[Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

[Risker]

Erik -

Thank you for confirming that English Wikipedia does not have a choice in
whether or not this tool is deployed on our project.

Just a quick reminder of the words of William Pietri, who was the lead
developer of this project until the day after the first trial took place:

"This is, as the community requested, a 60-day trial. At the end of that,
unless the community clearly requests otherwise, we'll turn it back off.
Assuming that the trial starts on time, it will also end on time."[1]

Well, that obviously didn't happen, and now we know why. If William did not
have the authority to make that statement, it was your place to have
corrected him forthwith. How unfortunate that you have placed a respected
developer in this position.


Risker/Anne

[1]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/106702/match=pending+changes

On 28 September 2010 16:15, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Risker,
>
> we've consistently communicated that we'll iteratively update the
> Pending Changes codebase with fixes to address known issues, as
> documented on:
>
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pending_Changes_enwiki_trial/Roadmap#November_2010_Release
>
> This is the assumption on which hundreds of people voted in the enwiki
> poll that just took place, where this date was explicitly referenced.
> We're going to do our best to meet that deployment date.
>
> How and under what conditions Pending Changes is used is up to the
> enwiki community. All we're doing is leaving the feature in place: the
> community can decide to defer its continued usage, to narrow it, to
> broaden it, to restrict it in the scope of a trial, or to discontinue
> it. We're going to base our resource allocation for future development
> as much as possible on the emerging consensus in the enwiki community,
> and we'll try to support that continuing process with data as much as
> possible. It's evident that these discussions are still very much in
> flux.
>
> See more at:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pending_Changes_enwiki_trial/Roadmap#Current_Situation
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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