> > I would see that this may be more about an RFC at meta that proposes that > the default for WMF wikis becomes no local editing tabs, though allows > local wikis to have the ability to turn on the paired local tabs by local > decision. So prior to launching such a discussion, could someone with the > hacking knowledge address how much programming change would be required to > have the situation of > * on File: ns, that for files at Commons, that the local tab can be turned > off as the default, and that local communities can have the ability to turn > on local tabs > * that where the above is set, that where local File: exist (in > combination with Commons File:), that the local ability to edit File: is > unaffected
That should be very straightforward to do (Like say 20 minutes worth of work). There's some ambiguities though in your description, two possibilities that I see for what you say, both are really easy: *If a local description exists for a commons file, then everything is as before *If no local description exists, user does not have the "create local description tab". User's can still manually put ?action=edit on the url to edit the page if they need to. *This behaviour becomes a $wg config variable. Which means for a wiki to switch it, they would have to file a bug in bugzilla Possibility 2: *New right: create-shared-local-description. Works exactly like createpage right, but for files from commons *Wikis can control who has the right (nobody, admins, somebody else). They can file a bug at bugzilla to have which groups have the right changed. Both those require developer intervention to actually change the setting, but that's true of a lot of settings, and doesn't seem like a big hurdle. Maybe another possibility would be to make it so if MediaWiki:create-local is a '-', then the tab gets disabled. None of the other tabs work that way though, and it seems icky to special case it. > > Such an approach would seem to fit within the design of where some > communities have local upload, and for those that do not. > > That gives the means for starting an RFC to propose the change to the > broader community, and will provide the solution for communities who wish > to opt out. Such an RFC should also address for local wikis, what local > tabs is provided to get editing available to files at Commons. > > So as we have the views of many of the communities and the hackers, does > that sound like a reasonable approach to take to progress this matter? > I don't actually see what this has to do with whether or not local uploads are enabled. Anyways,.I agree that this seems like a reasonable approach to take. Cheers, --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
