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Magnus Manske wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
The "version rating" feature that's
been put in Wikimedia software but
not yet optimized to the point where it can be used in a production
Wikipedia would be ideal for reducing backsliding without limiting the
ability to edit or otherwise making things difficult. I've been
looking forward to this feature for quite some time myself. If the
problem is simply one of not having developers with the right
combination of free time, interest, and skills to complete this
feature, might it perhaps be a reasonable idea to spend some of the
money raised in the fund drives to provide a reward to get it done?
Spending money to improve the software's scalability could be worth it
for the reduced cost of hardware upgrades and the reduced "cost" in
terms of the volunteer effort of editors keeping articles clean.
Well, as the author of said feature, I've been asking for a long time
what's the holdup. I'm fairly certain it is, at the very least, ready
for the planned test phase. I keep asking people what should be fixed,
but so far (that is, in the last few month) noone could tell me the
reason it remains turned off.
If it's safe to turn on, turn it on!
If parts of it are broken or not up to MediaWiki
standard or Evil(tm) in
some other important way, please, PLEASE tell me so I can fix it.
I guess we will find that out when we turn it on... turn it on!
Should I backport it from CVS HEAD to some other
branch? Which one?
Anything!
Turn it into an extension in case it doesn't work?
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