https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19618
--- Comment #5 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> 2009-08-08 20:06:52 UTC --- Whatever this extension was "intended" to do, users of several WMF wikis have found it useful for filtering edits in general, not just for abuse. To wax philosophic about the 'original intention' is not constructive: if the current use of the extension furthers the Foundation's goals, then the developers should be supporting that use however we can. The situation is more complicated when, as with something like ParserFunctions, the extent to which they really further the Foundation's goals is not unequivocal. But here, there are significant and obvious benefits both in utility, and in friendliness towards editors, from changing the name of the extension. Therefore, barring technical obstacles, we should try to support that development. The whole point of MediaWiki is that it grows and develops organically, just like a wiki. There is never a reason to arrtificially stifle that development and say that things should only be used for their 'original' purposes. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
