Phil Boswell wrote:
I have therefore added a ridiculously garish box to this effect which I invite somebody to copy-edit and tone down.
Looks fine to me :)
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.
This has been discussed a bit on Mediawiki-l. I think it's a very good idea. The discussion on the other mailing list tends toward a user-friendly interface for add/upgrade/delete of extensions, but this sort of internal interface standardization is part and parcel AKAIC.
Mike