https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47812
--- Comment #8 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #7) > Agreed, some people probably will misuse it. That said, I don't think we > should limit the software in a way like this. Are you saying that because you believe that the potential for legitimate use outweighs the potential for misuse in this instance, or because you think as a general principle we should *never* not implement features because they have the potential to be misused? If so, I don't think that's a very realistic position. The damage to new editor recruitment that creating a UI distinction between logged-in and logged-out would do is creeping and insidious (user makes first tentative step towards editing, is suddenly attacked by a barrage of weird new functionality; conversely reader does not see any of the invitations to edit, so does not make first step). If you have a fishbowl wiki, the > distinction between readers and editors *is* whether you're logged in or not. This has never been an issue that's particularly hard to work around; the main benefit to having it done 'formally' is mainly proper caching via ResourceLoader, and reduction of redundant code load. Both of which are less important on a fishbowl wiki, which will generally be smaller. -- 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
