Hi Ankry,
 on Italian Wikisource and on Neapolitan Wikisource there are "Technical"
village pumps. I suppose that would be the correct place to post it if
there is such a page in other languages.
It would be interesting to see what happens if a whole community writes on
Phabricator in order to delay a major deployment...
It happened in the past that we used global CSS to nullify (display=None)
a newly deployed feature that wasn't mature enough. Here it would require
more work I suppose, but I am sure that it can be done.

What I am trying to say is that it's ridiculous to be passive when a
different community (the so called developers) modify a project without any
contact with the users.
Alex
*Ruthven* on Wikipedia


On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 18:36, Ankry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, I was notified by techncally skilled users that the ned OpenSeadragon
> library is much heavier and more memory consuming than curreently used
> tools. So I can only hope that its load into memory can be disabled if one
> needs so.
>
> (may be critical while working on multiple pages at once)
>
> However, I doubt if any technical comments from communities expressed here
> will reach developers. And which wiki pages would be more appropriate for
> such comments.
>
> Ankry
> W dniu 20.11.2021 o 14:33, Ruthven pisze:
>
> Hi all,
>   as usual, I get surprised every time there are major changes on the
> MediaWiki software that are deployed without providing advance warning to
> the community.
> Every time it's the same story: something stops working on the project. A
> gadget, a toolbar or some personalised JS.
>
> This time it was T288141 (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288141),
> that was deployed in all the Wikisources (then rolled back because
> WikiMedia computer scientists are the best) completely disrupting redesigning
> the image side of the Page namespace. This affected the toolbars (see
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296033) and several gadgets around all
> the Wikisources.
>
> I am not saying that MediaWiki software shouldn't be improved: it's normal
> that we're trying to get all we can from this outdated software. I am just
> asking that major changes that affect all the Wikisources should be
> announced in every single Village Pump waaay before deploying them on the
> projects.
>
> Is it possible, as a Usergroup, to do a little pressure to be considered
> as a community and not as guinea pigs on which to deploy new,
> partially-tested features?
>
> Alex
> *Ruthven* on Wikipedia
>
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