On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:12 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Using the title blacklist, the AbuseFilter extension, site-wide JavaScript and CSS, and other techniques, it's possible to fully disable reading and/or editing of the German Wikipedia until an amicable solution can be found.
Strange. I seem to distinctly remember that, yesterday on Wikimania, many
(most) of us agreed that Wikipedia is an incredibly valuable resource to the world, and that it is our mission, as a community, to protect and improve it, and to make it available to even more people.
Your suggestion to sabotage that resource, even if it's just (!) in German, because a few long-time editors there now have to (once) click a checkbox to *not* see the Media viewer, strikes me as somewhat incompatible with that mission.
The discussion about how the activation of the Media viewer on German Wikipedia came to pass should not affect the reader, no matter what.
[Disclaimer: I am an editor on German Wikipedia (user ID 12), and I don't really like the Media viewer, as it is.]
Cheers, Magnus