Board Thread:Script Suggestions/@comment-1158325-20160320103956/@comment-1757994-20160323205133

Bobogoobo wrote: ... we're apparently not allowed to create .js pages in our userspace either. At least not on LyricWikia. It's not allowed on any wiki. I asked about that at the time of the lockdown after the hack. Wikia considers "personal js" to be only global, common, and skin js. No modules are allowed in User: space. At the time, the reason given was that it would require engineering time to ease the restrictions enforced by code on personal js. Nevertheless, Wikia has found the time to spend on engineering since then to increase the restrictions enforced by code on personal js.

Yes, forcing people to find work-arounds is indeed less secure. A reduction of abilities that in no way increases security using specious arguments for said "security" is security theater, not actual security.

As for Gadgets, frankly I'm not a fan. When they refuse to be disabled via preferences, what's the point of even having the option. But they're not any harder to review than any other module in the MediaWiki: space.