bugzilla_wikipedia_org.to.jamesd wrote:

See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foundation_website_meeting%2C_July_2004
"Allowing HTML would require development work, which Brion did during the
meeting and checked in to CVS head the next morning. ... HTML will be used only
where necessary."

There is in 1.4 an option for enabling full HTML site-wide. This is very dangerous on an open site and should only be used for
restricted-access sites.

Doing per-page HTML mode safely is possible, but be very very careful. I would not recommend going this route though, as it's
generally un-wiki; all pages should have the same abilities.

Bumping priority as the Wikimedia folks want it.

webmaster wrote:

Brion...
You bumped the priority on this one a while ago and I thought I heard something
about 1.6 having a similar feature/functionality.

Could you look into this again?

1.6 doesn't have this. We seem to have dealt with the fundraising form issue separately, so
we probably won't want this at all.

Going to resolve as LATER, on the off chance we need to resurrect the idea.

webmaster wrote:

Any chance of resurrecting this idea... or at least discussing its merits, now that we are almost 4 years down the line?

Something like the Widgets extension would probably be ideal for the sort of "and here insert a donate button" case.

(In reply to comment #5)

so we probably won't want this at all.

[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html and closing as RESOLVED WONTFIX]