Extension talk:GuidedTour

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In the documentation, two different names for a css file are given, in order to override the css for guidedtours. I tried both, and neither work. Does anyone know what the name of the file should be? The pages I created are MediaWiki:Guidededtour-custom.css and MediaWiki:GuidedTour/custom.css.

Hello,

I installed the extension without issues and I created my first tour. Everything works fine for me and other users with the right to read content in the MediaWiki namespace (where the tour is stored); but users with no such right (in my installation all the not logged in users) can't use the tour. Is that a normal behaviour?

When I try to start the tour without logging in, I get this error from my browser debbuger:

The error is: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<'

If I disable the Mediawiki namespace restriction, everything works. Do you have any suggestion to avoid this issue?

Thanks for any help!

I just installed GuidedTour and have modified the example file "myfirstedit". I want to display a link or show an image in the description. However, the wikitext is not resolving. Example:

description: 'Have a look at the page [[Allstyles]]',

Instead of showing a link to the page "Allstyles", the guider still displays [[Allstyles]].

What is causing this?

Found the solution. That's whatonShow: gt.parseDescription does.

Will this work on other wikis with different skins other than the mediawiki vector skin?

The variable declared at the beginning of the code must be an existing page in order to work.

Hello,

I am getting this error. I am testing the extension using the sample tour available in the documentation (here). Any ideas?

Thanks,

Lorenzo

Hello again,

there was a problem with variable 'Help:Guided tours/guider', that must be an existing page in order to work. Everything is ok now.

Bye!

Is it possible to write a guided tour on "User:xxx" page and use it with any possible ways for personal use?

Thanks.

Hello,

I know GuidedTour by French Wikipedia's Tutoriels and I am building some for French Wiktionary. A question arised: are the tours accessible for IP?

Yes. Just log out and visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth?tour=test .

Great, thank you!

Ahah, you told me to log out, so I did. It works perfectly fine. Thanks!

@Mattflaschen-WMFhelped me fix the issue. I just needed to create this page and give it some text: http://wiki.neverendingrealms.com/index.php?title=Help:Guided_tours/guider

That solved my problem.

On my wiki I have Short URL (Manual:Short URL) implemented, which makes my wiki something like:

wiki/Main_Page

How do I go to the test link (and future other links) from here? At the moment nothing happens when I use, i.e. wiki/Special:AllPages?tour=test

Thanks for the help!

Please provide the full URL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?tour=test works fine.

Hi,

The full link is:

http://wiki.neverendingrealms.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&tour=test

Thanks for the help in advance!

It doesn't seem related to short URLs. I think it is a specific issue with your version of GuidedTour and the test tour.

You can either:

• Create http://wiki.neverendingrealms.com/index.php?title=Help:Guided_tours/guider (workaround; easiest)
• Upgrade MW and all extensions to 1.29 (or a version of the extension compatible with 1.29)
• Wait for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/357443/ to get merged then upgrade your GuidedTour to latest 1.28.

Ah, thanks for looking into this! I assume MW 1.29 is in beta at the moment?

What would I put into that page that I would create?

From that merger page: test tries to exercise all the main features, including the ability to get the content of a tour step from a page. However, not all wikis have this feature set up. Rather than needing to do a maintenance script to populate this and have wikis maintain it, we can just skip this step if it's not present.

How would I go about setting up this feature? Re-install and set a specific setting I may have skipped/not seen?

Thanks again for all your help!

You're right. I thought 1.29 had been released, but it's actually expected to be released this month.

You can put anything on the http://wiki.neverendingrealms.com/index.php?title=Help:Guided_tours/guider page. E.g. feel free to use "Guided tours allow you to walk users through the wiki, or part of the user interface." It will appear on the tour.

That's enough to fix it.

Perfect! Thanks :)

We try to create a tour that explains important places in the Preferences.

We are unable to start the tour on Special:Preferences?tour=ourtour. No log entry, no JS errors. On all other Special pages, the tour can be started without any issues. Any idea?

• MW 1.27.x
• GuidedTour 2.0 (d2aebbb) 01:36, 5 May 2016
• EventLogging 0.9.0 (0aedc0f) 22:50, 11 April 2017
• all other extensions disabled

$wgAllowUserJs = true;

has no effect.

@Planetenxin: This is by design. User scripts (including gadgets, JS in MediaWiki namespace, etc.) are not allowed to run on Special:Preferences for security reasons.

(It sounds like you are using an on-wiki script (defined on a wiki page). If you are using an extension, that also will not work, but that part could potentially be revisited.)

Hi, it seems that the activation of the extension:GuidedTour (with the dependency) impacts the performance of our wiki installation extremely.

Some times it runs like a charm and sometimes it slows down the entire Wiki.

After some minutes not using the Wiki it takes around 1 minute to load any wiki page (not a guided tour) and afterwards everything is fast hence our suspicion that it has to do with a TTL (time to life) limitation.

Did you experience a similar behavior?

That's curious. I have not seen that behavior. Could be caching-related, but even with the GuidedTour library, it shouldn't be a minute.