Also sprach Aryeh Gregor:
We have done other big changes in the past. Almost all creations/renamings of mediawiki messages need local community action!
The real problem is user CSS/JS, I suspect. People tend to copy-paste that, and changes to document structure can break a lot of it without any easy way to gauge the extent of the problem or fix it.
(For those more familiar with CSS/JS than with MediaWiki, I'm referring to user subpages here, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simetrical/monobook.js. I'm not referring to stuff people have in their browsers, which is of course impossible to track or fix even in principle.)
Right. While user CSS/JS is an interesting feature (in fact, it's a fundamental feature in CSS), it would be a loss if it prevents the HTML code from being improved. Wikipedia should be bold, both in the content and in the style and structure.
Cheers,
-h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome