https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14281
MZMcBride <b...@mzmcbride.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Keywords| |easy
--- Comment #34 from MZMcBride <b...@mzmcbride.com> 2012-11-25 02:03:56 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #33)
> Anybody who can answer the questions below, presumably somebody with developer
> access?
> 1. Would changing the name of this special page be a large or small task?
It's not really a special page, or at least calling it such when there's a
Special namespace that houses entirely different kinds of pages (e.g.
[[Special:SpecialPages]]) is a little confusing.
To answer your question directly, this is a trivial task to accomplish. I'm
marking the bug with the "easy" keyword accordingly.
> 2. If it is just a small task, what is standing in the way of it being done?
Comment 10, I imagine. Tim Starling is not some random guy. He's a MediaWiki
architect (I guess that's the term we're using these days; cf.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:%2B2&oldid=597500#Revocation>).
So when he marked this bug as "wontfix", even though it's been re-opened,
there's likely a lot of hesitance to insert a feature that was explicitly
marked rejected by a senior developer (and MediaWiki architect). Tim gave his
reasoning in comment 10.
Now, to the bug itself, this is an interesting bug. I hadn't realized it had
been re-opened.
I first found myself thinking that it would make sense to split this feature (a
bad image list) out into a MediaWiki extension. It was never really great for
it to go into MediaWiki core in the first place as it doesn't really seem like
a generically useful feature. Moving the code into an extension would give the
extension author first rights (is "first rights" a concept?) to pick a name for
the list (and the extension as well, I suppose).
But the more I think about it, I'm not even sure that a separate extension
makes sense as a path forward. There are tools such as the AbuseFilter
extension (<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter>) that can
block the submission of edits such as this. Why isn't a list being maintained
in an AbuseFilter filter? Wouldn't moving the list to a filter (and deprecating
the use of "MediaWiki:Bad image list") resolve this bug for the most part?
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