Topic on Extension talk:Education Program

Ата (talkcontribs)

There is discussion about enabling this extension in ukwiki. Some users are concerned about the lack of people to work with education programs. They ask whether Education Program extension can be painlessly disabled in wiki if no editors use it. Is this possible?

AKoval (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hello, Ata. I wasn't sure of the answer to your question, so I did some asking, and I'm told that, yes, it might be possible, but it's probably irreversible. HTH.

Ата (talkcontribs)

By saying that it's irreversible you mean that things made through this extension elswhere will disappeare, right? Will this action of disabling affect main namespace? If it won't then it's ok

AKoval (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Ata, sorry for the late reply; I was traveling and without internet access. Sage says that the notifications created by the extension could possibly break the display of other notifications, so it might not be possible to disable it before Editor Campaigns is mature enough to replace the extension. But eventually it will be deprecated anyway, so leaving it enabled but unused for a while shouldn't cause many problems. HTH. Anna Koval (WMF) (talk) 15:47, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Sage Ross (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I just tested it, and I'm pleased to note that Notifications shouldn't be a problem; if the extension is disabled, the associated Notifications just don't appear. So there's nothing that Andrew (the maintainer of this extension) or I can think of that would cause any technical problems with disabling the extension after it had been enabled for a while. It would *probably* be possible to disable it if that's what the community wanted, although I can't make any promises.

Ата (talkcontribs)

Thanks a lot, this is what I wanted to hear :-) We'll have this in mind

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