On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:25 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Erik, can you please explain what emergency
necessitated immediate (and
likely unprecedented) action here?
Please see Fabrice Florin's explanation, as linked in my original response:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Media_Viewer/June…
It's longstanding WMF policy and practice to apply judgment to
community RFCs and requests regarding software and configuration
changes on a case-by-case basis, depending on the nature of the
requested change, the level of participation, the impact on
readers/editors, etc.
In this case, we will keep the feature enabled by default (it's easy
to turn off, both for readers and editors), but we'll continue to
improve it based on community feedback (as has already happened in the
last few weeks).
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation