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thiemowmde ddda536792 Drop unused cite_reference(s)_link_prefix messages
Same as Icfa8215 where we removed the …_suffix messages.

This patch is not blocked on anything according to CodeSearch:
https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=cite_references%3F_link_prefix

According to GlobalSearch there are 2 usages we need to talk about:
https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=.&regex=1&namespaces=8&title=Cite.references%3F.link.prefix.*

zh.wiktionary replaces "cite_ref-" with "_ref-", and "cite_note-"
with "_note-", i.e. they did nothing but remove the word "cite". This
happened in 2006, with no explanation.

ka.wikibooks and ka.wikiquote replace "cite_note-" with "_შენიშვნა-",
which translates back to "_note-". One user did this in 2007,
16 seconds apart.

It appears like both are attempts to localize what can be localized,
no matter if it's really necessary or not.
https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Shibo77?offset=20060510
https://ka.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Trulala?offset=20070219
Note how one user experimented with an "a" in some of the edits to
see what effect the change might have, to imediatelly revert it.

The modifications don't really have an effect on anything, except on
the anchors in the resulting <a href="#_ref-5"> and <sup id="_ref-5">
HTML. It might also be briefly visible in the browser's address bar
when such a link is clicked. We can only assume the two users did this
to make the URL appear shorter (?). A discussion apparently never
happened. Bot users are inactive.

Both pieces of HTML are generated in the Cite code. Removing the
messages will change all places the same time. All links will
continue to work. The only possible effect is that hard-coded
weblinks to an individual reference will link to the top of the
article instead. But:
a) This is extremely unlikely to happen. There is no reason to link
   to a reference from outside of the article.
b) Such links are not guaranteed to work anyway as they can break
   for a multitude of other reasons, e.g. the <ref> being renamed,
   removed, or replaced.
c) Even if such a link breaks, it still links to the correct article.

There is also no on-wiki code on zh.wiktionary that would do anything
with the shortened prefix:
https://zh.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F_%28ref%7Cnote%29-%2F&title=Special%3A%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns2=1&ns4=1&ns8=1&ns10=1&ns12=1&ns828=1&ns2300=1

I argue this is safe to remove, even without contacting the mentioned
communities first.

Bug: T321217
Change-Id: I160a119710dc35679dbdc2f39ddf453dbd5a5dfa
2024-01-04 13:17:42 +01:00
thiemowmde 4377f0923d More simple and consistent @covers and @license tags
Same arguments as in Iafa2412. The one reason to use more detailled
per-method @covers annotations is to avoid "accidental coverage"
where code is marked as being covered by tests that don't assert
anything that would be meaningful for this code. This is especially a
problem with older, bigger classes with lots of side effects.

But all the new classes we introduced over the years are small, with
predictable, local effects.

That's also why we keep the more detailled @covers annotations for
the original Cite class.

Bug: T353227
Bug: T353269
Change-Id: I69850f4d740d8ad5a7c2368b9068dc91e47cc797
2023-12-15 12:12:16 +01:00
Timo Tijhof 2ff327df53 tests: Widen @covers annotations
> We lose useful coverage and spend valuable time keeping these tags
> accurate through refactors (or worse, forget to do so).
>
> I am not disabling the "only track coverage of specified subject"
> benefits, nor am I claiming coverage in in classes outside the
> subject under test.
>
> Tracking tiny per-method details wastes time in keeping tags
> in sync during refactors, and time to realize (and fix) when people
> inevitably don't keep them in sync, and time lost in finding
> uncovered code to write tests for only to realize it was already
> covered but "not yet claimed".

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/owner:Krinkle+is:merged+message:%2522Widen%2522

Change-Id: Iafa241210b81ba1cbfee74e3920fb044c86d09fc
2023-12-14 01:54:48 +00:00
Thiemo Kreuz e5cda65fbe Remove single use classes from the use section
The name of the base class in tests is guaranteed to only occur a
single time in a file. There is not much value in making it relative,
and requiring it to appear in the use section. Especially because it
is in the root namespace.

This reflects what I once encoded in the sniff
https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseCodeSniffer/blob/master/Wikibase/Sniffs/Namespaces/FullQualifiedClassNameSniff.php
I wish we could pick this rule and use it in our codebases. But it
seems it is to specific and can't be applied on all codebases, hence
it can't become part of the upstream MediaWiki rule set. At least not
at the moment.

Change-Id: I77c2490c565b7a468c5c944301fc684d20206ec4
2019-12-17 14:57:55 +01:00
Thiemo Kreuz 51ff3cc819 Several code cleanups after getting rid of cloning
* Use the Html class to safely create HTML code.
* $this->referenceStack can not be null any more.
* $this->inReferencesGroup is not needed during output, only when
  parsing tags.
* Replace ReferencesStack::getGroupRefs() as well as deleteGroup()
  with a combined popGroup() that does both things.
* Extract the code responsible for the "responsive" behavior to a
  separate function.
* Some TestingAccessWrapper are not needed.

Change-Id: Ie1cf2533d7417ae2f6647664ff1145e37b814a39
2019-12-16 15:47:23 +01:00
Adam Wight bccb92335f Introduce ReferenceMessageLocalizer
Encapsulate the language interfaces, this will be used to replace
global wfMessage calls in future patches.

Change-Id: I7857f3e5154626e0b29977610b81103d91615f65
2019-12-04 13:40:05 +01:00