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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> 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.

Holy crap!

In my defense:
It's pretty clear that no one was aware that it was turned up yet.

The notice indicated that things were still being setup.

Activating it requires a right that only you have at the moment:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop
[if there is anyone but brion listed; they've since been added]

The bugzilla bug has not been updated:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18334

Other people inquired about the test site: May 5, May 12, Jun 9, Jun
19, Jul 16th
I inquired about this several times on wikitech-l:  Aug 31 and Sep 1,
then privately on Sep 15 and Sep 20th.
Of course, people have inquired on EnWP itself too.

As pointed out by Philippe, it came up in the 09/25 office hours IRC
which included these gems:

(I've cut ruthlessly, original is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2009-09-25)
----
[22:33pm] Natalie: SueGardner: What is the hold-up with flagged
revisions on the English Wikipedia? It's been months and months.
...
[22:39pm] Jake_Wartenberg: brion: so there is no flagged protection on
flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org
[22:39pm] Jake_Wartenberg: just flagged revs
[22:40pm] cary: I think that's enough on Flagged Revs.
----

Had I been aware of the discussion on IRC I would have first nagged
you again about why you were saying it was there when it didn't appear
to be!

Thank you.  My apologies: I'd have had little reason to complain if
I'd know that the test was up; the absence of the test is what seemed
outrageous.