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id="toc-mw-content-text" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a href="#" class="vector-toc-link"> <div class="vector-toc-text">Beginning</div> </a> </li> <li id="toc-Installation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Installation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1</span> <span>Installation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Installation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Configuration_parameters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Configuration_parameters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Configuration parameters</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Configuration_parameters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-API" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a 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reprocess all pages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bootstrap_or_reprocess_all_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Special_pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Special_pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Special pages</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Special_pages-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Special pages subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Special_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Configuring_available_lints" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Configuring_available_lints"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Configuring available lints</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Configuring_available_lints-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Toggle the table of contents</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">Extension</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Linter</span></h1> <div class="mw-indicators"> <div id="mw-indicator-phabricator-project" class="mw-indicator"><div class="mw-parser-output"><div class="mw-parser-output"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6605561">.mw-parser-output .tpl-badge{background-color:var(--background-color-progressive-subtle,#eaf3ff);color:var(--color-base,#202122);border-radius:10px;display:inline-block;font-size:90%;padding:5px 8px}</style><div class="tpl-badge"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator" title="Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator">Issue tracker</a>: <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-linter/" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/mediawiki-extensions-linter/"><b>#MediaWiki-extensions-Linter</b></a></div></div></div></div> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-extension" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Extension:Linter" title="View the subject page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Extension</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Extension_talk:Linter" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Discussion</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown 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class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Extension:Linter"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit" title="Edit the source code of this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-history" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-tools-dropdown" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Tools" > <label 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href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=history"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Extension:Linter" title="A list of all wiki pages that link here [j]" accesskey="j"><span>What links here</span></a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Extension:Linter" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k"><span>Related changes</span></a></li><li id="t-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard" title="Upload files [u]" accesskey="u"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="t-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q"><span>Special pages</span></a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&oldid=6605908" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page"><span>Permanent link</span></a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=info" title="More information about this page"><span>Page information</span></a></li><li id="t-cite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=Extension%3ALinter&id=6605908&wpFormIdentifier=titleform" title="Information on how to cite this page"><span>Cite this page</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FExtension%3ALinter"><span>Get shortened URL</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FExtension%3ALinter"><span>Download QR code</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-coll-print_export" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Print/export </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-create_a_book" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=Extension%3ALinter"><span>Create a book</span></a></li><li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=Extension%3ALinter&action=show-download-screen"><span>Download as PDF</span></a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p"><span>Printable version</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> In other projects </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-wikibase" class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikibase-dataitem mw-list-item"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q27292553" title="Link to connected data repository item [g]" accesskey="g"><span>Wikidata item</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-appearance" class="vector-appearance vector-pinnable-element"> <div 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.ext-status-stable,.mw-parser-output .ext-status-stable td{border-color:#00af89}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-stable .ext-infobox-header{background-color:#068468;color:#FFF}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-stable .ext-infobox-header a{color:#fff}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained,.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained td{border-color:#ac6600}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained .ext-infobox-header{background-color:#ac6600;color:#FFF}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained .ext-infobox-header a{color:#fff}</style> <table class="infobox infobox-ltr ext-infobox ext-status-stable"> <caption><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions">MediaWiki extensions manual</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Extensions" title="Manual:Extensions"> </a></span></b></caption> <tbody><tr class="infobox-header ext-infobox-header notheme"> <th colspan="2"><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#Content" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg/40px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg/60px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg/80px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced-invert.