https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43892
--- Comment #22 from Ori Livneh <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #21) > (In reply to comment #16) > > But we need to give wikis fair warning, rather than pull the plug abruptly. > > We also want to finalize our international release plan and identify an > > archive location and format for all the data. > > Unfortunately, it seems this didn't happen and the extension was turned off > before Portuguese wikis were notified. > > (or was it just me who didn't see the notification?) No, it's not just you. The snap decision to remove the extension was not advertised beyond Bugzilla. It was mentioned after the fact in < http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Caf%C3%A9_dos_programadores#Tech_news:_2013-27>. I based my decision on the following considerations. First, there was evidence that AFTv4 had been broken for some time (see bug 49967). The time it took for that bug to be noticed and reported suggested to me that the feature was not used very actively by editors. Second, notice had been given before (see above), but the Foundation had failed to follow through. Given that the extension was in a state of disrepair and that previous announcements regarding its pending removal were not followed through, I thought that editors were likely to find additional announcements annoying or lacking credibility. The care and concern that had been expressed for the AFTv4 sunsetting process seemed to reflect a narrative about how well-liked AFTv4 was that was charitable to the Foundation's hopes for the feature but not commensurate with the actual reality of its usage. Were these assumptions incorrect? If so, there are courses of actions we could recourse to, including temporarily re-enabling the feature so people can have another chance to archive its data. Re-enabling the feature will be disruptive to some, though, so I'd like to make that there exists some demand for that, first. I apologize if the way this was handled was abrupt or disruptive to you or anyone else. -- 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
