We all know for what the tool was initially created. I am not sure if it is ethically okay to keep status quo. Maybe it is time to move on and remove the tool or to start a RFC to see if the community want the tool? :-)
Not advocating - just some thoughts and either way here... :) Regards, Steinsplitter No comment about Gerard Meijssen's <grin> comment. It is explaining itself perfectly. > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:16:37 +1000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday > > On 12 August 2015 at 14:41, Bohdan Melnychuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... It has a trail of bad usage it is connected with. ... > > > I'm not sure I agree with that. There are two known uses. The first one, > where a software tool was locked in over the consensus of the community was > a "bad usage" I'll agree; if anything the hamfisted way that the whole > situation was handled just made matters much worse. The second use, > locking a page on Wikidata where serious outages were being caused to > another project, strikes me as a far more reasonable use of the tool. The > fact that that usage seems to have been largely unknown until today, and > didn't garner any controversy, seems to indicate to me that the community > doesn't find it to be a troubling case. > > I'm all for having a discussion over the community's expectations on when > this tool will be used, but let us not walk down a path of hyperbole and > exaggeration. > > Cheers, > Craig > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
