>> TL;DR: Should we merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/165979/ and
>> release it with MediaWiki 1.24?
>> 
>> A lot of sites have used MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css to
>> customize the appearance of their site.
>> 
>> In a recent security release[1], support for JS and CSS with on-wiki
>> origins was removed from being displayed on the Special:Login and
>> Special:Preferences page.
> 
> To be clear, only CSS was removed. JS was already not allowed on
> Special:Login/Preferences.
>
>> Because of how the on-wiki MediaWiki:Common.* pages are used and the
>> access restrictions on them, I think it is reasonable to allow JS and
>> CSS from them while continuing to disallow individual's JS and CSS on
>> the Special:Preferences and Special:Login page.
>> 
>> Alexia filed a bug[2] and Kunal (Legoktm) has provided a patch[3] to allow
>> site-wide styling back on those pages.
>
> Right, the patch only re-adds site-wide CSS, not JS.
>

This seems completely reasonable to me. I'd merge is personally.  Is there
any reason not to?

Thank you,
Derric Atzrott


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