https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45964

--- Comment #6 from Ori Livneh <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> 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.

Power users should not find it especially difficult to add a line to their
Common.css user stylesheet, but I accept that they should not have to poke
around code to figure out which rule to add. I made sure the requisite CSS code
is featured prominently on the extension's page on mediawiki.org:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PostEdit#Disabling

I understand why you might think this is an inferior solution. The addition of
an explicit preference doubles as a kind of implicit acknowledgement that the
feature in question could be obtrusive or annoying to established users, and
thus it expresses civility and respect, whereas a workaround does not.

But in this particular case, the change required is really very small, and
probably does not take up much more time than hunting around for a preference.
So I hope you will find it an adequate solution, if an imperfect one.

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