User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: August 26, 2015/@comment-24473195-20150826194015/@comment-24473195-20150826201245

Oh, so like the IUser:Inez posted in the infobox thread?

Any visual aid is a great step in the right direction of avoiding unnecessary wikitext.

Well, I know some people are impatient with mediawiki/javascript, though it doesn't really bother me that much because much of the functionality can actually be used through greasemonkey/tampermonkey.

To me this sounds like an excellent time to re-evaluate the development model that exists in wikia:


 * 1) Unlike WMF, there is a central repository for javascripts.
 * 2) Rather than having hundreds of incomplete adhoc solutions being repeated inefficiently   everywhere, one could repurpose dev.wikia as a central place for creating scripts that can be deployed in any wikia.
 * 3) Javascript is the one element of wikia/mediawiki that isn't collaborative. An admin can decide and force any js on unsuspecting users/anomies. That's where gadgets in mediawiki software are great. People can disable annoyances they don't want.
 * 4) New gadgets get added to dev.wikia and only people who know about dev.wikia will be aware once they visit it.

One interesting approach currently being taken by the WMF is a Staff team designed to interact with the community and improve their gadgets and/or even turn them into extensions or possibly merge them into core.

But that's currently impossible in Wikia  because there isn't a good link/communication between them.