Currently photo uploads, talk page and soon the editor introduce lots of unnecessary code that not every user will use. Instead we should only load these modules when the user clicks on a button.
For example clicking on talk page for the first time should load the talk page code.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53782
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T50718 (Tracking) Use mw.loader.using for non essential modules | |||
| Resolved | None | T55782 Logged out users on mobile should not load JS for editing |
Cleanup template would be a good one to do this on first. We could conditionally load it if an article has issues.
Change 83958 had a related patch set uploaded by JGonera:
Load talk overlay dynamically
Change 84032 had a related patch set uploaded by JGonera:
Load photo uploader dynamically
I'm marking this as resolved. If there are any other modules that should be lazy loaded, these should be explicitly named and have their own bug.