Has it ever come to the mind that something is going wrong on how the community is approached?
Has it ever come to the mind that some software implementations have gone to hastily with negative effects?
That the community reacts the way it does now, is because they care very much about the site and they notice something is terrible going wrong on WMF side and too less is done to fix those problems/issues!
Apparently nothing (or not enough) has been learned from the VE 2013 fiasco.
Romaine
2014-08-10 15:27 GMT+02:00 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
Hi folks,
Admins are currently given broad leeway to customize the user experience for all users, including addition of site-wide JS, CSS, etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that have been used for many clearly beneficial purposes. In the long run, we will want to apply a code review process to these changes as with any other deployed code, but for now the system works as it is and we have no intent to remove this capability.
However, we've clarified in a number of venues that use of the MediaWiki: namespace to disable site features is unacceptable. If such a conflict arises, we're prepared to revoke permissions if required. This protection level provides an additional path to manage these situations by preventing edits to the relevant pages (we're happy to help apply any urgent edits) until a particular situation has calmed down.
Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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