Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-24692230-20180104153506/@comment-24757753-20180108114034

JustLeafy wrote: Should we make a poll in here about which option is the best for now? Not in the main page, of course, but in this thread? I'm not sure a poll is too helpful for this sort of thing - what matters more is the pros and cons of each option and a consensus on what would be best.

Sophiedp wrote: One advantage of moving them to the MediaWiki namespace is that we get the code editor with error checking. There is a script created by Cqm here a few years back (when everything was still in main namespace) that loaded the Ace editor in the main namespace, though I can't seem to find it right now.

Ursuul wrote: The error tracking is terrible & it thinks flexbox properties aren’t valid, plus mobile editing is a foregone conclusion. That's probably more to do with using a version of Ace imported in 2013 with few changes since, though I'm not sure mobile support is working properly in the upstream version yet, either.

I've sent in a request asking if staff would be willing to help us move the pages properly. If staff are willing, and the hack KockaAdmiralac mentions above is considered acceptable (to prevent issues with some imports), I think it would be good to move them, just so they are in what is probably a more appropriate namespace. If staff won't move them for whatever reason, or if that hack is not good, I think they're best staying where they are.

Also, I've put together a list of both CSS pages currently in main namespace and deleted CSS pages that were copy-pasted to MW namespace. It should be complete, but it was created manually so there may be issues. Feel free to edit it if something is wrong!