I'm playing with MediaWiki code, and have added the ability of parsing HTML-like tags: for example, <red>text</red> would display text in red color. Is this interesting enough to be included in the code?
This was mentioned a month ago in the "support for <span> tags" thread. Aside from being easier to remember and type then <font color=red> it would also produce HTML without now deprecated <font> tags.
I also have a question: when $wgUseDatabaseMessages is set to false, use of {{msg:}} tags is disabled as well. Is this intended? If yes, why? I would like to fix this, but cannot figure out how.This problem is apparent on Serbian and, i guess, other non-English Wikipedias: LanguageSr.php is not copied to database, so database messages must be disabled, but that forces {{msg:}} tags not to work.