Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24473195-20150815154410/@comment-3328029-20150818142431

Dessamator wrote: Fewfre wrote:

Dessamator wrote: Hmm, though it seems logical. I don't think it will really work like that.

Lets consider how many scripts out there in the wild contain considerable exploits. Even in this very wiki, we have may inadvertedly created scripts which also have exploits.

Yes, but here we can fix the exploits for everyone (with the new peer review system hopefully helping prevent them). If they don't allow for this, you'll have a bunch of people trying to copy-paste whole scripts onto their user/site js, which the code reviewers will have to glance over; and will thus increase the odds of one of the scripts that has an exploit snuck in getting through since they've seen the "same" code 50 times. If everyone uses the same (peer reviewed) version, at least everyone will be using the same up-to-date version that's "official".

To me it's the same reason you should always download programs from the official site, not have 50 people download it from unofficial places were once might have a backdoor or something.

A peer review system across Wikia is pointless if they won't allow us to add custom scripts at all (which is not my interpretation), and even if they have "official" scripts for the more common ones, there is (again) a decent number of scripts here that I don't see them "officially" supporting. So it still makes sense to have a repository for these scripts, just with an added peer-review system.

Should what you speculate be true you have a very valid point, but I'm hoping they allow more wiggle room despite them rarely doing what I hope.