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Improve documentation for CodeMirror extension
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Current documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror

Please update with the following goals in mind:

Let's put the documentation for end-users (editors) at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting. That should include:

  • Provide a color coding key explaining what the available highlights are, and how they're colored.
  • Explain how a user can override the CodeMirror styles with their own styles (via their user common.css page).
  • Some screenshots

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kaldari created this task.May 8 2017, 10:40 PM
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kaldari moved this task from New & TBD Tickets to Needs Discussion on the Community-Tech board.May 8 2017, 10:40 PM
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Aklapper reopened this task as Open.May 9 2017, 10:19 AM
• DannyH added a parent task: T101246: Highlighted wikisyntax while editing articles [AOI].May 11 2017, 1:01 AM
• DannyH triaged this task as Medium priority.May 16 2017, 9:50 PM
kaldari updated the task description. (Show Details)May 16 2017, 11:53 PM
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• DannyH moved this task from Needs Discussion to Up Next (June 3-21) on the Community-Tech board.May 16 2017, 11:55 PM
• DannyH edited projects, added Community-Tech-Sprint; removed Community-Tech.May 26 2017, 8:23 PM
Niharika claimed this task.Jun 30 2017, 12:06 AM
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Niharika moved this task from In Development to Needs Review/Feedback on the Community-Tech-Sprint board.Jul 11 2017, 12:40 AM
Niharika added a subscriber: Quiddity.Jul 11 2017, 12:43 AM

This is now live at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting (with a TON of help from @Quiddity).

kaldari updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 11 2017, 6:39 PM
kaldari updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 11 2017, 6:51 PM

@Niharika: The new end-user documentation looks great. We still need to update the extension documentation though. See the first 3 bullet points in the description.

kaldari moved this task from Needs Review/Feedback to In Development on the Community-Tech-Sprint board.Jul 11 2017, 6:53 PM
Niharika added a comment.Jul 11 2017, 6:53 PM

@kaldari: We are directing our beta feature users to the talk page on mediawiki and the features page on meta. This is inconsistent. We should fix this.

Niharika added a comment.Jul 12 2017, 8:22 PM
== Integrating other extensions with CodeMirror ==
If your extension adds a special tag or code and you want to make sure CodeMirror highlights it, you can make your extension depend on CodeMirror. Here's [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/348673/ the first] and [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350840/ the second example] for doing this.

[[File:Pride and codemirror.png|300px|thumb|Screenshot of Syntax Highlighting in English.]]
[[File:Codemirror hindi.png|thumb|300px|Screenshot of Syntax Highlighting in Hindi.]]
[[File:Codemirror popup.png|thumb|250px|Screenshot of Syntax Highlighting with the popup for first-time users.]]

@kaldari I don't have any idea how the integration stuff works. The above is what I can add to the page. Is there anything you'd like to add to that?

Niharika moved this task from In Development to Needs Review/Feedback on the Community-Tech-Sprint board.Jul 12 2017, 8:24 PM
kaldari added a comment.Jul 12 2017, 8:25 PM

@Niharika: That'll work.

Niharika added a comment.Jul 12 2017, 8:30 PM

@Quiddity Hey! Can you help me update that page now? It still gives me weird Translate errors if I try to update it.

Add the below after 'Configuration parameters' section.

== Integrating other extensions with CodeMirror ==
If your extension adds a special tag or code and you want to make sure CodeMirror highlights it, you can make your extension depend on CodeMirror. Here's [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/348673/ the first] and [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350840/ the second example] for doing this.

And update the screenshots gallery with
Pride and codemirror.png
Codemirror hindi.png
Codemirror popup.png
(Remove the existing screenshot)

Thank you!

Quiddity added a comment.Jul 12 2017, 10:39 PM

Done. Plus I split up the To do list, so that adding/removing new items won't invalidate the whole block. :-)

kaldari closed this task as Resolved.Jul 12 2017, 10:56 PM
kaldari moved this task from Needs Review/Feedback to Q1 2018-19 on the Community-Tech-Sprint board.
• DannyH edited projects, added Community-Tech; removed Community-Tech-Sprint.Jul 18 2017, 10:39 PM
• DannyH moved this task from Up Next (June 3-21) to Archive on the Community-Tech board.Jul 18 2017, 10:46 PM
Liuxinyu970226 moved this task from Backlog to Done on the MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror board.Feb 9 2018, 4:02 PM
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