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <span class="ext-infobox-name">Linter</span><br /> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension_status" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension status">Release status:</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension_status" title="Extension status"> </a></span> stable</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="ext-infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Linter_logo_v2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Linter_logo_v2.svg/300px-Linter_logo_v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Linter_logo_v2.svg/450px-Linter_logo_v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Linter_logo_v2.svg/600px-Linter_logo_v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="371" /></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="ext-infobox-type"><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#type" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Implementation</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#type" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special_pages" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special pages">Special page</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Special_pages" title="Manual:Special pages"> </a></span> </td></tr><tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#description" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Description</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#description" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td>Expose and track lint errors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#username" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Author(s)</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#username" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td>Kunal Mehta (<a href="/wiki/User:Legoktm" title="User:Legoktm">Legoktm</a><sup><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Legoktm" title="User talk:Legoktm">talk</a></sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#mediawiki" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><b>MediaWiki</b></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#mediawiki" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>>= 1.43</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><abbr title="'php update.php' needed after installation"><b>Database changes</b></abbr></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>Yes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#table1" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Tables</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#table1" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Linter/linter_table" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Linter/linter table">linter</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:Linter/linter_table" title="Extension:Linter/linter table"> </a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#license" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">License</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#license" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html">GNU General Public License 2.0</a> or later</td> </tr><tr> <td><b>Download</b></td> <td><div class="plainlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Linter" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/Linter"><b>Download extension</b></a> <br />Git <sup>[<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">?</a>]</sup>: <ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Linter/archive/master.tar.gz">Download Git master</a></span></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/Linter" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/Linter">browse repository</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Linter">GitHub</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/Linter/%2Blog/master" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/Linter/+log/master">commit history</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Linter/graphs/contributors">repository contributors (GitHub)</a></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/Linter" class="extiw" title="gerrit:q/project:mediawiki/extensions/Linter">code review</a></li></ul></div><br /><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/Linter/%2B/HEAD/README" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/Linter/+/HEAD/README">README</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#help" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Help</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#help" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter">Help:Extension:Linter</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter" title="Help:Extension:Linter"> </a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Parameters</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><span class="configvariable">$wgLinterCategories</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable">$wgLinterParseOnDerivedDataUpdate</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable">$wgLinterStatsdSampleFactor</span></li></ul></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#hook" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Hooks used</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#hook" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6219282">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none none;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist mw-collapsible-content"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo">APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo" title="Manual:Hooks/APIQuerySiteInfoGeneralInfo"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay">BeforePageDisplay</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay" title="Manual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/InfoAction" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/InfoAction">InfoAction</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/InfoAction" title="Manual:Hooks/InfoAction"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates">LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ParserLogLinterData" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ParserLogLinterData">ParserLogLinterData</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ParserLogLinterData" title="Manual:Hooks/ParserLogLinterData"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/RevisionDataUpdates" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/RevisionDataUpdates">RevisionDataUpdates</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/RevisionDataUpdates" title="Manual:Hooks/RevisionDataUpdates"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/WikiPageDeletionUpdates" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/WikiPageDeletionUpdates">WikiPageDeletionUpdates</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/WikiPageDeletionUpdates" title="Manual:Hooks/WikiPageDeletionUpdates"> </a></span></li></ul></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td title="This only includes downloads from Special:ExtensionDistributor. Other download methods such as git or bundled extensions are not included."