Last modified: 2014-09-07 03:21:06 UTC
I'd like to enable a new beta feature on a wiki, but I wouldn't like the users to enable it thoughtlessly, as it currently breaks a lot of things. For this reason, I'd like to be able to append a 'do NOT use this! only for developers' note to such beta feature in the beta tab.
Hmm. Does that sound like a common usecase, or rather like something that you could hack up yourself if really wanted? I don't know...
Editing the MediaWiki messages isn't good enough?
If there are severe issues that would "break a lot of things" it's not ready to be a Beta Feature and for WMF servers we wouldn't let it go live. Consequently I don't see a valid use case and am marking as WONTFIX.
James Forrester, I expected you to be most familiar with the context here -- installation of visualeditor at non-Wikipedias as a sort-of-pre-beta feature, while people script visualeditor to suit the project needs. If it's put as a beta feature, a lot of people will enable it and make edits that break things or at least don't provide the relevant features (for wikipedias, this is the common use of <ref> tag, for instance; for its sisters, it's a need in other toolbar buttons and often lack of need in <ref> tag in the first place).
(In reply to Gryllida from comment #4) > James Forrester, I expected you to be most familiar with the context here -- > installation of visualeditor at non-Wikipedias as a sort-of-pre-beta > feature, while people script visualeditor to suit the project needs. This is the very first time you've suggested it, so no, I'm not remotely familiar with your idea. :-)
