It seems to me that the Drafts extension provides a neat feature with the potential to save data from being lost by accident in many cases. It also seems like adding a per-user setting to enable/disable it would be trivial and also useful for the few (or perhaps many) users who may find it worth disabling. Additionally the addition of a disable / enable setting would not detract from the features or fuxtionality of the extension. Finally it may be less offensive, especially to our avid contributors, to add a new optional feature rather than a mandatory one.
Since the features of the extension are disabled for unregistered users already, adding such a setting would truly be a matter of adding a few more lines of code in a few very obvious places. Additionally it may be useful (or at least interesting) to be able to study the statistics of how many / what kind of editors really do disable the extension - as it may be a fair metric on how likely different kinds of users are to accept (or reject) modifications to the editing process. These studies may help to make future feature enhancements more successful and less alienating. Does anyone actually object to the addition of a disable drafts feature? - Trevor _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
