Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Requests for technical administration/Extension:Popups
- Title
- Extension:Popups
- Type
- This would be adding a mediawiki extension
- Reason
- A good portion of it was discussed a while ago in the talk page, but I'll sum it up quickly here.
- This allows for a partial fix to the common issue of always needing to click on many links for minimal information (now a hover will be enough in many cases)
- It overall allows for a nicer and fluid navigation in my opinion.
- This has also been used on wikipedia for a long while now and overall seems to have been a general boon for information transmission.
- Having run this with a custom js call on my account, I have noticed no extra lag or annoyances with this active(relevant edits)
-an imgur album of what it looks like is available here, and a half-joke prezi presentation available here
as for other implementations, wikipedia has it, I am unaware of others but I imagine a few have it.
- Possible pitfalls
-Alex mentionned a while back that this depends on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages which we do not have, so that may be necessary to also have
-In some instances the hover "fails" in such that it displays no useful information