><b>Quarterly downloads</b></td> <td>58 (Ranked 79<sup>th</sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Linter"><b>Public wikis using</b></a></td> <td>884 (Ranked 294<sup>th</sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="ext-infobox-translate"> <a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-linter" class="extiw" title="translatewiki:Special:Translate/ext-linter">Translate the Linter extension</a> if it is available at translatewiki.net</td> </tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"> </tr> <tr> <td> <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator" title="Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator">Issues</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Phabricator" title="Phabricator"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-linter" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/mediawiki-extensions-linter">Open tasks</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MediaWiki-extensions-Linter">Report a bug</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b>Linter</b> extension tracks lint errors from an external service. Currently the main use case is to track the errors identified by <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid" title="Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid">Parsoid</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Parsoid" title="Parsoid"> </a></span> and expose them to editors. Help for users wanting to fix errors is available at <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter">Help:Extension:Linter</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter" title="Help:Extension:Linter"> </a></span>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Installation">Installation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Installation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651107"><div role="note" class="note note-reminder"><b>This extension requires linting enabled in Parsoid's configuration.</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Linter" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/Linter">Download</a> and move the extracted <code>Linter</code> folder to your <code>extensions/</code> directory.<br />Developers and code contributors should install the extension <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">from Git</a> instead, using:<code class="mw-code mw-highlight" style="display:block">cd extensions/<br />git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Linter</code></li> <li>Add the following code at the bottom of your <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php">LocalSettings.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Manual:LocalSettings.php"> </a></span> file: <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">wfLoadExtension</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'Linter'</span> <span class="p">);</span> </pre></div></li> <li>Run the <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Update.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Update.php">update script</a></b> which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Yes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/23px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></span></span> <b>Done</b> – Navigate to <a href="/wiki/Special:Version" title="Special:Version">Special:Version</a> on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Configuration_parameters">Configuration parameters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Configuration parameters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Be warned that this config is not sufficient to get lints run or linter errors reported as of February 2024.</b> <b>There may be missing documentation.</b> <a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Xacinkitaj9izvts&topic_showPostId=xae6beo7acs1vbfh#flow-post-xae6beo7acs1vbfh">These settings might work</a> </p><p>In the $wgParsoidSettings section of your LocalSettings.php file, set </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$wgParsoidSettings</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s1">'linting'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="k">true</span> <span class="p">];</span> </pre></div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="API">API</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: API"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <h2 class="apihelp-header apihelp-module-name" dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterrors">list=linterrors (lnt)</h2><div class="apihelp-linktrail">(<a href="/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/main" class="apihelp-linktrail" dir="ltr" lang="en">main</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/query" class="apihelp-linktrail" dir="ltr" lang="en">query</a> | <b dir="ltr" lang="en">linterrors</b>)</div> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-flags"><ul><li><span class="apihelp-flag-readrights">This module requires read rights.</span></li><li><span class="apihelp-source">Source: <span dir="ltr" lang="en">Linter</span></span></li><li><span class="apihelp-license">License: <a href="/wiki/Special:Version/License/Linter" title="Special:Version/License/Linter"><span dir="ltr" lang="en">GPL-2.0-or-later</span></a></span></li></ul></div> <p>Get a list of lint errors </p> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-parameters"><div class="apihelp-block-head">Specific parameters:</div><div class="apihelp-block-header">Other general parameters are available.