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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
