https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41155
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Bug #: 41155
Summary: Not parsing js/css pages as wikitext breaks many
applications
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: ContentHandler
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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docs/contenthandler.txt says:
* Javascript and CSS pages are no longer parsed as wikitext (though pre-save
transform is still applied). Most importantly, this means that links, including
categorization links, contained in the code will not work.
But IMHO this is too important to just note it down as caveat, and should be
fixed, since parsing those pages as wikitext and storing the links in the
tables etc. has several impotant use cases, that now break (see also bug
32858):
* __INDEX__ / __NOINDEX__ should work for all pages
* js/css pages should appear in categories:
** some wikis might organize their user scripts using categories
(ok, this is an argument not to parse them, as it forces users
to write documentation and categorize these instead)
** speedy deletion templates should put the pages in the right category,
it's much easier to find such a template than a page to ask for
help by sysops
* backlinks are used to find users who are using a certain script
(the German documentation on
[[de:Wikipedia:Technik/Skin/JS#Laden_.C3.BCber_den_Titel_einer_Seite]]
suggests this, english: [[User:js]], Krinkle uses global file usage
for this: [[m:User:Krinkle/Scripts/InsertWikiEditorButton]])
Knowing who uses your script is not just nice, but important,
I use this regularily:
** Inform users about major changes
** Find out if somebody is using a feature you want to deprecate
** For scripts that do some automatic editing: Find out if there
are bugs the users didn't report (you might not believe it,
but there are users who accidentaly edit "Undefined", "Null", ...
but don't tell the author of the script about this)
* Since PST are applied users have to use <nowiki> anyway, so they can
decide which parts should be parsed.
* The last time js/css pages weren't parsed, this provided an easy way
to circumvent Extension SpamBlacklist, see
[[mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki/105664#c27321]] for the details.
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