On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
We have done other big changes in the past. Almost all creations/renamings of mediawiki messages need local community action!
The real problem is user CSS/JS, I suspect. People tend to copy-paste that, and changes to document structure can break a lot of it without any easy way to gauge the extent of the problem or fix it.
(For those more familiar with CSS/JS than with MediaWiki, I'm referring to user subpages here, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simetrical/monobook.js. I'm not referring to stuff people have in their browsers, which is of course impossible to track or fix even in principle.)
There's some code adding parameters to the wikilinks, but I find them ugly. I'd prefer compressing spans surrounding anchor elements into the a. Ie. <span foo="bar">[[baz]]</span> to produce <a href="baz" foo="bar">baz</a>
Those two constructs are different. They really are not the same and should not be treated as such. Treating them the same sounds like a really bad idea to me.