Thread:Project:WikiProject Extensions/Ideas/Link within Extension to allow developers to solicit donations/reply (21)

 Bawolff wrote:  I'm in favour of leaving things the way they are :P or at the very least a middle ground. Some extensions are simply put bad ideas. Some extensions have goals opposite of wmf's goals. Some extensions are fine doing there own thing, and don't need the foundations help. There are literally thousands of extensions, wmf can't take a leadership role for all of them. It could perhaps take a larger leadership role in more extensions, but it wouldn't be able to do it for all extensions, unless we started deleting extensions. (I suppose just limiting that to extensions in our svn would be reasonable though) It seems to me that the MediaWiki "community" should start taking a more leadership role in extensions, before the WMF starts taking a role. Even if its just to work out what a  "leadership role" would look like.

I think that the community should definitely take a more active role. However, I think that WMF could also encourage it and also maybe take a role in overseeing the extensions on MW.org. For example, there's a lot of out of date extensions that don't work and don't seem to have any plans to be updated, and a significant number of extensions that are actually harmful to the wiki, such as ones for deleting users. Such extensions are also totally unnecessary with the ability to block users, log them out, change login and registration information, and their username.