https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47694

--- Comment #30 from Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> ---
(In reply to comment #29)
> (In reply to comment #28)
> > 
> > Nope, I know it's not hard coded. What I was talking about is the
> > justification
> > for including it.
> > 
> > As Matt correctly points out in comment 17, this is partially about managing
> > expectations. If you look at it from that point of view, you could say that
> > people expect "remember me" to work for an indefinite period, since that's
> > how
> > it works most other places if you choose that option. If it's likely that we
> > change our config to be the same based on a privacy policy revision, then
> > there's no need to say something extra, because it fits with the usual 
> > mental
> > model of what such a checkbox does.
> 
> You realize that all this privacy policy change argument carries no value
> for a
> bug in MediaWiki product which shall consider only the MediaWiki default,
> don't
> you?

No, this bug is primarily about what's on Wikimedia projects. That's what
Thehelpfulone was asking about in the original comment, why Luis commented
about privacy as well, and why MZ's solution was to locally change the enwiki
message. I could care less if someone wants to change the MediaWiki default as
long as they leave Wikimedia projects untouched.

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