I'm going to reply to a few different replies all at once, to make this a
bit easier to ignore.
Risker wrote:
Nobody was asking Erik or Danese to determine
consensus. They were asked to
give their word that our consensus would be respected after the polling of
the community following a second trial. Consensus doesn't mean majority
rule, as has always been very clear on this project.
It's now on record that any further trials are moot, and that the tool is
going to be left in place with absolutely no intention of disabling it
regardless of the wishes of the project.
Yes. I view the FlaggedRevs deployment a bit like childbirth. Imagine
FlaggedRevs is an elephant baby. It takes years and years to finally get
out, and now that's out and has been walking around for a few months,
there's no chance in hell it's going back in.
FlaggedRevs won't be disabled on the English Wikipedia because it would
signal a failure on the part of the Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone is
already sick of this mongrel of a project, even though its underlying goal
(protecting living people) is so vital. Wikimedia has finally pushed out a
"solution"; anyone who thought that they were going to pull back on this
afterward (and then be forced to re-evaluate how to prevent any crackpot
from libeling anyone with a biography) was delusional.
David Gerard wrote:
There'll be new hearts and minds along in eighteen
months.
This came off as _really_ shitty. I imagine it was just an off-the-cuff
remark, so I won't dwell on it. I will echo Michael Snow's sentiments that
this view is absolutely unacceptable, though. Wikimedia _is_ its community.
Erik Moeller wrote:
You've seen the BLP resolution?
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people
This has inspired lots of cross-language work on BLP policies, and is
referenced in many of them. It specifically asks for "investigating
new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly when they
affect living people, and to better enable readers to report
problems".
You've seen the proposed global BLP policy?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biographies_of_living_people
It's completely stalled, as far as I'm aware. If you have examples of
cross-language work on BLP policies, I think most of this list would be
interested in them. Please share. :-)
Keegan Peterzell wrote:
An obscure page on a dead project. Useful.
Keegan Peterzell (also) wrote:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/Drafting_pages/…
ommendations_to_the_Board_of_Trustees/Draft
<http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/Drafting_pages/Re
commendations_to_the_Board_of_Trustees/Draft>Point
4.
Instead of link-spamming, could you share with the list the status update of
these recommendations? The draft you linked was last edited in May.
MZMcBride