Just an idea, but wouldn't Lua source code make a perfect alternative content type?
2012/9/7 Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de>: > Hi Tim! > > For some reason, your mail went under my radar until now. Sorry about that. > > On 03.09.2012 03:30, Tim Starling wrote: >> I've been busy, but I can do another review of the ContentHandler >> branch this week. > > That would be great, thanks! > >> There's the question of what level of quality we should aim for. We'll >> probably find things that will break when a non-text content type is >> used. I'd like to see such issues solved, or at least make sure the >> ContentHandler API will support a solution without major changes, but >> my reasons are mostly aesthetic. In principle, such development work >> can be done after the merge. But it seems to me that there's no point >> in merging it if it only supports text content, since MediaWiki >> already supports pure text content well enough. If we can achieve >> robust support for non-text data types, then the motivation for >> merging it will be stronger. > > I agree. We are using the mechanism extensively for Wikidata, which of course > uses non-text content. That should serve as a pretty good test. I'm trying to > fix any issues I find on the road, but of course we are not exploring every > possible corner of MediaWiki. > > I think we should make sure that the main functionality of MediaWiki works > with > the ContentHandler without a hitch, and try to have sane failure modes for > stuff > that is not yet (dis)covered. There's no way to be 100% sure, of course. > > This week, I have only done a little maintenance on the Wikidata branch (like > merging master again). I'll be looking for loose ends some more over the next > couple of days, but any changes should be confined to small corners of > mediawiki. I'm using gerrit for all changes now, so you should be able track > what i'm doing (well, last week I had to resort to a direct push when gerrit > got > very confused about a merge). > > Thanks again > Daniel > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
