On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO it worked just fine, but there were too many restrictions on when it could be used. So actually…Mono is right, it was doomed to fail from the beginning, regardless of its merits.
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It's the problem of the English Wikipedia not knowing what it wanted aside from knowing it wanted something. Some wanted stable revisions (an approved form of an article), others wanted protection but editable, others wanted enhanced review of content before publishing, etc. Pending changes, as a software package, is a bit of an amalgamation of all the things the community requested. Unfortunately, we never agreed on what exactly it was supposed to be. The Foundation put plenty of resources in the product, but we were like a focus group trying to describe the perfect product without any concrete idea of what we were missing with the product we had.
Sad, really.