</div><dl><dt><span dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterrors:lntcategories">lntcategories</span></dt><dd class="description"><p>Categories of lint errors </p></dd><dd class="info">Values (separate with <kbd>|</kbd> or <a href="/w/api.php?action=help&modules=main#main/datatypes">alternative</a>): bogus-image-options, deletable-table-tag, duplicate-ids, fostered, fostered-transparent, html5-misnesting, large-tables, misc-tidy-replacement-issues, misnested-tag, missing-end-tag, missing-end-tag-in-heading, multi-colon-escape, multiline-html-table-in-list, multiple-unclosed-formatting-tags, night-mode-unaware-background-color, obsolete-tag, pwrap-bug-workaround, self-closed-tag, stripped-tag, tidy-font-bug, tidy-whitespace-bug, unclosed-quotes-in-heading, wikilink-in-extlink</dd><dd class="info">Default: deletable-table-tag|duplicate-ids|html5-misnesting|misc-tidy-replacement-issues|multiline-html-table-in-list|multiple-unclosed-formatting-tags|pwrap-bug-workaround|self-closed-tag|tidy-font-bug|tidy-whitespace-bug|unclosed-quotes-in-heading|bogus-image-options|fostered|misnested-tag|multi-colon-escape|wikilink-in-extlink|missing-end-tag|missing-end-tag-in-heading|night-mode-unaware-background-color|obsolete-tag|stripped-tag</dd><dt><span dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterrors:lntlimit">lntlimit</span></dt><dd class="description"><p>Number of results to query </p></dd><dd class="info">Type: integer or <kbd>max</kbd></dd><dd class="info">The value must be between 1 and 500.</dd><dd class="info">Default: 10</dd><dt><span dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterrors:lntnamespace">lntnamespace</span></dt><dd class="description"><p>Only include lint errors from the specified namespaces </p></dd><dd class="info">Values (separate with <kbd>|</kbd> or <a href="/w/api.php?action=help&modules=main#main/datatypes">alternative</a>): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 486, 487, 710, 711, 828, 829, 1198, 1199, 2600, 5500, 5501</dd><dd class="info">To specify all values, use <kbd>*</kbd>.</dd><dt><span dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterrors:lntpageid">lntpageid</span></dt><dd class="description"><p>Only include lint errors from the specified page IDs </p></dd><dd class="info">Type: list of integers</dd><dd class="info">Separate values with <kbd>|</kbd> or <a href="/w/api.php?action=help&modules=main#main/datatypes">alternative</a>.</dd><dd class="info">Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).</dd><dt><span dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterrors:lnttitle">lnttitle</span></dt><dd class="description"><p>Only include lint errors from the specified page title </p></dd><dt><span dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterrors:lntfrom">lntfrom</span></dt><dd class="description"><p>Lint ID to start querying from </p></dd><dd class="info">Type: integer</dd></dl></div> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-examples"><div class="apihelp-block-head">Example:</div><dl><dt>Get all lint errors of the obsolete-tag category</dt><dd><a href="/w/api.php?action=query&list=linterrors&lntcategories=obsolete-tag" dir="ltr" rel="nofollow">api.php?action=query&list=linterrors&lntcategories=obsolete-tag</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=linterrors&lntcategories=obsolete-tag"><small>[open in sandbox]</small></a></dd></dl></div> <h2 class="apihelp-header apihelp-module-name" dir="ltr" lang="en" id="query+linterstats">meta=linterstats (lntrst)</h2><div class="apihelp-linktrail">(<a href="/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/main" class="apihelp-linktrail" dir="ltr" lang="en">main</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/query" class="apihelp-linktrail" dir="ltr" lang="en">query</a> | <b dir="ltr" lang="en">linterstats</b>)</div> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-flags"><ul><li><span class="apihelp-flag-readrights">This module requires read rights.</span></li><li><span class="apihelp-source">Source: <span dir="ltr" lang="en">Linter</span></span></li><li><span class="apihelp-license">License: <a href="/wiki/Special:Version/License/Linter" title="Special:Version/License/Linter"><span dir="ltr" lang="en">GPL-2.0-or-later</span></a></span></li></ul></div> <p>Get number of lint errors in each category </p> <p><br /> </p> <div class="apihelp-block apihelp-examples"><div class="apihelp-block-head">Example:</div><dl><dt>Get number of lint errors in each category</dt><dd><a href="/w/api.php?action=query&meta=linterstats" dir="ltr" rel="nofollow">api.php?action=query&meta=linterstats</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&meta=linterstats"><small>[open in sandbox]</small></a></dd></dl></div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Linter_categories">Linter categories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Linter categories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A list of linter categories is available in <a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general%7Cnamespaces%7Cnamespacealiases%7Cstatistics">site info properties</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bootstrap_or_reprocess_all_pages">Bootstrap or reprocess all pages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bootstrap or reprocess all pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Instead of running <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:refreshLinks.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:refreshLinks.php">refreshLinks.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:RefreshLinks.php" title="Manual:RefreshLinks.php"> </a></span>, it's possible to populate lint errors by querying parsoid directly. See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161556#3184216" class="extiw" title="phab:T161556">phab:T161556#3184216</a> for an example script. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Special_pages">Special pages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Special pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The extension provides the <a href="/wiki/Special:LintErrors" title="Special:LintErrors">Special:LintErrors</a> page. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Configuring_available_lints">Configuring available lints</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Linter&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Configuring available lints"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Special:LintErrors page displays available lints with associated priority that have been defined in the configuration variable <b>wgLinterCategories.</b> </p><p>Each linter category has the following fields: </p> <ul><li><b>dbid</b>: the unique id associated with the lint category used in the database.</li> <li><b>enabled</b>: whether the lint rule is enabled. 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This probably means that the extension is stable and works well enough to be used by such high-traffic websites. Look for this extension's name in Wikimedia's <a class="external text" href="https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=CommonSettings.php">CommonSettings.php</a> and <a class="external text" href="https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php">InitialiseSettings.php</a> configuration files to see where it's installed. 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