On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Some of the RFC is also trying to focus on the history of some of these user preferences. A lot of these preferences are very old and pre-date the Gadgets extension, for example. Some of them would make more sense implemented differently (client-side v. server-side) while some of them ought to simply be moved to a MediaWiki extension or possibly be removed altogether.
Agreed. But we should be clear that "gadgetize" right now would likely mean removal of these features from most if not all wikis, because re-implementing them as gadgets everywhere is such a pain. This may be OK for most or all of these prefs, but IMO still requires a bit more data and visibility before we make that call. I've pinged analytics to see if they can get us a better prefs report.
Erik