In the Hebrew Wikipedia it's pretty straightforward: A proposal is made at
the Village Pump-like page, people bring up arguments for and against, and
if there are no strong arguments against, an administrator makes the gadget
default after a few days.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2013/12/10 Chris Steipp <csteipp(a)wikimedia.org>
I think the bug is sufficiently killed at this point,
so I wanted to add my
$.02 here instead of there.
As hoo mentioned on the bug, there have been some gadgets that have opened
up some serious security and performance issues, so I can sympathize with
Jared wishing they didn't exist at times. But without them, we would get
even worse stuff hacked into Common.js. So I think we need to focus on the
desired process so useful gadgets can safely be set as default.
Do any of the communities have formal policies on how code should be
formalized into a gadget, and a process for setting that gadget as a
default? There seems to be some inferred policy from Wikipedia:Gadget, but
I'm not finding a specific policy on it.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hoi,
A blanket ban like this is an extremely bad idea. The notion that you
should think twice before you make something a default option does have
merit.
Gadgets, java script all provide functionality that is sometimes / often
experimental. Without the benefit of experiments we will get into a rut,
We
will have moved away from the credo of "be
bold".
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 December 2013 22:02, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For wider discussion
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Subject: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by
default for all users on Wikimedia
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Date: 2013-12-09 20:41:41 GMT (19 minutes ago)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58236
Web browser: ---
Bug ID: 58236
Summary: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default
for
all users on Wikimedia sites
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Site requests
Assignee: wikibugs-l <at>
lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: jared.zimmerman <at>
wikimedia.org
CC: benapetr <at>
gmail.com,
bugzilla+org.wikimedia <at>
tuxmachine.com,
dereckson <at>
espace-win.org, greg <at>
wikimedia.org
> ,
> tomasz <at>
twkozlowski.net, wikimedia.bugs <at>
> snowolf.eu
> Classification: Unclassified
> Mobile Platform: ---
>
> Gadgets being turned on for all site users (including readers) can
cause
a
confusing users experience, especially when there
is some disagreement
and
> defaults change without notice (readers are rarely if ever part of
these
discussions)
Move to model where gadgets are per user rather than part of a default
experience for users
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