On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:43 AM, ChrisiPK chrisipk@gmail.com wrote:
So right now, they are only hired to roll out flagged revs on en.wp. I think that improvements to Commons are at least as vital as en.wp problems, seeing that Commons is a mess in many places right now.
I don't know any more about the decision than you do, but I would point out that a) FlaggedRevs is all coded and ready for deployment, unlike most Commons features that are desired; and b) Wikimedia has made a quite public commitment to deploy FlaggedRevs soon, unlike any Commons features. It's not like Commons has been ignored, anyway -- the new-upload branch should greatly benefit Commons, from what I've heard. It's just apparently not ready for deployment yet.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone for poking people about improvements to Commons here, of course. I'm sure more work should be put into Commons. But at this precise moment, prioritizing this one specific enwiki feature seems to make sense.