Last modified: 2013-09-12 19:54:08 UTC
I think a "Misc" tab at [[Special:Preferences]] is indicative of poor design. I think the "Misc" tab should be removed. Any preferences that live there should be re-located. By default in MediaWiki core, it looks like only two preferences live there currently: Diffs * Do not show page content below diffs * Omit diff after performing a rollback
Any proposal under which tabs/sections to put these two preferences?
Appearance, where else?
Change 78410 had a related patch set uploaded by Matmarex: Remove "Misc" tab from Special:Preferences https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78410
On the list of extensions currently using this section, there are a few more than those mentioned on the patch comments. I think (hoping my grepping is not too stupid): EducationProgram/EducationProgram.hooks.php 142: 'section' => 'misc/education', 150: 'section' => 'misc/education', 158: 'section' => 'misc/education', 166: 'section' => 'misc/education', MoodBar/MoodBar.hooks.php 196: 'section' => 'misc/moodbar', OnlineStatus/OnlineStatus.body.php 188: 'section' => 'misc', 195: 'section' => 'misc', OnlineStatusBar/OnlineStatusBar.hooks.php 113: 'section' => 'misc/onlinestatus' 118: 'section' => 'misc/onlinestatus' 123: 'section' => 'misc/onlinestatus' 128: 'section' => 'misc/onlinestatus' 133: 'section' => 'misc/onlinestatus', 146: 'section' => 'misc/onlinestatus' TocTree/TocTree.hooks.php 30: 'section' => 'misc/toctree', 36: 'section' => 'misc/toctree', WikiLove/WikiLove.hooks.php 45: 'section' => 'misc/user-pages', JsonData/JsonData.hooks.php 116: 'section' => 'misc/jsondata', CategorySlideShow/CategorySlideShowHooks.php 40: 'section' => 'misc',
(Just a note, in case it's unclear: moving these two prefs in core to other sections will not in any way break the extensions; if the "Misc" tab won't be empty thanks to them, it will simply appear and work as before.)
Change 78410 merged by jenkins-bot: Remove "Misc" tab from Special:Preferences https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78410
The tab is now gone from core and thus will be gone from wikis that don't use the listed extensions (including most Wikimedia ones), so I'm gonna close this bug.
