https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26792

--- Comment #8 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Surely the person requesting this is the use case?

Globals are annoying to maintain. My rough count in DefaultSettings.php at the
time of this commit says there are about 730 global configuration variables.
Before we add yet another, I'd like there to be a good reason. Database
password, script path, etc. ... okay, that makes sense. But an option to
disable an HTML comment from the parser output to a standard Web browser? Why?

There's currently one comment from one user (comment 0) saying he or she wants
to disable the HTML comment. We have a robust Web API that includes a flag
specifically to disable this HTML comment in machine-readable HTML output. What
more is needed here?

If this still doesn't convince you, imagine you put every configuration
variable next to a checkbox or drop-down menu in a graphical user interface. I
doubt many people would think the additional user interface clutter is
warranted here.

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