On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:32:29 -0800, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Arbitrary HTML and JavaScript in the MediaWiki:
messages is dangerous,
and is something that's being phased out. There are a couple reasons
for this.
The first is security: on our larger sites we have literally *hundreds*
of sysops with permissions to edit these messages.
[snip etc.]
I thought this was likely to be the case.
It would probably be worthwhile to write up the
special character
inserter as a MediaWiki extension -- then it could be inserted into the
wikitext message in a safe, secure way.
It would indeed. A lot of the characters needed for the dictionary are
not easy for many people to access. Copy-and-paste is fine, but point-and-
click would be much more convenient, if it can be securely reimplemented.
*Muke!
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