On 10/08/2011 6:53 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
Please don't edit DefaultSettings.php; Your
$wgFooterIcons change could
have been done in LocalSettings.php without causing trouble for yourself
when you upgrade.
Ah, didn't realise LocalSettings.php was the right place to do my edits.
I guess I was coming from the perspective that I was contributing to core.
We have a DoEditSectionLink hook, adding those links
should be possible
without any modifications to core.
Yep, got that now. I'll fix that up. Thanks.
Though I don't really see anything we could add to
MediaWiki. Most can
already be done with hooks and config and fit more as extensions than
default core features.
Fair enough.
And removing functionality of MediaWiki doesn't
really count as adding something to core.
I kinda felt like I was adding more than I was taking away.
I can't comprehend the obsession with killing
de-facto standardized
patterns just to shove a button on a site to a picky validator that only
takes into account a single relevant standard.
I'd rather not confuse my users who are trying to validate the HTML in
their wiki text with noise from the platform. I don't control the
validator, but I think it's a useful tool to incorporate on my web-site.
Maybe there should be a setting for 'strict html' which leaves out
features that services like
validator.w3.org don't accept.
John.