[Foundation-l] Fwd: How do you fully consult the community consensus?

[Brian]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On which wiki do you mean, for FlaggedRevs?  For the English Wikipedia, my
>> understanding is that consensus was reached in favor of a limited trial
>> for
>> FlaggedRevs three months ago, but it hasn't been enabled yet because the
>> tech team is still tidying things up and checking that everything works <
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-May/043187.html>.
>> This
>> was not a matter of the Foundation consulting the community—the community
>> petitioned the Foundation, from what I can tell.
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> i didn't know it happened that way. I thought that, quite some time ago,
> the Foundation paid a developer 20k to develop the extension, and then got
> community approval for at trial?
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Oh nevermind, I must be thinking of the ratings extension?