User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: September 7, 2015/@comment-24473195-20150907205020/@comment-24473195-20150908145142

It is great that dev.wikia is on the list of candidates for the beta. This would actually be a great opportunity to get popular scripts reviewed, and deprecate or archive old ones with security exploits. Reading through the help page and its FAQ, it seems well thought out. I've read through mw:Extension:Gadgets, and came up with a couple of ideas:


 * 1) It would be of benefit to wikia and end-users if wikia ran something like mwgrep on several wikias to gather some statistics about commonly used scripts. This would help prioritise review for the used scripts. Dev.wikia developers could even help clean up the code before review...
 * 2) Perhaps a new user group could to be introduced throughout wikia, code-developer/code-editor/gadget creator or whatever. This would be a group of trusted individuals that can edit the scripts without admin rights, e.g. delete.  Although it would be better if the js was simply placed in its own namespace, like mediawiki does with their gadgets. Although this comes with its own issues, localization, etc...
 * 3) It would be extremely useful if the source-editor automatically logged scripts with JS errors upon save, e.g. those highlighted by JS hint. This would reduce the list of scripts reviews by giving lower priority to those with errors.