Rob Church wrote:
On 11/06/07, Christoph ch95@rz.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page
As of MediaWiki 1.7.0, we started requiring PHP 5, which includes class autoloading.
The page as quoted failed to note this, or at least was sufficiently subtle that I could not find anything relevant.
I have therefore added a ridiculously garish box to this effect which I invite somebody to copy-edit and tone down.
This reinforces my view that we should have some sort of mechanism like the parser-hook system for adding extension pages, so that the code can be written to a published interface and upgrade gracefully.
HTH HAND