User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: January 11, 2016/@comment-30384903-20160112165533/@comment-24473195-20160113122842

@kirkburn:

So code-editors will essentially edit the mediawiki namespace?

I suppose that since none of their changes will ever go live without prior approval it will always be a better situation compared to the previous scenario. You might as well push a patch to prevent people from moving .js pages to and from the main namespace. This 'hack' was used to update scripts during the lockdown.