[Mediawiki-l] ProtectSection update && New C Style WIki Includes Extension

[Dantman]

I should've noted it before but there are 2 newthings/updates.

There was a bug in the ProtectSection extension. One line caused a PHP 
error which stopped people without permissions from using the newsection 
ability. I modified the code on 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProtectSection to fix it. I also 
switched it to use of Source instead of pre because people who were 
copying it from the page instead of from the edit box ended up with a 
bug which made the <protect></protect> tags not stripped out from the 
page display.

I also created an extension for external includes. It was inspired of an 
amusing userpage, but it allows for something I haven't seen before, 
WikiText includes. Meaning that you can use an include on the raw output 
of a page, and have the WikiText included and parsed locally (Scary 
Transclusions are parsed remotely).
I'm considering extending the extension later on to accept interwiki 
links or some other type of links. But for now it just does urls. To 
protect from XSS attacks the HTML includes can only be added by those 
with proper permissions. I'll thank the ProtectSection extension for 
showing me how to let those with permission add and modify it, while 
disallowing users without it from adding or modifying them but still 
letting them edit the actual page.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:C_Style_Wiki_Includes

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~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com