On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected] > wrote:
> 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? > Well the thing is it wasn't turned off because they wanted to turn it off. It was turned off because the message was incorrect, and the development required to fix it would have taken a significant amount of time. It does sort of count as a de facto decision, but I don't imagine community fallout would have been taken into account since it was an engineering decision and not a product decision. *-- * *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
