The current default of $wgMFAnonymousEditing is false in [[mw:Extension:MobileFrontend]] (in MobileFrontend.php). We should re-examine whether this matches expectations of people installing the extension. I guess I see three points to consider:
- determining whether the default should be changed (i.e., whether it matches user expectations when someone installs the MobileFrontend extension to automatically have anonymous editing disabled); —— the alternate here would be setting it to true by default and overriding Wikimedia's setting, which is trivial to do;
- determining whether this global's implementation is a great idea overall; if it's meant to be temporary (until the resolution of bug 53069), it's completely fine; if this is meant to stay in the software indefinitely, a more granularized array approach may make sense for the global; or perhaps using (or re-using) assigned user rights (user groups "*", "user", etc.)
- (tangential to point two) documenting $wgMFAnonymousEditing at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend (I couldn't see any mention of it there)
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60567