https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12262
--- Comment #25 from Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@panix.com> 2012-03-11 17:38:33 UTC --- (In reply to comment #24) > So far, you are the only one complaining. If there *were* > hundreds of wikis using that syntax, there would hve been a ot more complaints > about now. Erwin, I do strongly appreciate all the work you are putting into this issue, but I think I would prefer to work harder to assess how the members of our various sites will react to this change before changing it unilaterally. Many times over the past several years, people have thought "well surely not too many people are doing *this* illogical thing that depends on obscure, irrational, undocumented behavior," and found out that a nontrivial percentage of users do. Hundreds of thousands of people each use the sites in different ways. And we do try to balance the convenience of legacy support/backwards compatibility with the need to pay down technical debt and straighten things out for rationality and better future development. You've been working on this sort of thing for a while so I know you understand these constraints. Perhaps you could work with Chris McMahon, Mark Hershberger, and the wikitech-ambassadors list to reach out to some additional communities and ask them to comment here? Most Wikimedia editors don't know of Bugzilla and don't hear of issues raised here unless we reach out to them. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
