https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70154

James Forrester <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #4 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Quim Gil from comment #3)
> What about something in between:
> 
> In the first paragraph, add a link to [[mw:Beta_Features]] (all the better
> if we can use Special:MyLanguage or a way to link to the translation
> currently used by the user:
> 
> "Here are some <link>new features</link> we're considering for MediaWiki."
> 
> It is reasonable to think that a percentage of users landing in this
> Preferences page will be interested in knowing more about Beta Features
> altogether. In [[mw:Beta_Features]] there is a section "Creating Your Own"
> for the percentage of the percentage that might think of proposing a beta
> feature one day.

Sure, but most wikis will immediately turn that link into a local discussion of
software change, which though valuable will almost never contain the language
pushing for people to go to WMF's MediaWiki.org site for this.

I concur with Seb35. The ratio of burden to impact is too far out of alignment.
Closing.

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