// sorry for cross-posting

Hello everyone,

Here is another change from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team concerning syntax highlighting:

Soon, line numbers will be shown in wikitext editors when you have the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension) enabled.[1] The change will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. More information can be found on this project page. [2]

We plan to deploy this with this week’s Mediawiki train, so it should be on wikis from April 13-15. As a first step, it will be available on the template namespace only. Deployment on other namespaces is planned for the near future.

If you have any feedback, please let us know on the project’s talk page. [3]  We hope line numbering will be useful to you!

Johanna

for the Technical Wishes team

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror 

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering 

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Talk_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering