I checked on it today and saw that this bug is marked resolved. Tisza, is it working to
hu.WP's satisfaction now?
Birgitte SB
--- On Fri, 8/28/09, Tisza Gergő <gtisza(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Tisza Gergő <gtisza(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevs on Hungarian Wikipedia still not working
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 6:24 PM
The autoreview feature for
FlaggedRevs does not work in the Hungarian
Wikipedia because of a configuration problem with a group
name. This
causes a lot of extra work for the patrollers, and a lot of
extra
waiting for everyone else for their edits to appear.
It has been about forty days since I filed a bug about
this; in the
meantime, I asked twice for help on wikitech-l (not to
mention the
several personal emails and IRC messages I and other
Hungarian editors
sent). After my first wikitech-l mail, there was a short
and
unsuccessful attempt to fix the problem without actually
understanding
what we asked for; before and after, in those seven weeks,
nothing
happened.
This is very disappointing. To fix the bug, one would need
to replace
all occurrences of 'confirmed' with 'trusted' in the huwiki
flagrev
config file - that takes about 20 seconds. If one wanted to
be
thorough about it and move users from the old group to the
new, one
would need to construct an appropriate SQL query - maybe 5
more
minutes. There are about a hundred patrollers on
hu.wikipedia
(including admins). If we suppose they only have to work
one extra
minute a day each (a very unrealistic lower estimation),
that adds up
to about sixty hours. Which is about a thousand times
twenty seconds.
Is staff time really a thousand times more valuable than
volunteer
time, so that no one can be bothered to make this trivial
fix, even if
many hours of other people's time could be spared? I'm
aware it is
summer, and Wikimania is going on, and everyone has a lot
on their
hands, but even so I can't believe none of the people with
shell
access can find a minute to make the fix..
Letting the time of the most active community members go to
waste like
this is not only very discouraging them, and not only does
it
undermine their trust in the revision flagging system
(which proved to
be a very valuable anti-vandalism tool, but it was always
hard to get
enough people involved), it also creates a rift between WMF
and the
local community. People perceive that the foundation does
not respect
their volunteer work at all, and it is only quick when it
is creating
problems (their previous contact with WMF was when someone
shot down
the statistics script that ran with community consensus,
without as
much as a question or comment), and not when it should be
solving
them.
If you want to broaden participation and involve more
people into
meta-projects, start with actually caring about issues like
these. And
now please, please find someone to finally fix bug 19885.
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