Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects/Projects/Badges

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T383169

Optimise Badges extension loading for pages where no badges are displayed

Badges are small visual clues attached to sitelinks to quickly indicate if the content, article or page behind it has a special status. For example, a Gold Star will indicate a Good Article status, whilst a Silver Star indicates a Featured Article.

Currently, the Extension:WikimediaBadges is loaded on every page read, but there are many pages and instances when there are no badges to display.

Development

A conditional gate has been added to check the page CSS for the presence of badges before the Extension:WikimediaBadges is rendered. This should remove upto 1.2kb of render-blocking CSS for every page read where the extension is not necessary.

Deployment

The patch was merged to MediaWiki version MW-1.44.0-wmf.18 and will be deployed to all Wiki groups on February 27, 2025.