From 38848e8f4aaabc8a1e7294cfa3a421f2b3563057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "This, that and the other" <at.light@live.com.au>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:33:59 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Arrange Special:Version/credits into columns and remove space
 at top

Make the long list of names more manageable and readable.

Change-Id: I3bb5da73ecf0c46b77a675324dcd62c9c4ea60da
---
 CREDITS                                                    | 7 +++----
 includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php                       | 7 +++++++
 .../src/mediawiki.special/mediawiki.special.version.css    | 6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index d9ff9709f1..b37edf2a36 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-{{int:version-credits-summary}}
-<!--
+{{int:version-credits-summary}} <!--
 MediaWiki 1.28 is a collaborative project released under the
 GNU General Public License v2. We would like to recognize the
 following names for their contribution to the product.
--->
-<!-- Please notice that the following can be found parsed under Special:Version/Credits -->
+
+The following list can be found parsed under Special:Version/Credits -->
 
 == Contributors ==
 <!-- Updates to this list made with maintenance/updateCredits.php -->
diff --git a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
index 272f07415f..708eced849 100644
--- a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
+++ b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
@@ -78,9 +78,16 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
 		// Now figure out what to do
 		switch ( strtolower( $parts[0] ) ) {
 			case 'credits':
+				$out->addModuleStyles( 'mediawiki.special.version' );
+
 				$wikiText = '{{int:version-credits-not-found}}';
 				if ( $extName === 'MediaWiki' ) {
 					$wikiText = file_get_contents( $IP . '/CREDITS' );
+					// Put the contributor list into columns
+					$wikiText = str_replace(
+						[ '<!-- BEGIN CONTRIBUTOR LIST -->', '<!-- END CONTRIBUTOR LIST -->' ],
+						[ '<div class="mw-version-credits">', '</div>' ],
+						$wikiText );
 				} elseif ( ( $extNode !== null ) && isset( $extNode['path'] ) ) {
 					$file = $this->getExtAuthorsFileName( dirname( $extNode['path'] ) );
 					if ( $file ) {
diff --git a/resources/src/mediawiki.special/mediawiki.special.version.css b/resources/src/mediawiki.special/mediawiki.special.version.css
index 5b259e70ab..ebb6b486c9 100644
--- a/resources/src/mediawiki.special/mediawiki.special.version.css
+++ b/resources/src/mediawiki.special/mediawiki.special.version.css
@@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ th.mw-version-ext-col-label {
 .mw-version-ext-vcs-version {
 	unicode-bidi: embed;
 }
+
+.mw-version-credits {
+	column-width: 18em;
+	-moz-column-width: 18em;
+	-webkit-column-width: 18em;
+}
-- 
2.20.1