On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't follow at all.  Developers get to decide on defaults when we
> introduce a new feature, but once a feature already exists then it's
> locked in stone forever?  That's certainly not how things work in
> practice.  We've made significant changes to existing features in the
> past without asking communities first.  Ditching Makesysop/Makebot in
> favor of better core userrights comes to mind, but I'm sure there are
> better examples.

Better example: recent discussion on whether to increase thumbnail
image size cross-project.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21117>  Software
permitting, probably we'll increase the default thumb width across all
projects.  We aren't holding a poll in Meta first or anything, but
this is a considerably more user-visible change than adjusting the
access rights to an obscure and largely useless special page.

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