Hey everyone, since we have introduced ourselves, we have been quite busy reading documentation and source code (of existing extensions) trying to understand the dataflow within Mediawiki.
Today we have committed our first code that demonstrates how we plan to integrate the code of our alpha version of the mooc interface to a stand alone extension. Your early feedback is crucial for us and thus highly appreciated. Since from now on we would start to code up functionality https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/1892/browse/develop/ We have started with the cookiecutter template for the media wiki extensions. In MOOC.hooks.php we first register a parser hook looking for {{#MOOC: }}. Once the registered function is called we register another HOOK id est OutputPageBeforeHTML on which we use the $text variable to modify the html. in our example case we use a DomParser to manipulate the css attribute of h2 and plan to adapt other css in this way for the future development. We use the resource loader to include our own stylesheet. Questions: 0.) Could anyone quickly review our code and give us feedback weather we understood the basic data flow correctly and are using the correct workflows? 1.) is there any argument against using bootstrap or less for more efficient css hacking? 2.) How stable is the HTML syntax of wikipages? Wikitext will probably not change in future mediawikiversions. can we rely on the fact that the HTML structure also won't change? If we introduce our own css classes should they also start with mw- oder should we just provide our own prefix e.g. mooc- ... 3.) is there a better Hook that OutputPageBeforeHTML that we should use for our usecase? 4.) We need meta information from other articles where is the best way to include database requests? Thank you very much! best regards Sebastian and Rene -- -- www.rene-pickhardt.de <http://www.beijing-china-blog.com/> Skype: rene.pickhardt mobile: +49 (0)176 5762 3618 office: +49 (0) 261 / 287 2765 fax: +49 (0) 261 / 287 100 2765 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
