Hi everyone,

Below is William's update on the Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) trial launch on en.wikipedia.org on June 14. As we'll continue to stress: this is a trial, and as such, still has a few rough edges, but we feel we're ready to press forward and commit to iterative improvement after the launch.

There are a number of things that we'd love help making sure are good for launch: * Making sure that the latest version of the FlaggedRevs extension will still work for all other sites. Here's a list of the sites that its enabled on: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/flaggedrevs.dblist

...along with a list of current configurations: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=flaggedrevs.php

A full test pass with all of the different configurations isn't going to be possible, so some help with testing the different configurations would be wonderful. We'll have a fast fallback plan in place should we accidentally break the other wikis, but obviously it'd be better to get it right the first time.

* Test the English test site: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

* Test the German test site: http://de.labs.wikimedia.org/

* Help with documentation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pending_changes

* Lots of other stuff I haven't thought of.

Let me know if you'd like to help and just want some pointers on where to jump in.

Thanks! Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: William Pietri william@scissor.com Date: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:57 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection) update for June 3 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

As requested, here's the weekly Pending Changes update.

The big news is that we have picked a date for releasing the new version of Flagged Revisions and launching the trial of Pending Changes on the English Wikipedia: June 14.

I'd like to stress that this will be a trial. The goal is to learn, which means that things will not be perfect at launch. There are many areas where we hope to verify our current work and see what improvements can be made:

* the technical underpinnings * the interface and language as experienced by * our readers * casual editors * serious editors * reviewers * admins * which articles should be covered * how best to use Pending Changes

We think we have something that is workable as is, and have notions for possible improvements down the road. To know what improvements are the right ones, we'll need real use and community feedback. We intend to respond speedily to community concerns and lessons learned from actual use. To that end we aim to keep to the same weekly release schedule that we've been using on labs these last few months.

More mundanely, the work completed this week includes ops documentation, the completion of the terminology work, and some interface improvements. We've also had some vigorous testing done by the folks at Calcey, who discovered a few bugs for us.

If you'd like to see the current condition of things, you can try it out here:

http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

To see the upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current and Backlog:

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157

We expect to release to labs again next week, after which we intend to go live on the English Wikipedia.

William

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