Extension talk:MobileFrontend

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Previous page history was archived for backup purposes at Extension talk:MobileFrontend/LQT Archive 1 on 2015-06-10.

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I've developed some extension to make editing Wikipedia easier using the mobile interface.

My script is available on the English version here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PAC2/chouette.

The original script is designed for the French version : https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:PAC2/chouette.js

Basically it adds links to what links here, move, pageviews, Wikidata, reasonator, etc.

I've another script making it easier to revert contributions : Utilisateur:PAC2/chouette-revert.js

Do you think it would be relevant to add those functionalities natively in the mobile view ?

Somehow Google crawled one page and then toggled to the Desktop View version and now is saying my site is not completely mobile-friendly. What do?

Upgrade, using Softaculous, from 1.31.0 to 1.32.0.

The Site died with following error. "undefined option: 'ResourceLoaderLESSVars'"

Added "$wgResourceLoaderLESSVars = false;" to the end of LocalSettings.php and error disappeared.

@Sakshale

I would like to display articles from a custom namespace on the page Special:Nearby

Thx

In Mobile View (either on my phone or on my laptop), when I click in the search box, the entire screen goes completely white...absolutely nothing shows on the screen. I can still type something, even though I cannot see what I am typing, but after I hit enter the search feature works correctly. I tested this here, at mediawiki.org, and it does ALMOST the same thing....the page goes blank except for the search box. It is definitely better on mediawiki.org than on the site I am working on, but I would still consider it a bug in the code.

Have you tested using other mobile devices, or at least with a different browser on the same device? What happens if you try the mobile view with a desktop system?

Reported https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216743

This explains how you can circumvent the lack of main menu customisation in MobileFrontend/Minerva skin.

For anyone interested in an personal change of the menu 
edit includes/skins/SkinMinerva.php

• find

protected function getDiscoveryTools()

• find the line

// Nearby link (if supported)

• add above this line

		$menu->insert( 'Upload' )
			->addComponent(
				$this->msg( 'mobile-frontend-upload-button' )->escaped(),
				SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Upload',
					MWNamespace::getCanonicalName( $config->get( 'MFContentNamespace' ) ) )->getLocalUrl() .
						'#/test',
				MobileUI::iconClass( 'mf-upload-invert', 'before' ),
				[
					'id' => 'uploadButton',
					'data-event-name' => 'upload',
				]
			);
			
		$menu->insert( 'ListImages' )
			->addComponent(
				$this->msg( 'mobile-frontend-listimages-button' )->escaped(),
				SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'ListFiles',
					MWNamespace::getCanonicalName( $config->get( 'MFContentNamespace' ) ) )->getLocalUrl() .
						'#/test',
				MobileUI::iconClass( 'mf-listimages-invert', 'before' ),
				[
					'id' => 'listimagesButton',
					'data-event-name' => 'ListImages',
				]
			);

edit i18n/en.json

• find the line

"mobile-frontend-random-button": "Random",

• add below

	
"mobile-frontend-upload-button": "Upload",
		
"mobile-frontend-listimages-button": "List Images",

edit extension.json

• find the line "mobile.mainMenu.icons": {
• find section

"images": { "anonymous": "resources/mobile.mainMenu.icons/anonymous.svg",

• add below this line

				
"upload": "resources/mobile.mainMenu.icons/upload.svg",
"listimages": "resources/mobile.mainMenu.icons/listimages.svg",

allocate the folder resources/mobile.mainMenu.icons

• add in resources/mobile.mainMenu.icons the required 2 new svg files with the desired icon
• upload.svg
• listimages.svg

i have tested this modification at twh4u.ddns.net

Hi, With which versions of MediaWiki and MobileFrontend have you tested ?

Thanks

MediaWiki 1.28.0 PHP 5.5.38 (fpm-fcgi) MariaDB 5.5.51-MariaDB

also in older versions ,but i don't have any reference of them anymore. i am focussing right now on 1.28.x There are more easy and fancy menu changes possible like selectable menu items etc , but until now i don't need them. You can see the concept idea of them in an pubic dutch news side NOS . com

-- press pagina's wijzigen --

Does this work also on Mediawiki 1.31?

I just updated to MW 1.32.0 and also downloaded current master branch of the MobileFrontend extension. The extension throws a Javascript error:

ConfigException from line 53 of /var/software/mediawiki/includes/config/GlobalVarConfig.php: GlobalVarConfig::get: undefined option: 'EnableBlockNoticeStats'

This also seems to make Javascript based features of other extensions stop working.

