Hey,
Suggestion: you could use the validator extension [0] instead of
re-inventing the wheel in [1].
TL;DR: It's a declarative parameter processing framework written as
MediaWiki extension and used by several other MediaWiki extensions.
The documentation on
mw.org is outdated (the parameter definition syntax
and overall architecture changed quite a bit) but the basic idea remains
the same. The latest code is on the 1.0.x branch [2] and is going to be
merged into master as soon as the Maps extension is made compatible with
the new version. The code on the 1.0.x makes use of the DataValues and
associated extensions being developed for the Wikidata project. If you then
also consider the other extensions already using this I think it's pretty
safe to say this is going to keep being maintained and get more features,
thus has a huge advantage over doing something similar on your own.
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Validator
[1]
https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Widgets…
[2]
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Validator/tree/1.0.x
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
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