Greetings,
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I've been working on a new extension to allow for non-destructive image editing and annotation. Please help me fix issues and make improvements. I am leaning heavily on GitHub copilot so I would love to have some experts review my code and documentation. I am not nearly as qualified as most of the users here. There will be issues. Please be patient and kind. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Layers https://github.com/slickdexic/Layers I look forward to some valuable feedback.
Thank you, Paul Vodrazka
Hi Paul,
Extension:Layers looks great! .. what branch/version do you recommend for MW 1.43?
/Rich
From: Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2025 1:03 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Layers
Greetings,
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I've been working on a new extension to allow for non-destructive image editing and annotation. Please help me fix issues and make improvements. I am leaning heavily on GitHub copilot so I would love to have some experts review my code and documentation. I am not nearly as qualified as most of the users here. There will be issues. Please be patient and kind. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Layers https://github.com/slickdexic/Layers I look forward to some valuable feedback.
Thank you, Paul Vodrazka
Hi Richard, I would recommend the REL1_39 branch, but I have to do some testing and debugging on that branch. All of my testing this week has been on the 1.44+ branch. I have a v1.39 for testing at work but I've been away from work for the holidays. IThere are likely issues that I will need to fix. Tomorrow, I plan to spin up a few different versions of Msdiawiki for testing. If you decide to test it and find issues, please post them in the issues section on GitHub. I look forward to some feedback. Thank you Richard.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 1:53 PM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via MediaWiki-l < mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Paul,
Extension:Layers looks great! .. what branch/version do you recommend for MW 1.43?
/Rich
From: Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2025 1:03 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Layers
Greetings,
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I've been working on a new extension to allow for non-destructive image editing and annotation. Please help me fix issues and make improvements. I am leaning heavily on GitHub copilot so I would love to have some experts review my code and documentation. I am not nearly as qualified as most of the users here. There will be issues. Please be patient and kind. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Layers https://github.com/slickdexic/Layers I look forward to some valuable feedback.
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Extension:Layers REL1_39 (LTS) (Mediawiki 1.39 to 1.43) has been updated to resolve errors and to add some missing key features. I have confirmed that it is working on MW1.39.7 but more testing is needed. I have not tested all features.
Linking: [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=editor]] opens the editor to the named layer set. [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=editor-newtab]] opens the editor to the named layer set in a new tab. [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set]] opens to the image's 'File:' page.
Closing the editor returns to the previous page and not the 'File:' page.
[[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=viewer]] opens a full size 'lightbox' of the image.
The REL1_39 branch has not been tested as extensively as the 'main' branch. Please provide feedback if you find issues on either branch and I will try to resolve them quickly.
I will continue to focus on the 'main' branch (MW 1.44+). If there are features in the 'main' branch that you would like to see in the REL1_39 branch, please ask and I will do my best to port them over.
Thanks, Paul Vodrazka
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com wrote:
Hi Richard, I would recommend the REL1_39 branch, but I have to do some testing and debugging on that branch. All of my testing this week has been on the 1.44+ branch. I have a v1.39 for testing at work but I've been away from work for the holidays. IThere are likely issues that I will need to fix. Tomorrow, I plan to spin up a few different versions of Msdiawiki for testing. If you decide to test it and find issues, please post them in the issues section on GitHub. I look forward to some feedback. Thank you Richard.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 1:53 PM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Paul,
Extension:Layers looks great! .. what branch/version do you recommend for MW 1.43?
/Rich
From: Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2025 1:03 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Layers
Greetings,
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I've been working on a new extension to allow for non-destructive image editing and annotation. Please help me fix issues and make improvements. I am leaning heavily on GitHub copilot so I would love to have some experts review my code and documentation. I am not nearly as qualified as most of the users here. There will be issues. Please be patient and kind. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Layers https://github.com/slickdexic/Layers I look forward to some valuable feedback.
Thank you, Paul Vodrazka _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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Hey Paul,
Been playing with the extension the last few days and wanted to report that it's amazingly useful. I'll post a few comments on the extension page, but I really appreciate the contribution to the community!
~Bryan
On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com wrote:
Extension:Layers REL1_39 (LTS) (Mediawiki 1.39 to 1.43) has been updated to resolve errors and to add some missing key features. I have confirmed that it is working on MW1.39.7 but more testing is needed. I have not tested all features.
