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

Husky huskyr at gmail.com
Wed May 7 11:19:20 UTC 2008


Are there any specific articles on de.wikipedia that are a good
example where the extension is in use?

-- Hay / Husky

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:54 PM, FloNight <sydney.poore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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. :-)
>
>  Sydney
>
>
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