I'm going to reply to a few different replies all at once, to make this a bit easier to ignore.
Risker wrote:
Nobody was asking Erik or Danese to determine consensus. They were asked to give their word that our consensus would be respected after the polling of the community following a second trial. Consensus doesn't mean majority rule, as has always been very clear on this project.
It's now on record that any further trials are moot, and that the tool is going to be left in place with absolutely no intention of disabling it regardless of the wishes of the project.
Yes. I view the FlaggedRevs deployment a bit like childbirth. Imagine FlaggedRevs is an elephant baby. It takes years and years to finally get out, and now that's out and has been walking around for a few months, there's no chance in hell it's going back in.
FlaggedRevs won't be disabled on the English Wikipedia because it would signal a failure on the part of the Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone is already sick of this mongrel of a project, even though its underlying goal (protecting living people) is so vital. Wikimedia has finally pushed out a "solution"; anyone who thought that they were going to pull back on this afterward (and then be forced to re-evaluate how to prevent any crackpot from libeling anyone with a biography) was delusional.
David Gerard wrote:
There'll be new hearts and minds along in eighteen months.
This came off as _really_ shitty. I imagine it was just an off-the-cuff remark, so I won't dwell on it. I will echo Michael Snow's sentiments that this view is absolutely unacceptable, though. Wikimedia _is_ its community.
Erik Moeller wrote:
You've seen the BLP resolution?
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people
This has inspired lots of cross-language work on BLP policies, and is referenced in many of them. It specifically asks for "investigating new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly when they affect living people, and to better enable readers to report problems".
You've seen the proposed global BLP policy?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biographies_of_living_people
It's completely stalled, as far as I'm aware. If you have examples of cross-language work on BLP policies, I think most of this list would be interested in them. Please share. :-)
Keegan Peterzell wrote:
<cough> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/Drafting_pages/Liv ing_People_Policy
An obscure page on a dead project. Useful.
Keegan Peterzell (also) wrote:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/Drafting_pages/R... ommendations_to_the_Board_of_Trustees/Draft
Instead of link-spamming, could you share with the list the status update of these recommendations? The draft you linked was last edited in May.
MZMcBride