[Foundation-l] Stable versions live on de.wp

[FloNight]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> FlaggedRevs is now actually live on de.wikipedia.org :-).
>  Congratulations and many thanks to _everyone_ involved in getting us
>  to this point. In a nutshell, FlaggedRevs makes it possible to assign
>  quality tags to individual article revisions, and to alter default
>  views based on the available tags. In the German Wikipedia
>  configuration, unregistered users will always see the most recent
>  version that has been checked for vandalism, if any such version is
>  available.
>
>  Aka hacked up a nice script that shows how many pages have been
>  "sighted" (basic vandalism check) on the German Wikipedia:
>
>  http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english
>
>  Given that FlaggedRevs has just been live for a day or so, a review
>  rate of 4.41% is quite impressive! Kudos to the de.wp community for
>  its pioneering role in this important experiment. As a reminder to
>  other wiki communities, the extension can still be tested in the
>  Wikimedia Labs at:
>
>  http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/
>
>  Since the FlaggedRevs extension can be very flexibly configured, it
>  will be up to individual communities to determine what the best
>  roll-out strategy is. From our point of view, it's best if communities
>  self-organize to make decisions around the use, and that they file
>  requests through
>
>  https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
>
>  which point to a decision on their community to enable the extension.
>  But, in the least intrusive possible configuration, FlaggedRevs is
>  essentially a very powerful change patrolling tool, and I could see us
>  phasing it in like any other new feature.
>  --
>  Erik Möller
>  Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Thank you Erik for this update. This is indeed good news. :-)

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