Also for those that prefer the client to do the work I recently made an extension to use the highlight.js module at highlightjs.org. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HighlightJS
On 22/06/15 21:48, Ori Livneh wrote: > Hello, > > Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the > SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The > change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the lexical > analysis and output formatting of code, for another library, called > Pygments. > > The roll-out will remove support for 31 languages while adding support for > several hundred languages not previously supported, including Dart, Rust, > Julia, APL, Mathematica, SNOBOL, Puppet, Dylan, Racket, Swift, and many > others. See <https://people.wikimedia.org/~ori/geshi_changes.txt> for a > full list. The languages that will lose support are mostly obscure, with > the notable exception of ALGOL68, Oz, and MMIX. > > The change is expected to slightly improve the time it takes to load and > render all pages on all wikis (not just those that contain code blocks!), > at the cost of a slight penalty (about a tenth of a second) on the time it > takes to save edits which introduce or modify a block of highlighted code > to an article. > > Lastly, the way the extension handles unfamiliar languages will change. > Previously, if the specified language was not supported by the extension, > instead of a code block, the extension would print an error message. From > now on, it will simply output a plain, unhighlighted block of monospaced > code. > > The wikitext syntax for highlighting code will remain the same. > > -- Ori > _______________________________________________ > 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
