On 23 November 2012 21:36, Arcane 21 <arcane(a)live.com> wrote:
For instance, if an extension is confirmed working for
"1.17" and "1.18" but there are no tags for 1.19.2 or higher, this
still gives incomplete information on extension compatibility. However, I do agree it is
better than nothing, and since changes on MediaWiki have to be preapproved, the
information would be fairly reliable.
Ideally, I'd like the tagging system (if one was to be implemented) to scrape the
MediaWiki version information from the infobox at the right of the extension page, like
this one:
Of course, everyone else might have different ideas, but I think the information scrape
proposal has merit.
Yeah, I was thinking in terms of scraping the infobox - an extension's
infobox template on
mediawiki.org itself constitutes well-curated
metadata rather than just scraping arbitrary rubbish.
(I suppose the next question is how fixed is the presence of that
template on extension pages, and the format of the template.)
I'm not sure how to flag updatability. I was thinking in terms of
SyntaxHighlight-GeSHi, which didn't change at all between versions for
1.17 and 1.19, as I discovered when I downloaded the tarball for 1.19.
Of course, if an extension doesn't say it lives on
mediawiki.org,
direct the upgrader to its listed page.
- d.