https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45964
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Bug ID: 45964
Summary: New WMF-deployed extensions should honor the "Exclude
me from feature experiments" user preference
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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The current trend seems to be making MediaWiki software/Wikimedia Foundation
websites more newbie-friendly, which is what I'm all for, but it should not
interfere with power users' options.
Good recent examples of this are the PostEdit and Universal Language Selector
extensions, both of which are deployed on MediaWiki.org at least (where I'm an
admin) and both of which cannot be turned off without CSS/JS hackery. This in
unacceptable in my opinion.
We have the "Exclude me from feature experiments" user preference, originally
introduced by the WikiEditor extension, which at the time was a part of the
UsabilityInitiative extension (which in turn no longer exists), so it would be
nice if new extensions could honor this preference. Cache fragmentation is more
than likely happening for power users with heavily customized preferences, so
that's not a valid excuse in this case.
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