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magic variable {{LOGGED-IN}} or similar?

Jan 11, 2022, 8:41 AM

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Is there a magic variable {{LOGGED-IN}} or a similar mechanism that
could be used to detected from within the wiki markup, CSS or
Extension:Widgets?

Background:
Creating menus / content which is different for anonymous visitors and
logged in users (mostly wiki administrators).

Cheers,
Patrick
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Re: magic variable {{LOGGED-IN}} or similar? [ In reply to ]

ladsgroup at gmail

Jan 11, 2022, 8:46 AM

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There is nothing AFAIK but it would mess with ParserCache so if someone
needs to implement it, it means they have to fragment parser cache based on
status of logged in or logged out which can be quite expensive in large
places (like Wikipedia)

HTH

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 5:42 PM Patrick Schleizer via MediaWiki-l <
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Is there a magic variable {{LOGGED-IN}} or a similar mechanism that
> could be used to detected from within the wiki markup, CSS or
> Extension:Widgets?
>
> Background:
> Creating menus / content which is different for anonymous visitors and
> logged in users (mostly wiki administrators).
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
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Re: magic variable {{LOGGED-IN}} or similar? [ In reply to ]

matma.rex at gmail

Jan 11, 2022, 9:07 AM

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There are some extensions that implement similar things:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RightFunctions
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserFunctions

I haven't used either of them, but it looks like they both can do this job.

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Re: magic variable {{LOGGED-IN}} or similar? [ In reply to ]

phoenixoverride at gmail

Jan 11, 2022, 9:40 AM

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Why not just do it in Javascript/CSS and use the MediaWiki:Group-<group>.js
/CSS pages?

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:09 PM Bartosz Dziewo?ski <matma.rex@gmail.com>
wrote:

> There are some extensions that implement similar things:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RightFunctions
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserFunctions
>
> I haven't used either of them, but it looks like they both can do this job.
>
> --
> Bartosz Dziewo?ski
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