David Gerard wrote:
It's been in the MediaWiki code base for months
and we've been
screaming for it to be switched on (see wikien-l in all that time).
I've directly asked on wikitech-l if there's some reason this feature
is *never* going in and if I should just stop bothering, and been told
that's not the case and that there are things that need fixing first.
But the original developer (Magnus Manske) *still* can't get any clear
list of what needs fixing for it to go in.
I already told Magnus, if there's anything terribly wrong with it it'll
get fixed after it's turned on (and if necessary, back off).
There's at least a half dozen people who could turn it on this very
moment, but nobody's done it in all these months, probably because
nobody on the server team thinks it's particularly important, useful, or
high-priority. (If someone does think this and has refrained from
turning it on for some other reason, they haven't told me so.)
It's a solution in search of a problem; it doesn't solve the
validated-version-display issue in any way, it's just a survey form that
might, in theory, produce data that might, in theory, be interesting or
useful to someone one day.
Will it be worth the trouble of turning it on and possibly having to
deal with fixing it when further problems become evident? Who knows.
So. What's up with Special:Validate?
It's on my list for this week, I'll see about getting it turned on and
working.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)