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

[Dan Rosenthal]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Andre Engels wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Did the idea of the second trial get any momentum in the end of the day?
>>> As a en.wp newbie, I could only find the poll that the trial has been
>>> discontinued, but nothing after that.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Yaroslav
>>> 
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>> 
>> Nope.
>> 
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Request_for_Comment_February_2011&oldid=428618051#Closure
>> 
> 
> So, the conclusion is that after months of hard work for getting this
> working for the English Wikipedia it still failed. I guess I should be happy
> that my opinion to implement it on nl: failed too then? But how come it does
> work on de:?
> 
> 
> -- 

IMHO it worked just fine, but there were too many restrictions on when it could be used. So actually…Mono is right, it was doomed to fail from the beginning, regardless of its merits.

-Dan