Last modified: 2014-09-24 06:23:16 UTC
MediaWiki external link syntax parsing does not appear to support the view-source [URI schemes][1] potentially others as well. [Live example][2]. Here, I attempted to add an external link directly to view the source of a webpage to validate the licensing of a public domain image but the link renders only the rendered HTML page link. In HTML an anchor tag can be assigned a view-source link like so..[ref][3] <A HREF="view-source://...> and MediaWiki documents external linking syntax to be like so.. [href value|visible text] I attempted to add the external wikilink // should be the accurate value [view-source:sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm][4] // doesn't seem accurate because view-source and http are both defining the URI scheme but this is how it works if you copy/paste it into the address bar [view-source:http://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm][5] // tried a few other variations as well [view-source://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm][6] [view-source://http://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm][7] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Official_IANA-registered_schemes [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Raven_Tales#Undeletion_of_image_requested [3]: http://ccd.uab.es/recursos/manualhtml/Anchors/anchor.htm [4]: view-source:sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm [5]: view-source:http://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm [6]: view-source://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm [7]: view-source://http://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/tmt/index.htm
This is simple to do; no particular view either way on whether we should.
I was going to object on the basis it wasn't an official registered uri schema, but apparently it is. So I'm going to object on the basis of lack of support on IE7+. If these sorts of urls don't work for random segments of the population, with probably a very unclear error message, I think that's a bad thing. This argument of course is pretty weak given how well gopher:// is supported these days. (To clarify, are you just asking for wikimedia wikis, or mediawiki in general? It should be noted that which urls mediawiki supports is configurable in LocalSettings.php if you're a third party wiki). So to summarize, I'm mildly opposed on the basis it feels odd and icky to me, but I don't really have a coherent argument against, so if someone else wants to do it, I won't object.
(In reply to Bawolff (Brian Wolff) from comment #2) +1
