Related: T126618

Looks like wgAllowImageTag is not exported in the wikiconfig. So, this is a bit more involved than being simply a Parsoid-side omission.

What would be involved in making this fix?

For the last year I've had to modify Parsoid manually to make external images show.

In WikitextConstants.js line 302 there's JSUtils.deepFreeze(WikitextConstants);. I've been adding a line like WikitextConstants.Sanitizer.TagWhiteList.add( "IMG" ); above that.

Is there a cleaner way I can do this, such that I don't have to modify Parsoid? Somewhere I can make a similar change in a config file like localsettings.js?

@Jamesmontalvo3 The first step is described in T127884#2058682. There needs to be a patch to MediaWiki's action api to expose that setting in a siteinfo request.

Something like, https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/2c5550781472f65c09a884f50eb5aaa47250d572

Like this?

$ git diff
diff --git a/includes/api/ApiQuerySiteinfo.php b/includes/api/ApiQuerySiteinfo.php
index a08740a..2907089 100644
--- a/includes/api/ApiQuerySiteinfo.php
+++ b/includes/api/ApiQuerySiteinfo.php
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ class ApiQuerySiteinfo extends ApiQueryBase {

                $allowFrom = [ '' ];
                $allowException = true;
+               $data['allowimagetag'] = $config->get( 'AllowImageTag' );
+               $data[ApiResult::META_BC_BOOLS][] = 'allowimagetag';
                if ( !$config->get( 'AllowExternalImages' ) ) {
                        $data['imagewhitelistenabled'] = (bool)$config->get( 'EnableImageWhitelist' );
                        $allowFrom = $config->get( 'AllowExternalImagesFrom' );

Looks reasonable at first glance ... but please submit a patch in gerrit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Getting_started

<soapbox>Gerrit needs to be easier to access from behind restrictive firewalls</soapbox>

Okay will do...

In T127884#3240291, @Jamesmontalvo3 wrote:

<soapbox>Gerrit needs to be easier to access from behind restrictive firewalls</soapbox>

While it's not a very convenient workaround, https://tools.wmflabs.org/gerrit-patch-uploader/ can be used to submit a patch if your firewall blocks port 29418.