Extension talk:GuidedTour/Archive1

Guided Tour example
add this to your common.js:

importScript('User:Tychay/guidedTour.js');

To launch the tour, just add "tour=test" to the query string.

Right now, if you look at the user script, you can see it can only handle tours in tours userspace for example. You can easily change that. :-)

The files are all subpages of User:Tchay:
 * guidedTour.js: the gadget
 * guidedTour/guiders.js: guiders.js
 * guidedTour/guiders.css: guiders.css
 * guidedTour/utils.js: non guiders-specific code
 * tours/test.js: a sample tour


 * Do these instructions change now that mw:Extension:GuidedTour is deployed on enwiki (but not yet on mediawiki.org, )? The extension incorporates its own sample ?tour=test, so developers should name their tour mytour. -- S Page test ACUX-GS 0131-1 (talk) 20:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Neat idea
I came here from .

I just installed the guided tours user script and played around with it for a minute. This is neat. :-) For opt-in tours (how-to guides, etc.), it seems like it'd work really well.

The meta-tour seemed to kind of end abruptly. I couldn't tell if it was a work in progress or if it just stopped after explaining the gadget and the URL/cookie trick. It's unclear what kind of audience would be (will be) writing tours.

"We're starting with Wikipedia" was darkly amusing. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:51, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The meta tour was definitely a work in progress. First time around, the cookie made sure you got invited to the tour on every single page load. Glad you like it! Credit for the idea of porting this library to MediaWiki goes to Terry. Steven Walling (WMF) &bull; talk   06:06, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Testing ideas
Pad with notes, for safekeeping. Steven Walling (WMF) &bull; talk   00:42, 2 February 2013 (UTC)