Thanks heaps for the update, Brion.
I must confess to having harboured hopes that we might have been able to get flagged revisions enabled perhaps a little quicker. Given the 3 month or so timeframe, is there any merit in creating some sort of fixed (or flexible) schedule - is the delay due to extra bits and bobs of coding being required? - Is a reasonably straightforward (ie. understandable by idiots like me!) explanation for the nature of the ongoing work possible? (it'd be nice to shout a bit about this from the wiki rooftops, but hard without being sure what's going on.....)
Would some targetted donations help flagged revisions to be enabled at all? I feel it's a least a possibility that those who have long expressed a desire to work with the functionality might be willing to throw in a buck or two to bring the schedule forward / keep momentum - I'd certainly kick in $50 or $100. (hey I'd even be happy to split it 50/50 between the developer who does the work, and the foundation ;-)
Hopefully we're at least fairly close to getting the test config. on en.labs - is this a suitable place for interested english wikipedia community members to come and have a play / offer feedback etc. - or is this really more of a techincal sort of thing?
Sorry about the tons of questions - I'm asking so many, because I'd like to try and whip the relavent pages on the english wikipedia into shape so they can communicate fully and clearly where we're at... :-)
cheers,
Peter PM.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Quick update:
- Yes, we do plan to roll out an English Wikipedia test setup for
Flagged Revs.
- There's not yet a fixed schedule for it, but I'd like to see it up and
running in production before Wikimania. :) [August]
- Right now we're running round tidying up general things, getting the
1.15 release set up, and prepping to get our live sites updated to development trunk -- nice things are afoot like a total upgrade to the preferences backend which Werdna has done, yay!
- As we get back up to speed, we'll want to coordinate w/ Aaron to
confirm that we've got a configuration planned and that it'll look good, and get that test config on en.labs.wikimedia.org and test.wikipedia for a while before we roll it to en.wikipedia.
I'd also like to see folks ponder a bit on the final terminology for things -- we'd also like to roll out the Drafts extension (for saving your in-progress edit page in the background so you can return to it if you accidentally close it or your browser crashes), but Flagged Revs also uses the 'draft' terminology sometimes. We want to make sure we're not going to be looking too confusing having both of those things in the system.
-- brion
El 5/12/09 5:20 PM, private musings escribió:
Hi all,
The 'flagged revisions' bug ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18244 ) - has, by my
reading
been 'reopened' for 2 weeks now. Being as this is a reasonably big deal
in
the wiki scheme of things, I presume it's possible that matters are being discussed, or otherwise moved forward in some way, behind the scenes, but
at
this point, I thought it was probably worth making sure that this hasn't just been sort of forgotten.
I think the enabling of flagged revisions on the english wikipedia is a
very
important, positive step for the project, and hope it might be acted upon
in
reasonably good order as a high priority.
Apologies if such prodding is not a great fit on this list - don't mean
to
bug anyone (geddit?) ;-)
cheers,
Peter, PM.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:55 PM, private musings<thepmaccount@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
It seems to me that there's been sterling work on the 'flagged
revisions'
front - with the bulk of the credit due to User:Cenarium over on en, and
the
various folk working away over there.
With that in mind, could I please encourage a dev.s attention to;
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18244
Hopefully we can enable the extension as soon as possible :-)
best,
Peter, PM.
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