On 25 July 2013 11:00, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Martijn Hoekstra < martijnhoekstra@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm still wondering, when the call was made to disable this option, was
it
expected this would cause massive resistance? If not, what is the WMF planning to do to better judge that in the future (because imo this was a predictable reaction)? And if so, why was this done silently?
It wasn't decided. There was a bug with the user preference where the label on the preference was incorrect. In order to fix this, the option was disabled.
That's just flatly wrong. Removing the preference was always the intention and had been mentioned several times. The reminder that we needed to fix the issue immediately because it was affecting MediaWiki.org in a number of ways including the preference wrongly showing up caused me into fixing the issue.
The problem about the alpha opt-in preference label needing to be manually updated to cover what namespaces the alpha is enabled in has not been fixed yet (and probably won't be by the team, given that this preference is not long for this world).
J.