Sabine Cretella wrote:
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It was Tim. He didn't announce the change (that I noticed, anyway) and forgot to log it in the administrator's log, then happened to be away from the computer for the next several hours.
There has been a vote with a very positive outcome and somebody apparently said something about it on irc. The English Wiktionary had indeed decided to switch over, but it had not been decided when. Anyway, on the page where the vote had happened this was indicated and there was a link to a page where a discussion was held how to go about it. If Tim had read all that, he would have known we were not ready for the change. Anyway, I for one, am glad the change has finally happened and I'm sure we'll manage to clean up the mess, eventually.
As much as I remember the switch over should have been done on April 1st (no, not a joke), but then, even if it was decided no-one really moved.
I am already cleaning the links on it.wiktionary to en.wiktionary since someone (withour logging in) added manually some interwiki-links using capitalised words and besides that creating messed up pages using {{PAGENAME}} instead of re-writing the word in the title - so basically all double work. Should whoever added these pages read this message: please never use the pagename-template again like you did - if you don't know how to create a proper page, just contact me (also by e-mail is fine)..
Ciao, Sabine
Gerard wanted to force the move through quickly after the vote had been cast, but that would have been way too soon. He proposed the 1st of April, but noboby of the regulars agreed with that. 1st of May was proposed but also not done. Anyway, I think a request to flip the switch should only have been considered when a sysop had requested it and even then after asking for confirmation. On the other hand I'm really excited it finally happened and I want to say thank you to Tim as it may have been the only way to actually do it. A request for confirmation would merely have blown up some dust and everything would have stayed the same in the end. Since full agreement of everybody involved seems impossible to attain in a larger project.
Polyglot