On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)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
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