siddharthvp
commented
2 years ago In terms of GUI, features, etc, how identical or different is twinkle-core compared to this Twinkle repository? Also, is it stable and reasonably bug-free?
It is identical, or at least meant to be identical. There are very few differences – most significant I believe is that the tag module doesn't support alphabetical mode. An extra mode which is mostly unused seemed like too much to implement while supporting i18n/l10n.
Bugs can be present – it is not very stable as I don't think it's being used in production anywhere. But on the bright side, it has an integration test suite that we've never had here.
The pros:
- Introduces a modern javascript toolchain, making it easier to attract newer developers.
- Resolves #329 as it fully supports i18n/l10n. Different wikis will no longer need to copy-paste enwiki's twinkle which become outdated with time.
The cons:
- it has a lot of dev dependencies for building the code which are all actively developed hence the versions sometime become incompatible with each other. This can be solved by using pinned dependencies which npm doesn't do by default. But then, sometimes changes in MW too affect the build – https://github.com/wikimedia-gadgets/twinkle-starter/issues/27 remains unresolved.
- The output looks like this. It's unreadable. There's no solution to this as far as I know.
Parts of twinkle-core still use english / enwiki specific code – but those are a not a problem for deploying on enwiki. They needs to be properly i18n-ised which can be looked into later.
Overall, I don't expect any other wiki to use twinkle-core if it isn't being used on enwiki – other wikis tend to follow what enwiki does.
NovemLinguae
I haven't installed it and tested it out yet, but wanted to explore the idea of switching to twinkle-core and twinkle-enwiki and see if it's something that should be on our radar.
Theoretically there are many technical debt benefits to not having two repositories, working in OOP and TypeScript, and supporting other wikis and internationalization.
In terms of GUI, features, etc, how identical or different is twinkle-core compared to this Twinkle repository? Also, is it stable and reasonably bug-free?