We have featured SVG native rendering in core for a while now, but because of WMF specifics, it has so far not been used by default. The third parties have indicated on multiple occasions that browser support has progressed to a point that they want to see it enabled by default, so that they do not have to handle the thumb nailing for it any longer.
Let's disable it for WMF (being a separate issue) and simply enable it by default for other users of MediaWiki.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T44725 Multimedia file format support (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T138665 Support SVG interactivity and animation in media-viewer | |||
| Open | None | T5593 [Epic] SVG client side rendering | |||
| Open | None | T208578 SVG client side rendering for specific SVGs | |||
| Resolved | TheDJ | T406023 Enable SVG native rendering for 3rd parties by default |
Change #1192528 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] SVG: do not allow native SVG rendering
Change #1171216 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: Remagoxer):
[mediawiki/core@master] Enable SVGNativeRendering by default
Can a site requester take care of this one ? https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1192528
I don't have the time to schedule config changes and be present during weekdays.
Sure thing :)
Just to check so that I know what to test for during the backport window (ie., what this config change shouldn't be doing), am I right in thinking that - if $wgSVGNativeRendering was set to true on Wikimedia wikis - a page like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia-logo_black.svg would directly embed an SVG file from the <img> tag, rather than a .svg.png file (e.g. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Wikimedia-logo_black.svg/960px-Wikimedia-logo_black.svg.png)?
Change #1192528 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] SVG: do not allow native SVG rendering
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-08T15:13:25Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1192528|SVG: do not allow native SVG rendering (T406023)]], [[gerrit:1201051|enwikibooks: Limit FlaggedRevs to specific namespaces; disable FR stable-transclusion-checking (T408110 T410330)]]
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-08T15:15:25Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm, asmartkitten, hartman: Backport for [[gerrit:1192528|SVG: do not allow native SVG rendering (T406023)]], [[gerrit:1201051|enwikibooks: Limit FlaggedRevs to specific namespaces; disable FR stable-transclusion-checking (T408110 T410330)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-08T15:22:14Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1192528|SVG: do not allow native SVG rendering (T406023)]], [[gerrit:1201051|enwikibooks: Limit FlaggedRevs to specific namespaces; disable FR stable-transclusion-checking (T408110 T410330)]] (duration: 08m 49s)
Change #1216857 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):
[mediawiki/core@master] Improve testcases for native SVG handling
Change #1216857 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Improve testcases for native SVG handling
Change #1171216 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Enable SVGNativeRendering by default