On 01/12/2013 09:15 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > The more I look at ContentHandler, the more it seems like a major new > feature for MW. > > Are there any examples of this in use on Labs? > > Is there more information on how to use and extend it for things like > WorkingWiki? > > There is some talk of how the Gadgets extension may be changed by the > use of ContentHandler. Has any work been done on that yet? Do gadget > authors on-wiki need to know about these changes?
Gadgets 2.0 could potentially use a new content page type to store information. Currently it looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition . As you can see, as more information has been added, the lines have gotten increasingly awkwardly formatted. There is a proposal to use JSON (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0#Implementation_proposal) and a custom UI, I believe that could be hooked into ContentHandler. Gadgets 2.0 is also meant to provide very useful features like i18n for gadgets. Last I heard, significant progress was made on 2.0, but the project is currently on hold. Thus, there's not a need to notify people right away. When the time comes, I don't think initial migration will be overly complicated, because the existing syntax has a clear mapping to the new one. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
