On 10/08/2011 6:53 AM, Daniel Friesen wrote:
Please don't edit DefaultSettings.php; Your $wgFooterIcons change could have been done in LocalSettings.php without causing trouble for yourself when you upgrade.
Ah, didn't realise LocalSettings.php was the right place to do my edits.
I guess I was coming from the perspective that I was contributing to core.
We have a DoEditSectionLink hook, adding those links should be possible without any modifications to core.
Yep, got that now. I'll fix that up. Thanks.
Though I don't really see anything we could add to MediaWiki. Most can already be done with hooks and config and fit more as extensions than default core features.
Fair enough.
And removing functionality of MediaWiki doesn't really count as adding something to core.
I kinda felt like I was adding more than I was taking away.
I can't comprehend the obsession with killing de-facto standardized patterns just to shove a button on a site to a picky validator that only takes into account a single relevant standard.
I'd rather not confuse my users who are trying to validate the HTML in their wiki text with noise from the platform. I don't control the validator, but I think it's a useful tool to incorporate on my web-site.
Maybe there should be a setting for 'strict html' which leaves out features that services like validator.w3.org don't accept.
John.