From 2578bb06a860afa5c6b9ae9209e0e72b8be30c31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jeroendedauw <jeroendedauw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:53:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Extend ... magic to also work when "others" is linked
 somewhere

Change-Id: I8c6657c95061b066ed48f115e771889a507bd268
---
 RELEASE-NOTES-1.21                   | 2 ++
 includes/DefaultSettings.php         | 5 +++++
 includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php | 4 +++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21
index 2db9153c91..51259de97b 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ production.
   in MW 1.20 (saving preferences using Special:Preferences cleared any
   additional fields) and which has been disabled in 1.20.1 as a part of
   a security fix (bug 42202).
+* Added option to specify "others" as author in extension credits using
+  "..." as author name.
 * Added the ability to limit the wall clock time used by shell processes,
   as well as the CPU time. Configurable with $wgMaxShellWallClockTime.
 * Allow memory of shell subprocesses to be limited using Linux cgroups
diff --git a/includes/DefaultSettings.php b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
index 731c1a1da1..e33c6c0a30 100644
--- a/includes/DefaultSettings.php
+++ b/includes/DefaultSettings.php
@@ -5464,6 +5464,11 @@ $wgAutoloadClasses = array();
  * Where $type is 'specialpage', 'parserhook', 'variable', 'media' or 'other'.
  * Where 'descriptionmsg' can be an array with message key and parameters:
  * 'descriptionmsg' => array( 'exampleextension-desc', param1, param2, ... ),
+ *
+ * author can be a string or an array of strings. Authors can be linked using
+ * the regular wikitext link syntax. To have an internationalized version of
+ * "and others" show, add an element "...". This element can also be linked,
+ * for instance "[http://example ...]".
  */
 $wgExtensionCredits = array();
 
diff --git a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
index 88d647e92b..f847ca37a0 100644
--- a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
+++ b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
@@ -606,8 +606,10 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
 	function listAuthors( $authors ) {
 		$list = array();
 		foreach( (array)$authors as $item ) {
-			if( $item == '...' ) {
+			if ( $item == '...' ) {
 				$list[] = $this->msg( 'version-poweredby-others' )->text();
+			} elseif ( substr( $item, -5 ) == ' ...]' ) {
+				$list[] = substr( $item, 0, -4 ) . $this->msg( 'version-poweredby-others' )->text() . "]";
 			} else {
 				$list[] = $item;
 			}
-- 
2.20.1