On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 12:12, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi. > > The German Wikipedia has evaluated and decided against the default use of > MediaViewer on its project (preferring opt-in, rather than opt-out). Erik > has made it his mission to impose MediaViewer on the German Wikipedia > using Wikimedia Foundation staff coercion (cf. > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153302> and > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/153345>). Both changes have been pushed > through hastily and have had negative repercussions as a result (missing > translations, disrupted workflows, etc.). From a recent Bugzilla comment > about the latter change, "it's clear this change was a kneejerk reaction > without a lot of thought as to the effects." > > The security of the entire MediaWiki infrastructure, which in turn is the > security of a large portion of Wikimedia wikis, heavily relies on the idea > that local administrators can be trusted. With his provocative actions, > Erik has declared war on the German Wikipedia. > > Given this, there are options for the German Wikipedians. This is a > non-exhaustive list and may not reflect the latest waste of developer and > system administrator resources coerced by Erik.
Write an extension which removes superprotect from the wiki. Get local consencus on installing that. svetlana _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
