https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13742
--- Comment #11 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2011-04-04 15:45:34 UTC --- @Krinkle: the idea is to have only SPECIFIC gadgets to be turned on by default after they come to a RELEASE status (and not an experimental status), as if it was a new gadget. All gadgets should go though the experimental status before being released, and in that state they MUST be off by default. This means that the decision to make a gadget ON by default will chnage the user settings that have been activated/deactivated explicitly by some experimenters. As a consequence, there cannnot be a global setting enabling/disabling all gadgets at once for their default setting, given that each gadget (experimental or not) stores its own ON/OFF preference. Making one gadget ON by default can only result of a prior discussion reaching to a concensus (it can be motivated also by the fac that disabling it provides worse results on the site content administration, or too many common errors by users ; enabling it by default should have the effect of simpliying the work from most users). If you enable a gadget by default, it must also be well maintained across MediaWiki versions: this involves additional work for MediaWiki developers, or at least from administrators of wikis of the WMF before deploying a new version there. If the change is motivated by a policy, why a gadget ? the only good reason for not implementing it by default is that the gadget may be specific to some wiki sites, and not workable for others, and the policy results from a local concensus and does not necessarily match the policy use elsewhere. It can help recucing the dependencies between MediaWiki developers and site owners thart have installed and are maintaining their own local wiki. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
