TL;DR: They've been deprecated for years, but..
No, removal has not been
scheduled and will not happen this year.
Thanks Krinkle! I pretty much expected that such a change would have been
widely publicized, but I wanted to confirm. I guess larger wikis have
already moved away from them, but there are many more (very) small wikis
that still use those variables in script imported long ago from Wikipedia.
Strainu
Migration is strongly recommended. Scripts that have one or more active
maintainers should've been migrated by now.
However, removal has not yet been scheduled to give users more time to
find, help or attract new developers to maintain affected scripts.
Tasks:
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35837 (disable legacy globals by
default and Wikimedia wikis)
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72470 (remove support for legacy
globals in MediaWiki general)
It's been two years, so it's definitely time to start thinking about this.
However, I would recommend against doing the removal this year, because
there is very little benefit to get from removing the globals at this
point. It's easy to support, removing them is disruptive, and we already
have other (more important) migrations on-going right now.
-- Krinkle
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is talk in some communities about the
wg-globals going away later
this year, but I can't find anything in the tech updates or
mw.org
Is there any definite time-line for the removal?
Thanks,
Strainu
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