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Allow Books sidebar to be hidden by default
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Description

The english Wikipedia is having usability and maintenance problems (see the URL) due to the Collection/Books Extension. As such, tomorrow, we will be hiding the Books sidebar with CSS, until a more satisfying solution can be implemented.

Our idea is the following:
1: The books/collections sidebar becomes hidden (display:none) by default
2: We will add a link to the Special page of Collections to our sidebar toolbox. (Create article collections ???)
3: A user can set a preference option, or visit Special:Book (and create a collection) to activate the Collections/Book sidebar functionality.

We think it is important that we present our readers with as little confusing functionality as possible.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_47#Disabling_.22create_a_book.22

Details

Reference
bz18756

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:36 PM
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happy.melon.wiki wrote:

The books sidebar has now been hidden in enwiki's site CSS. We will be discussing what improvements need to be made to the software to make it more user- and site-friendly before it is reenabled.

Moving from: Mediawiki Extensions (Collection) → Wikimedia (Site Requests)
Reassign from: support@pediapress.com → wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reasoning: This request suits the later component better

happy.melon.wiki wrote:

No, this is a request for a change to the extension software - which PediaPress maintains - in order to support server-side what we have now hacked together with CSS. As and when that software change is *made*, we will need a site request to configure it on enwiki. Retitling to clarify, but this is not a site request.

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

Re-added PediaPress support team, as this requires coding in the extension.

Seems that with the renaming to Print/Export, this extra section in the toolbar won't be hidden by default as I suggested.