William Pietri wrote:
On 03/04/2010 10:57 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Purely as a point of fact it is simply inaccurate that the 20 implementations of flagged revs and patrolled edits across the other wikies than English Wikipedia are monolithically identical. I know this firsthand.
Sorry if I gave that impression. Indeed, I have direct evidence otherwise. When I run low on things to worry about, I pull up the spreadsheet I built showing the wide config variations in uses of FlaggedRevs. Not that it's worrying on its own; it's nice to see people using it and adapting it locally. It just means that potential bugs are harder to spot.
All I was trying to say is that the requested approach for the English Wikipedia, called Flagged Protection, differs from the existing uses.
And as such, follows the pattern of all the other existing implementations; in so much as they differ from each others. So throwing this conformance with established implementations nature into the conversation is not too significant.
For there to be a significant divergence from the pattern of adapting as we go, there really needs to be a qualitative difference to the divergence, not just a noting down that the English Wikipedia like all others, diverges.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen