Max Semenik wrote: > Those poor souls who still screen-scrape should expect > all kinds of breakages anyway.
That's no reason not to warn them ahead of time. Crossposting the notice to wikibots-l and pywikipedia-l. A change like wgHtml5=true seems a good time to change the legacy code to use the api. Please report anything doable with screen-scrapping but not with mediawiki api. Aryeh Gregor writes: > Back in July, we had a lengthy discussion about the possibility of > switching to HTML5: > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-July/043865.html > > The conclusion appeared to be that switching to HTML5 was a good idea. > As of July 12 (r53142), MediaWiki has been outputting HTML5 > continuously as the default: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/53142 > > There have been only a few minor problems reported by various trunk > users, all of which were quickly fixed. The current state of HTML5 > support is discussed here: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTML5 > > When we had our last scap six weeks ago, $wgHtml5 was disabled on > Wikimedia to reduce the number of variables to keep track of, since a > huge amount of code was changing at once. Although we're currently in > the middle of some organizational issues due to Brion's resignation, I > think it would be safe to experimentally turn on $wgHtml5 and see what > happens. If any problems are reported that can't be fixed > immediately, of course, it could be turned off again, but I think this > is quite unlikely. I'll be available for the next few weeks to work > on any issues that arise. Would this be okay? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
