I would see that this may be more about an RFC at meta that proposes that the default for WMF wikis becomes no local editing tabs, though allows local wikis to have the ability to turn on the paired local tabs by local decision. So prior to launching such a discussion, could someone with the hacking knowledge address how much programming change would be required to have the situation of
- on File: ns, that for files at Commons, that the local tab can be turned
off as the default, and that local communities can have the ability to turn on local tabs
- that where the above is set, that where local File: exist (in
combination with Commons File:), that the local ability to edit File: is unaffected
That should be very straightforward to do (Like say 20 minutes worth of work). There's some ambiguities though in your description, two possibilities that I see for what you say, both are really easy: *If a local description exists for a commons file, then everything is as before *If no local description exists, user does not have the "create local description tab". User's can still manually put ?action=edit on the url to edit the page if they need to. *This behaviour becomes a $wg config variable. Which means for a wiki to switch it, they would have to file a bug in bugzilla
Possibility 2: *New right: create-shared-local-description. Works exactly like createpage right, but for files from commons *Wikis can control who has the right (nobody, admins, somebody else). They can file a bug at bugzilla to have which groups have the right changed.
Both those require developer intervention to actually change the setting, but that's true of a lot of settings, and doesn't seem like a big hurdle. Maybe another possibility would be to make it so if MediaWiki:create-local is a '-', then the tab gets disabled. None of the other tabs work that way though, and it seems icky to special case it.
Such an approach would seem to fit within the design of where some communities have local upload, and for those that do not.
That gives the means for starting an RFC to propose the change to the broader community, and will provide the solution for communities who wish to opt out. Such an RFC should also address for local wikis, what local tabs is provided to get editing available to files at Commons.
So as we have the views of many of the communities and the hackers, does that sound like a reasonable approach to take to progress this matter?
I don't actually see what this has to do with whether or not local uploads are enabled.
Anyways,.I agree that this seems like a reasonable approach to take.
Cheers, --bawolff