[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

[William Pietri]

On 04/30/2010 01:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> but the general point
>> >  remains -- you can set a cookie for an unregistered user and it will
>> >  work as you'd like, causing the user to skip the Squid cache on all
>> >  pages until the cookie expires.
>>      
> This already happens when users edit.  Otherwise anons would never be
> able to get the new messages indicator.
>    


That's good to know. I'll pass this on to the team and we'll see what we 
can come up with. One question for any interested stakeholder: is this 
feature worth delaying launch to add? We have a number of nice-to-haves 
on a list to work on right after launch, so development will continue.

Also, Howie Fung, the UI expert on the project comments:

> We can always soften the message a bit by changing the language, color 
> and/or providing a link with an explanation.

So if people have suggestions on how to improve any of that, on any 
other aspect of the current implementation, please put them here:

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

William