Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150814190019/@comment-1065656-20150815162456

I've stayed mostly quiet regarding my opinions on this topic, but this suggestion that code will need to be submitted for review, is absolutely preposterous to me as an actual script writer.

Even if the waiting time for code review is five minutes, that's still far too long for quickly testing new scripts. It's painful enough as it is having to clear cache and purge the page and all the rest of it, without having to wait for god-knows-how-long for someone else to say 'yes, adding a semicolon to line 46 isn't malicious, have a good day'. This review system is going to destroy the creativity Wikia's script writers have exhibited over the last twelve years.

From where I'm standing a far better solution would be to introduce an extra user class which can only be given by Wikia staff, and only after sufficient demonstration of proficiency with JavaScript, which allows editing of code.

The whole thing just reeks of over-protectivity. How many wikis use custom JavaScript? And how often do JavaScript incidents occur? To force all users to have their code submitted for review just seems like overkill.

And another question: what's going to be the cut-off for what's being considered 'malicious'? It's already difficult enough to figure out whether anyone is going to take offence to your script if it's any more complicated than 'make a table that adds item prices together'. Who's going to be responsible for reviewing the code, especially enormous scripts like Monchoman's chat hacks, or that options script every other chat seems to use? What about scripts that for instance modify a message a user sends, such as chat censor scripts? Are they going to be allowed?