[Wikia-l] issues with "wiki page in a widget" widget after recode

[Chris Stafford]

"the wikipage in a widget" has changed since the widget recode/revamp,

before:
it used to take a user supplied pagename and a user supplied title and made
it a widget, FOR ONLY THAT USER allowing users to have their own custom
widget

after:
its only taking a 1 field "title". when the edit button is pressed, the
default text in the box is "WidgetWikiPage"

it does seem to accept a pagename, kind of. it uses the text entered as the
widget title, and procedes to load the contents of teh page into the widget,
but not parsing it, just loading it, as if wrapped in <nowiki>

its default text is
    This ''message'' is a '''simple''' test of WikiPage widget. You can
'''edit content of widget''' by simply [[MediaWiki:WidgetWikiPage|editing
page]] in MediaWiki namespace.

that MW message does not exist in S:Allmessages or on Messaging, so i dont
know where its getting that text from.

if you follow that link, and create content on that page, it DOES load in
that widget instead of the default text above. but it does so for ALL USERS.

so its no longer a PER USER custom widget, its a PER WIKI custom widget.
which, i'll admit, does have its value. but it is an unexpected change, and
no longer makes the widget discription of "Display any article inside a
widget. Great for making your own widget" as true of a statement.

-uberfuzzy
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