Hi Dick,

Am 11.12.20 um 20:45 schrieb Dick Groskamp:
>
> On 2020/12/11 19:34:47, Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: 
>> Hi Dick,
>>
>> Am 11.12.20 um 20:29 schrieb Dick Groskamp:
>>> On 2020/12/11 17:23:20, Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: 
>>>> Hi Dick,
>>>>
>>>> Am 11.12.20 um 17:14 schrieb Dick Groskamp:
>>>>
>>>> The extension is not broken, it is outdated. It cannot be updated
>>>> because that would need a newer version of Wiki.
>>>> However, our AOO skin for the Wiki must be adapted to the newer Wiki
>>>> version...
>>>>
>>>> At least that is what I understood from Andrea's posts regarding the
>>>> Wiki server in 2019 [1]
>>>>
>>> Well, if it is outdated and it doesn't do its job, I think it is broken.
>>> What I meant to say is that it doesn't work the way it was designed anymore.
>>>> See above, the extension is not ours. It is from mediaWiki.org (?)
>>>>
>>> Well, I think it is ours. It was especially created by former developers 
>>> for this purpose and it is probably nowhere else available/usable and just 
>>> works on our wiki.
>> Who would that developer be?! Do you know a name?
> It was somewhere up in this thread:
> // Extension credits that will show up on Special:Version
> $wgExtensionCredits['parserhook'][] = array(
>      'name' => 'IDL Tags',
>      'version' => '1.0.2',
>      'author' => array( 'Clayton Cornell', 'Terry Ellison' ),
>      'description' => 'Manage the IDL links in the OOo Dev Guide ',
>      'url' => 
> 'http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Wiki_maintenance/IDLTagExtension',
> );
>> Isn't it more likely that it is a mediawiki extension like:
>>
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight
>>
> That is probably where the confusion comes from. You can develop your own 
> extensions if you want, just like our own .oxt's. The whole IDLTags extension 
> is the PHP-page Carl copied from the configuration. That's all

Yes, it seems that this was done "back then".

But I don't think we should try to fix such an old extension if there is
probably a better one included in the Wiki installation.

>>> I haven't read Andrea's post yet, I focused more on getting this defective 
>>> extension IDLTags repaired.
>> Well, that would be a workaround for the moment, but we should "simply"
>> fix the source of the problem...
>>
> With "source of the problem" I assume you mean upgrading the wiki version and 
> updating the skin
> etc as mentioned in Andrea's post
Yes, if I remember it right, Andrea had to use an older PHP version to
get the Wiki running "as is".
>
> As far as I know has Carl a new updated VM  available to go along with that, 
> but he has a tiny
> problem getting access. I think that will be the next step.

Infra wants to update the VM. This probably means we get an even newer
Wiki installation.

Carl has opened a ticket, since we can't test the new VM because of a
redirection.

Regards,

   Matthias

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