[Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

[Brion Vibber]

On 9/28/09 4:18 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On 9/28/09 1:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller<erik at wikimedia.org>   wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it
>>> in helping to get the extension ready for en.wp. It's not trivial: The
>>> scalability concerns at that size are a step more serious than with
>>> de.wp,
>>
>> Of course. But I wasn't expecting a turn up on English Wikipedia yet.
>> I'm asking why the 25 lines of configuration that EnWP specified have
>> not yet been added to the test wiki at
>> http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> That config has been there for a month, but it might be broken in some
> way; as far as I know nobody's yet done any organized poking at the test
> site. We'll look it over in the next few days...

It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the 
configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to 
function when I test them.

Quick steps to try it out:

1) Find a nice page:

http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Vince_%282005%29

2) Hit the 'protect' link:

http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hurricane_Vince_%282005%29&action=protect

3) "This page does not have a stable version; page stability settings 
can be configured." <- click this link [ideally that next form will be 
better integrated into the protection form in future]

http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Stabilization&page=Hurricane_Vince_%282005%29

^ At this point if you're an admin you can tweak the "page stabilization 
settings" which allows you to opt a page into FlaggedRevs.

Switching it in for thie page to "The stable revision; if not present, 
then the current/draft one", I now see the little 'sighted' box on the 
article page and have the review interface at the bottom (though some of 
the UI elements haven't been fully customized yet).

-- brion