On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Assuming a proper implementation of edit/edit source
I'm not sure what the
big deal is, but I'm not a hardcore editor so I'm likely just not seeing
it.
I don't edit that much myself, so I can't speak first-person here, but I
think the primary reason some people want this is because they simply don't
plan on using VE whatsoever. They are used to clicking on the Edit tab to
get to the main editor, among other minor things. Also, from the WMF
perspective, another pro of enabling the preference is that you don't piss
off the community that is currently asking very adamantly for this.
Like I said before, though, we have to think of this as pros v. cons. Sure,
the pros of enabling this user preference are not that huge (unless there's
something else outside of what I mentioned above). However, there are
seemingly no cons to enabling it. There are claims of it being too much of
a hassle to maintain, which is absurd considering MW's extension
infrastructure, and their are claims of it causing preference bloat, which
is true, but if that's really the reason we would block this, then I think
we should start throwing out other preferences while we're here.
In the end, unless there is some demonstrative reason for disabling this
preference (especially the way it is now, using $wgHiddenPrefs, which is
not what that variable was meant to be used for), the pros outweight the
cons.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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