new lexer request: mediawiki

[Anteru]

(Original issue 1120 created by None on 2015-06-25T00:48:23.593066+00:00)

See also:

https://github.com/textmate/mediawiki.tmbundle

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/213964/3/geshi/geshi/mediawiki.php

[Anteru]

(Original comment by sseb35 on 2018-02-21T13:52:25.715751+00:00)

I began working on it and I have a first "Work in Progress"; I just need some time to publish it, I didn’t used hg since a long time and I don’t know how BitBucket works in details.

[ghost]

Does it have the extensive feature set of these two files?

Note only the second file is very good at handling template parameter/argument values, which allow any nested wikitext.

Mediawiki is VERY complex stuff and I salute you if you've made progress

[Artoria2e5]

It's also going to need an HTML part. Subclassing under HTML might be a good idea.

[Kenny2github]

Mediawiki is VERY complex stuff

At least this is just lexing, rather than parsing - parsers run into problems when templates are involved, e.g. what happens when Template:Bold contains the text ''' and then you have '''bold{{bold}}?
Whereas all the lexer has to do is emit ''', bold, {{, bold, }}

[edg2s]

We are trying to phase out templates that output unbalanced syntax. They should be pretty rare and it would be an acceptable failing edge case for a highlighter IMO.

Downstream issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29828

[NovemLinguae]

Does it have the extensive feature set of these two files?

Note only the second file is very good at handling template parameter/argument values, which allow any nested wikitext.

Mediawiki is VERY complex stuff and I salute you if you've made progress

The second link died. Here's an updated link.

(Original comment by sseb35 on 2018-02-21T13:52:25.715751+00:00)

I began working on it and I have a first "Work in Progress"; I just need some time to publish it, I didn’t used hg since a long time and I don’t know how BitBucket works in details.

@Anteru You mention a "work in progress". Is there a way to publish what you have somewhere and link it here?

[Anteru]

@NovemLinguae That's an imported issue from back when we used Bitbucket originally by sseb35. During the conversion everything got attributed to me :) I don't have anything work-in-progress, and unless you can track down who sseb35 there's no way to find out what it was.

[jhsoby]

@NovemLinguae That's an imported issue from back when we used Bitbucket originally by sseb35. During the conversion everything got attributed to me :) I don't have anything work-in-progress, and unless you can track down who sseb35 there's no way to find out what it was.

I'm pretty sure sseb35 is @Seb35 – a familiar name in wiki circles.

[diskdance]

There is also another TextMate lexer for VSCode:
https://github.com/Frederisk/Wikitext-VSCode-Extension/blob/master/syntaxes/wikitext.tmLanguage.yaml

[diskdance]

3 months of work. Hope it is useful! :)

[diskdance]

@jeanas This issue can be closed now.