Hi, you should also attend the upcoming code review hours. More info:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E179 ;)

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 8:07 AM, René Pickhardt <r.pickha...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
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