On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 7:41 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
How is duplicating a default
value to hundreds of wikis, in a separate code base with its own user
interface, a sane or desirable architecture?
Sane or desirable? Probably not. But it seems a lot easier for someone to
get that working than to design, implement, and deploy global preferences
in MediaWiki, either in core or as an extension.
Of course, if someone does want to work on implementing a global
preferences extension and doing the work to get it deployed, then more
power to them. A better solution to be sure, but it'll likely take more
time and effort.
Or, I suppose, someone can try to convince a WMF team's PM that it should
be prioritized above the team's existing work. But that seems like the
least timely way to get it done, and I can give no estimate of the
probability of success.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation