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(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:56, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)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.
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