On 23 November 2012 21:36, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote: > For instance, if an extension is confirmed working for "1.17" and "1.18" but > there are no tags for 1.19.2 or higher, this still gives incomplete > information on extension compatibility. However, I do agree it is better than > nothing, and since changes on MediaWiki have to be preapproved, the > information would be fairly reliable. > Ideally, I'd like the tagging system (if one was to be implemented) to scrape > the MediaWiki version information from the infobox at the right of the > extension page, like this one: > Of course, everyone else might have different ideas, but I think the > information scrape proposal has merit.
Yeah, I was thinking in terms of scraping the infobox - an extension's infobox template on mediawiki.org itself constitutes well-curated metadata rather than just scraping arbitrary rubbish. (I suppose the next question is how fixed is the presence of that template on extension pages, and the format of the template.) I'm not sure how to flag updatability. I was thinking in terms of SyntaxHighlight-GeSHi, which didn't change at all between versions for 1.17 and 1.19, as I discovered when I downloaded the tarball for 1.19. Of course, if an extension doesn't say it lives on mediawiki.org, direct the upgrader to its listed page. - d. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
