On 25 July 2013 11:00, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Martijn Hoekstra
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martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com
wrote:
I'm still wondering, when the call was made
to disable this option, was
it
expected this would cause massive resistance? If
not, what is the WMF
planning to do to better judge that in the future (because imo this was a
predictable reaction)? And if so, why was this done silently?
It wasn't decided. There was a bug with the user preference where the label
on the preference was incorrect. In order to fix this, the option was
disabled.
That's just flatly wrong. Removing the preference was always the intention
and had been mentioned several times. The reminder that we needed to fix
the issue immediately because it was affecting
MediaWiki.org in a number of
ways including the preference wrongly showing up caused me into fixing the
issue.
The problem about the alpha opt-in preference label needing to be manually
updated to cover what namespaces the alpha is enabled in has not been fixed
yet (and probably won't be by the team, given that this preference is not
long for this world).
J.
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