This issue makes reference to the previous discussion on mediawiki-l: extension to get Mediawiki version in copy/paste text form for support.
To have an easy copy-paste representation of information on "Special:Version" will allow for easier posting of setup information in case the communication, issue, etc. requires this information to be present or would greatly benefit from it.
The information should probably work with Wikitext and Markdown to work on <MediaWiki.org> (Wikitext), <Phabricator> (understands Markdown?) and <GitHub> (Markdown)
If you copy over the version information you currently get something like:
Software Version MediaWiki 1.29.1 (a69ecd8) 18:59, 23. Aug. 2017 PHP 5.6.30-0+deb8u1 (apache2handler) MariaDB 10.0.32-MariaDB-1~jessie ICU 52.1 LuaSandbox 2.0.13-alpha Lua 5.1.5
Software Version
MediaWiki 1.29.1 (a69ecd8)
18:59, 23. Aug. 2017
PHP 5.6.30-0+deb8u1 (apache2handler)
MariaDB 10.0.32-MariaDB-1~jessie
ICU 52.1
LuaSandbox 2.0.13-alpha
Lua 5.1.5
I believe it will be better to get something like:
**Setup** - MediaWiki - 1.29.1 (a69ecd8) 18:59, 23. Aug. 2017 - PHP - 5.6.30-0+deb8u1 (apache2handler) - MariaDB - 10.0.32-MariaDB-1~jessie - ICU - 52.1 - LuaSandbox - 2.0.13-alpha - Lua - 5.1.5
Setup
- MediaWiki - 1.29.1 (a69ecd8) 18:59, 23. Aug. 2017
- PHP - 5.6.30-0+deb8u1 (apache2handler)
- MariaDB - 10.0.32-MariaDB-1~jessie
- ICU - 52.1
- LuaSandbox - 2.0.13-alpha
- Lua - 5.1.5
Same for extension information.