Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-26402117-20151030153527

Kirkburn wrote: For deleting pages in the MediaWiki namespace, just send a list of links in to Special:Contact and we can take care of them. Meanwhile, we're looking into creating a prefixed section of the MediaWiki namespace which can be used for simple custom messages.

Regarding specific embeds: if they cannot be achieved using (safe!) community JS and there is wide appeal for it, we can look into creating Twitter-like tags for them. We won't be able to implement any more before Verbatim is retired, but that doesn't mean we can't look into creating more afterwards.

Hey Kirkburn, a question for you.

Why did Wikia not shut down the MediaWiki namespace function completely (deleting the namespace in essence)? With all the work Wikia has done and is still doing just to clean it up, this sounded like a real possibility during the summer. We may have ended up losing some features, but it would have pretty much jammed the security hole shut - forever.

Another possibility would have been making it read-only permanently. Just wanted to make sure people understand - this would have been a real possibility with all the issues it's caused.

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  15:35, October 30, 2015 (UTC)