https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34511
badon <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- See Also| |https://bugzilla.wikimedia. | |org/show_bug.cgi?id=32955 Severity|enhancement |major --- Comment #2 from badon <[email protected]> --- Bug 32955 is now fixed, and I added it to the "See Also" area for this bug. I also changed the priority of this from "Enhancement" to "Major", because the feature already exists (storing URL's as property data), but it is essentially non-working. Beyond that, Stefahn reported that attempting to use the feature will cause a loss of the data, which would normally prompt me to assign "Critical" priority. I decided against "Critical" priority because the feature was essentially non-working until today, when Bug 32955 was fixed (I haven't tested the fix yet), so users would immediately notice the feature does not work, before significant data could be lost. Note that none of these bugs will cause the loss of existing data, because it's impossible to store it in the first place. Thus, data losses do not occur unexpectedly, so the threat is as minimal as it gets, as far as data loss is concerned (an immediately obvious failure to store the data). Now that Bug 32955 is fixed, I expect the next release of SMW will make it much more likely the feature will be used, and data will be lost (at save time) before users notice the problem (at query time). That could arguably create the conditions to justify upgrading this bug to "Critical" importance. Ideally, this bug would be fixed before the next SMW version is released. For now, the only workaround available is to use URL shorteners. There are MediaWiki extensions for producing them automatically, but they are beta quality, and users report high dissatisfaction with them. SMW query URL's can be gargantuan, and the usage of square brackets in the URL's makes it impossible to share them as-is on forums that support BBCode (all modern forums). SMW is desperately in need of an URL shortener feature, which has been requested for other non-SMW uses of MediaWiki too: Bug 42085. I will request the feature at GitHub: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues?milestone=&q=is%3Aopen -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
