Danny_B added a comment.
In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127674#2058831, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote: > Ok here are a few points and that is where I will stop the discussion: > > - The feature was developed by a volunteer > - WMDE helped get it out and reviewed and so on > - It has been in beta-features for much longer than features are supposed to Not relevant for what's being questioned. > - I announced it on the tech ambassadors list and Wikidata's weekly summary > - It was announced in tech-news As said above - no local announcements on wikis about turning it on and possibility to opt-out found. > - I very explicitly said any project that doesn't want it can ask for it to be turned off and I stand by this I asked for the docs, got none yet... :-/ > - It was solving a ticket that has been around since 2004 and has received much support This has been discussed above. > - I have not had any complaints besides this - quite the opposite - people really like it Again: This is not complaint about the feature in general, but about the mode of its deployment. > - Getting connections between our sister projects is really important if we ever want to give them a chance of real success That's not being questioned. But sisterproject links are //not the only// solution and sisterproject links currently do not fully replace current way of linking to sister projects. But that's being discussed in T127673: Ability to set up order and presence of sister projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127673>. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127674 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Danny_B Cc: Lydia_Pintscher, Izno, Glaisher, TTO, Aklapper, Danny_B, StudiesWorld, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331 _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
