Extension:Gather

Gather is a curation experiment for Wikipedia and MediaWiki mobile sites, providing a featured that has been named "Collections" (not to be confused with Extension:Collection).

The first experiment in this project is a pilot feature for providing users with an opportunity to create and share lists of articles. The project is being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's mobile web team.

Gather is a work in progress that is still subject to modification based on testing and community discussion.

Information: Why, what, FAQ


For more information on why is this being developed, and what is Gather exactly, check the FAQ or head over to Gather where there are more in depth explanations and rationales.

Also for the online resources check out the Gather section of the page.

Installation

 * Gather depends currently on the extensions Extension:MobileFrontend, Extension:PageImages and Extension:TextExtracts. Install and configure them before installing Gather.
 * Gather is currently in heavy development. For getting the sources for development, clone from the git repository into mediawiki/extensions/Gather and add this to your LocalSettings.php:

Usage
For checking what the extension is doing, at the current moment:
 * Visit  (e.g. on the English Wikipedia, this would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Gather/ )
 * To see the private collection derived from your watchlist, make sure you are logged in and you have pages on your watchlist
 * Clicking on the watchlist should take you to the watchlist-gathered view

Development
If you are going to develop code in the extension, until T102937 is solved and advised here, we need to keep the compiled server side mustache templates in the repository. For regenerating such templates when you visit the page that uses them please add to your LocalSettings.php: $wgGatherRecompileTemplate = true; After visiting a page that uses templates they will be regenerated and you should see they are modified in order to add them to the current patch.