With this change, MediaWiki will no longer have a 'JavaScript-powered'
wikitext toolbar, and instead sysadmins will be required to choose one
(or more) of the several extensions available for this purpose if they
need the functionality. For over half a decade MediaWiki's tarball has
included the 2010-era replacement for this feature, WikiEditor. We are
now working on replacing even that, with the 2013-era visual editor, a
mode of which is the forthcoming 2017-era wikitext editor, and several
more specialised editors like CodeEditor.
Beyond this, the core editor toolbar is ancient, un-loved, and is used
only exceptionally rarely, mostly by accident. It is unhelpful to give
implicitly this as the primary editor for MediaWiki just because we've
not removed it from core when it is not a very good experience for any
kind of user, and has not received the attention that users deserve to
be worth retaining in core.
The old core preference, which was intended to govern whether this old
toolbar should be shown, has since mutated into whether the to run the
EditPageBeforeEditToolbar hook. The hook is used by several extensions
to provide toolbars in lieu of the core one. This preference has been,
in practice, a very confusing preference for MediaWiki users, who have
to interact with quite similar preferences to toggle their real editor
which sit next to this one on the preferences page. Consequently, this
preference is also removed.
The code could be made into an extension for those (very few) users of
MediaWiki who might want to keep on using it. However, the author will
offer their services but not their encouragement in said undertaking.
Bug: T30856
Bug: T32795
Change-Id: I2b05f0ca25873ad8e0b33a5e4938bef52c4e9347
When there are multiple aliases, the first alias MUST be the
preferred alias in that language, so that wikitext code
generators can generate the desired syntax.
The other aliases SHOULD be sorted by the following convention:
- Local first, English last
- Most common first, least common last
Bug: T116020
Change-Id: Ia670512e0cb375335873e7f9a08b638bbe039e45
Imported RandomRootPage extension as SpecialRandomrootpage, including
its aliases and localization messages.
Bug: T109809
Change-Id: I7252ae9f4a8f1822b023cc4f0d3a732af48d84d3
Tuvan (tyv) didn't have a special page section, so now it's added.
See also I6f84eaf414b6d4239522bad14e90b1cbfc82590f.
Bug: 69461
Change-Id: Ie6a4d878b87ee030f9c042b43f7b1fb424b54099
- use tab as indent instead of spaces
- Added space after closures "function"
- Added spaces around string_concat
- Added newline inside empty blocks
- Removed four spaces after comma
Change-Id: I4425b0c6a69b36f40acfea6511b8950cf09ce2b2
* Interface strings are now elsewhere
* MessagesQQQ no longer exists
* Prefer https for translatewiki.net
Change-Id: I76652ea94cca80441cd5d978029e4707ee41c4fd
