"Yuck" indeed. It seems that reaching out to the end users and getting their opinion on changes like this would save time and headaches for many involved. Pushing out unwanted changes continues, I guess.

Probably more accurate to say "home wiki" given that is what is used in the requests themselves. I don't believe it tracks where the request actually came from, but I could be wrong.

@Tgr Renames processed after those have seemingly gone through okay. Do we know when the fixStuckGlobalRename patch goes live?

@Marostegui Is it okay to proceed with this rename? I see that T215107 has been somewhat resolved.

In T165189#4791199, @TheDJ wrote:

I'm sorry, but the community (including myself) has every right to provide their input here or wherever when it is clearly affecting them. Pulling the wool over our eyes or telling us to go elsewhere is inappropriate.

Input yes, insults no.

In T165189#4790971, @Aklapper wrote:

It's worth to read previous comments (such as T165189#4789628) before pretending that somebody could speak for "the community".
Please take meta-level discussions (such as 'developers and communities') somewhere else. It's off-topic here. Thanks.

In T165189#4790322, @PerfektesChaos wrote:

• Therefore, blue colour is necessary to clarify the behaviour. No other colour than every other link targetting such pages.

So this is one of those changes that no one asked for? Is that what you are saying?

This should be reverted to what it was while you are figuring out how to deploy it properly, if you even end up deploying it. Where is the discussion that said that this is something that needed to be done or wanted to be done?

@Marostegui When would be a good time for one of us to complete this?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalRenameProgress/ReaderofthePack

Constant demands of "revert it now" are as unhelpful as they are short. This is clearly a change that is here to stay (OOjs-UI, that is), so your time would be better spent making recommendations on improving it, as you began to do on VPT.

FWIW, I am currently fixing Cyberbot II's signatures.