https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6455
--- Comment #99 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2010-11-18 20:16:23 UTC --- (In reply to comment #98) > MZ, are you seriously suggesting that the developers will completely > re-implement an extension, when the concerns about the original are *not* > implementation-specific? I seriously doubt that. I'm suggesting that the sysadmins in charge of running Wikimedia wikis have said rather unequivocally that this extension is not going to be installed. The StringFunctions extension is a means to an end. There are plenty of other ways to implement string manipulation. For years, there has been discussion of implementing a proper programming language into MediaWiki. The current preferred favorite is not Lua, but JavaScript, actually. I don't believe that there is any legitimate objection to letting users manipulate strings. However, there are legitimate objections to enabling this extension on Wikimedia wikis. This bug is about enabling a specific extension on Wikimedia wikis. Unless there is some reason to believe this is ever going to happen, this bug should be re-closed as WONTFIX. A subsequent, generic bug should be filed about the ability to manipulate strings on Wikimedia wikis (though there's little hope of that bug being resolved anytime soon). Keeping this bug unresolved in the REOPENED state does not change the reality of the situation. It just misleads people into believing that this is still up for debate. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
