Last modified: 2014-06-30 13:45:14 UTC
Upgrading to MediaWiki 1.22.4, and the News extension stopped working. The tag I use is <newsfeed>. The feed content renders fine in the page, but when following the <newsfeedlink> I get a page with the following: "<h1>Not Found</h1><p>no feed found on page: [my feed name]</p>" Others report the problem here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:News#no_feed_found_on_page: The suggested workaround is to change lines 53-54 of NewsRenderer.php from $article->getContent(); $text = $article->mContent; To $text = $article->getContent(); I can confirm this works, but the documentation warns that Article::getContent is deprecated, and that it has side effects.
I tried: $page = $article->getPage(); $text = $page->getContent(); But the data structure isn't right, so nothing is returned.
Extension doesn't look too maintained to me.
I think the long term fix is to adapt the parser to the result of WikiPage->getContent(), but I don't have a MediaWiki development environment and I am having a hard time seeing what is returned from tha call. It is interesting that the feed content is correctly displayed on the wiki page with the <newsfeed> tag. If I can identify where that is happening, I can try to use the same process here. There should probably be a single function to do it for both places, and then hand them to different formatting functions for the display. I'm not clear on how much work the parser is doing.
