On Jul 25, 2013 8:02 PM, "Tyler Romeo" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Martijn Hoekstra < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > I'm still wondering, when the call was made to disable this option, was it > > expected this would cause massive resistance? If not, what is the WMF > > planning to do to better judge that in the future (because imo this was a > > predictable reaction)? And if so, why was this done silently? > > > > It wasn't decided. There was a bug with the user preference where the label > on the preference was incorrect. In order to fix this, the option was > disabled. >
That's a de facto decision isn't it? Somebody figured flipping that switch without discussing it with the wikis first was a good idea. The question still stands: if they didn't expect this fall out, why not, and if they did, why keep quiet? > *-- * > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 > Major in Computer Science > www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
