--- On Tue, 6/29/10, Hélène Pedrosa-Masson edhral@free.fr wrote:
From: Hélène Pedrosa-Masson edhral@free.fr Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikitech-l] Wikisource bugs To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 12:44 PM Hi.
The following bug shall be added to this list
here, Wikisource:
IPs unable to flag articles as "proofread" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20812 There have been still long discussions with no
solution
It is absolutely neccessary to solve this problem.
It is not
acceptable that a dev is ignoring the community
consensus.
We urgently need other/better devs.
(...) The bridge between ThomasV and de.WS has been
burnt.
The resolution of this particular bug, which is dear
to de.WS and
ambivalent outside of de.WS, will absolutely require a
new dev
taking interest. I hope we can avoid rehashing the all the could-a,
should-a, would-a
again and focus on what can be accomplished from where
things stand.
I'd like to add that there may be a community consensus on this subject in de:ws . But in fr:ws, we agree with ThomasV that allowing IPs to proofread can be more dangerous than useful (but I know there are fewer IPs on fr:ws than on de:ws). Speaking of consensus is not fair, regarding the debates that Birgitte refered to.
Just to clarify. The bug discussion progressed into making the issue configurable.
This would mean fr.WS would configure things to not allow IPs (desired to maintain things the same as current local set-up) and de.WS to allow IPs (desired to restore a historical local set-up). This is why I described those outside of de.WS as ambivilent (it does not matter very much to them), they will be able to keep their desired local set-up with or without the bug resolved.
Birgitte SB