New subject: flagged revisions

20 Jun 2009

      Hi all,
It's been 10 days since the last note on flagged revisions, which is
sufficiently important to warrant a follow up at this point in my view. I'll
try and focus the questions a bit in order not to pester, but with the
intention of helping things forward;
see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18244 for bug details.
* Flagged Revisions is approved for use on the English Wikipedia, my
understanding is that there really isn't that much technical work still to
do on the extension - is this true?
* Is there anything a regular editor such as myself can do to help
prioritise this in the hearts, minds and fingers of our wonderful
developers?
* Personally, I believe this function to be one of the most important
matters before the foundation currently, I further believe that this view is
relatively widely held (and sure, widely reviled too - but this is a wiki,
right!) - I've copied foundation-l in on this note with the intention of
further general discussion occurring there, and bug-specific chat only on
the wiki-tech list, I hope this is an appropriate use of resources :-)
I've offered appreciation, a dollop of charm, and a little bit of money to
try and keep this moving forward.... I'm not sure I'm above offering sex, so
please throw me a bone for the sake of the decorum of these lists, if
nothing else :-)
best,
Peter,
PM.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.comwrote:
...
Am I confused or didn't enwp approved flagged revisions, but then it
was held up due to "purely technical reasons" ... what is this crap
now?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au
Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions
To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:08 PM, private musingsthepmaccount@gmail.com
wrote:
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with apologies for re-vitalising a slightly old thread -I have a couple
of
...
follow ups, which it'd be great to try and make some progress on....
My understanding is that Aaron (whom I haven't 'met' - so hello!) has
completed work on a test configuration of flagged revisions - I hope it's
appropraite for me to ask directly on this list whether or not Aaron
considers this development complete? (my understanding is that the
extension
...
is pretty much ready to go?)
There is understandably considerable interest in the timeframe for
installing flagged revisions, I would hope it would be a positive step to
set some timeframes a bit tighter than 'hopefully by wikimedia' ;-) - is
this list an appropriate context for such discusison, and if so
(hopefullly)
...

could someone appropriately empowered flesh out the next steps a bit

more,
...
and maybe try and establish a timetable of sorts?
My intention in posting about this every so often is to ensure that such
an
...
important development doesn't sort of slip through the cracks - I think
communication on this matter has to date been ok, but not great - it'll
be
...
cool to improve it a bit :-)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
The implementations depend on a per wiki basis depending on consensus,
for example, wikinews and a few others such as the German Wikipedia
already run it.
The en.wiki is currently also looking at a slightly modified version
nicked named "Flagged Protections" which is basically designed to work
the same way protection does, articles are only covered by it when
protected to a certain level.

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