It seems like people have some pretty good reasons for parsing JS/CSS pages
(categorization, backlinks, speedy deletion templates, etc.), so unless
there is some significant disadvantage to MW for enabling parsing, I'm
going to have to agree with the bug filer.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]



On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> When designing the ContentHandler, I asked around about whether JS and CSS
> pages
> should be parsed as wikitext, so categories etc would work. The gist of the
> responses I got was "naw, lets get rid of that". So I did (though PST is
> still
> applied - Tim asked for that at the Berlin Hackathon).
>
> Sure enough, people are complaining now, see
> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41155>. Also note that an
> older
> request for disablingt parsing of script pages was closed as WONTFIX:
> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32858>.
>
> I'm inclined to (at least optionally) enable the parsing of script pages,
> but
> I'd like to get some feedback first.
>
> -- daniel
>
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