Added option to specify "Various authors" as author in extension credits using "...

If the "author" array contains more than one entry and "..." is one of the entries in the array, "..." will be parsed as "others" (version-poweredby-others i18n message) like previously.

Change-Id: Ibebd3c38a674abd9f066b38e92c7f712f7b3ba8d

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.34 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.34
index a99fd31..2e075ec 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.34
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.34
@@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ because of Phabricator reports.
   respectively instead.
 
 === Other changes in 1.34 ===
+* Added option to specify "Various authors" as author in extension credits using
+  "..." as the only author name. If the "author" array contains more than one
+  entry and "..." is one of the entries in the array, "..." will be parsed as
+  "others" (version-poweredby-others i18n message) like previously.
 * …
 
 == Compatibility ==

diff --git a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
index fa78cbe..6ad02f0 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
+++ b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
@@ -988,7 +988,27 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
                $linkRenderer = $this->getLinkRenderer();
 
                $list = [];
-               foreach ( (array)$authors as $item ) {
+               $authors = (array)$authors;
+
+               // Special case: if the authors array has only one item and it is "...",
+               // it should not be rendered as the "version-poweredby-others" i18n msg,
+               // but rather as "version-poweredby-various" i18n msg instead.
+               if ( count( $authors ) === 1 && $authors[0] === '...' ) {
+                       // Link to the extension's or skin's AUTHORS or CREDITS file, if there is
+                       // such a file; otherwise just return the i18n msg as-is
+                       if ( $extName && $this->getExtAuthorsFileName( $extDir ) ) {
+                               return $linkRenderer->makeLink(
+                                       $this->getPageTitle( "Credits/$extName" ),
+                                       $this->msg( 'version-poweredby-various' )->text()
+                               );
+                       } else {
+                               return $this->msg( 'version-poweredby-various' )->escaped();
+                       }
+               }
+
+               // Otherwise, if we have an actual array that has more than one item,
+               // process each array item as usual
+               foreach ( $authors as $item ) {
                        if ( $item == '...' ) {
                                $hasOthers = true;
 

diff --git a/languages/i18n/en.json b/languages/i18n/en.json
index 82826c5..d34a3e8 100644 (file)
--- a/languages/i18n/en.json
+++ b/languages/i18n/en.json
@@ -3580,6 +3580,7 @@
        "version-poweredby-credits": "This wiki is powered by <strong>[https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]</strong>, copyright © 2001-$1 $2.",
        "version-poweredby-others": "others",
        "version-poweredby-translators": "translatewiki.net translators",
+       "version-poweredby-various": "Various authors",
        "version-credits-summary": "We would like to recognize the following persons for their contribution to [[Special:Version|MediaWiki]].",
        "version-license-info": "MediaWiki is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.\n\nMediaWiki is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but <em>WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY</em>; without even the implied warranty of <strong>MERCHANTABILITY</strong> or <strong>FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE</strong>. See the GNU General Public License for more details.\n\nYou should have received [{{SERVER}}{{SCRIPTPATH}}/COPYING a copy of the GNU General Public License] along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA or [//www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html read it online].",
        "version-software": "Installed software",

diff --git a/languages/i18n/qqq.json b/languages/i18n/qqq.json
index a33608f..c0d4d81 100644 (file)
--- a/languages/i18n/qqq.json
+++ b/languages/i18n/qqq.json
@@ -3790,6 +3790,7 @@
        "version-poweredby-credits": "Message shown on [[Special:Version]]. Parameters:\n* $1 - the current year\n* $2 - a list of selected MediaWiki authors",
        "version-poweredby-others": "Used at the end of {{msg-mw|version-poweredby-credits}} on [[Special:Version]]. First, there's a long list of selected MediaWiki authors, then a comma and then this translation, which is supposed to credit the many other people than developer helping with MediaWiki.\n{{Identical|Other}}",
        "version-poweredby-translators": "Used as label for a link to [[Translating:MediaWiki/Credits]].\n\nPreceded by {{msg-mw|version-poweredby-others}} and {{msg-mw|and}}.\n\nUsed at the end of {{msg-mw|version-poweredby-credits}} on [[Special:Version]].",
+       "version-poweredby-various": "Shown on [[Special:Version]] as an author name if the extension or skin (etc.) credits contain only <code>...</code> which is used to indicate various (unknown or unspecified) authors. See also {{msg-mw|version-poweredby-others}}, which is used when an extension or a skin contains code by various named and unnamed contributors.",
        "version-credits-summary": "Summary of the [[Special:Version/Credits]] sub page, which lists all developers etc. who contributed to MediaWiki. Shown at the top.",
        "version-license-info": "[[wikipedia:GNU GPL|GNU GPL]] notice shown at [[Special:Version]]. See //www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-translations.html for available translations.",
        "version-software": "Message shown on [[Special:Version]].\nThis message is followed by the list of installed software (MediaWiki, PHP and MySQL).",