[Wiktionary-l] Doing things we used to be able to do, in the new upgrade

Wed Dec 22 00:54:27 UTC 2004

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:32:29 -0800, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Arbitrary HTML and JavaScript in the MediaWiki: messages is dangerous,
> and is something that's being phased out. There are a couple reasons
> for this.
>
> The first is security: on our larger sites we have literally *hundreds*
> of sysops with permissions to edit these messages.
[snip etc.]

I thought this was likely to be the case.

> It would probably be worthwhile to write up the special character
> inserter as a MediaWiki extension -- then it could be inserted into the
> wikitext message in a safe, secure way.

It would indeed.  A lot of the characters needed for the dictionary are
not easy for many people to access.  Copy-and-paste is fine, but point-and-
click would be much more convenient, if it can be securely reimplemented.

	*Muke!
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