On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org
wrote:
- Given that the W3C Validator can also parse HTML files, would it be useful to validate wiki pages as well? Even if sometimes the validation errors appear to be caused by MediaWiki itself, they can also depend on malformed templates.
Meh not sure how useful this would be. Maybe as a developer tool, but not something you would want running on your site. The SVG validation tool makes sense because you're validating user input.
- Does storing the validation status of old revisions of images (and/or articles) make sense?
I don't think there's any harm in it. Better to have extraneous information then to wait until users complain about not having it down the line.
- Do you think the extension should use the extmetadata property of ApiQueryImageInfo instead of a its own module?
- Is it advisable to store validation data permanently in the database?
I have no idea about this, but it does seem that the metadata is propagated to the oldimage table when a new one is uploaded, so it would fulfill your above question about storing old revisions' validation status.
Exactly what information is being stored? Is it just a flag that says valid or not valid? Is it a list of errors and warnings? If so what format is it all in?
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science