2010/9/28 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
Ummm, no, Erik. The objective was to have consensus to KEEP it on, not consensus to turn it off, and that was always the agreement. There was never, until the lack of consensus to keep it on became clear, a direct suggestion that we'd be stuck with it.
Anne, there are no obvious answers here. Two thirds of the community told us "Please keep this feature enabled", some of whom said "we should expand this to all (BLP|high-risk articles|whatever)". Jimmy posted interpreting this as direction-setting for continued testing and development, and asking us to provide a development timetable, which we did. Had we then said "Oh, sorry, no consensus for anything, we'll just turn it all off for now", we'd have a different set of people heaping blame on WMF right now. At the end of the day it's just a feature that we're continuing to improve, and it's up to the enwiki community to figure out how/why/where it wants to use it. We have no stake in this, other than wanting to support the project as best we can.