On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Michał Łazowik <mlazo...@me.com> wrote:
> Wiadomość napisana przez Nicolas Vervelle <nverve...@gmail.com> w dniu 10 sie 
> 2014, o godz. 15:45:
>
>> I hope it's not an other step from WMF to prevent the application of
>> community decisions when they not agree with it. I fear that they will use
>> this to bypass community decisions. For example like forcing again VE on
>> everyone on enwki: last year, sysop were able to apply community decision
>> against Erik wishes only because they had access to site wide js or CSS.
>
> I'd like to believe that code-reviewing would mean improving code quality, 
> security
> and performance (applies to javascript).

It could mean that, but of course it is actually introduced to prevent
the German community from deactivating the Media Viewer.

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&action=history

I remember when we used to beg for the WMF to deploy extensions.
Now we really need to beg for the WMF to not deploy extensions ...

--
John Vandenberg

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