That's correct, Tom. 0.3 percent of the English language Wikipedia is being used as a testbed for the *rest* of the English-language Wikipedia; a tertiary testbed, since we've already run things through on both prototype and labs :). Obviously if we decide "lets deploy to other projects" we'd take localised concerns into account, and not just jump in. With the last version, interestingly, we had several projects *request* that we switch it on.
On 22 December 2011 13:02, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:56, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, did a double-take there. Tell me I read that wrong, please! My eyes must be deceiving me or my reading comprehension not being quite up to the task right now... But some weird brainfart made me read that in such a way that you were suggesting that the english language wikipedia would be used as a test bed for what should be deployed side-wide. Please tell me I am hallucinating, misreading you grotesquely, or there is some other clear communication disconnect!
Site-wide means "on all of English" not "on all projects" (which would be "cross-wiki" or "cross-project"). Currently AFT5 is deployed on a subset of enwp articles (about 11,000) for testing. From what I can gather, there is a fairly long process of testing planned to see whether the deployment on English is an improvement on the existing AFT. After that process, if it is deemed to be an improvement and the objections have been fixed, then it is possible to offer it to other wikis.
The small deployment on English will be used to inform the decision as to whether to roll it out fully on English, not on all projects.
It's a fairly major change, so I think the Foundation are (correctly) being conservative in their rollout on English, and being careful to collect data to inform a community decision in the future. It's not suddenly going to turn up on projects other than enwiki without a lot more discussion and consultation.
But then I've just been watching the process quietly from the sidelines: I may have got this all wrong.
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/
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