Noticed while working on T352308.
Currently mw.rcfilters is a public stable API by the definition expressed in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy/Frontend however it is never used (https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=mw%5C.rcfilters%5C.&files=&excludeFiles=&repos=) and appears in our JavaScript documentation.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mw.rcfilters is a private module | mediawiki/core | master | +165 -118 |
I don't think it needs to be. It was never intended to be a public stable API. The code was just written before packageFiles existed, so attaching things to a public namespace was the only way to share classes between files at that time. Now that the code has been packageFiles-ified, we can probably remove mw.rcfilters (with some changes to remove reliance on it internally within the RCFilters code, and in the tests).
Change 993820 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/core@master] mw.rcfilters is a private module
According to https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=mw%5C.rcfilters®ex=1&namespaces=&title=.*%5C.js it is referenced by 3 scripts which appear to be the same gadget and only reference it as a comment so this seems like it can skip deprecation.
Change 993820 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] mw.rcfilters is a private module