Hi Siebrand!
Am 13.06.2008 um 16:12 schrieb Siebrand Mazeland:
It do not really get this change.
The idea behind the change was that we want to achieve almost zero-
configuration for the Collection extension. In particular,
administrators do not have to care about the help page if they don't
want to use a custom help page, but if they care, they can provide one.
You change the help page handling from
maintainable inside the wiki to a configuration file.
Although it's configurable via a global variable, it has a sensible
default, so it's optional. Well, maybe the default was not so
sensible, as you point out ^_^:
And there you use a
non-default interwiki code (mw: is not present in interwiki.sql.
"mediawikiwiki:" points to
www.mediawiki.org).
OK, that was my fault. I googled for the interwiki code of
mediawiki.org and *somewhere* (it was some "official" site, but I
don't remember which one exactly) saw the code "mw" for
mediawiki.org
in a table with other interwiki codes, which obviously was just wrong
or outdated. I'd change that to "mediawikiwiki" as soon as we have an
agreement on the general help page handling.
It will also no longer facilitate localisation of the
help page URL.
Isn't configuration via LocalSettings.php and $wgCollectionHelpPage
sufficient for localisation, too?
I am not sure this is an improvement... I suggest you
change it back
and
replace 'coll-helppage' to "mediawikiwiki:Extension:Collection/
Help". I will
set the message to 'optional' so that translators will not localise
it,
unless there is a need for it (for example because
"mediawikiwiki:Extension:Collection/Help" was translated).
If I understand correctly this would effectively inhibit the
configuration of a custom help page which is stored in the local
MediaWiki, at least without adjusting Collection.i18n.php.
As I understand it, Collection.i18n.php shouldn't be used for
configuration purposes or shouldn't need to be touched by an
administrator who is merely using the extension, not modifying it.
If my changes were complete nonsense I'll revert them :-)
I'm open to any suggestions!
Thanks and regards,
Jojo