https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40633

--- Comment #2 from TMg <[email protected]> 2012-10-29 19:05:18 UTC ---
Don't make this to complicated. A simple category or special page
"ContainsDeprecatedFeature" is enough. Use a generic name so it can be used for
everything including deprecated parser functions and such. Add a possibility to
filter the special page by namespace if you can. Done.

Start with an empty list of deprecated features. Add one feature at a time. I
suggest the <font> tag. Let the Wikipedia community know when that specific
HTML tag or attribute will be dropped. I suggest something between 3 and 12
months. The community will do the work.

If the special page is almost empty in most Wikipedia languages add the next
feature to the list. I suggest the <center> tag. Then <stroke>. Then <big>.
Then <tt>. The last one will be align="..." and valign="..." because it's most
used and therefor requires a lot of work to replace. (Note: As explained in bug
40329 it is *NOT* possible to simply replace all align="..." with text-align:
... Replacing such stuff always requires a user to look at the code and to
understand what it does. Some replacements can be done with a semi-automatic
bot or user scripts. But it never should be done by the MediaWiki software.)

We are currently trying to collect possible replacements:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_HTML5 We would like to start
but we need a possibility to search for "<font", for example.

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