On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 12:12, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
The German Wikipedia has evaluated and decided against the default use of MediaViewer on its project (preferring opt-in, rather than opt-out). Erik has made it his mission to impose MediaViewer on the German Wikipedia using Wikimedia Foundation staff coercion (cf. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153302 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153345). Both changes have been pushed through hastily and have had negative repercussions as a result (missing translations, disrupted workflows, etc.). From a recent Bugzilla comment about the latter change, "it's clear this change was a kneejerk reaction without a lot of thought as to the effects."
The security of the entire MediaWiki infrastructure, which in turn is the security of a large portion of Wikimedia wikis, heavily relies on the idea that local administrators can be trusted. With his provocative actions, Erik has declared war on the German Wikipedia.
Given this, there are options for the German Wikipedians. This is a non-exhaustive list and may not reflect the latest waste of developer and system administrator resources coerced by Erik.
Write an extension which removes superprotect from the wiki. Get local consencus on installing that.
svetlana