[Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

[Neil Harris]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/6/5 Neil Harris <usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk>:
>   
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/6/4 Jon <scream at nonvocalscream.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Has apache/proxy level filtering been considered?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Filtering for what? Javascript is executed client-side, ie. after the
>>> page has gone through the apache servers/proxies.
>>>
>>>       
>> Filtering to remove _all_ Javascript, other than references to
>> statically maintained Javascript files maintained by Mediawiki's developers.
>>     
>
> Well, that's certainly possible, but there are a large number of
> legitimate and worthwhile uses of custom javascript. Things like
> Twinkle are done with custom javascript and many members of the
> community find such tools extremely useful.
>   
Which is why Twinkle's code should be hosted by WMF in the same way as 
the Mediawiki code, and the Twinkle developers given commit access to 
that code in the usual way.

Javascript is software, and should be managed like software, not like 
wiki content. We don't give every admin commit access to the code 
repository, nor should we do so for Javascript.

-- Neil