https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161





--- Comment #18 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]>  2009-11-14 16:25:46 
UTC ---
I am NOT "speculating" about implementation details. I am only refering to the
visible effects of these implementations. This is really different.
Some recent changes in some wikis have been made recently (even after this bug
was discussed here) that caused similar problems:
a new functionality was added without notice in some rarely visited wiki which
caused that wiki to send emails for each page that was previously just part of
the list of pages to monitor ONLINE (whcich was not an option to monitor them
offline by email).

Think twice when adding new fucntionality that invades user privacy or user's
mailboxes and make this option active by default.

Anyway thanks for pointing bug 14950 (which is now really old and more urgently
needs a fix now). We do need global overrides (independantly of how it will be
implemented) and we still need some local overrides that will allow users to
bypass some global defaults in some specific wikis (including their "home" wiki
for SUL) that users can "trust" and that they reagularly visit for
participating actively.


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