[Wikimedia-l] Visual Editor "temporary" opt-out

[Peter Southwood]

Do you have data to back up your claims?
Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Wayne Williams" <kwwilliams at kwwilliams.com>
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Visual Editor "temporary" opt-out


> Op 2013/08/05 23:44, MZMcBride schreef:
>> This leaves us to consider the biggest question: opt-in vs. opt-out. Erik 
>> and James are both quite smart, they are true Wikimedians, and they make 
>> reasonable points about choosing opt-out over opt-in.
> This is the point on which we fundamentally disagree. Their argument for 
> 'opt-out' is based solely upon the quality and quantity of testing that it 
> affords to VE. VE is not a mission-critical feature: while we have 
> concerns about Wikipedia's sustainability, there's no question that it has 
> survived for years and will survive for years more. The stability of the 
> site is much more important than testing this code, and the testing 
> strategy of presenting it as if it was functioning software and seeing 
> what people did with it wasn't a reasonable decision: it was completely 
> and absolutely irresponsible.
>
> KWW
>
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