Krinkle wrote: > On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > Yeah, as more elaborately put on the bug[1], it was disabled in ContentHandler > without dedicated discussion because it was thought of as a minor oddity that > should be removed as a bug. > > We know now that (though it might have been a bug originally) it is a major > feature that unless replaced, must not be removed. > > [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41155
Well, the current approach is hackish. The links are kind of stored, but not rendered, so you still end up with dead-end pages and a completely surprising result to most users. I think the last thing we need is yet another parser. There is already distinct parsing for weird parts of the MediaWiki UI (such as edit summaries and log comments). I think any further specialized parsers should be shot on-sight. More thoughts here: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/39609> ("Limit scope of title-based syntax highlighting"). MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
