In T29828#8760696, @bd808 wrote:

The current release of Pygments is 2.14.0 which was released on 2023-01-01. The new lexer was merged on 2023-04-05 so it obviously is not in the current release. It should be in the planned 2.15.0 release.

Thanks for adding this. Documentation updates are something that gets overlooked, so tracking these tasks is good :)

Using English Wikipedia as an example, search gives 364 entries for lang="moin :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5Clang%5C%3D%5C%22moin%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns118=1&ns119=1&ns710=1&ns711=1&ns828=1&ns829=1&ns2300=1&ns2301=1&ns2302=1&ns2303=1

Anyone know if some kind of technical report listing occurrences on other wikis is feasible? ( possibly also listing other 'variants' mentioned previously.)

In T334137#8763273, @ShakespeareFan00 wrote:

Anyone know if some kind of technical report listing occurrences on other wikis is feasible? ( possibly also listing other 'variants' mentioned previously.)

• lang=moin: https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=%22lang%3Dmoin%22 seems to work for the unquoted case ().
• lang="moin": https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=lang\%3D\"moin\"&regex=1

It should be possible to repeat these with the other interesting language choices.

https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=lang%5C%3D%5C%22%3F%28moin%7Chtml%5C%2Bhandlebars%29%5C%22%3F&regex=1 seems to work as a global search for the two languages suggested at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight#Supported_languages in both quoted and unquoted form.

Another possible clean-up list item is example/sample wikitext which has been <nowiki> ed. ?

Draft for Tech/News
Later the SyntaxHighlight extension will start supporting wikitext markup as the corresponding Pygments library has been updated. You will be able to use the new highlight by selecting the language wikitext. Old highlights used to replace wikitext highlights, such as html5, moin, html+handlebars, could be replaced.

Check this text plz :)

Thanks for the draft! Appreciated.
I suggest we postpone this entry until the week after it is merged, both so that it can be tested and confirmed as working, but more importantly so that editors can immediately start using it when they learn about it! (versus up to 4 days later)

In T334137#8783032, @Quiddity wrote:

Thanks for the draft! Appreciated.
I suggest we postpone this entry until the week after it is merged, both so that it can be tested and confirmed as working, but more importantly so that editors can immediately start using it when they learn about it! (versus up to 4 days later)

Yes, I thought about that too. Initially, I started writing a draft without knowing that there were some delays T320848#8777556 :)

In T334137#8783024, @Iniquity wrote:

Draft for Tech/News
Later the SyntaxHighlight extension will start supporting wikitext markup as the corresponding Pygments library has been updated. You will be able to use the new highlight by selecting the language wikitext or mediawiki. Old highlights used to replace wikitext highlights, such as html5, moin, html+handlebars, could be replaced.

Check this text plz :)

Personally I would recommend telling people to only use wikitext to keep code consistency, as mediawiki only exists for compatibility.

In T334137#8783071, @Diskdance wrote:

In T334137#8783024, @Iniquity wrote:

Draft for Tech/News
Later the SyntaxHighlight extension will start supporting wikitext markup as the corresponding Pygments library has been updated. You will be able to use the new highlight by selecting the language wikitext or mediawiki. Old highlights used to replace wikitext highlights, such as html5, moin, html+handlebars, could be replaced.

Check this text plz :)

Personally I would recommend telling people to only use wikitext to keep code consistency, as mediawiki only exists for compatibility.

Oh, ok, fixed :) Thanks!

@bd808 From my testing single quotes also work as lang='xxx'. I think those cases need to be searched too.

In T334137#8783456, @Diskdance wrote:

@bd808 From my testing single quotes also work as lang='xxx'. I think those cases need to be searched too.

I think lang=xxx also works.
lang="tid" is also used as a wikimarkup substitute (by me, at least).

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples updates: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help%3AWikitext_examples&diff=24967914&oldid=24673569

Woohoo! Is this now ready to go into the next edition of Tech News, or does anything else need to be deployed or updated or checked beforehand?
And does anyone have further suggestions to improve the draft?

Draft: If I tweak and simplify Iniquity's draft from above... (T334137#8783024), I think something like this may work?

The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [ 1 ]

Should be good to go for the next edition! Thanks for posting the simplified version.

It appears that lang="html5" (example) and lang="html4strict" (example) stopped working recently.
I'm not sure if that was on purpose (I can't see any related upstream changes), or related to efforts tangential to this task?
It might be good impetus to move forward with that aspect of this task?
Or perhaps we should file a new phab-task to create an alias for these old keywords? (Asking here first, as you folks might be familiar with any changes I overlooked)

@Quiddity I think it's unrelated. Looking at Pygments I cannot find lexers for html5 and html4strict, and looking up in the release notes I cannot find relevant information either.

It seems to me that there will be no more work on this task and it can be closed, right? :)

The checklist above still has several incomplete entries.