Thread:Project:WikiProject Extensions/Ideas/Link within Extension to allow developers to solicit donations/reply (26)

What's wrong with the obsolete template used on some extension pages?

Such extensions are also totally unnecessary with the ability to block users, log them out, change login and registration information, and their username.

Lots of extensions implement ideas that were rejected from core for being (to put it bluntly) a bad idea. That's one of the main reasons for having extensions, so if people don't like a decision made in core mediawiki, they can do their own thing without totally forking mediawiki. (That said, some extension ideas are worst then others, and some are downright scary. But even then I think we should still allow them, just have warnings on the page)

- In regards to SMW: I am not familiar with SMW, or its documentation. However I could certainly understand where they are coming from not wanting multiple sets of documentation, especially if the multiple sets look "official". Having multiple sets of duplicate documentation is a pain to maintain (so usually one of the copies is significantly out of date), and if they both look official, the maintainer of the extension is going to be responsible for both of them. However, with that said, I think it would be perfectly acceptable to have a link from the extension description page, to some subpage that has community made (by which i mean this wiki's community, not the extension's community) documentation, provided it clearly states that it is not official documentation of the extension.