Mark,

I don’t remember discussing this before.

Can we hold off on any immediate action until we have had a chance to review this with people impacted by this proposed change?

Thanks,


Fabrice


On Jul 11, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Gergo Tisza, 11/07/2014 21:30:
Even if WMF wikis don't use images prominently, we shouldn't assume that
no MediaWiki installation which uses image_auth.php ever does.

Princeton has some such wikis with a rather big amount of images, IIRC.
http://qed.princeton.edu/main/Special:Statistics

Nemo


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On Jul 11, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Mark Holmquist <mtraceur@member.fsf.org> wrote:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/145612

This seemed like a reasonable (and fast) enough request for me, so I made
a patch. Does anyone have any good reason that the feature which, frankly,
is broken on private sites, should be enabled there?

IIRC Chrome users cannot use the feature at all, Firefox users are hit
or miss.

Plus, most of those private wikis aren't *viewed* by anyone, they're just
communities of editors who discuss issues in private.

Thoughts?

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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur@member.fsf.org
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