"Simetrical" wrote:
Mark Clements (HappyDog) wrote:
* Namespace manager built into MediaWiki. AFAIK
this has been done but
never comitted to trunk? What happened to that code? Any chance of
getting it into the core software?
I think it was written for 1.5 or something. I doubt it would apply
very cleanly today.
Where is it? I wouldn't mind taking a look
at it to see if it can be
brought up to speed.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace_manager
Well, I've taken a look and there were a couple of surprises:
* It already handles the issue of being able to specify where unmarked links
(i.e. links with no explicit namespace) go to.
* It was written for MW 1.10, so there should not be much work involved in
getting it to apply cleanly to head! (Specifically 1.10alpha, branched at
r19771)
What would it take to get this into core? Is there a specific reason why
this has not already happened (i.e. known issues, or incompleteness) or is
it just a matter of someone not getting round to it (either requesting it or
dealing with the request)?
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)