Transition of extension Configure in MediaWiki standard
Hi IAlex,
from a usability's view point there's no extension out there that is comparably helpful like configure extension. As far as I know no central MediaWiki customization script exists capable of accelerating system administrative tasks. Up to now maintaining a flat LocalSettings files with myriad php variables is quite ackward and lacks any ease of use.
Therefore I strongly suggest the transferral of configure extension into MediaWiki core code. How could the transferral be promoted?
Thanks and keep up that precious work!
--Stoettner 21:37, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi!
I know for a good part of administrators, having to edit LocalSettings.php is hard, but there're still some problems:
- Current system is not suitable for Wikimedia itself (i.e. Wikipedia, this wiki, ...), it is not as fast as having LocalSettings.php, it can't change settings based on current time and request variables.
- If this was integrated to core, it would need a complete rewrite of how settings are defined and modified, since currently it's very easy to have an error somewhere
So the extension won't be moved to core before someone will take time to fix these problem (and I don't have this time right now).
