Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-4189499-20151101052553

Penguin-Pal wrote: Kirkburn wrote: FYI: We've started up the Twitter conversion script, under the WikiaBot account. It'll likely take a little while to get round all of the usages. Though, a community that is unaware of this thread is probably inactive, and so can their twitter account be. Not necessarily Penguin-Pal. There are many, many communities on Wikia that don't have a person keeping an eye on CC for them. I myself haven't come on for several weeks before today because of other demands on my time and feel pretty lucky to have caught this thread so soon after its creation. A massage sent out to all communities like Wikia did for the CreepyPasta contest would have been very handy to help keep all communities informed and have them get ready before all the content inserted into their wiki via verbatim is cut off.

There are so many ways that creative and benevolent admins have inserted content into their wikis via verbatim tags, that it will be a shame to lose them. I understand the security requirements, but why not instead do a code review similar to what you're doing for JS? If somebody's using "forbidden" tags to manipulate content in harmless yet beneficial ways for the community, it should be allowed. There is after all only so many features that Wikia can include by default, and giving people more freedom to create their own things to complement existing MediaWiki features and extensions should be encouraged in my mind, for example a proof of concept we were performing on our wiki where we used the verbatim tags to insert a form that changed the URL parameters to allow the refinement of a DPL list. There's no native way to do that as far as I'm aware. Being able to have a review committee look at the MediaWiki page being transcluded and confirm that the content couldn't possibly cause any harm would allow many awesome features such as that to be built by the vast array of different communities on Wikia with different wikis and different requirements for each. It's already working for JS: why not verbatim?