https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12836
Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> 2009-02-12 00:34:11 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > Oh, and I forgot to say that: MediaWiki is used for many projects other than > Wikipedias. Typical examples are the Wikias. They don't expect such a checkbox > there, I guess. So if such a feature is needed for Wikipedia (and/or a "few" > other places were MediaWiki is used) they should better appear as an extension > which is installed "after" their communities have shown complete agreement > about their use. > Even the other Wikimedia projects wouldn't use this. It doesn't make sense in the context of *Commons, where there are no citations *Meta, where there is generally no content requiring citation *Wikisource, where there is (AFAIK) no content requiring citation *Wikibooks (maybe), where citations works quite differently *Wikiversity (probably) *Incubator (some of the time), which incubates more than just new Wikipedia projects I'd suggest this is a bad idea for core software, but might be implemented as an extension if well thought-out. By well thought-out, I mean that benefits outweigh costs - one major cost is edit form complexity which is contrary to our current focus on usability. It's not clear to me that the added benefit is worth it, even (especially?) for Wikipedia. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
