Thread:Gr8Kodr/@comment-171752-20151110161346/@comment-24015904-20151112004743

as you can see, I have quite a lot of ideas to optimise the way RoB Wikia has been doing things and make it simpler for new contributors but not being fully conversant with the whole mw API (and the Wikia customisations), I have no idea if my optimizations are even possible

also, aside from the minor detail that my background is MySQL/PHP not java-script, I really don't want to have to create a whole heap of custom scripts to check/validate inputs if there are existing functions that will suffice. I see it as much safer to use the existing elements and functions than risk injecting (innocently) malicious code and breaking Wikia - or even worse, opening a door where a user could intentionally add malicious code.