Hi,
> [Putting purely the mw dev hat on]
I'm putting a hat on from pure observer point of view as neither a
member of de.wp nor wmf.
> So dont complain that mw fixes a bug in how page protection. If you are
I'm not complaining, I'm observing the events that happened around the
introduction of <superprotected> and the swift action which did not
involve any consultation or discussion (or rather a single statement
from Erik Moeller where he cites security and code review as the
inherent cause for the introduction).
> It was a bug in mediawiki, and thus it should be fixed. MediaWiki is used
{{cc}} (which bug, when was created and by whom)
> by many different groups and in general we [mw devs] do not judge people
> for how they use the software. If some non wmf entity reported the bug, it
> would still be fixed.
Interesting view, that means bugs that are to solve a political
dispute are preferred over bugs that existed for years?
Cheers
On 8/12/14, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Now, having observed that not only user Eloquence (aka Erik Moeller)
>> himself engaged in the enforcement of <superprotect> right on de.wp
>> [1] but soon after a workaround was published a change was deployed
>> [2, 3] as counter measurement to block any possible interference can
>> no longer be interpret as acting in good faith but rather strikes me
>> as a form of oppression (or worst as censorship).
>>
>
> [Putting the purely mw dev hat on]
>
> It was a bug in mediawiki, and thus it should be fixed. MediaWiki is used
> by many different groups and in general we [mw devs] do not judge people
> for how they use the software. If some non wmf entity reported the bug, it
> would still be fixed.
>
> So dont complain that mw fixes a bug in how page protection. If you are
> unhappy with current events you should direct your anger at how the wmf
> decided to use hard security to enforce its dictates, not at the software
> for "working".
>
> --bawolff
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