Mailing List Archive: Re: [Lqwiki-list] Where to download modified MediaWiki

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy
<jeremy@linuxquestions.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Dori wrote:
>
> > I brought it up once before :) I didn't have much hope then since you
> > guys were on a much older version, but if you made it work with 1.3.7
> > then it couldn't be that hard to plug back into the main branch if
> > someone wanted to. Besides, if it makes it in, that's one less thing
> > you'll have to change on some future release of MediaWiki you decide
> > to install (or do you have some way of doing the patch automagically?)
>
> If there is interest to get it merged in upstream, we'd certainly
> be willing to submit it. One downside is that is does require a PHP
> compile option that some may not have (or course, if merged upstream I
> assume it would become a config option anyway, so it could just be disabled
> for those who don't have it).

Can it be turned into an extension (and I'm not a developer so I have
no idea what that entails)? I'm crossposting this to the mediawiki
mailing list where some of the devs might chime in.

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Sorry, this whole things is about adding a spell checking option to
MediaWiki, it's already being used at lqwiki which is on MediaWiki
1.3.7

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:11:40 -0500, Dori <slowpoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy
> <jeremy@linuxquestions.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Dori wrote:
> >
> > > I brought it up once before :) I didn't have much hope then since you
> > > guys were on a much older version, but if you made it work with 1.3.7
> > > then it couldn't be that hard to plug back into the main branch if
> > > someone wanted to. Besides, if it makes it in, that's one less thing
> > > you'll have to change on some future release of MediaWiki you decide
> > > to install (or do you have some way of doing the patch automagically?)
> >
> > If there is interest to get it merged in upstream, we'd certainly
> > be willing to submit it. One downside is that is does require a PHP
> > compile option that some may not have (or course, if merged upstream I
> > assume it would become a config option anyway, so it could just be disabled
> > for those who don't have it).
>
> Can it be turned into an extension (and I'm not a developer so I have
> no idea what that entails)? I'm crossposting this to the mediawiki
> mailing list where some of the devs might chime in.
>
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> [[en:User:Dori]]
>

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