The "save page" issue gave me the idea that
we could submit an
official input from the WMF to the Mozilla Foundation on 10 key issues
that affect users of MediaWiki (an thereby, WMF). We have a fairly
good relationship with Mozilla & I think they'd be willing to give
these issues some priority if we ask nicely. A quick search on
bugzilla.mozilla.org suggests there are plenty of issues; if someone
wants to take the lead on this, I've started a stub here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_10_Firefox_bugs
I did a quick search on Mozilla's bugzilla - restricted to bugs logged against
Firefox, and that are UNCONFIRMED / NEW / ASSIGNED / REOPENED / VERIFIED
[i.e. not RESOLVED or CLOSED], and where any comment contains the word
"wikipedia", and where it has more than 2 votes [to cut out the stuff
that's
not impacting too many people].
That gives 17 bugs:
http://tinyurl.com/34qsov
Scanning quickly through those gives some issues which look to no longer
affect the wikipedia, some which are specific to Linux and where the
Wikipedia is just used as an example, some that include a Wikipedia
article as a reference, etc.
Probably the one that most seemed like a potential for the list was
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366797 ( Revise the Location Bar )
which seems to cover not showing unreadable URLs in the address bar, like:
http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%…
... and instead showing stuff like:
http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вікіпедія
(and if that URL gets mangled by some email software, it was a 9 letter Ukrainian
word, written in a non-ASCII alphabet). But the point is, if you spoke Ukrainian,
you could probably read the second version, versus having no hope of reading the
urlencoded version. Of course, there are security concerns about non-ASCII
alphabets that contain characters that look similar to ASCII ones, especially
in the domain name portion, but presumably these can be resolved somehow
(e.g. there's something similar in operation now I think for detecting very
similar looking Wikipedia usernames, including using non-ASCII chars).
All the best,
Nick.