On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
While enabling a never-used feature is a difficult
process, disabling
one is hardly a problem.
Most features can't actually be disabled, so this isn't really true.
Mediawiki developers try hard to maintain all the used
functionality,
and is unlikely to decide by themselves disabling a feature actively
used (although such events can't be completely discarded, eg. as an
effect of a rewrite).
This isn't too infrequent -- the common reason is efficiency.