[Wikipedia-l] Article validation feature, or: The Feature, Resurrected

[Magnus Manske]

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(Note: I'm posting this here instead of wikitech-l because I believe it
is of broader interest)

I have finished updating (well: rewriting) the article validation
feature for the current development software version (1.5), to a point
where all essential functions work. I'll do some prettyfication (is that
a word?) later, or wait for someone else to do it ;-)

Is there a 1.5 test site to demonstrate it? I know 1.5 is still
considered insecure, but we'll need a test site at some point for actual
living users to beat the bits out of it...



Tech howto follows:
Run "patch-validate.sql" to update the table schema. Set
"$wgUseValidation=true" in LocalSettings. Enjoy.
Caveats:
* Currently PHPTal only
* The old (1.4) code is still in SpecialValidate.php, but commented out
* Currently every logged-in user can both validate and set topics for
validation. At least the latter has to be severly restricted in a live
version, as deletion of a topic will delete all data associated with the
topic as well.

Magnus
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