On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 2:25 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > No, it really isn't a legitimate concern. It wasn't a legitimate concern > when the "AbuseFilter" was enabled and every user had a public "abuse log". > And with that feature came the ability to tag edits. We now mark edits with > generally inflammatory remarks that are impossible to have removed. Naming > wasn't a concern when file description pages were all prefixed with > "Image:". It wasn't a concern when RevDelete was enabled (first for > oversighters, then for everyone else). RevDelete doesn't apply to just > revisions, and the user rights associated with it could not have been more > confusingly named if someone had tried deliberately.
Contradiction aside, I think that what you've proven here is that under no circumstances should any engineer be permitted to name anything. We should institute this as a rule in Wikimedia development in general. -- Andrew Garrett http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
