[Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for May 27

[William Pietri]

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

The loose-end tidying and rollout prep proceeds apace. This week's 
rollout prep includes preparing for an emergency rollback, something 
that we don't expect will be necessary but for which we nonetheless need 
to be ready.

We've been working diligently on the text, which is a key component of 
the user interface. You can see the enwiki-specific parts of that here:

http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Message_updates

As part of that text work, we are also, as readers of these lists know, 
considering changing the name of the English Wikipedia deployment from 
Flagged Protection to something more easily comprehended by the general 
public. If you'd like to weigh in on the many options, here's the place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Terminology

The main thing standing between us and being able to give a release date 
is some trouble with part of the UI. If you're a HTML & CSS guru, we 
could use your help:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-May/047916.html


We also fixed a bug this week. Thanks to Sonia, who found and reported 
that bug. Want to emulate her? Start here:

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


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