Aryeh Gregor wrote: > In theory. The problem is organizational: the people who change the > software, the people who change the stylesheets on any particular > wiki, and the people who sync new versions of the software to the site > constitute a few hundred different groups, mostly pairwise disjoint. > There are over a thousand Wikimedia wikis last I heard, and to be sure > we didn't break anything we'd have to review all of their stylesheets > and fix them if necessary.
We have done other big changes in the past. Almost all creations/renamings of mediawiki messages need local community action! > It would be interesting if we had a procedure for this, however. It > should suffice to write a script to grep all the stylesheets on all > sites for appropriate rules, and ask a steward or other global sysop > to add the replacement rules before the software is synced (in > addition to the old ones, so there's no period where neither set > works). This is more convenient now than it used to be, since we do > have a unified login and global sysops. > Now, why don't we allow <a> in wikimarkup? . . . What's the problem with it? Just not being able to add class/style attributes? There's some code adding parameters to the wikilinks, but I find them ugly. I'd prefer compressing spans surrounding anchor elements into the a. Ie. <span foo="bar">[[baz]]</span> to produce <a href="baz" foo="bar">baz</a> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
