Anthere wrote:

Ok, this is an stupid issue, but I find quite curious that this topic was initially raised by the french wiki, that so many french people expressed their dislike of this method, that final conclusion was to drop the count system, that we indicated in our talk pages that the count system was changed

just to find oneself totally ridiculous many months later discovering that *nothing* has changed and that the old system is still the one working.

Basically here's what happened: * I saw the silliness, decided to make a change, and announced my plan. * Some people decided we had to hold a vote first. * All momentum was destroyed. * The vote, eventually, turned out pretty much as I had planned to do anyway. * The latest working code did end up with the new count system, but was not at that time installed, having other experimental code. * Everything was supposed to move to the new server, with the latest code. * The English wiki got moved to the new server to load test, etc. * Lee announced we were going to move & upgrade the rest, then vanished for a few weeks. * I haven't had time to do it either.

At some point I do want to get everything upgraded at least, but haven't had a chance to double-check that the CVS version is not currently broken with experimental code.

(Incidentally, I've been having trouble with my settings for wikitech-l; I thought I had gotten everything right, but it's still not sending me mail except for digests. Off to configure again... So, if I haven't responded to something dreadfully important, please remind me. I may not have seen it.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)