Linking: [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=editor]] opens the editor to the named layer set. [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=editor-newtab]] opens the editor to the named layer set in a new tab. [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set]] opens to the image's 'File:' page.
Closing the editor returns to the previous page and not the 'File:' page.
[[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=viewer]] opens a full size 'lightbox' of the image.
The REL1_39 branch has not been tested as extensively as the 'main' branch. Please provide feedback if you find issues on either branch and I will try to resolve them quickly.
I will continue to focus on the 'main' branch (MW 1.44+). If there are features in the 'main' branch that you would like to see in the REL1_39 branch, please ask and I will do my best to port them over.
Thanks, Paul Vodrazka
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com wrote:
Hi Richard, I would recommend the REL1_39 branch, but I have to do some testing and debugging on that branch. All of my testing this week has been on the 1.44+ branch. I have a v1.39 for testing at work but I've been away from work for the holidays. IThere are likely issues that I will need to fix. Tomorrow, I plan to spin up a few different versions of Msdiawiki for testing. If you decide to test it and find issues, please post them in the issues section on GitHub. I look forward to some feedback. Thank you Richard.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 1:53 PM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Paul,
Extension:Layers looks great! .. what branch/version do you recommend for MW 1.43?
/Rich
From: Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2025 1:03 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Layers
Greetings,
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I've been working on a new extension to allow for non-destructive image editing and annotation. Please help me fix issues and make improvements. I am leaning heavily on GitHub copilot so I would love to have some experts review my code and documentation. I am not nearly as qualified as most of the users here. There will be issues. Please be patient and kind. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Layers https://github.com/slickdexic/Layers I look forward to some valuable feedback.
Thank you, Paul Vodrazka _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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Hi Bryan,
I'm glad you find it useful. I will continue to try and make it even better. Thank you for the kind words,
Paul
On Tue, Jan 6, 2026, 1:29 AM Bryan Hilderbrand bryanh@tegnosis.wiki wrote:
Hey Paul,
Been playing with the extension the last few days and wanted to report that it's amazingly useful. I'll post a few comments on the extension page, but I really appreciate the contribution to the community!
~Bryan
On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com wrote:
Extension:Layers REL1_39 (LTS) (Mediawiki 1.39 to 1.43) has been updated to resolve errors and to add some missing key features. I have confirmed that it is working on MW1.39.7 but more testing is needed. I have not tested all features.
Linking: [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=editor]] opens the editor to the named layer set. [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=editor-newtab]] opens the editor to the named layer set in a new tab. [[File:image.png | layers=layer-set]] opens to the image's 'File:' page.
Closing the editor returns to the previous page and not the 'File:' page.
[[File:image.png | layers=layer-set | layerslink=viewer]] opens a full size 'lightbox' of the image.
The REL1_39 branch has not been tested as extensively as the 'main' branch. Please provide feedback if you find issues on either branch and I will try to resolve them quickly.
I will continue to focus on the 'main' branch (MW 1.44+). If there are features in the 'main' branch that you would like to see in the REL1_39 branch, please ask and I will do my best to port them over.
Thanks, Paul Vodrazka
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com wrote:
Hi Richard, I would recommend the REL1_39 branch, but I have to do some testing and debugging on that branch. All of my testing this week has been on the 1.44+ branch. I have a v1.39 for testing at work but I've been away from work for the holidays. IThere are likely issues that I will need to fix. Tomorrow, I plan to spin up a few different versions of Msdiawiki for testing. If you decide to test it and find issues, please post them in the issues section on GitHub. I look forward to some feedback. Thank you Richard.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025, 1:53 PM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via MediaWiki-l mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Paul,
Extension:Layers looks great! .. what branch/version do you recommend for MW 1.43?
/Rich
From: Paul Vodrazka paul@vodrazka.com Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2025 1:03 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] [MediaWiki-l] Extension:Layers
Greetings,
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I've been working on a new extension to allow for non-destructive image editing and annotation. Please help me fix issues and make improvements. I am leaning heavily on GitHub copilot so I would love to have some experts review my code and documentation. I am not nearly as qualified as most of the users here. There will be issues. Please be patient and kind. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Layers https://github.com/slickdexic/Layers I look forward to some valuable feedback.
Thank you, Paul Vodrazka _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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