User talk:S Page (WMF)

test test

Anonymous hello

HTML5 named entities

Regarding the sub-section you added just now at HTML5#Avoid_HTML_named_entities: Would it not be better to encode ' as  instead of as '? The advice at w:List of XML and HTML character entity references#Entities representing special characters in XHTML is to use numeric references for apostrophes, because the named entity was never defined in legacy HTML (unlike ", &, <, and >, which are the only entities defined in both XML/XHTML and legacy HTML). It seems wiser to restrict output to numeric entities (which are guaranteed to parse) whenever named entities might not validate or render, even if current browsers don't mind. — Richardguk (talk) 21:45, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Good question, legacy HTML vs numeric. You're right, that's what Sanitizer.php does and there are lots of numeric references in our code and no '. Except it's not decimal 27 () , it's 39 (') which is hexadecimal 27 ('). FWIW I have never had to encode apostrophe. I was just distilling the wikitech-l discussion because it was news to me and seemed important. -- S Page (WMF) (talk) 22:06, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful response – and for spotting my own hex/dec parsing failure, inadvertently proving that numeric entities are not foolproof when I am typing them! — Richardguk (talk) 22:20, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Cloak request

Hey there, you requested the cloak, but did not send a memo to us. Please do this:

/ms send wmfgc IRC cloak request

As for what cloak will appear, it then will be something like *!*@wikimedia/s-page-wmf, as this is the name with which you are requesting the cloak, if you'd own user:SPage, you can make the confirming edit with that account, and I will get you a cloak with that name. Just let me know. -Barras (talk) 10:09, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

I did this a few days ago, but retrying in Pidgin IRC client there's no /ms command, and /msg doesn't know of "wmfgc". Anyway, sounds like it's coming, thanks. -- S Page (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Try /msg MemoServ instead of /ms when your IRC client does this. Same goes for /cs -> ChanServ, /ns -> NickServ, etc.--Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:18, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

welcomecreation

Hello, thank you very much for your list of wikis and instructions: I've used them for MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5#welcomecreation and notified those 200 wikis which customized it, plus about 250 wikis which don't yet have translations. --Nemo 21:37, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Usually, the extensive release notes are only on wiki, but a bullet point mentioning the bug name and giving a couple lines of advice on how to keep customisations should surely be included in the release notes file IMHO. --Nemo 08:04, 6 December 2012 (UTC)