Transition of extension Configure in MediaWiki standard
Fragment of a discussion from User talk:IAlex
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).