Is there a fix or workaround?

I have the same problem here. Any news?

I just managed to solve it. I downloaded Special:ExtensionDistributor/MobileFrontend and Special:SkinDistributor/MinervaNeue for Mediawiki 1.32.0 and extracted them to the correct destinations. Now everything is working.

I either did something wrong when I updated to Mediawiki 1.32.0 or the extension and/or the skin have been updated afterwards.

Yep, I have done the same and everything now is working. It seems that we installed wrong versions. Thanks for posting the solution.

I am getting the below error with 3.33 and trying to use Mobile Frontend with the following setup:

wfLoadExtension( 'MobileFrontend' );

$wgMFAutodetectMobileView = true;

$wgMFDefaultSkinClass = 'SkinVector'; // use Vector skin

^{MediaWiki internal error.}

^{Original exception: [e21caa824241ba159b043d0d] /Main_Page ConfigException from line 53 of /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/config/GlobalVarConfig.php: GlobalVarConfig::get: undefined option: 'ResourceLoaderLESSVars'}

^Backtrace:

^{#0 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/MobileFrontend.hooks.php(707): GlobalVarConfig->get(string)}

^{#1 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(174): MobileFrontendHooks::onBeforePageDisplay(OutputPage, SkinVector)}

^{#2 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(234): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL, string)}

^{#3 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2711): Hooks::runWithoutAbort(string, array)}

^{#4 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(869): OutputPage->output(boolean)}

^{#5 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(881): MediaWiki->{closure}()}

^{#6 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(517): MediaWiki->main()}

^{#7 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()}

^{#8 {main}}

^{Exception caught inside exception handler: [e21caa824241ba159b043d0d] /Main_Page ConfigException from line 53 of /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/config/GlobalVarConfig.php: GlobalVarConfig::get: undefined option: 'ResourceLoaderLESSVars'}

^Backtrace:

^{#0 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/MobileFrontend.hooks.php(707): GlobalVarConfig->get(string)}

^{#1 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(174): MobileFrontendHooks::onBeforePageDisplay(OutputPage, SkinVector)}

^{#2 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(234): Hooks::callHook(string, array, array, NULL, string)}

^{#3 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/OutputPage.php(2711): Hooks::runWithoutAbort(string, array)}

^{#4 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionRenderer.php(136): OutputPage->output()}

^{#5 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionRenderer.php(53): MWExceptionRenderer::reportHTML(ConfigException)}

^{#6 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(98): MWExceptionRenderer::output(ConfigException, integer)}

^{#7 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/exception/MWExceptionHandler.php(172): MWExceptionHandler::report(ConfigException)}

^{#8 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(544): MWExceptionHandler::handleException(ConfigException)}

^{#9 /var/www/gwart.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php(42): MediaWiki->run()}

^{#10 {main}}

"3.33" of what exactly?

What is version 3.33?

Does your version of MobileFrontend match the MW version?

Sorry guys, my mistake. 3.33 of mediawiki. Interesting point about MFE match MW version. I will check that now.

3.33 of mediawiki does not exist. See Download

`<meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.33.0-alpha"/>` I checked out the repo which contained 3.33 inside there as an alpha.

But your suggestion worked a treat, as mobileFrontend also had an version 3.33. Though I think this is buggy, being as it is also alpha.

I consider this fixed as far as the error goes.

Thanks you

Again: There is no 3.33. 1.33 is not 3.33.

Ah sir, you are indeed correct :D Thank you!

You wouldn't happen to know about galleries would you?

Category talk:Image gallery extensions

It appears I am running version 2.1.0 of MFE:

```

"name": "MobileFrontend",

"version": "2.1.0",

```

The <small>-tag doesn't seem to have any effect in mobile view. Is that an expected behaviour or a temporary malfunction?

Ok, it's apparently in combination with the default Minerva skin this happens. With the Vector skin small-tags do have effect also in mobile view.

I was looking at the Vector and Timeless skins and they look really nice on mobile, except the TOC shows up, blank. I don't mind the TOC being there, the sections are not collapsed like they are in the default skin. However, the TOC block is empty (says Contents and then nothing).

Is there a way to change this behavior?

There's a bug for this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182069

Is there some workaround ? For example hide it via MediaWiki:Mobile.css ?

I have added:

#toc { display: none !important; } to MediaWiki:Mobile.js for now.

Please fix this, it is an old bug.