On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:17 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/2 Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a bug?
More significantly, is there evidence of community consensus?
There was a poll which came out about 59%:41% in favour, then Jimbo loudly and publicly requested that it be switched on. There's been a ton of publicity about it, and I find it frankly unbelievable it hasn't been mentioned even in passing in the WMF office. So if it's been sitting there for weeks so a dev can say "ah, but you didn't tick this box and file form 10-QF, so sorry" then that would be a marvellous illustration of passive sabotage, but not actually being helpful.
So, can anyone answer authoritatively?
It isn't clear that the configuration change will be made. Jimmy has very little authority (if any) over technical matters, other than that of a board member, and 59% has never been enough to justify a configuration change. If you ask me, the change could be justified neither by Jimmy's approval, nor by community consensus, without excluding a Foundation-level decision to the contrary.
If you want to know with any confidence if it will be enabled, you will need to wait for Brion or Erik to reply.
The poll itself was also horribly conducted. Half the people didn't even know what they were voting about, and there is very little awareness of what FlaggedRevs actually does. I expect that if we thought first and polled second, we might have come with a more convincing consensus, rather than what we have now, which is an unconvincing majority vote.