2010/9/28 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com:
If the trial said the extension would be turned off, and it didn't get turned off, then whatever the reason...
As a reminder, there was a post-trial poll with very broad participation and 65% of support for continued use of PC. Jimmy then put on his traditional leadership hat and quite clearly laid out his view for a way forward that could help en.wp to get towards consensus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&action=h...
All WMF did is to not _disable_ a feature that enjoys 65% support. Had we disabled it in spite of the above events, I have no doubt that we would now be discussing a different set of objections and concerns, from some of the same people and some different ones. We're talking about an environment in which people are already putting Pending Changes related slogans into their user signatures and user boxes; this is clearly a heated and divisive internal debate. It seems entirely reasonable to me that the best environment in which to continue a discussion that's clearly ongoing is one in which WMF doesn't close off options prematurely, but one in which the community can flexibly design and execute experiments, and WMF largely steps away from the keyboard, except for supplying code and data unless/until it's clear that this is a dead end.