I thought these lists were subscribed to the announcements list, but apparently not. Apologies if a duplicate turns up later.
Hmm... Forwarding messages as attachments clearly doesn't work, either. Perhaps the third time will be the charm. Sorry for the mess.
William
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Pending Changes launched on English Wikipedia Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:03:40 -0700 From: William Pietri william@scissor.com To: announce-l@lists.wikimedia.org
As scheduled, Pending Changes went live on the English Wikipedia just after 4 pm Pacific (23:00 UTC) this afternoon!
The details of the trial are still being worked out by the English Wikipedia community, but it looks like they (or "you" as the case may be) will start off from a queue of carefully chosen pages [1] and see how to take it from there. For those who are interested in viewing the feature in the wild, Pending Changes is already enabled for, e.g, World War I [2] and Runescape [3]. Look in the top right corner for the pages-and-magnifying-glass icon.
Press coverage on this started yesterday with the BBC [4], and we've since received coverage in other sources in English (e.g., [5], [6]) and a variety of other languages. The coverage has, happily, been generally positive.
There were a few minor issues with the rollout, most of which have been resolved. There are some minor UI issues that we will work through over the next few weeks, including some lively but good-natured opinions on the amount of yellow used. We'll be keeping a close eye on things over the next few days to make sure it all continues to go smoothly.
For those who want to get a sense of how the system is performing in terms of throughput (e.g., average time-to-approval), please visit the Pending Changes Stats page [7]. You'll also be able to browse pages needing review [8] and all pages with Pending Changes activated [9].
I want to thank the whole team involved on this, with special recognition to Aaron Schulz, the developer who has done the lion's share of the development. He has done great work, both in the development and in handling with the rollout.
William
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Queue [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuneScape [4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10312095.stm [5] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.ph... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/7829476/Wikipedia-rolls-out-pending-changes.html [6] http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62518 [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ValidationStatistics [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:OldReviewedPages [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:StablePages
For those who want to get a sense of how the system is performing in terms of throughput (e.g., average time-to-approval), please visit the Pending Changes Stats page [7].
The stats page doesn't show the percentiles, like the one of labs does. Is that just because there haven't been enough edits needing approval for there to be meaningful percentiles, or has it been removed for some reason? I think those percentiles are one of the most interesting statistics for determining how well we are doing at keeping up. Also, the average, median and lag are all showing as "0.0s". That can't be right, surely? Is that a bug? Or is it including the automatically approved edits? If so, that should probably be changed to just consider manual edits, otherwise we'll get pretty meaningless numbers (as long as more than half of edits are automatically approved, the median will be 0.0s).
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
For those who want to get a sense of how the system is performing in terms of throughput (e.g., average time-to-approval), please visit the Pending Changes Stats page [7].
the average, median and lag are all showing as "0.0s". That can't be right, surely? Is that a bug?
Yeah, something there doesn't look right. We'll look into it further.
Rob
On 16 June 2010 18:59, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
For those who want to get a sense of how the system is performing in terms of throughput (e.g., average time-to-approval), please visit the Pending Changes Stats page [7].
the average, median and lag are all showing as "0.0s". That can't be right, surely? Is that a bug?
Yeah, something there doesn't look right. We'll look into it further.
Thanks!