All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVIII

[GethN7]

Er... Did we ask the tropers whether we should change the look and feel of the wiki before you did this?

Two things, we always HAD this functionality, just never used it, and we lacked CirrusSearch prior to automate the page selection for the footer article links. I had to put it on a page in the main namespace as an example since it only works in that namespace, so I couldn't do this in my personal sandbox. As for your question, that's why I did this little test, I wanted feedback before rolling it out everywhere.

The Miraheze guys plan to give us the OPTION to like Cirrusearch provide results automatically while still allowing us to override things per page if we choose manually, and we can always turn the extension OFF if need be.

So Rob, I wanted feedback on if we should make it a global feature once we get the backend fixes to make it automate the article selection for pages, and since technical limitations forced me to put it in the main namespace, I chose a test page where it works with no discernable issues (and I did an inspect element to be sure, it does not conflict with any other code we have running elsewhere on the wiki) so you guys can see what it does. It will be removed if we vote against it.

FYI, the automatic selection will choose related pages and add them to the footer BELOW the article, providing links to said related pages, providing an image if there one on the pages with information fetched via API call. We also can manually choose what pages will show up on a page-by-page basis, and that functionality is currently displayed on the test page. Also, note I added an edit reason stating this was a test to the page, and if it causes any issues during the testing period, it will be promptly removed.

Edit: I have removed the test edit in acknowledgment of your objections, instead, here is a screenshot of how it will look once activated (I used the manual selection to pick two articles for the test)

Instead, here's a link I uploaded to the wiki with a screenshot of how it looks on the footer:

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/File:Relat...s_Test.png

Note, the RelatedArticles feature can display as many articles as we choose to provide links for, default is three, the above link just shows two.