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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In mobile version not displayed radiobuttons & checkboxes (they disappear as the page loads). It's with Extension:Quiz. Help me please!

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

You should upgrade extensions when you upgrade core. It sounds like you're running MobileFrontend older than your MW Core version

Hi,

We are trying to add JavaScript A when user visiting Desktop page, and add JavaScript B when Mobile page. We can successfully add JS file with BeforePageDisplay hook now. But can't detect the status.

Is there any way to distinguish between Viewing status (some ways to get a if/else statement status ) from Desktop and Mobile?

Thank you!

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?

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",

```