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Add new features to show/hide content based on user's groups?
- Note: This discussion was moved from here to hopefully receive more input.
What do you guys think of creating CSS classes that can be used by editors to show/hide content based on a user's groups? For instance, I am a member of the "autoreviewer", "reviewer", "rollbacker", "user", and "autoconfirmed" groups. There are some templates, such as {{Invitation to edit}}, that could take advantage of this by only showing the template to anonymous editors. The first discussion that I saw mentioning this was by User:MSGJ, in a discussion that was six months ago, and then it was brought up again today. If you guys want an idea of how this might work, then install this script, and then wrap any code in <div class="for-sysop-only">Text goes here</div>. The class can use any existing group, which are all listed at the top of the script, with "anonymous" and "user" added as well, since they aren't explicitly defined by MediaWiki. You can also use <div class="not-for-sysop">Text goes here</div> as well. Both examples should be self-explanatory by their class names. Thoughts on integrating this or a variant in MediaWiki:Common.js? Wikipedia:Upload already has custom code written for it in Common.js that shows different content for logged-in/out users. Gary King (talk · scripts) 20:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
- Vandalism that only shows up for non-logged-in users? Anomie⚔ 21:58, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps hidden content could be marked with an icon? Or just tag anonymous edits including these classes. It could also be a gadget for those who want to hide templates such as {{Invitation to edit}}, so then by default nothing is changed. Gary King (talk · scripts) 22:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
There already is a way to show content just for just sysops and accountcreators. class sysop-show and class accountcreator-show. Just make whatever you want to hide for other users as "display: none". P.S. autoconfirmed is not a 'real' group, it is more like the status of an account. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:43, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- If this were to be implemented, then it's more than likely that those classes would be merged with this script. Also, autoconfirmed is included in wgUserGroups, anyway, so it's treated as just another group. It could perhaps come in handy in some cases. Gary King (talk · scripts) 19:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)