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Remove "Create a book" link from sidebar on German Wikipedia
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Please set wgCollectionDisableSidebarLink to true for dewiki in InitialiseSettings.php

The sidebar link is already hidden via a Common.css rule since 2021 without objection following the discussions here and here. In order to reduce the amount of community maintained code that is delivered to everyone via Common.css, we would like to use the config option instead, which in this case wouldn't cause any visual and workflow schange for the community as the link is already hidden. See this thread on the German equivalent of IANB.

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This config change seems reasonable.

Change #1051809 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamrimmer; author: Dreamrimmer):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove "Create a book" link from sidebar on German Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1051809

Change #1051809 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove "Create a book" link from sidebar on German Wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1051809

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-07-04T13:36:00Z] <logmsgbot> lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002 Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1051809|Remove "Create a book" link from sidebar on German Wikipedia (T368900)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-07-04T13:38:35Z] <logmsgbot> lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002 dreamrimmer, lucaswerkmeister-wmde: Backport for [[gerrit:1051809|Remove "Create a book" link from sidebar on German Wikipedia (T368900)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-07-04T13:44:35Z] <logmsgbot> lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002 Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1051809|Remove "Create a book" link from sidebar on German Wikipedia (T368900)]] (duration: 08m 35s)

@hgzh, now you should remove that code from dewiki MediaWiki:Common.css.

I wanted to wait a bit in case there is some caching involved (don't know), but removal is already scheduled.

No rush at all, just a suggestion. Please take your time :)