Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151201202536/@comment-26402117-20151213124947

Granted, they accepted that staff advice will evolve given the situation, but I don't think the absolute removal of this customisation perfectly lines up with the concept of a hosted wiki.

Ciencia Al Poder wrote: .. I'm pretty sure they can get the contents of MediaWiki:Pagetitle of all wikis, and filter only those with more than X characters, to work on them. In the worst case, they could run a bot to delete or change them to a sane default, but still allow on-wiki customizations.

The likelihood that erasing the pagetitle but leaving it open would actually take us back to square one and result in the same long pagetitles is pretty small considering its now seen as a spammy technique in general.