Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-11733175-20150728100346/@comment-24473195-20150728143724

Cqm wrote: I agree that increasing the barrier to start contributing to Dev Wiki is not desirable. However, the inherent security flaw on Dev Wiki is a barrier to using the scripts on Dev Wiki. I'm very careful about what scripts I use from here in both my personal js and any wiki's site-wide js because of that weakness. Finding that happy medium is what this is all about :) Moving important scripts to another namespace is the simplest move.  People can still mess around with the main namespace, which is desirable in terms of things such as documentation and small fixes. Going around protecting scripts is a waste of time except for the most popular scripts, which would still be permanently protected.

The other namespace would be like a seal of approval that these scripts are trustworthy/reviewed/less dangerous.The normal import would then be modded so that it wouldn't allow any script to be obtained from the dev wiki namespace 0, and only allow scripts from maybe a "Code:" space.

More importantly, a wiki is a place for people to collaborate. The whole notion of people wanting to do things alone/without help/without review is very odd for a wiki. We might as well move all the code to github, as suggested in the thread by Mediawiki staff/users. The only reason this wiki isn't as popular or doesn't have enough contributors  is because the staff don't actively promote it despite launching things such as scribunto.

Even community.wikia.com only has 1 module.