[Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

[William Pietri]

As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update.


As I mentioned last week, we are starting pre-rollout activities while 
we finish up the last bits of development. Now that the successful 
launch of the new enwiki UI is out of the way, we will be getting 
together with Rob H. and the rest of the ops ninjas to discuss release 
dates.

Also upcoming is a final pass at the terms and text, some more fiddling 
with cross-browser CSS and JavaScript issues, some work with the 
community to figure out the remaining details of the community side of 
the trial (keep an eye on RobLa's activity there), and a call for the 
nice people at the German Wikipedia to try our shiny new software with 
their config and make sure we haven't broken anything for them. 
(Regarding that, if some German speaker reading this would like to help 
set up the test site, we could use a hand. Contact me via direct email.)

The discussion of rollout means that we think the software is, some 
minor nits aside, basically ready. Want to be sure? You can test it out 
here, and we'll even give you admin rights [1] to do so:

http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


To see what we've changed this week, there's a list here:

http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Flagged_Protection_updates#2010_May_13


To see the upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current and 
Backlog:

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157


We expect to release to labs again next week, and each week thereafter 
until this goes live on the English Wikipedia.


William


[1] You know that you [2] have always wanted admin rights!

[2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have a 
whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war if you 
want and we won't tell a soul.