Hi all,
This week[1]: let's talk about the future of magic links[2][3]
This is LegoKtm's proposal that we move magic links out of core, and deprecate their use on the Wikimedia cluster. Magic links are the links that get generated when you put "RFC 1149" or "ISBN 978-1-84685-039-4" in your wikitext, even on a typical MediaWiki install with no extensions.
The RFC has three components: 1. Moving this functionality to an extension (via parser hook) in time for the MediaWiki 1.28 release 2. Deprecation strategy for Wikimedia wikis (e.g. Wikipedia) 3. Disable magic links hooks a year later (in time for the next MediaWiki LTS release)
Given that the implications of steps 2 and 3 are much broader than just the MediaWiki community, this won't likely result in a "final comment" period for anything other than step 1. But maybe(?) we can agree to move forward with step 1.
Let's chat about that tomorrow. Same time as always (Wednesday 21 UTC, 14 PDT, 23 CEST) and place (#wikimedia-office).
Rob p.s. note that I'm generally better about updating the ArchComStatus page[4] than sending these emails. "Generally", that is. :-)
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E269 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604 [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links [4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus