Does mediawiki do browser checking
Unfortunately
yes it seems, Mediawiki apparently just can't resist. Sigh.
Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> writes:
The only place I know of offhand where MediaWiki does
UA checking is
in skins/common/wikibits.js.
All I know is that Opera is at least mentioned in at
least
$ find *|egrep -v \\.svn\|Messages|xargs grep -li '\bopera[^a-z]'
HISTORY
includes/Title.php
skins/monobook/Opera6Fixes.css
skins/monobook/Opera7Fixes.css
skins/monobook/rtl.css
skins/common/mwsuggest.js
skins/common/diff.js
skins/common/edit.js
skins/common/wikibits.js
skins/common/sticky.js
skins/common/feed.css
skins/simple/rtl.css
Searching for "MSIE" finds even more.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16257#c1 is my attempt to
stem the tide.