https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35981

--- Comment #3 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Note: all wikis creating an "encyclopedia of something" use this feature,
> and a Google search seems to find dozens millions results even outside
> wiki[pm]edia.org and wikia.com, so of course this extension should be bundled
> in the main release and release notes should have some very visible warning
> about it.

This note feels like bullshit.

Do you have any evidence to support the claim that all encyclopedia-related
wikis use this feature? (Links to specific non-Wikimedia wikis would be very
helpful.)

And which Google search produced millions of results? I looked through maybe
twenty or thirty results from
<https://www.google.com/search?q=%22MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage%22+-wikipedia>
and almost all of them were un-customized (the default MediaWiki message)
containing only "Template:disambig".

The removal of this feature from MediaWiki core should be noted in the release
notes, to be sure, but I see absolutely no evidence currently that this feature
is widely used to the point that it should be bundled with MediaWiki, as you
suggest.

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