On 11/14/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
I definitely don't think anything whatsoever should be available to non-sysops at all unless uploaded by a sysop, no matter how large the warning message. People are *way* too used to ignoring warning messages.
I was talking about a scenario where you could upload an applet class file, but where Wikimedia would not embed it in a runnable form. You would have to explicitly download and run such an applet (using the appletviewer application or by embedding it into a webpage). I think under such a setting, an applet is unlikely to do much harm (not to mention that it would not be run from any Wikimedia domain), since the users who are the most likely to do something stupid are the least likely to be able to figure out how to run the thing in the first place.