It's a parctice that dates back to 2006 when the API was first written, and frankly isn't covered by the coding conventions. Same thing with the docblocks, they're all copypasted with some bits changed and don't even make sense if you look at them in the genereated code docs.
I don't feel that any of us depend on this anymore (get a better IDE), so in the inerest of consistancy it's time we said goodbye to it.
sed -i 's/$wgContLanguageCode/$wgLanguageCode/g'
These are now the same, always. Per and since r15827.
$wgLanguageCode wins due to being the one set by LocalSettings.
$wgContLanguageCode definition at includes/Setup.php kept for now.
"I wouldn't object to stylizing the API code to bring it in line with
the rest of MW on principle, but I'm not gonna bother myself." --Roan
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/60657#c5108>
If you're seeing this commit in blames, tell your blame tool to ignore
whitespace, e.g., git blame -w or svn blame -x -w.
Authentication is via a token entered in preferences, if not blank. If
you set a token in your preferences, the following sort of link will
generate the RSS feed:
api.php?action=feedwatchlist&list=watchlist&wluser=Simetrical&wltoken=91c1ef18279f9c24ccf67a79e899ae4d2a3201bc
I haven't actually added the <link> tag to Special:Watchlist, since I've
done enough coding for one night. Someone else can feel free to do
that (otherwise people might get kind of confused :) ).
An auto-generated random token is suggested to the user on the pref page
so that they don't have to be too creative. Pref help text is rather
underemphasized in the default style, though.
It would be worth considering making this opt-out instead of opt-in,
but that would require some voodoo magic to get the default prefs to
work right (since we'd need a different value for each user). We might
set the default to some function of user id + secret site-specific value
to avoid having to store the values in the database.
Since the feature is implemented via the API, it only works if the API
is enabled. Some API people might want to review my code for sanity.
Bug: 471
Doxygen documentation update:
* Changed alls @addtogroup to @ingroup. @addtogroup adds the comment to the group description, but doesn't add the file, class, function, ... to the group like @ingroup does. See for example http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/group__SpecialPage.html where it's impossible to see related files, classes, ... that should belong to that group.
* Added @file to file description, it seems that it should be explicitely decalred for file descriptions, otherwise doxygen will think that the comment document the first class, variabled, function, ... that is in that file.
* Removed some empty comments
* Removed some ?>
Added following groups:
* ExternalStorage
* JobQueue
* MaintenanceLanguage
One more thing: there are still a lot of warnings when generating the doc.
breaking change: Query watchlist shows flags only when explicitly requested with wlparam=flags, and rc_this_oldid (textid) is no longer accessible
query watchlist cleanup
bug in the integer parameter min/max validation
bug in feed formatting in error handling
some documentation
* Add @addtogroup tags to various classes, to try and group conceptually-related classes together.
* Add brief descriptions to various Special pages, thanks to Phil Boswell.
* Moving some docs to be right above the classes they represent, so that they are picked up.
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: switch in includes/Parser.php on line 3849
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: ref in includes/Parser.php on line 3818
* Strict Standards: Non-static method OutputPage::setEncodings() should not be called statically in index.php on line 11
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/Skin.php on line 888
* Strict Standards: Non-static method Title::newFromURL() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialContributions.php on line 178
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 2054
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: contributions-summary in languages/Language.php on line 764
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: trackbackhtml in skins/MonoBook.php on line 86
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: blockip in skins/MonoBook.php on line 204
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: tagline in skins/MonoBook.php on line 261
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: uselang in includes/SkinTemplate.php on line 1159
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::plural() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 0 in includes/SkinTemplate.php on line 196
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: USE INDEX in includes/Database.php on line 1015
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: image_tests in includes/Parser.php on line 3488
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 0 in includes/Parser.php on line 3507
* Strict Standards: Non-static method ChangesList::newFromUser() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php on line 361
* Strict Standards: Non-static method RecentChange::newFromCurRow() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialWatchlist.php on line 367
* Strict Standards: is_a(): Deprecated. Please use the instanceof operator in includes/Exception.php on line 168
* Strict Standards: Non-static method LogPage::logName() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialContributions.php on line 325
* Strict Standards: ob_end_flush(): failed to delete and flush buffer. No buffer to delete or flush. in maintenance/commandLine.inc on line 191
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: meatball in languages/Language.php on line 234
* Strict Standards: rmdir(/tmp/mwParser-2108164586-images/thumb): Directory not empty in maintenance/parserTests.inc on line 605
* Cleaning out some new temp files left over by parserTests (there were one or two straggler dirs/files that would persist after the test run ended, due to new tests being added over time)
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::special() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Declaration of ListUsersPage::preprocessResults() should be compatible with that of QueryPage::preprocessResults() in includes/SpecialListusers.php on line 38
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in includes/SpecialBlockip.php on line 175
* Strict Standards: Skin::include_once(skins/Standard.deps.php) [<a href='function.include-once'>function.include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in includes/Skin.php on line 121
* Strict Standards: Declaration of ApiMain::getResult() should be compatible with that of ApiBase::getResult() in includes/api/ApiMain.php on line 35
* Strict Standards: is_a(): Deprecated. Please use the instanceof operator in includes/WikiError.php on line 63
* Strict Standards: Non-static method WikiError::isError() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialImport.php on line 64
* Strict Standards: Non-static method ImportStreamSource::newFromInterwiki() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialImport.php on line 58<b
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/SpecialUndelete.php on line 501
* Strict Standards: Non-static method Image::newFromName() should not be called statically in thumb.php on line 56
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::numberoffiles() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::statisticsFunction() should not be called statically in includes/CoreParserFunctions.php on line 139
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::isRaw() should not be called statically in includes/CoreParserFunctions.php on line 128
* Strict Standards: Non-static method CoreParserFunctions::grammar() cannot be called statically in includes/Parser.php on line 2902
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 1 in includes/SpecialMIMEsearch.php on line 130
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: recentchangeslinked in skins/MonoBook.php on line 184
* Strict Standards: Declaration of DumpNotalkFilter::pass() should be compatible with that of DumpFilter::pass() in includes/Export.php on line 612
* Strict Standards: Declaration of DumpNamespaceFilter::pass() should be compatible with that of DumpFilter::pass() in includes/Export.php on line 665
* Strict Standards: Non-static method ImportStreamSource::newFromUpload() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialImport.php on line 46
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 5 in includes/Sanitizer.php on line 396
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: wikidbUserName in includes/SpecialUserlogin.php on line 562
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 95
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 116
* Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in includes/api/ApiQueryWatchlist.php on line 128
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_id in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 131
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_last_oldid in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 164
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_moved_to_ns in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 285
* Strict Standards: Undefined property: stdClass::$rc_patrolled in includes/api/ApiQueryBase.php on line 176
* Strict Standards: Undefined index: comment in includes/api/ApiFeedWatchlist.php on line 85
* Strict Standards: Undefined offset: 0 in includes/Skin.php on line 302
* Strict Standards: Non-static method User::SetupSession() should not be called statically in includes/SpecialUserlogin.php on line 15
... There are certain to be other things too, so this is not intended to be comprehensive, rather the above just stops most of the notifications I observed.
* removing some unused global declarations.
* removing or commenting out or adding comments for unused local vars.
* Adding one or two local var declarations.
* Declaring $matches array passed to preg_match() / preg_match_all() as array() before using [not required, just have a slight preference for the explicitness].
* remove one or two pass-by-reference function declarations where the value is not modified.
* Adding some braces to if-else blocks.
* In Parser.php, stripstrate is now an object rather than an array as per r17820, so we no longer need ask for a reference to it (as in "$x =& $this->mStripState;"), and in fact it's probably just simpler to get rid of $x altogether.
* Moving some preg regexes from "" quoting to '' quoting to stop static analyzer whinging about bad escape sequences.
... up to "LinksUpdate.php" in the includes/ directory.
