On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:25 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Erik, can you please explain what emergency necessitated immediate (and likely unprecedented) action here?
Please see Fabrice Florin's explanation, as linked in my original response: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Media_Viewer/June_...
It's longstanding WMF policy and practice to apply judgment to community RFCs and requests regarding software and configuration changes on a case-by-case basis, depending on the nature of the requested change, the level of participation, the impact on readers/editors, etc.
In this case, we will keep the feature enabled by default (it's easy to turn off, both for readers and editors), but we'll continue to improve it based on community feedback (as has already happened in the last few weeks).
Erik