This is so cool! This was almost at the top of the wishlist on previous years! Thank you.
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org > wrote: > I've just now enable the feature flag on the Beta Cluster[1] that allows > MediaWiki to store comments longer than 255 bytes. > > The web UI has not been updated to allow longer comments in places where it > enforces a limit, such as the edit summary box. But if you use the API to > edit, or perform page moves or do other things where long comments could be > entered and were truncated, you should now find that they're truncated at > 1000 Unicode characters rather than 255 bytes. > > Please test it out! If you find errors, or places in core features (not > comments in extensions such as SecurePoll, AbuseFilter, CheckUser, or Flow) > where *new* comments are still being truncated to 255 bytes, or places > where comments aren't showing up at all, please let me know. You can reply > to this message or post a task in Phabricator and add me as a subscriber. > > If things go well, we'll look at rolling this out to production wikis once > the schema changes to the production databases are complete. See > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174569 to follow progress there. > > If anyone is interested in submitting patches for the web UI to reflect the > changed length limits, please do. I'll try to review them if you add me as > a reviewer. > > > [1]: https://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Senior Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jaime Crespo <http://wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
