Thread:Talk:ResourceLoader/Version 2 Design Specification/Better documentation of gadgets, gadget manager/reply

Short answer: Using descriptive text with links is still possible. In addition to that we've introduced the ability to give a gadget a "Title". These are now separate.

Long answer:

I assume you mean version 1 of the "Gadgets" extension. The "Gadget manager" is entirely new and hasn't existed until now.

Previously a gadget had a codename and a description: -- MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition:
 * codename

-- MediaWiki:Gadget-codename Description here with style and links.

-- Special:Preferences Gadgets:

[_] Description here with style and links.

In Gadgets 2.0 we've introduced a "title" so that the "codename" doesn't have to be used as much, and this also allows for:
 * Titles to be localized in multiple languages
 * Title to change without breaking existing preferences (since Title is now separate from codename)

New structure: -- Special:Gadgets

Title (edit)
Description (edit)

-- MediaWiki:Gadget-codename-title Title

-- MediaWiki:Gadget-codename-desc Description here with style and links.

-- Special:Preferences [_] Title Description here with style and links.