Promote 'Commons category media viewer' to beta
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	May 28 2015, 10:43 PM

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There's a mediawiki ui anchor at the bottom of the page that opens the Commons category overlay
The Commons category overlay is available in alpha and beta

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The overlay currently renders a list of images. Should we update the feature to use the mobile.mediaViewer module?

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Try to avoid making changes that require updating the Wikidata infobox as we're currently looking at turning it off (T100722)

The Commons category media viewer is an overlay displaying all the images in the article's associated Common's category (as specified in Wikidata) as an infinite scrolling list. The link to launch this viewer is currently part of the Wikidata infobox, which is being killed. The link should be changed to be its own button at the bottom of the page (and not dependent on the Wikidata infobox).

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines /-
	Move commons category to beta	mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend	master	6 -6
	Make commons category non-dependent on infobox experiment	mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend	master	91 -8

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		• bmansurov	T100297 [EPIC] Turn off alpha
		Resolved		Jdlrobson	T100717 Promote 'Commons category media viewer' to beta

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kaldari created this task.May 28 2015, 10:43 PM

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@phuedx The implementation method is a big issue here needing further discussion. The existing feature relies on making an API call to Wikidata, but we can't make an API call on every page load in stable, so the feature, as implemented, isn't suitable for production. A more scalable method would be to do the Wikidata look-up via the LinksUpdate hook (which triggers on article save and Wikidata item save) and output the Commons category as a JS var to the page (somewhat similar to how WikiGrok campaigns worked).

kaldari added a parent task: T100297: [EPIC] Turn off alpha.May 28 2015, 10:50 PM

kaldari mentioned this in T100722: Kill Wikidata infobox in alpha.May 28 2015, 11:32 PM

Note this feature is somewhat entangled with T100722

@kaldari @phuedx it seems we could simply add commons category to the page just like we do with wikidata description.

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Change 231411 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson):
Make commons category non-dependent on infobox experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/231411

Change 231412 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson):
Move commons category to beta

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/231412

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Jdlrobson moved this task from 2014-15 Q4 to 2017-18 Q3 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Aug 13 2015, 11:28 PM

Moving to next sprint to give it eyeballs.

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Is this a new tool for categorys? Is this affecting the commons interface itself?

@Steinsplitter nope. It's a feature which allows you to view images from commons associated with a page's commons category to surface more commons content. No plans to productionise yet but could be used potentially to find and add photos to the category.

You can see the feature here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco?mobileaction=alpha#/commons-category/San Francisco
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Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to team:other on the MobileFrontend board.Sep 2 2015, 6:57 PM

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Change 231411 merged by jenkins-bot:
Make commons category non-dependent on infobox experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/231411

Diffusion mentioned this in rMEXTeb5c61a501bc: Updated mediawiki/extensions Project: mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend….Sep 10 2015, 12:29 PM

Jdlrobson mentioned this in rEMFRaea77d77dfc6: Make commons category non-dependent on infobox experiment.Sep 10 2015, 12:30 PM

Change 231412 merged by jenkins-bot:
Move commons category to beta

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/231412