Hi,
[Putting purely the mw dev hat on]
I'm putting a hat on from pure observer point of view as neither a member of de.wp nor wmf.
So dont complain that mw fixes a bug in how page protection. If you are
I'm not complaining, I'm observing the events that happened around the introduction of <superprotected> and the swift action which did not involve any consultation or discussion (or rather a single statement from Erik Moeller where he cites security and code review as the inherent cause for the introduction).
It was a bug in mediawiki, and thus it should be fixed. MediaWiki is used
{{cc}} (which bug, when was created and by whom)
by many different groups and in general we [mw devs] do not judge people for how they use the software. If some non wmf entity reported the bug, it would still be fixed.
Interesting view, that means bugs that are to solve a political dispute are preferred over bugs that existed for years?
Cheers
On 8/12/14, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Now, having observed that not only user Eloquence (aka Erik Moeller) himself engaged in the enforcement of <superprotect> right on de.wp [1] but soon after a workaround was published a change was deployed [2, 3] as counter measurement to block any possible interference can no longer be interpret as acting in good faith but rather strikes me as a form of oppression (or worst as censorship).
[Putting the purely mw dev hat on]
It was a bug in mediawiki, and thus it should be fixed. MediaWiki is used by many different groups and in general we [mw devs] do not judge people for how they use the software. If some non wmf entity reported the bug, it would still be fixed.
So dont complain that mw fixes a bug in how page protection. If you are unhappy with current events you should direct your anger at how the wmf decided to use hard security to enforce its dictates, not at the software for "working".
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