A motivated developer can take the code and create an extension out of it. There are over
1000 known extensions that add features not present in MediaWiki core for whatever
reason.
Calling people or people's actions ignorant is not helpful, in my opinion, Stip, so I
kindly request you to make constructive contributions.
Op 6 apr. 2013 om 14:07 heeft Stip <stipen.treublatt(a)gmx.net> het volgende
geschreven:
On our wiki it is a very useful feature too. Removing
it from the software just because it makes no sense on the en wikipedia is kind of
ignorant.
Am 05.04.2013 16:49, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
> The page has been removed because it took several seconds to load on the English
Wikipedia. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078>
> Niklas has already fixed the link, it needs to be backported to 1.21.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46719>
>
> On the "uselessness" of the special page: sure, on en.wiki it's 120k
names, but e.g. on 178 Wikipedias it's a single very useful page of less than 50
names... <http://wikistats.wmflabs.org/display.php?t=wp&s=ausers_asc>