[WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

[Rob Lanphier]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:41 PM, John Du Hart <compwhizii at gmail.com> wrote:

> "A formal yes"? Wasn't there a big poll and discussion on this alrready?
> Plus if you were following wikitech-l you would know that they aren't
> exactly "ready"
>

So, here's what's not ready yet, that would be great to have in place by
launch for this to make a good first impression:

1.  The main help pages.  Right now there's this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pending_changes

...which is in pretty good shape (thanks FT2!), but the pages it links to
still need quite a bit of work.  Even on that page, there's still a place in
there where someone needs to do a screenshot of the "Pending changes" tab,
for example.

2.  There are a number of issues listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Flagged_revisions_trial#Other_issues

...that still are open questions (success metrics, policy for when to apply
it, how/where to advertise, etc)

3.  This set of pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions

...still has the old vocabulary, and still refers to "patrolled revisions"
as part of the trial (which is a separate feature that probably won't be
completed by the time the trial is over with).  Since these pages will get a
lot of traffic during the trial from people wanting to know what was just
implemented, it would be great not to confuse them with obsolete
information.

Rob