On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de> wrote:
> Hi! > > When designing the ContentHandler, I asked around about whether JS and CSS > pages > should be parsed as wikitext, so categories etc would work. The gist of the > responses I got was "naw, lets get rid of that". So I did (though PST is still > applied - Tim asked for that at the Berlin Hackathon). > > Sure enough, people are complaining now, see > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41155>. Also note that an > older > request for disablingt parsing of script pages was closed as WONTFIX: > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32858>. > > I'm inclined to (at least optionally) enable the parsing of script pages, but > I'd like to get some feedback first. > > -- daniel Yeah, as more elaborately put on the bug[1], it was disabled in ContentHandler without dedicated discussion because it was thought of as a minor oddity that should be removed as a bug. We know now that (though it might have been a bug originally) it is a major feature that unless replaced, must not be removed. -- Krinkle [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41155 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
