Add matrix: to allowed protocol list in MediaWiki core
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	Dec 30 2022, 4:29 AM

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See https://spec.matrix.org/v1.5/appendices/#matrix-uri-scheme

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Add matrix: to $wgUrlProtocols	mediawiki/core	REL1_38	+22 -20
Add matrix: to $wgUrlProtocols	mediawiki/core	REL1_35	+4 -3
Add matrix: to $wgUrlProtocols	mediawiki/core	REL1_39	+22 -19
Add matrix: to $wgUrlProtocols	mediawiki/core	master	+22 -19

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Mentioned Here: T326048: What URL protocols are recognized in plain text should be configurable separate of $wgUrlProtocols
T186061: Evaluate Matrix / Element as the recommended chat system for Wikimedia

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• Tgr created this task.Dec 30 2022, 4:29 AM

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On second thought, it would probably make more sense to add it to MediaWiki core.

valerio.bozzolan subscribed.Dec 30 2022, 7:56 AM

Change 873866 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; author: Gergő Tisza):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add matrix: to $wgUrlProtocols

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/873866

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 30 2022, 9:05 AM

• Tgr moved this task from Backlog to In progress on the Matrix board.Dec 30 2022, 9:05 AM

Peachey88 renamed this task from Add matrix: to allowed protocol list for Wikimedia wikis to Add matrix: to allowed protocol list in MediaWiki core.Dec 30 2022, 9:22 AM

Change 873866 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Add matrix: to $wgUrlProtocols

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/873866

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Sorry, but as someone who has not even heard about this protocol before (Wikipedia article), I have to ask: what exactly will this change enable MediaWiki (or our editors) to do? Has this been discussed on-wiki somewhere?

EDIT: Oh, I see there's this: T186061: Evaluate Matrix / Element as the recommended chat system for Wikimedia.

In T326021#8492476, @Dcljr wrote:

I have to ask: what exactly will this change enable MediaWiki (or our editors) to do? Has this been discussed on-wiki somewhere?

matrix:whatever will work as an external link, both as a free link and when enclosed in single brackets. I'm not aware of any on-wiki discussions, but it seemed reasonable to me given the presence of irc:// and xmpp:.

In T326021#8492476, @Dcljr wrote:

Sorry, but as someone who has not even heard about this protocol before (Wikipedia article), I have to ask: what exactly will this change enable MediaWiki (or our editors) to do?

My use case is supporting non-browser-based clients in Template:Matrix-channel. See the Matrix.org meta page for background; Matrix is one of the best FLOSS alternatives (I'd argue the best FLOSS alternative) for Telegram, Slack etc, and has seen some community use.

Has this been discussed on-wiki somewhere?

I don't think this kind of change needs on-wiki discussion, although admittedly I didn't think about non-bracketed links; that seems slightly annoying (but not any more than some existing protocols like tel: or news:). Maybe the list of protocols recognized in bare URLs should be configurable separately. A quick search only finds one enwiki article which will be affected, though, so I don't think this will cause problems.

Should be mentioned in Tech News, though. Maybe something like Strings starting with <code>matrix:</code> will be recognized as [[m:Matrix.org|Matrix]] URLs by the parser.?

Filed T326048: What URL protocols are recognized in plain text should be configurable separate of $wgUrlProtocols.

Johan moved this task from To Triage to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Jan 3 2023, 11:36 AM

Johan moved this task from Already announced/Archive to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Jan 3 2023, 11:40 AM

(FWIW matrix: is also one of the safelisted schemes since about a year ago, which I think mostly is what the defaults for $wgUrlProtocols are based on.)