describe... seems like it ought to work. I'm not sure off hand how to test whether it works, since it's in a redundancy check I'm not sure how to trigger. I'll try it; doesn't seem very mission-critical, can just revert if there's a problem. --Pi zero (talk) 12:23, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

@Pi zero: English Wikipedia uses version 5 of mw:Snippets/Open_external_links_in_new_window, if you want to try something that's probably been tested more. I didn't find this until a few minutes after I spammed here. James Martindale (talk) 12:28, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

@Jkmartindale: Wikinews exists in a sort of licensing bubble within the sisterhood: it's fine to copy stuff from here to Wikipedia (with credit given), but it's copyvio to copy stuff from Wikipedia (or any other non-Wikinews sister I know of, even with credit given). Making it better to minimize what we import in the way of infrastructure; some bits of infrastructure have been copied from elsewhere over the years, sometimes with the (explicit or implicit) argument that it isn't nontrivial enough for copyright to apply, sometimes with a note that it's under some non-default copyright (which always makes me nervous). I see it as a real advantage, though, that I'm developing wikidialog here, because once developed here it can be ported to any other project in the sisterhood without impediment. --Pi zero (talk) 13:01, 21 November 2016 (UTC)