Unfortunately, I had to revert it. We'll try again later when the schema
change is compete.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've just now enable the feature flag on the testing wikis[1][2][3] that
> allows MediaWiki to store comments longer than 255 bytes.
>
> The web UI has not been updated to allow longer comments in places where
> it enforces a limit, such as the edit summary box. But if you use the API
> to edit, or perform page moves or do other things where long comments could
> be entered and were truncated, you should now find that they're truncated
> at 1000 Unicode characters rather than 255 bytes.
>
> Please test it out! If you find errors, or places in core features (not
> comments in extensions such as SecurePoll, AbuseFilter, CheckUser, or Flow)
> where *new* comments are still being truncated to 255 bytes, or places
> where comments aren't showing up at all, please let me know. You can reply
> to this message or post a task in Phabricator and add me as a subscriber.
>
> If things go well, we'll look at rolling this out to production wikis once
> the schema changes to the production databases are complete. See
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174569 to follow progress there.
>
> If anyone is interested in submitting patches for the web UI to reflect
> the changed length limits, please do. I'll try to review them if you add me
> as a reviewer.
>
> [1]: https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> [2]: https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> [3]: https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
>
> --
> Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> Senior Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
>



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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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