Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-11733175-20150728100346/@comment-24473195-20150728102347

I've got a couple of ideas:

1. Create a new namespace - Code: (only code-editors and above may edit there) 2. Some form of code review 3. Demo page- 1  generic page per where the script is automatically loaded, and showcases its "work", making it a bit easier to review.

Here's an interesting and applicable discussion by MediaWiki staff/users.

Also, from what I can see the staff seems to mainly be ignoring lua templates. Although I know a lot of security is built-in making it impossible to exploit the same way, eventually people always tend to find ways to breach the system.

Testcases such as Module:links/testcases and Module_talk:links/testcases are the best possible ways to curb such activity, especially considering that people can easily review the testcases in their own wikis.

Another thing is that wikia probably needs to keep some official count and  estimate of how widely these scripts are used. For all we know the effects were so limited that there is no point bothering on special "protections". We (they) need numbers to justify the effort.