https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58229

--- Comment #5 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> opened it as a counterpoint to
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52807

In my mind, adding a user preference is a last resort. We know empirically that
most users never change their preferences and there's a very real cost in terms
of wasting human time requiring users to select/modify their preferences and in
terms of increasing code complexity, which leads to wasting human time
developing more advanced code. The answer is to have sane defaults and only add
a user preference when it's absolutely necessary.

I feel similarly about global configuration variables in MediaWiki.

Creating tracking tickets takes a bit of practice and patience. I love the
recent boldness, but do try to realize that it resulted in _dozens_ of e-mails
to many people and ultimately a few of the bugs have been speedily closed. A
bit of practice and patience. :-)

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