User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: December 2, 2015/@comment-5558012-20151202212702/@comment-24473195-20151202225933

"Personally, this seems like abuse of dev's MediaWiki space to me, but the not-very-well-stated intent isn't really to bypass review, but to be able to import previously reviewed scripts."

While I do agree that the Dev.wikia MediaWiki namespace shouldn't have been used for that. The worse abuse is the fact that the main namespace is being used to store scripts. I'd prefer it if they used a new namespace for that purpose, or at the very least a prefix much like "custom-" maybe "MediaWiki:dev-". But then again, nothing really prevented us from importing scripts from dev.wikia's mediawiki namespace before.

I guess that eventually all scripts in the dev's main namespace will likely stop working when imported.