On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Platonides Platonides@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.