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 > -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
